• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.716-724
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• 2007

As ultra-wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) uses short-duration impulse signals of nanoseconds, even a small number of timing errors can cause a detrimental effect on system performance. A delay-locked loop (DLL) is proposed to synchronize and reduce timing errors. The design of the DLL is vital for UWB systems. In this paper, an improved DLL is introduced to a UWB-IR time-hopping spread-spectrum system. Instead of using only two central correlator branches as in a conventional DLL, the proposed system uses two additional correlator branches with different delay parameters and different weight parameters. The performance of the proposed schemes with the optimal parameters is compared with that of traditional schemes through simulation: the proposed four-branch DLLs achieves less tracking jitter or a longer mean time to lose lock (MTLL) than the conventional two-branch DLLs if proper parameters are chosen.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권1C호
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• pp.102-108
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 UWB(Ultra Wide Band) 다중 경로 채널에서 PRAKE(Partial RAKE) 기법을 이용한 시간 도약 다원 접속 시스템의 간섭 제거 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 간섭 제거 기법은 다중 사용자 간섭(MAI)의 효율적인 추정을 위하여 매 프레임마다 보호 구간을 적용하는 기존의 전송 방식과 달리 슬롯 단위의 보호 구간을 적용한 전송 모델을 사용한다. 일반적인 UWB 시스템이 다중 경로 채널 환경에서 심볼 간 간섭(ISI)과 다중 사용자 간섭에 의하여 사용자의 수에 따라 심각한 성능의 저하를 가져오는 반면, 제안된 간섭 제거 기법을 적용한 UWB 시스템은 사용자 수에 관계없이 일정한 성능을 보인다. 또한 시스템의 복잡도를 줄이기 위하여 본 논문에서는 간섭을 제거한 신호에 대한 PRAKE 결합 기법과 부분 사용자 간섭 제거를 이용한 저 복잡도 간섭 제거 기법을 제안한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.237-239
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• 2007

Interference from IEEE 802.11a systems affects ultra-wideband (UWB) systems significantly. In this letter, we suggest a novel narrow-band interference (NBI) suppression technique based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm in time-hopping pulse amplitude modulation (TH-PAM) UWB systems. The SVD algorithm is used to approximate the interference which then is subtracted from the received signals. In contrast to the conventional notch filter and rake receiver, our method is more effective and the receiver complexity can be greatly reduced.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2009

This paper aims at designing an impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transceiver, especially targeting the IEEE 802.15.4a indoor ranging and communication systems. We first investigate the IEEE 802.15.4a IR-UWB signals and suggest the full-digital transceiver architecture accordingly. Since the wireless systems equipped with the impulse signal have the property of low-duty cycle, i.e., discontinuity in time, while the conventional systems takes the continuous signals, it is required to reconfigure the system design, including link budget. Following brief introduction to our IEEE 802.15.4a IR-UWB system hardware, we finally examine the ranging performance in indoor environments to verify our system design.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.139-143
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• 2023

In this article we propose using mathematical models of signals in wireless communication systems with autocorrelation reception of modulated ultra-wideband signals. For the transmission of information content, the method of positional-time coding is used, in which each information bit is encoded by hundreds of ultrashort pulses that arrive within a certain sequence. Comparative analysis has shown that the best noise immunity of the systems considered in this paper is the communication system, which uses the time separation of the reference and information signals.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.757-766
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• 2013

This paper deals with the estimation of the time of arrival (TOA) of ultra-wideband signals under IEEE 802.15.4a channel models. The proposed approach is based on a randomness test and consists of determining whether an autoregressive (AR) process modeling an energy frame is random or not by using a distance to measure the randomness. The proposed method uses a threshold that is derived analytically according to a preset false alarm probability. To highlight the effectiveness of the developed approach, simulation setups as well as real data experiments are conducted to assess the performance of the new TOA estimation algorithm. Thereby, the proposed method is compared with the cell averaging constant false alarm rate technique, the threshold comparison algorithm, and the technique based on maximum energy selection with search back. The obtained results are promising, considering both simulations and collected real-life data.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2012

In this paper, we analyze and simulate performance of space time block coded (STBC) binary pulse amplitude modulation-direct sequence (BPAM-DS) ultra-wideband (UWB) systems with double binary turbo code in indoor environments for various ubiquitous healthcare (u-healthcare) applications. Indoor wireless channel is modeled as a modified Saleh and Valenzuela (SV) model proposed as a UWB indoor channel model by the IEEE 802.15.SG3a in July 2003. In the STBC encoding process, an Alamouti algorithm for real-valued signals is employed because UWB signals have the type of real signal constellation. It is assumed that the transmitter has knowledge about channel state information. From simulation results, it is shown that the STBC scheme does not have an influence on improving bit error probability performance of the BPAM-DS UWB systems. It is also confirmed that the results of this paper can be applicable for u-healthcare applications.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권12A호
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• pp.1177-1184
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• 2008

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation can severely weaken the accuracy of ranging and localization in wireless location systems. NLOS bias mitigation techniques have recently been proposed to relieve the NLOS effects, but positively rely on the capability to accurately distinguish between LOS and NLOS propagation scenarios. This paper proposes an energy-capture-based NLOS identification method for LDR-UWB systems, based on the analysis of the characteristics of the channel impulse response (CIR). With this proposed energy capture method, the probability of successfully identifying NLOS is much improved than the existing methods, such as the kurtosis method, the strongest path compare method, etc. This NLOS identification method can be employed in adaptive modulation scheme to decrease bit error ratio (BER) level for certain signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The BER performance with the adaptive modulation can be significantly enhanced by selecting proper modulation method with the knowledge of channel information from the proposed NLOS identification method.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.125-130
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• 2004

지금까지의 UWB 안테나는 무지향성이면서 동시에 광대역을 만족하지 못했다. 하지만 UWB 통신채널 환경에서는 이러한 특성이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 UWB용 광대역 타원형 모노폴 안테나를 제안하였다. 광대역 특성을 갖는 평판형 모노폴 안테나는 최근 많이 연구되고 있으며 제안한 안테나는 10dB 기준으로 3.5GHz -12GHz의 주파수 밴드위스를 갖는다. 방사패턴은 3.5GHz - 10GHz까지 무지향성 특성을 보였다. 제안한 안테나는 마이크로 스트립 급전 구조와 타원형 모노폴 디스크로 구성되어 있으며 모노폴 디스크와 그라운드 사이의 높이는 정합을 결정 짖는 매우 중요한 변수이다. 제안한 안테나는 UWB 시스템에 적용이 가능할 것이다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 Impulse-radio-based Ultra Wideband (IR-UWB)를 이용한 에너지 검출 기반의 비동기 수신기에서 저사양의 ADC와 간단한 디지털 회로 만으로 이루어진 심벌 동기 획득(acquisition) 및 심벌 동기 추적(tracking) 방식을 제안한다. 기존의 심벌 동기 방식이 정확한 심벌 동기 '시점을 찾는 것에 초점을 맞추었다면, 제안하는 방식은 심벌 동기 '구간'을 찾아 그 구간 내에서 데이터를 판단함으로써 하드웨어 복잡성을 낮추었고, 전력 소모를 줄였다. 이를 위해 심벌 동기 구간에 해당하는 BDW (Bit Decision Window)를 정의하고 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio), 하드웨어 자원 및 BDW의 크기와 BER (Bit Error Rate)와의 관계를 분석하였다. 주어진 SNR과 하드웨어 자원으로 BER을 최소화하기 위한 BDW의 크기를 구한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 실제 임펄스 채널 특성을 고려하여 모의실험을 통하여 검증하였다.