• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.137-143
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• 2010

In this paper, a speech endpoint detection algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm is a kind of state transition-based ones for speech detection. To reject short-duration acoustic pulses which can be considered noises, it utilizes duration information of all detected pulses. For the optimization of parameters related with pulse lengths and energy threshold to detect speech intervals, an exhaustive search scheme is adopted while speech recognition rates are used as its performance index. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the baseline state-based endpoint detection algorithm. At 5 dB input SNR for the beamforming input, the word recognition accuracies of its outputs were 78.5% for human voice noises and 81.1% for music noises.

• 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.

• 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.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.74-86
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• 2014

The optimization techniques are explored in the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation based on single acoustic pressure gradient vector sensor (APGVS). By analyzing the working principle and measurement errors of the APGVS, acoustic intensity approaches (AI) and the minimum variance distortionless response beamforming approach based on single APGVS (VMVDR) are deduced. The radius to wavelength ratio of the APGVS must be not bigger than 0.1 in the actual application, otherwise its DOA estimation performance will degrade significantly. To improve the robustness and estimation performance of the DOA estimation approaches based on single APGVS, two modified processing approaches based on single APGVS are presented. Simulation and lake trial results indicate that the performance of the modified approaches based on single APGVS are better than AI and VMVDR approaches based on single APGVS when the radius to wavelength ratio is not bigger than 0.1, and the two modified DOA estimation methods have excellent estimation performance when the radius to wavelength ratio is bigger than 0.1.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2595-2618
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• 2018

In this paper, we investigate secure communication with the presence of multiple eavesdroppers (Eves) in a two-tier downlink dense heterogeneous network, wherein there is a macrocell base station (MBS) and multiple femtocell base stations (FBSs). Each base station (BS) has multiple users. And Eves attempt to wiretap a macrocell user (MU). To keep Eves ignorant of the confidential message, we propose a physical-layer security scheme based on cross-layer cooperation to exploit interference in the considered network. Under the constraints on the quality of service (QoS) of other legitimate users and transmit power, the secrecy rate of system can be maximized through jointly optimizing the beamforming vectors of MBS and cooperative FBSs. We explore the problem of maximizing secrecy rate in both non-colluding and colluding Eves scenarios, respectively. Firstly, in non-colluding Eves scenario, we approximate the original non-convex problem into a few semi-definite programs (SDPs) by employing the semi-definite relaxation (SDR) technique and conservative convex approximation under perfect channel state information (CSI) case. Furthermore, we extend the frame to imperfect CSI case and use the Lagrangian dual theory to cope with uncertain constraints on CSI. Secondly, in colluding Eves scenario, we transform the original problem into a two-tier optimization problem equivalently. Among them, the outer layer problem is a single variable optimization problem and can be solved by one-dimensional linear search. While the inner-layer optimization problem is transformed into a convex SDP problem with SDR technique and Charnes-Cooper transformation. In the perfect CSI case of both non-colluding and colluding Eves scenarios, we prove that the relaxation of SDR is tight and analyze the complexity of proposed algorithms. Finally, simulation results validate the effectiveness and robustness of proposed scheme.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.225-234
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• 2018

A Multibeam Echo Sounder (MBES) is commonly used for rapid seafloor mapping. We herein present a time-domain integrated system simulation technique for MBES development. The Modeling and Simulation (M&S) modules consist of four parts: sensor array signal transmission, propagation and backscattering modeling in the ocean environment, beamforming of the received signals, and image processing. Also, the simulation employs a ray-theory-based algorithm to correct the reconstructed bathymetry, which has errors due to the refraction caused by the vertical sound velocity profile. The developed M&S technique enables design parameter verification and system parameter optimization for MBES. The framework of this technique can also be potentially used to characterize the seabed properties. Finally, typical seafloor images are presented and discussed.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.185-194
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• 2013

Abstract- In distant-talking environments, speech recognition performance degrades significantly due to noise and reverberation. Recent work of Michael L. Selzer shows that in microphone array speech recognition, the word error rate can be significantly reduced by adapting the beamformer weights to generate a sequence of features which maximizes the likelihood of the correct hypothesis. In this approach, called Likelihood Maximizing Beamforming algorithm (Limabeam), one of the method to implement this Limabeam is an UnSupervised Limabeam(USL) that can improve recognition performance in any situation of environment. From our investigation for this USL, we could see that because the performance of optimization depends strongly on the transcription output of the first recognition step, the output become unstable and this may lead lower performance. In order to improve recognition performance of USL, some post-filter techniques can be employed to obtain more correct transcription output of the first step. In this work, as a post-filtering technique for first recognition step of USL, we propose to add a Wiener-Filter combined with Feature Weighted Malahanobis Distance to improve recognition performance. We also suggest an alternative way to implement Limabeam algorithm for Hidden Markov Network (HM-Net) speech recognizer for efficient implementation. Speech recognition experiments performed in real distant-talking environment confirm the efficacy of Limabeam algorithm in HM-Net speech recognition system and also confirm the improved performance by the proposed method.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.53-60
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• 1992

원거리 회의나 대강당 등의 회의에서 주변의 간섭 잡음을 제거하고 정해진 발언자의 음성 신호를 얻기 위하여 적응 빔 형성 기법을 이용한 방법이 연구되어 왔다. 음성 신호에 이용되는 적응 빔 기법은 레이더, 소나, 지진파 신호의 경우와는 달리 어느 정도 왜곡이 있더라도 출력 신호가 인간의 청각 특성에 적합해야 한다. Sondhi는 인간의 귀가 음성 신호의 위상에는 민감하지 않다는 성질을 이용하여 음성의 크기에 약한 제한 조건을 갖는 cost 함수를 정의하고, 이를 gradient 탐색 알고리즘을 사용하여 최적화된 필터계수를 구했다. 본 논문에서는 Sondhi가 제안한 빔 형성기의 위상 왜곡에 따른 음절 저하를 극복하기 위해 원하는 신호 방향에 대해서 선형 위상 응답 특성을 갖는 빔 형성기를 제안하였으며, 실제로 시스템을 구현할 경우 효과적으로 이용할 수 있는 샘플 처리 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리듬의 성능 평가를 위하여 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권8C호
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• pp.758-766
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• 2007

높은 주파수 효율 때문에 무선 통신에 널리 쓰이고 있는 직교 주파수 분할 다중화 방식의(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: OFDM) 문제점 중 하나는 높은 첨두대평균 전력비(peak to average power ratio: PAPR) 이다. 본 논문에서는 제한된 되먹임 정보를 가지는 송신 다중 안테나(multiple input single output: MISO) 빔성형 OFDM(beamforming OFDM) 시스템을 위한 PAPR 감소 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 방식은 채널의 영공간(null space)에서 생성된 부가신호를 원 신호에 더하여 PAPR을 줄이는 방법에 기반한다. 먼저 전체 채널 되먹임을 가정한 기존의 시스템을 부분 채널 정보 되먹임 시스템에 적용할 때의 문제점을 파악하고, 이를 바탕으로 수신 성능 열화를 줄이면서 PAPR을 감소시키는 부가 신호에 대한 가중 함수를 제안한다. 가중 함수는 수치적으로 구하며 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 통해 제안된 방식이 비트오류율(bit error rate: BER) 성능 손실은 거의 없으면서 2.5dB 정도의 PAPR감소 효과를 얻을 수 있음을 보인다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.187-195
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 유전 알고리즘에 기반하여 선형 위상 배열 안테나에서 합성 빔의 부엽 세기를 최소화하기 위한 부배열 구조 최적화 기법을 제안한다. 부배열 구조의 최적 설계 시 부배열 구성에 적용이 가능하도록 유전 알고리즘의 연산을 수정하였다. 제안된 부배열 설계법을 이용하여 40개의 배열 소자를 갖는 선형 배열 안테나에서 합성 빔 및 재밍에 대한 적응 신호 처리 후의 부엽 세기를 최소로 하는 불규칙 구조의 16개로 구성된 부배열구조를 설계하였고, 규칙적인 부배열 구조에서의 최대 부엽 세기보다 약 10 dB 감소된 부엽 세기를 확인하였다.