• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.104-116
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• 2010

With several advantages such as flexible downlink-to-uplink(DL-to-UL) ratio and flexible spectrum usage, Time Division Duplexing(TDD) is emerging as an alternate to Frequency Division Duplexing(FDD), especially in wireless broadband systems. We already have at least four different TDD systems in the industry: Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access(TD-SCDMA), IEEE 802.16e-TDD, IEEE 802.16m-TDD, and Time Division-Long Term Evolution(TD-LTE). A disadvantage of TDD is that tight coordination such as time synchronization between adjacent operators is required to prevent interference between the adjacent TDD systems. In this paper, we investigate coexistence scenarios among the above four well-known TDD systems and calculate spectral efficiency(SE) loss in each scenario. Our findings are that SE loss can be significant if TDD ratios of the adjacent operators are considerably different. However, as long as the TDD ratios of the adjacent operators are similar, configurations in the systems permit perfect time synchronization between the two heterogeneous TDD systems, and the resulting SE loss is zero or reasonably low. We believe that the above findings and the configurations of the TDD systems recommended tominimize SE loss will be helpful for operators who deploy TDD systems in system parameter determination and cross-operator coordination.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.295-301
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• 2011

A triple-band transceiver module for 2.3/2.5/3.5 GHz mobile WiMAX, IEEE 802.16e, applications is introduced. The suggested transceiver module consists of RFIC, reconfigurable/multi-resonance MIMO antenna, embedded PCB, mobile WiMAX base band, memory and channel selection front-end module. The RFIC is fabricated in $0.13{\mu}m$ RF CMOS process and has 3.5 dB noise figure(NF) of receiver and 1 dBm maximum power of transmitter with 68-pin QFN package, $8{\times}8\;mm^2$ area. The area reduction of transceiver module is achieved by using embedded PCB which decreases area by 9% of the area of transceiver module with normal PCB. The developed triple-band mobile WiMAX transceiver module is tested by performing radio conformance test(RCT) and measuring carrier to interference plus noise ratio (CINR) and received signal strength indication (RSSI) in each 2.3/2.5/3.5 GHz frequency.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.31-37
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• 2012

Hierarchical network 기술은 다양한 크기의 이동통신 셀들이 서로 중첩된 환경에서 무선 용량 증대 및 셀 커버리지 확대를 위한 차세대 통신 기술이다. 모바일 IPTV는 IPTV에 이동성이 더해진 기술로서 이동통신망을 이용하여 언제, 어디서나 고품질의 TV 및 VoD, 데이터 서비스를 제공한다. 본고에서는 IEEE 802.16 기반의 hierarchical network 및 모바일 IPTV 기술의 연구동향을 살펴보고 두 기술의 공존 가능성 측면에서의 고려 사항에 대해 기술한다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.386-391
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• 2011

CRU (contiguous resource unit) composed of adjacent OFDMA subcarriers is popularly adopted for recently developed cellular communication standards, e.g. IEEE 802.16e/m. If multiple CRUs having different SNR are assigned to a mobile station, and multiple packet streams are independently transmitted by using H-ARQ transmission, an achievable data rate can be varied according to the channel allocation method of re-transmission packets and new transmission packets. In this paper, the optimum channel allocation method for the above stated problem, and several sub-optimum channel allocation methods to reduce the computational complexity of the optimum allocation method are proposed. According to the simulation results, a sub-optimum allocation method assigning a CRU having good SNR to new transmission packet shows marginal performance loss compared with optimum method, however, the computational complexity can be significantly reduced.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.43-51
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• 2015

Upcoming cellular networks such as LTE-advanced and IEEE 802.16m are enhanced by relay stations to support high data rate multimedia services and minimize the shadow zone with low cost. Enhancing the relay stations, however, divides the multihop cellular network into smaller microcells and the distance between microcells is closer, which intends large intra-cell and inter-cell interference. Especially the access link on downlink in the OFDMA cellular network is the throughput bottleneck due to the severe interference caused by base stations and relay stations transmitting large data to mobile stations simultaneously. In this paper, we present interference aware channel allocation algorithm to avoid severe interference on multihop cellular networks with random topology. Proposed algorithm increases SINR(signal to interference plus noise ratio) and decreases number of required control messages for channel allocation, so that increases overall throughput on the networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.5B
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• pp.489-497
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• 2009

In the 3GPP LTE and IEEE 802.16m standardizations for IMT-Advanced, the efficient transmission of multicast and broadcast data is one of the important issues to improve system performance. Especially, to guarantee each user's QoS in the multicast group, H-ARQ or adaptive modulation are considered to be adoption, however, reduction of feedback overhead is one of the most important issues. In this paper, performance of the previously proposed OOK (On-Off Keying) based common ACK/NACK feedback channel is analyzed through theoretical analysis and simulation. Based on the results, system parameter optimization methods for common feedback channel are proposed. In addition, through computer simulation, it is shown that the common feedback method according to the proposed feedback parameter optimization can feedback ACK/NACK information for multicast H-ARQ transmission, more reliably than the conventional user dedicated feedback method in 3GPP LTE systems, and can reduce the feedback overhead as well.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.18-23
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• 2010

본고에서는 최근 빠르게 발전하고 있는 모바일 네트워크 보안 기술 동향에 대해서 살펴본다. 특히 모바일 네트워크의 발전으로 최근 관심이 집중되고 있는 이기종 망간 인증 연동에 대해 3GPP 진영과 IEEE 진영에서의 표준화 기술 동향을 살펴본다. ITU-R에서는 차세대 모바일 네트워크 (4G)인 IMT-Advanced에 대한 표준화일정 및 표준 요구사항 등을 정의하여 2008년부터 본격적인 표준화 논의를 시작하였다. 이에 따라 3GPP와 IEEE에서는 ITU-R의 IMT-Advanced의 표준 요구사항을 충족하는 표준 기술로 LTE-Advanced와 802.16m에 대한 기술 논의를 ITU-R의 표준화 일정에 따라 진행하고 있으며 표준화 및 전 세계 시장 선점을 위해 치열한 경쟁을 하고 있다. 이러한 모바일 네트워크 환경의 고도화로 관심이 증가하고 있는 이기종 망간 인증연동 기술에 대한 표준화 동향을 살펴본다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.466-476
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• 2010

This paper proposes a novel simulator which is capable of loading different modules enabling to update the simulator easily when the 4G mobile communication technologies are revised. This simulator is not only designed based on IMT-Advanced channel model but also confirmed its reliability through mutual verification with Matlab based simulator developed by Winner+. The proposed simulator was evaluated on the basis of evaluation requirements on the IMT-Advanced. By comparing with experimental results for IEEE and 3GPP, it was also proved for the simulator to have a better performance.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.275-281
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• 2006

Simple-relay aided resource allocation (SRARA) schemes are incorporated with throughput guarantee scheduling (TGS) in IEEE 802.16 type time division duplex - orthogonal frequency division multiple access (TDD-OFDMA) downlink in order to enhance service coverage, where the amount of resources for relaying at each relay is limited due to either its available power which is much smaller than base station (BS) power or the overhead required for exchanging feedback information. The performance of SRARA schemes is evaluated with schedulers such as proportional fair (PF) and TGS at 64kbps and 128kbps user throughput requirements when total MS power is set to 500mW or 1 W. For 64kbps throughput requirement level, more improvement comes from relay than scheduler design. For 128kbps case, it comse from scheduler design than relay due to the fact that simple relay can't help using strictly limited amount of resources for relaying function.

• 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.