• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.565-570
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• 2012

This paper has proposed a multi-channel low pass filter (LPF) for LTE-Advanced systems. The proposed LPF is an active-RC 5th chebyshev topology with three cut-off frequencies of 5 MHz, 10 MHz, and 40 MHz. A 3-bit tuning circuit has been adopted to prevent variations of each cut-off frequency from process, voltage, and temperature (PVT). To achieve a high cut-off frequency of 40 MHz, an operational amplifier used in the proposed filter has employed a PMOS cross-connection load with a negative impedance. A proposed filter has been implemented in a 0.13-${\mu}m$ CMOS technology and consumes 20.2 mW with a 1.2 V supply voltage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06d
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• pp.137-140
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• 2011

최근 활발하게 연구되고 있는 4G 이동 통신 시스템의 하나인 LTE-Advanced 시스템에서 릴레이 기법은 주요 기술로써 고려되고 있다. 릴레이 기법을 도입함으로써 LTE-Advanced 시스템은 셀 가장자리 유저들에게 좋은 성능의 서비스를 제공할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 셀 커버리지를 늘릴 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 하지만 LTE-Advanced 시스템에 릴레이 기술을 도입하는 구체적인 기법은 아직 연구되지 못하고 있다. 이러한 상황에서 우리는 기존의 직교 할당 방식과 중첩 할당 방식을 이용하여 릴레이 기법을 도입시 새로운 자원 할당 방법을 제안할 것이다. 제안 기법의 기본 아이디어는 서비스 지역에 진입한 단말이 채널 정보를 이용하여 eNB(eNodeB)로 접속할지 RS(Relay Station)로 접속할지를 결정한다. 기존의 직교 할당 방식과 중첩 할당 방식을 그대로 적용하는 경우와 비교하여 우리가 새로 제안하는 자원 할당 기법은 전송률 뿐만 아니라 공정성 측면에서도 우수한 성능을 나타낸다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1009-1014
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• 2012

This paper has proposed a 2,500 MHz ~ 2,570 MHz 0.13-${\mu}m$ CMOS RF front-end transmitter for LTE-Advanced systems. The proposed RF front-end transmitter is composed of a quadrature up-conversion mixer and a driver amplifier. The measurement results show the maximum output power level is +6 dBm and the suppression ratio for the image sideband and LO leakage are better than -40 dBc respectively. The fabricated chip consumes 36 mA from a 1.2 V supply voltage.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.759-762
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• 2012

Carrier aggregation is an essential feature in the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) system, which allows the scalable expansion of the effective bandwidth to be delivered to user equipment (UE) through the concurrent use of radio resources across multiple component carriers (CCs). This system's optimal radio-resource use has received much attention under simultaneous access (SA) scenarios for multiple CCs (m-CCs). This letter establishes how many CCs a UE should simultaneously connect to maintain maximum uplink capacity. Under the m-CC LTE-A system, the spectral efficiency of the m-CC SA scheme ($m{\geq}2$) is compared with that of CC selection (CCS). Numerical results reveal that the 2-CC SA scheme outperforms CCS and performs almost equally to the m-CC SA scheme ($m{\geq}3$).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.7
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• pp.535-542
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• 2013

Coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) is considered to be a promising technique to improve the throughput for LTE-Advanced systems. One important approach for CoMP is Joint Transmission (JT). However, the analytical model of JT has not been fully studied, as user equipments (UEs) receiving the desired signals from an adjacent base station (BS) as well as serving BS, or only serving BS were not distinguished. We derive a new analytical model to describe the call admission control in JT based systems. The performance measures of interest are the call blocking probability, and resource utilization. Furthermore, we compare the performance of JT-based systems and non-JT- based systems. The analytical results are in reasonable agreement with the simulation results.

• TTA Journal
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• s.124
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• pp.75-79
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• 2009

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.9-16
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• 2013

Long term evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems adopt closed-loop multiple-input multiple-output antenna techniques. Equal gain transmission which has equal gain property is the key factor in their codebook design. In this paper, a novel differential codebook structure which maintains the codebook design requirements of LTE or LTE-A systems. Especially, eight-phase shift keying (8-PSK) constellations are used as elements of codewords, which not only maintain equal gain property but also reduce the computation complexity of precoding and decoding function blocks. The equal gain property is very important to uplink because the performance of uplink is very sensitive to the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). Moreover, the operation of the proposed differential codebook is explained as a rotation-lock structure. As the results of computer simulations, the steady-state throughput performance of the proposed codebook shows at least 0.9dB of SNR better than those of the conventional LTE codebook with the same amount of feedback information.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.1596-1612
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• 2011

Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission / reception is being studied in Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) for future evolution of the $3^{rd}$ Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) LTE. Support of soft handover is essential for improving the performance of cell edge users. CoMP provides a natural framework for enabling soft handover in the LTE system. This paper evaluates the soft handover gain in LTE-A downlink. Mathematical analysis of signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) gain and the handover margins for soft handover and hard handover are derived. CoMP system model is developed and an inter-cell and intra-cell interference model is derived, taking into account the pathloss, shadowing, cell loading, and traffic activity. Reference signal received power (RSRP) is used to define the triggers and the measurements for soft handover. Our results indicate that parameter choices such as handover margin and the CoMP set size impact CoMP performance gain.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.6838-6844
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• 2014

3GPP LTE-Advanced systems adopt multiple antennas for high speed data transmission. In general, the receiver complexity of a spatially mutiplexed (SM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system grows in proportion to the number of candidate vectors. A large number of candidate vectors increases the reliability of the soft output values. The maximum likelihood (ML) signal detection with a large number of candidate vectors achieves high performance. On the other hand, low complexity receiver techniques with a small number of candidate vectors provide soft output values, such as low reliability. This paper addresses the improving reliability of the soft output obtained from a small number of candidate vectors. The improved performance of the proposed technique with the aid of computer simulations is reported.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.32-41
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• 2014

Currently, the three major Korean mobile operators hold a total of 390MHz of bandwidth, but at the current data traffic increase of almost 6 times per year, more frequency bandwidth should be secured in order to meet the exploding data traffic in the future. It is believed that 2.1GHz frequency band is suitable for mobile communication in the light of frequency characteristics and continuity of the band. In this paper, we perform compliance analysis with the international radio regulation for coexistence with the adjacent region in order to use 2.1GHz band for LTE-Advanced. In addition, we verify that 2.1GHz band can coexist with the adjacent band by conducting an interference evaluation.