• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.741-753
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• 2008

This paper explores the throughput performance of CSMA/CA-based DCF protocol over both ideal channels and fading channels with payload size at the MAC layer in the 802.11a wireless LAN. In the ideal channel, there are no errors and at the transmission cycle there is one and only one active station which always has a packet to send and other stations can only accept packets and provide acknowledgements. In the fading channel, bit errors appear in the channel randomly and the number of stations is assumed to be fixed. And each station always has packets for transmission. In other words, we operate in saturation conditions. Up to now conventional research work about DCF throughput analysis of IEEE 802.11 a wireless LAN has been done over the ideal channel, but this paper is done over the Rayleigh/Ricean fading channel. So, the ratio of received average energy per bit-to-noise power spectral density $E_b/N_o$ is set to 25 dB and the ratio of direct-to-diffuse signal power in each sub-channel $\xi$ is set to 6 for combined Rayleigh/Ricean fading channel. In conclusion, it is shown that the saturation throughput is always less than the maximum throughput at all the payload size and the higher the transmission rate be, the higher the decreasing rate of saturation throughput compared to the maximum throughput be.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.178-203
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• 2018

In this paper, authors have been evaluated the Frame Error Rate (FER) performance of IEEE 802.11 a/g/p standard 5 GHz frequency band WLAN over Rayleigh and Rician distributed fading channels in presence of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based transceiver is implemented by using real-time signal processing frameworks (IEEE 802.11 Blocks) in GNU Radio Companion (GRC) and Ettus USRP N200 is used to process the symbol over the wireless radio channel. The FER is calculated for each sub-carrier conventional modulation schemes used by OFDM such as BPSK, QPSK, 16, 64-QAM with different punctuated coding rates. More precise SNR is computed by modifying the SNR calculation process of YANS and NIST error rate model to estimate more accurate FER. Here, real-time signal constellations, OFDM signal spectrums etc. are also observed to find the effect of multipath propagation of signals through flat and frequency selective fading channels. To reduce the error rate due to the multipath fading effect and Doppler shifting, channel estimation (CE) and equalization techniques such as Least Square (LS) and training based adaptive Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm are applied in the receiver. The simulation work is practically verified at GRC by turning into a pair of Software Define Radio (SDR) as a simultaneous transceiver.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.405-409
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• 2009

In this paper, the effects of LLR (Log-Likelihood Ratio) approximation on LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) decoder performance are analyzed, and optimal design conditions of LDPC decoder are derived. The min-sum LDPC decoding algorithm which is based on an approximation of LLR sum-product algorithm is modeled and simulated by MATLAB, and it is analyzed that the effects of LLR approximation bit-width and maximum iteration cycles on the bit error rate (BER) performance of LDCP decoder. The parity check matrix for IEEE 802.11n standard which has block length of 1,944 bits and code rate of 1/2 is used, and AWGN channel with QPSK modulation is assumed. The simulation results show that optimal BER performance is achieved for 7 iteration cycles and LLR bit-width of (7,5).

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.3 s.345
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• pp.59-67
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• 2006

OFDM (Orthogonal frequency Division Multiplexing) systems convert serial data stream to N parallel data streams and modulate them to N orthogonal subcarriers. Thus spectrum utilization efficiency of the OFDM systems are high and high-speed data transmission is possible. However, with the OFDM systems using the same modulation method at all subcarriers, the error probability is dominated by the subcarriers which experience deep fades. Therefore, in order to enhance the performance of the system adaptive modulation is required, with which the modulation methods of the subcarriers are determined according to the estimated SNRs. The IEEE 802.11a system selects various transmission speed between 6 and 54 Mbps according to the modulation mode. There are three typical methods for SNR estimation: Direct estimation method uses the frequency domain symbols to estimate SNR directly by minimizing MSE (Mean Square Error), EVM method utilizes the distance between the demodulated constellation points and received complex values, and the method utilizing the Viterbi algorithm uses the cumulative minimum distance in decoding process to estimate the SNR indirectly. Through comparison analyses of three methods we propose a new SNR estimation method, which employs both the EVM method and the Viterbi algorithm. Finally, we perform extensive computer simulations to confirm the performance improvement of the proposed adaptive OFDM systems on the basis of IEEE 802.11a.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.417-420
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• 2010

최근 UWB, IEEE802.11n과 같은 고속 무선 통신에서는 고속의 암호/복호 처리가 요구되고 있다. 본 논문은 UWB, Zigbee, IEEE802.11과 같은 최신 무선 통신 기술에서 보안 기능의 근간이 되는 CCM(CTR+CBC-MAC) 보안 모드 구현에 관한 것이다. AES와 같은 블록암호알고리즘과 결합된 CCM 기능을 하드웨어로 구현하는 방법을 제시한다. 특히, MAC, DMA모듈과 Hard-wired된 형태로 구현하여 통신속도 저하없이 무선 데이터 송/수신과 동시에 실시간으로 암호/복호 연산을 수행할 수 있으며, CCM 구동 clock을 최소화하여 고속 동작과 저전력 설계의 목적을 달성할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.395-400
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• 2007

현재 IEEE 802.11 무선 네트워크에서 무선의 특성을 유용하게 이용하기 위한 멀티캐스트/브로드캐스트 표준이 존재하지 않는다. IEEE 802.11에서는 CSMA/CA방식을 기본으로 지원하며, 이에 따라 새로운 프로토콜이 요구된다. 현재 BMW[2], BMMM[1]등의 프로토콜이 제안 되었으며, 이러한 프로토콜 성능에 대한 비교, 분석이 필요하다. M. T. Sun등이 제안한 BMMM[1]의 논문에서 BMW와 비교하여 성능이 우수한 BMMM 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 하지만 이 논문에서는 n개의 수신 노드에 하나의 데이터만을 전송하는 상황을 고려하였으며, 이에 따라 BMW에 대한 성능 평가가 제대로 이루어 지지 않았다. 본 논문에서는 BMW 프로토콜의 성능을 새로이 분석하여 BMMM에 대해 분석한 논문과 비교한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.10A
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• pp.839-846
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• 2011

Link Adaptation should select the best modulation and coding scheme (MCS) which gives the highest throughput as channel conditions vary. Several link adaptation algorithms for wireless local area network (WLAN) have been proposed but for the future WLAN systems such as 802.11n system, these algorithms do not guarantee the best performance. In this paper, we propose a new link adaptation algorithm in which an MCS level is chosen by the received SNR plus the offset value obtained from the transmission results. The performance of proposed algorithm is simulated by an IEEE 802.11n system. From the analysis, we conclude the proposed algorithm performs better than the well-known link adaptation algorithms such as auto rate fallback and general SNR-based techniques. Particularly, the proposed algorithm improves throughput when the packet error ratio (PER) is constrained for fast fading channels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.410-411
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• 2011

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.320-327
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• 2012

In this paper, a novel ultra wide band(UWB) antenna with tri-band notch capability is proposed. The proposed antenna can reject WiMAX(3.3~3.7 GHz), WLAN IEEE 802.11a/n(5.15~5.825 GHz), and ITU(8.025~8.4 GHz) bands. Band rejection capability is achieved only split ring resonators(SRRs) and complementary SRRs(CSRRs). The SRR under the radiating patch, the CSRR loaded on the radiating patch, and the CSRRs on the ground of the CPW feeding reject the WiMAX, WLAN, and ITU bands, respectively. The simulation and measurement results demonstrate the performances of the proposed antenna.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.79-84
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• 2011

In this paper we design MIMO antenna with high isolation between antennas by using an isolation aid for WLAN. Two dual-band PIFAs which operates IEEE 802.11n are arranged symmetrically along the central axis of antenna frame and ground plane. By inserting an isolation aid between two PIFAs the isolation is improved maximum 5dB and 7dB for 2.4GHz band and 5GHz band respectively. Total efficiency is above 60%. ECC is below 0.1.