• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.553-563
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• 2010

This paper presents a tapered slot-antenna(TSA) for optimal impulse-signal transmission in ultra-wide band(UWB). The proposed TSA provides radiates in end-fire direction, which meets an impulse-radio UWB(IR-UWB) system demands(e.g., low loss, thus less error throughout the UWB band). In order to minimize the pulse distortion, we used an wideband impedance transformer and a microstrip slotline. The pulse fidelity characteristics was evaluated with finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) analysis technique and pulse fidelity correlation equation. Approximately 93.89 % pulse fidelity was obtained between the two antennas in 0.5 m range. Additionally, derived chirp Z-transform algorithm enables us to utilize the zoom-in option on the pulse signal in few nano-seconds below. Thus, it is possible to analyze the pulse signal distortion, delay or dispersion characteristics.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.146-153
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• 2008

Due to the extremely short pulse in the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, the accurate synchronization acquisition method is very important for both high data-rate WPAN and low data-rate WPAN. In this paper, we propose the synchronization acquisition algorithm based on two-step signal search method to acquire the synchronization in the UWB multi-path channel. At the first step, the search window is divided by two and the window that has higher power is chosen as a next search window. This operation is repeated until the measure power of the search window is smaller than the threshold value. At the second step, we employ Linear Search algorithm to the search window obtained at the first step for fine search. The proposed algorithm is proved that the synchronization acquisition is faster than the parallel search algorithm and it shows good performance in environment of the SNR extreme changes by the simulation.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.422-429
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• 2008

This paper presents compact low frequency ultra-wide band (UWB) sensor design and study of the partial discharge diagnosis by sensing electromagnetic pulse emitted from the partial discharge source with the newly designed UWB sensor. In this study, we designed a new type of compact low frequency UWB sensor based on microstrip antenna technology to detect both the low frequency and high frequency band of the partial discharge signal. Experiments of offline PD testing on medium voltage (22.9kV) underground cable mention the comparative results with the traditional HFCT as a reference sensor in the laboratory. In the series of comparative tests, the calibration signal injection test provided with the conventional IEC 60270 method and high voltage injection testing are included.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.20-23
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• 2006

본 논문은 MB-OFDM UWB(Multi Band-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Ultra Wide Band) 시스템을 위한 변형된 가변 파라미터를 이용한 큐빅 인터폴레이터를 제안한다. MB-OFDM UWB 시스템은 고속의 동작속도가 필요하기 때문에, 기존 가변 파라미터를 이용한 큐빅 인터폴레이터에 병렬 처리 기술과 파이프라인 기법을 동시에 적용한다. 실험 결과, Stratix II 2S60F101020C3 디바이스를 타켓으로 최대지연경로 속도와 최대지연경로 주기가 각각 최대 88.79MHz와 11.262ns가 되었고, 동작속도는 최대 대략 200% 이상 향상되었음을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1120-1127
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• 2008

This paper presents implementation of localization system using UWB (Ultra-Wide Band) sensors and its experimental results along with development of context-aware services. In order for precise measurement of position, we experimented various conditions of pitch angles, yaw angles, number of sensors, height of tags along with measuring errors at each installation. As an application examples of the location tracking system, we developed an intelligent health training management system based on context-aware technology. The system provides appropriate training schedule to a trainee by recognizing position of the trainee and current status of gymnastic equipments and note the usage of the equipment through a personal digital assistant (PDA). Error compensation on position data and moving direction of the trainee was necessary for context-aware service. Hence, we proposed an error compensation algorithm using velocity of the trainee. Experimental results showed that proposed algorithm had made error data reduce by 30% comparing with the data without applying the algorithm.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.3-8
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 수 GHz 대역폭에 이르는 매우 짧은 펄스를 이용하여 신호를 고속으로 전송할 수 있는 초광대역 통신 시스템(Ultra Wide Band system : UWB)의 특성에 대해 분석하고자 한다. UWB 시스템은 기존 시스템보다 더 낮은 비용과 전력 소비로 훨씬 넓은 주파수 대역을 이용하여, 기존 협대역 시스템과의 공유를 가능하게 하며, IEEE 802.11나 Bluetooth에 비해 월등히 높은 bits/sec/squaremeter로 정의되는 spatial capacity를 제공할 수 있어 최근 활발히 개발되고 있는 근거리 무선 통신망에 매우 적합하다. 특히 UWB 시스템은 짧은 펄스를 이용한 매우 정교한 시간 분해능을 이용한 Cm단위 위치 추적이라는 UWB만의 고유 기능도 제공할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.174-177
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 주파수 자원 고갈에 대한 문제를 해결할 수 있는 실내 UWB (Ultra Wide Band) 무선 채널에 대해 소개하고, UWB 무선 채널에서의 신호를 획득하는 방법에 대해 제안한다. IEEE 802.15.TG3a 표준화 위원회에서 제시하는 채널 모델에 대한 이해를 바탕으로 차등 부호 상관을 적용한 신호 획득에 대해 설명하며 이를 UWB 무선 채널에 적용하여 모의 실험을 통해 성능을 분석한다. 신호 획득의 성능 평가 기준으로 신호대 잡음비에 따른 검파 확률을 (Detection Probability) 보여주며, 한 채널 모델에 대해 m-수열의 길이에 따른 성능과 수열의 종류에 따른 성능, 그리고 부호 상관을 적용하는 방법에 따른 성능을 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.436-436
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• 2004

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1C
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• pp.77-86
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a noncoherent IR-UWB (Impulse Radio-Ultra Wide Band) ranging system with an AFE (Analog Front End) composed of a simple integrator and an 1-bit ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter), and define AFE characteristics affecting the ranging performance. This system is realistic and easy to implement, since the integrator simply accumulates signal energies and the simple 1-bit ADC is applied instead of the multi-bit ADCs for coherent IR-UWB systems. On the other hand, its ranging accuracy is largely affected channel environments such as noise, multipath fading and so on, since the noncoherent receiver simply squares and integrates the received signals. However, despite these practical importances, there are few conventional researches on the performance analysis according to AFE characteristics in IR-UWB ranging systems. To this end, we analyze in this paper ranging performance according to AFE characteristics for the noncoherent IR-UWB ranging system in various wireless channel environments, and through these results we also present system parameters to be considered in UWB hardware designs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.1255-1260
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• 2009

Microstrip interdigital filter is designed with the width and length of a resonator, the gap distance between resonators and the location of a tap. When designing filters, it is a benefit to design with few design parameters comparing to many design parameters. In this paper we design and implement two microstrip interdigital filters operating in the UWB(Ultra Wide-Band) frequency band, one using a fixed width of a resonator and the other using a different width of resonators. The test results of the implemented filters show that the low-band high filter with a fixed width has the insertion loss of 1.49dB, -10dB band width of 720MHz, -35.7dBattenuation at 4.8GHzand below -13dB of S11. The filter with a different width of resonators has the insertion loss of 1.6dB, -10dBbandwidth of 1.63GHz and below-8dBof S11.