• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.7
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• pp.404-412
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• 2014

Exploiting multiple antennas at mobile devices is difficult due to limited size and power. In this paper, a distributed MIMO protocol achieving the capacity of conventinal MIMO systems is proposed and analyzed. For exploiting distributed MIMO features, Quantize-Map-and-Forward (QMF) scheme shows improved performance than Amplify-and-Forward (AF) scheme. Also, the protocol based on multiple access channel (MAC) is proposed to improve the multiplexing gain. We showed that sufficient condition of the number of slave nodes to achieve the gain of a MAC based protocol. Because the base station can support multiple clusters operating in distributed MIMO, the total cellular capacity can be extremely enhanced in proportional to the number of clusters.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.9
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• pp.721-727
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• 2012

Since a conventional multi-cell transmit diversity scheme depends on the feedback from the user for the channel gain information, its performance gets to severely degrade when the channel varies fast due to the high mobility of the user. Also, transmit power of the base station cannot be fully used in the conventional scheme because only one transmit antenna is used for data transmission. In this paper, we propose a multi-cell transmit diversity scheme appropriate for fast fading channel. In the proposed scheme, channel-independent precoding vector is applied over all transmit antennas and different precoding vectors are applied for neighboring subcarriers so that the received signal is avoided to experience deep fading over multiple neighboring subcarriers. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme has better detector output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bit error rate (BER) performances than the conventional scheme.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.45-52
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• 2008

In typical cellular systems using frequency reuse scheme, the terminal suffers a performance degradation due to the intercell interference signals from adjacent cells as the terminal moves toward the cell boundary. In this paper, a signal transmission and reception scheme which achieve spatial multiplexing and beamforming gain from a distributed MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) channel using multiple-antenna terminal is proposed for the spectral efficiency enhancement in a multi-cell downlink environment, when geographically separated base stations cooperatively transmit signals. In particular, we analyze the effective signal-to-interference ratio and spectral efficiency of the proposed scheme for different frequency reuse patterns and for varying numbers of receive antennas, and compare with the performance of the MRC (maximal ratio combining) reception scheme in typical cellular systems. We evaluate the amount of transmission efficiency of the scheme by comparing the performance near the cell boundary where the strong intercell interference is experienced.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.72-81
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• 2008

차세대 이동통신 서비스나 Beyond 4G 이동통신 서비스의 단말기는 유비쿼터스 정보화 사회의 도래에 발맞춰 기존의 single mode 시스템에서 탈피하여 3G LTE, Mobile WiMAX(WiBro), DMB, IEEE 802.11b/g/n 등의 다중 이동통신 서비스를 지원하는 단말기로 발전하는 추세이다. 또한 고속 데이터 전송을 위한 MIMO 및 스마트 안테나 등의 다중 접속 기능은 다중 밴드/다중 모드/다중 경로 처리 구조의 RF transceiver를 요구하고 있다. 이러한 융합 universal 단말기를 구현하기 위해서는 여러 이동통신 서비스를 지원하는 "Reconfigurability and Convergence" RF transceiver가 필요하지만 현재의 집적 기술로는 0-수 GHz에 할당되어 있는 모든 이동통신 서비스를 지원하는 단말기 구현에 제약사항이 많기 때문에 미국 및 유럽의 국외 연구기관과 기업에서는 2-3개의 선택적인 이동통신 서비스를 지원하는 RF transceiver를 개발하여 세계 시장에서 경쟁 준비를 하고 있다. 본 고에서는 차세대 이동통신 단말기의 RF transceiver 칩 셋 기술과 국내외 개발 동향에 대해 살펴보고자 한다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.17-20
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 세라믹 칩 안테나를 LTCC로 구현하여 다중 대역 특성을 얻는 방법을 제안하고 있다. 휴대용 단말기에 칩 안테나를 내장함으로 물리적 손상을 피하고 위치추적 시스템(GPS) 대역과 단말기 송수신용 대역, 즉 두 대역 이상 사용 가능하고 ${\varepsilon}_r=7.8$인 세라믹 칩 안테나를 LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic)공정을 이용하여 세라믹 칩 내부에 정합 회로를 구현하여 이중 대역 특성을 갖는 구조에 대해 논의하고 있다. 안테나의 전체 크기는 $16mm{\times}4mm{\times}2mm$ 이며 대역폭은 삽입손실 -10dB 기준 대략 1560MHz에서 2160MHz까지 약 600MHz정도이다. 측정은 접지면의 넓이가50mmx50mm이고 두께=0.7874mm, ${\varepsilon}_r=4.6$인 FR4 기판을 이용하여 측정한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.138-143
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• 2008

우리는 전파를 기반으로 하는 유비쿼터스 통신 시대를 향해 살고 있다. 새로운 통신 시대를 꿈꾸며 살아가는 현대인은 거의 매일 무선 통신을 이용하고 있으며 그것을 가능케 하는 안테나 기술은 눈부시게 발전하고 있다. 그러나 요즘처럼 무선 통신 서비스가 다양해지고 전파가 전파(propagation)되는 환경은 열악해지고 있는 상황에서 무선통신의 품질은 안테나의 성능에 좌우된다. 또한 통신방송융합서비스가 가시화되면서 더욱 성능이 우수한 안테나 모델을 개발하기 위해 다양한 기술적 접근이 시도되고 있다. 본 기고에서는 지상파 DMB 단말기로 대표되는 통방융합 무선통신 단말기에 적합한 소형 안테나 기술, RF 및 밀리미터파 시스템의 소형화, 고효율화, 집적화 추세에 따른 능동형 안테나 기술, 소형화된 다중대역 안테나 기술, 그리고 신소재 응용 안테나에서 재구성 안테나 기술까지 다양한 안테나 기술의 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1288-1296
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• 2009

This paper is for multi-frequency thin film loop antenna used on smart phone, PMP and PDA like as a multi-media devices. We developed a loop pattern folding methods to reduce a thin film antenna dimension using that mutual coupling folding loop occurs the higher frequency resonation. To reduce the thin film size for loop antenna, we fold the loop pattern repeatedly control the coupling coefficient than generate a not only higher mode resonation but also basic resonation from loop pattern. To realization the thin film folded loop antenna, we used a $30mm{\times}9mm$ PI film the thickness is 20um so that we realize the CDMA850, GPS, DCS, PCS, WCDMA antenna simultaneously and it's radiation efficiency is over 50% and gain is 0dBi.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.660-669
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• 2010

In this paper, a multiple antenna system for next generation mobile applications is proposed. The proposed MIMO antenna consists of two parallel folded monopole antennas with the length of 100 mm and spacing of 6 mm and a decoupling network which locates at the top side of a mobile handset. In order to improve the isolation characteristic at the LTE band 13, a decoupling network was added between the two antenna elements placed close to each other. The decoupling network, consisting of two transmission lines, a shunt reactive component and common ground line, is simple and compact. To obtain the wide bandwidth characteristic, an wide folded patch structure generating the strong coupling between feeding and shorting lines through the slit is used at the bottom side of a mobile handset. Also, the performance of a multiple antenna system composed of three antenna elements is analyzed.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.119-125
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• 2007

In this paper, a multi-band folded planar monopole internal antenna for mobile handset applications is proposed. The proposed antenna has multi-resonances, which is different from a conventional folded monopole antenna, and it provides a wide bandwidth at high frequency bands. The measured impedance bandwidth (VSWR < 3) is 180 MHz and 1880 MHz in lower and higher frequency bands, respectively. The proposed antenna can effectively cover most wireless communication bands including CDMA, GSM, GPS, DCS, PCS, and W-CDMA, WiBro and S-DMB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.10
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• pp.994-1000
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• 2013

Conventional MIMO system is required to a number of RF chains as much as a number of antennas. If the number of antennas increased then the number of RF chains increased. Therefore, it is difficult to apply conventional MIMO system to mobile terminals with limited power. In this paper, we propose a TDM(time division multiplexing)-based single RF chain MIMO system. The outcome shows that performance of the proposed system is similar to conventional MIMO system using multiple RF chains when STO is corrected by phase angle estimation and the synchronizing signal of received signal. Therefore, it is possible to implement the MIMO-OFDM system of low power and complexity through a single RF chain.