• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.263-269
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• 2010

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) has been considered one of the key enablers of broadband wireless communications. The indoor environment is known to be favorable to ensure both high rank property and high signal-to-interference/noise ratio (SINR) to fully exploit MIMO spatial multiplexing (SM) gain. In this paper, we describe several practical deployment cases where repeater links (or relay links), such as those present with an indoor distributed antenna system (DAS), can act as keyholes to degenerate the rank property of MIMO communications. In this case, we cannot exploit MIMO SM gain in indoor environment. We propose a novel MIMO communication scheme which uses simple converter in the devices in repeater links to resolve the rank degeneration issue and to ensure MIMO SM gain in highly MIMO-favorable indoor environment. MIMO SM is possible over the indoor DAS with single cable line through use of simple converters, which enables practical deployment in real fields.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권1C호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

Cooperative diversity is a novel technique to improve diversity gains, capacity gains, and energy saving. This technique involves multiple terminals sharing resources in order to build a virtual antenna array in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we propose a multi-user cooperative diversity protocol called Relay-assisted Multiple Access Channel(R-MAC) that allows multiple source terminals to transmit their signals simultaneously and the relay terminal forwards the aggregated signal received from the source terminals to the destination terminal. The proposed protocol converts the distributed antenna channels into an effective MIMO channel by exploiting a relay, increasing both diversity gain and system throughput. We investigate the performance of the proposed protocol in terms of outage probability and diversity-multiplexing tradeoff where we assume block fading channel environment. Our simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperforms direct transmission in the high spectral efficiency regime where the conventional cooperative diversity protocols cannot outperform direct transmission.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권4A호
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• pp.335-341
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• 2008

다양한 이동 통신을 수용 할 수용하기 위해서 SDR system의 하드웨어와 소프트웨어는 개방성, 분산성, 객체 지향성, 소프트웨어 제어성을 제공하는 구조이어야 한다. 이러한 조건을 만족하는 SDR 시스템에 사용될 SDR시스템의 소프트웨어는 단일 하드웨어 플렛폼에서 독립적으로 동작이 가능한 개방성을 확보하는 것이다. 이 방법은 모듈화를 지향하며, 재사용성을 증대시키고, 개발 시에도 많은 유연성을 확보 할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 개발 시간을 단축시켜 주고 시스템을 재구성하여 운용 할 수 있도록 해 준다. 본 논문은 SDR기반 스마트안테나 기지국 시스템에서 SDR Network이 추구하는 개방형, 객체지향성 및 제어성 등을 확보 할 수 있도록 하고 SDR Network와 유연하게 연동 할 수 있도록 제안된 개방형 기지국 시스템과 스마트 안테나 기지국 API(Application Program Interface)를 이용하여 기지국 시스템을 구현하였다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.14-23
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• 2023

The cooperative communication systems using MIMO(multiple input multiple-output) relay are known as one of the most promising techniques to improve the performance and coverage of wireless communication systems. In this paper, we propose the cooperative communication systems using the relay with multi-antennas and DSTC(distributed space time coding) for decode-and-forward protocol. As using DSTC for DF(decode-and-forward), we can minimize the risk of error propagation at the wireless system using relay system. Also, the MIMO channel cab be formed by multi-antenna and DSTC at the MS(mobile station)-RS(relay station) and at the RS-BS(base station).Therefore, obtaining truly constructive the MIMO diversity and cooperative diversity gain from the proposed approach, the performance of system can be more improved than one of conventional system (relay with single antenna, no relay). The improvement in bit error rate is investigated through numerical analysis of the cooperative communication system with the proposed approach.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.309-314
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• 2013

This paper dealt with the radiated electromagnetic wave detection of partial discharge (PD) in oil for insulation diagnostics of oil-immersed transformers. Three types of electrode system were fabricated to simulate the insulation defects that could occur in oil-immersed transformers. Frequency components of radiated electromagnetic wave in oil was measured by broadband bi-conical antennas of 300 MHz~2 GHz and a spectrum analyzer of 9 kHz~3 GHz. Frequency component of electromagnetic waves from PD in oil were highly distributed at 500 MHz. From the result, a narrow-band monopole antenna with the center frequency of 500 MHz was fabricated. We could detect PD signal in insulation oil without an influence of external noise by a measurement system which consists of the prototype monopole antenna, a LNA (Low Noise Amplifier), an oscilloscope and a spectrum analyzer.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.370-382
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• 2013

Distributed massive MIMO systems, which have high bandwidth efficiency and can accommodate a tremendous amount of traffic using algorithms such as zero-forcing beam forming (ZFBF), may be deployed in large public venues with the antennas mounted under-floor. In this case the channel gain matrix H can be modeled as a multi-banded matrix, in which off-diagonal entries decay both exponentially due to heavy human penetration loss and polynomially due to free space propagation loss. To enable practical implementation of such systems, we present a multi-banded matrix inversion algorithm that substantially reduces the complexity of ZFBF by keeping the most significant entries in H and the precoding matrix W. We introduce a parameter p to control the sparsity of H and W and thus achieve the tradeoff between the computational complexity and the system throughput. The proposed algorithm includes dense and sparse precoding versions, providing quadratic and linear complexity, respectively, relative to the number of antennas. We present analysis and numerical evaluations to show that the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) increases linearly with p in dense precoding. In sparse precoding, we demonstrate the necessity of using directional antennas by both analysis and simulations. When the directional antenna gain increases, the resulting SIR increment in sparse precoding increases linearly with p, while the SIR of dense precoding is much less sensitive to changes in p.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.456-462
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• 2011

This paper investigates the outage behavior of peak interference power limited cognitive radio (CR) networks with multiple transmit antennas. In CR-multi-input single-output (MISO) channel, the total transmit power is distributed over the transmitantennas. First, we use the orthogonal space-time codes (STC) to achieve the transmit diversity at CR-receiver (rx) and investigate the effect of the power distribution on the interference power received at the primary-receiver (P-rx). Then, we investigate the transmit antenna selection (TAS) scheme in which the CR system selects the best transmit antenna and allocates all the power to the selected best antenna. Two transmit antenna selection strategies are proposed depending on if feedback channel is available or not. We derive the closed form expressions of outage probability and outage capacity of all schemes with arbitrary number of transmit-antennas. We show that the proposed schemes significantly improve the outage capacity over the single antenna systems in Rayleigh fading environment. We also show that TAS based scheme outperforms the STC based scheme when peak interference power constraint is imposed on the P-rx only if a feedback channel from CR-rx to CR-transmitter is available.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.1189-1195
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 폴드형 GSM/DCS/USPCS 서비스용 휴대폰 단말기에 적용되는 3중 대역 폴디드 모노폴 안테나를 설계 제작한다. 안테나는 변형된 미앤더 구조이며, 접힌 형상을 갖도록 설계함으로써 GSM 주파수 대역에서는 길이를 늘리는 역할을 하고, DCS/USPCS 주파수 대역에서는 같은 방향으로 전류가 형성될 수 있도록 한다. 같은 방향의 다중 전류는 방사 저항과 이득을 동시에 높게 해 줌으로써 내장형 안테나로 성능 구현이 어려운 휴대폰에 적용될 수 있다. 설계된 안테나를 프레스 공법으로 제작하여 휴대폰에 적용한 결과 GSM/DCS/USPCS의 3중 대역에서 폴드 닫힘 상태에서 VSWR 3:1, 열림 상태에서 2:1 이내 특성을 만족하고 있으며, 최대 이득은 GSM 밴드에서 -0.02 dBi, DCS 밴드에서 +0.2 dBi, USPCS 밴드에서 +0.78 dBi을 가지고 전방향성 특성의 H면 방사 특성을 보인다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.99-103
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• 2010

Motivated by recent works on spectrum-sharing systems, this paper investigates the effects of transmit diversity on the peak interference power limited cognitive radio(CR) networks. In particular, we derive the ergodic and outage capacities of a spectrum-sharing system with multiple transmit-antennas. To derive the capacities, peak interference power constraint is imposed to protect the primary receiver. In a CR transmitter and receiver pair with multiple antennas at the transmitter side, the allowable transmit power is distributed over the transmit-antennas to achieve transmit diversity at the receiver. We investigate the effect of this power distribution when a peak interference power constraint is imposed to protect the primary receiver. We show that the transmit diversity does not improve the ergodic capacity compared to the single-antenna system. On the other hand, the transmit diversity significantly improves the outage capacity. For example, two transmit-antennas improve the outage capacity 10 times compared to the single-antenna with a 0 dB interference constraint.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권11A호
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• pp.822-830
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• 2009

The spectrum efficiency of mobile communication networks can be improved dramatically adopting multiple antennas technologies. In order to guarantee the licensed rights of primary user (PU), the cognitive radio system should perform in a relatively low interference manner when it gets access to the spectrum of licensed networks. In this paper, we explore a uniformly distributed circular antenna array to implement beamforming algorithm that is accomplished by optimization method at the base station of cognitive radio networks, and therefore we can suppress the interference to PU by steering quite low transmission power toward PU and constructing a narrow beam toward cognitive user (CU). By reducing the constraint number of the optimization problem, we also propose a null steering algorithm that steers rather low radiation power toward PU, while the other areas in the same cell are covered by radiation power except the local area around PU. It is pursued to reduce the computation load and enlarge the capacity of cognitive radio networks extremely. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms process superior performance.