• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.645-651
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• 2003

This paper presents a revised beamforming inversion method for ocean acoustic tomography. In the proposed inversion method, the relation between group velocity and phase velocity that are the characteristics of the waveguide is used for the inversion of perturbed sound speed profile. The group velocity and phase velocity can be expressed as a function of the travel time and arrival angle of the received signals that are analyzed by the beamforming signal processing. This paper illustrates the simulated results of inversion for the fluctuated sound speed profile of the East Korea Sea and we found the applicability of revised beamforming inversion method to range independent ocean.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.8
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• pp.474-481
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• 2011

Conventional beamforming is ineffective in producing directional information in system with sparse degree of the freedom such as DIFAR (DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording) sonobuoy and in the presence of high directional noise. In this paper, Adaptive beamforming techniques are applied to produce directional spectra from a small number of sensors in highly directional noise environment. Conventional method as well as minimum variance and eigenvectors as adaptive method are evaluated via numerical test and real data.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.2 s.332
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• pp.49-59
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• 2005

An adaptive hybrid beamformer is proposed to improve the reception performance of the advanced television system committee (ATSC) digital television (DTV) in a mobile environment. Dynamic multipaths and Doppler shifts severely degrade the reception performance of the ATSC DTV receiver. Accordingly, a hybrid beamformer, called a Capon and least mean square (CLMS) beamformer, is presented that uses direction of arrival (DOA) information and the least mean square (LMS) beamforming algorithm. The proposed CLMS algerian efficiently removes dynamic multipaths and compensates for the phase distortion caused by Doppler shifts in mobile receivers. After the CLMS beamformer is operated, the subsequent use of an equalizer removes any residual multipath effects, thereby significantly improving the performance of DTV receivers. The performances of the proposed CLMS, Capon, and LMS beamformersare compared based on computer simulations. In addition, the overall performance of the CLMS beamformer followed by an equalizer is also considered.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.59-64
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• 2005

To achieve a goal of minimum output power, the beamformer tends to cancel the desired signal if there exists correlated interference sources such as multipaths of the desired signal. In this paper, we propose a new method which overcomes the signal cancellation problem for correlated interferences. Instead of decorrelating the correlated interferences, the proposed bramformer regards them as replicas of the desired signal and coherently combines them with desired signal. This method uses an eigenvector constraint that suppresses a noise and uncorrelated interferences but keeps the desired signal and correlated interferences. Indisputably, the beamformer does not require any preliminary information on correlated interferences. Simulation results show that the proposed beamformer overcomes the signal cancellation problem and improves signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the array output when the correlated interferences exist.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.66-72
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an adaptive beamforming algorithm of triplet arrays for active sonar systems. The proposed algorithm consists of three steps: matched filters, cardioid beamforming, and line array beamforming. First, we apply a matched filter of a transmitted pulse to received individual sensor signals and obtain filterd signals. Then, we perform the fast Fourier transform to the matched filter results, and make a cardioid beam for each triplet data, respectively. Finally, we apply an adaptive beamforming by assuming that the cardioid beams are input signals of a line array. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides better performances than conventional algorithms.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.25-28
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 W-CDMA(Wide-Code Division Mul-tiple Access)용 Systolic 어레이 구조를 잣는 상향링크 빔형성기법에 대한 성능 분석을 하였다. 적응 어레이 안테나와 Systolic 구조의 MVDR(Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) 알고리즘을 사용하여 구해진 가중치 벡터를 이용하여 원하는 사용자의 방향으로 빔을 형성하고 원하지 않는 사용자의 방향으로는 null을 형성하는 공간필터를 적용하여 W-CDMA 상향링크에서 다중 경로 페이딩과 다중 접속 간섭의 증가에 따른 수신 성능을 분석하였다. 그리고, 안테나 시스템에서 사용되는 가중벡터를 갱신하기 위해 Systolic 구조의 MVDR과 역방향 파일럿 채널을 이용하는 QR-RLS(QR-Recursive Least Squares) 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 본 논문에서는 빔 형성기에 사용하기 위한 역행렬의 계산과 정에 Systolic 어레이 구조를 적용하여 병렬적인 고속처리가 가능한 방법과 효율적인 계산과정을 위해 MVDR 과 QR-RLS 알고리즘을 적용한 공간 필터링의 성능을 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.37-40
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 MISO(Multiple-Input Single-Output) 시스템에서 시공간 블록 부호(Space-Time Block Code; STBC)와 전송 고유빔 형성기의 결합을 통해 전송 다이버시티 이득과 빔형성 이득을 동시에 추구하는 기법에 대해 설명하였다. 빔형성 이득을 대한 성능을 분석하기 위해 채널간 상관 정도에 따라 모의실험을 통해 성능을 분석하였다. 성능 분석 결과 일반적인 STBC 기법을 적용하는 기법보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.179-190
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• 2020

In this paper, we estimated the Direction of Arrival (DOA) using Conventional BeamForming (CBF), adaptive beamforming and compressive beamforming. Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) and Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) are used as the adaptive beamforming, and grid-free compressive sensing is applied for the compressive sensing beamforming. Theoretical background and limitations of each technique are introduced, and the performance of each technique is compared through simulation and real experiments. The real experiments are conducted in the presence of reflected signal, transmitting a sound using two speakers and receiving acoustic data through a linear array consisting of eight microphones. Simulation and experimental results show that the adaptive beamforming and the grid-free compressive beamforming have a higher resolution than conventional beamforming when there are uncorrelated signals. On the other hand, the performance of the adaptive beamforming is degraded by the reflected signals whereas the grid-free compressive beamforming still improves the conventional beamforming resolution regardless of reflected signal presence.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.68-73
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• 2012

This paper is an analysis the performance of CDMA system using array antenna beamforming technique in wireless channels. Adaptive array beamforming antenna technique combine receive signal amplitude with phase in array antenna element, and can be incremental spatial filter function a direction of arrival signal using weight value. Through simulation, in this paper, we were an analysis to compare bit error rate of forward and backward channels using array antenna beamforming technique in order to interference signal decrease of CDMA fading enviroment. The result simulation, we get spatial diversity effect by using array antenna system, and improved the performance to MAI interference decrease.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.71-81
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• 2003

A new beamforming technique is presented for effectively nulling out multiple incoherent interferences incident on an equispaced linear array. The basic idea of the proposed beamformer is based on the matrix property mapping which is basically concerned with the task of recovering a signal from a noise and interference contaminated measurement made on that signal. Computer simulations are shown to illustrate the superior performance achieved with the proposed beamformer relative to that of the conventional LCMV beamformer.