• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.18-25
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• 2012

As the demand for smart phone user is rapidly increasing in recent years, the development of new mobile communication system which provides more improved quality compared to existing 3G standard is highly requested. In this point, the long-term evolution (LTE) system, which was being developed in mid of 2000's, has attracted a considerable attention. The LTE has been developed continuously to result a release 10 which is called as LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) in 2010. Among various features in LTE-A, the multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) design is expected to give better quality for throughput, spectral efficiency, and latency. In this paper, we first review the development process from LTE to LTE-A. We also provide the overview of design challenges and specific solutions for MU-MIMO systems developed in LTE-Advanced standard.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

3GPP는 WCDMA의 3세대 이동통신 표준화 이후 HSDPA, MBMS, HSUPA 등의 기술을 지속적으로 추가하여 3세대 이동통신 시스템을 개량해 왔다. 또한 2005년부터는 OFDMA/SC-FDMA 전송방식을 기반으로 하는 LTE 표준화를 진행해 왔다. 현재는 ITU-R의 IMT-Advanced 표준을 위해 LTE를 개선한 LTE-Advanced를 준비하고 있다. LTE-Advanced는 IMT-Advanced 표준의 유력한 후보 중 하나로 사업자들의 폭넓은 지지를 받고 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 3GPP에서 추진하고 있는 LTE 표준 기술과 LTE-Advanced 표준화 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.26 no.12
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• pp.3-18
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• 2009

본 고에서는 현재 3GPP 무선 접속 표준화에 대한 기술 논의의 중심에 서 있는 LTE-Advanced 기술에 대한 주요 표준화 동향에 대하여 살펴본다. LTE-Advanced 표준 기술은 3GPP에서 LTE 표준 기술의 후속 기술로 개발 중인 표준 기술이며, 차세대 이동통신 시스템의 국제 표준인 IMT-Advanced 표준 가운데 하나가 될 것이 확실한 표준 기술이다. ITU-R에서는 IMT-Advanced 표준 제정을 위한 일정 및 표준 요구 사항 등을 정의하였으며, 3GPP에서는 이러한 ITU-R의 표준 일정에 맞추면서 IMT-Advanced 표준을 위한 요구 사항을 충족시키기 위한 기술 논의를 진행하고 있다. 본 고에서는 IMT-Advanced 표준에 대한 표준 일정 및 요구 사항에 대하여 알아보고, 이에 대응하여 3GPP에서 진행 중인 LTE-Advanced 표준화 진행 동향에 대하여 살펴본다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.61-83
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• 2011

LTE-Advanced 표준 기술은 3GPP(3rd Generation Partnership Project) 에서 LTE 표준 기술의 후속 기술로 2008년 초부터 개발해오고 있는 기술이며, 차세대 이동통신 시스템의 국제 표준인 IMT-Advanced 표준 가운데 하나로 인준된 표준 기술이다. 현재, 최종 표준 완성을 목전에 두고 있는 상황이며, 완성된 표준에 대한 최종 ITU-R 표준 제출 과정이 진행 중에 있다. 본 고에서는 ITU-R의 IMT-Advanced 표준 발간 일정에 맞추어서 3GPP에서 진행해 온 논의 사항들에 대해 정리하고 또한 REL-10 LTE-Advanced 표준을 구성하고 있는 주요 요소 기술들에 대해 알아본다. 마지막으로 LTE-Advanced 기술에 대한 향후 표준화 방향 등에 대하여 알아본다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.219-226
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• 2012

Since OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology is applied into LTE(Long Term Evolution)/LTE-Advanced system, it is important to estimate the spectrum sharing and to analyze interference in LTE system based on the characteristics of frequency assignment. Therefore, in this paper, a study on the adjacent channel interference between two operators/systems to provide LTE services. For co-existence of LTE systems, the relative capacity loss and the relative throughput loss in uplink and downlink have been simulated to evaluated ACIR(Adjacent Channel Interference Ratio) values with 5% loss rate. Some parameters such as the location of user, aggressor bandwidth, and the separation offset affect the required ACIR value for spectrum sharing, and these results and interference analysis schemes in this article can provide reliable reference for LTE RF standardization and efficient frequency utilization in future.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.71-76
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• 2012

Recently, the huge growth of mobile data traffic has driven the earlier commercialization of LTE network and the evolution of LTE-Adv has been accelerated because of this trend of mobile traffic surges. Thus it has enabled the global connectivity and roaming capability due to continual standardization activities. The 3rd generation mobile communication system has been improved through incorporating technologies of HSDPA, MBMS and HSUPA etc continuously. Also, OFDMA/SC-FDMA-based LTE standardization has been under way. In this paper, the architectures of LTE network and protocol have been introduced and their inherent operation mechanisms have also been explored in order to give some insights about the LTE/LTE-Adv networks while their architectures are considered as most prominent candidate for worldwide standard by ITU-R and mobile operators for international communication networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.12B
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• pp.1647-1658
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• 2011

This paper suggests the methods to improve the wireless backhaul link of the Relay FDD mode that 3GPP LTE-Advanced supports. New RRC message and Relay startsup procedure are introduced to apply Carrier Aggregation in the Relay wireless backhaul. Also, we design new reference signal that makes Type 1 Relay operated in full-duplexing, expecting to maximize the radio resource utilization. And, we propose the efficient configuration for the periodic uplink control information under the backhaul subframe allocation method in LTE-Advanced Relay. Hereafter, the standard activities in the 3GPP RAN is supposed to focus on the improvement of the LTE-Advanced features. Therefore, the suggestions in this paper are expected to be actively discussed in the LTE-Advanced future releases.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.45-54
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to analyze the selection behavior decision model of telecommunications service under the telecommunication environments with joining the WiBro and 3GPP LTE-Advanced service at the sam time. The research results are as follows. First, mobile telecommunication service selection behavior is correlated with each other between WiBro and 3GPP LTE-Advanced service. Second, in the bivariate probit model estimates such as age, income, expenditure and income variable are important decision variables of WiBro and 3GPP LTE-Advanced service selection behavior. Gender and service using years, however, are not an important variables. The single and bivariate probit estimate results show the same estimation results. Finally, the two service selecting predictions by using the bivariate probit estimated results, 28.6% of WiBro and 25.3% of 3GPP LTE-Advanced were expected. Also, chance to join the two telecommunications services simultaneously is 19.3%. Therefore, WiBro selection probability is a little higher than 3GPP LTE-Advanced. The implications of these results, the future telecommunications service selection will be determined by economic factors such as income and expenditure. Thus, to enable the WiBro, policy means for reducing the excessive telecommunications expenditure are needed in the future.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.23-30
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• 2009

3GPP(3rd Generation Partnership Project)는 3세대 이동통신인 UMTS(Universal Mobile Telecommunication System)의 초기 표준화 이후 HSPA(High Speed Packet Access), MBMS(Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service) 등의 기술 개발로 UMTS 시스템을 지속적으로 발전시켜 왔다. 그리고, 최근 새로운 무선 접속 기술에 기반한 LTE(Long Term Evolution)시스템에 대한 표준화를 거의 완료하고 ITU-R(International Telecommunications Union-Radio)의 IMT-Advanced 요구사항을 만족하는 LTE-Advanced 시스템에 대한 연구를 진행하고 있다. 한편 최근 다양한 무선 접속 기술간 핸드오버 기술이 중요한 이슈로 부각됨에 따라 LTE-Advanced에서도 이를 수용하기 위한 기술이 요구된다. 본 고에서는 3GPP에서 추진하고 있는 LTE-Advanced기술의 표준화 동향과 향후 이에 적용 가능한 다양한 무선 접속 기술간의 핸드오버 지원 기술을 살펴봄으로써 LTE-Advanced에서의 끊김없는 이동성(seamless mobility) 제공을 위한 근간을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.8-15
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• 2011

LTE-Advanced aims at peak data rates of 1Gbits/s for the downlink and 500 Mbits/s for the uplink, which can be accomplished only by using wide spectrum allocation of 100MHz as well as advanced multiple input multiple output antenna techniques to the uplink. This paper analyzes the uplink precoding techniques which include LTE codebook of downlink, singular value decomposition codebook, and equal gain transmission codebook over LTE defined single carrier frequency division multiplexing systems. Finally considering nonlinear transmit power amplifier model, it is shown that link-level performance of EGT is superior to those of any other precoding schemes.