• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.64-72
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• 2012

Synchronization including timing recovery, frequency offset compensation, and frame synchronization is most important signal processing block in all wireless/wired communication systems. In most communication systems, synchronization schemes based on training sequences or preambles are used. WLAN standards of 802.11a/g/n released by IEEE are based on OFDM systems. OFDM systems are known to be much more sensitive to frequency and timing synchronization errors than single carrier systems. A loss of orthogonality between the multiplexed subcarriers can result in severe performance degradations. The starting position of the frame and the beginning of the symbol and training symbol can be estimated using correlation methods. Correlation processing functionality is usually complex because of large number of multipliers in implementation especially when the reference signal is non-binary. In this paper, a simple correlation based synchronization scheme is proposed for IEEE 802.11a/g/n systems. Existing property of a periodicity in the training symbols are exploited. Simulation and implementation results show that the proposed method has much smaller complexity without any performance degradation than the existing schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.19-20
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• 2018

This paper distinguish between the types of LANs used to connect the internet used by many in the fourth industrial era and compare speeds. 802.11 is fastest and it's running at 300Mbps. And second fastest is running at 54Mbps. In compare second, 802.11n is faster second at six times. So we can prediction the wireless lan's transmission speed will be faster in future.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.107-118
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• 2014

One interesting problem regarding wireless local area network (WLAN) ad-hoc networks is the effective mitigation of hidden nodes. The WLAN standard IEEE 802.11 provides request to send/clear to send (RTS/CTS) as mitigation for the hidden node problem; however, this causes the exposed node problem. The first 802.11 standard provided only two transmission rates, 1 and 2 Mbps, and control frames, such as RTS/CTS assumed to be sent at 1 Mbps. The 802.11 standard has been enhanced several times since then and now it supports multi-rate transmission up to 65 Mbps in the currently popular 802.11n (20 MHz channel, single stream with long guard interval). As a result, the difference in transmission rates and coverages between the data frame and control frame can be very large. However adjusting the RTS/CTS transmission rate to optimize network throughput has not been well investigated. In this paper, we propose a method to decrease the number of exposed nodes by increasing the RTS transmission rate to decrease RTS coverage. Our proposed method, Asymmetric Range by Multi-Rate Control (ARMRC), can decrease or even completely eliminate exposed nodes and improve the entire network throughput. Experimental results by simulation show that the network throughput in the proposed method is higher by 20% to 50% under certain conditions, and the proposed method is found to be effective in equalizing dispersion of throughput among nodes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.363-371
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• 2013

This paper describes a multi-standard LDPC decoder which supports 19 block lengths(576~2304) and 6 code rates(1/2, 2/3A, 2/3B, 3/4A, 3/4B, 5/6) of IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard and 3 block lengths(648, 1296, 1944) and 4 code rates(1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6) of IEEE 802.11n WLAN standard. To minimize hardware complexity, it adopts a block-serial (partially parallel) architecture based on the layered decoding scheme. A DFU(decoding function unit) based on sign-magnitude arithmetic is used for hardware reduction. The designed LDPC decoder is verified by FPGA implementation, and synthesized with a 0.13-${\mu}m$ CMOS cell library. It has 312,000 gates and 70,000 bits RAM. The estimated throughput is about 79~210 Mbps at 100 MHz@1.8v.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.51-57
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• 2010

A dual-mode direct conversion receiver is developed in $0.13\;{\mu}m$ RF CMOS process for IEEE 802.11n based wireless LAN and IEEE 802.16e based mobile WiMAX application. The RF receiver covers the frequency band between 2.3 and 2.7 GHz. Three-step gain control is realized in LNA by using current steering technique. Current bleeding technique is applied to the down-conversion mixer in order to lower the flicker noise. A frequency divide-by-2 circuit is included in the receiver for LO I/Q differential signal generation. The receiver consumes 56 mA at 1.4 V supply voltage including all LO buffers. Measured results show a power gain of 32 dB, a noise figure of 4.8 dB, a output $P_{1dB}$ of +6 dBm over the entire band.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.418-420
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• 2005

IEEE 802.11 에서 현재까지 많이 연구되어진 주제는 노드들 간의 공평성(fairness)에 중점을 두거나 처리율(throughput)을 높이는데 초점을 맞추어 진 것들이었다. 전체 처리율을 높이는데 AP의 백오프 방식에 관련해서는 노드들 간에 관한 연구에 비하여 비교적 연구가 적은편이다. 현재 AP와 노드들은 충돌이 발생하면 BEB(Binary Exponential backoff) 방식으로 셋팅되어 사용하고 있기 때문에 1:N의 불공평한(unfairness) 상황이 발생한다. 하향링크(downlink)가 대부분인 환경에서 AP가 다른 노드들과 같은 채널 접근확률을 가진다는 것은 바람직하지 않다. 따라서 AP가 노드들보다 우선권(priority)을 높여서 처리율을 높이는 방안이 필요하다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 AP의 백오프 방식 및 CW(Contention Window)가 변화하는데 따라서 전체 처리율에 어떤 영향을 끼치는가와 노드 수에 따른 AP의 적절한 전략 과 백오프 CW값을 분석해 보았다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11c
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• pp.380-382
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• 2001

This paper presents the implementation of IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Protocol that can be applied to wireless LAN system. We have used PRISM2 chipsets from Intersil to build the baseband, IF, and RF parts. DSSS(Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum) physical layer at 2.4GHz ISM band is adopted in the hardware prototype. To meet the high-speed requirement of physical layer, we have designed the MAC protocol layer with embedded firmware and FPGA. The prototype board is shown to be able to support the physical layer of 5GHz and 600Hz wireless LAN systems.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.8
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• pp.33-41
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• 2007

The IEEE 802.11 DCF channel access function allows single transmission inside two-hop network in order to avoid collisions and eliminate the hidden and exposed terminal problems. Singular transmission capability causes data frames waiting for the entire roundtrip time in the transmitter neighborhood, and results in increased frame latency and lower network throughput. Real-time and pervasive applications are severely affected for the lower medium utilization; especially with high network traffic. This work proposes a new scheme with the help of Frame Aggregation technique in IEEE802.11n and overcomes the single transmission barrier maintaining the basic DCF functionality. Proposed scheme allows parallel transmissions in non-interfering synchronized slots. Parallel transmissions bypass the conventional physical carrier sense and random Backoff time for several cases and reduce the frame latency and increase the medium utilization and network capacity.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.161-169
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• 2002

Ad hoc wireless networks involving large populations of scattered communication nodes will play a key role in the development of low power, high capacity, interactive, multimedia communication networks. Such networks must support arbitrary network connections and provide coverage anywhere and anytime. This paper partitions such arbitrarily connected network architectures into three distinct groups, identifies the associated dual network architectures and counts the number of network architectures assuming there exist N network nodes. Connectivity between network nodes is characterized as a random event. Defining the link availability P as the probability that two arbitrary network nodes in an ad hoc network are directly connected, the network connection probability $ \integral_n$(p) that any two network nodes will be directly or indirectly connected is derived. The network connection probability $ \integral_n$(p) is evaluated and graphically demonstrated as a function of p and N. It is shown that ad hoc wireless networks containing a large number of network nodes possesses the same network connectivity performance as does a fixed network, i.e., for p>0, $lim_{N\to\infty} Integral_n(p)$ = 1. Furthermore, by cooperating with fixed networks, the ad hoc network connection probability is used to derive the global network connection probability for hybrid networks. These probabilities serve to characterize network connectivity performance for users of wireless ad hoc and hybrid networks, e.g., IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 1394-95, ETSI BRAN HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, wireless ATM and the world wide web (WWW).

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.81-89
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• 2008