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Showing papers by "Minho Cheong published in 2008"


Patent
23 Jul 2008
TL;DR: In this article, a multi-dimensional detector for a receiver of an MIMO system and a method thereof is presented. But the method is not suitable for the detection of a single-input single-out (SISO) system.
Abstract: Provided are a multi-dimensional detector for a receiver of an MIMO system and a method thereof. The multi-dimensional detector includes a first symbol detecting unit for calculating symbol distance values using an upper triangular matrix (R) obtained from QR decomposition to detect an m th symbol; a symbol deciding unit for deciding a symbol having a minimum distance value among the calculated symbol distance values from the first symbol detecting unit; and a second symbol detecting unit for calculating symbol distance values using an updated received signal y and the upper triangular matrix R to detect a (m−1) th symbol.

43 citations


Patent
10 Dec 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, a communication method for a transmitter for channel estimation in a MIMO wireless communication system having N receiving antennas, including generating a preamble interval having a short training field that includes a predetermined pattern iterated N times on a time domain, is presented.
Abstract: Provided are a preamble structure and a channel estimation algorithm thereof. A communication method for a transmitter for channel estimation in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system having N receiving antennas, includes generating a preamble interval having a short training field that includes a predetermined pattern iterated N times on a time domain and is used for compensating for a carrier frequency offset, and transmitting a packet having the preamble interval.

17 citations


Patent
30 Sep 2008
TL;DR: In this article, a transmitter and receiver for a high throughput wireless communication system using a multiple antenna, a method thereof, and a digital intermediate frequency (DIF) transmission signal processing method for the same are presented.
Abstract: Provided are a transmitter and receiver for a high throughput wireless communication system using a multiple antenna, a method thereof, and a digital intermediate frequency (DIF) transmission signal processing method for the same. The transmitter, includes: a baseband transmitting unit for processing a transmission signal by performing a Media Access Control (MAC) protocol process on transmission data and dividing the transmission data into n band signals where n is a predetermined natural number in a physical layer process; a DIF transmitting unit for integrating transmission signals of each band transmitted from the baseband transmitting unit and outputting m channels where m is a predetermined natural number; and a Radio Frequency (RF) transmitting unit for modulating each channel signal transmitted from the DIF transmitting unit into an RF signal and emitting the signal through the multiple antenna.

16 citations


Patent
01 May 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the cyclic shift values of a subblock are calculated in a matrix and when the calculated cyclic shifts of the subblocks are arrayed in the matrix, the parity check matrix is produced by arraying all cyclic shifting values of each subblock except "0 matrix" without duplication to any one column.
Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a parity check matrix for low complexity and high speed decoding, and an apparatus and method for coding a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code using the same. The method includes: calculating a cyclic shift value of a subblock to a matrix; and when the calculated cyclic shift values of the subblock are arrayed in the matrix, producing a parity check matrix by arraying the cyclic shift values of the subblock except ‘0 matrix’ without duplication to any one column.

11 citations


Patent
25 Sep 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a reception apparatus for receiving a plurality of different data streams in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system, which includes a data stream detector for detecting each data stream by removing interference between the different data stream while maintaining channel information.
Abstract: Provided is a reception apparatus and method of a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system that receives a plurality of different data streams in a multiple cell environment. The reception apparatus for receiving a plurality of different data streams in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna system includes a data stream detector for detecting each data stream by removing interference between the different data streams while maintaining channel information; and a cochannel interference (CCI) remover for removing cochannel interference from each data stream detected in the data stream detector. The present invention can remove cochannel interference and increase channel capacity to thereby acquire both diversity gain and multiplexing gain.

8 citations


Patent
16 Jun 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a QR decomposition apparatus and method that can reduce the number of computers by sharing hardware in an MIMO system employing OFDM technology to simplify a structure of hardware.
Abstract: Provided is a QR decomposition apparatus and method that can reduce the number of computers by sharing hardware in an MIMO system employing OFDM technology to simplify a structure of hardware. The QR decomposition apparatus includes a norm multiplier for calculating a norm; a Q column multiplier for calculating a column value of a unitary Q matrix to thereby produce a Q matrix vector; a first storage for storing the Q matrix vector calculated in the Q column multiplier; an R row multiplier for calculating a value of an upper triangular R matrix by multiplying the Q matrix vector by a reception signal vector; and a Q update multiplier for receiving the reception signal vector and an output of the R row multiplier, calculating an Q update value through an accumulation operation, and providing the Q update value to the Q column multiplier to calculate a next Q matrix vector.

8 citations


Patent
22 Jul 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a link adaptation method and apparatus in wireless communication system, which includes amplifying a received signal, converting the amplified signal into a digital signal, calculating digital signal strength, and calculating the received signal strength based on the digital signal strengths and a gain of said amplifying signal.
Abstract: Provided is a link adaptation method and apparatus in wireless communication system. The method, includes: amplifying a received signal; converting the amplified signal into a digital signal; calculating digital signal strength; and calculating the received signal strength based on the digital signal strength and a gain of said amplifying a received signal.

8 citations


Patent
19 Nov 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, an apparatus and method for detecting reception signal symbol synchronization in a wireless communication system is presented. But the method is not suitable for the detection of the reception signal in the presence of multiple antennas.
Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting reception signal symbol synchronization in a wireless communication system. The method, includes: calculating a channel power value in each of multiple antennas; selecting and averaging at least 2 channel power values; compensating carrier frequency offset for an average value; and determining a symbol boundary of a reception signal according to the size of the average value compensating the carrier frequency offset.

6 citations


Patent
28 Nov 2008
TL;DR: In this article, a high-throughput wireless communication system consisting of a baseband transmitter, a DIF transmitter, and a RF transmitter is described. But the MAC protocol is not considered.
Abstract: Provided is a transmitter and a receiver for a high-throughput wireless communication system. The transmitter includes a baseband transmitter, a DIF transmitter, and a RF transmitter. The baseband transmitter performs a MAC protocol process on transmission signals and reception signals and processes the transmission signals by dividing an entire transmission band into n bands in a physical layer process of the transmission data, where n is a natural number. The DIF transmitter combines transmission signals of each band from the baseband transmitter and outputs m channel signals corresponding to a number of transmission antennas, where m is a natural number. The RF transmitter modulates each of the channel signals transferred from the DIF transmitter and transmits the modulated signals through m antennas.

5 citations


Patent
05 Jun 2008
TL;DR: In this article, a method and apparatus for receiving a signal for a MIMO system is presented, which includes a QR decomposer for calculating a unitary matrix Q, an upper triangle matrix R, and a vector size for a received signal.
Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for receiving a signal for a MIMO system. The receiving apparatus includes: a QR decomposer for calculating a unitary matrix Q, an upper triangle matrix R, and a vector size for a received signal; a multiple dimension detector for calculating a first LLR for an output of the QR decomposer through multiple dimension detection; an inverse matrix and weight calculator for calculating an inverse matrix for the upper triangle matrix R and a weight; an interference remover for regenerating a symbol for a demodulated data stream using the fist LLR and removing interference from an output vector of the QR decomposer using the regenerated symbol; and a weight zero forcing unit for performing zero forcing on the interference removed output vector from the interference remover using the inverse matrix of the upper triangle matrix R and the weight and calculating a second LLR.

3 citations


Patent
22 Jul 2008
TL;DR: In this article, a multi-dimensional detection unit for multi-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems was proposed, where the receiver includes a QR decomposing unit for performing a column exchanging operation in cycles n T -n to n T as QR decomposition where n and T are integer numbers.
Abstract: Provided are a receiver of a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system, QR decomposition and multi-dimensional detection used in the receiver. The receiver includes: a QR decomposing unit for performing a QR decomposing operation in cycles 1 to n T -n−1, and performing a column exchanging operation in cycles n T -n to n T as QR decomposition where n and T are an integer number; and a multi-dimensional detecting unit for receiving a first R matrix R y and a second R matrix R z from the QR decomposing unit, calculating a first distance value for detecting an m th symbol for the first R matrix and a second distance value for detecting an m th symbol for the second R matrix, and simultaneously detecting an m th symbol and an (m−1) th symbol using the first distance value and the second distance value.

Patent
17 Jul 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, an apparatus and method for transmitting data using a multi-antenna is presented, which includes a transmission buffer selecting unit for selecting transmission buffer of an antenna group corresponding to characteristics of each aggregated Medium Access Control Protocol Data Units (MPDU) when a list of aggregated MPDUs to transmit is received.
Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting data using a multi-antenna. The apparatus includes a transmission buffer selecting unit for selecting transmission buffer of an antenna group corresponding to characteristics of each aggregated Medium access control Protocol Data Units (MPDU) when a list of aggregated MPDUs to transmit is received; a data transmitting unit for generating a list of aggregated MPDUs to transmit with storage information of the aggregated MPDUs, transferring the generated list to the transmission buffer selecting unit and transmitting corresponding aggregated MPDUs through the selected transmission buffer; and a timing controlling unit for controlling a transmission timing of each aggregated MPDU.