• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2017

In this paper, we evaluate the basic test results of the 32 Gbps observational equipment introduced as the back-end system for the wideband VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) observation of KVN (Korean VLBI Network). Radio astronomers want to make a large radio telescope that has excellent performance in order to observe the superfine structure of a celestial body, but a lot of money is needed. Therefore, in order to increase the sensitivity, the performance improvement of the receiving system and the method of observing the wide frequency bandwidth are introduced. To do this, we adopted a wideband sampling method for converting analog signals to digital with ultra-fast speeds and a wideband sampler for performing digital filtering in order to observe a wide observational frequency bandwidth. The wideband sampler (OCTAD-K) supports up to 16 Gsps-2bits sampling and supports a variety of observational bandwidth using digital filtering techniques. In particular, it is designed to support KVN's 4-frequency simultaneous observation system and VERA(VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry)'s 2-beam observation system. It can also support polKVN(Korean VLBI Network), KaVA(KVN and VERA Array), 32Gbps Direct Sampler, Digital Filter, Widebandarization observations and supports the standard VDIF(VLBI Data Interchange Format) format of observed data. In this paper, the performance of the system and the problem solving are described in detail after performing the factory inspection and field test before the system is introduced.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.308-314
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• 2003

Wideband speech communications with 7㎑ bandwidth can provide high-quality speech services that are almost impossible with current narrow-band speech communications with 3.4 ㎑ bandwidth, and AMR wideband codec was recently developed for these services. The performance of AMR wideband codec is excellent due to its wideband information and partially to ACELP structure, but it requires high computational complexity especially in codebook search. In this paper, to solve this problem, an efficient codebook search method for AMR wideband codec is proposed. The proposed method first determines the coarse initial codevector, then improves the performance of codevector by replacing a poor pulse in codevector with better one iteratively. Simulations show that AMR wideband codec with proposed codebook search method has higher performance with much less computational cost than conventional AMR wideband codec.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.49-54
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate the initial DOA of a new appearing source in wideband multisource beamforming and tacking with array sensor position calibration algorithm. By using a beampattern formula for initial DOA detection, the proposed method keeps estimation error within possible tracking range and can be applied to several beamformers with different mainlobe width by adjusting DOA resolution. The simulation results show the performances of source detection and tracking.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.727-729
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 낙뢰에서 발생하는 VHF 대역의 신호를 광대역 간섭계를 통하여 낙뢰의 방전경고 측정하는 거리 낙뢰관측 시스템을 소개하고자 한다. 측정시스템은 3개의 광대역 전계센서와 LF/VLF 대역의 전계센서로 구성된다. 측정된 신호는 잡음 제거를 위한 필터를 거쳐 디지털 신호로 변환되어 메모리에 저장되어 진다. 각각의 센서로부터 측정된 신호는 FFT분석을 거쳐 신호원인 낙뢰의 방위각과 고도각이 계산되어진다. 이 시스템은 30 km 내외의 뇌운의 방전 경로의 형성과 진전과정을 세밀하게 관측할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.1897-1899
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 Barrier coupler type UHF 센서의 현장적용 및 감도개선을 위해 외부잡음의 차폐방법과 광대역 안테나를 Barrier coupler type UHF센서에 적용시켜 센서의 성능을 개선시켰다. GIS 내부에서 발생하는 부분방전 신호를 검출하기 위하여 UHF대역(0.3${\sim}$3GHz)의 전자파 신호의 검출이 가능한 광대역 Rectangular 패치 안테나를 barrier coupler type UHF 센서에 적응 설계하였으며, Rectangular patch antenna를 배열(array) 했을 때의 특성들을 비교하였다. 이론 위해 상용화된 EM Simulator를 이용하여 센서의 방향성과 감도 특성을 검토하여 설계 및 제작하였다. 개발된 센서의 실제 특성을 분석하기 위해서 network analyzer로 센서의 특성을 분석하였고, 실규모의 GIS 챔버를 사용하여 다양한 결함에 대한 센서의 감도와 특성을 평가하였다. 본 연구의 결과로서 제작된 barrier coupler type UHF센서가 가스절연기기(GIS)의 부 부방전 신호를 검출할수 있음을 입증하였고, 광대역 외장형센서의 경우 patch antenna의 구조에 크게 상관하지 않음을 알 수 있었다. 향후에는 GIS 내장형 센서와 비교 연구론 통해 barrier coupler type 센서의 성능을 개선하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.703-705
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• 2016

In this paper, we developed a wideband PIMD system to measure passive intermodulation distortion signals of mobile communication RF passive module. To represent wideband characteristic, we designed a receiver that meets low-noise and wideband characteristics in RF receiver. It allows high dynamic range in the RF receiver front end. In designed passive intermodulation distortion measurement system, we programed to display a PIMD signal with FPGA/DSP at PC. Implemented PIMD system was variable from 650 MHz to 2700 MHz and show up to -138 dB minimum detectable $3^{rd}$ passive inetrmodulation distortion signal.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1123-1129
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• 2003

The noise of maneuvering submarines or vessels can be divided into the tonal signals and broadband ambient noise. Tonal signals are from the revolution of motors and engines of vessels, and broadband ambient noise is from the bubbles which are generated by the propellers and the flow of water around vessels. We can analyze the kinds and the speed of vessels if we analyze the tonal signals and ambient noise. But, it is difficult to divide the tonal signals form the ambient noise when the power of tonal signal is much weaker than the power of ambient noise. In this paper, we detect the direction of arrival(DOA) of the noises generated by vessels with the automatic tracking window(ATW) preprocessing algorithm, and make a beam to the direction of the targets. We suggest a method which can separate weak tonal signals from broadband ambient noise with the ATW algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.147-151
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• 2009

A wideband correlator, with 45% relative bandwidth is proposed at the frequency range of 3.1-5.1GHz. The structures of the correlator components such as the delay line and the Wilkinson power divider are designed to be realized in transmission line form using the Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS). The correlator made by using three unique wideband 3-dB couplers, rat-race coupler and one 3-dB wilkinson power divider to reach the required bandwidth. The insertion loss, amplitude imbalance and phase imbalance between ports are presented. The proposed correlator makes compact size better than correlator of conventional structure.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.4 no.3 s.8
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• pp.45-50
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• 2005

In this paper, a broadband single balanced mixer is presented using a wideband rat-race implementation by vertical coupling. Frequency is selected as $1.5{\sim}3$ GHz for RF, $1.64{\sim}3.14$ GHz for LO, and 140 MHz for IF signals. When LO signal with 6 dBm at 2.7 GHz is injected, a conversion loss of 7.5 dB and RF to LO isolation of 30 dB are obtained. Also, an average conversion loss of 10 dB, RF to LO isolation of 30 dB, and LO to IF isolation of 45 dB are obtained for frequency band of $1.5{\sim}3$ GHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1295-1303
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• 2010

In this paper, an effective method has been proposed for selection of white Gaussian noise(WGN) band for radio background noise measurement system under broad band noise environment. MMN which comes from industrial devices and equipment mostly happens in the shape of broad band noise mostly like impulsive noise and this is the main reason for increasing level in the present radio noise measurements. The existing method based on singular value decomposition has weak point that it cannot give good performance for the broad band signal because it uses signal's white property. The proposed method overcomes such a weakness of singular value decomposition based method by using signal's Gaussian property based method in parallel. Moreover, this proposed method hires a modelling based method which uses parameter estimation algorithm like maximum likelihood estimation(MLE) and gives more accurate result than the method using amplitude probability distribution(APD) graph. Experiment results under the natural environment has done to verify feasibility of the proposed method.