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Efficient Channel Estimation Method for ZigBee Receiver in Train Environment

철도 환경에서 ZigBee 수신기를 위한 효율적인 채널 추정 기법

  • Lee, Jingu (Department of Electronic Engineering Sogang University) ;
  • Kim, Daehyun (Department of Electronic Engineering Sogang University) ;
  • Kim, Jaehoon (Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, Younglok (Department of Electronic Engineering Sogang University)
  • Received : 2015.10.26
  • Accepted : 2016.03.30
  • Published : 2016.04.25

Abstract

The monitoring system in railway is under study to forecast any derailment and accident by defect of train. Because the monitoring system is composed of wireless sensor network based on ZigBee-communication between inside and outside of train, the study for wireless channel analysis is required. Especially, if multipath delay profile exist in the channel, the equalizer and channel estimator can be required for preventing receiver performance degradation. Therefore, we analyzed the wireless channel in train environment using measured data and, proposed the channel estimation method through the characterisitic of chip code, under the consideration of the channel characteristics in train. To show the performance of proposed method, we demonstrate the performance by mean square error(MSE), computational complexity and bit error rate(BER).

고속 열차에 무선 센서 네트워크를 구성하여 센서 데이터를 이용한 모니터링 시스템에 대한 연구들이 진행됨에 따라, 열차 외부와 내부 간의 통신 시에 발생하는 철도 무선 채널 특성에 대한 연구가 요구된다. 특히, 무선 채널에 다중경로 지연특성이 있는 경우 심볼간 간섭에 따른 성능 열화를 막기 위한 등화기 및 채널 추정기가 요구될 수 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 실제 고속열차에서 IEEE 802.15.4 규격으로 구성되는 ZigBee 송수신기를 이용하여 수신신호를 측정하고, 측정된 수신신호를 분석하여 다중경로가 최대 두 개인 다중경로 지연특성을 확인하였다. 그리고, 확인 된 철도 환경에서 다중경로 지연특성을 고려하여, IEEE 802.15.4 데이터 칩 시퀀스 특성을 이용한 저복잡도의 채널 추정 기법을 제안하고, 제안 기법에 대한 복잡도 및 성능 오차 분석 후 적용 가능성을 검증하였다.

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