• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.13-19
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• 2013

2009년 9월 IEEE에서 802.11n 규격이 최종 승인된 바 있으며, 이로 인해 현재 11n 기반의 무선랜 보급이 더욱 본격화 되고 있다. 하지만 초고화질의 영상을 압축하지 않고 전송하려면 Gbps 이상의 전송 속도가 필요하며, 이를 위해 IEEE에서는 802.11n의 뒤를 이은 무선랜 규격인 802.11ac에 대한 표준을 개발하고 있다. IEEE 802.11ac는 다중 사용자 동시 접속 및 Gbps 급 이상의 고성능 지원에 초점을 맞추고 있으며, 802.11ac는 블루레이 및 압축되지 않은 초고화질 비디오 서비스를 실시간으로 제공할 수 있게 된다. 802.11ac규격은 현재 Draft 5.0까지 나와있는 상태로 표준 개발이 거의 완료되어 가고 있으며, 본 고에서는 이러한 IEEE 802.11ac 무선랜의 주요 기술 요소들에 대해 기술하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8A
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• pp.640-647
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• 2009

IEEE 802.11i is an amendment to the original IEEE 802.11/b,a,g standard specifying security mechanism by stipulating RSNA for tighter security. The RSNA uses TKIP(Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) and CCMP(Counter with CBC-MAC Protocol) instead of old-fashioned WEP(Wired Equivalent Privacy) for data encryption. This paper describes a design of a communication security engine for IEEE 802.11i MAC layer. The design includes WEP and TKIP modules based on the RC4 encryption algorithm, and CCMP module based on the AES encryption algorism. The WEP module suffices for compatibility with the IEEE 802.11 b,a,g MAC layer. The CCMP module has about 816.7Mbps throughput at 134MHz, hence it satisfies maximum 600Mbps data rate described in the IEEE 802.11n specifications. We propose a pipelined AES-CCMP cipher core architecture, which has lower hardware cost than existing AES cores, because CBC mode and CTR mode operate at the same time.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.104-107
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• 2009

In this paper, we analyze the effect of interference between DTV system and IEEE 802.11n. We set DTV as a victim receiver and IEEE 802.11n as an interfering system. When they exist in the same area, they can make an interference effect. Therefore, we calculate a minimum coupling loss (MCL) and compare the resulting value with a path loss for determining whether there exists a potential interference or not. The minimum separation distance is determined when the path loss is larger than the MCL.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.243-248
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• 2011

A FFT/IFFT processor is the key component for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems based IEEE 802.11n wireless local area network (WLAN). There exists many radix algorithms according to the structure of butterfly as FFT sub-module, each has the pros and cons on hardware complexity. Here, mixed radix algorithms for 64 and 128 FFT/IFFT processors are proposed, which reduce hardware complexity by using mixture of radix-23 and radix-4 algorithms. The proposed algorithm finish calculation within 3.2${\mu}s$ in order to meet IEEE 802.11n standard requirements and it has less hardware complexity compared with conventional algorithms.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2012

최근 와이파이를 채용한 스마트폰에 대한 수요가 폭발적으로 증가함에 따라 무선랜에 기반한 새로운 신규 기술들이 활발히 연구되고 있다. Gbps 이상의 전송을 가능하게 하는 IEEE 802.11ac는 차세대 스마트폰을 위한 핵심 기술로서 기존의 IEEE 802.11n에서는 수용할 수 없었던 초고화질의 비디오 전송을 가능하게 한다. 또한 최근에는 무선랜을 사용하여 최대 수 km까지 광역으로 서비스를 지원하기 위한 광역 무선랜이 IEEE 802.11af 및 802.11ah에서 연구되고 있으며, 초기 링크 셋업 시간을 획기적으로 절감하기 위한 IEEE 802.11ai 기술도 활발히 논의되고 있다. 본고에서는 이러한 IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11af, IEEE 802.11ah, IEEE 802.11ai 무선랜 기술에 대한 표준화 추진 현황 및 주요 이슈들에 대해 기술하고자 한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.6
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• pp.485-490
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• 2010

IEEE 802.11n supports two frame aggregation schemes, aggregation for MAC service data unit (A-MSDU) and aggregation for MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU), to improve throughput at the MAC layer. In this paper, we propose a cooperative frame aggregation (CoFA), which can recover erroneous frames in a cooperative manner based on A-MPDU. Specifically, CoFA receive multiple frames from direct and relay paths, and combined multiple frames jointly. Numerical results show that CoFA outperforms direct transmission and relay transmission over diverse channel conditions.

• TTA Journal
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• s.106
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• pp.82-86
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• 2006

2003년 본격적 표준화가 된 IEEE 802.11n 표준화는 최대 600Mbps 무선LAN을 이용할 수 있는 차세대 무선LAN 기술이다. 최근 Draft 1.0 표준화가 됨에 따라 통신 및 칩 제조사의 발빠른 상용화 움직임이 일고 있어 많은 이슈가 되고 있다. 본 고에는 IEEE 802.11n의 주요 기술적 특징과 최근 표준화 동향을 살펴보았으며, 이러한 동향에 맞추어 국내 관련 업체의 적절한 대응이 필요할 것이다.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.89-95
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• 2011

The distributed coordination function (DCF) and point coordination function (PCF) protocols are the basic MAC protocols for legacy IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11e, IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.11n wireless LANs. When the DCF protocol is used for the various versions of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, the MAC performance seriously degrades due to the collisions among the stations (STAs) as more and more STAs attempt to transmit their data frames. On the other hand, the PCF MAC performance becomes poor when many STAs exist in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, however, only small number of STAs actually attempt to transmit their data frames. In this paper, we propose the algorithm for improving the MAC performance by selectively using the DCF and PCF protocols according to the state of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. Numerical examples are presented to show the MAC performance improvement by the selective use of the DCF and PCF protocols according to the network state.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.11A
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• pp.1124-1131
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a timing synchronization scheme and its hardware architecture of the next generation IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN standard which is based on MIMO-OFDM technique. Proposed timing synchronization method takes two steps which consist of two modified auto-correlators. For coarse timing synchronization, a sliding window differentiator is used after a conventional auto-correlation in order to avoid plateau problem. The conjugate symmetry property of L-LTS is utilized for the simplification of fine timing synchronization. Since cross-correlation based methods are not required, the computational complexity and the number of multipliers can be reduced. In order to reduce the hardware complexity, we have used sign multipliers. Based on simulation results, the proposed method outperforms a conventional method. The proposed scheme can be applied to IEEE 802.11n systems and can easily be expanded to frequency synchronization scheme.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.31-40
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• 2010

This paper describes a LDPC decoder for IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN standard. The designed processor supports parity check matrix for block length of 1,944 and code rate of 1/2 in IEEE 802.11n standard. To reduce hardware complexity, the min-sum algorithm and layered decoding architecture are adopted. A novel memory reduction technique suitable for min-sum algorithm was devised, and our design reduces memory size to 25% of conventional method. The LDPC decoder processor synthesized with a $0.35-{\mu}m$ CMOS cell library has 200,400 gates and memory of 19,400 bits, and the estimated throughput is about 135 Mbps at 80 MHz@2.5v. The designed processor is verified by FPGA implementation and BER evaluation to validate the usefulness as a LDPC decoder.