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Low-Cost High-Performance TDD Synchronizer for WiBro RF Repeater

  • Seo, Young-Ho (College of Liberal Arts, Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Wook (Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
  • Received : 2009.11.02
  • Accepted : 2010.03.01
  • Published : 2010.08.30
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Abstract

WiBro radio frequency (RF) repeater is used for solving the problem of partial shadow areas in the wireless communication field that uses time-division duplexing (TDD) mode. In this paper, a method to efficiently generate TDD signals for WiBro RF repeater is proposed and its digital circuit is implemented. A TDD signal is detected from RF signals transmitted/received to/from RF repeater and then inputted again into the RF repeater, so that it can operate normally. First, the envelope of downlink signals is detected and then clamped to extract the basic form of a TDD signal using an operational amplifier circuit. Next, the TDD signal is generated by restoring and filtering the shape which has been distorted by the wireless channel. The algorithm and system to acquire TDD signal are developed with a goal to have simple but powerful functions with as little cost as possible. The proposed method is implemented as an RF-digital integrated system and verified through the experiments under the same condition as actual WiBro service environment.

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