• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.2021-2026
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• 2007

In the parer, we design a non-coherent UWB system by adopting the architecture of a simplified asynchronous transmission and the edge-triggered pulse transmission, which makes e system performance independent of the share of the transmitted waveform, robust to multipath channels. The designed non-coherent UWB transceiver architecture has an advantage of the simple realization since any mixer, high-speed correlator, and high-sampling A/D converter are not necessary at the cost of performance degradation of about 3dB. Further, the designed non-coherent UWB transceiver is actually implemented with the wireless CANVAS prototype testbed in short range indoor application environments such as a lecture room. The implemented prototype testbed is proven to offer the data rate of 115kbps on the conditions of Peer-to-Peer(P-to-P) in the indoor channel within the range of about 10m.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.347-354
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• 2011

This paper presents a time-domain based asynchronous IR-UWB ranging system. This system accomplishes the ranging by detecting peaks from the outputs of a correlator implemented by a FIR filter. To discriminate the peaks due to a signal component, we use windowing for the correlated data within which the data are sorted in amplitude-ascending order and the noise level is calculated. Comparing with the recently presented frequency-domain based ranging system, we show the system structure and explain how it operates for ranging. Moreover, through the simulations, the proposed system is compared with the frequency-domain based system in terms of performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.587-594
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an asynchronous IR-UWB ranging system based on the two-way ranging protocol. The periodic pulse sequence is used to measure a distance between two devices. At the receiver, a received signal is first transformed into a frequency-domain signal using an analog correlator bank and digital signal processing is followed in the frequency-domain. This make it possible for the system to use an ADC with a conversion speed of pulse rate. The proposed algorithm at the receiver side includes a peak detection procedure using mutipath channel compensation and matched filtering, and retransmits a pulse sequence synchronized with the detected peak. The validity of the proposed algorithm is verified from simulation results where the CM1 channel is assumed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2649-2651
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 다중객체 인식 시스템과 같은 저용량 데이터전송의 저전력 무선센서네트워크 분야에 적용 가능한 새로운 펄스 방식의 저용량 UWB 통신 시스템을 제안하고 이를 설계 및 구현한다. 특히, 펄스방식의 저전력 UWB 시스템을 구현하기 위해서 전형적인 통신시스템의 수신기 구조인 RF단의 믹서, 상관기와 A/D 변환기를 없애고 최대한 단순화된 구조의 무선 비동기방식의 초광대역 송수신기를 설계한다. 설계된 WAU(Wireless Asynchronous Ultra-Wide band)시스템은 홈내 또는 강의실과 같은 곳에서 1:N HD(Half Duplex) 방식으로 저전력 무선 CANVAS 전송이 가능토록 실제 구현되었다. 구현된 WAU 시스템은 P-to-P(Peer-to-Peer) LOS(Line of Sight) 채널상태의 전송거리 10 m 에서 안정적으로 최대 115kbps 급의 전송속도가 지원 가능함을 측정하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.3046-3048
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• 2005

저비용, 저전력 운영이 가능한 초광대역(UWB) 통신기술의 핵심 기술 분야 가운데 하나인 무선위치기반 시스템(Wireless Location Based System) 혹은 무선측위기술은 향후 전기-IT융합 유비쿼터스 메쉬네트워크에서 휴먼인터페이스접목, 지능형홈 뿐만아니라, 유비쿼터스 환경의 ad-hoc 센서 네트워크에서 중요한 역할을 맡게된다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 방식의 무선측위기술에 대해 소개하고자 하며, 순차송수신방식을 이용한 UWB 무선측위기반 시스템 및 운영방안을 새롭게 제안하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11C
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• pp.1098-1105
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an asynchronous UWB (Ultra Wide Band) Positioning scheme that can provide precise positioning performance with low complexity and low power consumption. We also present the residual test to improve the positioning performance in multipath channels having heavy NLoS (Non-Line of Sight) components. As compared to conventional ToA (Time of Arrival) positioning scheme that requires round-trip transmissions as many as the number of beacons, the proposed UWB positioning scheme effectively decrease power consumption and processing delay since a single round-trip transmission is only required. Also, as compared to conventional TDoA (Time Difference of Arrival) positioning scheme requiring precise synchronization among the beacons, asynchronous nature of the proposed scheme achieves very low system complexity. Through simulations in LoS (Line of Sight) channel models, we observe that the proposed scheme requires low system complexity, low power consumption, while providing positioning performance of almost the same accuracy as the conventional ToA and TDoA positioning schemes. In addition, the proposed scheme by employing the residual test achieves accurate positioning performance even in multipath channels having heavy NLoS components.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.27-38
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a multiple access scheme using MHP(Modified Hermite Polynomial) pulse and ternary code for high-data and low-data rate for Out-body WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network). To satisfy the requirement of WBAN system, UWB-IR has been considered as a promising candidate for Out-body WBAN. The proposed multiple access scheme, using orthogonal MHP pulse and ternary code sets, reduces multi-user interference and distinguishes user signal from multi-user signals. We propose two algorithms for synchronous and asynchronous WBAN system. The symbol is constructed by MHP pulses and time hopping duration to reduce multi-user interference in the synchronous WBAN system. The symbol also is constructed by ternary code to avoid collision between pulse trains in the asynchronous WBAN system. The results of the proposed multiple access scheme show a clear improvement of BER.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.31-37
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• 2016

Ranging is divided into a synchronous scheme and an asynchronous scheme according to the presence of global synchronization between nodes. In general, the asynchronous ranging is preferred over synchronous ranging because it does not require an expensive high-precision oscillator for the global synchronization. On the other hand, in a conventional asynchronous ranging scheme, the packets, which are generated by all nodes in a positioning system of a large-scale infrastructure and need to be sent for localization by reference nodes, are considerable, which cause an increase in network traffic as the number of nodes increases. The traffic congestion lowers the throughput of the network leading to a considerable loss of energy. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a ranging scheme, in which virtual transmission slots randomly and discretely selected by a plurality of nodes are used to reduce the overheads needed in synchronizing the nodes, and the ranging is performed asynchronously based on the virtual transmission slots, thereby decreasing the network traffic. In addition, a performance test proved that the proposed ranging scheme was stronger than the TWR and SDS-TWR on an error range, even though the intensity of traffic was very low.