• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.167-176
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• 2007

In multimedia communication systems, efficient transmission system design should incorporate the use of matching unequal error protection (UEP), since source coders exhibit unequal bit error sensitivity. In this paper, we present UEP schemes which exploit differences in bit error protection levels in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over frequency selective fading channels. We introduce an UEP scheme which improves the link performance with multiple transmit and receive antennas. Especially, we propose a new receiver structure based on two stage Maximum Likelihood detection (MLD) schemes which can approach the performance of a full search MLD receiver with much reduced computational complexity. In the performance analysis, we derive a generalized pairwise error probability expression for the proposed UEP schemes. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes achieve a significant performance gain over the conventional equal error protection (EEP) scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.11
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• pp.1054-1063
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• 2012

In this paper, we introduce basic theories, effects and applications of the unequal error protection (UEP) system that is expected to play a major role in the future multi-layered broadcast system. Also we show results of surveys on the various previous studies and standards about the UEP systems, and we give prospects of standardizations and future applications of UEP based on the surveys.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.747-749
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a novel precoder selection technique for maximum-likelihood (ML) detected spatially multiplexed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Previous precoder selection techniques were designed without considering UEP, however the proposed technique is designed considering multi-antenna unequal error protection (UEP). Simulations demonstrate the improved multi-antenna UEP performance by the proposed technique.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.9 s.112
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• pp.795-803
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• 2006

In this paper, we studied hierarchical channel coding scheme using unequal error protection method fur consecutively broadcastingservice under the rain attenuation of Ka band satellite broadcasting. Unlike time-sharing methods, which are design for different channel coding scheme in according to different modulation, unequal error protection method is made in such way that minimum distance between signals are different for importance of signals with same modulation. Consequently we proposed optimal method according to performance analysis.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.5C
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• pp.469-477
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• 2007

Most multimedia source coders exhibit unequal bit error sensitivity. Efficient transmission system design should therefore incorporate the use of matching unequal error protection (UEP). In this paper, we present and evaluate a flexible space-time coding system with unequal error protection. Multiple transmit and receive antennas and bit-interleaved coded modulation techniques are used combined with rate compatible punctured convolutional codes. A near optimum iterative receiver is employed with a multiple-in multiple-out inverse mapper and a MAP decoder as component decoders. We illustrate how the UEP system gain can be achieved either as a power or bandwidth gain compared to the equal error protection system (EEP) for the identical source and equal overall quality for both the UEP and EEP systems. An example with two/three transmit and two receive antennas using BPSK modulation is given for the block fading channel.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.4C
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• pp.454-460
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• 2004

In this paper, we studied hierarchical channel coding scheme using unequal error protection method for consecutively broadcastingservice under the rain attenuation of Ka band satellite broadcasting. Unlike time-sharing methods, which are design for different channel coding scheme in according to different modulation, unequal error protection method is made in such way that minimum distance between signals are different for importance of signals with same modulation. Consequently we proposed optimal method according to performance analysis.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8A
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• pp.1322-1328
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 무선 ATM 환경에서 터보코딩을 이용한 UEP(Unequal Error Protection)을 제안한다. 일반적으로 ATM셀의 header 부분은 payload 부분보다 중요시되며 header 부분에 payload 보다 부호율이 낮은 터보코드를 무선 ATM 적용하여 비트오류확률과 셀손실 확률을 구하였다. 무선 ATM 환경에서 터보코드를 사용하고 프레임길이 28바이트의 DLC 셀구조에서 UEP가 가능함을 보였다. 부호율 1/3인 터보 코딩을 이용한 경우 동일한 부호율의 컨벌루션 코드를 이용한 EEP(Equal Error Protection)과 비교하여 비트 오류확률과 셀 손실율에 있어서 최소 1dB와 2dB 신호대잡음비의 개선을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.6
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• pp.471-478
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• 2013

Powerful error control and increase in the number of bits per symbol should be provided for future high-quality communication systems. Each message bit may have different importance in multimedia data. Hence, UEP(unequal error protection) may be more efficient than EEP(equal error protection) in such cases. And the LDPC(low-density parity-check) code shows near Shannon limit error correcting performance. Therefore, the effect of UEP with LDPC codes is analyzed for high-quality message data in this paper. The relationship among MSE(mean square error), BER(bit error rate) and the number of bits per symbol is analyzed theoretically. Then, total message bits in a symbol are classified into two groups according to importance to prove the relationship by simulation. And the UEP performance is obtained by simulation according to the number of message bits in each group with the constraint of a fixed total code rate and codeword length. As results, the effect of UEP with the LDPC codes is analyzed by MSE according to the number of bits per symbol, the ratio of the message bits, and protection level of the classified groups.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.25-28
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• 2000

시변 특성을 갖는 무선 채널 환경에서 UEP(Unequal Error Protection) 채널 부호화 방법은 효율적인 정보 전송을 가능케 한다. 본 논문에서는 IP-SCCC (Interleaved Puncturing Serially Concatenated Convolutional Codes)로 CSI(Channel State Information)와 SSI(Source Significance Information)를 이용한 두가지 UEP 채널 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 또한 AWGN(Additive White Gaussian Noise)과 Rayleigh 페이딩이 존재하는 채널을 가정하고 모의 실험을 통해 알고리즘의 우수성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.221-230
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• 2015

Rateless codes have been shown to be able to provide greater flexibility and efficiency than fixed-rate codes for multicast applications. In the following, we optimize rateless codes for unequal error protection (UEP) for multimedia multicasting to a set of heterogeneous users. The proposed designs have the objectives of providing either guaranteed or best-effort quality of service (QoS). A randomly interleaved rateless encoder is proposed whereby users only need to decode symbols up to their own QoS level. The proposed coder is optimized based on measured transmission properties of standardized raptor codes over wireless channels. It is shown that a guaranteed QoS problem formulation can be transformed into a convex optimization problem, yielding a globally optimal solution. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed optimized random interleaved UEP rateless coder's performance compares favorably with that of other recently proposed UEP rateless codes.