Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kt Corporation

Sk Telecom Company, Ltd.

Hanaro Telecom., Inc.

Ktfreetel Co., Ltd

Kwang-Chun Lee

Jae-Ho Jung

Heon-Kook Kwon

Joon-Hyung Kim

Hyun-Kyu Chung

Sung-Jun Lee

Seong-Min Kim

Byung-Su Kang

Gweon-Do Jo

Bong-Hyuk Park

Myung-Don Kim

Yun-Soo Ko

Young-Hoon Kim

Tae-Joong Kim

Jae-Heung Kim

Hyeong-Geun Park

Jung-Hoon Oh

Seunghyun Jang

Wee-sang Park

Chi-Hyung Ahn

Doo-Soo Kim

Hong-Sup Lee

The present invention relates to a wireless transceiver system for supporting a dual mode that simultaneously supports the Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) method and the Time Division Duplex (TDD) method in a certain frequency band. The present system supports the FDD system conducting transmission and reception simultaneously by using different frequency bands for transmission and reception as well as the TDD system temporally alternating transmission and reception by using the common frequency band among an upper frequency band and a lower frequency band used in the FDD system as well as another frequency band adjacent thereto, thereby selectively supporting both of the two communication systems in a wireless transceiver system.

Wireless transceiver system for supporting dual mode

An operation control method in a base station of a wireless communication system includes: checking whether or not an allowed mobile station exists in coverage of the base station and overall coverage of base stations adjacent to the base station; and controlling the base station to perform transmission/reception at a predetermined period through a first discontinuous operation, when the allowed mobile station does not exist in the coverage of the base station and the overall coverage of the adjacent base stations.

Method and apparatus for supporting discontinuous operation of base station in wireless communication system and control system thereof

Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling power in a mobile communication system. The apparatus includes a moving speed measuring unit for measuring a moving speed of the terminal, a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) processing unit for requesting a base station to adjust a CQI report frequency when the moving speed measured by the moving speed measuring unit exceeds a threshold value, and determining a CQI report frequency based on information on the CQI report frequency received from the base station to report CQI, and a power controller for performing a power control in response to a power control signal created by the CQI reported from the base station.

Apparatus and method for controlling power in mobile communication system

A repeating apparatus in a wireless communication system includes: a signal detection unit configured to receive a signal from a base station or a mobile station and detect strength of the signal; a control unit configured to compare the signal strength detected by the signal detection unit with signal strength predetermined by the system and provide comparison information; and an output signal control unit configured to receive the comparison information from the control unit and adjust and amplify gain of a signal transmitted to the base station or the mobile station.

Repeating apparatus and method in wireless communication system

The method includes performing a wired back-to-back test by forming M wired paths connecting one of the N transmission antennas with the M reception antennas through M cables, separating idigital data corresponding to an ireceiver wired path from the plurality of digital data stored in the receiver wherein i is a natural number greater than 1 and smaller than M, extracting a time delay by decimating the separated idigital data and performing sliding correlation on the decimated data, and extracting attenuation and phase characteristics of the ireceiver wired path by extracting samples after the time delay among the decimated samples.

Calibration method for Tx/Rx path characteristic of channel sounder

Disclosed is an apparatus for transmitting complex signals in a wireless communication system. The present invention, there is provided a method for controlling gain according to a magnitude change of output signals in a polar transmitter including an amplification unit having two or more amplification degrees, the method includes processes to control an output level of a modulated signal when a output-required power of transmission signals are less than a predetermined threshold value, and to perform a basic amplification through the amplification unit; to amplify the amplification unit at a first amplification level when the output-required power of the transmission signals is equal to or greater than a predetermined first threshold value and is less than a predetermined second threshold value; and to amplify the amplification unit at a second amplification level when the output-required power of the transmission signal is equal to or greater than the second threshold value.

Apparatus and method for controlling gain of polar transmitter

Provided are a signal amplifying apparatus and method and a wireless transmitter using the same. The signal amplifier includes a polar coordinate converter configured to output an envelope signal and a phase signal by converting a signal to a polar coordinate, a multilevel quantizer configured to output a multilevel quantized signal by quantizing the envelope signal to multiple levels, an amplification state controller configured to control an amplification state using the multilevel quantized signal, and a power amplifier configured to amplify the phase signal according to the controlled amplification state.

Apparatus and method for amplifying signal and wireless transmitter using the same

Provided are a method for measuring a variable bandwidth wireless channel, and a transmitter and a receiver therefor. The transmitter, includes: a pre-processing unit for performing variable over-sampling and band-limited filtering on an original sequence for measuring the wireless channel according to a pre-determined digital-to-analog (D/A) operation speed and measurement bandwidth, and creating and storing a probing sequence whose frequency is up-converted into a fixed transmitting intermediate frequency; and a real-time processing unit for transmitting a probing signal that the stored probing sequence is converted according to the D/A operation speed to the wireless channel.

Method for measuring variable bandwidth wireless channel and transmitter and receiver therefor

A gain control apparatus in a receiver of multiband OFDM system includes: an amplifier amplifying a received signal based on a first auto gain control signal; an analog-to-digital converter for converting the amplified signal into a digital signal; band reception signal extractor for extracting a signal of a desired reception band from the converted digital signal for each reception band, and controlling gain of the extracted signal according to a second auto gain control signal; a reception power detector for detecting a reception power value of whole band from the converted digital signal; and a multiband integration baseband processor for generating the first auto gain control signal by using the detected reception power value of the whole band, and generating the second auto gain control signal to be provided to the band reception signal extraction units, resource allocation information for each band and a reception power for each reception band.

Gain control apparatus and method in receiver of multiband OFDM system

A dual-band wideband local oscillation signal generator includes an oscillation unit, a division unit, a poly phase filter (PPF), a switch unit, and a single side band (SSB) mixer. The oscillation unit is configured to generate a positive in-phase (IP) signal, a negative in-phase (IN) signal, a negative quadrature-phase (QN) signal, and a positive quadrature-phase (QP) signal. The division unit is configured to divide frequencies of the IP signal and the IN signal and generate an RF signal. The PPF is configured to receive the IP signal and the IN signals inputted to the division unit, and generate an LO IP signal, an LO IN signal, an LO QP signal, and an LO QN signal. The switch unit is configured to receive the generated LO signals and select a high band frequency signal or a low band frequency signal.

Dual-band wideband local oscillation signal generator

There is provided to an RF calibration apparatus and method for a multi-antenna mobile communication system, which calibrates a phase error and gain error of an RF path by calculating the minimum value of a sum of an initialized reference signal and a comparison signal by a simple operation and controlling the phase value of a phase converter and the gain of a variable amplifier on the RF path, in calibrating the RF path of a multi-antenna mobile communication system of a TDD (Time Division Duplexing) type or FDD (Frequency Division Duplexing) type.

Radio frequency calibration apparatus and method for multi-antenna mobile communication system

Provided are a method for measuring a variable bandwidth wireless channel, and a transmitter and a receiver therefore. The transmitter, includes: a pre-processing unit for performing variable over-sampling and band-limited filtering on an original sequence for measuring the wireless channel according to a pre-determined digital-to-analog (D/A) operation speed and measurement bandwidth, and creating and storing a probing sequence whose frequency is up-converted into a fixed transmitting intermediate frequency; and a real-time processing unit for transmitting a probing signal that the stored probing sequence is converted according to the D/A operation speed to the wireless channel.

A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) variable gain amplifier includes: a cascode amplifier including a common source field effect transistor and a common gate field effect transistor in a cascode structure; a first current generation unit connected in parallel to a drain of the common gate field effect transistor and configured to vary transconductance of the cascode amplifier; a second current generation unit connected to a common source of the cascode amplifier and configured to control a bias current of the cascode amplifier; a current control unit configured to generate a current control signal for the first and second current generation units; and a load stage connected in series to a drain of the cascode amplifier and configured to output an output current, which is varied by the overall transconductance of the cascode amplifier, as a differential output voltage.

CMOS variable gain amplifier

Provided is controlled-gain wideband feedback low-noise amplifier. The controlled-gain wideband feedback low-noise amplifier includes: a feedback amplifier configured to isolate an input signal and an output signal obtained by amplifying the input signal, feed back the output signal to the input signal to amplify wideband input signals, resonate a low-frequency band signal among the wideband input signals to amplify the low-frequency band signal among the wideband input signals, and be switched in accordance with a control signal to control an amplification gain of the low-frequency band signal among the wideband input signals; and a cascode amplifier configured to amplify a high-frequency band signal among the wideband signals inputted from the feedback amplifier, and be switched in accordance with a control signal to control an amplification gain of the high-frequency band signal among the wideband signals.

Controlled-gain wideband feedback low noise amplifier

A pre-distortion apparatus of a power amplifier includes: a pre-distortion unit configured to generate a pre-distorted signal of an input signal by calculating a magnitude of the input signal and outputting a complex correction coefficient corresponding to the calculated magnitude of the input signal, and provide the generated pre-distorted signal as an input of the power amplifier; and a complex correct coefficient update unit configured to generate an error signal by comparing an output signal of the power amplifier with the input signal and updating the complex correction coefficient to minimize a magnitude of the generated error signal, wherein the pre-distortion unit provides a constant bias value corresponding to the magnitude of the input signal as a bias of the power amplifier while updating the complex correction coefficient.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Kwang-Chun Lee