• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.1
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• pp.36-42
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose receiver using ESPAR antenna for diversity gain. The proposed receiver receive signal by changing direction of beam pattern alternately in the OFDM symbol time period when DoA is estimated. In this way, the proposed receiver obtains diversity gain. The proposed receiver has single RF chain. If beam direction is changed alternately then it causes spectrum spread. And then, ICI occur because of spectrum spread. This interference can be equalized at the frequency domain equalizer such as ZF, MMSE and ML. In simulation, the proposed system receive signal using beam pattern of $60^{\circ}$ and beam pattern of $120^{\circ}$ alternately in OFDM symbol time period when it is assumed that DoA is $60^{\circ}$ and $120^{\circ}$. The performance results confirm that it is possible that the proposed receiver obtains diversity gain.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.126-133
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• 2007

A head-and-neck phantom was designed in order to evaluate remotely the quality of the delivery dose of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in each institution. The phantom is homogeneous or inhomogeneous by interchanging the phantom material with the substructure like an air or bone plug. Monte Carlo simulations were executed for one beam and three beams to the phantom and compared with ion chamber and thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) measurements of which readings were from two independent institutions. For single beam, the ion chamber results and the MC simulations agreed to within about 2% TLDs agreed with the MC results to within 2% or 7% according to which institution read the TLDs. For three beams, the ion chamber results showed -5% maximum discrepancy and those of TLDs were $+2{\sim}+3%$. The accuracy of the TLD leadings should be increased for the remote dose monitoring. MC simulations are a valuable tool to acquire the reliability of the measurements in developing a new phantom.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.66-76
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• 2000

본 논문은 IS-95 CDMA 환경에서 수신 안테나 어레이로 입사되는 신호를 처리하여 최적의 빔패턴을 단말기로 제공해주는 새로운 적응 알고리즘인 그래디언트 온-오프(gradient on-off) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 제안 알고리즘의 수신 신호처리 계산량은 O(3N)으로 IS-95 CDMA 환경에서 범용 DSP(Digital Signal Processor)를 이용한 알고리즘 계산결과 수신신호의 실시간 처리가 가능한 것이 판명되었다. 제안한 그래디언트 온-오프 알고리즘을 이용하여 IS-95 CDMA 이동통신 환경하에서 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과 8개의 안테나를 사용한 경우 단일 안테나보다 약 3-4배 정도 용량이 증가하였다. 또한 사용자간의 최대 파워치를 ${\pm}$2dB로한 불환전한(imperfect) power control 시에도 본 제안 알고리즘에 대한 성능에는 영향이 거의 없음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.95-103
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• 2009

In this paper, a generation method of transmit and receive beamforming vectors based on base station cooperation is proposed which maximizes the user SINR in mobile cellular multi-user MIMO systems. There are two main sources of interference which deteriorate the performance of the system, i.e. the inter-user interference caused by the usage of the same radio resource for multiple users in the system, and the inter-cluster interference from neighboring base stations which are not participating in cooperative transmission. The proposed scheme cancels out the inter-user interference by using the block diagonalization(BD) method, and mitigate the inter-cluster interference by using optimal transmit and receive beamforming vectors based on optimal combining(OC) with the statistic information of inter-cluster interference. We perform computer simulations to verify the performance of the proposed scheme, and compare the result to the conventional performance obtained from utilizing the receiver side information only or utilizing the information from neither sides. The performance evaluations are conducted not only over the independent MIMO channels, but over correlated MIMO channels to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed scheme over the channels with correlation among antennas.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.9A
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• pp.749-754
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• 2005

It is well-known that mobile communication systems are usually limited in their performance and capacity by three major impairments, which are multipath fading, delay spread and co-channel interference (CCI). OFDMA (OFDM-FDMA) system can cope with the multipath fading and delay spread easily due to the beneficial properties of OmM technology. Though OFDMA scheme avoids intra-cell interference using the orthogonality among subcarriers, the scheme contains difficulty of reducing co-channel interference. Therefore, in this paper, adaptive antenna techniques are deployed into OFDMA/TDD system to minimize the co-channel interference induced by adjacent cells and to enhance the uplink performance. For the improvement of downlink performance, we apply TxAA (Transmit Adaptive Array), a kind of transmit diversity technique, utilizing preamble symbols for training antenna may into OFDMA/TDD transmitter side. Simulation results show that the uplink and downlink performance under multipath Rayleigh fading channel improved 9dB and 7dB each compared with the case of single antenna system at target BER $10^{-3}$ .

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.896-905
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• 2004

In this paper, the design, fabrication and experiment on a planar array antenna with a flat-topped radiation pattern for a mobile base station antenna were described. The current distribution of an antenna aperture, which is easily realizable in a feeding network compared with the conventional one of sin(x)/x was optimized for shaping a desired flat-topped radiation pattern. The planar array antenna designed in this paper has a rectangular lattice and is composed of array elements of 16${\times}$8. Each radiating element, which is a microstrip element fed coaxially, has a linear vertical polarization and the feed network which use a Wilkinson power divider and a 180$^{\circ}$ ring hybrid coupler as a base element is designed. The flat-topped radiation pattern with 90$^{\circ}$ is shaped by 16 array elements with the element spacing of 0.55 λ$_{ο}$ in the azimuth plane, and the normal radiation pattern with 10$^{\circ}$ is shaped by 8 array elements with the element spacing of 0.65 λ$_{ο}$ in the elevation plane. Also, the planar array antenna is symmetrically divided into four parts. It consists of one hundred-twenty-eight radiating elements, thirty-two 1-4 column dividers, low 1-8 row dividers and one 1-4 input power divider. In order to verify electrical performances of the planar way antenna proposed in this paper, the experimental breadboard operated in tile band of 1.92～2.17 GHz(IMT2000 band) was fabricated, and its experimental results were a good agreement with simulation ones.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8C
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• pp.617-626
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• 2008

Opportunistic Beamforming (OBF) offers a way to provide the multiuser diversity even in slow fading channel by using randomly generated beam weights, leading to the substantially reduced feedback in the form of the instantaneous SNR from users. In spite of the advantage of the reduced feedback, the imperfect channel estimation might influence the quality of the estimated SNR and channel scheduler so bad that the selected AMC level would be higher than the achievable rate of the actual channel, resulting the corruption of transmitted packet. In this paper, we propose a conservative link adaptation, where the estimated SNR is scaled down by a conservative factor which minimizes the variance of the maximum difference between the actual channel SNR and the resultant SNR. To support the proposed scheme, we analyze the statistics of the difference of the channel SNR and the estimated SNR. Simulation results show that the introduction of conservative factor achieves more than two-fold performance improvement in the presence of channel estimation error and the fairness of PF scheduler is maintained when the least squared channel estimator is applied.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.249-258
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• 1991

He-Ne레이저(.lambda.=0.6328[.mu.m])를 광원으로 사용하는 y-cut LiNbO$_{3}$기판의 광 도파로 형성 과정을 빔 전송방식 메카니즘을 이용하여 광 도파로에서 광파의 전계 변화 및 전계 분포에 대하여 시뮬레이션 하였다. 그리고 Xl(55[.mu.m])* Zl(5000[.mu.m])인 LiNbO$_{3}$기판의 광 도파로 폭을 4[.mu.m], 버퍼층을 0.02[.mu.m]로 하였을때 도파로 층의 깊이가 0.2[.mu.m]인 지점에서 인가전압에 대한 x방향의 전계(E$_{x}$)와 y방향의 전계(E$_{y}$ )분포를 관찰하였다. 또한 단일 도파로의 파라미터 조건을 적용하여 X-스위치를 구성하였을때 전계를 인가하지 않은 상태에서 굴절율 변화(dn) 0.002, 도파로 폭(w) 3[.mu.m]로 하여 도파로의 교차각(.alpha.)을 0.4.deg.~0.6.deg.로 변화시킨 경우, .alpha.=0.5.deg.와 0.6.deg.일 때는 광빔이 bar측으로 출력되었고 .alpha.=0.4에서는 광빔이 cross측으로 출력 됨을 확인하였다. 따라서 위에서 확인된 도파로의 교차각 .alpha.=0.4.deg.인 경우, 전극간격(gap)이 2[.mu.m]인 조건에서 스위칭 전압을 인가하였을 때 25[V]에서 전기광학 효과에 의하여 광빔이 cross측에서 bar측으로 변조됨을 확인함으로써 X-스위치 광변조기의 기본적인 설계조건을 구현하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.849-856
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• 2020

The Angle-of-Arrival(AOA) information for an array antenna receiver is one of the important factors for estimating the location of specific signals and detecting signals efficiently, in various situations. The AOA estimator in the satellite environment can rapidly calculate the AOA information in the wide area, utilizing a planar (grid, circular) array antenna mounted on the satellite. Since the satellite receiver has the limitation of the array antenna size, the concentric circular (ring) array (CCA or CRA) antenna structure with comparatively small size but with multiple antenna elements is more efficient than the uniform circular array (UCA) structure, for the satellite environment. In this paper, we introduce a cascade AOA estimation algorithm based on CRA, consisting of CAPON and Beamspace MUSIC. In addition, we provide computer simulation examples for verifying the estimation performance of the cascade AOA estimation algorithm based on CRA and compare it to the case of UCA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1248-1258
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• 2010

In this paper, a method for simultaneously realizing the sum and difference patterns which are required in the monopulse radar sensor systems, is presented by using single taper array antenna with rectangular microstrip patches. The widths of patches are first determined by the voltage weights which are synthesized for the fundamental array factor patterns to be applied to the monopulse operation by using the sidelobe levels(SLLs) control technique. As the bi-directionally series-fed technique is applied and the lengths of connecting lines between patches are appropriately adjusted, the single array generates two phase-shifted beams which activates out-of-phase and in-phase ports of a $180^{\circ}$ hybrid coupler to synthesize the sum and difference patterns. The simulated results on the configuration designed at 9.5 GHz are compared with measured results showing the validity of the proposed method.