• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.46-49
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• 2010

최근의 iterative detection and decoding (IDD) 기법에서의 soft 복호화방식은, log-likelihood ratio (LLR) 값의 신뢰도를 높이기 위해 기존의 구복호화 (sphere decoding) 방식보다는 리스트를 형성하는 구복호화방식 (list sphere decoding : LSD)이 대두되고 있다. 기존의 구복호화 방식과는 달리 리스트 구복호화 방식은 그 성능의 우수함에도 불구하고, 여러 격자 포인트들을 검출해야 하므로 신호대잡음비 (signal-to-noise ratio : SNR) 의 증가에 따른 복잡도의 이득을 거의 취할 수 없을 뿐만 아니라, 무엇보다 신뢰도가 높은 LLR 값을 얻는 데에 영향이 작은 포인트를 검출하는 경우도 생긴다는 점에서 비효율적인 측면이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 리스트 구복호화 검출방식의 효율성을 높이기 위해 LLR 값에 적은 영향을 미치는 격자 포인트들을 제거하는 방식에 대해 연구하였다. 본 연구의 목표는 MIMO 시스템에서의 기존의 리스트 구복호화 기법의 capacity와 실제 성능과 최대한 유사한 성능을 내면서도 그 복잡도를 현저히 줄이는 것이며, 구체적으로는 검출을 위한 초기 구반경의 최적화를 기반으로 한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.111-117
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• 2011

In this paper, the BER(Bit Error Rate) performance of a DVB-T2(Second Generation Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting System) in MISO(Multiple Input Single Output) transmission mode is evaluated by the computer simulation. In the DVB-T2 receiver, an IDD(Iterative Demapping and Decoder) technique is employed that exchanges extrinsic information between the demapper and the LDPC decoder. Simulation results show that the IDD-based DVB-T2 receiver in MISO transmission mode provides 2dB gain at BER of $10^{-4}$ but suffer from the frequency offsets between transmit antennas.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.939-947
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• 2010

The LDPC(Low-Density Parity-Check) code, which is one of the channel encoding methods in IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN standard, has superior error-correcting capabilities. Since the hardware complexity of LDPC decoder is high, it is very important to take into account the trade-offs between hardware complexity and decoding performance. In this paper, the effects of LLR(Log-Likelihood Ratio) approximation on the performance of MSA(Min-Sum Algorithm)-based LDPC decoder are analyzed, and some optimal design conditions are derived. The parity check matrix with block length of 1,944 bits and code rate of 1/2 in IEEE 802.11n WLAN standard is used. In the case of $BER=10^{-3}$, the $E_b/N_o$ difference between LLR bit-widths (6,4) and (7,5) is 0.62 dB, and $E_b/N_o$ difference for iteration cycles 6 and 7 is 0.3 dB. The simulation results show that optimal BER performance can be achieved by LLR bit-width of (7,5) and iteration cycle of 7.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.2A
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• pp.107-112
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• 2009

Spectral efficiency of current two-phase cooperative communications protocols is low since in the second time the relay forwards the same signal received from the source to the destination, the source keeps silent in this time. In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative communications protocol where the signal needed to transmit to the destination is sent in both phases, the source and the relay also transmit different signal to the destination thus no loss of spectral efficiency. This protocol performs signal selection based on log-likelihood ratio (LLR) at relay and maximum likelihood (ML) detection at destination. While existing protocols pay for a worse performance than direct transmission in the low SNR regime which is of special interest in ad hoc networks, ours is better over the whole range of SNR. In addition, the proposal takes advantages of bandwidth efficiency, long delay and interference among many terminals in ad hoc network. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol can significantly save total energy for wireless ad hoc networks.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.537-540
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 터보 디코더에 사용되는 MAP 알고리즘의 저전력 구조를 제안한다. 터보 디코더 알고리즘 중 하나인 MAP 알고리즘은 많은 메모리 사이즈와 복잡한 연산량을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 메모리 사이즈를 줄이기 위하여 두 번의 상태 천이(branch metric) 과정을 하나로 통합 계산하는 방식을 제안하였다. 제안된 방식으로 구한 상태 천이 값을 이용해서 FSM(Forward State Metric)값을 구하면 BM(branch metric)값이 다음 상태의 FSM에 포함되어지므로 APP(A Posteriori Probability)를 계산할 때 BM부분이 빠져 LLR(Log Likelihood Ratio)의 연산량을 줄일 수 있다. 실험결과 기존의 MAP 알고리즘과 동일 성능을 가지면서 MAP 알고리즘을 개선한 Pietrobon 알고리즘을 log-MAP 알고리즘에 적용하여 LLR 연산량을 비교했을 때 덧셈 연산을 반으로 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1280-1285
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• 2017

In this paper, we consider iterative soft-decision feedback equalizers (sDFE), a.k.a. turbo equalizers for single-carrier transmission. Turbo equalizer takes log-likelihood ratio (LLR) feedback from channel decoder and convert the LLR into symbol estimates and variances to be used for the LLR update at the sDFE. Specifically, we consider both time domain and frequency-domain sDFE and compare their performances. The results shows that frequency-domain sDFE performs better than time-domain one and also that considerable gain can be obtained especially when the channel has deep nulls.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1654-1665
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• 2008

This paper presents bit splitting methods to apply multilevel modulation to iterative codes such as turbo code, low density parity check code and turbo product code. Log-likelihood ratio method splits multilevel symbols to soft decision symbols using the received in-phase and quadrature component based on Gaussian approximation. However it is too complicate to calculate and to implement hardware due to exponential and logarithm calculation. Therefore this paper presents Euclidean, MAX, sector and center focusing method to reduce the high complexity of LLR method. Also, this paper proposes optimal soft symbol split method for three kind of iterative codes. Futhermore, 16-APSK modulator method with double ring structure for applying DVB-S2 system and 16-QAM modulator method with lattice structure for T-DMB system are also analyzed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.3C
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• pp.287-294
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• 2010

MB-OFDM UWB system will adopt LDPC codes to enhance the decoding performance with higher data rates. In this paper, we will consider algorithm and architecture of the LDPC codes in MB-OFDM UWB system. To suggest the hardware efficient LDPC decoder architecture, LLR(log-likelihood-ration) calculation algorithms and check node update algorithms are analyzed. And we proposed the architecture of LDPC decoder for the high throughput application of Wimedia UWB. We estimated the feasibility of the proposed architecture by implementation in a FPGA. The implementation results show our architecture attains higher throughput than other result of QC-LDPC case. Using this architecture, we can implement LDPC decoder for high throughput transmission, but it is 0.2dB inferior to the BP algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.1020-1023
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• 2011

In this paper, we present a symbol remapping method of BRGC M-ary QAM signal by using LLR soft bit decision information which is obtained after iterative decoding process. In order to reconstruct estimated transmitted signal constellation, we have to use exponential or hyperbolic tangent(tanh) function resulting in high implementation complexity. The BRGC mapping rule enables us to use a recursive operation. In addtion, we reduce the implementing complexity by using a curve fitting algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.31-37
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• 2008

Conventional cooperative communications can attain gain of spatial diversity and path loss reduction because destination node independently received same signal from source node and relay node located between source node and destination node. However, these techniques bring about decreased spectral efficiency with relay node and increased complexity of receiver by using maximal ratio combining (MRC). This paper has proposed cooperative ARQ protocol that can improve the above problems and can get the better performance. This method can increase the spectral efficiency than conventional cooperative communication because if the received signal from source node is satisfied by the destination preferentially, the destination transmits ACK message to both relay node and source node and then recovers the received signal. In addition, if ARQ message indicates NACK relay node operates selective retransmission and we can increase reliability of system compared with that of general ARQ protocol in which source node retransmits data. In the proposed protocol, the selective retransmission and ARQ message are to be determined by comparing log-likelihood ratio (LLR) computation of received signal from source node with predetermined threshold values. Therefore, this protocol don't waste redundant bandwidth with CRC code and can reduce complexity of receiver without MRC. We verified spectral efficiency and BER performance for the proposed protocol through Monte-Carlo simulation over Rayleigh fading plus AWGN.