• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권10A호
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• pp.941-948
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• 2008

가상 부반송파가 존재하는 orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM)시스템에서 discrete Fourier transform (DFT) 기반 채널 추정은 가상 부반송파 내 부반송파에는 파일롯 부반송파를 배치할 수 없기 때문에 DFT-inverse DFT (IDFT)과정에서 채널 누수가 발생해서 원하는 채널 추정 성능을 얻을 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 가상 부반송파가 존재할 때 DFT 기반 채널 추정기법의 성능 분석을 통해 성능 열화 정도를 분석한다. 가상 부반송파의 수, 파일롯 부반송파의 간격, 가상 부반송파 내부의 배치 불가능한 파일롯 부반송파의 수에 따라 정의 된 채널 누수를 이용하여 분석한다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.655-663
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• 2021

In this paper, DFT-Based channel estimation with channel response mirroring is proposed and analyzed. In General, pilot symbols for channel estimation in MIMO(Multi-Input Multi-Output) OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) Systems have a diamond shape in the time-frequency plane. An interpolation technique to estimate the channel response of sub-carriers between reference symbols is needed. Various interpolation techniques such as linear interpolation, low-pass filtering interpolation, cubic interpolation and DFT interpolation are employed to estimate the non-pilot sub-carriers. In this paper, we investigate the conventional DFT-based channel estimation for noise reduction and channel response interpolation. The conventional method has performance degradation by distortion called "edge effect" or "border effect". In order to mitigate the distortion, we propose an improved DFT-based channel estimation with channel response mirroring. This technique can efficiently mitigate the distortion caused by the DFT of channel response discontinuity. Simulation results show that the proposed method has better performance than the conventional DFT-based channel estimation in terms of MSE.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2014

In this paper, we analyze the effect of the coherence bandwidth of wireless channels on leakage suppression methods for discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based channel estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Virtual carriers in an OFDM symbol cause orthogonality loss in DFT-based channel estimation, which is referred to as the leakage problem. In order to solve the leakage problem, optimal and suboptimal methods have already been proposed. However, according to our analysis, the performance of these methods highly depends on the coherence bandwidth of wireless channels. If some of the estimated channel frequency responses are placed outside the coherence bandwidth, a channel estimation error occurs and the entire performance worsens in spite of a high signal-to-noise ratio.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권9호
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• pp.2218-2230
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an efficient channel delay estimation method for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, especially over doubly-selective fading channels which are selective in both the symbol time domain and subcarrier frequency domain. For the doubly-selective fading channels in single frequency network (SFN), long and strong echoes exist and thus the conventional discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) based channel delay estimation system often fails to produce the exact channel delay profile. Based on the analysis of the discrete-time frequency response of the channel impulse response (CIR) coefficients in the DFT-based channel delay estimation system, we develop a method to effectively extract the true CIR from the aliased signals by employing a simple narrow-band low-pass filter (NB-LPF). The performance of the proposed system is verified using the COST207 TU6 SFN channel model.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.392-403
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• 2024

Even though generalized frequency division multiplexing is an alternative waveform method expected to replace the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in the future, its implementation must alleviate channel effects. Least-squares (LS), a low-complexity channel estimation technique, could be improved by using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) without increasing complexity. Unlike the usage of the LS method, the DFT-based method requires the receiver to know the channel impulse response (CIR) length, which is unknown. This study introduces a simple, yet effective, CIR length estimator by utilizing LS estimation. As the cyclic prefix (CP) length is commonly set to be longer than the CIR length, it is possible to search through the first samples if CP is larger than a threshold set using the remaining samples. An adaptive scale is also designed to lower the error probability of the estimation, and a simple signal-to-interference-noise ratio estimation is also proposed by utilizing a sparse preamble to support the use of the scale. A software simulation is used to show the ability of the proposed system to estimate the CIR length. Due to shorter CIR length of rural area, the performance is slightly poorer compared to urban environment. Nevertheless, satisfactory performance is shown for both environments.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권11호
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• pp.2108-2113
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• 2010

The Long Term Evolution (LTE) system is based on the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and relies its channel estimation on the lattice-type pilot samples in the multipath fading channel environment. The estimation of the channel frequency response (CFR) makes use of the least squares estimate (LSE) for each pilot samples, followed by an interpolation both in time- and in frequency-domain to fill up the channel estimates for subcarriers corresponding to data samples. Any interpolation scheme could be adopted for this purpose. Depending on the requirements of the target system, we may choose a simple linear interpolation or a sophisticated one. For any choice of an interpolation scheme, these is a trade-off between estimation accuracy and numerical cost. For those wireless communication systems based on the OFDM and the preamble-type pilot structure, the DFT-based channel estimation and its variants have been successfully. Yet, it may not be suitable for the lattice-type pilot structure, since the pilot samples are not sufficient to provide an accurate estimate and it is known to be sensitive to the location as well as the length of the time-domain window. In this paper, we propose a simple interpolated based on the upsampling mechanism in the multirate signal processing. The proposed method provides an excellent alternative to the DFT-based methods in terms of numerical cost and accuracy. The performance of the proposed technique is verified on a multipath environment suggested on a 3GPP LTE specification.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.307-309
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• 2015

본 논문은 LTE-A 시스템 상향링크에서 채널누수 문제를 해결하고 스펙트럼 효율을 개선하기 위한 DFT 기반 채널추정 기법을 제안하였다. 제안하는 추정기는 기존 추정기들과 비교하여 사용자 및 셀 스펙트럼 효율을 뛰어나게 개선할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국통신학회 2004년도 추계종합학술대회 논문 초록집
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• pp.68-68
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• 2004

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.22-31
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• 2015

최근, 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 에서는 폭발적으로 증가하고 있는 모바일 데이터 트래픽을 수용하기 위하여 기기 간 직접(Device-to-Device, D2D) 통신을 개발하고 이에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. D2D 통신을 위해 이용되는 링크를 사이드링크라 하며, 사이드링크는 낮은 PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio)을 위해 SC-FDMA (Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access)를 기반으로 한다. 또한, DMRS (DeModulation Reference Signal)를 사용함으로써 MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) 전송이 가능하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 D2D 통신에서 사이드링크를 위한 DFT 기반 채널 추정 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 빠른 속도로 움직이는 사용자의 채널 추정이 가능하도록 2-D MMSE (2-Dimensional Minimum Mean Square Error) 보간 기법을 사용한다. 시스템 레벨 시뮬레이션은 3GPP LTE-Advanced 시스템의 20MHz 대역을 기반으로 이루어 졌으며, 시뮬레이션 결과 제안한 채널 추정 기법을 통해 기존 기법보다 SINR(Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio), 전송률 및 스펙트럼 효율 측면에서 성능 향상을 가져다주는 것을 확인하였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.879-891
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 고정 수신 환경에서 ATSC(Advanced Television Systems Committee) 3.0 MIMO(multiple-input multiple-output)의 채널 추정 방법에 따른 성능 평가를 제시하였다. ATSC 3.0 MIMO 시스템은 기존의 지상파 방송 시스템에 비해 높은 주파수 효율성(spectral efficiency)과 향상된 수신 성능을 얻을 수 있다. ATSC 3.0 MIMO의 파일럿 인코딩 알고리즘(pilot encoding algorithm)으로서 Walsh-Hadamard 인코딩과 널 파일럿(null pilot) 인코딩이 정의되어 있고, 단일 입력 단일 출력(single-input single-output)에 비해 크기와 위상이 달라진다. 수신기에서 파일럿 신호에 대한 채널 추정 후 데이터 신호에 대한 채널 추정을 위한 보간(interpolation)이 수행되는데, 이 때 시간 축과 주파수 축에 대해 선형 보간과 DFT(discrete Fourier transform) 기반 보간 방법을 적용할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 시간 축과 주파수 축에 대해 가능한 보간 방법의 조합을 구성한 뒤, 전산 실험을 통해 다양한 보간 방법의 성능을 분석하였다. 전산 실험 결과는 시간 축으로 선형 보간을 먼저 수행한 후 주파수 축으로 DFT 기반 보간을 수행하는 조합이 가장 좋은 성능을 얻을 수 있음을 보여준다.