• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.533-539
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• 2012

The performance analysis of wireless geolocation in a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environment is a very important issue. Since Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) determines the physical impossibility of the variance of an unbiased estimator being less than the bound, many studies presented the performance analysis in terms of CRLB. Several CRLBs for time-of-arrival (TOA), pseudo-range TOA, angle-of-arrival (AOA), and signal strength (SS) based positioning methods have been derived for NLOS environment. However, the performance analysis of time difference of arrival (TDOA) and TDOA/SS based geolocation techniques in a NLOS environment is still an opening issue. This paper derives the CRLBs of TDOA and TDOA/SS based positioning methods for NLOS environment. In addition, theoretical analysis proves that the derived CRLB for TDOA is the same as that of pseudo-range TOA and the TDOA/SS scheme has a lower CRLB than the TDOA (or SS) scheme.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2007년도 학술대회
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• pp.185-190
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• 2007

This article describes a development CDMA LBS in order to apply to "Control System of Underground Infrastructure Fire Accident" which one of U-City Projects of Seoul City. Our goal guides taking shelter of the sufferer it will not be able to use a GPS when the fire occurs from subway station. There are Location measurement methods which measures the AOA(Angle of Arrival) of the signal which it sends with the MS(Mobile station) from the BS(Base station), an electronic delivery time (TOA:Time of Arrival) and the relative difference of electronic arrival time from Base stations (TDOA:Time Difference of Arrival). This time the error due to a multiplex course error and near-far problem and NLOS(Non Line of Sight). We are planning to construct the Test Bed which is an error below 1 meter.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권11C호
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• pp.949-954
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• 2008

타원형 산란 무선 채널 환경에서 고속 단거리 옥내 무선 통신용 초광대역 수신기의 입력에 클러스터 형태로 도착하는 신호의 도착 방향을 추정하기 위해 새로 초광대역 신호 모형을 제안한다. 추정 기법은 일반적인 다중신호분류 기법을 변경한 알고리즘이며, 제안된 추정 기법을 초광대역 신호 모형에 적용하여 두 종류의 매개변수인 신호 도착방향 변수와 퍼짐 변수를 얻는다. 제안한 신호 모형과 추정 기법은 초광대역 타원형 산란 무선 통신 환경 안에서 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 검증된다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.267-271
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 공간적 전파전파 특성을 고려한 MIMO 안테나에 적용한 OFDM 전송 채널 모형을 사용하여, 채널의 에르고딕 용량을 계산하고 그 특성에 대해 논의한다. 특히 3GPP TR 25.966 V6.1.0에 정의되어 있는 case I의 LOS off 채널의 에르고딕 용량을 구하고, 클러스터 각 퍼짐과 도착 각도(Angle Of Arrival: AOA)의 차이에 따른 채널 용량 변화를 고찰한다. 연구 결과 클러스터 각 퍼짐의 증가에 따라 채널 용량이 증가하며, 35도 이상에서는 큰 증가가 없는 것을 볼 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.603-608
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• 2007

In the conventional AOA(angle-of-arrival) positioning utilizing reverse-link wireless channel, each sensor should be equipped with an array antenna to measure the incident angle of signal transmitting from a tag. To perform the complicated signal processing for angle measurements, sensor size and its power consumption will be large. In some applications like mobile robot location, there exists no strict restriction in tag size or in power consumption. Rather, it is desirable that the sensor would be as small as possible. This paper presents a new AOA positioning method utilizing forward-link channel. Under the assumption that the mobile robot is operating on the flat surface, the measurement model for FLAOA(tiJrward-link AOA) is derived first. Two kinds of position estimation algorithms using FLAOA measurements are proposed; Gauss-Newton method and closed-fonn solution method. With the proposed methods, we can ohtain the attitude of robot as well as its position. Positioning performance of proposed methods is compared by computer simulation. Simulation results show that the closed-form solution method using FLAOA measurements is suitable for indoor robot positioning.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.61-71
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• 2018

Existing radio positioning systems have a drawback that the attitude of user's tag is difficult to be determined. Although forward link angle of arrival (FLAOA) technology that uses measurements of array antenna arranged in a tag among the angle of arrival (AOA) technologies can estimate attitude and positioning of tags, it cannot extend the estimated results into three-dimensional (3D) results due to complex non-linear model displayed because of the effects of 3D positioning and attitude in tags. This paper proposed a radio navigation technique that determines 3D attitude and positioning via FLAOA / time of arrival (TOA) integration. According to the order of determining attitude and positioning, two integration techniques were proposed. To analyze the performance of the proposed technique, MATLAB-based simulations were used to verify the performance. The simulation results showed that the first proposed method, TOA-FLAOA integrated technique, showed about 0.15 m of positioning error, and $2-3^{\circ}$ of attitude error performances regardless of the positioning space size whereas the second method, differenced FLAOA-TOA integrated technique, revealed a problem that a positioning error became larger as the size of the positioning space became larger.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.181-185
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an angle-of-arrival (AoA)-based local positioning system using a time-modulated array (TMA). The proposed system can determine a two-dimensional position using only two TMAs without any synchronization between the two receivers. The hardware for the proposed system consists of two commercial monopole antennas, a self-designed switch, and a well-known software-defined radio receiver. Furthermore, the location can be simply estimated in real time without the need for complicated positioning algorithms such as the MUSIC and ESPRIT algorithms. In order to evaluate the performance of our system, we estimated the position of the wireless node in an office environment. The position was estimated with a mean error of less than 0.1 m. We therefore believe that our system is appropriate for various wireless local positioning applications.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2021

The Angle-of-Arrival (AOA) estimation in real time is one of core technologies for the real-time tracking system, such as a radar or a satellite. Although AOA estimation algorithms for various antenna types have been studied, most of them are for the single-shaped array antenna suitable to the specific frequency. In this paper, we propose the cascade AOA estimation algorithm for the combined array antenna with Uniform Rectangular Frame Array (URFA) and Uniform Circular Array (UCA), with the excellent performance for various frequencies. The proposed technique is consisted of Capon for roughly finding AOA groups with multiple signal AOAs and Beamspace Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) for estimating the detailed signal AOA in the AOA group, for the combined array antenna. In addition, we provide computer simulation results for verifying the estimation performance of the proposed algorithm.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1564-1571
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• 2022

Wireless sensor network(WSN) is being used in various fields such as reconnaissance, echelon scale identification, weather observation, etc. using small sensors in an environment without a network infrastructure environment. In addition, WSN uses limited battery power, so study on routing protocols to extend the lifetime of the network is important. PEGASIS, a hierarchical routing protocol, accounts for the majority of energy-efficient routing protocol studies and is well known as a representative protocol. In this study, based on PEGASIS, we propose a protocol that constructs multiple chains rather than one chain using the AoA of nodes. The proposed protocol has the advantage of reducing the transmission distance of nodes and eliminating unnecessary transmissions, thereby increasing energy efficiency compared to the existing protocols.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권5A호
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• pp.284-293
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• 2003

Location Service는 주로 위성을 이용한 GPS 방법에 의해 이루어진다. 그러나 스마트안테나를 쓰는 차세대이동통신시스템에서는 신호도착방향(DOA: Direction Of Arrival) 추정기법을 써서 Location Service가 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 차세대이동통신시스템에서 Location Service를 위한 DOA 추정기법에 관해 연구하고 타당성을 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 알아본다. 먼저, 직교하는 수직$.$수평 배열처리기를 써서 퍼진신호원의 DOA 추정문제를 다룬다. 수직배열처리기에서 수직 방향의 DOA를 추정한 다음 수평배열처리기에서 순차적으로 수평방향의 DOA를 추정한다. 다음으로, 3개의 스마트안테나를 이용하여 특정 신호원의 Location Service를 수행하는 과정을 컴퓨터 모의실험으로 보임으로서 제안된 DOA 추정기법이 차세대 이동통신시스템에서 Location Service를 위해 쓰일 수 있다는 타당성을 고찰한다.