• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.2 s.105
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• pp.177-184
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• 2006

A handover is a technology that enables data transmission and receipt seamlessly while a mobile station moves from the current base station to another base station. The handover is basically classified into two types; a horizontal handover which changes a radio link only without changing a network link, and a vertical handover which changes both in heterogeneous networks. In this paper, we propose a vertical handover protocol in a dual base station which supports both of W-CDMA and WiBro networks based on SDR (Software Defined Radio), verify the rightness using a state transition diagram and a Petri-net, and evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol using NS-2 simulator.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12A
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• pp.1172-1176
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• 2008

In this paper, we describe the implementation and performance of a dual-mode Software Define Radio (SDR) smart antenna base station system. SDR technology enables a communication system to be reconfigured through software downloads to the flexible hardware platform that is implemented using programmable devices such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and microprocessors. The presented base station channel card comprises the physical layer (pHY) including the baseband modem as well as the beamforming module. This channel card is designed to support TDD High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) as well as Wireless Broadband Portable Internet (WiBro) utilizing the SDR technology. We first describe the operations and functions required in WiBro and TDD HSDPA. Then, we explain the channel card design procedure and hardware implementation. Finally, we evaluate WiBro and TDD HSDPA performance by simulation and actual channel-card-based processing. Our smart antenna base-station dual-mode channel card shows flexibility and tremendous performance gains in terms of communication capacity and cell coverage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.721-723
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• 2004

두 개의 서로 다른 통신망, HSDPA(High Speed Downlink Packet Access)를 지원하는 W-CDMA망과 IEEE 802.16e를 지원하는 HPi(High Speed Portable Internet)망을 동시에 지원하는 이중모드 BS(Base Station)에서 MS(Mobile Station)가 현재 사용하고 있는 통신 프로토콜 상에서 사용자 폭주나 망의 이상으로 인한 QoS 저하를 탐지해서 더 좋은 QoS를 보장받도록 하기 위해서 MS를 재구성한다. 본 논문에서는 MS 재구성 과정 중에 이전 경로 상에서 받지 못한 데이터를 새로운 경로에서 손실 없이 받을 수 있도록 하기 위한 이중모드를 지원하는 기지국 내에서의 핸드오프 기법을 제안하고 있다.