• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.8
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• pp.623-628
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• 2013

The retrodirective array antenna system is operated faster than existing techniques of beamforming due to its less complexity. Therefore, it is effective for beam tracking in the environment of fast vehicle. On the other hand, it also has difficulty in estimating AOA according to multipath environment or multiuser signals. To improve the certainty of estimating AOA), this article proposes hybrid digital retrodirective array antenna systme combined with MUSIC algorithm. In this paper, the digital retrodirective array antenna system is designed according to the number of antenna array by using only one digital PLL which finds angle of delayed phase. And we evaluate the performance of the digital retrodirective array antenna for the high speed tracking application. Performance is studied by simulink when the speed of mobile is 300km/h and the distance between transmitter and receiver is 100m and then we have to confirm the performance of the system in multi path environment. As a result, the mean of AOA (Angle Of Arrival) error is $4.2^{\circ}$ when SNR is 10dB and it is $1.3^{\circ}$ when SNR is 20dB. Consequently, the digital RDA shows very good performance for high speed tracking due to the simple calculation and realization.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.13-17
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• 1996

다수의 신호를 동시에 사용하는 경우에 나타나는 광대역 신호나 센서의 수와 형성하고자 하는 빔의 수가 많은 경우를 다루기 위해서는 주파수 영역 기법이 필요하다. FFT를 사용하는 낮은 샘플링 주파수에서도 시간 영역에서의 보간 방법보다 빠르게 정확한 시간 지연을 줄 수 있어 코히어런트 신호처리가 가능하다. 또한 특정 센서가 불량인 경우 보정이 상대적으로 용이하다는 장점을 가진다. 여러 가지 주파수 영역 빔형성 기법 중 계산량과 저장 용량면으로 효율적인 방법은 CZT와 FIR interpolation 방법이다. 또한, 공액 빔을 형성할 경우에는 Goertzel의 알고리듬을 이용하는 방법도 효율적이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1C
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• pp.96-102
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new adaptive algorithm to cancel the acoustic feedback and noise signals in the digital hearing aids. The proposed algorithm improves its convergence performances by canceling the speech signal from the residual signal using two microphones. The feedback canceller firstly cancels the feedback signal among the mic signal, and then it is reduced the noise using the beamforming method. To verify the performances of the proposed algorithm, the simulations were carried out for some cases. As the results of simulations, it was proved that the feedback canceller and the noise canceller advance about 14.43 dB for SFR, 10.19 dB for SNR respectively during speech, in the case of using the new algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.10-15
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• 2017

Feedback burden of a full-digital energy beamforming, which is known as the optimal precoding scheme for radio frequency (RF) energy transfer, is huge because it uses a vector quantization for a channel feedback. To reduce the feedback burden, we consider a beam steering based wireless energy transfer, which uses a scalar quantization. Researches related to the beam steering based wireless energy transfer have been studied in special channel model with an assumption of full channel state information at the transmitter. In this paper, we analyze the beam steering scheme compared with the full-digital energy beamforming for practical channel models with channel estimation errors. According to characteristics of the millimeter wave channel, the number of antennas of the base station and the user, the distance between them, and channel estimation errors, we simulate the performance of the beam steering scheme and analyze reasons why.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.6-11
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• 2016

In this paper, we have analyzed the effects of co-channel, adjacent-channel, and the human shield(Body Blockage) for wideband WLAN based on the IEEE802.11n 40MHz channel bandwidth required for high speed digital signage service. Simulation results show that wideband WLAN can be operated with 78 interferers over 63m distance in co- channel, 80 interferer over 61m distance in adjacent channel. By applying the mitigation method for reducing the interference, we have confirmed that protection distance is improved to 51m using beamforming, and 40m using cognitive radio in co-channel interference. Also body blockage interference is reduced using adaptive channel bandwidth, C/I ratio, beamforming, power control mitigation methodology.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.9A
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• pp.694-701
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a hardware structure and new features of a smart antenna BTS (Base Transceiver Station) for CDMA2000 1X system. The proposed smart antenna BTS is a composite system consisting of many subsystems, i.e., array antenna element, frequency up/down converters, AD (Analog-to-Digital) and DA (Digital-to-Analog) converters, spreading/despreading units, convolutional encoder/Viterbi decoder, searcher, tracker, beamformer, calibration unit etc. Through the experimental tests, we found that the desired beam-pattern in both uplink and downlink communications is provided through the calibration procedure. Also it has been confirmed that the adaptive beamforming algorithm adopted to our smart antenna BTS is fast and accurate enough to support 4 fingers to each user. In our experiments, commercial mobile terminals operating PCS (Personal Communication System) band have been used. It has been confirmed that the smart antenna BTS tremendously improves the FER (Frame Error Rate) performance compared to the conventional 2-antenna diversity system.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.83-88
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• 2009

This paper consider the problem of direction of arrival(DOA) estimation in the presence of multipath propagation. The sensor elements are assumed to be linear and uniformly spaced. Numerous authors have advocated the use of a beamforming preprocessor to facilitate application of high resolution direction finding algorithms The benefits cited include reduced computation, improved performance in environments that include spatially colored noise, and enhanced resolution. Performance benefits typically have been demonstrated via specific example. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of a beamspace version of the MUSIC algorithm applicable to two closely spaced emitters in diverse scenarios. Specifically, the analysis is applicable to uncorrelated far field emitters of any relative power level, confined to a known plane, and observed by an arbitrary array of directional antenna. In this paper, we researched about optimize beam forming to smart antenna system. The covariance matrix obtained using fourth order cumulant function. Simulations illustrate the performance of the techniques.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1997 no.11
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• pp.567-570
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• 1997

In a conventional digital beamformer received signal were sampled at least Nyquist rate of its maximum frequency. But it is wide band signal and its coherent sum must be obtained, the sampling clock of about $8f_o$ and $16f_o$ is necessary or high quality images. This paper described how image qualities are varied according to sampling clock. Mainly, we compared the SDF(Sampled Delay Focusing) that had maximum precision of $8f_o$ with $16f_o$ sampling system and analyze its characteristics.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.95-102
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• 2013

This paper covers nulling algorithm. In this algorithm, we assume that nulling points are already known. In general, nulling algorithm using matrix equation was utilized. But, this algorithm is pointed out that computational complexity is disadvantage. So, we choose gradient method to reduce the computational complexity. In order to further reduce the computational complexity, we propose approximate gradient method using characteristic of trigonometric functions. The proposed method has same performance compared with conventional method while having half the amount of computation when the number of antenna and nulling point are 20 and 1, respectively. In addition, we could virtually eliminate the trigonometric functions arithmetic. Trigonometric functions arithmetic cause a big problem in actual implementation like FPGA processor(Field Programmable gate array). By utilizing the above algorithm in a multi-cell environment, beamforming gain can be obtained and interference can be reduced at same time. By the above results, the algorithm can show excellent performance in the cell boundary.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.69-75
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• 2008

The objective of this paper is to increase the performance by selecting the optimal value in outputs of two algorithms that are Generlized-Lagrange and LMS(Least Mean Square). This paper presents superior performance by mixed two of conventional algorithm arbitrary. Based on the analysis from various simulation, it is observed that proposed method is better performance in terms of practical WLL(Wireless Local Loop) environment.