• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2E
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• pp.20-25
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• 1994

The major drawback to the Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) type vocoders is their large computational requirements. In this paper, a simple method is proposed to reduce the pitch searching time in the pitch filter almost without degradation of quality. Bease upon the observational regularity of the correlation function of speech, the searching range can be restricted to the positive side in pitch search. This is done by skipping the negative side with the width which is estimated from the previous positive envelope. In addition to that, the maximum number of available lags can be limited by the threshold, $L_T$, which is set on 58 empirically. So, only the limited numbers of lags are considered in pitch search, which is less than a half of that of the full search method. By using the proposed method in pitch search, its required computations are greatly reduced. Experimental result shows 51% time reduction almost without lowering the speech quality in segmental SNR measure.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.175-182
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a robust speech reinforcement technique to enhance the intelligibility of the degraded speech signal under the ambient noise environments based on soft decision scheme incorporating a speech absence probability (SAP) with speech reinforcement gains. Since the ambient noise significantly decreases the intelligibility of the speech signal, the speech reinforcement approach to amplify the estimated clean speech signal from the background noise environments for improving the intelligibility and clarity of the corrupted speech signal was proposed. In order to estimate the robust reinforcement gain rather than the conventional speech reinforcement method between speech active periods and nonspeech periods or transient intervals, we propose the speech reinforcement algorithm based on soft decision applying the SAP to the estimation of speech reinforcement gains. The performances of the proposed algorithm are evaluated by the Comparison Category Rating (CCR) of the measurement for subjective determination of transmission quality in ITU-T P.800 under various ambient noise environments and show better performances compared with the conventional method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.12 s.354
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• pp.61-67
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• 2006

This paper proposes the algorithm for tracking of the residual phase errors incurred by carrier frequency offset and sampling frequency offset in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems which are suitable for high data rate wireless communications. In the OFDM systems the subcarriers which are orthogonal to each other are modulated by digital data and transmitted simultaneously. The carrier frequency offset causes degradation of signal to noise ratio(SNR) performance and interference between the adjacent subcarriers. The errors in the sampling timing caused by the sampling frequency difference between the transmitter and the receiver sides also cause a major performance degradation in the OFDM systems. The residual error tracking and compensation mechanism is essential in the OFDM system since the carrier and the sampling frequency offset cause the loss of orthogonality resulting in the system performance loss. This paper proposes the scheme where the channel gain and the payload data information are reflected in the residual error tracking process which results in the reduction of the estimation error and the tracking performance improvements under the frequency selective fading wireless channels.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.97-103
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• 2012

A very low complexity QRD-M algorithm based on limited search area is proposed for MIMO systems. The conventional QRD-M algorithm calculates Euclidean distance between all constellation symbols and the temporary detection symbol at each layer. We found that performance will not be degraded even if we adaptively restrict the search area of the candidate symbols only to the neighboring points of temporary detection symbol according to the channel condition at each layer. As a channel condition indicator, we employ the channel gain ratio among the layers without necessity of SNR estimation. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme effectively achieves near optimal performance while maintaining the overall average computation complexity much smaller than the conventional QRD-M algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8A
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• pp.1358-1366
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• 2001

Variable Processing Variable Processing Gain 기법을 기반으로 하는 Multirate-DS/CDMA 시스템에서는 다중 사용자 간섭뿐만 아니라, 불완전한 전력제어로 인해 발생되는 현재 이동 통신 시스템에서의 원근효과와 유사한 간섭이 다른 데이터율 사용자 신호들 사이에서 발생하게 된다. 이러한 간섭은 이동통신 시스템 성능을 저하시키고, 용량을 감소시키게 되므로 이들 간섭을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있는 다중 사용자 검출 기법이 절실히 요구된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 다중 사용자 간섭과 원근 효과를 효과적으로 제거하기 위한 하이브리드 다중 사용자 간섭 제거 기법을 제안한다. 하이브리드 다중 사용자 간섭 제거 기법은 하나 이상의 다중 사용자 검출 기법을 포함한다. 제안된 하이브리드 다중 사용자 간섭 제거 기법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 본 논문에서는 기존의 단일사용자 검출 기법 및 다중 사용자 검출 기법을 다시 한번 살펴보고, 이들 기존 검출기와 제안된 검출기를 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 통해 그 성능을 비교한다. 모의 실험에서는 AWGN 환경에서 각 SNR[dB]에 따른 BER 곡선을 조사하였다. 모의실험 결과로부터 기존의 병렬 간섭 제거 기법이나 역 상관 검출기보다 제안된 하이브리드 다중 사용자 간섭 제거 기법이 우수한 성능을 갖음을 알 수 있었다. 이는 어느 정도의 복잡도와 시간 지연에 대한 대가이다. 하지만 이 시간 지연은 검출구간을 고 데이터율 사용자 그룹에 맞춤으로써 어느 정도 해결될 것으로 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.2246-2255
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• 1997

Gardner proposed an algorithm for timing recovery of BPSK/QPSK signals based on zero-crossing detection technique. When Gardner's method is applied to multi-level PAM signals, it suffers from increased timing jitter due to self noise. To alleviate this problem, an improved algoritjm is proposed in this paper. The timing function is modified so that it zero point at the transition of PAM signals, that results in remarkable reduced timing jitter. The performance of the proposed algorithm is analyzed and compared to that of Garner's one. Finally, analytical results are verified by computer simulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.38-44
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• 2011

Because of the complexity of the underwater environment, the communication has difficulties that can differ significantly from those in air, The signal is degraded by many random noises. Furthermore, the limit of the bandwidth is a big issue in underwater communication. Therefore, the array signal processing can be adapted to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. In this paper, we propose a potential method for underwater communication based upon source tracking techniques. Also, a new tracking model by using a multi-array sonar and detail of the multi-array sonar configuration are shown in this paper. The experiment results demonstrated the receiver configuration is very potential to solve communication problems, especially in the underwater environment.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.3-8
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• 1999

Previous variable vocabulary speech recognition systems with context-independent acoustic modeling, could not represent the effect of neighboring phonemes. To solve this problem, we use allophone-based context-dependent acoustic model. This paper describes the method to improve acoustic model of the system effectively. Acoustic model is improved by using allophone clustering technique that uses entropy as a similarity measure and the optimal allophone model is generated by changing the number of allophones. We evaluate performance of the improved system by using Phonetically Optimized Words(POW) DB and PC commands(PC) DB. As a result, the allophone model composed of six hundreds allophones improved the recognition rate by 13% from the original context independent model m POW test DB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.6C
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• pp.423-428
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• 2008

We consider the use of cooperative diversity in a multiuser wireless data network. This paper provides an analysis of the interaction between cooperative diversity and multiuser diversity on downlink channels. By using approximation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) distribution of each cooperative diversity link by Gamma distribution, an analytic expression is derived for the average throughput of a single-cell wireless system with multiple cooperative diversity links combined with a fair-access scheduler. The proposed analytic approach is verified through comparisons with simulated results and shows that cooperative diversity makes the detrimental impacts on multiuser diversity.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.53-59
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• 2006

Need for agile satellite increases for performing various mission due to increase of satellite image applications and users. In high resolution satellite TDI (time delay and integration) method is adopted in order to improve SNR. But image quality can be degraded by satellite maneuver. In this paper requirements for remote sensing in high resolution satellite with agility are extracted and an approach to operate the agile satellite to perform the missions are proposed. The proposed approach in this paper will be applicable to system level design and analysis.