• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.8
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• pp.125-136
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• 2009

This paper presents a high-speed low-complexity two-bit level pipelined Viterbi decoder architecture for MB-OFDM UWB systems. As the add-compare-select unit (ACSU) is the main bottleneck of the Viterbi decoder, this paper proposes a novel two-bit level pipelined MSB-first ACSU, which is based on 2-step look-ahead techniques to reduce the critical path. The proposed ACSU architecture requires approximately 12% fewer gate counts and 9% faster speed than the conventional MSB-first ACSU. The proposed Viterbi decoder was implemented with $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS standard cell technology and a supply voltage of 1.8V. It operates at a clock frequency of 870 MHZ and has a throughput of 1.74 Gb/s.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.86-89
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• 2016

실내 위치 인식 기술은 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy 등 여러 기술을 통해 시도되어 왔으며, 실내 위치 인식 시스템의 상용화가 급증하는 추세이다. 대표적인 실내 측위 시스템인 Wi-Fi 기반 실내 측위는 고출력으로 넓은 범위에 서비스를 제공해주지만, 각 AP 마다 파워 출력이 다르기 때문에 위치 인식 측면에서의 오차가 발생하고, Bluetooth Low Energy 기반 실내 측위는 10m Cell 내에서는 정확한 인식이 가능하지반, 10m 거리 밖 오차는 매우 크다. UWB(Ultra Wide Band)[1][2][3]는 저전력으로, 3.1~10.6GHz의 대역올 이용하여, Wi-Fi의 10배 이상의 속도로 데이터를 전달한다. 이때, 데이터 전달에 사용되는 전파신호는 레이더 신호와 유사한 특징을 가져 거리측정에 사용될 수 있으며, 실내 측위 시 15cm 이내의 정확도를 가진다. 본 논문에서는 UWB의 광대역을 이용한 핑거프린팅과 정밀 측위를 위한 TDoA 기법을 이용한 정밀 실내 측위 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06d
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• pp.180-184
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• 2010

UWB(Ultra Wide Band)는 기존의 스펙트럼에 비해 매우 넓은 대역에 걸쳐 낮은 전력으로 대용량의 정보를 전송가능하며 정확성면에서 탁월하며 신호 도달거리가 길다는 장점에서 실내 위치 측위기술로 가장 적당하다. 측위 기술 방법 중 각도를 측정하여 위치를 측정 하는 AoA방식과 도착 시간을 이용해서 위치를 측정하는 ToA방식, 그리고 두 리더기간의 시간의 차를 측정하여 리더기 간의 거리차가 일정함을 통해 얻는 쌍곡선의 교점을 이용하는 TDoA방식이 가장 대표적으로 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 2개의 리더기에서 AOA방법을 통한 두 각의 교점과 ToA의 두 원들과의 교점, TDOA방식의 한 쌍의 쌍곡선의 교점을 이용하여 3개의 리더기가 아닌 2개의 리더기 사용으로 리더기의 개수를 최소화 하며 위치 추적의 정확도를 높이고자 한다. UWB의 특징과 실내 위치 결정 측위 방법 소개와 더불어 Hybrid를 통하여 얻을 수 있는 효과를 설명한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.627-633
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• 2020

Assembly process data can be gathered in real time in a manufacturing execution system (MES) server using proximity sensors, barcodes, RFID, ZigBee, Bluetooth, wireless sensor networks, etc. Although this is suitable for identifying process flow and checking production progress, it is difficult to trace the location of individual workers in real time for missing work or trajectories within the work area. To overcome this, the location and trajectory of the working tool can be analyzed in real time through a position tracking system of an operator's working tool. It can instruct the operator to perform a consistent working process. Productivity and quality improvement can be achieved by an alarming or blocking operator with possible assembly defects during the assembly process in real time. To this end, we developed a real-time tool position-tracking sensor system based on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) trilateration using a Kalman filter to eliminate mechanical vibration and radio communication noise.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.4C
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• pp.331-340
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• 2006

In this Paper, we propose to extend the TSS-LS(Two-Step Search scheme with Linear search based Second step) scheme which was already proposed by the authors for coherent UWB(Ultra Wide Band) systems, to rapid and reliable acquisition of noncoherent UWB systems in multipath channels. The proposed noncoherent TSS-LS employing simple energy window banks utilizes two different thresholds and search windows to achieve fast acquisition. Furthermore, the linear search is adopted for the second step in the proposed scheme to correctly find the starting point in the range of effective delay spread of the multipath channels, and to obtain reliable BER(Bit Error Rate) performance of the noncoherent UWB systems. Simulation results with multipath channel models by IEEE 802.15.3a show that the proposed two-step search scheme can achieve significant reduction of the required mean acquisition time as compared to general search schemes. ]n addition, the proposed scheme achieves quite good BER performance for large signal-to-noise ratios, which is favorably comparable to the case of ideal perfect timing.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.6B
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• pp.316-324
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• 2007

In this paper we proposed an energy consumption model for IR-UWB wireless sensor networks. The model takes the advantages of PHY-MAC cross layer design, and we used slotted and un-slotted sleeping protocols to compare the energy consumption. We addressed different system design issues that are responsible to energy consumption and proposed an optimum model for the system design. We expect the slotted sleeping will consume less energy for bursty load than that of the un-slotted one. But if we consider latency, the un-slotted sleeping model performs better than the slotted sleeping case.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.28-41
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• 2003

A micros-strip ring patch antenna with ultra wide band characteristics is presented. The proposed antenna is designed by a modified form of the annular ring patch antenna with modified microstrip feedline. The designed antenna gives 5.6GHz bandwidth with regular radiation pattern from 4.4GHz to 12.0GHz for -10dE return loss or VSWR of less than 2.0 in simulation, which is also excellently agreed with the measured data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.217-220
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• 2005

In this paper describes novel m antenna using aperture matched type slot structure. It substitutes edge diffractions by curved-surface diffractions which have a tendency to provide an undisturbed energy flow across the junction, around the curved surface, and into free-space. The proposed antenna is composed of a CPW feed structure, exponential tapered slot and the curved sectional at the edge. experimental resulte show that aperture matched type slot improve the performance of the UWB antenna.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.1491-1494
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• 2008

Typically internal mobile LCD display modules are connected to the mobile product baseband PCB with flexible printed circuit board equipped with board-to-board connector. This solution has a drawback of limiting the product concept work to certain solutions that are based on connector size, location, flexible PCB length, bending, etc. in the display module. Also flexible printed circuit board based solutions are not completely optimized from reliability point of view, causing flex circuit board breakings. For the external displays in the PC or Home entertainment market, the cable solution is too expensive and resource demanding. The wireless solution has obvious advantages over reliability, low cost and flexibility. This paper describes a wireless audio-visual interface solution.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.145-156
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• 2016

A variety of methods for indoor positioning systems have been underway to ensure the safety of emergency rescuers who are working in dangerous situations such as fire fighters. However, since most systems display locations of rescue workers in two-dimension (2D)-based maps, it is difficult for a commander located in the outside to recognize locations of rescuers inside the building intuitively. An augmented reality (AR)-based indoor positioning monitoring system can display locations of rescuer inside the building that can be seen by commanders to help intuitive recognition of positioning. To monitor AR-based indoor positioning, it is necessary to have an estimation technique of line of sight vector of observers. In the present study, an estimation technique of a line of sight vector using ultra-wide band tranceiver installed inside the indoor to trace locations is presented.