Experimental Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4z UWB Ranging Performance under Interference

Abstract

The rise of precise wireless localization for industrial and consumer use is continuing to challenge a significant amount of research. Recently the new ultra-wideband standard IEEE 802.15.4z was released to increase both the robustness and security of the underlying message exchanges. Due to the lack of accessible transceivers, most of the current research on this is of theoretical nature though. This work provides the first experimental evaluation of the ranging performance in realistic environments and also assesses the robustness to different sources of interference. To evaluate the individual aspects, a set of three different experiments are conducted. One experiment with realistic movement and two additional with targeted interference. It could be shown that the cryptographic additions of the new standard can provide sufficient information to improve the reliability of the ranging results under multi-user interference significantly.

Keywords

• ultra-wideband (UWB)
• two-way ranging (TWR)
• multi-user interference
• IEEE 802.15.4a
• IEEE 802.15.4z