• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.684-687
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• 2006

In this letter, we evaluate the system performance of a space-time block coded (STBC) multicarrier (MC) DS-CDMA system over a time selective fading channel, with imperfect channel knowledge. The average bit error rate impairment due to imperfect channel information is investigated by taking into account the effect of the STBC position. We consider two schemes: STBC after spreading and STBC before spreading in the MC DS-CDMA system. In the scheme with STBC after spreading, STBC is performed at the chip level; in the scheme with STBC before spreading, STBC is performed at the symbol level. We found that these two schemes have various channel estimation errors, and that the system with STBC before spreading is more sensitive to channel estimation than the system with STBC after spreading. Furthermore, derived results prove that a high spreading factor (SF) in the MC DS-CDMA system with STBC before spreading leads to high channel estimation error, whereas for a system with STBC after spreading this statement is not true.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.142-152
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• 2014

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are comprised of wireless mobile nodes characterized by a randomly changing topology, high mobility, availability of geographic position, and fewer power constraints. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising candidate for the physical layer of VANET because of the inherent characteristics of the spectral efficiency and robustness to channel impairments. The susceptibility of OFDM to Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI) is a challenging issue. The high mobility of nodes in VANET causes higher Doppler shifts, which results in ICI in the OFDM system. In this paper, a frequency domain com-btype channel estimation was used to cancel out ICI. The channel frequency response at the pilot tones was estimated using a Least Square (LS) estimator. An efficient interpolation technique is required to estimate the channel at the data tones with low interpolation error. This paper proposes a robust interpolation technique to estimate the channel frequency response at the data subcarriers. The channel induced noise tended to degrade the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of the system. Parallel concatenated Convolutional codes were used for error correction. At the decoding end, different decoding algorithms were considered for the component decoders of the iterative Turbo decoder. A performance and complexity comparison among the various decoding algorithms was also carried out.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.696-701
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• 2003

This paper presents a systematic method of probing channel characteristics and communication reliabilities of home power line communication network applied to the Internet accessed control of home appliances. The effects of the three performance deterioating factors, i.e., additive noise, channel attenuation, and intersymbol interference, can be systematically measured by applying the channel probing waveform in the frequency range from 100KHz to 450KHz. Probability of bit error is derived with the probed channel parameters of the signal attenuation, noise and signal-to-interference ratio read in the frequency domain. The agreement between the derived probability of bit error and the measured probability of bit error supports the validity of the proposed approach of probing home power line channel characteristics. The experimental results performed with the constructed test-bed applying the proposed channel probing method also support the feasibility of commercially deploying the PLC modem installed home appliances and their services for the Internet accessed home automation.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.219-228
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• 1997

The Fano metric is the maximum likelihood decoding choice for convlutional code for binary symmetric channel. The Fano metric assumes that it has previous knowledge of channel error probability. However, the bit errors in real channel occur in bursts and the channel error probability can not be known exactly. Thus, the Fano metric is not the maximum likelihood choice for bursty-noise channel. In this paper universal metri which dose not require the previous knowlege of the channel transition probability is used for sequential decoding. It is shown that the complexity of the universal is much less than that of the Fano metric bursty-noise channel, since it is estimated on a branch by branch basis.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1029-1042
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• 2017

A joint channel estimation and data detection technique for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication system is proposed. It combines the least square (LS) training based channel estimation (TBCE) scheme with sphere decoding. In this new approach, channel estimation is enhanced with the help of blind symbols, which are selected based on their correctness. The correctness is determined via sphere decoding. The performance of the new scheme is studied through simulation in terms of the bit error rate (BER). The results show that the proposed channel estimation has comparable performance and better computational complexity over the existing semi-blind channel estimation (SBCE) method.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.506-512
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• 2016

최근 에너지 하베스팅 기술은 배터리 용량 부족 문제를 해결하여 네트워크 수명을 향상시킬 수 있는 방안으로 관심을 받고 있다. 하지만 기존 연구의 경우 정확한 채널정보를 바탕으로 한 이상적인 환경에서의 하베스팅 기술만을 고려하였다. 본 논문에서는 채널 추정 절차와 이에 따른 채널 추정 오차를 반영한 현실적 에너지 하베스팅 네트워크 환경에서 에너지 효율성을 향상시키기 위한 자원 할당 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법에서는 최적화 기법을 이용하여 시스템 데이터 전송률, 에너지 획득량, 불완전한 채널 추정 특성 등을 동시에 고려한 스케줄링 및 파워 할당 해를 찾는다. 제안 기법은 에너지 효율성 관점에서 기존의 하베스팅 기법보다 향상된 성능을 보이며, 채널 추정 오차가 반영되었을 때의 에너지 효율적 자원할당 방법에 대한 새로운 정보를 제공한다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 시변 주파수 선택적 페이딩 채널에서 OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) 시스템을 위한 curve-fitting 채널추정 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 시간영역 및 주파수영역에서 1차원 curve-fitting을 통하여 smoothing과 interpolation을 순차적으로 수행함으로써 채널추정 정확도를 크게 개선할 수 있다. 먼저, 파일럿 심벌들을 사용하여 LS(least-Square) 추정치를 구하고, 이를 바탕으로 파일럿 밀도가 상대적으로 높은 영역을 선택하여 최소자승오차 기준에 따라 적절한 차수의 다항식으로 1차원 curve-fitting을 수행한다. 다음으로, 이 다항식을 이용하여 주어진 범위 내에 존재하는 LS 추정치들을 smoothing하고, interpolation 또는 prediction을 통하여 데이터 전송을 위하여 필요한 채널추정치들을 구한다. 이어서, 선택된 영역에서 얻어진 채널추정치들을 나머지 영역에서 또 다른 다항식을 사용하여 동일한 과정으로 1차원 curve-fitting을 통하여 smoothing과 interpolation을 수행함으로써 시간영역 및 주파수영역에서의 채널추정을 완료한다. 모의실험을 통하여 다양한 채널환경에서 MSE (mean square error) 및 BER (bit error rate) 성능을 분석한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 채널추정 방법들에 비하여 월등히 우수하며, 최적의 Wiener 필터링 방법보다도 우수함을 보였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권12C호
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• pp.753-758
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• 2011

The constant modulus algorithm (CMA) widely used in blind equalization applications minimizes the averaged power of constant modulus error (CME) defined as the difference between an instant output power and a constant modulus. In this paper, a decision feedback version of the linear blind algorithm based on maximization of the zero-error probability for CME is proposed. The Gaussian kernel of the maximum zero-error criterion is analyzed to have the property to cut out excessive CMEs that may be induced from severely distorted channel characteristics. Decision feedback approach to the maximum zero-error criterion for CME is developed based on the characteristic that the Gaussian kernel suppresses the outliers and this prevents error propagation to some extent. Compared to the linear algorithm based on maximum zero-error probability for CME in the simulation of blind equalization environments, the proposed decision feedback version has superior performance enhancement particularly in cases of severe channel distortions.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.1379-1385
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• 2018

기존의 다중사용자 중첩 전송은 순시 채널 전력의 조건에 따라 데이터 심벌의 전력 할당 계수와 사용자별 수신 신호 처리 방법을 결정한다. 그러나 순시 채널 전력의 이용은 시스템의 복잡도를 증가시킬 수 있기 때문에 본 논문에서는 평균 채널 전력을 이용하는 고정적 다중사용자 중첩 전송을 고려한다. 고정적 다중사용자 중첩 전송 기법은 시간에 따라 느리게 변화하는 평균 채널 전력의 조건을 기반으로 데이터 심벌의 전력 할당 계수와 사용자별 수신 신호 처리 방법을 결정하기 때문에 시스템 복잡도를 감소시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 고정적 다중사용자 중첩 전송에 대한 평균 심벌 오차율을 분석한다. 특히, 레일레이 페이딩 채널을 가정하여 M-ary 직교 진폭 변조에 대한 평균 심벌 오차율의 표현식을 유도한다. 또한, 수치적 결과를 통하여 열악한 채널 환경에 있는 사용자에서 고정적 다중사용자 중첩전송과 기존의 다중사용자 중첩 전송의 평균 심벌 오차율 성능이 유사함을 보였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.12-20
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• 2015

Convolutional codes which are terminated by direct truncation (DT) and zero tail termination provide unequal error protection. When DT terminated convolutional codes are used to encode short messages, they have interesting error protection properties. Such codes match the significance of the output bits of common quantizers and therefore lead to a low mean square error (MSE) when they are used to encode quantizer outputs which are transmitted via a noisy digital communication system. A code construction method that allows adapting the code to the channel is introduced, which is based on time-varying convolutional codes. We can show by simulations that DT terminated convolutional codes lead to a lower MSE than standard block codes for all channel conditions. Furthermore, we develop an MSE approximation which is based on an upper bound on the error probability per information bit. By means of this MSE approximation, we compare the convolutional codes to linear unequal error protection code construction methods from the literature for code dimensions which are relevant in analog to digital conversion systems. In numerous situations, the DT terminated convolutional codes have the lowest MSE among all codes.