• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.24-31
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• 2009

IMT-Advanced 무선전송 시스템 단말모뎀 플랫폼은 다중 반송파 변조 기술, 채널 부호화 기술, 셀 탐색/동기 기술 등 핵심이 되는 요소 기술인 고속 무선 전송 기술을 구현할 수 있는 하드웨어 구조, 기능 및 인터페이스를 설계 제작하였다. 상기 단말모뎀 플랫폼에서는 기저대역 모뎀 물리계층 기능인 변조, 복조, 부호, 복호, 동기를 위한 각각의 FPGA가 실장되는 Daughter Board 형태로 구성되어 L1 기저대역 모뎀 장치에 실장된다. 그리고 PHY 계층(L1)부터 MAE 계층(L2), RRC 계층(L3)까지의 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어 수행을 지원한다. 4G용 단말모뎀을 개발하기 위하여 상용화 이전에 LTE-Advanced 테스트 베드용 단말모뎀 플랫폼을 개발하여 20 MHz 대역폭을 적용 3 km/h의 저속 이동속도에서는 최대 110 Mbps를 수신하고, 최대 55 Mbps를 송신한다. 그리고 120 km/h의 고속 이동속도에서는 최대 55 Mbps를 수신하고, 최대 28 Mbps를 송신한다. 상기 성능을 만족하는 단말모뎀 플랫폼이 개발되면 IMT-Advanced 단말모뎀 플랫폼 기술을 확보하게 된다. 따라서 이동통신 분야에서 기술적인 우위와 시장 선점을 위하여 요소기술 IPR을 확보하고, IMT-Advanced의 표준화 과정에서 이를 국제 표준으로 반영하여 로열티 창출 효과 및 기술 경쟁력을 확보하게 될 것이다. 아울러, LTE 사용자들은 대용량의 고속, 멀티미디어 송 수신을 가능하게 하는 기술로 2010년 이후 가상 현실 서비스, 3D 게임, 센싱 등 사물과 사물이 통신하는 유비쿼터스 서비스로 발전할 것으로 전망한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.10
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• pp.1413-1420
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• 2013

This paper proposes a novel compact MIMO antenna which has miniaturized radiators and their row correlation coefficient, working for the LTE mobile communication, and its SAR is observed. Each of the proposed radiators has a shape of staircase and the bandwidth is twice larger than the conventional PIFA as 600MHz(21%) in 2.5 GHz - 3.15 GHz. And the area of the radiators is $16.5mm{\times}9.7mm$ proper for a handheld device. Also, by adding a planar mushroom decoupling structure between the radiators, the isolation is improved. The design has been carried out using the commercial full-wave time-domain EM solver and the finalized MIMO antenna has the return loss less than -10 dB in the LTE band, the isolation better than 20 dB and the efficiency more than 90% with the gain of 4.3 dB. Regarding the SAR of the antenna, it is observed that the average SAR value of 1g is estimated as 1.37W/Kg, which is lower than the SAR standard.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.12
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• pp.1261-1266
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• 2014

Smart shipyard, all of the business of shipyard by using a mobile application, and the rapid spread of smart equipment, the overload of infrastructure due to a variety of mobile services is expected. Because macrocell and femtecell to reduce the overloading of existing infrastructure, additional core network devices have a problem, in this paper, the efficiency of resources than the communication over the existing infrastructure smart shipyard network to improve, to apply the D2D communication technology that can reduce the load on the infrastructure. The proposed routing path plan in accordance with the transfer method and the traffic type of network configuration and D2D equipment navigation and data for applying a smart shipyard. Whether to execute the function to overload traffic in the core network can send to the optimized path was confirmed by using the state transition diagram. Smart shipyard, by applying D2D communication allow efficient traffic handling than conventional communication method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.4
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• pp.371-380
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• 2013

D2D (Device-to-Device) communication on an underlying cellular infrastructure which exploits the same spectrum has several advantages such as increased resource utilization and improved cellular coverage. However, D2D communication system needs to cope with ICI (Inter-Cell Interference) and interference between cellular and D2D links. As a result, macro UEs (User Equipments), especially those located near cell edge, will suffer from serious link performance degradation. We propose a novel interference avoidance mechanism assisted by SRN (Shared Relay Node) in this paper. SRN not only performs data re-transmission as a usual Type II relay but also has several features newly defined to avoid interference between cellular and D2D links. In particular, we suggest resource allocation methods based on the SRN for effective interference avoidance, and evaluate their performance through computer simulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12A
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• pp.1209-1216
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• 2008

In order to maximize spectrum efficiency and data rate MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output) is adopted to wireless system. OFDM-based WiMAX and LTE accommodate MIMO as mandatory technology. STC(Space Time Coding) and SM(Spatial Multiplexing) are used in downlink while in uplink C-MIMO(Collaborative MIMO) is used to improve data throughput. In this paper conventional pairing schemes, RPS(Random Pairing Scheduling) and DPS(Determinant Pairing Scheduling) are analyzed. From the analysis the performance of DPS algorithm is better than that of RPS because DPS measures orthogonal factor between paired users. However, there are potential problems such as hardware complexity and performance. To overcome the issues Power-Based Scheduling(PBS) algorithm is proposed for C-MIMO. PBS can provide higher performance compared to RPS and dramatically reduce hardware complexity compared to DPS

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.50-59
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• 2016

This work shows that the design and test results of a power amplifier(PA) with broadband and high linearity for 4G applications in $0.11{\mu}m$ CMOS process. A 1:2-transformer is designed for load impedance matching of PA and a inter-stage matching is implemented for a linearity. A designed PA achieves more than 27.3 dBm of linear output power and 26.1 % of power-added efficiency(PAE) under an adjacent channel leakage ratio(ACLR) of -30 dBc for a LTE 16-QAM 10 MHz signal with a carrier frequency range of 1.8 to 2.3 GHz.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.924-930
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• 2014

This paper presents a $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS 3-level envelope delta-sigma modulation (EDSM) RF signal generator, which synthesizes a 2.6 GHz-centered fully symmetrical 3-level EDSM signal for high-efficiency power amplifier architectures. It consists of an I-Q phase modulator, a Class B wideband buffer, an up-conversion mixer, a D2S, and a Class AB wideband drive amplifier. To preserve fast phase transition in the 3-state envelope level, the wideband buffer has an RLC load and the driver amplifier uses a second-order BPF as its load to provide enough bandwidth. To achieve an accurate 3-state envelope level in the up-mixer output, the LO bias level is optimized. The I-Q phase modulator adopts a modified quadrature passive mixer topology and mitigates the I-Q crosstalk problem using a 50% duty cycle in LO clocks. The fabricated chip provides an average output power of -1.5 dBm and an error vector magnitude (EVM) of 3.89% for 3GPP LTE 64 QAM input signals with a channel bandwidth of 10/20 MHz, as well as consuming 60 mW for both channels from a 1.2 V/2.5 V supply voltage.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.61-66
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• 2014

This paper describes the design, fabrication, and measurement of a compact hexa-band coupling antenna for 4G mobile handset using a small element with two slots. In order to obtain sufficient bandwidth (LTE700, GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS) with a Voltage Standing Wave Ratio $(VSWR){\leq}3:1$, two slots are inserted in the small element, and coupling patch is used. The measured result of the fabricated antenna provides 410MHz bandwidth form 0.688 to 1.098GHz and 643 MHz bandwidth form 1.607 to 2.250GHz (${\leq}VSWR 3:1$) with the gain ranging from -0.52 to 4.68 dBi. Also, a good radiation pattern is achieved within the hexa-band (0.698-0.960GHz and 1.710-2.170GHz) range.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.929-934
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• 2016

In this paper, we studied the design and fabrication of array antenna at around 1.8 GHz band. To improve of frequency properties of antenna, single feed microstrip patch antenna was simulated by HFSS(High Frequency Structure Simulator). A $1{\times}2$ array antenna of 1.8 GHz for LTE band was designed and fabricated by photolithography on an FR4 substrate (dielectric constant of 4.4 and thickness of 0.8 mm). The fabricated antenna was analyzed by network analyzer. The measured results agree well with the simulations, which confirmed the validity of this study. The fabricated $1{\times}2$ array antenna showed a center frequency, the minimum return loss and impedance were 1.82GHz, -30.5dB, and $49.6{\Omega}$ respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.7-14
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• 2012

The quantized beamforming systems always need the channel state information, which must be quantized into a finite set of vectors (named codebook), and feedback only sends the index representing the desired vector. Thereby it minimized the impact of feedback errors, caused by feedback overhead and delay. In this regard, index assignment (IA) methods, an exhaustive-search and group-based schemes, have been presented for minimizes the performance degradation without additional feedback bits. In this paper, we proposed enhanced group-based IA method, which used the optimal codebook design with chordal distance, having the adaptive properties in application of the existing IA methods. When the number of transmit antennas is 4 and LTE codebook is used, Monte-Carlo simulations verify that the proposed scheme has a power advantage of 0.5~1dB to obtain the same bit error rate than methods without IA, and it has 0.1~0.2 dB better performance compared with the existing IA methods over same environment.