• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

In this paper, the author presents the MIMO(Multi-Input Multi-Output) receiver algorithm with the capability of inter-cell or inter-sector interference cancellation over multi-antenna OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) systems. As contrast with the previous research dealing with the filtering scheme at the time domain, the proposed algorithm is presented as the pre-filtering scheme which can be applicable to the frequency domain. Note that the proposed one can be implemented only by pilot symbols which are used in the channel estimation. In addition, it is analytically confirmed that the proposed scheme can be applied for either MIMO( C-SM(Collaborative-Spatial Multiplexing)) interference or SIMO(Single-Input Multi-Out) interference. The proposed receiver algorithm is verified by simulations over UL-PUSC SR off in IEEE 802.16e standard. From simulation results, it is confirmed that the proposed one can be applicable regardless of the kind of interference. Furthermore, it is verified that the performance is guaranteed even under Ole severe effect of interference and the improvement of system throughput is guaranteed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11C
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• pp.1113-1121
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• 2009

In this paper, the channel estimation and pilot sequence design technique of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in multi-cell environments are studied for situations in which the inter cell interference (ICI) is the dominant channel impairment. We design pilot sequence aiming at minimizing mean square error and propose the channel estimation technique correspond to the designed pilot sequences. The proposed pilot sequences employ the sequences with good correlation properties such as Chu sequence and through simulations, it is shown that channel estimation algorithm using designed pilot sequence is effective for mitigating the ICI.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.77-85
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• 2009

This paper proposes an efficient system level simulation method for MIMO-OFDM based system in the multi-cell environment. The proposed method analyzes effects of the cell structure, radio channel characteristics and user mobility. The user mobility effect on the system level performance is considered in both channel gain and distance. The receiver SINR calculation procedure is presented in the system which adopts MIMO-OFDM scheme under various system environments. This method can be flexibly extensible to various system environments and provides computationally efficient system level simulation technique which utilizes link level performance analysis. Extensive computer simulations results are presented to obtain the system performance in the various mobile cellular channels using the proposed method. Also this results are analyzed based on the packet error rate for different distances between the base station located in the center of the cell and the mobile user.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.328-335
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• 2010

In this paper, an efficient algorithm and area-efficient hardware architecture have been proposed for $2{\times}2$ MIMO-OFDM based WLAN baseband modem with two transmit and two receive antennas. To enhance the performance of the receiver, the efficient timing synchronization algorithm and symbol detector based on MML algorithm are presented. Also, by sharing the hardware block with multi-stage pipeline structure and using the complex multiplier based on polar-coordinate, the complexity of the proposed architecture is dramatically decreased. The proposed area-efficient hardware design was designed in hardware description language (HDL) and synthesized to gate-level circuits using 0.13um CMOS standard cell library. As a result, the complexity of the proposed modem receiver is reduced by 56% over the conventional architecture.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.12
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• pp.87-95
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• 2009

In this paper, an area-efficient FFT processor is proposed for MIMO-OFDM based SDR systems. The proposed scalable FFT processor can support the variable length of 64, 128, 512, 1024 and 2048. By reducing the required number of non-trivial multipliers with mixed-radix (MR) and multi-path delay commutator (MDC) architecture, the complexity of the proposed FFT processor is dramatically decreased without sacrificing system throughput The proposed FFT processor was designed in hardware description language (HDL) and synthesized to gate4eve1 circuits using 0.18um CMOS standard cell library. With the proposed architecture, the gate count for the processor is 46K and the size of memory is 64Kbits, which are reduced by 59% and 39%, respectively, compared with those of the 4-channel radix-2 single-path delay feedback (R2SDF) FFT processor. Also, compared with 4-channel radix-2 MDC (R2MDC) FFT processor, it is confirmed that the gate count and memory size are reduced by 16.4% and 26.8, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.7A
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• pp.720-726
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a multi-cell cooperation method for broadcast packet data services in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based cellular system with multiple transmit antennas. In the proposed method, to transmit two streams of spatially demultiplexed or transmit diversity coded symbols over a number of transmit antennas, we divide a coded packet into multiple subparts to which different cell groups and antenna pairs are assigned. The proposed method enhances the diversity order by transforming the channel frequency responses of two symbol streams in each subpart of the broadcast packet. The increase in diversity of the proposed method is shown with the outage probability under various configurations.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.129-133
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• 2012

Coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) is a candidate technique for next generation cellular communications systems. One of the primary elements discussed in LTE-Advanced technology is CoMP, which can improve cell edge user data rate as well as spectral efficiency due to multiple input multiple output - orthogonal frequency division multiplex (MIMO-OFDM). We consider a system with multiple cells in which base stations coordinate with each other by sharing user channel state information (CSI), which mitigates inter cell interference (ICI), especially for users located at the cell edge. We introduce a new user scheduling method of ICI cancellation and the loss reduction of effective channel gain during the beamforming process, the proposed method improves the system sum rate, when compared to the conventional method by an average of 0.55bps/Hz in different number of total users per cell. It also outperforms the conventional method by approximately 0.38bps/Hz using different SNRs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.254-266
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• 2006

Recently, researches about downlink resource allocation algorithms applying SDMA to enhance the system throughput and cell coverage have begun. Most OFDM/SDMA based resource allocation algorithms have some limitations such that those only concentrate on maximizing the system throughput or can be applied in single cell environment. In this paper, we propose an OFDM/SDMA based downlink resource allocation algorithm which considers high layer QoS parameters suitable for the required data traffic and it also minimizes the system throughput loss and considers inter-cell interference from adjacent cells. so it can be adopted in multi-cell environment. We manifest the performance of the proposed algorithm in Ped A and SCME MIMO Channel Model.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.5C
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• pp.527-539
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an asynchonous ICI (Inter-Cell Interference) mitigation techniques for 3GPP LTE MIMO-OFDMA down-link receiver. An increasing in symbol timing misalignments may occur relative to sychronous network as the result of BS (Base Station) timing differences. Such symbol synchronization errors that exceed the guard interval or the cyclic prefix duration may result in MAI (Multiple Access Interference) for other carriers. In particular, at the cell boundary, this MAI becomes a critical factor, leading to degraded channel throughput and severe asynchronous ICI. Hence, many researchers have investigated the interference mitigation method in the presence of asynchronous ICI and it appears that the knowledge of the SCM (Spatial Covariance Matrix) of the asynchronous ICI plus background noise is an important issue. Generally, it is assumed that the SCM estimated by using training symbols. However, it is difficult to measure the interference statistics for a long time and training symbol is also not appropriate for MIMO-OFDMA system such as LTE. Therefore, a noise reduction method is required to improve the estimation accuracy. Although the conventional time-domain low-pass type weighting method can be effective for noise reduction, it causes significant estimation error due to the spectral leakage in practical OFDM system. Therefore, we propose a time-domain sinc type weighing method which can not only reduce the noise effectively minimizing estimation error caused by the spectral leakage but also implement frequency-domain moving average filter easily. By using computer simulation, we show that the proposed method can provide up to 3dB SIR gain compared with the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.102-104
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• 2011

최근 비디오 스트리밍과 대화형 비디오 서비스 등과 같은 광대역 멀티미디어 서비스를 지원하기 위하여 Wimax와 같은 4G 무선네트워크 시스템 기술이 발전해 왔다. 4G 무선네트워크의 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)과 MIMO(multi Input Multi Output)은 사용자들에게 매우 유연한 QoS(Quality of Service) 서비스를 제공해 줄 수 있다.[1] 이 논문에서는 다양한 네트워크 상황에서 멀티캐스트 그룹에게 효율적인 방법으로 통신 자원을 할당하기 위해 OFDM 방법을 사용 하였다. 이에 본 논문에서는 한 셀(cell) 내의 서로 다른 멀티캐스트의 그룹의 다른 SNR(Signal to noise Ratio)의 사용자 분포에 따른 적응적인 scalable 비디오 멀티캐스트 방식을 제안한다. 더 나은 수신율을 가진 사용자는 최적의 MCS(Modulation and Coding Scheme) 할당을 통해 서로 다른 화질의 scalable 비디오 계층 중 높은 해상도의 비디오를 받을 수 있다. 논문에서는 전체 전송률을 최적화 하는 대신 전송받은 전체 비디오의 평균 화질을 최적화하는 방법을 제안한다.