• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.1642-1648
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• 2017

초광대역 안테나는 위성통신, 레이더, 리모트 센싱 시스템, 전파 망원경, 마이크로웨이브 화상 시스템 등의 여러가지 용도로 쓰인다. 수많은 형태의 광대역 안테나 구조들이 있으나, 테이퍼 슬롯 비발디 안테나는 가격, 무게, 스캔각도, 종형 복사, 쉬운 급전과 시스템 구성의 용이성 등의 장점이 있다. 이 논문에서는 개선된 안티포달 비발디 안테나를 제안하였다. 설계에 있어서 H자 형태의 기생패치 구조를 채택하였으며 이를 통해 전체 작동 주파수에 있어서 방사특성을 개선하는 능력을 나타내었다. 비유전율(${\epsilon}_r$) 2.2, 유전체 두께 0.7874mm의 RT/duroid 5880기판을 사용해 제안된 안테나의 시작품을 제작하고 측정한 결과 7.8-52.5GHz에 걸쳐 -10dB 반사손실 대역폭과 9-12dBi의 이득을 보였으며 이는 시뮬레이션 결과와 합리적으로 일치함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.365-373
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• 2003

This paper investigates the performance of M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) multiuser ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems in terms of symbol error rate (SER) over fading and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Based on Gaussian approximation for the multiple access interference, an expression for the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived for the UWB system. This expression is used to derive exact SER expressions for coherent UWB receivers. The effect of pulse selection on the SER of multiuser UWB system is studied. In addition to rectangular pulse, the 2nd derivative Gaussian waveform and Rayleigh pulses were considered. We show that the system capacity and/or SER performance can be significantly increased by using the monocycle pulse in fading channels.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.328-343
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• 2003

Orthogonal pulse-shape modulation using Hermite pulses for ultra-wideband communications is reviewed. Closedform expressions of cross-correlations among Hermite pulses and their corresponding transmit and receive waveforms are provided. These show that the pulses lose orthogonality at the receiver in the presence of differentiating antennas. Using these expressions, an algebraic model is established based on the projections of distorted receive waveforms onto the orthonormal basis given by the set of normalized orthogonal Hermite pulses. Using this new matrix model, a number of pulse-shape modulation schemes are analyzed and a novel orthogonal design is proposed. In the proposed orthogonal design, transmit waveforms are constructed as combinations of elementary Hermites with weighting coefficients derived by employing the Gram-Schmidt (QR) factorization of the differentiating distortion model’s matrix. The design ensures orthogonality of the vectors at the output of the receiver bank of correlators, without requiring compensation for the distortion introduced by the antennas. In addition, a new set of elementary Hermite Pulses is proposed which further enhances the performance of the new design while enabling a simplified hardware implementation.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제26권7B호
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• pp.1021-1033
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 초광대역 시간 도약 임펄스 무선 전송 (ultra wideband time hopping impulse radio) 다원 접속 시스템을 위한 잡음 부호 기반의 새로운 시간 도약 시퀀스를 제안한다. 임펄스 무선 전송 시스템에 대한 지금까지의 연구에서는 대부분 이상적인 랜덤 시간 도약 시퀀스를 사용하여 여러 사용자가 다원 접속한다고 가정하였다. 본 논문에서는 동일 차수의 다수 m-시퀀스와 십진화기를 이용하여 구현 가능한 시간 도약 시퀀스를 제안하고, 여러 사용자의 동기식 및 비동기식 접속 상황에 대한 모의 실험을 통해 이상적인 랜덤 시퀀스와 유사한 우수한 비트오율 성능을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 제안된 시간 도약 시퀀스를 사용하는 경우 좀 더 일반적인 상황인 비동기식 다원 접속이 동기식 다원 접속에 비해 우수한 성능을 얻을 수 있음을 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.524-539
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• 2014

To investigate schemes of secret key generation from Ultra-wideband (UWB) channel, we study a statistical characterization of UWB outdoor channel for a campus playground scenario based on extensive measurements. Moreover, an efficient secret key generation mechanism exploiting multipath relative delay is developed, and verification of this algorithm is conducted in UWB Line-of-sight (LOS) outdoor channels. For the first time, we compare key-mismatch probability of UWB indoor and outdoor environments. Simulation results demonstrate that the number of multipath proportionally affects key generation rate and key-mismatch probability. In comparison to the conventional method using received signal strength (RSS) as a common random source, our mechanism achieves better performance in terms of common secret bit generation. Simultaneously, security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme can still guarantee security even in the sparse outdoor physical environment free of many reflectors.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.309-312
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• 2014

A novel compact pattern diversity slot antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth applications is presented. This antenna consists of two modified coplanar waveguides that feed staircase-shaped radiating elements, wherein two different fork-like stubs are placed at the $45{\circ}$ axis. The measured results show that this proposed antenna operates from 2.3 GHz to 12.5 GHz, covering Bluetooth, WLAN, WiMAX, and UWB. The performance of radiation patterns and the corresponding envelope correlation coefficient prove this antenna is suitable for MIMO/diversity systems. Also, the antenna's compact size makes it a good candidate for portable devices.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.460-468
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• 2014

This paper addresses the problem of joint time of arrival (TOA) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in impulse radio ultra-wideband systems with a two-antenna receiver and links the joint estimation of TOA and DOA to the sparse representation framework. Exploiting this link, an orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm is used for TOA estimation in the two antennas, and then the DOA parameters are estimated via the difference in the TOAs between the two antennas. The proposed algorithm can work well with a single measurement vector and can pair TOA and DOA parameters. Furthermore, it has better parameter-estimation performance than traditional propagator methods, such as, estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques algorithms matrix pencil algorithms, and other new joint-estimation schemes, with one single snapshot. The simulation results verify the usefulness of the proposed algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.3557-3571
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• 2014

We develop a secret key generation scheme using phase estimation in ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless fading channels. Based on the reciprocity theorem, two terminals extract the phase of the channel as a common random source to generate secret bits. Moreover, we study the secret key rate by a pair of nodes observing correlated sources and communicating to achieve secret key agreement over public communication channels. As our main results, we establish a more practical upper bound from Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) and compare it with a universally theoretical upper bound on the shared maximum key rate from mutual information of correlated random sources. Derivation and numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the bound. Simulation studies are also provided to validate feasibility and efficiency of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.194-204
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• 2006

This contribution focuses on the maximum likelihood (ML) noncoherent synchronization of multi-antenna transceivers working in faded environments and employing ultra-wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) transmit technology. In particular, the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) is derived for the general case of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) UWB-IR systems and used to compare the ultimate performance of three basic transmit schemes, thereinafter referred to as single input multiple output (SIMO), MIMO equal signaling (MIMO-ES), and MIMO orthogonal signaling (MIMO-OS) ones. Thus, the noncoherent ML synchronizer is developed for the better performing transmit scheme (i.e., the SIMO one) and its performance is evaluated under both signal acquisition and tracking operating conditions. The performance gain in the synchronization of UWB- IR signals arising by the utilization of the multi-antenna technology is also evaluated.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2003년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.13 No.1
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• pp.229-233
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• 2003

In this paper we theoretically analyze the probability of error for M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple access system using Gaussian monopulse. The optimum detection of UWB signals using M-ary orthogonal PPM in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and multiple access interference (MAI) is considered, then receiver signal to noise power ratio (SNR) and upper bound fur the bit error rate (BER) are derived. Numerical results considering some practical parameters are presented.