• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.9C
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• pp.905-912
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• 2007

This paper proposes an efficient estimation and compensation scheme of IQ imbalance for OFDM-based WLAN systems in the presence of symbol timing error. Since the conventional scheme assumes perfect time synchronization, the criterion of the scheme used to derive the estimation of IQ imbalance is inadequate in the presence of the symbol timing error and the system performance is seriously degraded. New criterion and compensation scheme considering the effect of symbol timing error are proposed. With the proposed scheme, the IQ imbalance can be almost perfectly eliminated in the presence of symbol timing error. The bit error rate performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated by the simulation. In case of 54 Mbps transmission mode in IEEE 802.11a system, the proposed scheme achieves a SNR gain of 4.3dB at $BER=2{\cdot}10^{-3}$. The proposed compensation algorithm of IQ imbalance is implemented using Verilog HDL and verified. The proposed IQ imbalance compensator is composed of 74K logic gates and 6K bits memory from the synthesis result using 0.18um CMOS technology.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.2 s.344
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• pp.56-65
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• 2006

In this paper, we introduce modified difference type symbol timing detection method of simple structure and show the relations between S/N ratio and timing detection performance which less influenced by multipath channel delay profile and added noise level and it show very exact GI detection performance characteristics. In the computer simulations, 4 symbol time duration of short and long training of IEEE802.11a standard OFDM frame are used for symbol synchronization timing detection. The computer simulation results show the very exact symbol timing detection performance characteristic within 1 sample error of OFDM signal regardless channel delay profile from minimn phase channels of phase rotation ${\pi}/2$ to non-minimum phase channels of phase rotation ${\pi}/2$ of received OFDM signal and added noise level in channel.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.2A
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• pp.103-109
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• 2006

OFDM system has a disadvantage of sensitiveness about the effect of the frequency offset caused by the discord of oscillators in transmitter and receiver. The frequency offset can be divided into integral part and decimal part. Although the frequency offset of integral part do not effect orthogonality between subcarriers, it makes the bit error probability become to 0.5 because of circular transient among transmitted data symbols. This paper proposes a new estimation scheme of the frequency offset of integral part by Maximum Likelihood (ML) demanding only one training symbol in multipath fading channel environment. This proposed scheme not only can reduce the number of training symbol but do not increase the complexity and it shows the better performance by simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose the Digital Automatic Gain Controller for IEEE 802.11a High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band. The input gain is estimated by calculating the energy of the training symbol that is a synchronizing signal. The renewal gain is calculated by comparing the estimated gain with the ideal gain. The renewal gain is converted into the controlled voltage for GCA to reduce or amplify the input signals. We used a piecewise-linear approximation to reduce the hardware size. The gain control is performed seven times to provide more accurate gain control. The proposed automatic gain controller is designed with VHDL and verified by using the Xilinx FPGA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.1C
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• pp.92-98
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• 2005

In this paper, blind synchronization algorithm is developed for estimating jointly timing and frequency offset of OFDM system. The proposed estimator exploits the second-order cyclostationarity of received signals, and then uses the information of symbol timing and carrier frequency offset appeared in the cyclic correlation. As a bling estimator, the information of impulse response of channel and training symbols are not required. The performance of the proposed method is consistent in spite of channel conditions in mean squre error sense, and simulation results prove it. For more accurate estimaion, the method that averages cyclic correlation is applied. In this case, the performance of averaging method is better.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.600-607
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• 2007

In the next generation mobile multimedia communications, the broad band shot-burst transmissions are used to reduce end-to-end transmission delay, and to limit the time variation of wireless channels over a burst. However, training overhead is very significant for such short burst formats. So, the availability of the short training sequence and the fast converging adaptive algorithm is essential in the system adopting the symbol-by-symbol adaptive equalizer. In this paper, we propose an adaptive equalizer using the DWMT (discrete multi-wavelet transform) and LMS (least mean square) adaptation. The proposed equalizer has a faster convergence rate than that of the existing transform-domain equalizers, while the increase of computational complexity is very small.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.64-72
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• 2012

Synchronization including timing recovery, frequency offset compensation, and frame synchronization is most important signal processing block in all wireless/wired communication systems. In most communication systems, synchronization schemes based on training sequences or preambles are used. WLAN standards of 802.11a/g/n released by IEEE are based on OFDM systems. OFDM systems are known to be much more sensitive to frequency and timing synchronization errors than single carrier systems. A loss of orthogonality between the multiplexed subcarriers can result in severe performance degradations. The starting position of the frame and the beginning of the symbol and training symbol can be estimated using correlation methods. Correlation processing functionality is usually complex because of large number of multipliers in implementation especially when the reference signal is non-binary. In this paper, a simple correlation based synchronization scheme is proposed for IEEE 802.11a/g/n systems. Existing property of a periodicity in the training symbols are exploited. Simulation and implementation results show that the proposed method has much smaller complexity without any performance degradation than the existing schemes.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.203-210
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• 2002

In this paper, the BER performance of IEEE 802.11a OFDM WLAN system is obtained by simulation and it is shown that the proposed modified channel estimation algorithm improves the channel estimation performance of the system. The wireless channel used in channel simulation includes AWGN and delay spread channel implemented by TDL model. At first, the performance of OFDM WLAN system according to data rate and coding rate defined in standard is evaluated in AWGN channel. Then, imperfect channel estimation in indoor wireless channel is considered. After the performance of conventional channel estimation scheme using only two long training symbols is evaluated, and that of proposed modified channel estimation scheme using additional 8 short training symbol is compared with it. From the simulation results, it is shown that modified channel estimation scheme provides reduced channel estimation error and improves the channel estimation performance due to noise averaging effect with the same preamble format as defined in specification.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.7A
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• pp.627-634
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• 2011

In this paper, a new frequency offset estimation method in OFDM system is suggested. To measure fractional part of frequency offset, the repetition feature of cyclic prefix and that of training sequence is adopted. Both method shows relatively large frequency offset estimation error under low SNR circumstances, but this error can be greatly reduced by joint measurement of cyclic prefix and inversely repeated training symbol such as primary advanced preamble (PA-preamble) of IEEE 802.16m IMT-Advanced WiMax system. In this paper, the performance of suggested frequency offset estimation method is verified in IEEE 802.16m IMT Advanced WiMax system, using its PA-preamble and cyclic prefixes of A-preambles.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.3C
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• pp.189-194
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• 2007

This paper derives and computes the detection probability of timing synchronization in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system encountered with a multipath Rayleigh fading channel and imperfect noise estimation. The timing synchronization scheme using a simple repeated constant amplitude zero auto-correlation (CAZAC) training symbol and correlation techniques is adopted. With this provision, we focus on the numerical analysis for OFDM timing synchronization scheme employing a preadvancement technique to reduce the inter-symbol interference (ISI). For measuring system performance, the detection performance derived in the considered system is presented in a multipath Rayleigh fading channel.