• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.59-65
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• 2022

In this paper, a digital active phased array antenna is briefly introduced and beam forming method for a dual-channel side-lobe blanking applied to blank the side-lobe of the main beam is described. Next, the antenna performance was verified from results of design and antenna near-field measurement for the antenna main beam and side-lobe blanking beam. Then, a single-channel side-lobe blanking beam forming method was proposed to reduce the number of channels than the existing system operating dual-channel side-lobe blanking beam and weight distribution for each element of the side-lobe blanking antenna was designed with the proposed method. Finally, the designed single-channel side-lobe blanking beam pattern and blanking ability were verified and compared with the dual-channel side-lobe blanking beam. In addition, by comparing/verifying the conventional dual-channel and the proposed single-channel side-lobe blanking beam patterns measured through the receiving near-field test of the digital active phased array antenna and their ability to blank side-lobe of the main beam, validity of the proposed method for forming single-channel side-lobe blanking beam was confirmed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.203-213
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• 2023

In medical ultrasound imaging systems, Side lobes may appear if signals outside the imaging point are not completely removed during receive focusing. If the time signal of the side lobe overlaps with the time signal (main lobe) from the image point, it is difficult to completely remove it using filter processing in the time domain. However, In the receive focusing process, when time-channel signals are Fourier-transformed, the main lobe and side lobe signals are spatially separated in the spectral domain. Therefore, the side lobes can be suppressed by multiplying the image with magnitude weights, which are determined by the magnitudes of the main and side lobes calculated in the spectral domain. In addition, when the main lobe and the side lobe spectrum are adjacent, the distance weight was applied based on the distance between them. In a 5 MHz ultrasound imaging system using a 64-channel linear transducer, point reflector and speckle images with cysts of various brightness were synthesized and weights were applied to the ultrasound image. Using computer simulations, we confirmed that the side lobes were greatly reduced without affecting the spatial resolution in the point reflector image, and the contrast was significantly improved in the cyst image with computer simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.169-176
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• 1998

이동통신용 기지국안테나는 현재 약 -20dB의 후방부엽이 존재한다. 이는 인접한 안테나에 전파감쇠 및 장애를 일으키고 있어 후방부엽을 -50dB이하까지 개선시킬 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 Back Plate 구조를 새롭게 변형하여 후방부엽의 레벨을 낮추고자 한다. 새로운 구조의 Back Plate는 리플렉터안테나의 원리를 이용하여 ㄷ자 형태로 만들었다. 본 연구 수행의 구체적 방법으로는 범용소프트웨어툴인 NEC2를 사용하였고 각 파라메터에 대해 파라메터스터디를 하여 최적의 파라메터를 도출하였으며 -49.58dB의 후방부엽을 갖는 기지국안테나를 설계하였다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.43-48
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• 2018

Offset parabolic antenna have been widely used for satellite communication system. To locate feedhorn on antenna system, it requires arbitrary structure which forces to fix on system. However, arbitrary scatterer increases sidelobe level of elevation axis. To solve this problem, we need to predict which angle level is increased by arbitrary scatterer simply. Because conventional simulation method takes a long time to simulate parabolic antenna system and needs exclusive software. In this paper we can calculate sidelobe angle simply by using raytracing method, check coincidence between calculated and simulated result and show how arbitrary scatterer affects sidelobe lavel of elevation axis of offset parabolic antenna depending on angle and location of arbitrary structure.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.49-53
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• 2018

Parabolic offset antenna is widely used for wireless communication system. The general structure of parabolic offset antenna system is composed of supporting stand and RF devices under parabolic reflector. However sidelobe distortion in gain pattern is occurred by supporting stand and RF devices. Depending on position of subsidiary devices, angle of sidelobe distortion can be changed. In this paper we describe method for sidelobe distortion suppression using raytracing. We calculate 3D vector for sidelobe distortion suppression zone by raytracing method and compare when subsidiary device is in sidelobe distortion suppression zone or not. By comparison, we show method for parabolic antenna sidelobe distortion suppression.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.375-382
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• 2018

To eliminate strong jamming signals, a radar acquires a relatively weak target signal by using a side-lobe canceller (SLC) algorithm. This paper presents a novel adaptive SLC algorithm that is applicable to a fully digital active array radar. First, a covariance matrix is obtained from the SLC beam. Then, an adaptive SLC coefficient is extracted after calculating the correlation matrix between the main beam signal and the SLC beam signal. Finally, the target signal is estimated and the jamming signal is removed through the operation with the main beam signal. The application results from simulated radar signals demonstrated that the proposed algorithm is effective in an SLC system. Moreover, we analyzed various considerations and improved systematic usability.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.637-642
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• 2020

In this study, the SLB(Sidelobe Blanking)/BLB(Blacklobe Blanking) design of the VHF band radar using the low-frequency band having a relatively larger beam width than the S-band or X-band radar. The antenna of the VHF band has a relatively large beam width, so it is reflected from the side lobe. If the reflected target signal is not processed into sidelobe, the false alarm rate of the radar increases by recognizing it from the main lobe signal. This method of SLB blocking is the elimination of the side lobe signal in the front of the array antenna using the central radiating element of the array antenna, and the blocking of side lobe signal from the antenna rear through BLB receiver block. After completed the radar implementation, The function of blocking of side lobe signals was confirmed through the system unit test by Simulated signal generator. Through this study, it will be used in the implementation of the side-lobe blocking technology of the array antenna for low-frequency band radar with large antenna size and beam width in the future.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.145-148
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• 2004

수중음향 시스템에서는 빔형성(Beamforming) 기법을 이용하여 목표물로부터 신호를 수신하고 이에 대한 정보를 얻어낼 수 있는데, 이러한 빔형성에 있어서 주엽(Mainlobe)의 빔폭(Beamwidth)과 부엽(Sidelobe)의 크기(Level)를 설계자가 목표하는 값에 최적화 시킬 수 있는 방법을 찾는 것이 무엇보다도 중요하다 최근 연구된 빔형성 기법의 대표적인 결과 중 하나로는 Phi1ip의 Weighting Function Method를 들 수 있다. 이러한 Phi1ip의 방법은 목표 주엽폭과 부엽 준위를 정하고 이를 적응필터 설계방식과 유사하게 적응시켜 나가는 과정을 이용한다. 그러나 이 방법은 주엽폭과 부엽 준위간의 상관관계로 인해서 원하는 부엽준위에 다다르지 못하거나 결과값을 얻는데 상당한 시간이 소요되는 경우가 자주 발생하는데, 이러한 단점을 보완하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 부엽 준위에 미치지 못하는 일부에 대하여 부분 최적화를 시켜 비교적 쉽게 설계를 만족시키는 새로운 알고리듬을 제안하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.317-325
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• 2015

In an interference environment, adaptive sidelobe blanking(adaptive SLB: ASB) algorithm effectively cancels the high-duty cycle jammer and blocks the sidelobe signals without the auxiliary antenna. The adaptive SLB for the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) is proposed in this paper. In the proposed scheme, the interference covariance matrix is modified to satisfy the direction constraints of LCMV and the normalized output can be obtained to block sidelobe signals. As the LCMV can be represented as a generalized sidelobe canceller(GSC) form, which is the general framework of various adaptive beamforming(ABF) algorithms, the proposed adaptive SLB can be applied to various ABF methods. The performance of the proposed method is verified through simulation and analysis.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.570-575
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• 2004

In the underwater acoustic systems. we can receive signals and retrieve information about a target by using a beamforming method. The most important thing in the beamforming is finding the way to optimize the mainlobe beamwidth and the sidelobe level to the desired value. One of the prominent results of beamforming method. which has been studied. is Philip's weighting function method(1) . Philip's method adaptively adjusts its weights of array to meet the desired mainlobe beamwidth and sidelobe level. It is very similar to the design method in adaptive filter. However. this method cannot easily bring us to the desired sidelobe level due to complementary relation between mainlobe beamwidth and sidelobe level. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm using partial constrained adaptation. This method makes us circumvent the above problem and meet the specification of design easily. The proposed algorithm presents a Pattern synthesis that designer can easily control the mainlobe beamwidth and the sidelobe level to the desired value while calculation time to converge is decreasing.