• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.48-60
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• 2014

Multilevel inverters have been widely used for high-voltage and high-power applications. Their performance is greatly superior to that of conventional two-level inverters due to their reduced total harmonic distortion (THD), lower switch ratings, lower electromagnetic interference, and higher dc link voltages. However, they have some disadvantages such as an increased number of components, a complex pulse width modulation control method, and a voltage-balancing problem. In this paper, a novel nine-level reduced switch cascaded multilevel inverter based on a multilevel DC link (MLDCL) inverter topology with reduced switching components is proposed to improve the multilevel inverter performance by compensating the above mentioned disadvantages. This topology requires fewer components when compared to diode clamped, flying capacitor and cascaded inverters and it requires fewer carrier signals and gate drives. Therefore, the overall cost and circuit complexity are greatly reduced. This paper presents modulation methods by a novel reference and multicarrier based PWM schemes for reduced switch cascaded multilevel inverters (RSCMLI). It also compares the performance of the proposed scheme with that of conventional cascaded multilevel inverters (CCMLI). Simulation results from MATLAB/SIMULINK are presented to verify the performance of the nine-level RSCMLI. Finally, a prototype of the nine-level RSCMLI topology is built and tested to show the performance of the inverter through experimental results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.3117-3130
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• 2016

High peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of transmitted signals is a major drawback in Multicarrier modulation (MCM) systems. Companding transform is a well-known method to reduce the PAPR without restrictions on system parameters such as the number of subcarriers, frame format and constellation type. In this paper, a novel adaptive companding scheme, mainly focuses on compressing the large signals into the desirable distribution, is proposed to reduce the PAPR with low implementation complexity. In addition, formulas to calculate its PAPR and bit error rate (BER) performance are also derived. Simulation results confirm that the proposed scheme can achieve an effective tradeoff between PAPR reduction and BER performance by carefully choosing the companding parameter.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.77-80
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• 2000

In this paper, we implemented the voice modem using the multicarrier DS-CDMA in powerline channels. Both TMS320C5402 of Texas Instrument and FPGA FLEX 10K EPF10K100ARC240 of ALTERA are used to realize the proposed system. For robustness in the powerline channel, we used multicarrier DS-CDMA modulation, convolutional encoding/Viterbi decoding, and interleaving. Finally, we showed satisfactory performance in the laboratory experiment.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1610-1620
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• 2015

A major problem in conventional multilevel inverter is that an increase in power semiconductor switches causes an increase in cost and switching losses of the inverter. The multicarrier strategy adopted for the multilevel inverters has become more popular due to reduced cost, lower harmonic distortion, and higher voltage capability than the conventional switching strategy applied to inverters. Various topologies and modulation strategies have been reported for utility and drive applications. Level shifted based pulse width modulation techniques are proposed to investigate the performance of the multilevel inverter. The proposed work focuses on reducing the utilized switches so that the cost and the switching losses of the inverter do not go up and the consistent efficiency could be achieved. This paper presents the detailed analysis of these topologies. The analysis is based on the number of switches, DC sources, output level, maximum voltage, and the efficiency. As an illustration, single phase cascaded multilevel inverter topologies are simulated using MATLAB/SIMULINK and the experimental results demonstrate the viability of these inverters.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.184-196
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• 2019

Wavelet packet modulation (WPM) is a multicarrier modulation (MCM) technique that has emerged as a potential alternative to the widely used orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) method. Because WPM has overlapped symbols, equalization cannot rely on the use of the cyclic prefix (CP), which is used in OFDM. This study applies linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) equalization in the time domain instead of in the frequency domain to achieve low computational complexity. With a modest equalizer filter length, the imperfection of MMSE equalization results in subcarrier attenuation and noise amplification, which are considered in the development of a bit-loading algorithm. Analytical expressions for the bit error rate (BER) performance are derived and validated using simulation results. A performance evaluation is carried out in different test scenarios as per Recommendation ITU-R M.1225. Numerical results show that WPM with equalization-aware bit loading outperforms OFDM with bit loading. Because previous comparisons between WPM and OFDM did not include bit loading, the results obtained provide additional evidence of the benefits of WPM over OFDM.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2008

현재 많은 광대역 전송 시스템의 변복조 방식으로 직교 주파수 분할 다중화(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: OFDM) 방식이 널리 사용되고 있다. OFDM 방식은 기저파형으로 서로 직교하는 정현파를 사용하는 직교 파형 변조의 하나이다. 이 논문에서는 기저파형으로 정현파 대신 웨이블릿 패킷을 사용하는 웨이블릿 패킷 변조에 대해 살펴보고자 한다. 웨이블릿 패킷은 시간-주파수 2차원 평면에서 서로 다른 모양을 가질 수 있기 때문에 채널환경에 따라 그에 적합한 파형을 쉽게 설계할 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 다중반송파 변조방식의 다른 형태로서 웨이블릿 패킷 변조의 특징에 대해 살펴보고, 협대역 간섭 환경에서 대역폭을 유연하게 조절함으로써 간섭의 영향을 감소시킬 수 있음을 보이고자 한다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.391-403
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• 2016

FBMC/OQAM(Filterbank multicarrier on offset-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) 시스템은 기존 OFDM/QAM(Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing on Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) 시스템의 보호 구간인 CP(Cyclic Prefix) 사용으로 인한 데이터 전송 효율 저하가 발생하지 않는 다중 반송파 전송 시스템이다. 하지만 주파수 선택적인 채널 상황에서 주파수 축 단일 탭 등화 방식을 사용하는 경우 OFDM/QAM 시스템에 비해 수신 성능 열화가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 FBMC/OQAM 시스템의 반복적인 채널 추정 및 등화 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법을 통해 주파수 선택적인 채널 상황에서 OFDM/QAM 시스템의 주파수 축 단일 탭 등화 방식과 견주어 수신 성능이 크게 떨어지지 않음을 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 검증한다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제42권1호`
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• pp.29-37
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• 2005

다중반송파 변조방식의 주요한 문제점중의 하나는 도플러 천이에 의한 주파수 옵셋에 민감하다는 점이다. 주파수 옵셋은 다중반송파 변조된 신호의 주파수 중첩으로 인한 반송파간의 간섭을 야기시킨다. 그러나 채널변화에 따른 도플러 천이는 또 다른 다이버시티 이득을 제공할 수 있는 요소가 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 변형된 다중반송파 코드분할 다중접속(multicarrier CDMA) 시스템을 제안함으로써 다중경로 다이버시티외에 도플러 다이버시티를 이용할 수 있게 하였다. 이를 위하여 이동 무선채널을 독립적인 시간 및 주파수 페이딩 채널로 분해하고 시간 다이버시티를 이용하는 레이크 수신기를 주파수영역으로 확장하므로써 다중경로 및 도플러 다이버시티 이득을 동시에 얻을 수 있도록 하였다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2001년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.28 No.2 (3)
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• pp.319-321
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• 2001

ADSL에서 사용되고 있는 DMT(Discrete Multitone)는 Multicarrier Modulation 기법으로 선로의 특성을 고려하여 고속의 bit-rate를 얻을 수 있다. 그러나 이러한 Multicarrier 신호의 문제점은 바로 높은 PAR(Peak-to-Average Ratio)로, 이 값을 줄이기 위해 여러 가지 기법이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 PAR을 줄이기 위해 사용되고 있는 여러 기법에 대해서 설명하고, 그 기법들 중에서 PTS(Partial Transmit Sequence)를 개선한 새로운 알고리즘을 제시하여 성능평가를 통해 낮은 복잡도의 계산으로 PTS와 유사한 성능을 보임을 살펴본다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.1033-1043
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• 1999

We consider an improved multicarrier(MC) CDMA system that combines both DS-CDMA with a concatenated orthogonal/PN spreading sequence and MC modulation. This system incorporates the advantages of DS-CDMA with a concatenated sequence to achieve large user capacity and MC modulation technique to combat the effects of a multipath fading channel and intersymbol interference(ISI). Considering voice activity and imperfect sectorization, the system performance is analysed for the maximal ratio combiner(MRC) under a multicell, multiuser, and multipath Rayleigh/Rician fading channels. The performance of the system is improved much more for the single path fading channel compared to the multipath fading channel. Also the system is shown to have the more improved average bit error rate(BER) over the orthogonal MC-CDMA with the conventional PN sequence.