• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.501-510
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• 2016

Capabilities of several beamforming techniques are compared for estimating the position of a moving source. Beamforming has enabled to widen our perspective of aeroacoustics in wind tunnel experiments and has provided useful approach in array measurements. Meanwhile beamforming techniques have been developed in a way to improve estimation accuracy and to save ing effort at the same time. In order to achieve reasonable outcome from aeroacoustic measurement, it is important to identify the spectral characteristics of source and to select an appropriate beamformer. Though aeroacoustic sources normally generates broadband noises, many array signal processing have been focused on narrowband processing which makes calculation numerically efficient. However, calculation in frequency-domain requires selection of single frequency of interest which affects spatial resolution and sidelobe level as a consequence. To be able to localize broadband noise source, it is proposed to use broadband beamforming. The formulas implements the deletion of diagonal term from cross spectral matrix. In this study, trajectory of flying source emitting broadband noise was simulated and several beamformers are applied.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.925-935
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• 2022

In this study, we propose a limited feedback-based frequency divided group beamforming with sparse space-frequency transmit diversity coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system for ultrareliable low latency communication (URLLC) scenario. The proposed scheme has several advantages over the traditional hybrid beamforming approach, including not requiring downlink channel state information for baseband precoding, supporting distributed multipoint transmission structures for diversity, and reducing beam sweeping latency with little uplink overhead. These are all positive aspects of physical layer characteristics intended for URLLC. It is suggested in the system to manage the multipoint transmission structure realized by distributed panels using a power allocation method based on cooperative game theory. Link-level simulations demonstrate that the proposed scheme offers reliability by achieving both higher diversity order and array gain in a nonline-of-sight channel of selectivity and limited spatial scattering.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.452-459
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• 2015

Three synchronization issues, i.e., phase, frequency, and symbol time, have to be properly controlled to achieve distributed beamforming gain. In this paper, the impacts of synchronization errors in distributed beamforming are analyzed for both single-carrier and OFDM systems. When the channel is constant over a symbol duration, the performance degradation due to phase offset is the same for both single-carrier and OFDM systems. For symbol timing offset in OFDM systems, high frequency subcarriers are more susceptible as compared to low frequency ones. Frequency offset is critical in OFDM systems since it leads to interference from the other subcarriers as well as power loss in the desired signal.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권7호통권361호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 미래형 이동통신 시스템에서 셀 경계와 같이 반송파대간섭전력비 (Carrier-to-Interference Ratio; CIR)가 낮은 열악한 채널 환경에서 하향링크 실시간 트래픽의 전송 성능 개선을 위한 안테나 선택을 이용한 Grassmannian Beamforming 기반의 MIMO-OFDMA (Multi Input Multi Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) 시스템을 본 저자들은 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 Beamforming 적용으로 인한 상향링크로의 과도한 궤환 정보량이 시스템 주파수 효율 성능을 떨어뜨리는 문제점을 보완하기 위해 Codebook 기반의 Grassmannian Beamforming을 적용하고, 이와 더불어 기지국의 모든 송신 안테나를 사용하지 않고 특정 안테나만을 사용하여 Codebook Size를 줄이면서도 주파수 효율 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 안테나 선택 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 Beamforming을 수행하기 위해 최대 MRT(Maximum Ratio Transmission) 이득을 가지는 최적의 송신 안테나 조합이 선택된다. 모의실험 결과, 제안된 시스템은 기지국의 모든 안테나를 사용하여 Beamforming을 수행한 경우보다 향상된 주파수 효율 성능을 보이며, 상향링크의 궤환 정보량을 감안하더라도 Pseudo-Orthogonal Space Time Block Code를 사용하는 전형적인 개방루프형 MIMO-OFDMA 시스템에 비해 낮은 CIR 영역에서 월등히 개선된 주파수 효율 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.280-294
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• 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and millimeter-wave frequencies play key roles in supporting 5G wireless communication systems. They expand the field of wireless communication by increasing the data capacities of communication systems and supporting high data rates. However, short wavelengths, owing to the high millimeter-wave frequencies can cause problems, such as signal attenuation and path loss. To address these limitations, research on high directional beamforming technologies continue to garner interest. Furthermore, owing to the mobility of the UAVs, it is essential to track the beam angle accurately to obtain full beamforming gain. This study presents a beam tracking method based on the unscented Kalman filter using hybrid beamforming. The simulation results reveal that the proposed beam tracking scheme improves the overall performance in terms of the mean-squared error and spectral efficiency. In addition, by expanding analog beamforming to hybrid beamforming, the proposed algorithm can be used even in multi-user and multi-stream environments to increase data capacity, thereby increasing utilization in new-radio multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권10C호
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• pp.976-982
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• 2005

In this paper, a channel-adaptive beamforming method is proposed for OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multilexing Access) systems with smart antenna, in which the size of a cluster is determined adaptively depending on the frequency selectivity of the channel. The proposed method consists of 4 steps: initial channel estimation, refinement of channel estimates, region-splitting, and computation of weight vector for each region. In the proposed method, the size of a cluster for resource unit is determined adaptively according to a region-splitting criterion. It is shown by simulation that the proposed method shows good performances in both frequency-flat and frequency-selective channels.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권5호
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• pp.1-14
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• 1997

We consider transmission beamforming techniques for frequency-division-duplex (FDD) wireless communication systems using adaptive arrays to improve the signal quality of the array transmission link. We develop a simple effective transmission beamforming technique based on an approximated frequency tranlsation (AFT) to derive the tranmsiion beamforming weights from the uplink channel vector. This technique exploits the invariance of the short-time averaged fast fading statistics to small frequency translations. A simple approximate relationship that relates the transmission channel vector to the reception channel vector is derived. We have developed its practical alternative in which the frequency translation of the channel vector is performed at the principal angle of arrival (AOA) of the u;link synthestic angular spectrum instead of the mean AOA. To analyze the performance of the proposed methods, we consider the power loss incurred by applying the estimated channel vector instead of the true downlink channel vector. The performance is analyzed as a function of the mean AOA, the angular spread, the number of elements, frequncy difference between the uplink and the downlink, and the angle distribution. Their performance is also compared with that of the direct weight reuse method and the AOA based methods.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.713-717
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• 2014

This paper presents a beamforming technique for locating impulsive sound source. The conventional frequency-domain beamformer is advantageous for localizing noise sources for a certain frequency band of concern, but the existence of many frequency components in the wide-band spectrum of impulsive noise makes the beamforming image less clear. In contrast to a frequency-domain beamformer, it has been reported that a time-domain beamformer can be better suited for transient signals. Although both frequency- and time-domain beamformers produce the same result for the beamforming power, which is defined as the RMS value of its output, we can use alternative directional estimators such as the peak value and crest factor to enhance the performance of a time-domain beamformer. In this study, the performance of three different directional estimators, the peak, crest factor and RMS output values, are investigated and compared with the incoherent interfering noise embedded in multiple microphone signals. The proposed formula is verified via experiments in an anechoic chamber using a uniformly spaced linear array. The results show that the peak estimation of beamformer output determines the location with better spatial resolution and a lower side lobe level than crest factor and RMS estimation in noise free condition, but it is possible to accurately estimate the direction of the impulsive sound source using crest factor estimation in noisy environment with stationary interfering noise.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.811-816
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 잡음이 포함된 4채널의 음원신호를 주파수 대역의 독립벡터분석 알고리즘에 의하여 깨끗한 음성신호와 혼합잡음신호를 분리하는 기법을 먼저 제안한다. 제안한 독립벡터분석 알고리즘에 의하여 분리된 음원신호를 주파수대역 지연합 빔형성기로부터 출력되는 신호와 독립벡터분석으로부터 분리된 출력신호 간의 상호 상관성을 이용하여 향상된 출력음성신호를 구한다. 본 실험에서는 백색잡음이 포함된 0dB, -5dB의 SNR의 입력 혼합잡음음성에 대하여, 본 논문에서 제안하고 있는 알고리즘이 주파수대역 지연합 빔형성기 알고리즘만을 사용하였을 때 보다 최대 10.90dB의 SNR 및 10.02dB의 Segmental SNR이 개선되었음을 확인하였다. 따라서 본 논문의 알고리즘 기법이 주파수대역 지연합 빔형성기와 비교하여 음성품질이 향상된 것을 실험 및 고찰을 통하여 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권12A호
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• pp.1214-1222
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access 스마트 안테나 시스템을 위한 효율적인 도래각 추정 기반의 적응 빔 형성 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 추정된 도래각 정보를 이용하여 원하는 신호의 방향으로 주 빔 (main beam)을 형성하는 반면, 간섭 신호의 방향에는 null을 형성함으로써 간섭 신호를 효율적으로 제거한다. 또한, 다중 경로 신호에 대한 빔 형성 출력들을 효율적으로 결합함으로써 공간 다이버시티 이득을 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 알고리즘의 효율성을 입증하기 위해 셀룰러 이동통신 환경에서 WiBro 시스템을 목표 시스템 (target system)으로 설정하여 알고리즘의 성능을 분석하고 least-sqaures 빔 형성 알고리즘과 성능을 비교한다.