• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.374-385
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• 2003

The growing interest towards ultra-wideband (UWB) communications stems from its unique features such as baseband operation, ample multipath diversity, and the potential of enhanced user capacity. But since UWB has to overlay existing narrowband systems, multiple access has to be achieved in the presence of narrowband interference (NBI). However, existing baseband spreading codes for UWB multiple access are not flexible in handling NBI. In this paper, we introduce two novel spreading codes that not only enable baseband UWB multiple access, but also facilitate flexible NBI cancellation. We construct our codes using a single carrier or multiple carriers (SC or MC), which can be implemented with standard discrete-cosine transform (DCT) circuits. With our SC/MC codes, NBI can be avoided by simply nulling undesired digital carriers. Being digital, these SC/MC codes give rise to multiband UWB systems, without invoking analog carriers. In addition, our SC/MC codes enable full multipath diversity, and maximum coding gains. Equally attractive is their capability to reduce the number of interfering users, with simple matched filter operations. Comprehensive simulations are also carried out to corroborate our analysis.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.354-364
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• 2003

A general method for the evaluation of the symbol error probability (SER) of ultra wideband (UWB) systems with various kind of modulation schemes (N-PAM, M-PPM, Bi-Orthogonal), in presence of multipath channel, multiuser and strong narrowband interference, is presented. This method is shown to be able to include all the principal multiaccess techniques proposed so far for UWB, time hopping (TH), direct sequence (DS) and optical orthogonal codes (OOC). A comparison between the performance of these multiple access and modulation techniques is given, for both ideal Rake receiver and minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer. It is shown that for all the analyzed multiple access schemes, a Rake receiver exhibits a high error floor in presence of narrowband interference (NBI) and that the value of the error floor is in-fluenced by the spectral characteristics of the spreading code. As expected, an MMSE receiver offers better performance, representing a promising candidate for UWB systems. When the multiuser interference is dominant, all multiple access techniques exhibit similar performance under high-load conditions. If the number of users is significantly lower than the spreading factor, then DS outperforms both TH and OOC. Finally 2PPM is shown to offer better performance than the other modulation schemes in presence of multiuser interference; increasing the spreading factor is proposed as a more effective strategy for SER reduction than the use of time diversity.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권1C호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

이 논문에서는, 약한 다진 신호에 알맞도록 1부에서 제안한 검파기준을 바탕으로 간섭이 충격성일 때 초광대역 다중접속 시스템에 알맞은 검파 기법을 살펴본다. 제안한 검파기는 최대 비슷함 검파기준을 바탕으로 한 최적 검파기와 견주어 볼 때 얼개가 더 간단하고 성능이 거의 같다. 한편, 간섭이 충격성일 때, 제안한 검파기는 정규 환경에 최적화된 검파기보다 성능이 더 좋다는 것도 보인다.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2003년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.13 No.1
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• pp.229-233
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• 2003

In this paper we theoretically analyze the probability of error for M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple access system using Gaussian monopulse. The optimum detection of UWB signals using M-ary orthogonal PPM in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and multiple access interference (MAI) is considered, then receiver signal to noise power ratio (SNR) and upper bound fur the bit error rate (BER) are derived. Numerical results considering some practical parameters are presented.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권7A호
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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.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1350-1353
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• 2002

A new form of spread spectrum technique called the ultra wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) system has drawn much attention for future high speed wireless communication services. In this paper, a new type of time hopping sequences constructed from multiple distinct m-sequences of the same order, is proposed for multiple access in the UWB-IR systems. Simulation results reveal that the proposed time hopping sequences achieve comparable or even better bit error rate performance than the ideal random sequences, and can be effectively applied in various multiple access situations.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.884-891
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• 2001

본 논문에서 초광대역 시스템의 데이터 변조를 위해 Antipodal 신호를 이용한다. 이 신호는 신호간의 유클리드 거리가 최대가 되고 상관값이 -1 또는 0이 되며, 이를 이용하여 M진 신호를 구성하는 방식으로 데이터를 변조한다. 또한 시간 도약 부호를 적용하여 다중접속 시스템을 구성한다. Antipodal 신호를 이용되는 펄스는 가우시안 모노펄스와 레일리 모노펄스이고 이를 적용하여 AWGN에서 두 종류의 펄스에 대한 오류확률, 다중접속시 사용자의 수, 전송 속도에 대해 수치해석을 하여 두 시스템의 성능을 비교, 분석하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권5A호
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• pp.500-508
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• 2008

Direct-sequence ultra-wideband(DS-UWB) system is being considered as one of promising transmission technologies for wireless personal area networks(WPANs). Due to relatively low spreading factors and huge bandwidth of transmit signal, a DS-UWB receiver needs to be equipped not only with a rake receiver but also with an equalizer, of which the equalizer is not required for traditional direct-sequence code division multiple access(DS-CDMA) systems. The number of rake fingers is limited in practice, influencing the performance of the subsequent equalizer. In this paper, we derive a decision feedback equalizer(DFE) for DS-UWB systems based on the minimum mean square error(MMSE) criterion, and investigate the impact of various parameters on the DFE performance in realistic scenarios. In particular, we propose an approach to improving the performance of the DFE using additional channel estimates for multipaths not combined in the rake receiver, and discuss how the accuracy of channel estimation affects desirable DFE configuration. Moreover, we present simulation results that show the impact of turbo equalization on the DFE performance.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.365-373
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• 2003

This paper investigates the performance of M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) multiuser ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems in terms of symbol error rate (SER) over fading and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Based on Gaussian approximation for the multiple access interference, an expression for the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived for the UWB system. This expression is used to derive exact SER expressions for coherent UWB receivers. The effect of pulse selection on the SER of multiuser UWB system is studied. In addition to rectangular pulse, the 2nd derivative Gaussian waveform and Rayleigh pulses were considered. We show that the system capacity and/or SER performance can be significantly increased by using the monocycle pulse in fading channels.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.321-324
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 다중 수신안테나가 제공하는 공간적인 다이버시티를 이용하여 고속의 데이터 전송률을 달성하기 위한 초광대역 통신시스템의 성능 향상에 대해 연구한다. 다중사용자 간섭 신호들이 존재하는 환경에서 2PPM (Binary Pulse Position Modulation) THMA (Time Hopping Multiple Access) UWB 시스템의 성능을 이론적으로 분석하기 위해서 다중 수신안테나를 통해서 수신되는 공간적인 신호들을 결합한 후의 수신 SINR 표현식을 유도하고 BER 성능을 수치적인 시뮬레이션에 의해 평가된다. 또한 2PPM에 의한 시스템의 성능 결과들을 2PAM (Binary Pulse Amplitude Modulation) THMA UWB 시스템의 이론적인 성능 결과와도 비교한다. 공간적인 다이버시티가 2PPM과 2PAM THMA UWB 시스템의 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 다중 수신안테나의 수가 증가함에 따라 BER 성능이 향상됨을 보인다. 또한 다중사용자 간섭 신호들이 존재할 때 2PAM THMA UWB 시스템의 성능이 2PPM THMA UWB 시스템의 성능보다 상당히 우수하다는 것을 확인하다.