• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.3-9
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• 2014

ECMA-392 is the first cognitive radio (CR) specification for personal/portable devices in TV white space. It supports two transmit antennas, for which only open-loop transmit diversity schemes are included. In this paper, we design a simple closed-loop transmit diversity scheme using sub-carrier grouping for ECMA-392 systems. First, sub-carrier grouping types suitable for ECMA-392 systems are described, and then a transmit antenna selection scheme is proposed. In order to reduce feedback information, decision on the transmit antenna selection in the given channel environments is made at the receiver side and the only index of the decided transmit antenna is sent to the transmit side. Through performance comparison to open-loop transmit diversity schemes of ECMA-392, it will be shown that with only a slight feedback overhead, the proposed scheme can improve receiver performance of ECMA-392 systems.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.12
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• pp.1289-1297
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• 2014

In this paper, we use the ECMA-392 standard, the first cognitive radio networks to meet the demand for IT services in the ship. We propose a ECMA-392 cooperative MAC protocol to ensure QoS to support multimedia services in the ship area in a multi-hop wireless bridge using ECMA-392 networks. Because the proposed protocol transmits directly or relay transmission by selecting efficient routes based on the information of the ECMA-392 devices, it provides communication to ensure QoS of the device. The simulation results show that the proposed cooperative MAC protocol improves a throughput of devices compared to the existing method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.12
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• pp.1280-1288
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• 2014

In this paper, we use the ECMA-392 standard, the first cognitive radio networks to meet the demand for IT services in the ship. First, we learn about ECMA-392-based network and examine the consideration and the problems for assigning channels to the device. And, we propose a fair channel resource allocation to ensure efficiently channel required by device groups in ECMA-392 MAC protocol. This is a method to reallocate the channels fairly with considering the channel assignment parameters to a new device group and existing device groups. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves throughputs compared to the existing one.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.44-50
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• 2012

ECMA-392 is the first CR (cognitive radio) specification for personal/portable devices in TV white space. In ECMA-392, in addition to the long preamble of 2 OFDM symbols, 4 pilot sub-carriers per OFDM symbol are repeatedly transmitted with the period of 13 OFDM symbols. In this paper, we consider channel estimation schemes using both long preamble and pilot sub-carriers: we propose channel estimation schemes in which a first order recursive filter is used, and present a method for reducing channel estimation delay. Computer simulation results indicate that the proposed schemes perform well over slow Rayleigh fading channels.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.22-29
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• 2010

본고에서는 최근 진행되고 있는 여러 Cognitive Radio (CR) 표준활동 중에서 세계 최초의 CR 표준인 ECMA International의 개인휴대용 ECMA-392 표준에 대해 소개한다. 먼저 CR 기술과 관련된 다양한 규정에 대해 설명하고, ECMA-392 표준의 서비스 모델 및 기술 요구 사항과 물리 계층 및 MAC 계층의 주요 특징을 알아본다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.12
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• pp.1298-1306
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• 2014

In this paper, we use the ECMA-392 standard, the first cognitive radio networks to meet the demand for IT services in the ship. And, we investigate about the conflicts of devices that support multi-hop network based on the ECMA-392. Therefore, we propose the resolution scheme of CRP reservation conflicts to solve this. The current CRP reservation approaches does not solve the CRP reservation conflicts of ECMA-392 between devices that move at a distance of three hops. Therefore, it is not possible to guarantee the QoS of real time services such as multimedia streaming. So, we provide a new CRP reservation scheme to avoid conflict through a new 2-hop CRP Availability IE and the change of CRP Control field. From the simulation results, we know that the proposed method of 3 hops CRP reservation conflicts resolution improves the throughput of device.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.5A
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• pp.536-542
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• 2011

For efficient utilization of spectrum resources in TV white space after DTV transition, FCC allowed usage of the spectrum for CR system. The CR system is required to cognize channel usage state for utilizing the unused spectrum in TV white space which coexists various primary and secondary systems. In the meantime, as a demand for high throughput communication had been increased recently, CR systems also consider to adopt channel bonding technology, thus spectrum sensing for channel bonded system is essentially required. In this paper, we propose a novel spectrum sensing algorithm for channel bonding system using a single channel receiver. For IEEE 802.l1af signal, the proposed algorithm provide detection probability of 90% with false alarm probability 10% at SNR -18dB for single channel system and at SNR -7dB for 8 channel bonded system, respectively. Utilizing the proposed scheme, we can detect channel bonded signal using only a single receiver, therefore system overhead for spectrum sensing can be reduced significantly.