• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.585-591
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• 2016

DOCR can be used to efficiently increase the reliability and to protect the bi-directional D/L(Distribution Lines). As more DG(Distributed Generation)s attempt to connect the bi-directional D/L, there is an increasing need for studies of how to use DOCR installed in the D/L. This paper investigates the operating principles of DOCR and presents the results an effect of sequence and fault impedance in L-L(Line to Line) fault. An advanced DOCR operating algorithm is proposed to reduce the mal-operation of conventional DOCR. The proposed algorithm is applied to the bi-directional power flow system and shows that it decreases the mal-operation of DOCR through the computer simulation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.4 s.29
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• pp.587-598
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• 2005

KBS and ETRI have co-developed an advanced DOCR(Digital On Channel Repeater) which has an equalization and pre-distortion function and can be operated properly under lower isolation of reception and transmission antennas. Field tests of the DOCR were performed twice in Suwon area in 2004 and 2005. This paper summarizes the characteristics of the DOCR system and field test results in Suwon. The changes in DOCR coverage according to the different generations of ATSC DTV receivers were also analyzed. Basic concept to apply the DOCR system in DTV broadcasting networks in Korea is suggested through test results.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.670-678
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• 2011

This paper investigates the design and performance of a digital on-channel repeater (DOCR) for use in Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital television (DTV) broadcasting. The main drawback of a DOCR is the echo interference caused by coupling between transmitter and receiver antennas, which induces system instability and performance degradation. In order to overcome this problem, an echo canceller based on the adaptive echo channel estimation (ECE) technique has been researched and applied for a DOCR. However, in the case of ATSC, the pilot signal, which is used for carrier synchronization, may cause a DC offset error and reduce the isolation performance of the echo canceller for a DOCR in an ATSC network. Moreover, since the multipath fading effect of a radio channel usually occurs in a real environment, it should be minimized to improve the overall performance of a DOCR. Therefore, due to the limited isolation performance of echo canceller and the multipath fading effect, an interference cancellation system (ICS) is proposed for a DOCR in an ATSC network. The performance of the proposed DOCR with an ICS is evaluated by software simulation and hardware test results.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.43-52
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• 2012

This paper presents and analyzes laboratory test results of Interference Cancellation Digital On Channel Regenerative Repeater(IC-DOCR) to broadcast digital television signals in the Advanced Television Systems Committee(ATSC) transmission systems using single frequency networks(SFN). IC-DOCR laboratory test is classified to receiver test, transmitter test, and feedback interference cancellation test. The receiver part includes random noise, single echo, multi-path ensembles, and adjacent channel interference test. The transmitter part includes out-of channel emission, equality of transmitting signal, and phase noise test. By the laboratory test, the receiver part of the IC-DOCR eliminates 28dB of feedback signal higher than the received signal and has 17.8dB at TOV(Threshold Of Visibility) under random noise environment. Also, the transmitter part satisfies the specification of US FCC(Federal Communications Commission) as well as maintains good output signal quality for guaranteeing more than SNR 30dB.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.295-302
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• 2011

In this paper we consider technological requirements to broadcast digital television signals using single frequency networks(SFN) in the Advanced Television Systems Committee(ATSC) transmission systems and propose Interference Cancellation Digital On Channel Regenerative Repeater(IC-DOCR) thar overcomes the limitation of EDOCR(Equalization Digital On Channel Repeater) proposed by ETRI. The proposed IC-DOCR maintains the benefits of EDOCR that have good output signal quality removing multi-path, additive white Gaussian noise(AWGN). In additional, since the Interference Cancellation algorithm using the 8-VSB symbol demodulation of received signal removes the Interference of feedback signal, IC-DOCR improve the weakness of EDOCR that have low isolation between receive and transmit antenna so that can overcome the limitation of output signal power. we did analysis and verification of the proposed system performance using computational simulation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.516-524
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• 2007

In order to use limited frequency resources efficiently, a single frequency network using digital on-channel repeater(DOCR) has been studied and would be implemented. The DOCR generates strong pre-ghosts to ATSC DTV receivers. The forward filter of equalizer in ATSC DTV receivers compensates the distortion made by pre-ghosts. This process induces noise enhancement and colored noise, thereby results in the performance degradation. In this paper we propose to use a dual-feedback equalizer to combat strong pre-ghosts. The proposed equalizer has two feedback filters. One is the decision feedback filter and the other is non-decision feedback filter. The additional non-decision feedback filter decreases the noise by whitening the noise and preventing the generation of colored noise in pre-ghost channel. Thus the equalization technique of dual-feedback structure has performance enhancement in pre-ghost channel in comparison with conventional decision feedback equalizer(DFE). By simulation we analyzed the performance enhancements of DTV receiver using dual-feedback equalization structure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2005

한국방송(KBS)은 전자통신연구원(ETRI)과 공동으로 송수신 안테나의 낮은 분리도(isolation)하에서도 운용이 용이하며 중계기 내부의 왜곡을 보상할 수 있는 DOCR(Digital On-Channel Repeater)을 개발하였다. 개발된 DOCR의 성능과 서비스 커버리지를 측정하기 위하여 수원 지역에서 2004년과 2005년 두 차례의 필드테스트를 공동으로 실시하였다. 본 논문에서는 개발된 DOCR시스템에 대하여 그 특징을 설명하고 수원 지역에서 실시된 필드테스트 결과를 분석한다. 또한, 다양한 세대의 ATSC 수신기를 측정에 사용함으로써 수신기 성능에 따른 DOCR 서비스 커버리지의 변화를 측정하였다. 측정결과에는 DOCR의 사용에 따른 수신성공률, 수신마진, 수신용이성(수신가능각도)등이 포함되며 측정 지역의 수 년간의 테스트 결과를 종합하여 서비스 범위내의 수신성능을 분석한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.4 s.88
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• pp.1-9
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• 2004

본 고에서는 미국식(ATSC) 지상파 디지털 TV 방송을 단일 주파수 망(SFN)을 통해 서비스하기 위해 필요한 기술적인 사항에 대하여 고찰하고, ATSC 방송 방식에서 SFN을 구성하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. SFN구성은 방송 주파수의 이용 효율을 높이고, 방송 구역 내에서 안정적인 전파 세기를 보장한다. 이러한 SFN 구성을 위한 기술은 복수 개의 송신기를 이용하는 방법(DTX)과 복수 개의 디지털 동일 채널 중계기(DOCR)를 이용하는 방법으로 나뉘어진다. ATSC 방식에서는 두 가지 방법 모두 사용하여 SFN 구성이 가능하나, 복수 개의 송신기를 이용하는 방법은 현재의 기술 기준을 변경해야 한다는 제약이 따른다. 반면 다수 개의 DOCR를 이용하는 방법은 기존의 송신기와 함께 SFN 구성이 가능하여 망 구성이 용이하다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.107-113
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• 2009

In Digital On-Channel Repeaters (DOCR) of Terrestrial-DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting), there exist feedback signals generated from transmit antenna and re-entering at receive antenna. Therefore DOCR becomes unstable unless the feedback signal is properly eliminated. Previous research proposed a feedback canceller to estimate the feedback channel to deal with this problem. However formerly used estimation algorithms show unsatisfied performance in terms of convergence rate and quality although their implementations are simple. This paper applies PNLMS (Proportionate Normalized Least Mean Squares) adaptive algorithm to feedback channel estimation and evaluates the performances which solve the problem of feedback signal effectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.491-498
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• 2012

Recently, many papers have been proposed in order to improve the OFDM system performance in T-DMB DOCR (Digital On Channel Repeater), by using removing the feedback signal so that the transmitter power can be increased or by using the equalizer to remove ICI. Despite these efforts, however, signal quality at the receiving terminal has not been improved because of constellation smearing in T-DMB DOCR. In this paper, in order to suppress constellation smearing, we propose an effective equalizer algorithm that can improve system performance. We perform adaptive channel estimation and non-coherent decision directed noise cancellation method that can estimate the channel subsequently during data symbols period in the frequency domain. So we can obtain better quality of the signal at the receiving terminal. In order to secure QoS(Quality of Service) required in T-DMB handsets, we evaluate SNR and BER in T-DMB DOCR(Digital On Channel Repeater) and verified by simulation. In this simulation results, this system is satisfied the performance of BER=$10^{-5}$ at less than SNR=14 dB at the receiver after compensation of phase noise -18 dBc.