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본 논문에서는 위성-지상 통합(hybrid/integrated)망에서 멀티미디어 방송 서비스를 효율적으로 제공하도록 기여할 수 있는 여러 가지 다이버시티 방식에 대한 성능을 비교 분석한다. 시공간 부호는 부가적인 대역폭 요구 사항 없이도 다중경로 환경에서 다이버시티 이득을 얻을 수 있는 효율적인 방식이다. 위성시스템에서 시공간 부호와 오류정정부호를 적절히 결합하여 지상 중계 장치와의 협동 다이버시티 이득 구현이 가능함이 제안되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 선행 연구 결과를 바탕으로 하여, 다양한 시공간부호 및 오류정정 부호의 결합 방식에 따른 성능 분석 결과와 장단점등을 제시하여, 향후 시스템 구현에 도움이 될 수 있도록 한다.

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of various diversity techniques which can contribute to provide efficient multimedia broadcasting services via hybrid/integrated satellite and terrestrial network. Space-time coding can achieve the diversity gain in a multi-path environment without additional bandwidth requirement. Recent study results reported that satellite systems can achieve high diversity gains by appropriate utilization of STC and/or forward error correction. Based on these previous study results, we present various cooperative diversity techniques by combing STC and rate compatible turbo codes in order to realize the transmit diversity for the mobile satellite system. The satellite and several terrestrial repeaters operate in unison to send the encoded signals, so that receiver may realize diversity gain. The results demonstrated in this paper can be utilized in future system implementation.

시공간 부호(Space-time codes; STC)는 부가적인 대역폭 요구 사항 없이도 다중경로 환경에서 부호화 이득을 얻을 수 있는 효율적인 방식이다. 위성시스템에서도 시공간부호를 이용하여 지상 중계 장치와의 협동 다이버시티 이득 구현이 가능함이 제안되어 왔다. 특히 위성 DMB 시스템에서는 방송 서비스의 단방향 특성으로 인하여 전송 다이버시티를 이용하여 성능을 향상시키는 것이 매우 효율적이라고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 차세대 위성 DMB 서비스의 성능을 향상시키는데 기여할 수 있는 여러 가지 STC 방식의 성능을 비교한 결과를 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 방식들은 위성과 지상의 중계기가 서로 협동적으로 동작하여 STC 부호화 이득을 얻을 수 있도록 하는 방식이다. 또한, 향후 이런 방식들을 개발함에 있어서 고려해야 할 점들을 기술한다.

Space-time codes (STC) can achieve the diversity gain in a multi-path environment without additional bandwidth requirement. Recent study results reported that satellite systems can also achieve this diversity gain by using spacetime codes in a cooperative network with terrestrial repeaters. Due to uni-directional nature of satellite DMB services, transmit diversity can be considered as one of the most effective ways to improve the performance. In this paper, we demonstrate various simulations results of STC schemes which can contribute to improve performance of future satellite DMB services. The STC schemes introduced in this paper provides diversity gains by combing independent coded signal from the satellite as well as from the terrestrial repeaters. In addition, we discuss a few points which should be considered to develop and implement these STC schemes.

Herein, a new space-time block coding technique is proposed for a MIMO 2 × 2 multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) system to minimize the bit error rate (BER) in Rayleigh fading channels with reduced decoding complexity using ZF and MMSE linear detection techniques. The main objective is to improve the service quality of wireless communication systems and optimize the number of antennas used in base stations and terminals. The idea is to exploit the correlation product technique between both information symbols to transmit per space-time block code and their own orthogonal Walsh-Hadamard sequences to ensure orthogonality between both symbol vectors and create a full-rate orthogonal STBC code. Using 16 quadrature amplitude modulation and the quasi-static Rayleigh channel model in the MATLAB environment, the simulation results show that the proposed space-time block code performs better than the Alamouti code in terms of BER performance in the 2 × 2 MIMO system for both cases of linear decoding ZF and MMSE.

본 논문에서는 하나의 기지국, 세 개의 중계국, 하나의 수신국으로 이루어진 중계 기반 협동 시스템을 이용하는 새로운 분산 Alamouti 시공간 블록 부호화 기법을 제안하였다. 세 개의 중계국 중에서 선택한 두 개의 중계국과 통신이 이루어지도록 기지국은 두 개의 빔(beam)으로 구성된 array를 사용하는 개별적인 두 개의 안테나로 이루어졌다고 가정하였다. 첫 번째 시간 슬롯(slot) 동안, 기지국의 한 안테나로부터 전송된 개별적인 두 개의 신호가 하나의 중계국에 의하여 선택되고, 더해지고, 증폭되고, 수신국으로 보내진다. 이 전송 기법은 중계국과 수신국 사이의 채널에서 생성될 수 있는 새로운 분산 Alamouti 시공간 블록 부호를 나타낸다. 심벌의 등가 행렬 표현을 이용하여 처노프(Chernoff) 상계(upper bound) 쌍 오류 확률(PEP)의 관점에서 제안된 시공간 블록 부호의 성능을 분석하였다 또한, 수신 신호 성능 관점에서 기지국의 두 개의 안테나 사이의 전력 배분에 따라 결정되는 계수 $\alpha$의 효과를 평가하였다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통하여 $\alpha$의 값이 $\frac{2}{3}$일 때에만 세 개의 중계국에서의 수신 신호가 같은 분산을 갖는다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 결과적으로 수신국에서 더 나은 성능을 얻을 수 있었다. 이 분석 결과를 통하여 제안된 기법을 이용할 경우 기존의 기법에 비하여 중계국에서의 다이버시티 이득, PEP, 복잡성 관점에서 뛰어난 성능을 얻을 수 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

In this paper, we propose a new distributed Alamouti space-time block coding scheme using cooperative relay system composed of one source node, three relay nodes and one destination node. The source node is assumed to be equipped with two antennas which respectively use a 2-beam array to communicate with two nodes selected from the three relay nodes. During the first time slot, the two signals which respectively were transmitted by one antenna at the source, are selected by one relay node, added, amplified, and forwarded to the destination. During the second time slot, the other two relay nodes implement the conjugate and minusconjugate operations to the two received signals, respectively, each in turn is amplified and forwarded to the destination node. This transmission scheme represents a new distributed Alamouti space-time block code that can be constructed at the relay-destination channel. Through an equivalent matrix expression of symbols, we analyze the performance of this proposed space-time block code in terms of the chernoff upper bound pairwise error probability (PEP). In addition, we evaluate the effect of the coefficient $\alpha$ ($0{\leq}{\alpha}{\leq}1$) determined by power allocation between the two antennas at the source on the received signal performance. Through computer simulation, we show that the received signals at the three relays have same variance only when the value of $\alpha$ is equal to $\frac{2}{3}$, as a consequence, a better performance is obtained at the destination. These analysis results show that the proposed scheme outperforms conventional proposed schemes in terms of diversity gain, PEP and the complexity of relay nodes.

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a special technique for communication systems which can support the high data rate transmission with sufficient robustness to fading channels. Tansmitter diversity with space-time block coding (STBC) is an attractive transmission scheme to improve the performance of systems. In this paper, we compare the performance of space-time block coded OFDM systems with that of conventional OFDM systems over fast fading channels. The block-interleaved (BI) STBC and frequency hopping (FH) OFDM are proposed in the study to provide the maximum achievable diversity gains. As the simulation results, the STBC OFDM, Bl-STBC OFDM and Bl-STBC FH-OFDM provide the much improved performance over the conventional OFDM. And the Bl-STBC FH-OFDM also provide the better performance than the STBC OFDM and Bl-STBC OFDM, especially, in the case of the two transmit antennas are employed while BI-STBC FH-OFDM can maintain the same data rate of 12 Mbps.

This paper proposes an alternate time-switched space-frequency block coding transmission technique for orthogonal frequency division modulation systems. There are two antennas in the transmitter but it still has only a baseband and RF and a switch that alternates between the antennas at every symbol timing. Alternating transmit symbols result in zeros that make maximal ratio receive combining possible in the receiver. Simulation results show that it provides better performance than the traditional algorithm at the expense of one additional antenna.

This paper proposes an alternate time-switched multiplexed space-time block coding technique for orthogonal frequency division modulation systems. The traditional multiplexed space-time block coding technique can provide more data rate owing to multiple transmit and receive technique, which causes a lot of hardware burden. Alternate time-switched scheme of transmitting time-domain zeros can reduce this hardware burden by half with time-domain switches only. Simulation results show that alternate time-switched scheme has almost same performance with half of baseband and RF modules in comparison with a multiplexed space-time block coding for orthogonal frequency division modulation systems with twice repetitive transmission.

Space-time code is a good solution to get transmit diversity. During the last years a number of space-time block codes have been proposed for use in multiple transmit antenna systems. This code, however, was presented only for the special case of the certain numbers of transmit antennas and the certain modulation schemes. and designed under the assumption that the transmitter has no knowledge about the channel. In this work, on the other hand, we consider the case when the transmitter has partial, but not perfect knowledge about the channel. This system can have full diversity for arbitrary number of the transmit antennas with a little bits of feedback.

본 논문은 시공간 블록 코딩 알고리즘을 위한 간단한 암호화 기법을 제안한다. 시공간 블록 코딩 알고리즘은 데이터를 전송하는데 두 개의 안테나를 사용하며, 전송 데이터는 원래의 데이터와 수신기에서 결합하기 위하여 변형된 데이터로 구성된다. 이러한 종류의 두 개의 송신 안테나 데이터는 각각 상대방의 안테나와 교환되어 전송될 수 있으며, 이러한 방법은 간단한 암호화 알고리즘으로 사용될 수 있다. 암호화 시간 제어 정보는 송신기와 수신기 사이에서 미리 공유되어야 한다. 제안된 구조는 암호화 알고리즘이 없는 경우와 비교하여 성능이 향상됨을 제시하였다.

This paper proposes a simple encryption technology for space-time block coding algorithm. Space-time block coding algorithm uses two antennas in transmitting data which consists of original data and transformed data for the purpose of combining in the receiver. This kind of two transmission antenna data could be exchanged and transmitted on each other's antenna individually, which can be used as a simple encryption algorithm. Encryption timing control informations should be shared between transmitter and receiver beforehand. It is shown that the proposed architecture can give performance enhancement compared with no encryption cases.

This paper proposes a hybrid algorithm of space-time block coding and space-frequency block coding using alternate time switch. The traditional alternate time-switched space-time or space-frequency block coding technique for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system does not provide a good performance with a variety of communication environments. This hybrid algorithm has searched good performance ranges in various environments in view points of mobile speed and doppler frequency. In this paper, we investigate better performance ranges for two algorithms, suggest a hybrid algorithm for dynamically changing communication environments, propose a structure for transmitter and receiver, and show that its performance is better than the traditional algorithm by simulations.

본 논문은 다중 안테나 시스템에서 두 심볼을 묶어서 전송함으로써 최대 전송률을 유지하는 준직교 시공간 블록 부호(QOSTBC : quasi orthogonal space time block codes)의 성능을 평가하였다. 이제까지 제안된 여러 QOSTBC 부호는 다차원 신호 공간에서의 신호 설계 방식에 차이가 있고 결과적으로 diversity 차수는 동일하지만 부호 이득에 차이를 보인다. 채널 부호기를 결합한 경우와 그렇지 않은 경우에 여러 가지 방식의 QOSTBC의 성능을 모의실험으로 평가하였다.

This paper proposes an alternate time-switched space-frequency block coding transmission technique for single-carrier modulation with frequency domain equalization. There are two antennas in the transmitter but it still has only a baseband and RF and a switch that alternates between the antennas at every symbol timing. Alternating transmit symbols result in zeros which make maximal ratio receive combining possible in the receiver. Simulation results show that it has better performance than the traditional algorithm at the expense of one additional antenna.

This paper proposes an alternate time-switched multiplexed space-frequency block coding technique for single-carrier modulation with frequency domain equalization. The traditional multiplexed space-frequency block coding technique for single-carrier modulation uses multiple groups of two transmitters and suppresses the interference signals of other SFBC groups at the receiver. In this paper, we reconfigure transmit signals to adapt them for alternate time-switched multiplexed SFBC for single-carrier modulation with frequency domain equalization and receiver structures and propose a structure for transmitter and receiver, show that its performance is better than the traditional algorithm by simulations.