• ETRI Journal
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.379-386
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• 2003

This paper presents the design of a narrow-band channel filter and its group-delay equalizer for a Ka-band satellite transponder. We used an 8th order channel filter for high selectivity with an elliptic-integral function response and an inline configuration. We designed a 2-pole, reflection-type, group-delay equalizer to compensate for the steep variation of the group-delay at the output of the channel filter, keeping the thermal stability at ${\pm}7$ ns of group-delay variation at the band edges over 15-55$^{\circ}C$. We devised a new tuning technique using short-ended dummy cavities and used it for tuning both the filter and equalizer; this removes the necessity of additional tuning after the cavities are assembled. Through measurement, we demonstrate that the group-delay-equalized filter meets the equipment requirements and is appropriate for satellite input multiplexers.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.140-146
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• 2003

In this paper, the design of a channel filter and its group-delay-and-amplitude equalizer is carried out for the Ka-band satellite transponder subsystem. The 8th order dual-mode filter is employed for high selectivity around the band-edges with an elliptic-integral function response and has an in-line configuration. The 2-pole, reflection-type, group-delay equalizer is designed and manufactured to reduce the group-delay and amplitude variation, which can be large for such a high order filter. It is noted that in both the filter and equalizer, adopting the dual-mode coupling mechanism leads to less mass and volume. Through measurement, the performance of the realized group-delay-equalized filter is shown to meet the equipment requirements and to be appropriate for the satellite input multiplexer.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1444-1454
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• 2000

The implementation of IF group delay equalizer and its performance are presented for radio relay system applications, and measured results are in good agreement with the simulated ones based upon analytical formulations. For waveguide filter of 40㎒ channel spacing, equalized delay accuracy of about +/- 2.0nsec can be obtained only by constructing 4 stage delay circuits, which provides good performance in system BER curves compared with no filter case, and the difference is less than 1.0㏈ at $10^{-12}$ BER. So this scheme with simple hardware design can be used for correcting the distorted group delays mainly caused by wavegiude filters. To evaluate the designed group delay equalizer, various simulated and experimental results are shown here in conjunction with STM-1 signal of co-channel 64-QAM digital radio relay system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.10
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• pp.895-902
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel equalizer to compensate for the group delay including AM/PM nonlinear distortion characteristics by the nonlinear power amplifier (PA). The group delay characteristic is a nonlinear non-constant time delay that appears differently depending on each frequency component. The phase distortion by AM/PM characteristics arising from the power amplifier is a major factor to increase group delay. By the group delay distortion, the signal in the constellation expands and is rotated. Considering the problem mentioned above, the nonlinear time delay that appears differently depending on each frequency component is classified as a static group delay and AM/PM characteristic of PA, the different phase transitions depending on the size of input signal as a dynamic group delay. Static group delay estimates and compensate for phase distortions in the frequency domain with type-based method and dynamic group delay compensates for phase rotation in the time domain. We confirmed that the group delay compensation techniques were enough to compensate the group delay characteristics including AM/PM characteristics of the power amplifier.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.76-80
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• 1992

We consider the tapped-delay line (TDL) equalizer with the few calculation quantity and the simplity, the decision feedback equalizer (DFE) with the good property for interference, and lattice equalizer(LE) with high insensitivity to roundoff noise in mobile communication fading channel. The used adaptive algorithm is the LMS algorithm and RLS algorithm. In this paper, we have evaluated the performance of the TDL equalizer, the decision feedback equalizer, and lattice-structured equalizer, for the digital signal corrupted by the impulsive noise and the white gaussian noise under the fading channel environment. From the results of error performance analysis, it is confirmed that lattice-structured equalizer has better performance than DFE equalizer and TDL equalizer.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.775-780
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• 2004

This paper describes the realization of the Ka-band group-delay equalized filter desisted with the help of a new hybrid method of Simulated Annealing(SA) and Conjugate Gradient(CG), to be employed by the multi-channel Input Multiplexer for a satellite use, each channel of which comprises a channel filter and a group-delay equalizer. The SA and CG find circuit parameters of an 8th order elliptic function filter and a 2-pole equalizer, respectively. Measurement results demonstrate that the performances of the designed component meet the specifications, and validate the design methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.1E
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• pp.89-94
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• 1996

This paper deals with the application of the LMS algorithm as a decision-directed adaptive equalizer in a communication receiver which also employs a sophisticated decoding scheme such as the Viterbi algorithm, in which the desired signal, hence the error, is not available until several symbol intervals later because of decoding delay. In such applications the implemented weight updating algorithm becomes DLMS and major penalty is reduced convergence speed. Therefore, every effort should by made to keep the delay as small as possible if it is not avoidable. In this paper we present a modified implementation in which the effects of the decoding delay can be avioded and perform some computer simulations to check the validity and the performance of the new implementation.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.637-641
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• 2012

In this paper, the method that reduce a computation time by optimizing computation process is proposed to realize low-power underwater acoustic communication system. At first, dependency of decision delay on tap length of linear equalizer was investigated. Variance is calculated based on this result, and the optimal decision delay bound is estimated. In addition to decide optimal tap length with decision delay, we extracted the MSE(Mean Square Error) graph. From the graph, we obtained variance value of the MSE-decision delay, and estimated the optimum decision delay range from the variance value. Also, using the extracted optimal parameters, we performed a simulation. According to the result, the simulation employing optimal tap length, which is only 40% of maximum tap length, showed a satisfactory performance comparable to simulation employing maximum tap length. We verified that the proposed method has 33% lower tap length than maximal tap length via sea trial.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.328-336
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• 2006

A novel pre-equalization method for terrestrial DTV transmitters is presented. A pre-equalizer has been used in transmitters to correct group delay and amplitude distortions caused by a channel filter. In the proposed pre-equalizer, an equation-error adaptive IIR filtering scheme is adopted unlike the conventional pre-equalization using FIR filtering schemes. The pole-zero modelling property of IIR filters improves the signal-to-noise ratio and may deal with diverse linear distortions existing in DTV transmitters as well as the channel filter distortion. Simulation results show that the proposed IIR pre-equalizer performs better than the FIR pre-equalizer in terms of the residual mean-square error.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.600-607
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• 2007

In the next generation mobile multimedia communications, the broad band shot-burst transmissions are used to reduce end-to-end transmission delay, and to limit the time variation of wireless channels over a burst. However, training overhead is very significant for such short burst formats. So, the availability of the short training sequence and the fast converging adaptive algorithm is essential in the system adopting the symbol-by-symbol adaptive equalizer. In this paper, we propose an adaptive equalizer using the DWMT (discrete multi-wavelet transform) and LMS (least mean square) adaptation. The proposed equalizer has a faster convergence rate than that of the existing transform-domain equalizers, while the increase of computational complexity is very small.