• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.156-160
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• 2012

Recently WCDMA signal transmission technology by large output microwave antenna have showed reduction of human resources and operating expense. But the existing antenna brackets cost is very expensive also its structure and functions are complicated. Unit brackets, suspending some sensors, subjected to acceleration loads, often fail due to self-vibration. To prevent such failures, it is necessary to understand the fatigue failure mode and to evaluate the fatigue life using tests or analysis techniques. The objective of this study is to develop the component test specifications, which are applicable to predict fatigue life at initial product design step, for unit brackets using vibration fatigue technique. So its application is limited to installation and management. In this project, we studied about more convenient bracket for microwave antennas through improvement on the existing antenna bracket's shortcoming and could develop an improved universal antenna bracket system for simple installation and application.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.941-951
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• 2016

In this paper, cognitive radio and simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) are effectively combined to design a spectrum-efficient and energy-efficient transmission paradigm. Specifically, a novel SWIPT-based primary-secondary cooperation model is proposed to increase the transmission rate of energy/spectrum constrained users. In the proposed model, a multi-antenna secondary user conducts simultaneous energy harvesting and information forwarding by means of power splitting (PS), and tries to maximize its own transmission rate under the premise of successfully assisting the data delivery of the primary user. After the problem formulation, joint power splitting and beamforming optimization algorithms for decode-and-forward and amplify-and-forward modes are presented, in which we obtain the optimal PS factor and beamforming vectors using a golden search method and dual methods. Simulation results show that the proposed SWIPTbased primary-secondary cooperation schemes can obtain a much higher level of performance than that of non-SWIPT cooperation and non-cooperation schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.3018-3036
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• 2013

In this paper, we investigate power allocation scheme and outage performance for a physical-layer network coding (PNC) relay based secondary user (SU) communication in cognitive multi-antenna relay networks (CMRNs), in which two secondary transceivers exchange their information via a multi-antenna relay using PNC protocol. We propose an optimal energy-efficient power allocation (OE-PA) scheme to minimize total energy consumption per bit under the sum rate constraint and interference power threshold (IPT) constraints. A closed-form solution for optimal allocation of transmit power among the SU nodes, as well as the outage probability of the cognitive relay system, are then derived analytically and confirmed by numerical results. Numerical simulations demonstrate the PNC protocol has superiority in energy efficiency performance over conventional direct transmission protocol and Four-Time-Slot (4TS) Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay protocol, and the proposed system has the optimal outage performance when the relay is located at the center of two secondary transceivers.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.261-266
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• 2018

This paper reports on the proposed design of a low profile broadband array antenna for home repeater applications. The proposed antenna consists of $1{\times}4$ patch elements and two ground planes, one of which is slitted. By using the gap feeding method, the impedance matching of the antenna is improved by a multi-resonance phenomenon. The proposed antenna provides a wide -10 dB reflection coefficient bandwidth simultaneously covering the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM-1800), Personal Communications Service (PCS), and the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) bands (1.67-2.32 GHz). In order to reduce the mutual coupling between adjacent patch elements, slits are embedded in the ground plane. An isolation level of -20 dB is realized over the entire operating frequency band.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.441-448
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 소형 USB dongle에 적용을 위한 다중 대역 MIMO 안테나를 제안하였다. 제안된 MIMO 안테나는 변형된 미엔더 라인과 역 L형 스터브로 구성되어 있으며, 접지면을 기준으로 서로 대칭적으로 상 하단에 위치한다. 구현된 안테나는 LTE 13, 17 대역(704-787 MHz), DCS/PCS/WCDMA 대역(1.71-2.17 GHz), LTE 7 대역(2.5-2.7 GHz) 대역에서 VSWR 3:1을 만족하였다. 효율 특성은 전체 주파수 대역에서 평균 35 % 이상의 값을 갖고, 상관 계수는 LTE 13, 17 대역에서 0.45 이하, DCS/PCS/WCDMA 및 LTE 7 대역에서 0.1 이하의 값을 갖는다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.216-219
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 SIW(Substrate Integrated Waveguide) 구조를 갖는 SDR(Software Defined Radar)용 안테나를 설계하고 제작하였다. SIW 구조는 쉬운 집적화로 인하여 일반 PCB 상에 구현이 가능하고, 기존의 구형 도파관과 같이 높은 전력의 입력 신호에 대하여 낮은 전송손실을 가지는 특성이 있다. 또한, 전자기 간섭에 대하여 강한 내성을 갖는 장점이 있다. 특히 본 논문에서는 제작한 SIW 안테나를 가지고 USRP(Universal Software Radio Peripheral) 플랫폼에 탑재하여 목표물 RCS(Radar Cross Section)탐지 실험을 진행하였다. 제안된 안테나는 ISM(Industrial, Scientific and Medical) 대역(2.4~2.48 GHz)에서 동작하며, 이득 특성은 8 dBi 이상을 보인다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2013

In this paper, a small internal antenna for a mobile handset is presented using multiband, wideband, and high-isolation multiple-input multiple-output techniques. The proposed antenna consists of three planar inverted-F antennas (PIFAs) that operate in the global system for mobile communication (GSM900), the digital communication system (DCS), the personal communication system (PCS), the universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS), and wireless local area network (WLAN) bands with a physical size of $40mm{\times}10mm{\times}10mm$. A resonator attached to the folded PIFA creates dual resonances, achieving a wide bandwidth of approximately 460 MHz, covering the DCS, PCS, and UMTS bands; a meander shorting line is used to improve impedance matching. Additionally, a modified neutralization link is embedded between diversity antennas to enhance isolation, which results in a 6-dB improvement in the isolation and less than 0.1 in the envelope correlation coefficient evaluated from the far-field radiation patterns. Simulation and measurements demonstrate very similar results for S-parameters and radiation patterns. Peak gains show 3.73 dBi, 3.77 dBi, 3.28 dBi, 2.15 dBi, and 5.86 dBi, and antenna efficiencies show 56.15%, 72.15%, 68.59%, 52.92%, and 82.93% for GSM900, DCS, PCS, UMTS, and WLAN bands, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.437-442
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• 2004

In this paper we address the problem of capacity optimization in a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) radio network. We present an optimization algorithm for finding the best settings of the antenna tilt and common pilot channel power of the base stations. This algorithm is a parametric method, based on a set of rules. We evaluated our optimization technique on a virtual network scenario with 75 cells. For this scenario we show an increase in capacity compared to the initial settings of about 60 percent.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.756-759
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• 2012

본 논문은 한반도 지역에 보편적 위성 통신 서비스를 제공하기 위한 정지궤도 위성의 다중 빔 서비스 커버리지 요구에 따라, 서비스 영역 내의 이득을 높일 수 있는 구현 가능한 안테나 구성 시나리오를 제안하였다. 제안된 시나리오는 위성 탑재가 가능하도록 안테나 및 급전 네트워크 구성을 간소화하고, 제한된 주파수 및 편파자원을 효율적으로 사용하기 위한 급전 네트워크 설계를 포함하고 있다. 또한, 전기적 성능 만족을 위하여 배열소자의 배치 및 여기 계수 최적화가 수행되었다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.639-648
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• 2016

Next-generation (4G) systems are designed to support universal frequency reuse (UFR) to achieve best use of valuable spectra. However, it leads to undesirable interference level near cell borders. To control this, 4G systems adopt techniques, such as network multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC), to improve cell-edge throughput. Network MIMO aims at mitigating inter-cell interference towards cell-edge users (CEUs) through multi-cell cooperation, where each collaborative base station serves both cell-center users (CCUs) and CEUs, including other cells' CEUs, under a power constraint. The present ICIC strategies cannot be directly applied to network MIMO because they were designed in absence of multi-cell coordination. In the presence of network MIMO, this paper investigates antenna orientations in ICIC and the method of power management. Results show that a proper antenna orientation can improve the cell-edge capacity and meantime lower the interference to CCUs. Capacity inconsistency between CCUs and CEUs is detrimental to mobile communications. Simulation results show that the proposed power management for ICIC in network MIMO systems can achieve a uniform data rate regardless users' position.