Abstract: A MIMO radar system includes one or more receivers and transmitters. Any one of the one or more transmitters provides a reference signal for injection-locking. The MIMO radar system generates multiple signals having phase and frequency which are injection-locked to those of the reference signal.

Abstract: A method for performing a network entry procedure by a Mobile Station (MS) in a cloud cell communication system is provided. The method includes determining whether there is an arbitrary cloud cell member candidate Base Station (BS) as a cloud cell member candidate BS which has transmitted a downlink synchronization signal with a signal strength, if there is the arbitrary cloud cell member candidate BS, determining the arbitrary cloud cell member candidate BS as a final cloud cell member candidate BS which will perform a cooperative communication with the master BS, transmitting an access request message including information on the final cloud cell member candidate BS to the master BS, and receiving an access response message including information on a cloud cell member BS from the master BS.

Abstract: Provided is an INitial ranging (IN) method for a Machine to Machine communication service in a mobile communication system. The IN method includes if the presence of a terminal attempting IN is recognized, determining whether a service the terminal wants to receive is a mobile communication service or a Machine to Machine communication service; and setting an indicator indicating to use Ranging Preamble (RP) code partition information for available in the determined service, and transmitting ‘IN-related control information for mobile communication’ including the indicator to the terminal.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for maintaining an optimal beam direction in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for operating a receiving node in a wireless communication system includes, determining a first transmission beam is determined as a preferred transmission beam using a plurality of reference signals transmitted by a transmitting node, generating preferred transmission beam information, transmitting the preferred transmission beam information to the transmitting node, receiving transmissions from the transmitting node via the first transmission beam, and determining whether a change of a transmission beam is necessary. When the change of the transmission beam is determined to be necessary, generating a beam change request and transmitting the beam change request to the transmitting node.

Abstract: A method of supporting communication of a terminal in a first base station of a beamforming system is provided. The method includes determining an uplink control channel through which both the first base station and at least one second base station are able to receive signals, through cooperation with the at least one second base station, the first base station and the at least one second base station belonging to a cloud cell, and transmitting to the terminal information on the determined uplink control channel and frame information to establish relationships with the base stations included in the cloud cell for each transmit frame of a signal to be transmitted to the terminal from the base stations.

Abstract: A method of performing beamforming in a base station is provided. The method includes receiving random access channel signals transmitted in one or more transmit beams from a terminal, using one or more receive beams, determining at least one best transmit beam from the one or more transmit beams and at least one best receive beam from the one or more receive beams, and transmitting information about the best transmit beam and the best receive beam to the terminal.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for supporting periodic multicast transmission in a machine type communication system are provided. A method for operating a Base Station (BS) in a communication system includes allocating persistent resources for data transmission of a service group, selecting at least one MS to feed back a success/failure in receiving a map including the persistent resource allocation information, among Mobile Stations (MSs) to receive the persistent resource allocation information, and transmitting the map including the persistent resource allocation information and information indicating the selected MS.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operating a transmitter in a millimeter wave communication system is provided. In the method, information of a common and/or control channel is mapped to a dedicated frequency region of a dedicated Radio Frequency (RF) path. Data is mapped to a common frequency region for a common RF path.

Abstract: A method and a mobile station of transmitting beam information by a mobile station in a wireless communication system are provided. The mobile station determines whether a particular a particular event according to communication with a base station has occurred, and transmits information on at least one DownLink (DL) transmission beam among N number of DL transmission beams to the base station using a contention-based feedback channel according to a result of the determination.

Abstract: A digital RF converter, a digital RF modulator, and a transmitter are provided. The digital RF converter includes a delta-sigma modulated bits (DSMB) sub-block that generates a current magnitude corresponding to least-significant n bits among input signals at a first sampling speed, a least-significant bit (LSB) sub-block that generates a current magnitude corresponding to intermediate k bits among the input signals at a second sampling speed lower than the first sampling speed, and a most-significant bit (MSB) sub block that generates a current magnitude corresponding to most-significant m bits among the inputs signals at the second sampling speed.

Abstract: In a digital receiver, a noise attenuation and signal magnitude mapping variable amplifying unit includes a filter and an amplifier, amplifies and band-bass filters an analog signal and attenuating white noise and an interference signal other than a band signal. An ADC performs subsampling on a carrier frequency of a desired signal and performs oversampling on the band of the desired signal by using a sampling frequency to convert the analog signal which has passed through the noise attenuation and signal magnitude mapping variable amplifying unit into a digital signal of a direct conversion frequency band or an intermediate frequency band. The ADC has a dynamic range for processing both the desired signal and an undesired signal adjacent to the desired signal. A digital signal processing unit converts a signal frequency of the digital signal or digital-filters an undesired signal within the digital signal and processes the digital signal by digitally adjusting a gain.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting paging control information in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a Base Station (BS) for paging in a superframe-based wireless communication system includes determining a paging listening interval, determining an interval of at least one or more subframes before the paging listening interval, as a paging control listening interval, and, during the paging control listening interval, broadcasting a paging control message.

Abstract: There is provided a baseband structure of a transceiver. In an embodiment, a baseband structure of a transceiver includes a Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA) configured to amplify an input signal by controlling a gain, one or more Fixed Gain Amplifiers (FGAs) connected in series to the VGA and configured to amplify an output signal of the VGA, and one or more selection switches configured to selectively operate the FGAs. In accordance with the present invention, since a plurality of FGAs is selectively driven according to a necessary gain and an LPFG includes an FGA, power consumption and the size of a chip can be reduced and the overall performance of a transceiver can be improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital front end receiver using a DC offset compensation scheme. The digital front end receiver includes a DC offset compensation filter configured to remove DC offset components from signals received from a digital mixer and a Cascaded Integrator-Comb (CIC) decimation filter configured to reduce a sampling rate of the signals received from the DC offset compensation block.

Abstract: Provided is a digital analog converter that output currents having different magnitudes for a digital input value according to a mapping table. The digital analog converter includes: a plurality of current sources; and a calibration unit configured to sort index values for identifying the plurality of current sources according to current magnitudes of the current sources, couple each two current sources which are symmetrical left and right about the center of the sorted index values, and map the current source pairs into a mapping table.

Abstract: A digital RF receiver does not use a separate receiver according to a mode and a band for multi-mode reception, MIMO reception, and bandwidth extension reception, and changes only setting variables in a single receiver structure so as to implement multi-mode reception, MIMO reception, bandwidth extension reception, and/or simultaneous multi-mode operation, such that complexity of the receiver, development cost, and power consumption can be reduced.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for composing a subchannel in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes performing a subband-based permutation on resources for composing a subchannel; selecting one or more subbands as resources for a band selection subchannel from the resources passing through the subband-based permutation; composing the band selection subchannel using at least one of the selected subbands; performing a resource allocation unit based permutation on resources not selected for the band selection subchannel; composing a resource allocation unit based diversity subchannel using subband remained in the selected subbands after the band selection subchannel is composed and at least one of the resource allocation units of the resources passing through the resource allocation unit based permutation; and composing a tone-based diversity subchannel by performing a tone-based permutation on resources remained after the resource allocation unit based diversity subchannel is composed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a Near Field Communication (NFC) system are provided, in which a multi-frame is configured and a signal is transmitted in the multi-frame to a reception terminal The multi-frame includes a discovery region, a paging region, at least two scheduling regions for indicating a plurality of different scheduling algorithms, and a traffic slot region. A transmission terminal transmits a signal for searching for a neighbor terminal in the discovery region, transmits a paging signal in the paging region, transmits information for a scheduling algorithm that is predetermined by the transmission terminal and the reception terminal in each of the scheduling regions, and transmits a scheduled signal in the traffic slot region according to the predetermined scheduling algorithm.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fractional digital phase locked loop with an analog phase error compensator. The digital phase locked loop with an analog phase error compensator can reduce excessive power consumption and power noise and transient current noise while increasing phase error detection resolution by performing fractional phase error detection and compensation through the analog phase error compensator.

Abstract: The present invention provides a signal input device of a digital-RF converter including: a phase-modulated signal input unit configured to input a phase-modulated carrier signal to an LO switch of a digital-RF converter; and a digital signal input unit configured to correct a digital signal to correspond to the phase-modulated carrier signal, and input the corrected digital signal to a data switch of the digital-RF converter.