• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.470-471
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 MIMO(multi-input multi-output) 시스템에서의 시간영역 채널 추정방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리듬은 각 안테나에서 전송되는 시간영역의 OFDM(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) 심볼 구간에 직교코드를 곱하여 기존의 채널 추정보다 긴 채널 추정이 가능하다. 제안된 알고리듬을 바탕으로 다양한 길이의 직교코드를 이용하여 채널추정이 가능함을 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.4C
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• pp.418-424
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• 2007

This paper proposes a scheme to track channel response in OFDM systems with null sub-carriers. The proposed channel tracking scheme estimates the channel response first in the frequency domain by using the decision directed data. The time domain channel estimation is then performed to remove additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) components further. Due to the channel estimation in the frequency domain, no inverse matrix calculation is required in the time domain channel estimation. Computational reduction in the proposed method is about 93%, compared with the conventional time domain channel estimation method. Mean square error (MSE) and bit error rate (BER) performances are evaluated by using computer simulation. The proposed method shows the same performance as that of the conventional time domain channel estimation even though the significant computational reduction.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.2818-2825
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• 2013

In this paper, a channel estimation method by orthogonalizing of the time domain training signal in MIMO-OFDM systems is proposed. It has shown that Jeon's method[8] cannot be directly used in 4 Tx antenna MIMO-OFDM systems since the delayed Rx signals interfere the orthogonal property of the time domain training signals. As a possible solution to the problem, in this paper, a guard interval is inserted into the center of the training signals so that the orthogonal property between the Rx training signals can be maintained. It is shown by using computer simulations that the proposed method can estimate the channel response in time domain in 4 Tx antenna MIMO-OFDM systems.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.67-68
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• 2007

OFDM 기반 광대역 무선접속 시스템들을 통해 유비쿼터스 서비스를 제공받기 위해서는 SDR (Software Defined Radio)과 같은 공통의 플랫폼이 필요하다 [1]. 본 논문에서는 이러한 플랫폼을 구성하기 위한 채널추정기법으로 단일화된 시간영역 채널추정기를 제안한다. 제안한 기법은 기존의 시간영역 채널추정기법의 전처리 과정에 Wiener 필터를 사용함으로써 파일럿 위치와 할당방식에 관계없이 추정기법을 단일화할 수 있으며 우수한 성능을 제공할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.18-19
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 시간영역에서 Golay 시퀀스를 이용한 주파수 분할 다중화(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; OFDM) 시스템의 채널 추정 기법을 제안하였다. 두 개의 시퀀스를 하나의 쌍으로 Golay 시퀀스 쌍은 이상적인 비주기 자기상관 특성을 가지며, 다중경로 채널 환경에서 직교성이 유지되는 강인한 특성을 가진다. 이러한 Golay 시퀀스 기반의 시간영역 채널 추정 기법은 시면 채널에서의 시간동기에 용이하며, Golay 시퀀스의 이상적인 자기상관 특성으로 인하여 채널 추정 시 수신단의 복잡도를 낮출 수 있는 장점을 갖는다. 그리고 OFDM 기반 시스템에서의 PAPR(peak to average power ration) 문제를 해결할 수 있다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 Golay 시퀀스의 특성을 이용한 전송 구조 제안 및 채널 추정 성능을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.981-987
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a new SC-FDE (single carrier frequency domain equalization) structure to cope with narrow band interference signals or jammers and reduce pilot overhead. The conventional SC-FDE structure has a problem that the receiver performance degrades severely due to difficulty in time-domain channel estimation when narrow band jammers exist. In addition, the spectral efficiency is lowered by transmitting pilot at every SC-FDE block to estimate channel response. In order to overcome those problems, the proposed structure is devised to estimate frequency domain channel directly without time domain channel estimation. To reduce the pilot overhead, several data blocks are transmitted between two pilots. The channel estimate of each data block is found through linear interpolation of two channel estimates at two pilots. By performing frequency domain channel equalization using this channel estimate, the distortion by the channel is well compensated when narrow band jammers exist. The performance of the proposed structure is confirmed by computer simulation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8A
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• pp.1298-1310
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• 2001

이 논문에서는 채널 상태가 천천히 변할 때, 직교 주파수 분할 다중화-부호분할 다중접속 시스템에 적합한 채널 추정 방법을 제안하고 성능을 분석한다. 제안한 채널 추정 방법은 시간과 주파수 영역 모두에 파일럿 심볼을 삽입하고, 이산 퓨리에 변환 후 영을 채워 넣는 방법을 이용한 내삽법으로 모든 부채널의 전달 함수를 얻는다. 또한 변환 영역에서 저대역 여파를 통해 받은 파일럿 신호에 존재하는 가산성 백색 정규 잡음의 영향을 상당히 줄일 수 있다. 이 때 저대역 여파기의 차단 주파수는 채널의 다중경로 수에 따라 정해진다. 같은 방법을 이용한 내삽법을 시간축으로 적용하여 시간에 따라 변하는 부채널의 채널 응답을 얻을 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 여러 가지 내삽법에 대한 평균 제곱 오차 성능을 수식적으로 제시한다. 제안한 저대역 여파를 결합한 내삽법을 쓰면 채널의 통계적 특성에 관한 정보 없이, 그리고 훨씬 적은 계산량으로 선형 최소 평균 제곱 오차 추정기와 비슷한 성능을 얻는다. 레일리 감쇄 채널에 대한 모의 실험을 통해 같은 비트 오류율에 대한 신호 대 잡음 비의 이득이 있음을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.2275-2284
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• 2015

In this paper, the Walsh coded orthogonal training signals for 4 × 4 multiple input multiple output-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems are designed and the channel estimation equations are derived as a closed form, taking account of the inter training signal interference problems caused by the multi-path delayed signals. The performances of the proposed channel estimation method are analyzed and compared with the conventional methods[9,14] by using computer simulation. The simulation results show that the proposed methods has better performances, compared with the conventional methods[9,14]. As a result, the proposed method can be used for MIMO-OFDM systems with null sub-carriers.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.3 s.345
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• pp.49-58
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• 2006

In this paper, a curve-fitting channel estimation method is proposed for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system in a time-varying frequency-selective fading channel. The method can greatly improve channel state information (CSI) estimation accuracy by performing smoothing and interpolation through consecutive curve-fitting processes in both time domain and frequency domain. It first evaluates least-squares (LS) estimates using pilot symbols and then the estimates are approximated to a polynomial with proper degree in the LS error sense, starting from one preferred domain in which pilots we densely distributed. Smoothing, interpolation, and prediction are performed subsequently to obtain CSI estimates for data transmission. The channel estimation processes are completed by smoothing and interpolating CSI estimates in the other domain once again using the channel estimates obtained in one domain. The performance of proposed method is influenced heavily on the time variation and frequency selectivity of channel and pilot arrangement. Hence, a proper degree of polynomial and an optimum approximation interval according to various system and channel conditions are required for curve-fitting. From extensive simulation results in various channel environments, we see that the proposed method performs better than the conventional methods including the optimal Wiener filtering method, in terms of the mean square error (MSE) and bit error rate (BER).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.9C
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• pp.720-724
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• 2008

Channel estimation in OFDM systems is usually carried out in frequency domain based on the least-squares (LS) method and the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) method with known pilot symbols. The LS estimator has a merit of low complexity but may suffer from the noise because it does not consider any noise effect in obtaining its solution. To enhance the noise immunity of the LS estimator, we consider estimation noise in time domain. Residual noise existing at the estimated channel coefficients in time domain could be reduced by reasonable selection of a threshold value. To achieve this, we propose a channel-estimation method based on a time-domain threshold which is a standard deviation of noise obtained by wavelet decomposition. Computer simulation shows that the estimation performance of the proposed method approaches to that of the known-channel case in terms of bit-error rates after the Viterbi decoder in overall SNRs.