• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.11
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• pp.61-68
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a RF front-end developments for vehicle UWB radar systems. UWB systems have a very narrow pulse width that is below 1ns. Therefore, UWB is designed to have broadband quality of low power several GHz and must coexist with the radio communication system. UWB's advantages include high channel capacity and data rate, because precise resolution for multi-path can easily position estimate and Rake receiver. Also, UWB has low interference because it displays broadband quality of low power. Positioning is made possible by short range accuracy, which can reduce the expense of system design. An RF front-end module is designed using the DCR(Direct ConveRsion) method and is composed in RF for vehicles at a low-cost.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.10
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• pp.98-104
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• 2013

This paper presents a WBAN UWB receiver circuit for RTLS(real time location system) and wireless data communication. The UWB receiver is designed to OOK modulation for energy detection. The UWB receiver is designed for sub-sampling techniques using 4bit ADC and DLL.The proposed UWB receiver is designed in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS and consumes 61mA with a 1.8V supply voltage. The UWB receiver achieves a sensitivity of -85.7 dBm, a RF front-end gain of 42.1 dB, a noise figure of 3.88 dB and maximum sensing range of 4 meter.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.7A
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• pp.682-687
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• 2010

The IEEE 802.15.4a specification targets the low-rate (LR) Impulse-radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) system which is now widely applied in the WPANs considering rather short distance communications with low complexity and power consumption. The physical (PHY) layer uses concatenated coding with mixed binary phase-shift keying and binary pulse-position modulation (BPSK-BPPM), and direct sequence spreading with time hopping in order that both coherent and non-coherent receiver architectures are supported. In this paper, the performances of multiple access schemes compliant with IEEE 802.15.4a specification are investigated with energy detection receiver, which allow avoiding the complex channel estimation needed by a coherent receiver. However, the performance of energy detection receiver is severely degraded by multi-user interference (MUI), which largely diminishes one of the most fascinating advantages of UWB, namely robustness to MUI as well as the possibility to allow parallel transmissions. So as to improve the performance of multiple access schemes, we propose to apply the novel TH sequences as well as to increase the number of TH positions. The simulation results show that our novel multiple access schemes significantly improve the performance against MUI.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.807-810
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• 2007

Recently, ultra-wideband (UWB) technology based on the transmission of short duration pulses has gained much interest for its application to wireless communications. UWB small scale channel modeling work, including statistical characterization and potential models, are discussed. The significance, in terms of performance, of the channel impulse response model chosen for the simulation of UWB communications systems is also evaluated. Three traditional models are found to be useful for modeling NLOS UWB channels, but not LOS channels. In this paper, a new model for LOS UWB channels is presented and shown to represent LOS channels much more accurately than the traditional models.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2649-2651
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 다중객체 인식 시스템과 같은 저용량 데이터전송의 저전력 무선센서네트워크 분야에 적용 가능한 새로운 펄스 방식의 저용량 UWB 통신 시스템을 제안하고 이를 설계 및 구현한다. 특히, 펄스방식의 저전력 UWB 시스템을 구현하기 위해서 전형적인 통신시스템의 수신기 구조인 RF단의 믹서, 상관기와 A/D 변환기를 없애고 최대한 단순화된 구조의 무선 비동기방식의 초광대역 송수신기를 설계한다. 설계된 WAU(Wireless Asynchronous Ultra-Wide band)시스템은 홈내 또는 강의실과 같은 곳에서 1:N HD(Half Duplex) 방식으로 저전력 무선 CANVAS 전송이 가능토록 실제 구현되었다. 구현된 WAU 시스템은 P-to-P(Peer-to-Peer) LOS(Line of Sight) 채널상태의 전송거리 10 m 에서 안정적으로 최대 115kbps 급의 전송속도가 지원 가능함을 측정하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.594-598
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• 2003

In this paper, we analyze the performance of UWB(Ultra-WideBand) communication system employing Bi-phase modulation and RAKE Receiver under the MAI(Multiple Access Interference) and the OSI(Other System Interference) environment. Using the multi-path channel model recommended by IEEE P802.15.TG3a, the performance degradation Is described with the number of users, the number of RAKE fingers and training sequences. To meet BER 10e-4 for 20 users at the same time, the number of RAKE fingers are proposed from 3 to 32. And the number of training sequences are limited less than 8 to keep the channel estimation error within 3dB

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.41-42
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a rapid asynchronous UWB (Ultra Wide Band) position location scheme based on double RTTs (Round-Trip Transmissions). In the proposed scheme, to avoid performance degradation of the position location in harsh multipath channel environments where LoS (Line-of-Sight) components are not always guaranteed, the remaining RTT information is solved from realistic double RTTs. Simulation results in IEEE 802.15.4a UWB channel models reveal that the proposed scheme can achieve closely comparable position location accuracy of the conventional ToA (Time of Arrival) method based on triple RTTs, while reducing the processing delay required for the calculation of the position locations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.686-691
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• 2012

Deviating from the exclusive frequency assignment, UWB has utilized much wider frequency range, worked independently without interfering other frequencies, and simultaneously enabled to increase more than hundreds of Mbps data transmission rate. In considering its high data rate and no interference, UWB certainly has an infinite and technical potential. In this paper, we studied the UWB technology as well as its technological trend, analyzed UWB antenna, and actualized a small antenna for wireless video streaming devices.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.1371-1379
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• 2010

This paper presents an analysis of impulse dispersion for impulse radio ultra-wide band(IR-UWB) antenna. A set of antenna structure configurations are highlighted with verification based on the STFT(Short Time Fourier Transform) in 3.1~5.1 GHz: first, a taper-slotted antenna allowing the optimal impulse transmission, and second, 4 types of the omni-directional IR-UWB antenna using different feed structures(microstrip line, and CPW(Coplanar Waveguide)). The proposed STFT allows the analysis of the IR-UWB antenna's dispersion characteristic.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.2 s.105
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• pp.89-94
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• 2006

A compact microstrip band-selective filter for ultra-wideband(UWB) radio system is proposed. The filter combines the traditional short-circuited stub highpass filter and coupled resonator band-stop filter on both sides of the mitered 50-ohm microstrip line. To realize the pseudo-highpass filtering characteristic over UWB frequency band(3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz), a distributed highpass filter scheme is adopted. Three coupled resonators are utilized to obtain the band stop function at the desired frequency band. By meandering the coupled resonators, there is $29\;\%$ size reduction in footprint compared to the traditional band-stop filter using L-shaped resonators. The measured results show that the filter has a wide passband of $146.7\;\%$(2.1 GHz to 10.15 GHz) with low insertion loss and the stop band of $10.04\;\%$(5.2 GHz to 5.75 GHz) for 3-dB bandwidth. The measured group delay is less than 0.7 ns within the passband except the rejection band.