• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.501-509
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• 2012

This paper proposes a joint timing synchronization, channel estimation, and data detection for the impulse radio ultra-wideband systems. The proposed timing synchronizer consists of coarse and fine timing estimation. The synchronizer discovers synchronization points in two stages and performs adaptive threshold based on the maximum pulse averaging and maximum (MAX-PA) method for more precise synchronization. Then, iterative channel estimation is performed based on the discovered synchronization points, and data are detected using the selective rake (S-RAKE) detector employing maximal ratio combining. The proposed synchronizer produces two signals-the start signal for channel estimation and the start signal for start frame delimiter (SFD) detection that detects the packet synchronization signal. With the proposed synchronization, channel estimation, and SFD detection, an S-RAKE receiver with binary pulse position modulation binary phase-shift keying modulation was constructed. In addition, an IEEE 802.15.4a channel model was used for performance comparison. The comparison results show that the constructed receiver yields high performance close to perfect synchronization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.11A
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• pp.1672-1681
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• 2000

초광대역 시간 도약 이전 임펄스 무전 전송 시스템의 성능 평가 1672 최근 들어 실내 무선 LAN(local area network)이나 군용 무선 통신 시스템을 위한 새로운 대역 확산 전송방식으로서 초광대역 시간 도약 임펄스 무선 전송(ultra wideband time hopping impulse radio; 이하 IR) 기술이 큰 관심을 모으고 있다. 신호 전송을 위해 연속적인 정현파를 이용하는 기존의 무선 전송 시스템과는 달리 IR 시스템은 1 nese 이하의 매우 짧은 펄스폭의 펄스 위치 변조(pulse position modulation)된 가우시안 모노사이클 멀스 열을 이용하므로서 매우 작은 크기의 수 GHz에 이르는 초광대역 스펙트럼을 가지며 기존의 통신 시스템에 거의 간섭을 미치지 않으며 사용 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 동기식 이진 (synchronous binary) IR 시스템의 성능 분석 및 평가 결과를 제시하고자 한다.이를 위해 의사 잡음 부호 발생기와 decimator로 구성된 시간 도약 패턴을 사용 하여 다원 접속 간섭 이 배제되는 동기식 이진 IR 시스템의 비트 오율에 대한 closed form 결과를 유도하고, 유도된 이론적인 성능 결과를 부가성 백색 가우시안 잡음 채널에 대한 모의 실험을 통해 확인하였다. 또한 모의 실험을 통해 상관 복조기에서 발행한 렌덤 타이밍 지터에 대해 IR 시스템의 강인한 특성을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.3A
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• pp.311-318
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• 2008

We propose new pulse shapes for FCC-compliant ultra-wideband (UWB) radios. The projections onto convex sets (POCS) technique is used to optimize temporal and spectral shapes of UWB pulses under the constraints of all of the desired UWB signal properties: efficient spectral utilization under the FCC spectral mask, time-limitedness, and good autocorrelation. Simulation results show that for all values of the pulse duration, the new pulse shapes not only meet the FCC spectral mask most efficiently, but also have nearly the same autocorrelation functions. It is also observed that our truncated (i.e., strictly time-limited) pulse shapes outperform the truncated Gaussian monocycle in the BER performance of binary TH-PPM systems for the same pulse durations. The POCS technique provides an effective method for designing UWB pulse shapes in terms of its inherent design flexibility and joint optimization capability.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.113-114
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• 2008

In this paper, binary pulse-position modulation (2PPM) time-hoping (TH) ultra-wideband (UWB) system is applied to multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system using vertical bell lab layered space-time (V-BLAST) structure to achieve high-data-rate communications. This UWB-MIMO system and its receivers are analyzed, and its BER performances are evaluated. In the receiver, various MIMO detection algorithms such as zero-forcing (ZF), ZF-ordered successive interference cancellation (OSIC), minimum-mean-square-error (MMSE), MMSE-OSIC and maximum likelihood (ML) are comparatively studied.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.7A
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• pp.682-687
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• 2010

The IEEE 802.15.4a specification targets the low-rate (LR) Impulse-radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) system which is now widely applied in the WPANs considering rather short distance communications with low complexity and power consumption. The physical (PHY) layer uses concatenated coding with mixed binary phase-shift keying and binary pulse-position modulation (BPSK-BPPM), and direct sequence spreading with time hopping in order that both coherent and non-coherent receiver architectures are supported. In this paper, the performances of multiple access schemes compliant with IEEE 802.15.4a specification are investigated with energy detection receiver, which allow avoiding the complex channel estimation needed by a coherent receiver. However, the performance of energy detection receiver is severely degraded by multi-user interference (MUI), which largely diminishes one of the most fascinating advantages of UWB, namely robustness to MUI as well as the possibility to allow parallel transmissions. So as to improve the performance of multiple access schemes, we propose to apply the novel TH sequences as well as to increase the number of TH positions. The simulation results show that our novel multiple access schemes significantly improve the performance against MUI.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.88-97
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• 2009

As the development of wireless techniques, transmission technology of body area network plays an important role in realizing a welfare society by combining IT and BT when applying to vehicles. Off-body WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network) systems for video data transmission require low battery consumption and high data rate. To satisfy the requirement, UWB has been considered as a promising candidate for high rate WBAN. This paper introduces an antenna selection technique for ultra-wideband based off-body WBAN system with low complexity. In this paper, we propose an antenna selection scheme using non-coherent receiver for off-body high data rate WBAN system. The proposed receiver antenna selection method takes advantage of the characteristic of BPPM (Binary Pulse Position Modulation). With the property of BPPM, this scheme calculates the approximate SNR of the received signal with non-coherent receiver.