• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1167-1173
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• 2005

In this paper, the use of an antenna array is considered for code timing acquisition of DS-CDMA signals. The probabilities of acquisition are evaluated by applying multiple narrow fixed-beams to the conventional MUSIC acquisition approach in the multiuser environment on the time-varying Rayleigh fading channel. Each fixed-beam for spatial filtering is dedicated to an individual angular sector that is formed by dividing the entire angular domain by the number of antenna elements. The fixed-beams with a capability of interference suppression provide the additional degrees of freedom,. Hence, the multibeam-based MUSIC estimator can be used to synchronize to more users than the conventional MUSIC algorithm for one antenna. The multibeam-based subspace method is evaluated to significantly improve the performance of a single antenna based MUSIC technique in multiuser scenarios.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.899-912
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• 2016

In ATSC 3.0 systems, a bootstrap signal is located at the start of each frame. In this paper, we propose an initial synchronization scheme for ATSC 3.0 systems using the bootstrap signal. The bootstrap signal of ATSC 3.0 has several repetition patterns in the time domain. By utilizing the repetition patterns within the bootstrap, the proposed scheme can obtain an initial synchronization at the receiver. Also, simulation results show that the proposed scheme can obtain an initial synchronization at very low signal-to-noise ratios.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.91-99
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• 1999

The researches related to students' preconceptions and conceptual change model have been reported that students' learning motivation is one of the key variable for the conceptual change. The effects of students learning motivations on conceptual changes were evaluated. Subjects of this study were 8th grade students. and they were divided into 2 groups. One group was taught by traditional teaching method, and the other group by concept change teaching model. After the intervention, learning motivations of the students were testified. The students of high motivation who were taught by concept change teaching model showed higher scores in the concept of chemical change than the students by traditional teaching method. But there was no difference in both groups of students who have low learning motivations. The learning motivations before the intervention. the motivations stimulated by classes. and the degree of concept understanding showed high correlation. The motivations stimulated by classes explain 23.3 % of the degree of concept understanding. The results seems to mean that students learning motivations contribute to the understanding of concepts. Especially confidence of learning as a subcategory of the learning motivation contributes significantly to the understanding of new concepts. In contrast, the traditional teaching methods and the teaching methods of concept change learning theory were not effective for the stimulation of students learning motivations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.9A
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• pp.858-866
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• 2005

This paper proposes the method of frequency synchronization using the spectrum correlation in ATSC terrestrial DTV system. If the spectrum around pilot is severely distorted by multipath or mobile reception environment, the conventional algorithm using the pilot signal makes the estimation error of the frequency offset. Because the proposed algorithm acquires frequency synchronization using the correlation between the received specalm and the standard spectrum without the use of pilot, the proposed method can acquire frequency synchronization faster and more accurate than conventional algorithm. And this paper proposes new method for ATSC frequency synchronization without the use of pilot.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.159-165
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• 2022

In this paper, a frame synchronization structure for the Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulation method in underwater acoustic communication was proposed. The proposed frame synchronization structure is largely divided into two. First, the approximate position and frequency offset of the frame are obtained by non-coherent correlation and sliding Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method. Second, after compensating for the frequency error to the received signal, the exact position of the frame is obtained by coherent correlation method. Maritime experiments were conducted to confirm the performance of the 2-STEP frame synchronization structure. It was showed that the limitations of the non-coherent correlation and sliding FFT method can be verified when the power of the received signal was greatly reduced due to the channel characteristics. As a result, stable frame synchronization could be obtained by compensating for the frequency error and then using the coherent correlation method.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.173-180
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• 2017

Underwater communications are degraded as a result of inter symbol interference in multipath channels. Therefore, a channel coding scheme is essential for underwater communications. Packets consist of a PN sequence and a data field, and the uncoded PN sequence is used to estimate the frequency and phase offset using a Doppler and phase estimation algorithm. The estimated frequency and phase offset are fed to a coded data field to compensate for the Doppler and phase offset. The PN sequence is generally utilized to acquire the synchronization information, and the bit error rate of an uncoded PN sequence predicts the performance of the coded data field. To ensure few errors, we resort to powerful BCJR decoding algorithms of convolutional codes with rates of 1/2, 2/3, and 3/4. We use this powerful channel coding algorithm to present an efficient receiver structure based on the relation between the bit error of the uncoded PN sequence and coded data field in computer simulations and lake experiments.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.111-120
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• 2018

The rapid use of Facebook among colleges, the present study was to explore the motivations of college owned Facebook among college students. The factor analysis The factor analysis showed that the college students perceived that the intimacy, update of college information, sharing daily lives, use of time, seeking useful information are important motivations when they use college Facebook. The extracted factors such as emotional intimacy, information update and sharing daily lives also play significant variables to affect Facebook effectiveness such as "like" and "sharing others." The results suggest that Facebook managers need to use college Facebook as a social medium not by one way communication medium to the college students.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.618-620
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 위치정보 획득을 위해 GPS로 위치, 자세, 방향 및 시간정보를 추출하고, 6개의 카메라를 이용하여 360도 영상정보를 취득한 후 이들 정보들을 시각 동기화시켜 geoData를 취득하기 위해 개발된 동기화시스템을 기술한다. 이 동기화시스템을 활용하여 360도 파노라믹 영상저작 등 다양한 위치기반서비스를 위한 공간정보시스템을 구축할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.90-93
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 캐리어의 동기가 맞았다는 가정 하에서 초기동기 직렬탐색 방식중의 하나인 Multiple Dwell 방식을 사용하여 각각의 초기동기 평균 획득시간과 분산 값을 비교하였다. 문턱값의 설정은 Maximum Likelihood 방식을 도입하여 MATLAB으로 이론값을 계산하고, 이를 SPW라는 시뮬레이션 툴로 모델링을 하여 시뮬레이션 값과 이론값을 비교 분석하였다. 신호 대 잡음비에 대한 Multiple Dwell 방식의 성능을 비교 분석한 결과. Dwell의 수가 증가할수록 성능은 개선되지만 Dwell의 수가 2일 때가 성능 개선 폭이 가장 컸고 Dwell의 수가 4이상에서는 개선 폭이 아주 작아짐 을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.4C
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• pp.358-363
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• 2010

In IEEE 802.15.4a IR-UWB (Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband) systems, it is crucial to acquire initial carrier/timing synchronization and estimate channel response by exploiting the SYNC symbols embedded in each packet. On the other hand, it is also crucial to detect the SFD pattern followed by the header and data symbols to reliably extract the information contained in the packet. In this paper, we propose a reliable SFD detection scheme utilizing some surplus SYNC symbols in addition to SFD symbols to improve the SFD detection performance.