• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.883-890
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• 2015

As the semiconductor processing technology has been developing, multiple cores or NoC(network on chip) can be contained in recent chips. GALS(globally asychronous locally synchronous) clocking scheme that has multi-clock domains with different frequencies or phase differences is widely used to solve power consumption and clock skew in a large chip with a single clock. A synchronizer is needed to avoid a synchronization problem between sender and receiver in GALS. In this paper, the setup and hold time of DFF required to design the synchronizer are measured using 180nm CMOS processing parameters depending on temperature, supply voltage, and the size of inverter in DFF. The simulation results based on the bisection method in HSPICE show that the setup and hold time are proportional to temperature, however they are inversely proportional to supply voltage, and negative values are measured for the hold time.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.577-582
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• 2016

The synchronous TDC(Time-to-Digital Converter) of counter-type using current-conveyor is designed by $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and the supply voltage is 3 volts. In order to compensate the disadvantage of a asynchronous TDC the clock is generated when the start signal is applied and the clock is synchronized with the start signal. In the asynchronous TDC the error range of digital output is from $-T_{CK}$ to $T_{CK}$. But the error range of digital output is from 0 to $T_{CK}$ in the synchronous TDC. The error range of output is reduced by the synchronization between the start signal and the clock when the timing-interval signal is converted to digital value. Also the structure of the synchronous TDC is simple because there is no the high frequency external clock. The operation of designed TDC is confirmed by the HSPICE simulation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.208-214
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• 2006

Participants of a NVE(networked virtual environment) may have different hardwares and network environments, and to guarantee the fairness, messages of participants should be synchronized. A solution for the synchronization problem is to wait for a certain amount of time until the server processes the message. It is not easy to determine a suitable waiting period because of the trade-off between the fairness and the responsiveness. In this paper we propose a method to decide a waiting period by considering only the participants with small network delays and perform experiments for the performance evaluation. Experiments show that the proposed method leads to significant improvement of responsiveness, while retaining fairness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.123-126
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 지상파 이동 멀티미디어 방송(Digital multimedia Broadcasting, DMB) 에서 비디오 영상과 데이터를 동기화 하는데 필요한 규약을 제안하고, 비디오와 데이터간의 동기화 규약을 생성하는 저작도구 구현을 기술한다. 기존의 아날로그 라디오 방송에서는 단순히 오디오만 청취할 수 있었던 것에 반해, DMB 방송에서는 비디오 영상과 관련된 정보들이 결합하여 시청자의 의견이 즉각 방송에 반영 가능한 인터랙티브 TV 프로그램을 시청 할 수 있게 되었다. 예를 들어, 퀴즈 쇼에서 출제된 문제(데이터)들이 비디오 영상과 동기를 맞추는 것이 가능해 짐에 따라 시청자도 퀴즈 쇼 출연자와 동시에 같은 문제를 풀 수도 있고 정답을 바로 응답할 수 있게 되는 것이다. 이때, 위와 같이 비디오 영상과 동기화된 데이터를 전송하기 위해서는 비디오와 데이터간의 동기를 이루어 낼 수 있는 기준 시간 즉 동기화 시간의 설정이 선행되어야 한다. 동기화 시간으로 사용 가능한 시간 값으로는 DMB의 한 서비스 형태인 Slide-Show Application 에서 사용되는 UTC를 이용하는 방법, 혹은 비디오 영상의 CTS를 이용하는 방법이 있다. 본 논문에서는 비디오와 데이터간의 동기화를 위해서는 UTC가 적합하지 않고 CTS를 사용해야 된다는 것을 보이고, CTS를 이용하는 동기화 규약을 생성하는 저작도구를 기술한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.11
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• pp.1084-1093
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• 2012

For large multihop networks, large time synchronization (TS) errors can accumulate with conventional methods, such as TPSN, RBS, and FTSP, since they need a large number of hops to cover the network. In this paper, a method combining Concurrent Cooperative Transmission (CCT) and Semi- Cooperative Spectrum Fusion (SCSF) is proposed to reduce the number of hops to cover the large network. In CCT, cooperating nodes transmit the same digitally encoded message in orthogonal channels simultaneously, so receivers can benefit from array and diversity gains. SCSF is an analog cooperative transmission method where different cooperators transmit correlated information simultaneously. The two methods are combined to create a new distributed method of network TS, called the Cooperative Analog and Digital (CANDI) TS protocol, which promises significantly lower network TS errors in multi-hop networks. CANDI and TPSN are compared in simulation for a line network.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.117-125
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new code acquisition architecture having the features of low complexity and high speed for the MC-CDMA system. The newly designed searching finger has function of the searcher as well as the finger. The searching finger tests the PN code Phase as the searcher during the initial acquisition, and as the finger after the initial acquisition. The proposed system has reduced the average acquisition time of the PN codes to $T_{acq}$/19 in the 20MHz MC-CDMA system with 75% reduction of H/W complexity.y.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.11
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• pp.28-36
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• 1998

In the CDMA mobile communication system with asynchronous mode among base stations, the initial PN code acquisition method using a matched filter can be considered for the rapid PN code synchronization acquisition in the handoff region. In the model of the noncoherent QPSK/DS-SS under the Rayleigh fading channel, the mean acquisttion time of the matched filter is analyzed to have a shortened time in proportion to the length of matched filter to be compared with the serial correlation method. In this paper to improve the HW complexity of the conventional matched device which enables the repeated correlation process, is designed and its function is verified through the FPGAsimulation using Altera MaxPlus Ⅱ.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.5
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• pp.1159-1166
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• 2004

This paper describes a multimedia synchronization model based on the MPEG-4(Moving Picture Expert Group) system. It defines and modifies new nodes for representing temporal relationships between media objects in the BIFS(Binary Format for Scene) of MPEG-4 system which Integrates, manages and transfers multimedia objects such as audio, video, image, etc. The relationships are represented by using a multimedia temporal model during the start, play and delay time interval. In addition, we illustrate a multimedia authoring system that includes the Interface used for defining the temporal relationships. Differently from several contentional tools generally appropriate for professional users who can edit the BIFS nodes of themselves, the system provides end-users with the function that can define the temporal relationships of multimedia objects directly in the interface.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.112-119
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• 2008

Today, A matter of concern of home network technology increase. The standard of communication between home network devices are required. IEEE 802.1 AVB(Audio/Video Bridging) specifies transmission method for time-sensitive data between these devices using Ethernet in bridged local area networks. IEEE 802.1 AVB and IEEE 1588 PTP(Precision Time Protocol) have various message type for grandmaster selection and synchronize the devices. These messages bring on complexity protocol. We propose a method that uses Single TimeSync frame in order to the problem. Our proposal is appropriate process complexity and low transmission delay for home network by using the TimeSync frame. Furthermore, after all devices are adjusted to the single TimeSync frame, a resource reservation, a forwarding and queueing rule are needed for a time-sensitive application.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.12
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• pp.1069-1078
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a distributed time synchronization technique for OFDMA- based wireless mesh communication systems. The proposed technique employs the bio-inspired algorithm for self-time synchronization in the physical layer. To achieve the network synchronicity, the proposed technique updates the transmission time and the FFT window using the TDoA information of received signals from the neighbor nodes. The proposed technique can achieve fast self-synchronization among nodes with a simple algorithm, without the need of a centralized controller. The performance of the proposed time synchronization technique is evaluated by simulation in terms of convergence speed and convergence probability.