• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.1687-1695
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• 2021

In this paper, it is designed and analyzed the beamforming antenna using the butler matrix. The operating frequency of the proposed beamforing antenna is ISM band of 2.4 GHz band and the component of the beamforing antenna consisted of a 1×4 array antenna and a 4×4 butler matrix. Each output port of 4×4 butler matrix outputs the signal having a different phase, it is provided to each input port of 1×4 array antenna. The beamforming antenna with four output ports forms a total of four beams. In order to analyze the radiation pattern of the beamforming antenna, it was provided by switching the signal to the input port and proceeded the Individual analysis for the input port 1 to 4. The main beams of the proposed beamforming antenna were formed in the -12°, 40°, -40° and 12° directions according to each input port, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.190-194
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• 2019

In this study, the beamforming characteristics of a reflector antenna, such as a phased array antenna, as a feeder have been studied. The beamforming characteristics were examined by observing the actual steering angle of the reflector according to the diameter, the F/D of the reflector, and the number of array elements of the feeder. In addition, the beamforming characteristics were verified by measurement using a reflector of 1.5 m diameter and a four-element log-periodic dipole array(LPDA).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.689-697
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• 2016

In this paper, we design and implement SPA (Switched Parasitic Antenna) antenna which can control its beampattern using multiple parasitic elements. By applying SPA antenna to wireless communication system and implementing beamforming scheme, we show that SPA antenna can be used to improve the performance of wireless communication systems. SPA antenna consists of a single active antenna and multiple parasitic elements around the active one, and can control its beampattern by switching the parasitic elements. Using this characteristic of the SPA antenna, it is possible to impelemtent beamforming technique with single RF chain, which enables to design low cost, low complexity and low power wireless communication systems. In order to verify the beamforming gain, we measure and analyze the system level performance, such as SNR, PER, and throughput.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.7
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• pp.85-92
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• 2010

In this paper, we consider the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based transmission incoorperating with beam-switching and space-time coding. Specifically, we consider three configurations; (1) the beamforming technique, (2) the spatial diversity technique and (3) their combination and evaluate the performance in wireless personal area network (WPAN) environment. For the beam-forming technique, we consider the beam-switching which is performed at RF front-end with a pre-defined set of beams and for the space-time coding, we consider the Alamauti scheme with antenna selection. For the combined scheme, we divide the antennas used into two group to generate two independent beams and apply the two-antenna Alamauti scheme over the two beams. For these three configurations, performance is evaluated in terms of the SNR gain.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1299-1305
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• 2017

In this paper, we consider a beamforming game between the transmitters in a two-user multiple-input single-output interference channel using limited feedback and investigate how each transmitter is able to find a modified strategy from the quantized channel state information (CSI). In the beamforming game, each of the transmitters (i.e., a player) tries to maximize the achievable rate (i.e., a payoff function) via a proper beamforming strategy. In our case, each transmitter's beamforming strategy is represented by a linear combining factor between the maximum ratio transmission (MRT) and the zero forcing (ZF) beamforming vectors, which is the Pareto optimal achieving strategy. With the quantized CSI, the transmitters' strategies may not be valid because of the quantization errors. We propose a modified solution, which takes into account the effects of the quantization errors.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.7
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• pp.3-8
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• 2014

We consider a limited feedback based hybrid beamforming which reduces the energy of feedback information. In the millimeter wave channel, some rays with large ray gain dominate energy of the channel. Using this point, we propose a channel feedback scheme that employs limited number of channel rays. Also, we provide a hybrid beamforming scheme for the limited feedback system. Based on the simulation results, the proposed scheme shows a comparable data rate performance with conventional schemes, while it remarkably reduces energy of channel feedback.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.18-24
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• 2010

This paper propose a dual-layer beam-forming technique for MIMO-OFDM systems. Dual-layer beam-forming is a capacity enhancing technique to transmit two streams of source data with more than two transmit and receive antennas. Beamforming is a technique to enhance the link-level performances gain using antenna array with the small inter element distance. The proposed scheme can obtain both high capacity of spatial multiplexing and antenna array gain of beamforming for MIMO-OFDM systems. Therefore, it provides better BER performance than the traditional spatial multiplexing and beamforming techniques under the same simulation environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2017

This paper considers hybrid beamforming for millimeter wave system in uplink transmission where multiple users send their data streams simultaneously. Hybrid beamforming has low-cost and low power consumption features compared to conventional digital beamforming schemes. We assume that each user uses one transmit antenna and sends one data stream, while the base station has multiple receive antennas and multiple radio frequency chains. Therefore, hybrid beamforming is performed only at the base station. We also assume that each user does not know instantaneous channel side information (CSI), while the base station is able to estimate the CSI from all users accurately. Under this channel assumption, the outage probability is not zero. We evaluate the outage probability of the considered hybrid beamforming as a performance metric through computer simulations. We show that the outage probability of hybrid beamforming approaches that of digital beamforming in some cases.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.214-216
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• 2010

본 논문에서는, 다중송수신안테나 직교주파수분할다중화 (MIMO-OFDM) 시스템에서 심볼 기반 빔포밍을 위한 제한 피드백 기법을 고려하였다. 공간적 상관도가 존재하는 다중전달경로 채널에서, 심볼 기반 빔포밍을 위한 제한 피드백 기법과 코드북을 제안하였다. 모의실험 결과를 통해 제안한 기법이 낮은 복잡도를 가짐에도 불구하고 기존의 iterative 알고리즘을 기반으로 하는 심볼 기반 빔포밍을 이용한 제한 피드백 기법보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다. 또한, 제안한 코드북이 랜덤 벡터 양자화 코드북보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.274-279
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• 2011

To increase the performance of mobile communication systems, base statations having beamforming function are released recently. For the proper beamforming function, it is required that each RF paths be calibrated periodically. However, the current calibration method has a problem when the base station is connected to a repeater. In this paper, we report the problem and propose a new calibration method to solve the problem.