• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.301-303
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• 2016

This paper proposes a method providing diversity gain using small base stations in a cell coverage in order to improve diversity gain. The small base stations and the conventional base station consist a virtual MIMO array by using the cooperative communication scheme. Also, transmission diversity scheme is applied. A mobile user can receive the signals having the improved reliability by the applied transmission diversity scheme and the cooperative communication scheme.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.138-144
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• 2006

In this paper, dual mode FET mixer for WiBro and wireless LAN(WLAN) applications has been designed in the form of dual gate FET mixer by using the cascode structure of two single gate pHEMTs. The designed dual gate mixer has been optimized to have variable conversion gain for WiBro and WLAN applications in order to save dc power consumption. The LO to RF isolation of the designed mixer is more than 20dB from 2.3GHz to 2.5GHz band. With the LO power of 0dBm and RF power of -50dBm, the mixer shows 15dB conversion gain. When RF power increases from -50dBm to -20dBm, the conversion gain decreases to -2dB from 15dB with bias change. The variable conversion gain has several advantages. It can reduce the high dynamic range requirement of AGC burden at IF stage. Also, it can save the dc power dissipation of mixer up to 90%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.355-362
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• 2003

In this paper, we analyzed the DS/CDMA System with Hybrid SC/MRC diversity, as a method to achieve a good performance by reducing the complexity of system, when PLL gain value was revised a phase gulf among branches to make perfect coherent receive signal. The channel is a multipath Nakagami-m fading channel, we consider user(K), processor gain(N), number of paths(Lp) in DS/CDMA system with hybrid SC/MRC diversity. We found that PLL gain values exist to make perfect coherent receive signal. We verified that DS/CDMA system with Hybrid SC/MRC diversity can improve performance when the proper PLL gain values is used in the system. As a result, we verified that the upper limit of PLL gain value is 5dB to make perfect coherent receive signal in the DS/CDMA system with hybrid SC/MRC diversity.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.3 s.333
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• pp.15-18
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• 2005

Multiple space-time codes (M-STTC) is composed of several space-time codes. That provides high transmission rate as well as diversity and coding gain without bandwidth expansion. In this paper, the layered receiver structures employing whitening process for M-STTC is proposed. The proposed receiver is composed of the decoding order decision block and the layered detection block. The whitening process in the latter is utilized to maximize the receive diversity gain in the layered detection. The layered receiver employing whitening process has more diversity gain and advantage of the required number of receive antenna over the layered detection with MMSE nulling. The proposed scheme achieves a 5dB gain compared to the coded layered space-time processing at the FER of $10^{-2}$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.147-153
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• 2009

In this paper, FSS(Frequency Selective Surface) using defect mode characteristic is proposed. The unit cell using defect mode characteristic of the proposed FSS is offered lower resonant frequency in the same cell size. The number of suitable array is optimized 13 by 13. Also, the patch antennas operated in WCDMA(Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) Tx band and Rx band are designed for the comparison. The gain value of proposed FSS-1 complex structure (the patch antenna of Tx band and FSS) is improved 3.3 dB from 9.98 dBi to 13.28 dBi in Tx band. The gain value of proposed FSS-2 complex structure(the patch antenna of Rx band and FSS) is improved 5.53 dB from 9.81 dBi to 15.34 dBi in Rx band. Also the measured impedance bandwidth($VSWR{\leq}2$) of manufactured $13{\times}13$ array antenna is from 337 MHz(1.87 to 2.21 GHz). The measured radiation gain is 11.39 dBi(1.94 GHz), 13.11 dBi(2.05 GHz), 11.09 dBi(2.14 GHz). The measured radiation efficiency is 81 %. Because the proposed FSS structure has more higher gain, it will be applied to antenna of WCDMA repeater system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.31-34
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• 2008

양방향 중계 채널(two-way relay channel)은 2명의 사용자가 중계기(relay)의 도움을 받아 서로 정보를 주고받는 통신 채널이다. 중계기에서는 각각의 사용자로부터 독립적으로 수신한 두 데이터 패킷에 네트워크 코딩 기법을 적용하고, 이를 통해 만든 패킷을 두 사용자에게 동시에 전송한다. 따라서 양방향 중계 채널에서는 기존의 협력 통신에 비해 보다 효율적인 자원의 사용이 가능하다. 한편, 다중 중계기 환경에서의 중계기 선택 기반 전송 방식은 시스템의 전력 제한(power constraint), 전송 패킷의 동기화(synchronization) 문제 등을 고려할 때 다중 중계기 기반 전송 방식보다 우수한 성능을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 양방향 다중 중계기 채널에서 중계기 선택 기법을 제안한다. 양방향 중계 채널에서는 수신한 두 신호의 결합을 위해 중계기에서 네트워크 코딩 기법을 적용함으로써 중계기의 부담이 보다 증가하는 특징이 있다. 또한, 중계기는 신호 전송 시 두 사용자 모두에게 전송하게 되고 이로 인해 두 수신지와의 채널 조건을 모두 고려하여야 한다. 따라서 중계기 선택은 데이터 패킷의 전송이 시작되기 전에 분산된 방식(distributed method)으로 이루어지며, 각각의 사용자와 중계기 간 일시적(instantaneous) 채널 이득을 바탕으로 사용자-사용자 간(end-to-end) 경로 조건의 최대값을 계산하는 메트릭(metric)을 중계기 선택 기준으로 사용한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 중계기 선택 기법이 중계기의 개수에 해당하는 다이버시티 이득을 얻을수 있음을 보여준다.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.13-17
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• 2017

This paper presents an approach to enable a typical GPS receiver to be much less susceptible to intentional disruption such as jamming and change in link environment. In order for the GPS receiver to cope with jamming and to get adaptivity, a $4{\times}4$ beamforming antenna is designed using metamaterials. The design results show the antenna gain much higher than 5 dBi and the movable beam.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

Relay-assisted multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technique has become a promising candidate for next generation broadband wireless communications. In this paper, we propose maximum ratio combining (MRC) minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) equalization for single carrier-frequency domain equalizer (SC-FDE) in amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying networks. The performance of SC-FDE system can be improved considerably by achieving both the diversity gain and the MMSE equalization gain when the signals from source-destination (S->D) and source-relay-destination (S->R->D) are combined and equalized by means of the MMSE criteria. We find the weighting coefficients of MRC combining and the tap coefficients of MMSE equalizer for SC-FDE in AF relaying networks. Simulation results show that the proposed relay-based system considerably outperforms the conventional SC-FDE system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.8
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• pp.16-21
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• 2007

CMOS variable gain amplifier (VGA) IC designs for the structure monitoring systems of the telemetries were developed. A three stage cascaded VGA using a differential amplifier and a linear-in-dB controller is presented. A proposed VGA is a modified version of a conventional VGA such that the gain is controlled in a linear-in-dB fashion through the current ratio. The proposed VGA circuit introduced in this paper has a dynamic range of 77 dB with 1.5 dB gain steps. It also achieved a gain error of less than 1.5 dB over 77 dB gain range. The VGA can operate up to 10MHz dissipating 13.8 mW from a single 1.8 V supply. The core area of the VGA fabricated in a Magnachip $0.18{\mu}m$ standard CMOS process was about $430{\mu}m{\times}350{\mu}m$. According to measurement results, we can verify that the proposed method is reasonable with regard to the enhancement of dynamic range and the better linear-in-dB characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.250-253
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• 2014

방송 서비스를 안정적으로 제공하기 위해서는 가시청시간율을 안정적으로 확보하는 것이 중요하다. 이를 위해서는 수신단에서 ToV SNR 부근에서의 추가적인 margin을 확보하는 기술이 요구된다. 기존 방송 시스템은 안테나를 하나만 사용하는 수신 환경을 가정하고 있으므로, 본 논문에서는 하나의 안테나로부터 수신된 신호를 서로 다른 equalizer 기법 2가지를 동시에 적용하여 마치 2개의 수신 안테나부터 신호를 수신한 효과를 얻었고, 그 출력을 weight combining 하여 최종 SNR 이득을 높이는 기술을 제안하였다. 특히, equalizer 기법은 기존에 성능이 우수하다고 알려져 있는 MMSE-DFE 기술과 최근 큰 주목을 받고 있는 compressed Sensing 기반 sparse-DFE 기술을 동시에 사용하였다. Simulation을 통해서 MMSE-DFE 또는 sparse-DFE를 단독으로 사용하는 것보다 두 기법을 가중치 결합을 통해서 사용함으로써 가시청시간율이 크게 향상되는 것을 확인하였다.