• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.254-259
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• 2020

Phased-array antennas comprise a demanding antenna design methodology for commercial wireless communication systems or military radar systems. In addition to these two important applications, the phased-array antennas can be used in beamforming for wireless charging. In this study, a four-way analog beamforming front-end module (FEM) for a hybrid beamforming system is developed for 2.4 GHz operation. In a hybrid beamforming scheme, an analog beamforming FEM in which the phase and amplitude of RF signal can be adjusted between the RF chain and phased-array antenna is required. With the beamforming and beam steering capability of the phased-array antennas, wireless RF power can be transmitted with high directivity to a designated receiver for wireless charging. The four-way analog beamforming FEM has a 32 dB gain dynamic range and a phase shifting range greater than 360°. The maximum output RF power of the four-way analog beamforming FEM is 40 dBm (=10 W) when combined the four individual RF paths are combined.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.364-373
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose combined relay selection and cooperative beamforming schemes for physical layer security. Generally, high operational complexity is required for cooperative beamforming withmultiple relays because of the required information exchange and synchronization among the relays. On the other hand, while it is desirable to reduce the number of relays participating in cooperative beamforming because of the associated complexity problem, doing so may degrade the coding gain of cooperative beamforming. Hence, we propose combined relay selection and cooperative beamforming schemes, where only two of the available relays are selected for beamforming and data transmission. The proposed schemes introduce a selection gain which partially compensates for the decrease in coding gain due to limiting the number of participating relays to two. Both the cases where full and only partial channel state information are available for relay selection and cooperative beamforming are considered. Analytical and simulation results for the proposed schemes show improved secrecy capacities compared to existing physical layer security schemes employing cooperative relays.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권11호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2016

잠수함 정숙화 기술의 발달로 대잠 소나의 탐지성능 향상이 요구되고 있다. 이와 같은 성능향상의 필요성에 의해 소나체계에 널리 쓰이는 일반적인 빔형성 기법(CBF : Conventional BeamForming)보다 성능이 뛰어난 적응 빔형성(ABF : Adaptive BeamForming) 기법이 대체 알고리즘으로 검토되고 있다. 소나 체계에 적응 빔형성기를 적용하여 성능향상을 도모하기 위해서는 적응 빔형성 기법의 체계 적용성이 검증되어야 하는데 이를 위해서는 체계 적용성을 측정하기 위한 성능지표가 정립되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 적응 빔형성기와 일반적인 빔형성기의 추적 개시(Tracking initiation) 확률을 산출하여 두 기법의 성능을 정량화하여 적응 빔형성기의 체계 적용성을 검토하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.179-190
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 일반 빔형성, 적응 빔형성, 압축센싱을 이용하여 도래각을 추정한다. 이때, 적응 빔형성으로 Minimum Variance Distortionless Response(MVDR)과 Multiple Signal Classification(MUSIC)을 사용하였고, 압축 빔형성(compressive sensing beamforming)을 위해 무격자 압축센싱(grid-free compressive sensing)을 적용하였다. 앞서 언급한 각 기법들의 이론적 배경 및 한계점을 소개하고 모의실험 및 실제 실험을 통해 각 기법의 성능을 비교하였다. 실제 실험은 반사 신호가 존재하는 환경에서 수행하였으며, 2대의 스피커를 통해 음원을 송신하고 8대의 마이크로폰을 사용한 선배열을 통해 데이터를 수신하였다. 모의실험 및 실제 실험 결과를 통해 상관신호가 존재하지 않을 때, 적응 빔형성과 무격자 압축 빔형성이 일반 빔형성보다 고해상도의 결과를 보임을 확인하였다. 반면, 반사 신호가 존재하는 환경에서 적응 빔형성의 성능이 저하되지만, 무격자 압축 빔형성의 경우 반사 신호의 영향을 받지 않고 일반 빔형성의 분해능이 개선됨을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권7호통권361호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 미래형 이동통신 시스템에서 셀 경계와 같이 반송파대간섭전력비 (Carrier-to-Interference Ratio; CIR)가 낮은 열악한 채널 환경에서 하향링크 실시간 트래픽의 전송 성능 개선을 위한 안테나 선택을 이용한 Grassmannian Beamforming 기반의 MIMO-OFDMA (Multi Input Multi Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) 시스템을 본 저자들은 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 Beamforming 적용으로 인한 상향링크로의 과도한 궤환 정보량이 시스템 주파수 효율 성능을 떨어뜨리는 문제점을 보완하기 위해 Codebook 기반의 Grassmannian Beamforming을 적용하고, 이와 더불어 기지국의 모든 송신 안테나를 사용하지 않고 특정 안테나만을 사용하여 Codebook Size를 줄이면서도 주파수 효율 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 안테나 선택 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 Beamforming을 수행하기 위해 최대 MRT(Maximum Ratio Transmission) 이득을 가지는 최적의 송신 안테나 조합이 선택된다. 모의실험 결과, 제안된 시스템은 기지국의 모든 안테나를 사용하여 Beamforming을 수행한 경우보다 향상된 주파수 효율 성능을 보이며, 상향링크의 궤환 정보량을 감안하더라도 Pseudo-Orthogonal Space Time Block Code를 사용하는 전형적인 개방루프형 MIMO-OFDMA 시스템에 비해 낮은 CIR 영역에서 월등히 개선된 주파수 효율 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.501-510
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• 2016

Capabilities of several beamforming techniques are compared for estimating the position of a moving source. Beamforming has enabled to widen our perspective of aeroacoustics in wind tunnel experiments and has provided useful approach in array measurements. Meanwhile beamforming techniques have been developed in a way to improve estimation accuracy and to save ing effort at the same time. In order to achieve reasonable outcome from aeroacoustic measurement, it is important to identify the spectral characteristics of source and to select an appropriate beamformer. Though aeroacoustic sources normally generates broadband noises, many array signal processing have been focused on narrowband processing which makes calculation numerically efficient. However, calculation in frequency-domain requires selection of single frequency of interest which affects spatial resolution and sidelobe level as a consequence. To be able to localize broadband noise source, it is proposed to use broadband beamforming. The formulas implements the deletion of diagonal term from cross spectral matrix. In this study, trajectory of flying source emitting broadband noise was simulated and several beamformers are applied.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.164-169
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• 2005

Microphone array techniques are being used widely in wind tunnel measurements for identification of the distributed aerodynamic noise sources on the model being tested. Depending on the frequencies and sound levels, conventional beamforming algorithm has limitation in separating two adjacent sources. Several modifications to the classical beamforming have been developed to enhance way resolution and reduce sidelobe levels. In this Paper the robust adaptive beamforming and the CLEAN algorithm are used to compare to the result of conventional beamforming method. It is found that the CLEAN algorithm is capable of pin-pointing locations of multiple sources nearby, while these sources are unidentifiable with robust adaptive or conventional beamforming techniques.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.221-231
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• 2021

To resolve energy depletion issues in massive Internet of Things sensor networks, we developed a set of distributed energy beamforming methods with one-bit feedback and clustering for multi-node wireless energy transfer, where multiple singleantenna distributed energy transmitters (Txs) transfer their energy to multiple nodes wirelessly. Unlike previous works focusing on distributed information beamforming using a single energy receiver (Rx) node, we developed a distributed energy beamforming method for multiple Rx nodes. Additionally, we propose two clustering methods in which each Tx node chooses a suitable Rx node. Furthermore, we propose a fast distributed beamforming method based on Tx sub-clustering. Through computer simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed distributed beamforming method makes it possible to transfer wireless energy to massive numbers of sensors effectively and rapidly with small implementation complexity. We also analyze the energy harvesting outage probability of the proposed beamforming method, which provides insights into the design of wireless energy transfer networks with distributed beamforming.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2018

This paper proposes a pseudo-random beamforming technique for time-synchronized mobile base stations (BSs) for multi-cell downlink networks which have mobility. The base stations equipped with multi-antennas and mobile stations (MSs) are time-synchronized based on global positioning system (GPS) signals and generate a number of transmit beamforming matrix candidates according to the predetermined pseudo-random pattern. In addition, MSs generate receive beamforming vectors that correspond to the beam index number based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) using transmit beamforming vectors that make up a number of transmit beamforming matrices and wireless channel matrices from BSs estimated via the reference signals (RS). Afterward, values of received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) with regard to all transmit beamforming vectors are calculated, and the resulting values are then feedbacked to the BS of the same cells along with the beam index number. Each of the BSs calculates each of the sum-rates of the transmit beamforming matrix candidates based on the feedback information and then transmits the calculated results to the BS coordinator. After this, optimum transmit beamforming matrices, which can maximize a sum-rate of the entire cells, are selected at the BS coordinator and informed to the BSs. Finally, data signals are transmitted using them. The simulation results verified that a sum-rate of the entire cells was improved as the number of transmit beamforming matrix candidates increased. It was also found that if the received SINR values and beam index numbers are feedbacked opportunistically from each of the MSs to the BSs, not only nearly the same performance in sum-rate with that of applying existing feedback techniques could be achieved but also an amount of feedback was significantly reduced.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.145-153
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• 2019

적응빔형성 기법은 부엽을 줄이고 약한 신호에 대한 탐지 성능을 향상시킨다. MVDR(Minimum Variance Distortionless Response)과 같은 일반적인 적응빔형성 기법은 설계한 가중벡터와 실제 입사신호의 조향벡터의 불일치에 대해 매우 민감하다. 또한 센서 수가 많은 어레이를 이용하여 광대역 적응빔형성을 할 경우 공분산행렬을 산출하기 위해 긴 관측시간과 많은 연산량이 요구된다. 본 논문은 센서 수가 많은 수동 선배열 소나의 광대역 적응빔형성 성능향상 및 안정성을 위해 WBRCB(Wideband Robust Capon Beamforming)를 적용하였다. 불일치 요소에 강인한 WBRCB 구현을 위해 다양한 불일치 요소를 반영하여 최적의 불일치 파라미터를 도출하였다. 도출된 파라미터를 반영한 WBRCB 기법을 시뮬레이션 및 실험데이터에 적용하여 수동 선배열 소나의 광대역 적응빔형성 성능 향상을 검증하였다.