• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.516-525
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• 2012

In this paper, an efficient technique for enhancing the QoS of multimedia service for an WiMedia network applying distributed cooperative medium access (D-MAC) protocol is proposed. D-MAC protocol has been proposed to support high-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (HR-WPANs) by the WiMedia Alliance. Unlike the centralized IEEE 802.15.3 MAC, the D-MAC UWB specified by WiMedia supports all devices to be self-organized and removes the SOP (Simultaneous Operating Piconet) problem, i.e., packet collisions between overlapped piconets in the centralized IEEE 802.15.3 MAC. However the WiMedia D-MAC can't prevent reduce the throughput degradation occurred by mobile nodes with low data rate. Therefore, a distributed cooperative MAC protocol for multi-hop UWB network is proposed in this paper. The proposed technique can intelligently select the transmission path with higher data rate to provide real-time multimedia services with minimum delay, thus enhances QoS of multimedia service.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.849-852
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• 2007

In this paper, the high gain and the broadband microstrip patch antenna, which is applicable to 5 GHz band wireless LAN, is designed in order to integrate IEEE 802.11a's detailed standards($a:5.15{\sim}5.25$, $b:5.25{\sim}5.35$, $c:5.725{\sim}5.875$ [GHz]). Designed patch antenna has settled resonance frequency by insert substance(polyurethane: ${\varepsilon}_r=6.5$) between the separated parasitic patch and radiation patch for the purpose of miniaturize. And the form (${\varepsilon}_r=1.03$) were to fix the separated radiation patch and ground plans by air. Designed frequency bandwidth(VSWR 2:1) of the antenna showed broadband characteristic of $4.9[GHz]{\sim}6.1[GHz]$ to about 1.2[GHz]. Also the E-plan and H-plan profit 12[dBi] above, the 3[dB] beamwidth showed the characteristic over the E-plan $30^{\circ}$ and H-plan $60^{\circ}$ to be improved.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.544-547
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• 2016

WBAN (Wirless Body Area Network)은 IEEE 802.15.6에서 정의한 통신 표준으로 인체 내/외부 및 표면에 장착되는 무선 센서 장치들을 통해 의료 및 비의료 서비스를 동시에 제공하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이러한 WBAN은 인체 중심 구성과 네트워크 내부의 이동성 및 네트워크 단위의 이동성을 가지는 특성으로 인해 다수의 WBAN들이 좁은 공간에 공존할 수 있으며, 상호 간섭으로 인해 성능 저하와 같은 문제에 노출된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 IEEE 802.15.6에서는 공존 상황을 이동성에 따라 3가지로 세분화 하였으며, 세분화된 각 상황에 적합한 공존성 해결 방안의 가이드라인을 제시하고 있다. 하지만 표준에서는 세분화한 공존 상황을 인지하는 알고리즘과 각 공존성 문제 해결방안의 상세 방안이 결여되어있다. 또한, WBAN의 공존성 문제를 해결하기 위해 제안된 기존의 연구들은 표준에서 정의한 공존상황을 고려하지 않고 있어 추후 표준 기반의 WBAN의 구현시 호환성이 결여된다는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 WBAN의 공존성 문제 해결에 대한 연구방향의 재조명이 필요한 때 이다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.15.6 표준과 기존의 공존성 문제 해결 방안을 소개하며, 기존 연구의 연구 접근 방법을 분석하고 문제점을 제시한다. 또한, WBAN의 공존성 문제에 대한 새로운 접근 방법과 연구 방향을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.243-245
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• 2016

웨어러블 디바이스 시장이 커지고 있고, 웨어러블 디바이스의 성능이 좋아지고 있다. 이에 발맞춰 웨어러블 디바이스를 이용한 인증, 헬스케어 등 다양한 서비스들이 제공 되고 있다. 다양한 서비스를 제공할 때 웨어러블 디바이스에서 수집한 개인 정보들이 통신 과정을 통해 이동하게 된다. 이용자들에게 개인정보 보호는 중요한 문제이기 때문에 웨어러블 디바이스에 대한 보안은 중요하다. 그러나 웨어러블 디바이스에서의 통신 표준문서 IEEE802.15.6의 프로토콜은 사실상 표준에서 요구하는 보안 요구사항을 만족하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 4개의 키 합의 프로토콜 중 3번 프로토콜에서의 취약점을 파악하고 보안 요구사항을 만족하는 안전한 키 합의 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안한 프로토콜은 표준에서 요구하는 보안 요구사항을 만족하며, 웨어러블 디바이스 통신 환경에서 안전한 통신을 가능하게 한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.153-158
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose and analyze the positioning technique using TH-PPM ultra wideband for indoor environment. We employed AWGN and IEEE 802.15.3a channel as a simulation environment and used to TDOA algorithm. Positioning technique using ultra wideband has high accuracy in indoor environment. From the simulation results, it is analyzed the probability of error and positioning performance for channel effects and confirmed usefulness of the proposed scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.232-239
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• 2006

In this paper, we analyze the preamble model for Wireless PAN(WPAN) in proposed Ultra WideBand(UWB) Multi-Band OFDM(MB-OFDM) system of IEEE 802.15.3a standard. Besides, we propose effective Carrier Frequency Offset and Symbol Timing Offset Estimation algorithm which offers enhanced performance, and analyze its performance using Detection Probability, False Alarm Probability, Missing Probability, Mean Acquisition Time and MSE(Mean Square Error) through simulation in AWGN and UWB channel environments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.685-690
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• 2013

This paper has proposed a multi-channel and wide gain-range baseband circuit blocks for the IEEE 802.15.4g MR-OFDM SUN systems. The proposed baseband circuit blocks consist of two negative-feedback VGAs, an active-RC 5th-order chebyshev low-pass-filter, and a DC-offset cancellation circuit. The proposed baseband circuit blocks provide 1 dB cut-off frequencies of 100 kHz, 200 kHz, 400 kHz, and 600 kHz respectively, and achieve a wide gain-range of +7 dB~+84 dB with 1 dB step. In addition, a DC-offset cancellation circuit has been adopted to mitigate DC-offset problems in direct-conversion receiver. Simulation results show a maximum input differential voltage of $1.5V_{pp}$ and noise figure of 42 dB and 37.6 dB at 5 kHz and 500 kHz, respectively. The proposed I-and Q-path baseband circuits have been implemented in $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and consume 17 mW from a 1.8 V supply voltage.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.117-126
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• 2009

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) consist of mesh routers and mesh clients, where mesh routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone of WMNs. They provide network access for both mesh and conventional clients. The integration of WMNs with other networks such as the Internet, cellular, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16, sensor networks, etc., This paper presents a secure and efficient authentication mechanism for Wireless mesh network. The validity of proposed mechanism is provided by BAN logic and the efficiency of suggested mechanism is showed through the performance evaluation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.227-228
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• 2006

In this paper, we introduce the design and fabrication of 60 GHz low noise amplifier MMIC for IEEE802.15.3c WPAN system. The 60 GHz LNA was designed using ETRI's $0.12{\mu}m$ PHEMT process. The PHEMT shows a peak transconductance ($G_{m,peak}$) of 500 mS/mm, a threshold voltage of -1.2 V, and a drain saturation current of 49 mA for 2 fingers and $100{\mu}m$ total gate width (2f100) at $V_{ds}$=2 V. The RF characteristics of the PHEMT show a cutoff frequency, $f_T$, of 97 GHz, and a maximum oscillation frequency, $f_{max}$, of 166 GHz. The performances of the fabricated 60 GHz LNA MMIC are operating frequency of $60.5{\sim}62.0\;GHz$, small signal gain ($S_{21}$) of $17.4{\sim}18.1\;dB$, gain flatness of 0.7 dB, an input reflection coefficient ($S_{11}$) of $-14{\sim}-3\;dB$, output reflection coefficient ($S_{22}$) of $-11{\sim}-5\;dB$ and noise figure (NF) of 4.5 dB at 60.75 GHz. The chip size of the amplifier MMIC was $3.8{\times}1.4\;mm^2$.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.439-449
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• 2015

Human body communication (HBC) is being recognized as a new communication technology for mobile and wearable devices in a body area network (BAN). This paper presents co-channel interference experienced by HBC supporting the physical layer in the IEEE 802.15.6 BAN standard. To analyze the co-channel interference, a co-channel interference model is introduced, and space-domain and time-domain parameters representing an interference environment are generated using the co-channel interference model. A new signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) parameter depending on the peak amplitudes of the data signals causing co-channel interference is defined; co-channel interference can be easily analyzed and modelled using the newly defined SIR. The BER degradation model derived using the co-channel interference model and SIR in this paper can be effectively used to estimate the performance.