• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.248-256
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• 2015

In this paper, a hybrid MIMO antenna for the metal phone with auxiliary slot for 4th generation mobile communication is designed and implemented. Auxiliary slot locates on the rear metal cover of the phone, and handles for LTE class 40 band. The auxiliary slot operates hybrid with a monopole antenna. Studied antenna satisfies under VSWR 3:1 for LTE class 13/ LTE class 14/ CDMA/ GSM/ DCS/ PCS/ W-CDMA/ LTE class 40 bands. ECC(Envelope Correlation Coefficient) value for MIMO characteristic is less than 0.2 over the whole design bands. Average gains and antenna efficiencies measured by MTG anechoic chamber were -5.57~-1.45 dBi and 27.75~71.6 %, respectively.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.14-26
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• 2012

최근 폭발적으로 증가하는 모바일 데이터 트래픽을 이동통신망에서 수용하기 위해 통신 사업자 및 표준 단체에서는 새로운 기술들을 연구하고 있다. 특히 단말 간 직접 통신 기술은 기지국의 과부하는 줄여주고, 보다 신속한 통신이 가능하므로 더욱 주목 받고 있다. 또한 주파수 재사용 기술을 통한 주파수 공유가 가능하므로 미래에 발생할 주파수 부족 문제를 해결할 수 있을 것이라고 전망한다. 따라서 본 고에서는 4세대 이동 통신 기술인 LTE-Advanced 망에서의 D2D 통신을 소개하고, 이를 위해 필요한 LTE-Advanced 망에서의 세션 설정, D2D 주파수 할당 메커니즘 기술들에 대하여 소개한다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.78-86
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• 2013

A hybrid MIMO(Multi Input Multi Output) antenna which is operating both a monopole and a IFA(Inverted F Antenna) is designed. It's applied Vlade(Vertical lade) technique to reduce antenna space, and a diagonally fed MIMO antenna is designed on the bare board for the data communication. Return losses due to variables of antenna length are simulated for the design. Antenna for the hexa-frequency band of LTE700, CDMA, GSM, DCS, PCS and WCDMA is designed and implemented. This antenna is satisfied 3:1 VSWR over the whole design band by the measurement of return loss. And average gains and efficiencies were -3.67 ~ -2.53dBi and 42.06 ~ 55.84% for LTE700/CDMA/GSM frequency band, -3.27 ~ -1.21dBi and 47.08 ~ 75.6% for DCS/PCS/WCDMA frequency band. The isolation between 2 antenna that is one of important factors for the MIMO system was measured good performance as -8.14 ~ -25.77dB over the whole service band.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.13-14
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• 2016

LTE 대역인 2.5-2.68GHz에서 동작하는 버틀러 스위치를 설계하기 위해 버틀러 매트릭스의 구성요소인 3dB 하이브리드 커플러와 크로스오버를 다단 브랜치 선로의 구조로 구성하여 광대역 특성을 갖는 평면 구조의 버틀러 스위치를 설계하였다. 설계된 버틀러 스위치는 동작대역에서 23.9dB ~ 34.18dB의 좋은 반사손실 특성과 비교적 작은 $7.124^{\circ}$의 위상오차를 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.104-110
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• 2019

In this paper, a complementary metal oxide semiconductor(CMOS) power amplifier(PA) integrated circuit operating in the 900 MHz band for long-term evolution(LTE) communication systems is presented. The output matching network based on a transformer was implemented on a printed circuit board for low loss. Simultaneously, to achieve high efficiency of the PA, the second harmonic impedances are controlled. The CMOS PA was fabricated using a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and measured using an LTE uplink signal with a bandwidth of 10 MHz and peak to average power ratio of 7.2 dB for verification. The implemented CMOS PA module exhibits a power gain of 24.4 dB, power-added efficiency of 34.2%, and an adjacent channel leakage ratio of -30.1 dBc at an average output power level of 24.3 dBm.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.84-94
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• 2015

5G와 IoT로 인한 무선 트래픽 급증에 대응하기 위해서는, 무선망 성능 및 주파수효율 향상, 신규주파수할당, 주파수 공동사용 기술 개발 등이 복합적으로 적용되어야 달성 가능하다. 그의 일환으로, LTE를 비면허 대역에 사용하려는 LTE-U(Long Term Evolution-Unlicensed)라는 새로운 패러다임의 수평적 주파수 공동사용 기술을, 이동통신에 적용하려는 시도가 진행되고 있다. LTE-A의 주파수 집성기술을 활용하여, 1차 캐리어를 면허 대역 LTE 기반으로 하고, 2차 캐리어를 비면허 대역 LTE로 묶어서 고속으로 데이터를 전송하는 기술이다. 우선적으로 5GHz 비면허 대역에 적용을 검토하고 있는데, 기존에 사용하던 Wi-Fi 및 기상레이다 등과의 공정한 공존(fair coexistence)이 가장 중요하다. 따라서 각국의 5GHz 주파수 대역 규제 현황, 공존을 위한 LBT(Listen-Before-Talk)통신 메커니즘, 표준화 현황을 살펴본다. 또한 이해 당사자인 Wi-Fi, LTE, 이용자, 기술기준의 입장을 살펴보고, 구현이슈, 지적소유권 동향 등을 검토하고, 기술적 및 정책적 대응전략을 살펴본다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.395-398
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• 2016

In this paper, a hybrid MIMO antenna for the mobile communication metal phone with auxiliary letter slot is designed and implemented. Auxiliary letter slot locates on the rear metal cover of the phone, and operates on LTE class 40 band. The slots of two letters are designed and operated with monopole+IFA hybrid antenna. Antenna satisfies under VSWR 3: 1 for LTE class 13 / LTE class 14 / CDMA / GSM / DCS / PCS / W-CDMA / LTE class 40 bands. Average gains and antenna efficiencies measured by the anechoic chamber were -5.57~-1.45 dBi and 27.75~71.6 %, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.678-684
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• 2013

This paper describes a low-power baseband circuit for SAW-less LTE-Advanced transmitters. The proposed transmitter baseband circuit consists of a 2nd-order Tow-Thomas type active RC-LPF and a 1st-order passive RC LPF. It can provide a 7 multi-channel cut-off frequencies and wide gain control range of -41 dB ~ 0 dB with a 1-dB step. The proposed 2nd-order active RC-LPF adopts an op-amp in which three other sub-op amps are in parallel connected to reduce DC current for different cutoff frequency. In addition, each sub-op amp adopts both Miller and feed-forward phase compensation method to achieve an UGBW of more than 1-GHz with a small DC power consumption. The proposed baseband circuit is implemented in 65-nm CMOS technology, consuming DC power from 6.3 mW to 24.1 mW from a 1.2V supply voltage for each different cut-off frequency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.108-114
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• 2016

This paper presents a 2.6 GHz Doherty power amplifier IC to enhance the back-off efficiency. In order to apply to small-cell base stations, the Doherty power amplifier was fabricated using GaN-HEMT process for high power density. In addition, the implemented Doherty power amplifier was mounted on a QFN package. The implemented GaN-HEMT Doherty power amplifier was measured using LTE downlink signal with 10 MHz bandwidth and 6.5 dB PAPR for verification. A power gain of 15.8 dB, a drain efficiency of 43.0 %, and an ACLR of -30.0 dBc were obtained at an average output power level of 33.9 dBm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.208-211
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• 2016

Device-to-Device communication(D2D) enables devices in proximity to communicate directly without going through the network infrastructure. In particular, D2D communications in a cellular network can improve the spectral efficiency by allowing the reuse of cellular resources. However, it is not easy to maintain the channel quality of the D2D links and to protect the cellular links from the D2D interferences, since the resource allocations for the cellular users will change with time due to the time-varying nature of the cellular channels. To mitigate the performance degradation of D2D links, we propose to exploit unlicensed bands as auxiliary resources when the D2D links share the uplink cellular resources. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified through simulations.