• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.605-614
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• 2004

In this paper, we investigate array calibration algorithms to derive a further improved version for correcting antenna array errors and RF transceiver errors in CDMA smart antenna systems. The structure of a multi-channel RF transceiver with a digital calibration apparatus and its calibration techniques are presented, where we propose a new RF receiver calibration scheme to minimize interference of the calibration signal on the user signals. The calibration signal is injected into a multi-channel receiver through a calibration signal injector whose array response vector is controlled in order to have a low correlation with the antenna response vector of the receive signals. We suggest a model-based antenna array calibration to remove the antenna array errors including mutual coupling errors or to predict the element patterns from the array manifold measured at a small number of angles. Computer simulations and experiment results are shown to verify the calibration algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.945-964
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• 2014

In this paper, we investigate the performance of Signal to Leakage and Noise Radio (SLNR) based user scheduling in uplink of multi-cell with large-scale antenna system. Large antenna array is desired to improve the performance in future system by providing better beamforming capability. However, some studies have found that the signal channel is 'hardened' (becomes invariant) when the antenna number goes extremely large, which implies that the signal channel aware user scheduling may have no gain at all. With the mathematic tool of order statistics, we analyzed the signal and interference terms of SLNR in a homogeneous multicell network. The derived distribution function of signal and interference shows that the leakage channel's variance is much more influential than the signal channel's variance in large-scale antenna regime. So even though the signal channel is hardened, the SLNR-based scheduling can achieve remarkable multiuser diversity (MUD) gain due to the fluctuation of the uplink leakage channel. By providing the final SINR distribution, we verify that the SLNR-based scheduling can leverage MUD in a better way than the signal channel based scheduling. The Monte Carlo simulations show that the throughput gain of SLNR-based scheduling over signal channel based scheduling is significant.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.560-574
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• 2010

In this paper, the relationship between the energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency in a two-cell cellular network is obtained, and the impact of multi-antenna on the energy efficiency of cellular network is analyzed and modeled based on two-state Markovian wireless channels. Then, the energy efficiency of multi-cell cellular networks with co-channel interference is investigated. Simulation results verify the proposed model and the energy-spectrum efficiency tradeoffs in cellular networks with multi-antenna and co-channel interference.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.338-351
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• 2013

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication may provide high spectral efficiency through the deployment of a very large number of antenna elements at the base stations. The gains from massive MIMO communication come from the use of multi-user MIMO on the uplink and downlink, but with a large excess of antennas at the base station compared to the number of served users. Initial work on massive MIMO did not fully address several practical issues associated with its deployment. This paper considers the impact of channel aging on the performance of massive MIMO systems. The effects of channel variation are characterized as a function of different system parameters assuming a simple model for the channel time variations at the transmitter. Channel prediction is proposed to overcome channel aging effects. The analytical results on aging show how capacity is lost due to time variation in the channel. Numerical results in a multicell network show that massive MIMO works even with some channel variation and that channel prediction could partially overcome channel aging effects.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.747-752
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• 2009

본 논문은 LOS(Line of Sight) 및 NLOS(Non Line of Sight)등 실제 MIMO(Multi Input Multi Output) 환경에 서의 수신 안테나의 간격에 따른 전파 채널 특성에 관하여 기술 하였다. $2\times2$ MIMO 채널 측정 시스템을 구축하여 2.3GHz Wibro 대역에서 측정을 하였다. 수신안테나의 간격에 따른 특성을 분석하기 위해 반파장 표준 다이폴 안테나의 간격을 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 1.0 파장 간격 이격시켜 MIMO 안테나 수신 성능을 측정 하였으며, 측정 위치는 LOS 2곳 NLOS 4곳에 대하여 행하였다. 측정 곁과 직접파를 수신 하는 LOS 환경에서는 공간 상관계수가 NLOS 환경에 비해 높은 값을 나타내었다. MIMO 시스템에서는 0.9 이상의 높은 공간 상관계수는 성능의 열화를 가져 올 수 있으므로 이를 극복하기 위한 안테나 및 시스템의 설계가 이루어져야 한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.284-293
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• 2005

A critical issue in applications involving networks of wireless sensors is their ability to synchronize, and mitigate the fading propagation channel effects. Especially when distributed 'slave' sensors (nodes) reach-back to communicate with the 'master' sensor (gateway), low power cooperative schemes are well motivated. Viewing each node as an antenna element in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) multi-antenna system, we design pilot patterns to estimate the multiple carrier frequency offsets (CFO), and the multiple channels corresponding to each node-gateway link. Our novel pilot scheme consists of non-zero pilot symbols along with zeros, which separate nodes in a time division multiple access (TDMA) fashion, and lead to low complexity schemes because CFO and channel estimators per node are decoupled. The resulting training algorithm is not only suitable for wireless sensor networks, but also for synchronization and channel estimation of single- and multi-carrier MIMO systems. We investigate the performance of our estimators analytically, and with simulations.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.193-196
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• 2011

Transmit antenna selection techniques are prominent since they exploit the spatial selectivity at the transmitter side. In the literature, antenna selection techniques assume full knowledge of the channel state information (CSI). In this paper, we consider that the CSI is not perfectly known at the transmitter; however, a quantized version of the channel coefficients is fed back by the users. We employ the non-uniform Lloyd-Max quantization algorithm which takes into consideration the distribution of the channel coefficients. Simulation results show that the degradation in the BER of the system with imperfect CSI at the transmitter is tolerable, especially when the transmit diversity order is high.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.116-123
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• 2003

In this paper, we address the problem of designing multirate codes for a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) system by restricting the receiver to be a successive decoding and interference cancellation type, when each of the antennas is encoded independently. Furthermore, it is assumed that the receiver knows the instantaneous fading channel states but the transmitter does not have access to them. It is well known that, in theory, minimummean- square error (MMSE) based successive decoding of multiple access (in multi-user communications) and MIMO channels achieves the total channel capacity. However, for this scheme to perform optimally, the optimal rates of each antenna (per-antenna rates) must be known at the transmitter. We show that the optimal per-antenna rates at the transmitter can be estimated using only the statistical characteristics of the MIMO channel in time-varying Rayleigh MIMO channel environments. Based on the results, multirate codes are designed using punctured turbo codes for a horizontal codedMIMOsystem. Simulation results show performances within about one to two dBs of MIMO channel capacity.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.1093-1094
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• 2008

A tomography system using microwave multi-channel transceiver was fabricated and measured. The tomography system is applicable to detection of breast cancers in a human body. This system is configured by microwave muiti-channel transceivers, a illumination chamber housing monopole antennas and coupling liquid, and image reconstruction algorithm solving inverse scattering problem.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.294-300
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.16j를 기반으로 하는 중계기를 도입한 와이브로 시스템에서 지향성 안테나를 사용한 3섹터 셀룰러 시스템에서 효율적인 기지국 커버리지 확장에 대해 분석하였다. 현재 진행 중인 IEEE 802.16j MMR 규격에서는 기지국과 멀티홉 중계기에 전방향성 안테나와 지향성 안테나의 사용을 고려하고 있다. 전방향성 안테나는 전방향($360^{\circ}$)으로 서비스 제공이 가능하지만 이웃한 기지국과의 신호간섭 때문에 효율이 떨어진다. 그러나 지향성 안테나의 경우는 빔이 방향성을 갖도록 안테나를 배치하여 이웃한 기지국과의 신호간섭을 줄일 수 있어 전방향성 방식보다 효율성이 높다. 그러나 IEEE 802.16j MMR환경에서는 기지국과 멀티홉 중계기가 지향성 안테나를 사용할 경우 채널 재사용 등에 의해 다른 셀에서 쓰이는 동일 채널의 간섭(Co-channel interference) 때문에 지향성 안테나가 갖는 효율성이 달라질 수 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 지향성 NBTC, WBTC 방식의 기지국에 지향성 안테나를 갖는 중계기를 multi-tier로 배치하는 구조를 제안하고, 기지국과 중계기들의 빔의 방향에 따른 동일 채널 간섭을 분석하였다. 또한, 제안하는 멀티홉 중계기가 배치된 NBTC안테나와 WBTC 안테나 방식을 전방향성 안테나를 갖는 중계기가 배치된 방식과 비교 분석하여 멀티홉 중계기의 홉 수가 증가함에 따른 성능 저하 및 셀 커버리지 확장과의 상관관계를 알아보았다.