• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2004

This paper presents an implementation of smart antenna system channel card that executes modulation/demodulation. Operations and performances of modules of implemented channel card is confirmed and field test of channel card shows the performance of smart antenna systems. Based on the analysis obtained from the field test in cdma2000 1x environments which contains multipath lading, it is confirmed that smart antenna system channel card provide exact beampattern to the DOA and performance of proposed channel card has better FER by 5∼8 times, compared to 2 antenna diversity system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1414-1419
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a resolution enhancement method for estimating direction-of-arrival (DOA) of narrowband incoherent signals incident on a general array. The resolution of DOA algorithm is dependent on the aperture size of antenna array. But it is very impractical to increase the physical size of antenna array in real environment. Therefore we propose the method that increases the aperture size by virtually expanding the sensor spacing of original antenna array and then construct the steering matrix of the virtual array using the proper transformation matrix. Superior resolution capabilities achieved with this method are shown by simulation results in comparison with the standard MUSIC for incoherent signals incident on a uniform circular array.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.141-148
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• 2010

In this paper, voice activity detection (VAD) for dual-channel noisy speech recognition is proposed in which spatial cues are employed. In the proposed method, a probability model for speech presence/absence is constructed using spatial cues obtained from dual-channel input signal, and a speech activity interval is detected through this probability model. In particular, spatial cues are composed of interaural time differences and interaural level differences of dual-channel speech signals, and the probability model for speech presence/absence is based on a Gaussian kernel density. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed VAD method, speech recognition is performed for speech segments that only include speech intervals detected by the proposed VAD method. The performance of the proposed method is compared with those of several methods such as an SNR-based method, a direction of arrival (DOA) based method, and a phase vector based method. It is shown from the speech recognition experiments that the proposed method outperforms conventional methods by providing relative word error rates reductions of 11.68%, 41.92%, and 10.15% compared with SNR-based, DOA-based, and phase vector based method, respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.53-64
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• 2004

This paper proposes a monopulse beamforming network to estimate a target angle in interference conditions. The proposed system estimates the target direction of arrival (DOA) with two separate beamformings for azimuth and elevation with a planar may. The elevation is extracted from adaptive beamforming in the azimuth direction and the azimuth from adaptive beamforming in the elevation direction. Unlike conventional monopulse beamforming techniques using complex correction formulas or a cascaded architecture of an adaptive array and a mainlobe canceller, the proposed system is very efficient from the computational complexity. The advantage is from fact that the monopulse ratio of the proposed system does not depend on the adapted weights. Moreover, the proposed system can estimate the DOA of the target even for multiple mainlobe interferences since it does not need my kinds of mainlobe maintenance technique.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.9
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• pp.802-810
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• 2012

This paper describes RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) based target acquisition and docking system. RFID is non-contact identification system, which can send relatively large amount of information using RF signal. Robot employing RFID reader can identify neighboring tag attached objects without any other sensing or supporting systems such as vision sensor. However, the current RFID does not provide spatial information of the identified object, the target docking problem remains in order to execute a task in a real environment. For the problem, the direction sensing RFID reader is developed using a dual-directional antenna. The dual-directional antenna is an antenna set, which is composed of perpendicularly positioned two identical directional antennas. By comparing the received signal strength in each antenna, the robot can know the DOA (Direction of Arrival) of transmitted RF signal. In practice, the DOA estimation poses a significant technical challenge, since the RF signal is easily distorted by the surrounded environmental conditions. Therefore, the robot loses its way to the target in an electromagnetically disturbed environment. For the problem, the g-filter based error correction algorithm is developed in this paper. The algorithm reduces the error using the difference of variances between current estimated and the previously filtered directions. The simulation and experiment results clearly demonstrate that the robot equipped with the developed system can successfully dock to a target tag in obstacles-cluttered environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3A
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• pp.233-239
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• 2004

The capacity and the performance of the spatial filtering system depends on the spatial properties of wireless vector channel. In this paper, we have analyzed the wireless vector channel characteristics in the dense urban area using the data collected from the real environments. After analyzing the measurement data, it has been found out that the signals were received mainly from only a few directions (such as roads or commercial buildings) even if mobile users are randomly distributed in a cell. Moreover, the DOA(Direction-of-Arrival) of a received signal may not change continuously while a mobile is moving, it may jump from one direction to the other direction with fading.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1123-1129
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• 2003

The noise of maneuvering submarines or vessels can be divided into the tonal signals and broadband ambient noise. Tonal signals are from the revolution of motors and engines of vessels, and broadband ambient noise is from the bubbles which are generated by the propellers and the flow of water around vessels. We can analyze the kinds and the speed of vessels if we analyze the tonal signals and ambient noise. But, it is difficult to divide the tonal signals form the ambient noise when the power of tonal signal is much weaker than the power of ambient noise. In this paper, we detect the direction of arrival(DOA) of the noises generated by vessels with the automatic tracking window(ATW) preprocessing algorithm, and make a beam to the direction of the targets. We suggest a method which can separate weak tonal signals from broadband ambient noise with the ATW algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1041-1046
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• 2004

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) is becoming the chosen modulation technique for wire and wireless communications with fast data rate because of good spectral efficiency and sufficient robustness of fading channel. Digital Video Broadcating is using OFDM to modulate. But Digital Video Broadcating has performance degradation in moving reception according to DOA(Direction of Arrival). The purpose of this paper is to improve reception performance using array antenna in environment with doppler effect.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.52-60
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• 2007

스마트 안테나 어플리케이션 프로그래밍 인터페이스(SAAPI)는 Software Defined Radio (SDR) 네크워크에서 동작하는 스마트 안테나 시스템의 개방성, 유연성, 상호 운영성 및 호환성을 위해 제안된 표준 어플리케이션 프로그래밍 인터페이스이다. 스마트 안테나 API는 스마트 안테나 시스템의 제어를 담당하는 SAControl 컴포넌트, 빔포밍(beamforming), 도달각(Direction of Arrival: DOA) 추정, 시공간 부호화(Space Time Coding: STC) 등의 다양한 알고리즘의 수행을 담당하는 SAAlgorithm 컴포넌트, 채널 추정과 다중 안테나 경로 보정(Calibration) 등을 담당하는 SASynchronization 컴포넌트 등의 세가지 컴포넌트로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 안테나 API를 소개하고, 이를 이용하여 차세대 통신 시스템의 필수 요소로 자리잡고 있는 스마트 안테나 시스템의 표준 모델을 제시한다. 또한, 본 논문에서 제안하는 스마트 안테나 API는 SDR 관련 국제 기구인 SDR 포럼을 통해 Object Management Group(OMG)의 표준으로 상정할 것을 목표로 하고 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1166-1172
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• 2012

In this paper, by using a commercial EM simulator, we could obtain the array manifold which are phase responses of an array antenna for the incident plane wave and then verified the effectiveness of methodology after comparing with the measurement. The result shows that the array manifold can be calculated including not only the phase response of the ideal point sources but also the influences of the mutual coupling between antennas and the installed platform. Also it can exclude the interference of strong broadcasting signal and the disturbance of the multipath in the calibration process. Finally, to predict the performances of direction finding systems, a novel method using both the EM simulation-based receiving signal and the sparsely sampled array manifold with the parabolic estimation is proposed. This method can be utilized in the various fields of direction-finding since it shows the superior predictive performance even in low SNR conditions.