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본 논문에서는 이동통신, 무인기 통신, 차량 간 통신 등에 이용될 수 있는 효율적인 단말 간 직접통신 (D2D: device-to-device)을 위한 동기 프리앰블 (preamble) 구조를 제안하고 성능을 비교한다. 단말 간 직접 통신을 위해서는 향상된 주파수 및 시간 동기 요구 성능을 만족 시킬 수 있어야 하며, 본 논문에서는 이를 위한 프리앰블 구조를 제안한다. 주파수 영역에서 하나 걸러 하나씩의 부 반송파에는 신호를 전송하지 않는 대신, 나머지 부반송파에서는 심볼 당 에너지를 2배로 전송하는 제안하는 구조가 기존 LTE D2D 프리앰블 구조에 비해 주파수 옵셋 추정 성능은 유지하면서도 시간 옵셋 추정 성능을 크게 향상시킴을 확인하였다.

In this paper, an efficient structure of device-to-device (D2D) synchronization preamble is proposed to meet the enhanced time and frequency synchronization requirements for D2D communication. D2D communication can be applied not only for the cellular communications, but also unmaned aerial vehicle communications and vehicle-to vehicle communication. The proposed preamble structure is transmitting signals at every odd subcarriers, and empty the other subcarriers to minimize the effect of inter-carrier interference. According to the simulation results, the proposed preamble structure provides improved time offset estimation performance, without degrading frequency offset estimation performance compared to the current LTE D2D preamble.

In this study, utilizing the structure of the space?time line code (STLC) signals, a blind symbol and carrier synchronization method considering the carrier frequency offset (CFO) is developed. The proposed method can achieve almost perfect synchronization performance with more than three transmit antennas, irrespective of the CFO values. Based on the results, the proposed blind symbol and carrier synchronization method is expected to accelerate the practical deployment and operation of the low-complexity STLC systems that achieve full spatial diversity gain with partial or no channel state information at the receiver.

A blind-mode integer frequency offset estimation algorithm is proposed for an OFDM system. Imperfect integer frequency offset estimation causes ambiguity in the data sub-carrier position. Morelli's blind integer frequency offiet estimation algorithm exploits the likelihood function by comparing the power in sub-carriers. It, however, shows performance degradation when there is the fractional frequency offset. The proposed algorithm solves this by using interpolation in the frequency domain. In this algorithm, it is exploited that the effect of the frequency offset is shown as a shift of power spectrum. By calculating the covariance of over-sampled samples, most approximate samples to integer point are obtained. It enables integer frequency offset estimation less affected by fractional frequency offset.

In this paper, we present and analyze a robust frequency offset estimation scheme for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over radio communication channels. When there exists frequency offset, the loss of orthogonality occurs and the interference problem among several subcarriers in OFDM signals is introduced. The guard interval of OFDM signals is employed for estimating the frequency offset. Furthermore, in order to enhance the frequency offset estimation performance, a ternary sequence is utilized. A frequency offset is estimated based on the synchronized correlator output. The proposed frequency offset estimation scheme can be applied to track the carrier frequency offset of OFDM systems.

Cooperative communication is a fourth generation novel scheme promising significant capacity and multiplexing gain in wireless communication. This paper derives the carrier to noise interference ratio (CNIR) and average bit error rate (BER) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based amplify and forward (AF) and decode and forward (DF) scheme over Nakagami fading channels. Numerical results are provided to show the significant improvement of DF in OFDM based cooperative communication due to same frequency offset and phase noise.

In this paper, a low-complexity integer frequency offset (IFO) estimation scheme is proposed for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based digital radio mondiale plus (DRM+) system. In order to reduce the complexity of the IFO estimation, this paper addresses a grouping of time reference cell (TRC) pilot subcarriers in DRM+ system. The grouping method of TRCs is using the characteristics of phase rotation between TRC subcarriers. The performance of the proposed IFO estimator is compared with the conventional IFO estimator. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively achieve similar estimation errors in the IFO estimation as well as can be implemented with reduced computational complexity.

Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) is an important narrow-band channel in LTE-Advanced system, which carries the uplink control information, such as acknowledge/non-acknowledge (ACK/NACK) bits, downlink channel quality indicator (CQI), HARQ-ACK feedback information, and it requires much higher transmission quality than the other channels. With the aid of orthogonal CDMA, multiple users share the same time-frequency resource, the multiuser interference has been the main factor that limits the transmission quality of the control information [1]. In the high-speed mobile scenario, there exists a large Doppler frequency shift, which leads to loss of code orthogonality and also introduces inter-carrier interference (ICI) within a single SC-FDMA symbol. Besides, the multiuser interference in high-speed mobile environment is severe. In this paper, the carrier frequency offset estimation algorithms are analyzed, and a double-iteration carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation algorithm is proved to perform the best for PUCCH Format 1 in high-speed mobile scenario. The estimation process is achieved by coarse estimation and fine estimation, which enlarges the estimation range and improves the estimation accuracy.

This paper considers the problem of sampling frequency offset (SFO) estimation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based digital radio mondiale (DRM) systems. In this study, the mean square error (MSE) expression for conventional SFO estimators is derived and their low-complexity variants are reported. The theoretical MSE analysis for different algorithms are validated by Monte-Carlo simulations and proven accurate.

위성 변조 비콘 신호는 위성에서 생성한 TOD (Time of Day) 데이터를 gold sequence를 이용하여 확산 시 킨 후 linear phase modulation을 통해 전송된다. 변조 비콘 신호를 수신 시 위성과 지상 수신기 간 특성 차이 때문에 주파수 오프셋(FO)이 발생한다. 기존 위성 변조 비콘 수신기는 변조 비콘 신호를 FFT(Fast Fourier Transform)를 이용하여 주파수를 동기화시키는 방법이며, 이는 시스템 구현 관점에서 딜레이 및 복잡도를 증가 시킬 뿐만 아니라 points 간 생기는 FO과 phase offset에 의한 위상차를 보정하는 별도의 회로가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이를 극복하 기 위해 변조 비콘 신호의 2위상 성형된 특성을 이용하여 coarse FO와 phase offset을 한 번에 보정 및 복조하기 위 한 방안과 그에 따른 하드웨어 구성도를 제안 및 분석하였다. 또한, 시뮬레이션을 통해 본 논문에서 제안하는 방식에 적합한 변조 지수(modulation index)를 분석하였으며 그에 따른 적정 누적 개수 또한 분석하였다.

In satellite communication, modulated beacon signal is spreaded by gold sequence and the modulated beacon is transmitted via linear phase modulation. Due to the difference in characteristics of the satellite and the receiver on the ground, frequency offset (FO) occurs. An existing modulated beacon receiver is a method of synchronizing the frequency of a modulated beacon signal using FFT(Fast Fourier Transform), which not only increases the delay and complexity in terms of system implementation but also has a separate circuit for compensating the phase difference due to FO and phase offset from FFT points. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes and analyzes a scheme for compensating and demodulating the coarse FO and phase offset at one time using the 2-phase shaped characteristics of the modulated beacon signal. Also, through the simulation, the modulation index suitable for the proposed method is analyzed and the appropriate cumulative number is also analyzed.

In this paper, we propose a new frequency offset estimation algorithm for DBO-CSS which is a standard for wireless personal area network (WPAN). In DBO-CSS, there can be several integer multiples of $2{\pi}$ in the phase rotation caused by the frequency offset because of the long time difference between the samples of differential relation and the high permissible frequency offset of the crystal oscillators between the transmitter and the receiver. In this paper, we propose an estimation algorithm by using the relationships of each sub-chirp signals to find the integer part without phase ambiguity.

본 논문에서는 주파수 오차가 큰 IEEE 802.15.4 시스템에서의 프레임 동기 및 주파수 추정기법을 제안한다. 주파수 오차의 영향을 제거하기 위해 coherent 방식이 아닌 non-coherent 방식의 프레임 동기가 요구된다. 차등 신호와 절대값을 이용하여 주파수 옵셋의 영향을 완벽히 제거한 프레임 동기를 제안하였다. 그리고 주파수 옵셋 추정의 분산을 줄이기 위한 over-sampling 주기의 주파수 옵셋 검출 기법을 제안하였다.

In this paper, a new data-aided joint phase and frequency estimator, which has very low computational complexity, is proposed and its variances of phase and frequency estimates are derived. To estimate the phase and frequency offset, first of all, the overall observation interval is divided into same length sub-intervals, and then phase estimates are independently computed based on symbols of the each sub-intervals. To be continue the sequence of computed phase estimates, proper integer multiples of $2{\pi}$ are added to (or subtracted from) the computed phase estimates, which is called linearized phase estimate. The phase offset of the proposed joint estimator is estimated by averaging the linearized phase estimates and the frequency offset by averaging the differences between consecutive linearized phase estimates. The variance of the proposed phase offset estimate is same to MCRB of phase if there is no frequency offset, but it is smaller than MCRB of phase if there is frequency offset. However, the variance of the proposed frequency offset estimate is bigger by at least 0.5 dB than MCRB of frequency with the same observation interval.

Characterics of carrier-envelope-offset frequency ($f_{ceo}$) of a femtosecond laser stabilized by the direct locking method were investigated using two f-to-2f interferometers. The stability of $f_{ceo}$ was comaparable to that achieved with a conventional PLL method.

In this letter, we propose a novel frequency offset estimation algorithm for space-time block code (STBC) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems. The algorithm mainly exploits the specific construction of STBC so that it does not need any additional pilots or sequences in the data field. The estimator is derived on the basis of the maximum likelihood theory. Simulation results show that this method can provide a significant performance improvement in terms of the estimation accuracy of the frequency offset.

This paper investigates the multifarious nature of the long-term evolution (LTE) scheme and that of the modified LTE scheme for symbol timing synchronization (STS). This investigation allows us to propose a new replica correlation-based STS scheme to overcome the inherent weaknesses of the other two schemes. The proposed STS signal combines a gold sequence and a half sine wave in the time domain, whereas conventional STS signals specify either binary sequences or complex sequences in the time domain or in the frequency domain. In the proposed scheme, a sufficient correlation property is realized by the gold sequence, and robustness against the frequency offset (FO) is achieved through the sine wave. Compared to the existing LTE-related schemes, the proposed scheme can better achieve immunity to FO and reduction in detector complexity, as well as a low peak-to-average power ratio and a low detection error rate. Performance evaluations through analysis and simulation are provided in the paper to demonstrate these attributes.

In this paper, we show the robustness of a proposed system using both a frequency diversity and a time diversity effect when the channel assumptions are relaxed such that all sub-bands are not independent fading. We take time-repetition coding with interleaving such that the repetition code symbols are spaced sufficiently far apart to guarantee time diversity. We also incorporate offset multicarriers into a proposed multicarrier DS-CDMA system in a different way compared to that of [10] to reduce the total multiple access interference. When we take a convolutional encoder instead of a time-repetition encoder, and again use both time diversity and frequency offset, then we can obtain the significant performance gain.

This letter deals with non-pilot-aided symbol timing estimation methods in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. To do this, OFDM system uses a frequency diversity scheme over two consecutive data symbols. Our approach can be viewed as an expansion of Schmidl's and Minn's correlation methods. Using the OFDM signal equipped with frequency diversity, however, symbol timing is accurately estimated without additional training symbol and a second-order diversity gain is achieved.

Filterbank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC-OQAM) is an attractive alternative to the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation technique. In comparison with OFDM, the FBMC-OQAM signal has better spectral confinement and higher spectral efficiency and tolerance to synchronization errors, primarily due to per-subcarrier filtering using a frequency-time localized prototype filter. However, the filtering process introduces intrinsic interference among the symbols and complicates channel estimation (CE). An efficient way to improve the CE in FBMC-OQAM is using a technique known as windowed frequency domain averaging (FDA); however, it requires a priori knowledge of the window length parameter which is set based on the channel's frequency selectivity (FS). As the channel's FS is not fixed and not a priori known, we propose a k-nearest neighbor-based machine learning algorithm to classify the FS and decide on the FDA's window length. A comparative theoretical analysis of the mean-squared error (MSE) is performed to prove the proposed CE scheme's effectiveness, validated through extensive simulations. The adaptive CE scheme is shown to yield a reduction in CE-MSE and improved bit error rates compared with the popular preamble-based CE schemes for FBMC-OQAM, without a priori knowledge of channel's frequency selectivity.