• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.1090-1097
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• 2007

The multibeam surveillance radar is a state-of art of 3D radar technology. It applies the stacked beam-on-received realized by a digital beamformer. In this paper, a design concept of beamformer and a method of target altitude extraction for multibeam surveillance radar in the normal environmental condition considering no multipath situations are proposed and investigated. The extraction algorithm based on antenna sine space coordinated system in a FFT digital beamformer is described. The proposed algorithm is simulated by 1 look-up table data and confirmed to have consistent results in accordance with a variety of target altitudes and a full radar frequency range.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.407-416
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• 2021

An active phased array antennas can not only electrically steer the beam by controlling the weighting of the excitation signal, but can also form a pattern null in the direction of the interference source. The weight of the excitation signal to steer the main beam can be easily calculated based on the position of the radiating element. In addition, the weight of the excited signal for pattern null formation can also be calculated by setting the required radiation pattern and using WLSM(Weighted Least Squares Method). However, in a general wireless communication network environment, the location of the interference source is unknown. Therefore, an adaptive pattern null synthesis is needed. In this paper, it was confirmed that pattern null synthesis according to the required radiation characteristic was possible. And based on this, adaptive pattern null synthesis into the direction of an interference source was studied using a binary search algorithm based on observation area. As a result of conducting a simulation based on the presented technique, it was confirmed that adaptive pattern null forming into the direction of an interference is possible in efficient way.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.167-170
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• 2003

본 논문은 ATSC방식의 지상파 DTV의 이동수신 성능 개선을 위해 적응 어레이 안테나를 사용하여 입사되는 신호의 위상 정보를 통해 원하는 신호원의 방향을 찾고 주신호와 다중경로 신호 사이에 capon알고리즘을 통해 최대의 이득을 얻는 최적의 빔을 형성하며 이동수신채널인 도플러효과가 포함된 다중경로신호득의 영향을 약화시킨다. 빔형성 알고리즘을 통한 채널의 개선이 LMS 알고리즘을 사용한 통화기의 성능을 얼마나 향상시키는지 전산 모의 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.107-113
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• 2016

In this paper, we suggest a design method of a wide-band Butler matrix working at 5.9 GHz for V2X communication antennas. Since V2X communication needs beam-forming and beam-steering antennas to make transportation systems, mobile comm platforms, saturated frequency-resources, and signal TX-and-RX smart, multi-functional, resolved, and efficient utmost, respectively, the proper Butler matrix and its radiating elements as a low-profile geometry are realized. The constitutive components of the basic Butler matrix of a narrow band are designed first. And then, it is extended to a wide-band version to make its frequency-shift less affected by the event of the antenna system being mounted on a car body. The beam-forming and beam-steering performance is presented as the common feature tagged along with the different bandwidths of the frequency responses as the comparison between the narrow- and wide-band cases.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.155-161
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• 2018

Many short range weather radars with the low elevation search capability are needed for analysis and prediction of unusual weather changes or rainfall phenomena which occurs regionally. However, due to the characteristics of low elevation electromagnetic wave beam, it is highly probable that the received weather signals of these radars are contaminated by the ground and sea clutter. Since most of ground clutter appears around the very narrow low Doppler frequency region, it is somewhat easy to separate. However, the sea clutter removal is very difficult since it can occupy the broad Doppler frequency region according to weather conditions. Therefore, in this paper, the sea clutter removal capability is analyzed for a phased array weather radar which use vertical array elements for electronic elevation beam steering. Also, it is shown that the sea clutter removal can be achieved appropriately using the receiver beam forming technology in a phased array antenna.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.636-643
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• 2023

In this paper, a high-speed calibration method for phased array antennas in the far-field is presented A max calibration, which is a simplification of the rotating-element electric-field vector (REV) method that calibrates each antenna element only through received power, and a method of grouping calibrations by sub-array unit rather than each antenna element were proposed. Using the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm, we found a partitioning optimized for the distribution of phased array antennas and calibrated it on a subarray basis. An adaptive max calibration method that allows faster calibration than the conventional method was proposed and verified through simulation. Not only is the gain of the phased array antenna higher while calibration is being made to the target, but the beam pattern is closer to the ideal beam pattern than the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.217-218
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• 2010

본 논문은 3-사용자 X 채널 상황에서 다중안테나를 이용하여 간섭을 완벽하게 제어하는 기법에 대해 제안한다. 기존에 제안된 방식이 빔포밍(beamforming) 벡터를 다수의 채널을 사용하여 만드는데 따른 비현실적인 문제와 간섭을 완벽하게 제어하기 위한 무한한 채널 사용의 필요성에 따른 문제점을 본 논문에서는 다중안테나를 이용하여 공간적 특성을 이용한 빔포밍 벡터를 형성하고 채널의 확장 없이 간섭을 완벽히 제어하도록 하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안한 시스템은 9개의 DOF(Degrees of freedom)을 얻을 수 있음을 모의실험 결과를 통해 확인할 수 있다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.101-111
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• 2016

최근 위성통신방송 시장의 요구에 따라 위성 시스템 비용 절감에 적합한 비용 대비 효율성이 매우 높은 flexibile 위성 탑재체에 대한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 이에 본고에서는 차기 flexible 위성통신 방송 탑재체의 주요 핵심 기술인 재구성 빔 안테나용 flexible 안테나 및 빔 형성 모듈 기술, 유연한 주파수 스펙트럼 제공용 가변 국부 발진기 및 가변 필터 기술에 대해 살펴보기로 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6B
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• pp.629-637
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• 2002

RLS a1gorithm is a kind of the adaptive a1gorithms in smart antennas and adapts the weight vector using the difference between the output signal of array antennas and the known training sequence. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm based on the RLS algorithm. It calculates the error signal with reference signal derived from blind scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm yields more user capacity by 67∼74% than other blind adaptive algorithms(LS-DRMTA, LS-DRMTCMA) at the same BER and the beamformer forms null beams toward interference signals and the main beam toward desired signal.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.60-65
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• 2020

The monopulse tracking algorithm can estimate the location of a partner station based on an RF (Radio Frequency) signal. The location of the partner station is estimated based on the monopulse ratio curve (MR-C), which is calculated based on the sum and difference signal patterns of an antenna. Therefore, the range in which the estimated location can be calculated with high accuracy increases in proportion to the linear region of MR-C. In this paper, we proposed a method to extend the linear region of the MR-C curve using the beamforming technique for the tracking antenna system using the active phased array antenna. Simulation results based on the same antenna system, it was confirmed that the linear region of MR-C was enlarged by about twice as much as the general case where the proposed method was not applied.