• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.691-697
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• 2009

Hardware dedicated off-the-shelf maritime differential GPS RSIM lacks the open architecture to meet all the minimum maritime user requirements and to include future GNSS improvements after recapitalization. This paper carries out a study to replace existing hardware dedicated differential GPS RSIM with software differential GPS RSIM in order to make up the weak point of hardware dedicated off-the-shelf maritime differential GPS RSIM. In this paper, the architecture of software RSIM is proposed for maritime DGPS recapitalization. And the feasibility analysis of the proposed software differential GPS RSIM is performed as the first phase to realize the proposed architecture. For the feasibility analysis, the prototype RF module and DSP module are implemented with properties as wide RF bandwidth, high sampling frequency, and high speed transmission interface. This paper shows that the proposed architecture has the possibility of real time operation of software RSIM functionality onto the PC-based platform through the analysis of computation time. Finally, this paper verifies that the L1/L2 dual frequency software differential RSIM designed according to the proposed method satisfies the performance specifications set out in RTCM paper 221-2006-SC104-STD.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.4108-4122
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• 2016

To address challenges of an unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic, the ultra-dense network deployment is a cost efficient solution to off-load the traffic over other small cells. However, the real traffic is often much lower than the peak-hour traffic and certain small cells are superfluous, which will not only introduce extra energy consumption, but also impose extra interference onto the radio environment. In this paper, an elastic energy efficient cell management scheme is proposed based on flow scheduling among multi-layer ultra-dense cells by a SDN controller. A significant power saving was achieved by a cell-level energy manager. The scheme is elastic for energy saving, adaptive to the dynamic traffic distribution in the office or campus environment. In the end, the performance is evaluated and demonstrated. The results show substantial improvements over the conventional method in terms of the number of active BSs, the handover times, and the switches of BSs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.1805-1812
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• 2011

Bandpass sampling technique has an advantage that it uses lower sampling frequency than Nyquist criterion. But special care is required in choosing sampling frequency to avoid self-image overlapping in the first Nyquist region. Recently, the second-order BPS techniques which can suppress possible self-image by using an additional ADC and by employing digital signal processing have been proposed. This paper addresses a complex BPS based SDR front-end. Unlike general second-order BPS, it needs simple FIR filter to compensate delay in the second ADC. We show a method to find proper sampling frequencies to down convert RF signals selected by tunable RF filter operating in arbitrary frequency range.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.85-108
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• 2002

향후 다양한 무선 통신 규격들의 통합 수용을 위한 SDR (Software Defined Radio) 기술이IMT-2000 이후의 4세대 이동 통신 시스템을 위한 핵심 기술로써 심각하게 고려되고 있다. 이에 부응하여 SDR기반의 멀티모드용 통신 시스템을 구성하기 위한 주요 기술로서 디지털 IF 기술에 대한 필요성이 급속도로 고조되고 있는 상황이다. 최근 ABC/DAC 및 범용 디지털 신호처리 소자들의 고속화 및 고성능화로 인해 If (Intermediate Frequency) 대역과 기저대역 신호들 간의 직접 디지털 변환의 구현이 현실화되고 있다. 사용자의 관점에서 국지적으로 상용화되고 있거나 장래에 출현할 다양한 이동 통신 시스템 규격들 및 이에 대해 사업자들에게 할당되는 주파수 대역들이 서로 다른 점을 고려할 때, 이종 시스템 혹은 사업자들에게 할당된 주파수 대역에 구애받지 않고 언제 어디서나 자유롭게 무선 채널을 엑세스하고 또한 특정 채널을 임의로 선택하기 위한 디지털 If기술의 실현이 필수적이다 이러한 SDR기반 디지털 If 기술은 소프트웨어적으로 재구성 가능한 하드웨어 구조를 요구하며, 특정 이동 통신 규격의 물리 계층만을 지원하는 무선 인터페이스가 아닌 다중이동 통신 모드를 지원할 수 있는 유연성이 가미된 채널화 알고리즘이 필요하게 된다. 따라서 디지털 If기술은 무선 인터페이스 처리 부분, 즉 주파수 상 하향 변환 및 채별 선택 조합을 용도에 맞게 단일의 하드웨어 플렛폼 상에서 고속 디지털 신호처리 알고리즘을 기반으로 동작하기 위한 기능을 필연적으로 요구한다. 본 논문에서는 향후 SDR 기반의 기지국 및 단말기 운영 및 구생 모델을 제시하며, 디지털 If에 대한 필요성 및 동작 원리, 그리고 요소 기능들에 대한 구체적인 동작 원리 및 디지털 If와 더불어 활용 가능한 기술에 대하여 논의한다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.47-53
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• 2014

This paper presents a high gain and high harmonic rejection low-noise amplifier (LNA) for software-defined radio receiver. This LNA exploits the high quality factor (Q) series resonance technique. High Q series resonance can amplify the in-band signal voltage and attenuate the out-band signals. This is achieved by a source impedance transformation. This technique does not consume power and can easily support multiband operation. The chip is fabricated in a $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS. It supports four bands (640, 710, 830, and 1,070MHz). The measured forward gain ($S_{21}$) is between 12.1 and 17.4 dB and the noise figure is between 2.7 and 3.3 dB. The IIP3 measures between -5.7 and -10.8 dBm, and the third harmonic rejection ratios are more than 30 dB. The LNA consumes 9.6 mW from a 1.2-V supply.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.153-158
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• 2005

In this paper, a filter is proposed to compensate droop of the CIC filter for SDR. The proposed compensation filter has almost linear-phase characteristic, requires low operational complexity, and is cost-effective due to its second-order characteristic and lowest operational rate in the baseband.. Especially, it compensates droop in the passband with little performance degradation in the stopband. It is shown, by a design example and its performance analysis, that the proposed compensation method gives performance enhancement in communication systems. It is also shown that the proposed method is superior to conventional ones in view of memory usage and computational load.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.59-67
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• 2013

Compared to the conventional Hardware-oriented base stations, Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based base station provides various advantages especially in flexibility and expandability. It enables the multimode capability required in 4th-generation (4G) environment which aims at a convergence network of various kinds of communication standards. However, since a single base station processes all data required in various multiple waveforms, the SDR base station faces a problem of data processing speed. In this paper, we propose a new concept of SDR base station system which adopts a parallel processing technology of clustering environment. We implemented a WiMAX system with SDR concept which adopts the Message Passing Interface (MPI) technology which enables the speed-up operations. In order to maximize the efficiency of parallel processing in signal processing, we analyze how the algorithm at each of modules is related to data to be processed. Through the implemented system, we show a drastic improvement in operation time due to parallel processing using the proposed MPI technology. In addition, we demonstrate a feasibility of SDR system for 4G or even beyond-4G as well.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.79-85
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• 2018

This paper presents an implementation method of Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) decoder using a general-purpose multicore Digital Signal Processor (DSP), TMS320C6670. Although the DSP provides some useful coprocessors such as turbo decoder, fast Fourier transformer, Viterbi Coprocessor, Bit Rate Coprocessor etc., it is specific to the base station platform implementation not the mobile terminal platform implementation. This paper shows an implementation method of the LTE-A PDSCH decoder using programmable DSP cores as well as the coprocessors of Fast Fourier Transformer and turbo decoder. First, it uses the coprocessor supported by the TMS320C6670, which can be used for PDSCH implementation. Second, we propose a core programming method using DSP optimization method for block diagram of PDSCH that can not use coprocessor. Through the implementation, we have verified a real-time decoding feasibility for the LTE-A downlink physical channel using test vectors which have been generated from LTE-A Reference Measurement Channel (RMC) Waveform R.6.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.237-244
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• 2023

A signal generation simulator is an economical and useful solution in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver design and testing. A software-defined radio approach is widely used both in receivers and simulators, and its flexible structure to adopt to new signals is ideally suited to the testing of a receiver and signal processing algorithm in the signal design phase of a new satellite-based navigation system before the deployment of satellites in space. The generation of highly accurate delayed sampled codes is essential for generating signals in the simulator, where its sampling rate should be chosen to satisfy constraints such as Nyquist criteria and integer and non-commensurate properties in order not to cause any distortion of original signals. A high sampling rate increases the accuracy of code delay, but decreases the computational efficiency as well, and vice versa. Therefore, the selected sampling rate should be as low as possible while maintaining a certain level of code delay accuracy. This paper presents the lower limits of the sampling rate for GNSS signal generation simulators. In the simulation, two distinct code generation methods depending on the sampling position are evaluated in terms of accuracy versus computational efficiency to show the lower limit of the sampling rate for several GNSS signals.