• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1186-1193
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose DDS(Direct Digital Synthesizer) as a new implementation method of chirp LO(Local Oscillator) for compressive receiver applied for RFID signal detection in UHF band. We designed a receiver whose input frequency range is 908.5~914 MHz, DDL(Dispersive Delay Line) bandwidth is 6 MHz, and dispersion delay time is $13\;{\mu}s$. Chirp LO based on DDS is designed to meet $26\;{\mu}s$ sweep time and 12 MHz bandwidth for complete compressive mechanism. The measured 3 dB pulse width of the compressed signal of the fabricated receiver is 260 ns and the frequency resolution for simultaneous input signals is below 200 kHz. These performances indicate that the proposed chirp LO based on DDS and the compressive receiver is suitable for RFID signal detection in UHF band.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.321-330
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• 2010

In this paper, the theoretical background and the specific implementation method of a compressive receiver for RFID signal detection as well as the design method of DDL(Dispersive Delay Line) and chirp LO are described. DDL, which is one of the main components of the compressive receiver, is designed to have $13{\mu}s$ dispersive delay time and 6 MHz bandwidth using the SAW technique based on $LiNbO_3$ material. The chirp LO is designed using DDS(Direct Digital Synthesizer). Also the compressive receiver is fabricated to be installed into the RFID reader. Test results show the maximum frequency error of 25 kHz for single signal input, the receiver sensitivity of -44 dBm, and the maximum frequency error is 75 kHz for 6 multi-tone input signals. These results indicate that the fabricated compressive receiver is working well even in dense RFID operating environments.

• The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.158-164
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• 1998

We introduce a statistical scheme to classify seabed from acoustic profiling data acquired using Chirp sonar system. The classification is based on grouping of signal traces by similarity index, which is computed using the K-L (Karhunen-Lo$\grave{e}$ve) transform of the Chirp profiling data. The similarity index represents the degree of coherence of bottom-reflected signals in consecutive traces, hence indicating the acoustic roughness of the seabed. The results of this study show that similarity index is a function of homogeneity, grain size of sediments and bottom hardness. The similarity index ranges from 0 to 1 for various types of seabed material. It increases in accordance with the homogeneity and softness of bottom sediments, whereas it is inversely proportional to the grain size of sediments. As a real data example, we classified the seabed off Cheju Island, Korea based on the similarity index and compared the result with side-scan sonar data and sediment samples. The comparison shows that the classification of seabed by the similarity index is in good agreement with the real sedimentary facies and can delineate acoustic response of the seabed in more detail. Therefore, this study presents an effective method for geoacoustic modeling to classify the seafloor directly from acoustic data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.73-75
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• 2018

LoRaWan(Long Range Wide Area Network)은 저전력, 장거리 특성을 가진 무선 통신기술로 그 특성상 스마트 시티(Smart City), IoT(Internet of Things) 등에 각광받고 있다. 또한 LoRaWan은 Chirp 신호 특성에 의해 실외 삼각측량에 따른 사용자 위치 추정 기술을 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 LoRaWan의 특성에 더해 Wi-Fi 지문 정보를 활용하여 위치 추정 정확도를 개선하고 또한 이웃 Wi-Fi 단말들, 가령 스마트폰 등의 위치 정보를 LoraWan 게이트웨이와 통신하여 최종적으로 서버에서 측위 할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.86-88
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• 2022

LoRa has been evaluated as a promising technology for Internet of things networks. Theoretically, the technology is robust for long-range communication by using chirp spreading spectrum, provides several orthogonal logical channels in a physical channel, exploits spatial reusability by introducing a star-of-stars topology. A part of recent studies indicates the quasi-orthogonality, or the imperfect orthogonality, between logical channels. The channel elements, however, are both spreading factor and bandwidth. Nevertheless, Most of the researches only treat the spreading factor. This study presents the quasi-orthogonality between all of the logical channels built by variations of the both factors. Furthermore, it shows the performance varied by the logical channel interference.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.110-116
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• 2006

A reflective array type surface acoustic wave(SAW) dispersive delay line(DDL) with high time-bandwidth at the V/UHF-band is designed and fabricated for compressive receiver applications. This type of the SAW DDL has the properties of the relative bandwidth of 20 %, the time delay of 49.89 usec, the insertion loss of 38.5 dB and the side lobe rejection of 39 dB. In comparison with a commercial SAW DDL, the insertion loss, amplitude ripple and side lobe rejection are improved by $1.5dB{\pm}0.6dB$ and 4 dB respectively. Using the fabricated SAW DDL, the prototype of the compressive receiver is developed. It is composed of RF converter, fast tunable LO, chirp LO, A/D converter, signal processing unit and control unit. This prototype system shows a fine frequency resolution of below 30 kHz with high scan rate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.239-250
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• 2022

LoRa is a physical layer technology designed to secure highly reliable long-range communication with introducing loco parentis tree network and chirp spreading spectrum. Since since a leaf can send message to more than one parents simultaneously with a single transmission in a region, packet delivery ratio increases logarithmically as the number of gateways increases. The delivery ratio, however, dramatically collapses even under loco parentis tree topology due to the limitations of ALOHA-like primitive MAC, . The proposed method is intended to exploit SDMA approach to reuse frequency in an area. With the view, TxPower of each sender for each message in a concurrent transmission is elaborately controlled to survive the collision at different gateway. Thus, the gain from the capture effect improves the capacity of resource-hungry Low Power and Wide Area Networks.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.543-559
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• 2022

To determine a suitable waveform for Internet of Things (IoT) transmission over low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, this paper reports the results of a performance comparison between chirp spread spectrum (CSS)-based LoRa and direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)-based Ingenu. The performance of both waveforms was measured in terms of the packet error rate, throughput, and packet loss rate, considering the Doppler effect caused by the high speed of LEO satellites and the interference among multiple terminals. Simulation results indicate that the DSSS scheme is more suitable than the CSS scheme for high-traffic IoT services because of its robustness against interference among multiple terminals. However, the CSS scheme is more suitable than the DSSS scheme for high-mobility IoT services because of its robustness against the Doppler effect. We discuss various solutions, such as the preprocessing of Doppler effect and avoidance of packet collision, to enhance the performance of the DSSS and CSS schemes. The simulation results of the proposed solution show that the enhanced DSSS scheme can be a proper waveform in IoT transmission over LEO satellites for both the high-traffic and high-mobility services.