• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.14-21
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• 2013

In satellite operations and space exploration missions, a ranging is one of the most essential technologies to get its navigational information of space probes. Recently, the importance of cross-support between space agencies is increasing for more fine performance of space mission. For cross-support, mutually compatible ranging system between space agencies is recommended. For these reasons, the consultative committee for space data systems (CCSDS) recommends pseudo noise (PN) ranging as a digital standard ranging system. The length of PN sequence in CCSDS standard is proper for deep space missions, however, it is too long to use for ranging in near earth missions. In this paper, we propose Variable Length PN sequence schemes suitable for ranging of near earth satellites, such as low-earth orbit (LEO), medium-earth orbit (MEO) and Geostationary orbit (GEO). Therefore we propose variable length PN sequence ranging system including CCSDS standard for multiple missions.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1C
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• pp.77-86
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a noncoherent IR-UWB (Impulse Radio-Ultra Wide Band) ranging system with an AFE (Analog Front End) composed of a simple integrator and an 1-bit ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter), and define AFE characteristics affecting the ranging performance. This system is realistic and easy to implement, since the integrator simply accumulates signal energies and the simple 1-bit ADC is applied instead of the multi-bit ADCs for coherent IR-UWB systems. On the other hand, its ranging accuracy is largely affected channel environments such as noise, multipath fading and so on, since the noncoherent receiver simply squares and integrates the received signals. However, despite these practical importances, there are few conventional researches on the performance analysis according to AFE characteristics in IR-UWB ranging systems. To this end, we analyze in this paper ranging performance according to AFE characteristics for the noncoherent IR-UWB ranging system in various wireless channel environments, and through these results we also present system parameters to be considered in UWB hardware designs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2069-2070
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• 2006

본 논문은 UWB(Ultra Wideband) 펄스 기반의 단일 송수신을 통한 UWB 레인징 시스템에서 거리산출의 모호성을 제거하고 그 성능을 향상시키기 위한 듀얼윈도우처리기법을 새롭게 제안한다. 일반적으로 UWB 레인징시스템은 UWB 전송펄스의 높은 시간분해능을 이용하여 거리를 산출하는데, 비가역성(Non-coherent) UWB 송수신기 구조에서는 신호가 언제 수신 될지 모르는 정보 표본값들로부터 최초도착 성분을 추출하게 되고 이로 인해 거리산출오차가 크게 발생되어 진다. 실내무선채널환경(CMI)의 UWB 레인징 시뮬레이션 결과 본 논문에서 제안된 듀얼윈도우처리기술을 적용 시 1m 거리산출 확률오차기준으로 대략 98% 정확도를 보인 반면에 그렇지 않은 경우는 75%이하의 레인징 정확도 성능을 나타낸다

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.2A
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• pp.164-169
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• 2009

This paper presents a fast and accurate ranging algorithm for the WiBro system. The proposed algorithm detects a received ranging code and estimates its propagation delay using the correlation characteristics of the PRBS (Pseudo Random Binary Sequence) and the circular shift property of the discrete Fourier transform operator. The proposed ranging algorithm was applied to array antenna systems to show how it could improve the ranging performance of an array antenna system compared to a conventional base station system, which uses only a single antenna.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.6A
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• pp.575-585
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• 2006

In Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) systems, timing synchronization in uplink is accomplished by an initial uplink synchronization called an initial ranging process. The Base Station's receiver synchronizes the symbol timing to specific user's symbol and the other user's symbols have some Symbol Timing Offset (STO). Linear phase shift is occurred by each user's STO in an OFDMA symbol. The Multiple Access Interference (MAI) caused by the summation of each user's linear phase shift degrades the performance of ranging code detection. In this paper, we propose an initial ranging symbol structure with common ranging code for phase shift estimation and compensation. We car estimate the average of phase shift that is generated by each user's STO and compensate this phase shift by using common ranging code. This scheme will suppress the MAI and provide better detection performance than conventional process.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.200.1-200.1
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• 2012

저궤도 위성은 크게 탑재체(Payload) 와 본체(Bus System)로 구성된다. 버스시스템은 다시 여러 서브시스템으로 나뉘는데 그 중의 하나가 원격측정명령계이다. 원격측정명령계는 위성의 각 서브시스템에 대한 정보를 텔레메트리를 사용하여 지상으로 전송하고 지상으로부터 커맨드를 받아서 이에 대한 명령을 수행한다. 이 때 S 대역 송수신기를 통해 RF로 변복조 되어 지상과 통신을 하게 된다. 보통 저궤도 위성의 송수신기는 레인징 기능을 제공하는데 이는 위성의 궤도를 예측하는데 사용된다. 위성의 궤도를 예측하기 위해서는 위치를 알아야 하는데 이 때 지상국에서 일정한 톤 신호를 위성으로 보내 되돌아오는 신호를 측정하여 위상차를 통해 거리를 측정하게 된다. 위성에 탑재되는 송수신기는 설계상 고유의 레인징 신호 지연 값을 가지게 되는데 이는 위성 발사 후 위성과의 거리측정 시 계산에 영향을 미치게 된다. 때문에 이에 대한 정확한 값을 미리 획득하여 발사 후 위성 궤도 예측에 사용되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 한국항공우주연원에서 개발한 저궤도 위성의 송수신기를 사용하여 정확한 레인징 측정방법을 통해 결과 값을 제시하여 레인징 성능을 확인하고 또한 장기간에 걸친 모니터링을 통해 경향을 파악하여 송수신기의 성능을 확인하여 추후 이를 지상국과 위성사이의 통신에 활용할 수 있게 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.11A
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• pp.1068-1075
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• 2006

An adaptive ranging technique for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access(OFDMA) uplink transmission is proposed for timing synchronization of multiple mobile stations located different distances from a base station. By combining the Timing Phase Compensated Frequency Domain Cross-correlation(TPCFDC) and Frequency Domain Differential Cross-correlation(FDDC), the proposed scheme reduces the number of correlators used in ordinary TPCFDC. Repeated initial ranging attempt with the FDDC in the proposed scheme greatly reduces the hardware implementation complexity. Simulation results for ranging success probability and average ranging attempts count show that the proposed algorithm performs similarly with the ordinary TPCFDC even with the 10 times reduced complexity.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.12B
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• pp.1244-1250
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• 2010

This paper presents a detection and ranging algorithm for a high-speed targets in the high PRF radar. We show, unlike the conventional methods, it firstly estimates Doppler frequency with a quasi-periodic pulse train prior to range processing. The estimated Doppler frequency can compensate the phase error enbeded in the received signal, which makes the signal integrated coherently in the range direction and localizes the target's signiture in low SNR. We present the derivation of the proposed algorithm and discuss how the system parameters such as the range/Doppler sampling condition, processing time and Doppler estimation error affect the performance of the proposed algorithm, which is verified by simulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12A
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• pp.998-1005
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• 2009

In the uplink of OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) based M-WiMAX(Mobile-Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) system, linear phase shift is caused by signals transmitted from multiuser with different delay time and thus, MAI (Multiple Access Interference) occurs. MAI degrades the performance of ranging code detection and delay time estimation in the uplink. Therefore, in this paper, we propose ranging algorithm, applying SIC (Successive Interference Cancellation) to the conventional ranging algorithm, to minimize MAI and to improve ranging performance. The proposed ranging algorithm is verified through the Monte Carlo simulation, which shows the improved performance of ranging code detection and delay time estimation compared to the conventional algorithms. Through compared with random access of the 3GPP LTE, we can know limit of ranging performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.410-414
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• 2006

In the present, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) that wireless access scheme for high speed data transmission is noticed in mobile communication market and OFDMA/TDD scheme will be used combining Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme based on OFDMA. The Base Station's receiver synchronizes the symbol timing to anyone user's symbol and the other user's symbols have some Symbol Timing Offset (STO). Linear phase shift is occurred by each user's STO in an OFDMA symbol and the Multiple Access Interference (MAI) caused by the summation of each user's linear phase shift degrades the performance of ranging code detection. In this paper, we analyze the ranging code detection performance for each users STO in OFDMA/TDD system. Simulation results show that the more users access and mobile speed increase, the more ranging code detection performance degrades.