• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.445-445
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• 2006

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.386-393
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• 2003

Future wireless networks are expected to achieve high bit rates at low cost, enabling multimedia and QoS-based services over the wireless medium. The impulse radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB) technique is a promising candidate in the deployment of such networks, thanks to its potential robustness and capacity. In the past, most of the UWB research focused on hardware and physical layer aspects in order to solve the technological challenges posed by IR-UWB. UWB peculiar characteristics may, however, also stimulate innovative higher layers’ design. This work addresses MAC issues for UWB communication systems. Key areas such as medium sharing, MAC organization, packet scheduling and power control are reviewed. The impact of UWB on the above functions is discussed, and areas which require UWB specific design are identified. Finally, novel MAC functions enabled by UWB specific features, i.e., precise ranging and positioning, are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2069-2070
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• 2006

본 논문은 UWB(Ultra Wideband) 펄스 기반의 단일 송수신을 통한 UWB 레인징 시스템에서 거리산출의 모호성을 제거하고 그 성능을 향상시키기 위한 듀얼윈도우처리기법을 새롭게 제안한다. 일반적으로 UWB 레인징시스템은 UWB 전송펄스의 높은 시간분해능을 이용하여 거리를 산출하는데, 비가역성(Non-coherent) UWB 송수신기 구조에서는 신호가 언제 수신 될지 모르는 정보 표본값들로부터 최초도착 성분을 추출하게 되고 이로 인해 거리산출오차가 크게 발생되어 진다. 실내무선채널환경(CMI)의 UWB 레인징 시뮬레이션 결과 본 논문에서 제안된 듀얼윈도우처리기술을 적용 시 1m 거리산출 확률오차기준으로 대략 98% 정확도를 보인 반면에 그렇지 않은 경우는 75%이하의 레인징 정확도 성능을 나타낸다

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3C
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• pp.368-373
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• 2004

Extremely fine tine resolution of ultra-wideband (UWB) signal poses a new problems to the system designer. A reasonable accuracy of the system clock is necessary to process signals with such a high space resolution. A useful way of illustrating the time resolution of a signal is to evaluate the ambiguity function. The ambiguity function for carrierless UWB defined using the time mismatch and time scaling factor as its two parameters. The UWB ambiguity function is evaluated for various signaling schemes of impulse radio.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.10C
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• pp.921-926
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• 2006

The Presence of a line-of-sight(LoS) blockage can degrade the UWB positioning accuracy for two reasons. Firstly, it makes estimation of the time of arrival(ToA) of the direct path signal difficult by complicating the multipath structure of the propagation channel. Secondly, the higher dielectric constant of the LoS blocking material than that of free space introduces excess propagation delay which will bias the range estimation. In this paper, methods based on ray tracing to reduce the ranging error resulting from the second reason are Posed. We take two different approaches; a statistical approach and a map-aided method. In the statistical approach, we establish a conditional distribution of the excess propagation delay caused by LoS blockages using a ray tracing technique. The lo6wer bound of the ranging performance based on this model is estimated. Ine ray tracing method is also used for the map-aided ToA positioning approach. UWB propagation measurement data taken in an office environment is used to examine the performance of this method.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.180-183
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2067-2068
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• 2006

초광대역 (UWB)통신기술을 응용한 다양한 무선측위시스템은 향후, 전기-IT융합 유비쿼터스 전기설비 환경의 센서네트워크에서 중요한 역할로 대두된다. 이러한 UWB기반의 무선측위시스템은 UWB송수신기 자체의 정밀거리산출기능의 정확도 정도에 따라 그 성능이 직접적으로 좌우된다. 본 논문에서는 현재 논의되고 있는 UWB 레인징기술에 대한 소개와 특히 저비용, 저전력 운영이 가능한 단순한 구조를 갖는 비가역성(Non-coherent) UWB 레인징 시스템구조에 대해 새롭게 제안하고자 한다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2009

In this paper, we design RF transceiver architecture and building blocks for impulse radio UWB system. Impulse radio UWB signal occupies the wide frequency band which is very low transmission power. So, it can minimize the interference effect with the other system. Using UWB technology, we obtain position awareness service. Therefore, we describe the RF transceiver architecture of direct conversion receiver and define the requirement of RF transceiver. Moreover, we implement a prototype RF transceiver based on the presented standard and verify a function and performance through the wireless data communication and ranging test.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.6C
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• pp.376-383
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• 2011

Since the first arrival path may not be the strongest path of UWB(Ultra Wide Band) multipath channels, this makes ToA(Time-of-Arrival) estimation becomes a challengeable issue. Furthermore, because of ultra bandwidth of received signals, the compressed sensing theory is employed to reduce the complexity caused by very high Nyquist sampling rate in coherent UWB receivers. In this paper, we propose a ToA estimation scheme which provides precise estimation performance, while exploiting the benefits of compressed sensing-based UWB receivers. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can outperform other low complexity schemes in a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.44-49
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• 2017

A compact planar microstrip-fed ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with a dual band-notched for UWB application is presented and analyzed. By inserting a U-shaped slot and inverted U-shaped slot into the pot-shaped radiator, two notched bands are achieved. By optimizing the width and length of the U-shaped slots and inverted U-shaped slot, a desired bandwidth of voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) less than 2.0 can be achieved, ranging from UWB bands with notched dual bands. The proposed antenna is fabricated on an inexpensive FR-4 substrate with overall dimensions of $28.0mm{\times}39.5mm$. The measured results confirm that the proposed antenna covers from 1.775 to over 13.075 GHz with two rejection bands of around 3.325-3.925 GHz and 5.3125-6.025 GHz. In addition, the proposed antenna showed good radiation characteristics and gains in the UWB bands.