• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.208-217
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• 2013

When a beamforming can be processed separately in horizontal and vertical directions with the planar arrays used in sonar systems, there are several merits such as that practically reduce the required computations and volumes. However, the common planar arrays used in sonar systems are generally non-separable, so the beamforming with separable weighting results in the differences between the desired beam characteristics and the resultant beam characteristics. In this paper, we propose a new separable weighting method which can achieve the wanted beam characteristics by using the separable weights in horizontal and vertical directions for the non-separable planar arrays. In order to achieve the wanted beam characteristics, the proposed method minimizes the differences between the desired weights and the resultant weights based on the number of effective sensors in horizontal and vertical directions of the planar arrays.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1207-1212
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• 2018

The signal intelligence (SIGINT) technology is actively used for collecting various data, in a number of fields, including a military industry. In order to collect the signal information and data and to transmit/receive the collected data efficiently, the accurate angle-of-arrival (AOA) information is required and communication disturbance from the interference or jamming signal should be minimized. In this paper, we present the structure of an adaptive beam-forming satellite system based on the planar array antenna, for collecting and transmitting/receiving the signal information and data efficiently. The presented adaptive beam-forming system consists of an antenna in the form of a planar array, an AOA estimator based on the Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm, an adaptive Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) interference canceler, a signal processing and D/B unit, and a transmission beamformer based on Minimum mean Square Error (MMSE). In addition, through the computer simulation, we evaluate and analyze the performance of the proposed system.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.587-592
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• 2018

An adaptive beam forming system using a phased array antenna improves communication quality by beam forming adaptively to a communication environment having an interference signal. For adaptive beam forming, a good combination of the phases of the excited signals to each radiating element of the phased array antenna should be calculated. In this paper, improved particle swarm optimization algorithm that adds a re-spreading procedure according to particle density was proposed to increase the probability of good phase shift combination output.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.8A
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• pp.827-835
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• 2007

In this paper, the extension method of data transmission range as adapting AAS(Adaptive Antenna Systems) in ECMA(European Computer Manufacturers Association) standard MB-OFDM(MultiBand-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) UWB systems is proposed, and the complementary beamforming method which can solve hidden beam problem when we adapt AAS in CSMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) systems is proposed. To design the complementary beamforming, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization is utilized, whose beam pattern exhibits perfect nulling at the main beam angles and provides uniform power for detection of channel utilization out of main beam. The proposed method can be utilized with any arbitrary beamforming when we make main beamforming. Through computer simulation, it can be shown that proposed AAS and complementary beamforming increase data transmission range from 2m to 3.95m in 480Mbps data transmission system and increase throughput about 20% as compared with general UWB AAS systems.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2001

최근에 cdma2000-lx 시스템의 역방향에 파일럿 채널이 추가되면서 적은 계산량으로 구현이 가능한 LMS 빔 형성 기법이 연구되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 LMS 빔 형성 방식의 경우 무선 페이딩 채널에 적응하기 위하여 고정된 step-sire parameter를 이용하였다. 하지만 이러한 고정된 step-size parameter를 사용할 경우 MSE가 증가하여 좋은 성능을 얻을 수 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 LMS 순 방향 빔 형성 기법에서 채널을 추정하여 추정된 채널과 LMS 가중치의 오차에 적응하는 step-size parameter를 결정함으로써 적은 MSE만으로 가중치 값을 추정하는 CA-LMS(Channel Adaptive Least Mean Square) 방식을 이용한 순방향 빔 형성 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방식에 대하여 cdma2000-lx 환경에서 다양한 페이딩 환경에 적용하여 제안한 방식이 우수함을 확인 할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.111-116
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• 2008

Radar system must estimate exactly quickness and target in interference channel. Because interference of radio channel is multipath channel by artificial structure and nature structure. signal estimation is difficult. As long as, get rid of interference signal have been study digital beamforming, adaptive array antenna and so on. In this paper, proposed SPT-SALCMV beamforming algorithm get rid of coherent interference algorithm and adaptive array antenna. Adaptive array forms null pattern and reduces gains for direction of interference signal. And estimate signal that want by keeping gains of beam pattern changelessly to target signal direction. In this paper, proposed SPT-SALCMV algorithm was exactly received position of target. But general SPT-LCMV algorithm resulted beam error about 30degrees. Therefore, proved that SPT-SALCMV algerian that propose in this paper is more excellent than genaral SPT-LCMV algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.24-33
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• 2010

This paper proposes a technique of sound beamforming that can generate high-directive sound beams, and this paper also presents applications of the proposed algorithm to multi-channel 3D sound systems. The proposed algorithm consists of two phases: first, optimum weights maximizing a sound pressure level ratio between the target and control acoustic regions are designed, and later, the directivity of the pre-designed sound beam is iteratively enhanced by modifying the covariance matrix. The proposed method was evaluated under various situations, and the results showed that it could provide more focused sound beams than the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.463-466
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• 2004

수중 음향 탐지 시스템에서 빔 형성 기법은 오랫동안 많은 연구자들에 의해 연구되어 왔다. 빔 형성 기법은 탐지성능에 직결되기 때문에 최적의 빔 설계는 중요한 문제가 된다. 그리고 최적의 빔 형성기를 구현하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 가중회로의 구성이 필수적이며, 가중회로를 구성하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 등가회로 모델링과 정합회로 설계가 필수적이다. 이전의 연구에서는 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool과 정합회로 디자인 Tool 각각의 구성과 사용방법에 대해서 소개하였다. 이 두 가지 Tool을 모두 이용하여 센서 등가회로 및 정합회로를 모델링하였고, 이를 바탕으로 실제 가중회로를 구현하였다. 가중회로는 정합회로와 트랜스포머로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 이와같이 구성된 가중회로와 스케일 모델에 맞게 제작된 스피커 어레이를 이용하여 빔형성 실험을 하였으며, 그 결과를 이론치와 비교하였다. 이것을 바탕으로 BeamCAD, 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool 그리고 정합회로 디자인 Tool로 이루어진 소나 센서 디자인 Tool의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.231-236
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• 2012

In this paper, aerodynamic noise characteristics of high-speed trains were deduced from the beamforming method. First, pass-by noise of high-speed trains was measured by a microphone array system. This measurement suggested that the majority of the aerodynamic noise produced came from the bogie area, the pantograph and its cover, and inter-coach gaps. Then, beampower outputs of a position in high-speed trains were obtained from the beamforming method. By Fourier transform, sound characteristics of the position in the frequency domain were deduced from the beamforming power spectrum. From this study, aerodynamic noise characteristics from the major sources of high-speed trains were drawn.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.358-365
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• 2007

In this paper, the effects of transmit beamforming on downlink performance in DS-CDMA communication systems are investigated. The uplink and downlink in FDD systems use different carrier frequencies. If the downlink uses the same weighting vectors as the uplink, the antenna beam for downlink is formed with certain DOA shift and it thus affects the beamforming gain. So, the impacts of different frequencies on the downlink beam patterns are studied. One possible algorithm to convert uplink beamforming weights to downlink, which is called frequency-calibrated processing, is also evaluated to reduce the degradation of downlink performance due to different frequencies. Under frequency selective channels, the downlink chooses a PUPW beamforming scheme when the uplink employs a PPPW vectors. To form a beam pattern for a PUPW after combining the downlink PPPWs converted from the uplink PPPWs, three approaches are studied. One method is to consider only one dominant path and thus obtain a single main-beam. In the others, multiple-beams weighted with the magnitudes of all paths and equally weighted with all paths are constructed.