• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.6B
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• pp.1024-1031
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• 1999

In order to transmit high-speed wide band signals efficiently in multipath fading environments, M-ary QAM signalling combined with OFDM transmission technique is applied. In this paper, the effect of synchronization error caused by carrier frequency offset and SER(Symbol Error Rate) performance of OFDM-16QAM and OFDM-64QAM are theoretically analyzed. Our result shows that as the number of sub-carrier in OFDM system increases the frequency-offset caused inter-channel interference(ICI) increases significantly, and that an error floor occurs even at high SNR of OFDM system. For OFDM-64QAM, the error floor occurs at SER=1$\times$10-7 when a normalized frequency-offset is 0.001, in which the SNR degradation is much greater than that of OFDM-16QAM. From this study the maximum allowable frequency-offset of OFDM-16QAM and OFDM-64QAM systems can be determined to meet the specific SER requirement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10A
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• pp.1772-1781
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 OFDM/HL-16QAM 시스템의 성능을 구하였다. OFDM/HL-16QAM은 계층적 16QAM을 채용하는 OFDM 시스템으로서 열악한 다중경로 페이딩 환경에서 고품질의 고속 데이터 전송이 가능하고 서로 다른 품질의 두 가지 데이터 서비스를 동시에 제공할 수 있는 시스템이다. 성능평가를 위한 무선 채널로서는 AWGN과 다중경로 페이딩이 존재하는 무선 환경을 고려했다. 각각의 채널환경에서의 시뮬레이션을 통해 데이터 전송시의 OFDM/HL-16QAM 시스템에 대해 Eb/No와 반송파 수에 따른 BER 성능을 구해냈고, 이로부터 고품질과 저품질의 데이터 서비스를 모두 만족시키기 위해 요구되는 최소 평균 SNR 값을 제시했다. 이미지 전송에 응용하기 위한 방안으로는, 영상 압축을 위해 DCT 기반의 고정길이 부호기법을 채용하는 OFDM/HL-16QAM 시스템을 제안하고, 수신 영상의 PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise power Ratio)을 최대화시키는 최적 계층 변조 파라미터를 구했다. 또한, 최적화된 계층 변조 파라미터를 사용하는 경우, 제안한 시스템을 통한 수신 영상 품질이 기존의 OFDM/16QAM 시스템보다 우수하다는 것을 보였고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 수신 영상에 대한 PSNR의 상한과 하한을 구해냈다. 성능분석 결과들로부터 제안한 OFDM/HL-16QAM 시스템이 데이터와 이미지 전송에 적합한 시스템이라는 것을 알 수 있다.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.44-49
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• 2008

In this paper, the performance for the non-linear satellite channel including the characteristics of group delay and gain ripple of transponder is analyzed with multi-level QAM-OFDM schemes. Comparing the BER performances between general OFDM and CI(Carrier Interferometry)-OFDM for various QAM schemes, the degree of performance improvement is presented in AWGN environments for specified nonlinear characteristics. The simulations are performed with the 36MHz bandwidth of transponder channel and 120Mbps transmission rate for QPSK, 8QAM, 16QAM, 32QAM, 64QAM schemes between normal and worst case condition. It is shown that the improvement measure by the CI-OFDM for the group delay of channel and nonlinear characteristic of HPA outperforms that for the gain ripple in the case of higher level QAM scheme in normal condition. And the simulation results show that the additional techniques like the channel coding and compensation scheme against the nonlinear characteristic are required for 32QAM and higher level QAM in worst case condition.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.29 no.3 s.99
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• pp.245-250
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• 2005

In this paper, considering PAR of transmitter which is pointed out OFDM system's problem, we designed Coded OFDM (COFDM) system and estimated BER and SNR using PAR reduction method In order to evaluate performance, we compared M-ary PSK (M-ary Phase Shift Keying) with M-ary QAM (M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation). In result, performance of 16-PSK and 16-QAM came to good Moreover, 16-QAM showed better performance of about 2 dB in 10-3 error probability and performance of about 5 dB in Peak power clipping than that of 16-PSK.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.635-642
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• 2000

We have been derived theoretically the SER's and CLP's of Wireless ATM (WATM) cells employing an OFDM/16QAM modulation scheme in wireless channel modeled as a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel. The amount of the performance improvement of WATM- OFDM/16QAM systems adopting various coding techniques has been evaluated. In frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel, considering CLP : $10^{-3}$ as a criterion, it is observed that the performance improvement of about 14 dB is obtained in terms of $E_b/N_o$ by employing an OFDM scheme. It is also confirmed that convolutional coding technique gives better performance than the other coding techniques. Especially, when the convolutional codes are adopted to WATM-OFDM/16QAM systems, voice transmission services are sufficiently available with 5 dB of $E_b/N_o$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.5A
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• pp.467-474
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• 2007

MB-OFDM (Multiband-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) UWB (ultra wide band) system uses DCM (dual carrier modulation) scheme to achieve high-data rate transmission. The basic idea of DCM is that to transmit the 4 bits more reliably two 16-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) symbols are used and the two 16-QAM sysmbols are allocated to each subcarrier of OFDM with maximum-distance. In the case of using the DCM, if one 16-QAM symbol is broken by deep fadding channel, a receiver can detect the transmitted signal by using another 16-QAM symbol. In the conventional ML(maximum likelihood) decision scheme, since the receiver does not use the CSI (channel state information), loss in diversity can not be reduced. In this paper, we propose improved soft-decision scheme with CSI for higher performance of MB-OFDM UWB systemn.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.6 s.97
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• pp.586-593
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• 2005

It is very important to reduce the PAPR(Peak to Average Power Ratio) in the OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) communication system. We propose an ACE(Active Constellation Extension) method that does not require the side information unlike the conventional PTS and SLM method. This ACE method is to clip the OFDM signal for the PAPR reduction. Then, the basic constellation actively moves into the higher level of M-QAM for the constellation extension due to the clipping. The already existing M-QAM system can be available so that it can be easily realized. So, we can get the target PAPR by the extension of the constellation level. In this paper, we can find the PAPR reduction of 4 dB by the 16-QAM extension, and can achieve the target PAPR by the 64-QAM ACE(Active Constellation Extension).

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2004

In this paper, we have studied the reliable scheme for transmission of digital watermarking-inserted image data through wireless channel. Multimedia data and watermarking data are degraded because of the high BER (Bit Error Rate) and the effect of fading in wireless channel. We adapt the error correction scheme for mitigating the degradation in watermarking data. We have evaluated the error performance of watermarking data modulated by OFDM/16QAM and sent through Rician fading channel. The simulation results show that when error correcting scheme is used the watermarking data can be detected without severe error even though watermarking-inserted image data is suffered from severe damage.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.121-127
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• 2004

In this paper, we have analyzed the error performance of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing 16 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) Signal in a multipath fading environment modeled as frequency selective Rician fading. We have used a three-path model as frequency selective Rician fading used Rician parameter K. A BCH channel coding is used in order to improve the performance. From the result of this analysis, we have known the improvement of the error performance improvement and the error correcting capability by the BCH channel coding. From the results, the error performance, about $10^{-6},$ required in wireless multimedia communications can not be achieved by using only the BCH channel coding technique so that it should be adopted a new technique together.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.12-15
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• 2000

In this paper, we have evaluated the performance of an OFDM system using hierarchical 16QAM (OFDM/HL-16QAM) for achieving high quality and high speed data and image transmission in multipath fading channel. The wireless channel for performance evaluation is assumed to include AWGN and two ray multipath fading. Through simulation we have obtained the BER performance of the system according to $E_{b}$, $N_{0}$, then compared the received image quality of proposed system with that of conventional system. From the result, it is shown that the OFDM/HL-16QAM system is more effective for data and image transmission.n.n.