Abstract: A system and method for performing a handover of a mobile station (MS) by considering Quality of Service (QoS) in a broadband mobile communication system. The method can include the steps of: receiving information about one or more neighbor base stations and reception strengths for the neighbor base stations from a Serving Radio Access System (RAS) currently communicating with the MS; extracting a value of a specific field from the received information about the neighbor base stations; combining the extracted value of the specific field with the reception strengths to thereby obtain combined values, and selecting a maximum value among the combined values; and transmitting a handover (handoff) request message to a base station corresponding to the selected maximum value. The system includes an MS that analyzes information about neighbor stations received in a Mobile Neighbor Base-station Advertisement (MOB_NBR_ADV) message to select a target RAS.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of preparing a vanadium/titania-based catalyst containing non-stoichiometric vanadium and titanium having excellent ability to remove nitrogen oxides at a wide temperature window, particularly, at a relatively low temperature window of 300° C. or lower.

Abstract: An Ethernet passive optical network provides a subscriber with a high speed and large capacity data service and a real time digital broadcast/video service. The network includes an optical line terminal for frame-multiplexing broadcast/video signals, which are obtained by performing a switching operation and a time-slot multiplexing with respect to a plurality of digital broadcast/video data delivered from external broadcasting vendors according to broadcast/video selection information delivered from each user, and communication data delivered through an Internet protocol network.

Abstract: A passive optical network system is disclosed that simultaneously provides both broadcasting service and data service. The passive optical network (PON) amplifies the optical signals for the broadcasting service in an optical amplifier media of the local office by pumping optical signals generated from the central office and provides the optical signals for the broadcasting service to the subscriber terminals. Therefore, the present invention can simultaneously provide broadcasting service and data service for more subscribers without reducing the number of subscribers to the PON. Also, the present invention uses a plurality of optical sources for the data service and the broadcasting service and receives the optical signals generated from the optical sources by using a plurality of optical receivers in the subscriber terminals, and thus can provide a greater amount and variety of data services and broadcasting services.

Abstract: A GE-PON (Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network) system and media access control method for the same are disclosed. In the GE-PON system, by employing MAC attributes of the gigabit Ethernet frames, an OLT (Optical Line Termination) transmits a downstream window containing both a control frame having timeslot position and size information in association with at least two ONUs and Ethernet frames to an ODN (Optical Distribution Network). The OLT analyzes contents of RAUs in an upstream window transmitted from the ONUs in a TDMA method and received from the ODN, and permits timeslot position and size corresponding to each of the ONUs. A plurality of ONUs, connected to the ODN, have their respective timeslot position and size allocated in response to their respective information contained in the control frame of the downstream window. RAU frames are transmitted having queue information and Ethernet frames associated with the allocated timeslots.

Abstract: An Ethernet-PON integrates broadcast/communication through time division multiplexing, which provides users with high-speed, high-volume communication data and high-quality, real-time digital broadcast/image data. An OLT performs a switching operation on a plurality of digital broadcast/image data received from an external broadcaster according to respective broadcast/image selection information from users, time-division-multiplexes the data into a broadcast/image signal, multiplexes the signal and communication data from an IP network into a frame, and electro-optically converts the frame and transmits to the frame to ONTs through an optical splitter. Each ONT receives and photoelectrically converts the signal from the OLT, and performs frame & time-slot demultiplexing to output the entire received communication signals and broadcast/image information contained in a time-slot assigned to the ONT to a corresponding user.

Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor package and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor package includes: a substrate having a top surface on which a lead is formed and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface; a semiconductor chip attached to the top surface of the substrate and having an active surface on which a chip pad is formed and a back surface opposite to the active surface; a redistribution pattern electrically connected to the chip pad and extending from the active surface to a lateral surface of the semiconductor chip; and an interconnector electrically connecting the redistribution to the lead on the lateral surface of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A robust genotyping method using a DNA chip is provided. In the DNA chip used in the genotyping method, optimal probe pairs of a wild-perfect match probe and a mutant-perfect match probe are immobilized for each mutation site on a substrate. The method includes setting up a genotyping algorithm using data obtained from hybridization of an identified standard nucleic acid to the DNA chip, and genotyping an unknown target nucleic acid by substituting input vectors that are calculated from hybridization of the target nucleic acid to the DNA chip into the genotyping algorithm. The results of genotyping the target nucleic acid using the optimal probe pairs for each mutation site are statistically robust to errors.

Abstract: A PON and a method of transmitting data employing different upstream and downstream transmission protocols are disclosed. The PON includes: a plurality of ONTs; WDM filters; an OLT receiving and transmitting optical signals to and from the ONTs and a higher network; and an optical coupler. The ONT includes a first switching unit, a level transformer converting two level Ethernet signals into a three level data signals, a first code generator generating a specific CDMA codes that distinguish the ONT from another ONT, and a first multiplier performing a spread spectrum function with the CDMA codes. The OLT includes an optical receiver, a branching filter branching the upstream CDMA signals, a plurality of second code generators generating codes for despread, a plurality of second multipliers multiplying the received signals by the despread codes, and a plurality of data decider extracting data through correlation calculation.

Abstract: A bottom level detection device is disclosed for a burst mode optical receiver. The receiver includes a converter for converting a burst mode signal into a voltage signal and an automatic gain controller for automatically controlling a gain of the converter. The bottom level detection device detects a bottom level of an output signal from the converter and controls the automatic gain controller on the basis of the detected bottom level. The bottom level detection device includes an amplification circuit for receiving the output signal from the converter at its first input terminal and a fed-back output signal from the device at its second input terminal, respectively, and amplifying a difference between the received signals, a detector for detecting a bottom level of an output signal from the amplification circuit, and an output buffer.

Abstract: A GE-PON (Gigabit Ethernet-Passive Optical Network) system is provided that configures upstream and downstream frames on the basis of a variable-length Ethernet frame. The GE-PON system employs TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) for upstream packet transmission in a tree structure for a point-to-multipoint connection. A structure of a frame format is also provided that is capable of effectively accommodating Gigabit Ethernet traffic in the GE-PON system and a method is provided for implementing various functions such as initial ONU registration, late ONU registration, ranging, and dynamic bandwidth allocation in the GE-PON system.

Abstract: An idle pattern output-control circuit used in a point-to-multipoint communication based Gigabit Ethernet-passive optical network (GE-PON) is provided. In a GE-PON having an optical-line terminal (OLT), a plurality of optical-network units (ONUs) connected to each other via an optical-distribution network (ODN), a media-access controller (MAC), and a physical-coding sublayer (PCS), in which the PCS transmits idle-pattern data to a serializer/deserializer (SERDES) when there is no data to be transmitted to the OLT, an idle-pattern output-control circuit comprising a data converter for converting an idle-pattern data generated from the PCS into a low-level optical signal for subsequent transmission to the OLT, and a switching circuit for selecting data generated from the PCS for subsequent transmission to the SERDES when there is data to be transmitted and for selecting data converted by the data converter for subsequent transmission to the SERDES when there is no data to be transmitted.

Abstract: A passive optical network (PON) for providing a large amount of data at high speed to subscribers is provided. In particular, a PON employing a multi-carrier CDMA in which a CDMA method is applied for an upstream signal is provided. The PON employing a multi-carrier CDMA includes: optical network terminals (ONTs) for transmitting CDMA-based data using multiple carriers to an optical line terminal (OLT) and for receiving Ethernet-based data transmitted from the OLT; the OLT for transforming CDMA-based data received from the ONT into Ethernet-based data, for transmitting the Ethernet-based data to a higher network, and for transmitting Ethernet-based date to the ONTs; and an optical coupler for coupling CDMA-based optical signals transmitted from the ONTs, for transmitting the coupled optical signal to the OLT, and for distributing an Ethernet-based optical signal transmitted from the OLT to the ONTs.

Abstract: A WDM optical source, in adopting a spectrum-sliced method, advantageously needs neither an optical source with specific generation wavelength nor a wavelength-stabilizing circuit for stabilizing wavelength. Affording high power and a very narrow line width, the WDM optical source can provide a broadcasting service without signal distortion by a chromatic dispersion effect and also avoids the expense of an amplifier and/or external modulator, thereby relieving subscribers of the economical burden. The practical use of WDM-PON and of WDM-PON using an inventive WDM optical source can therefore be brought to fruition and broadcasting service can be provided economically.

Abstract: A burst mode optical receiver is disclosed and includes a converter for converting a burst mode signal into a voltage signal, a bottom level detector for detecting a bottom level of an output signal from the converter, an automatic gain controller for automatically controlling the gain of the converter on the basis of the bottom level detected by the bottom level detector in order to maintain an amplitude of the output signal from the converter and generating a reset signal when the bottom level is lower than a predetermined reference value, and a power level detector for detecting a power level of the output signal from the converter and generating the reset signal and an LOS signal indicative of the presence of no input signal when the detected power level is lower than a predetermined reference value.

Abstract: In a gigabit-capable passive optical network (GPON) system and in a method for bandwidth allocation in a passive optical network (PON) system, a minimum bandwidth is allocated to optical network units (ONUs) for minimal transmission assurance dependent on a traffic characteristic of each ONU, and when there is a traffic-container (T-CONT) class of an ONU not allocated bandwidth after minimum bandwidth allocation to all ONUs, an extra bandwidth remaining after minimum bandwidth allocation is dynamically allocated to each T-CONT class according to a weight of the T-CONT class. Thus, efficient bandwidth allocation, considering fairness between ONUs and priority of each T-CONT, is realized.

Abstract: In a gigabit-capable passive optical network (GPON) and a method for bandwidth allocation in the GPON system, when an optical network unit (ONU) requests a bandwidth less than its preset minimum bandwidth, the requested bandwidth is allocated to the ONU. When there are traffic-container (T-CONT) classes of ONUs not allocated bandwidth after the requested bandwidth allocation, a spare bandwidth after the requested bandwidth allocation is dynamically allocated to the T-CONT class of each ONU according to a weight of each T-CONT class and a percentage of each T-CONT buffer queue. Thus, in the short term, upstream channel transmission according to T-CONT priority in a congested state can be ensured, and, in the long run, network traffic congestion can be prevented.

Abstract: A burst-mode optical receiver of a differential-output structure is disclosed.

Abstract: In an optical receiver having a pre-amplifier for converting a current signal outputted from an optical detector to a voltage signal, a signal level detecting device is provided to provide an LOS (loss of signal) signal and a reset signal from the output of the pre-amplifier. The signal level detecting device comprising: a capacitor for receiving the output from the pre-amplifier; first and second transistors each consisting of an emitter and a collector connected to the output of the pre-amplifier and a base connected to the collector; a third transistor having a collector connected to the collector of the first transistor and an emitter connected to the collector of the second transistor; and, a common emitter circuit with a pair of resistors connected, respectively, to the emitter and collector of the third transistor and capable of detecting the level of a signal inputted from the collector of the third transistor.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an adhesive film having a multiple filler distribution and a method of manufacturing the same, and a chip stack package having the adhesive film and a method of manufacturing the same. The adhesive film may have an upper film layer with a high concentration of fillers with a small particle size, and a lower film layer with a low concentration of fillers of a large particle size. The adhesive film having a multiple filler distribution may be manufactured using a lamination method or a consecutive coating method. The adhesive film may include two film layers having identical chemical properties while having different physical properties.