Abstract: A method for use in a wireless communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver, the method comprising receiving, in the receiver, data comprising a plurality of channel-distorted synchronization codes and plurality of channel-distorted cipher codes, generating a receiver cipher sequence at the receiver, the receiver cipher sequence comprising a plurality of receiver cipher codes, analysing the received data to identify correlations between the plurality of channel-distorted cipher codes in the received data and the plurality of receiver cipher codes, accumulating the identified correlations as accumulator data in an accumulator, identifying one or more peaks in the accumulator data, identifying a first correlation peak in the accumulator data that meets one or more criteria and using the first correlation peak to identify the first path of a data packet from the transmitter.

Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) communication system comprising a pair of UWB transceivers, methods for securely performing channel sounding. In a first GCP Sync method, a pre-determined set of Golay Complementary Pairs is added to an 802.15.4a frame. In a second CLASS method, a cyphered low auto-correlation sum set is added to frame. In a third LCSSS method, a low cross-correlation sidelobe sum set is added to the frame. In general, these methods are adapted to transmit a pseudo-randomly generated codeset which may have inherent sidelobe distortions, and then, in the receiver, to compensate for this, and any channel-induced, distortion by selectively modifing the cross-correlation codeset.

Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) communication system comprising a pair of UWB transceivers, methods for securely performing channel sounding. In a first GCP Sync method, a pre-determined set of Golay Complementary Pairs is added to an 802.15.4a frame. In a second CLASS method, a cyphered low auto-correlation sum set is added to frame. In a third LCSSS method, a low cross-correlation sidelobe sum set is added to the frame. In general, these methods are adapted to transmit a pseudo-randomly generated codeset which may have inherent sidelobe distortions, and then, in the receiver, to compensate for this, and any channel-induced, distortion by selectively modifing the cross-correlation codeset.