Due to the sparse structure of ultra-wideband (UWB) multipath channels there has been a considerable amount of interest in applying the compressive sensing (CS) theory to UWB channel estimation. The main consideration of the related studies is to propose different implementations of the CS theory for the estimation of UWB channels which are assumed to be sparse. In this study we investigate the suitability of standardized UWB channel models to be used with the CS theory. In other words we question ...