• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.1
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• pp.133-143
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• 1996

The constant modulus algorithm (CMA), one of the widely used blind equalization algorithms, equalizes channels using the second-order statistic of equalizer outputs. The performance of the CMA for multi-level signals such as the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal degrades because the CMA maps all signal power onto a single modulus. in this paper, to improve the equalization performance of a QAM system, we propose a shell partitioning method based on error magnitude. We assume the probability distribution of an equalizer output as Gaussian, and obtain decision boundaries by maximum likelihood estimation based on the fact that the distribution of the equalizer output power is noncentral $x^2$. The proposed CMA constructs a multi-moduli equlization system based on the fact that each shell separated by decision boundaries employs a single modulus. Computer simulation results for 32-QAM and 64-QAM show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.121-127
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• 2010

This paper relates with the improved CMA blind adaptive equalization algorithm which uses the constellation matching method that improve the inverse modelling efficiency of a communication channel compared to the present CMA blind adaptive equalizer. The amplitude distortion can be compensated in the present CMA blind adaptive equalizer which is used for the reduction of intersymbol interference by distortion that generate such as a band limited wireless mobile channel, but in the improved adaptive alogorithm operates with the minimize the amplitude phase distortion in the output of equalizer by applying the cost function that is composition of additional signal constellation matching error terms. In order to evaluation of the inverse modeling efficiency of improved algorithm, the residual intersymbol interference and recovered signal constellation were compared by computer simulation. As a result of comparion of computer simulation, the improved algorithm has a good stability in the residual intersymbol interference in the steady state, but it has a slow convergence rate in the adaptation state in initial state.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.92-100
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a novel blind digital watermarking method based on a cellular automata transform (CAT). CAT is based on dynamic systems known as cellular automata(CA) and uses transform bases which are differently defined by a rule number, the number of neighbors, the number of cells, and an initial state, etc. The proposed CAT based method is compared with a blind watermarking method based on DWT which is commonly used for a domain transform in signal processing. We analyse properties on changes of DWT coefficients and CAT coefficients under various attacks and determine optimal parameters for a watermarking method robust to attacks. The simulations show that the watermarked images with high PSNR and MSSIM look visually identical to originals and are robust against most of typical image processing attacks. Moreover, the proposed CAT based watermarking method is superior to the DWT based one in robustness to most of typical image processing attacks including JPEG compression, median and average filtering, scaling, cropping, and histogram equalization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.597-604
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• 1994

In this paper, the "Stop-and-GO" algorithm is applied to the PRS(Partial Response Signal) type signaling. Stop-and-GO blind equalizer has a property of stopping the adaptation of its tab coefficients by means of a simples flag telling the equalizer whether the current output error with respect to decided symbol is sufficiently reliable to be used. PRS has the rule os level transition, which makes it possible that the level of currently received symbol is in the adjacent levels of the previously received symbol. New nonlinear estimators for PRS, based on the rule of level transition, is proposed. The computer simulation results show the improvement in performance achievable with proposed nonlinear estimators.stimators.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.883-900
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• 2017

In this paper block based blind secure gray image watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transform and singular value decomposition is proposed. In devising the proposed scheme, security is given high importance along with other two requirements: robustness and imperceptibility. The use of discrete wavelet transform not only improves robustness but the selection of bands with high tolerance towards noise caused an improvement in terms of imperceptibility. The robustness further improved due to the involvement of singular vectors along with singular values in watermark embedding and extraction process. Finally, to achieve security, the selected DWT band is decomposed into smaller blocks and random blocks are chosen for modification. Furthermore, the elements of left and right singular vectors of selected blocks are chosen based on their dependence upon each other for watermark embedding. Various experiments using different images as host and watermark were conducted to examine and validate the proposed technique. Additionally, the proposed technique is tested against various attacks like compression, affine transformation, cropping, translation, X shearing, scaling, Y shearing, filtering, blurring, different kinds of noises, histogram equalization, rotation, etc. Lastly, the proposed technique is compared with state-of-the-art watermarking techniques and their comparison shows significant improvement of proposed scheme over existing techniques.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.4
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• pp.318-324
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• 2013

For blind channel equalization, the reliability of signal estimate determines the convergence speed and steady-state performance of the equalizer. Therefore the nonlinear estimator and reference signal being used in signal estimate should be chosen appropriately. In this paper, to increase the reliability of the signal estimate, two errors were obtained by applying coarse signal points and dense signal points respectively to signal estimate, the relative reliabilities of two errors were calculated, then the equalizer was adapted deferentially utilizing the reliabilities. At this point, by applying two errors alternately, two modes of operation were smoothly combined. Through computer simulations the proposed method was confirmed to achieve fast transient state convergence and low steady-state error compared to traditional methods.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.229-232
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• 2000

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) has meanwhile become part of several telecommunicati ons standards, such as satellite and terrestrial digital audio broadcasting(DAB), digital terrestrial TV broad casting(DVB), asymmetric digital subscriber line(ADSL) for high-bit-rate digital subscriber services on twisted-pair channels, and broadband indoor wireless systems. In his paper, we show that OFDM signals contain sufficient structure to accomplish blind channel estimation using second order statistics only. This method doesn't require redundancy as cp in transmitter. And the result is compared with PSAM channel estimation as least square, linear minimum mean square, singular value decomposition.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.158-164
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• 2014

In indoor sensor networks equalization algorithms based on the minimization of Euclidean distance (MED) for the distributions of constant modulus error (CME) have yielded superior performance in compensating for signal distortions induced from optical fiber links, wireless-links and for impulsive noise problems. One main drawback of MED-CME algorithms is a heavy computational burden hindering its implementation. In this paper, a recursive gradient estimation for weight updates of the MED-CME algorithm is proposed for reducing the operations $O(N^2)$ of the conventional MED-CME to O(N) at each iteration time for N data-block size. From the simulation results of the proposed recursive method producing exactly the same results as the conventional method, the proposed estimation method can be considered to be a reliable candidate for implementation of efficient receivers in indoor sensor networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.776-783
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• 2001

통신 채널에서 블라인드 채널 등화는 훈련신호나 채널의 사전 정보가 필요하지 않기 때문에 전송 효율을 높일 수 있는 매우 중요한 문제이다. 선형 예측 오차 방법은 블라인드 등화기의 차수 추정 오차에 대하여 강인하며 적응 알고리듬을 이용하여 효율적으로 구현할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 시스템 지연은 등화기의 성능에 많은 영향을 끼치지만 기존의 one-step 선형 예측은 등화기의 임의의 시스템 지연에 대해서는 구현할 수 없는 단점이 있다. 순방향 선형 예측과 역방향 선형 예측은 각각 시스템 지연이 0과 최대인 블라인드 등화와 관련이 있다. 그러나 Multistep 예측은 임의의 시스템 지연을 갖는 블라인드 등화기를 구현할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 최적의 시스템 지연을 구한 후 RLS 알고리듬과 LMS 알고리듬을 이용한 multistep 선형 예측을 이용한 블라인드 채널 등화기를 제안하였다. 그리고 기존의 알고리듬들과 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리듬의 성능을 모의실험을 통하여 기존의 알고리듬들과 비교·평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.553-555
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• 2001

블라인드 등화기법은 별도의 훈련신호없이 효율적인 데이터 전송을 위한 등화기 탭 수정을 수행하는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 이중 모드를 갖는 SCS-MMA 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 CMA와 MMA 기법들은 자승평균 오차함수(mean squared error function)를 기반으로 하는 포물선을 이루지 않는 비용함수를 사용하므로, 부적절한 국부 최소값으로 수렴할 수 있다. 제안하는 방법은 정규화된 MMA 등화 방법을 기반으로 수렴 속도의 개선과 요구되지 않은 국부 최소값으로의 수렴진행을 방지위해 SCS(soft constraint satisfaction) 알고리듬을 구현하였다. 또한, 입력 신호에 신뢰도를 주어 결정지향 알고리듬으로 자동 전환하는 방법을 적용한다. 이를 통해, 보다 빠른 수렴과 정상상태에서 결정지향 알고리듬에서와 같은 평균 오차값을 보장할 수 있다. 실험 결과 제안된 알고리듬이 기존의 방법들보다 수렴속도와 안정성에 있어 우수한 성능을 갖음을 볼 수 있다.