• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.103-108
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• 2007

In this paper, a low-power 2.4 GHz front-end for sensor network application (IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN) is designed in a 0.18 um CMOS process. A power supply circuit with a novel temperature-compensation scheme is presented. The simulation and measurement results show that the front-end (LNA, Mixer) can achieve a voltage gain of 35.3 dB and a noise figure(NF) of 3.1 dB while consuming 5.04 mW (LNA: 2.16 mW, Mixer: 2.88 mW) of power at $27^{\circ}C$. The NF includes the loss of BALUN and BPF. The low-IF architecture is used. The voltage gain, noise figure and third-order intercept point (IIP3) variations over -45$^{\circ}C$ to 85$^{\circ}C$ are less than 0.2 dB, 0.25 dB and 1.5 dB, respectively.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.27-37
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• 2010

최근 들어 무선 센서네트워크는 온/습도 관리와 같은 단순한 기능의 저전력 모니터링 서비스에서 시의성과 무선 전송의 신뢰성을 요구하는 산업 자동화 서비스 및 스마트 그리드와 같이 통신 거리를 확장한 옥외 서비스를 위한 기술로 서비스 영역을 넓혀가고 있다. 무선 센서네트워크 기술은 자원의 제약에 기인한 고유의 특성을 갖는다. 특히 전송 계층 기술은 이러한 제약 사항을 고려하여 설계되어야 하며, 상위 계층 기술의 성능은 전송기술에 대한 성능적 의존성을 가질 수 밖에 없다. 본 고에서는 최근 무선센서 네트워크 서비스 확대를 위한 시장의 요구사항을 반영하여 표준화가 진행되고 있는 시의성/신뢰성 향상을 위한 IEEE 802 WG15의 TG4e MAC 기술과 스마트 유틸리티 네트워크를 위한 TG4g SUN PHY 기술에 대한 표준화 활동을 중심으로 표준 기술 동향을 소개하고 이에 대한 표준 전략을 분석한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.32-42
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• 2011

Frequency reuse among relay stations (RSs) in a down-link access zone is widely adopted for throughput enhancement in IEEE 802.16j relay networks. Since the areas covered by the RSs or the base station (BS) may overlap, some mobile stations (MSs) at the border between two neighboring transmitting stations (RS or BS) using an identical frequency band may suffer severe interference or outage. This co-channel interference within the cell degrades the quality of service (QoS) fairness among the MSs as well as the system throughput. Exclusive use of a frequency band division (orthogonal resource allocation) among RSs can solve this problem but would cause degradation of the system throughput. We observe a trade-off between system throughput and QoS fairness in the previously reported schemes based on frequency reuse. In this paper, we propose a new frequency reuse scheme that achieves high system throughput with a high fairness level in QoS, positioning our scheme far above the trade-off curve formed by previous schemes. We claim that our scheme is beneficial for applications in which a high QoS level is required even for the MSs at the border. Exploiting the features of a directional antenna in the BS, we create a new zone in the frame structure. In the new zone, the RSs can serve the subordinate MSs at the border and prone to interference. In a 3-RS topology, where the RSs are located at points $120^{\circ}$ apart from one another, the throughput and Jain fairness index are 10.64 Mbps and 0.62, respectively. On the other hand, the throughput for the previously reported overlapped and orthogonal allocation schemes is 8.22 Mbps (fairness: 0.48) and 3.99 Mbps (fairness: 0.80), respectively. For a 6-RS topology, our scheme achieves a throughput of 18.38 Mbps with a fairness of 0.68; however, previous schemes with frequency reuse factors of 1, 2, 3, and 6 achieve a throughput of 15.24 Mbps (fairness: 0.53), 12.42 Mbps (fairness: 0.71),8.84 Mbps (fairness: 0.88), and 4.57 Mbps (fairness: 0.88), respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2009

현재 ITU (International Telecommunications Union)에서는 4세대 무선 광대역 표준에 대한 제안을 모색하고 있다. 4세대 표준의 유력한 후보군인 LTE-Advanced와 IEEE 802.16m은 고속이용 환경에서도 안정적으로 통신할 수 있도록 상형링크 및 하향링크에 변조기법으로 OFDMA을 사용하고 있다. 또한 셀(Cell) 변두리 지역에서 통신용량을 늘리기 위에 중계단말기를 사용하려고 한다. 이에 따라서 OFDMA 중계 네트워크에 대한 관심이 높아자고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 단일 셀 환경에서 확장된 다중 셀 환경의 OFDMA 중계 네트워크에서 부반송파 및 전력 할당 기법용 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 채널정보를 인접 셀과 공유하여 셀 간 간섭을 줄이고 부반송파와 전력을 적응적으로 분배함으로서 각 수신단말기의 최소통신용량을 확보하고 네트워크 지속시간을 늘리는 것을 목적으로 한다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.260-273
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• 2007

The wireless sensor network (WSN) nodes are required to operate for several months with the limited system resource such as memory and power. The hardware platform of WSN has 128Kbyte program memory and 8Kbytes data memory. Also, WSN node is required to operate for several months with the two AA size batteries. The MAC, Network protocol, and small application must be operated in this WSN platform. We look around the problem of memory and power for WSN requirements. Then, we propose a new computing model of system software for WSN node. It is the Atomic Object Model (AOM) with Dual Priority Scheduling. For the verification of model, we design and implement IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol with the proposed model.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1951-1952
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 메탈핼라이드 램프(MHL)의 원격 조도제어 및 감시 시스템을 구성하기 위하여 2.4GHz Zigbee 무선모듈로 구성된 무선모뎀을 구현하였다. MHL은 주로 가로등이나 보안등의 용도로 쓰이며, 대부분 설치되어 있는 시스템은 Group 제어 기반의 단방향 제어방식이다. 이러한 방식들은 각 등에 대한 개별적인 제어 및 감시가 이루어지지 못한다는 단점이 있으며, 이를 극복하기 위해서는 양방향 통신을 할 수 있는 통신 시스템이 필요하다. MHL은 다른 방전등들과 비교하여 비교적 방전시간이 긴 특징이 있으며, 이러한 특징은 조도제어 시스템 구성 시 고려되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 시스템 구성을 위하여 IEEE 802.15.4 기반의 ZigBee 모듈을 이용하고, 조도제어를 위하여 Half-Bridge 방식의 전자식 안정기를 설계하여, 이를 제어하기 위한 제어회로를 구성하였으며, 램프의 특성에 맞는 프로토콜을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1406-1407
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• 2008

In this paper, a micro balanced filter in magnetically coupled LC resonators is proposed, designed, simulated by using FR-4 PCB substrate for low cost, small volume IEEE 802. 11a wireless LAN application. Two pair of coupled LC resonators using magnetic coupling of embedded inductors are applied to obtain bandpass transmission response and improve their phase and magnitude imbalance characteristics. In addition, high dielectric composite film is applied to fabricate the high Q MIM capacitors with small size and high capacitance density. It has an insertion loss of 1.4 dB, a return loss of 10 dB, a phase imbalance of 0.25 degree, and magnitude imbalance of 0.17 dB at frequency bandwidth of 200 MHz ranged from 5.15 GHz to 5.35 GHz, respectively. The proposed balanced filter has a small volume of $1.1mm{\times}1.3mm{\times}0.6mm$ (height).

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.67-70
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• 2006

A distributed healthcare monitoring system prototype for clinical and trauma patients was developed, using wireless sensor network node. The proposed system aimed to measure various vital physiological health parameters like ECG and body temperature of patients and elderly persons, and transfer his/her health status wirelessly in Ad-hoc network to remote base station which was connected to doctor's PDA/PC or to a hospital's main Server using wireless sensor node. The system also aims to save the cost of healthcare facility for patients and the operating power of the system because sensor network is deployed widely and the distance from sensor to base station was shorter than in general centralized system. The wireless data communication will follow IEEE 802.15.4 frequency communication with ad-hoc routing thus enabling every motes attached to patients, to form a wireless data network to send data to base-station, providing mobility and convenience to the users in home environment.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.701-702
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• 2006

In this paper, we embodied the environment monitoring system that can acquire correct data in real-time. And we used module that is 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4 / Zigbee network for radio communication between nodes. The nodes sense the data of temperature, humidity, illumination periodically. The nodes store the data in their buffer and transmit. We confirmed that the system is in real-time as it is changed instantly due to the varying environment by the simulation Therefore, we can construct the efficient and correct system as applied this system to monitor the environment.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.135-136
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• 2007

2.45 GHz RF Transceiver composed RF module and Digital module for USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) has been implemented in this paper. The proposed RF system is designed based on IEEE 802.15.4-2006 PHY standard which has a frequency range from $2.4{\sim}2.4835GHz$. In this transmitter chain, the output power is controlled form 0 to 30 dBm. In this receiver chain, less than 20 dB of NF was obtained.