• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.13-21
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• 2017

Ballasted track has been used as track system for more than 100 years. Ballasted track has advantages of low construction cost, flexible maintenance, low noise and vibration, and so on. However, ballasted track leads to continuous settlement which causes maintenance. Recently, increase in speed, traffic volume, and weight of train requires more frequent maintenance. Fouling, well-known phenomenon of accumulation of fine materials due to intrusion of subgrade and breakage of ballast materials, expedites the settlement (i.e., irregular settlement) of track. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can be one of non-destructive tools that can evaluate fouling level of ballast. In this paper, a gain function based on the attenuation characteristics of ballast material is suggested in conjunction with Hilbert transform. Lab box tests and full-scale tests indicate that the suggested method reasonably classifies clean, fouled layers, and subgrade. However, additional study to eliminate effect of sleeper and to include the scattering features of the electromagnetic wave in ballast voids should be required in order to enhance the accuracy.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.8C
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• pp.762-768
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• 2005

This paper proposes new space-time block codes achieving full rate and full diversity for QAM and quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels when using any number of transmit antennas larger than 3 transmit antennas. These codes are constructed by serially concatenating the constellation rotating $precoders^{[4,5]}$ with the Alamouti scheme$3^{[3]}$ Bike the conventional A-ST-CR code$^{[6,7]}$. Computer simulations show that the proposed codes achieve approximately 1.3dB, 1.4dB and 1.5dB larger coding gains than the ST-CR $codes^{[4,5]}$ for QPSK with 3, 4 and 5 transmit antennas, respectively, and about 3dB for 16QAM with 3 transmit antennas.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.110-114
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• 2008

In this paper, high efficient class F power amplifier with dual band has been realized. Dual band power amplifier have used modify stub matching for single FET, center frequency 2.14GHz and 5.2GHz respectively. Dual band amplifier is 32.65dBm output power, gain 11dB and PAE 36% at the 2.14GHz, 7dB gain at the 5.2GHz. Design of a dual band class F power amplifier using harmonic control circuit. The measured are 9.9dB gain, 30dBm output power and PAE 55% at the 2.14GHz, 11.7dB gain at the 5.2GHz. This paper is being used the load-pull method and it maximizes output power and it is using the only one transistor in the paper. As a result, this research will obtain a dual band high PAE power amplifier.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.69-78
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• 2007

A Frequency synthesizer for T-DMB and mobile-DTV applications was designed using $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process with 1.8V supply. PMOS transistors were chosen for VCO core to reduce phase noise. The VCO range is 920MHz-2100MHz using switchable inductors, capacitors and varactors. Varactor biases that improve varactor acitance characteristics were minimized as two, and $K_{VCO}$(VCO gain) value was aintained by switchable varactor. Additionally, VCO was designed that VCO gain and the interval of VCO gain were maintained using VCO gain compensation logic. VCO, PFD, CP and LF were verified by Cadence Spectre, and divider was simulated using Matlab Simulink, ModelSim and HSPICE. VCO consumes 10mW power, and is 56.3% tuning range. VCO phase noise is -127dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset for 1.58GHz output frequency. Total power consumption of the frequency synthesizer is 18mW, and lock time is about $140{\mu}s$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.59-60
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• 2017

In this paper, the bandwidth and gain enhancement of a series-fed dipole pair antenna (SDPA) using a modified balun., a director, and two parasitic patches is studied. The proposed SDPA consists of two strip dipoles with different lengths, a ground reflector, which are connected through a coplanar strip line, a director, and two parasitic patches. The modified balun is used to increase the bandwidth, whereas the director and two parasitic patches are appended to the SDPA to enhance the gain in the middle and high frequency band. A prototype of the proposed SDPA is fabricated on an FR4 substrate, and the experimental results show that the antenna has a frequency band of 1.56-3.10 GHz for a VSWR < 2, and measured gain maintains over 7 dBi in the frequency range of 1.55-3.00 GHz.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.404-411
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• 2018

This paper proposes a dolphin whistle mimicking underwater communication method using FSK (Frequency Shift Keying) and method to improve BER (Bit Error Rate) performance by using multipath gain combining. The proposed method divides whistle sound into short time intervals and transmits FSK modulated signal that ensures orthogonality of the symbol. Multipath gain can be obtained by using characteristic of mimicked signal frequency that varies with time. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed method, computer simulations and lake experiments were conducted. Computer simulation results show that an additional multipath gain is obtained by multipath. From lake experiments, when symbol length is 20 msec and modulation band is 900 Hz, the proposed FSK method with multipath combining gain obtains BER of 0.002, which is better than CSS (Chirp Spread Spectrum) with BER of 0.185. he proposed based on FSK method has higher imitation degree than the CSS method by analyzing mean cross-correlation value in the time - frequency domain of the imitated signal and actual whistle signal.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1666-1671
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• 2022

The structure of a high-power gain-flattened long wavelength band (L-band) optical amplifier was optimized, which was implemented for 64-channel wavelength division multiplexed optical signals with a channel spacing of 50 GHz. The output characteristics of this L-band amplifier were measured and analyzed. The amplifier of the optimized two-stage amplification configuration had a flattened gain of 20 dB within 1 dB deviation between 1570 and 1600 nm for -2 dBm input power condition. The noise figure under this condition was minimized to within 6 dB in the amplification bandwidth. The gain flattening was realized by considering only the characteristics of gain medium in the amplifier without using additional optical or electrical devices. The proposed amplifier consisted of two stages of amplification stages, each of which was based on the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) structure. The erbium-doped fiber length and pumping structures in each stage of the amplifier were optimized through experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.245-252
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• 2016

In this paper, the design of a double-dipole quasi-Yagi antenna (DDQYA) with a gain over 7 dBi at 1.70-2.70 GHz band is studied. The proposed DDQYA consists of two strip dipoles with different lengths and a ground reflector, which are connected trough a coplanar stripline. The length of the second dipole is adjusted to increase the gain in the low frequency band, whereas a rectangular patch director is appended to the DDQYA to enhance the gain in the middle and high frequency band. The effects of the length of the second dipole, and the length and width of the director on the antenna performance are analyzed, and final design parameters to obtain a gain over 7 dBi are obtained. A prototype of the proposed DDQYA is fabricated on an FR4 substrate, and the experimental results show that the antenna has a frequency band of 1.60-2.86 GHz for a VSWR < 2, and measured gain ranges 7.2-7.6 dBi at 1.70-2.70 GHz band.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.597-600
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 비선형 왜곡이 있는 환경에서 QAM 신호의 수신 성능을 개선시키기 위한 비선형 왜곡 제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 비선형 왜곡의 효과를 줄이기 위하여 MMSE-DFE 수신기의 역방향 필터에 비선형 탭을 포함시키고 등화기 출력에서 추가적인 처리를 통해 남아 있는 잔여 비선형 왜곡을 제거한다. 비선형 왜곡이 있는 환경에서 MMSE-DFE 수신기와 제안된 수신기의 성능을 분석하고 전산 모의 실험을 통해 검증한다. MMSE-DFE 수신기와 비교한 제안된 수신기의 SNR 이득은 QAM 신호의 신호점 수가 커지고 비선형 왜곡이 커질수록 증가한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.42-48
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• 2011

협력 통신은 링크의 품질을 향상시키기 위한 유력한 대안으로 평가 받고, 이에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본고는 특히 무선 센서네트워크에서 협력 통신이 가질 수 있는 장점들을 설명하고, 이를 위한 현재의 연구의 흐름을 설명한다. 무선 센서 네트워크에서 협력 통신을 통해 얻어진 다이버시티 이득은 주로 전송 전력을 줄이기 위해 사용되는데 활용하기 위한 기법들을 소개한다. 또 앞으로 실제 네트워크에서 적극적으로 사용되기 위해 추가적으로 연구되어야 할 이슈에 대해 살펴본다.