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An Analytic Model for the Optimal Number of Relay Stations in IEEE 802.16j Cooperative Networks

IEEE 802.16j 협력 전송 네트워크에서 최적의 중계국 수를 위한 분석 모델

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  • 조진성 (경희대학교 컴퓨터공학과 모바일 및 임베디드 시스템 연구실)
  • Received : 2011.04.12
  • Accepted : 2011.06.30
  • Published : 2011.09.30
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Abstract

Cooperative communications are adopted as a promising solution to achieve high data rate over large areas in the future 40 wireless system and the relay station (RS) is the key concept in cooperative communications. However, most existing works in this area focus only on optimal RS selections. In addition, there are only few works consider another crucial issue: how many relay stations we need to place. Only when the number of relay stations is defined, the relay station selection can be performed well. In this paper we derive a formula which describes the impact of varying number of RS on end-to-end link throughput assuming a clustering scheme which is based on Voronoi tessellation. In addition to mathematical analysis on the feasibility of the formula, we also examine its performance through a set of simulations under the Erceg path loss model. Simulation results verify that the link throughput gain of our proposed scheme is promising.

무선 협력 통신 기술은 유선 기간망과 연결 없이 설치 가능한 중계국(Relay Station)을 이용하여 추가적으로 기지국을 설치하지 않아도 커버리지 확장, 음영지역의 해소, 링크 전송률을 향상시킬 수 있다. 중계국은 중요한 이동 통신자원 중 하나로 등장하면서 많은 연구들이 최적의 중계국 선택 방안, 중계국 분배 알고리즘과 같은 주제에 초점을 맞추어 진행하여 왔다. 그러나 특정한 환경에 배치한 중계국 수와 획득할 수 있는 링크 전송률 이득사이 관계를 정확히 분석하는 수학적 모델에 대한 제안은 없었다. 본 논문에서는 Voronoi tessellation에 의한 중계국 기반 클러스터 기법을 제안한다. 또한 Voronoi tessellation에 기반하여 배치한 중계국 수와 사용자가 획득할 수 있는 링크 전송률 이득 사이 관계에 대한 수학적 분석 모텔을 추출한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 수학적 분석 모델의 정확성은 Erceg 경로 손실 모델에 기반한 시뮬레이션에 의해 검증되었다.

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