• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.255-273
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• 2005

Overlay parameter control of the semiconductor photolithography process is researched in this paper. Overlay parameters denote the error in superposing the current pattern to the pattern previously created. The reduction of the overlay deviation is one of the key factors in improving the quality of the semiconductor products. The semiconductor process is affected by numerous environment and equipment factors. Through process condition prediction and control, the overlay inaccuracy can be reduced. Generally, three types of process condition change exist; uncontrollable white noise, slowly changing drift, and abrupt condition shift. To effectively control the aforementioned process changes, control scheme using adaptive deadband is proposed. The suggested approach and existing control method are cross evaluated through simulation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.185-188
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• 2000

In this paper, performance of a PN code acquisition scheme is analyzed and simulated for a DS/CDMA overlay system where a CDMA user and a narrowband user coexist in the same frequency band. To suppress the NBI, an interference suppression filter is employed at the receiver front-end. From the simulation results, it is shown that the interference suppression filter is very effective for suppression of the NBI and rapid PN code acquisition in a DS/CDMA overlay environment. It is also shown that the one-sided tap number of 5 fur interference suppression filter is sufficient to suppress the NBI.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.181-191
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• 1996

In this paper we discuss narrow-band interference rejection schemes for spectrum overlay communications where direct sequence spread spectrum (DS/SS) communication system and narrow-band communication systems share the same frequency band. In this case, it is essential to reject the narrow-band signals to guarantee the performance of DS/SS system, while it is not necessarily required to reject the DS/SS signal to recover the narrow-band signal. We discuss several schemes such as time domain processing, frequency domain processing and exploiting the device characteristics to reduce the effect of narrow-band signal on DS/SS communication systems. Furthermore, we suggest a structure of tunable notch filter using gyrator that can easily be customized to ASIC.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10C
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• pp.929-936
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• 2009

In this paper, we consider designing a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) overlay system for fixed MIMO wireless link, where a frequency flat narrowband channel is shared by multiple transmitter and receiver pairs. Assuming the perfect knowledge of the second-order statistics of the received legacy signals and the composite channels from the overlay transmitter to the legacy receivers, the jointly optimal linear precoder and decoder matrices of the MIMO overlay system is derived to minimize the total mean squared error (MSE) of the data symbol vector, subject to total average transmission power and zero interference induced to legacy MIMO systems already existing in the frequency band of interest. Furthermore, the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the optimal solution is also derived.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.120-124
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• 2017

In this paper, effect of antenna diversity on pseudorandom noise (PN) code acquisition performance is analyzed and simulated for a direct sequence/code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) overlay system where a CDMA user and a narrowband user coexist in the same frequency band. From the simulation results, it is shown that the antenna diversity is very effective in improving the PN acquisition performance. The results of this paper can be applied to design of synchronization scheme for a DS/CDMA overlay environment.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.21 no.B
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• pp.295-300
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• 2001

Significant improvements in bond strength between new and existing concrete can be achieved through the modification of the new concrete by latex modification. But, no test method has been adopted as a standard to measure the bond strength between the concrete used to repair and the substrate being repaired. The performance of old and the new concrete construction defends upon band strength between old and the new concrete. Current adhesion strength measurement method is inaccurate method that ignore effect of stress concentration by shape of specimens. Therefore, this research calculates stress concentration coefficient using finite element analysis and direction tensile strength test (pull-off test). The result shows that the required core depth is 2.5 cm. Elastic modulus and overlay thickness do not influence in stress concentration.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.6B
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• pp.1142-1148
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• 1999

In this paper, the characteristics of frequency dependent dispersion are analyzed for the phase shifters in Ku-band phased array antenna system using full-wave method, SDA(Spectral Domain Approach).The design technique of asymmetric coupled-line phase shifter with dielectric overlay is proposed. The compared results of phase responses are shown with conventional symmetric coupled-line Schiffman phase shifter. The experimental results verify the improvement of broadband characteristics by the increasing bandwidths and the decreasing phase deviations.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.492-502
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• 2012

We consider an overlaid broadcast service, where a spread spectrum (SS)-based broadcast signal is overlaid onto the existing terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) band. The system is similar to the augmented data transmission in the ATSC DTV, for which it was investigated mostly in terms of link level performance, such as bit error rate. Our focus in this paper is on the system-level performances. More specifically, utilizing both a large scale path loss and a small scale fading channel model, the primary objective is to explore the tradeoff between the coverage and the achievable rate of the overlaid service and, finally, to determine the achievable rate in the overlaid service for marginal coverage reduction in the existing broadcast service. The analytical and simulation results show that an SS-based add-on service of 10 kbps to 20 kbps can co-exist with the T-DMB service while resulting in only a marginal degradation in T-DMB coverage (for example, less than one percent reduction).

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.104-114
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• 2005

This work presents a concept and the related analysis of the traffic performance for a wireless broadband system based on fixed relay stations acting as wireless bridges. The analysis focuses on the important performance indicators end-to-end throughput and delay, taking into account the effects of an automated repeat request protocol. An extension to a MAC frame based access protocol like IEEE 802.11e, 802.15.3, 802.16a, and HIPERLAN2 is outlined and taken as basis for the calculations. The system is intended for both dense populated areas as an overlay to cellular radio systems and to provide wide-area broad-band coverage. The two possible deployment scenarios for both dense urban and wide-area environments are introduced. Analytical and validating simulation results are shown, proving the suitability of the proposed concept for both of the mentioned scenarios. It is established that the fixed relaying concept is well suited to substantially contribute to provide high capacity cellular broad-band radio coverage in next generation (NG) cellular wireless broadband systems.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.8
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• pp.1633-1637
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• 2009

We propose a new technique for sidelobe suppression in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Sidelobe suppression is an essential technique to design OFDM based overlay system. The proposed technique is based on the combination of the multiple choice sequence (MCS) with the conventional windowing of OFDM signal in time domain. The MCS is choosing the one sequence which has lowest power in sidelobes from the produced set of sequences. The main advantage of proposed technique is that it fully utilizes the available bandwidth to transmit data. Simulation results show that by combining MCS with conventional windowing technique, the sidelobes in OFDM system can be significantly reduced