Abstract: This paper examines the robustness of anti-interference UWB-OFDM (AI-UWB) systems in presence of narrow-band interference. It analyzes the bit error rate performance of the systems in both the single-user and multi-user modes, and compares its robustness in different code matrixes. By encoding transmitted symbols and spreading their power over all sub-bands, AI-UWB systems can make full use of the frequency diversity across the sub-bands and have more robustness to the narrowband interference. Simulating results show that different codes have almost the same robustness to the narrowband interference. The encoding and spreading could suppress the narrowband interference effectively. Compared with the IS-UWB systems, our approach has more than 5 dB interference margin. 16 Refs. In English.

Key words: Ultra-wideband; anti-interference; bit error rate; coding; spreading