• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.7C
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• pp.443-450
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• 2011

Recently, various transmission techniques for communication and broadcasting systems have been developed to meet the dramatically increasing requirement of consumers. Because UWB (Ultra-Wideband) is a wireless communication technique that supports high data rate with low power, it can satisfy the requirement and can be applied to various wireless communication services. The multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) system, one of UWB system, is the wireless communication system that satisfies the transmission characteristic for UWB and so it can be used for various wireless communication services. In this paper, we propose a scheme that uses hierarchical modulation which is applied in digital video broadcasting system at the source and adaptive modulation based on the channel quality at the relays. The simulation results have shown that the proposed scheme has both the advantages of the increased throughput by 33% and similar BER performance to conventional scheme.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.117-122
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• 2006

This paper presents the impacts of Ultra-wideband(UWB) applied in the communication applications using frequency band from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz on Broadband Wireless Access(BWA) based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) using frequency band of 3.5 GHz. It proposes low duty cycle(LDC) for enabling UWB to mitigate strong interference to BWA. The effects of interference mitigation are evaluated and analyzed in the environment of UWB coexistence with BWA. UWB with LDC scheme will be given to bring higher transmit power level corresponding to Federal Communications Commission(FCC) provisional limit for enabling UWB operation at 3.5 GHz bands.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.195-198
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• 2005

UWB is the most spotlighted wireless technology that transmits data at very high rates using low power over a wide spectrum of frequency band. UWB technology makes it possible to transmit data at rate over 100Mbps within 10 meters. To preserve important header information, MBOFDM UWB adopts Reed-Solomon(23,17) code. In receiver, RS decoder needs high speed and low latency using efficient hardware. In this paper, we suggest the architecture of RS decoder for MBOFDM UWB. We adopts Modified-Euclidean algorithm for key equation solver block which is most complex in area. We suggest pipelined processing cell for this block and show the detailed architecture of syndrome, Chien search and Forney algorithm block. At last, we show the hardware implementation results of RS decoder for ASIC implementation.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.5 s.89
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• pp.87-94
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• 2004

기존의 통신 시스템에 비해 매우 넓은 대역폭을 사용하는 UWB 시스템은 기존의 유선장치를 무선장치로대치할 수 있는 유일한 고속 무선 전송기술로서 가정내 멀티미디어 데이터 전송을 위한 근거리 무선 홈네트워크 기술로 부각되고 있다. 현재 IEEE802.15의 TG3a에서는 UWB 기술을 이용한 고속 WPAN의 물리계층에 대한 표준화가 진행되고 있으며, MBOA에서 주도하고 있는 MB-OFDM 시스템과 Motorola에서 주도하고 있는 DS-UWB 시스템의 2가지 제안서로 압축되어 표준화가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재까지의 표준화 진행 상황 및 양측에서 제안된 UWB 물리계층 표준화 기술 동향에 관하여 살펴본다.

• Korea Information Processing Society Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.18-24
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• 2009

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.44-52
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• 2010

Ultra-wideband (UWB) systems have witnessed a debate over whether they may cause interference to other existing and future narrowband systems sharing their band of operation. The detect and avoid (DAA) mechanism was developed as a solution to reduce interference to narrowband systems in order to ease regulatory concerns. It works by adaptively reducing the transmitted power at the overlapping bands upon detecting an active narrowband link. However, employing DAA degrades the performance of UWB transmissions. In this paper, we present the Korean UWB regulations as an example of regulations that require DAA in certain bands. We investigate DAA's impact on performance and propose a method to mitigate it, which provides UWB with the more efficient support of the DAA mechanism and enables it to avoid a larger number of narrowband users while sustaining the data rate. Results show significant improvement in performance with the application of our technique compared to conventional performance.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.141-145
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• 2005

In this paper, UWB system did research about effect that interference effect with neighborhood single equipment or nearby group equipment gets In DMB service. 2.6425GHz satellite digital multimedia broadcasting service(SDMB) that electric wave interference special quality is contiguity frequency-band including interference of signal by unnecessary radiation level that is radiated in UWB system, and 3.4125GHz broadcasting relay net that is In-band frequency-band and interference effect degree that get in service did comparative analysis. SDMB system was BER $1{\times}10^{-4}$ that interference effect happens from 6.5m point and broadcasting signal reception is possible at 4m point. Also, it was BER $1{\times}10^{-4}$ that interference effect begins to happen from 5.0m point about center frequency 3.4126GHz and broadcasting signal reception is possible at 2m point. And, confirmed that UWB system of impulse method is less interference effect about 2 dB than UWB system of OFDM method, to electric wave of UWB system that is small output

• ETRI Journal
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.526-534
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• 2008

This paper presents a fully integrated 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS MB-OFDM UWB transmitter chain (mode 1). The proposed transmitter consists of a low-pass filter, a variable gain amplifier, a voltage-to-current converter, an I/Q up-mixer, a differential-to-single-ended converter, a driver amplifier, and a transmit/receive (T/R) switch. The proposed T/R switch shows an insertion loss of less than 1.5 dB and a Tx/Rx port isolation of more than 27 dB over a 3 GHz to 5 GHz frequency range. All RF/analog circuits have been designed to achieve high linearity and wide bandwidth. The proposed transmitter is implemented using IBM 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The fabricated transmitter shows a -3 dB bandwidth of 550 MHz at each sub-band center frequency with gain flatness less than 1.5 dB. It also shows a power gain of 0.5 dB, a maximum output power level of 0 dBm, and output IP3 of +9.3 dBm. It consumes a total of 54 mA from a 1.5 V supply.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.437-444
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• 2007

A CMOS frequency synthesizer block for multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra-wideband systems is proposed. The proposed frequency synthesizer adopts a double-conversion architecture for simplicity and to mitigate spur suppression requirements for out-of-band interferers in 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Moreover, the frequency synthesizer can consist of the fewest nonlinear components, such as divide-by-Ns and a mixer with the proposed frequency plan, leading to the generation of less spurs. To evaluate the feasibility of the proposed idea, the frequency synthesizer block is implemented in 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The measured sideband suppression ratio is about 32 dBc, and the phase noise is -105 dBc/Hz at an offset of 1 MHz. The fabricated chip consumes 17.6 mA from a 1.8 V supply, and the die-area including pads is $0.9{\times}1.1\;mm^2$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.195-198
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• 2012

MB-OFDM UWB시스템은 TFC(Time-Frequency Code)를 이용하여 시간/주파수 호핑을 수행한다. 이를 통해 주파수 영역에서 다이버시티 효과를 갖는 동시에 사용되는 다른 piconet간의 간섭을 최소할 수 있다. 송신단에서는 프리앰블을 전송할 때부터 해당 TFC에 맞게 호핑을 하면서 전송을 하기 때문에 수신단에서는 신호의 시작을 추정하는 패킷 검출은 매우 중요한 과제이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 MB-OFDM UWB시스템을 위한 간단하고 효율적인 패킷 검출 방법을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션 수행 결과 제안된 방법은 기존 방법보다 약 0.5 dB의 SNR 개선 결과가 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다.