• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.54-56
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• 2015

In this paper, we investigate a physical-layer network coding (PNC) in a two-way relay channel (TWRC) where two sources send and receive data with each other by help of a relay node with multiple antennas. We focus on the multiple-access phase of the TWRC in this paper. It is assumed that the source nodes do not know the wireless channel and the wireless channel independently varies in time, that is, fast fading environments. At the relay node, the channel is assumed to be perfectly known. The relay node utilizes the channel sate information and applies maximum likelihood ratio for detecting received signals. Through extensive simulations, it is shown that a bit error rate (BER) performance becomes improved as the number of antennas at the relay node increases.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.2213-2218
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a new relay selection scheme which can decrease the secrecy outage probability in a relay communication network with multiple relays and an eavesdropper. In the conventional relay selection scheme, a relay transmits jamming signal toward an eavesdropper to decrease the successful decoding probability of the eavesdropper. The coventional scheme has a critical problem that the successful decoding probability of a receiver also decreases. The new relay selection scheme proposed in this paper can significantly enhance the secrecy outage probability by selecting a pair of relays which can increase the successful decoding probability of the receiver while decreasing the successful decoding probability of the eavesdropper. We performed extensive computer simulation based on Monte-Carlo. The simulation results reveal that the proposed relay selection scheme can improve the secrecy outage probability by 10 to 50 times compared to the existing relay selection scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.1549-1555
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• 2009

The Relay node placement problem is one of the most important requirements for many wireless sensor networks because the lifetime of sensor networks is closely related with the placement of relay nodes which receive sensed data from sensor nodes and forward them to the base station. Relay node placement problem has focused at minimization of dissipated total energy of the sensor nodes in whole networks. However, minimum total energy causes the unbalance of consumed energy in sensor nodes due to different distances between relay nodes and sensor nodes. This paper proposes the concept of energy balance ratio and finds the locations of relay nodes using objective functions which maximize the energy balance ratio. Maximizing this ratio results in maximizing the network lifetime by minimizing the energy consumption of large-scale sensor networks. However, finding a solution to relay node placement problem is NP-hard and it is very difficult to get exact solutions. Therefore, we get approximate solutions to EBR-RNP problem which considers both energy balance ratio and relay node placement using constraint programming.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.275-280
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a novel relay selection technique which utilizes a priori decoding information at relays for buffer-aided successive relaying networks. In the conventional relaying schemes, a single relay pair is selected for receiving data from the source and transmitting data to the destination. In the proposed technique, however, all relays except the relay selected for transmitting data to the destination try to decode the received signal from the source, and they store the data if they succeed decoding. The proposed technique selects the relay such that it can succeed its own transmission and it maximizes the number of relays successfully decoding the data from the source at the same time. It is shown that the proposed relaying technique significantly outperforms the conventional buffer-aided relaying schemes in terms of outage probability through extensive computer simulations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.57-62
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• 2014

The benefits of infrastructure support are shown by analyzing a throughput scaling law of an erasure network in which multiple relay stations (RSs) are regularly placed. Based on suitably modeling erasure probabilities under the assumed network, we show our achievable network throughput in the hybrid erasure network. More specifically, we use two types of physical models, a exponential decay model and a polynomial decay model. Then, we analyze our achievable throughput using two existing schemes including multi-hop transmissions with and without help of RSs. Our result indicates that for both physical models, the derived throughput scaling law depends on the number of nodes and the number of RSs.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.124-131
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• 2014

This paper describes a design of an adaptive baseband modem based on TDMA(time division multiple access) with a relay protocol function for wireless personal area networks. The designed baseband modem is controlled by a master synchronization signal and can be configured a relay network up to 14 hops. For efficient data relay communications, the internal buffer design is optimized by implementing a priority memory bus controller to a single port memory. And the priority memory bus controller is also designed to minimize the number of synthesized logic gates. To implement the synchronization function of the narrowband TDMA relay communication, the number of gates has been reduced by dividing the frame synchronization circuits and the network slot synchronization circuits. By using these methods, the number of gates are used about 37%(34,000 gates) on Xilinx FPGA XC6SLX9 which has 90,000 gates. For the 1024-bit frame size with a 32-bit synchronization word, the communication reception rate is 96.4%. The measured maximum transmission delay of the designed baseband modem is 230.4 msec for the 14-hop relay communication.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.375-377
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• 2016

리포터의 짧은 현장 중계를 위해 중계차와 MNG 등 기존 중계시스템을 동원하는 것은 많은 시간과 비용을 요구한다. 최근 스마트폰의 연산 능력, 카메라의 화질, 모바일 데이터 네트워크의 속도, 그리고 스마트폰과 네트워크의 안정성이 비약적으로 발전함에 따라 스마트폰을 이용한 간단한 현장 중계 방송이 가능하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위한 스마트폰 애플리케이션, 스튜디오에 위치한 관리서버와 송수신시스템, 스마트폰 영상과 스튜디오 영상의 실시간 부/복호화 모듈, RTP를 이용한 전송 모듈 등의 개발에 대해 기술하고, 개발 중인 시스템을 KBS의 '보이는 라디오' 실시간 중계방송에 활용한 사례에 대해 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.237-239
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 클러스터 기반 다중 홉 무선 네트워크에서 중계기 협력 ARQ 를 이용한 기회적 중계 기법을 제안한다. 클러스터 간 통신 시 성능을 열악하게 만들 수 있는 채널 페이딩 효과를 줄이기 위하여 각 클러스터 간 통신에 중계기를 이용한 협력 통신을 적용한다. 또한 다중 홉 통신에서는 중간 홉에서 오류가 발생할 경우 전송 도중 정보를 잃게 되는 전송 실패의 가능성이 존재한다. 따라서 전송 실패의 가능성을 줄이기 위하여 중계기로부터 재전송을 받을 수 있는 중계기 협력 ARQ 기법을 적용한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 기법에 대한 전송 실패 확률을 분석한다. 그리고 모의 실험에서는 제안한 기법이 ARQ 를 사용하지 않은 기법과 성능 비교하여 신뢰도 측면에서 더 좋은 성능을 보임을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.303-305
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 나카가미-m 페이딩 채널 환경을 가진 무선 중계 네트워크에서 reactive 누적분포함수(cumulative distribution function) 기반 중계기 선택 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 수신 신호대잡음비(signal-to-noise ratio)의 누적분포함수 값에 따라 중계기를 선택한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 기법의 불능 확률(outage probability)과 다이버시티 차수(diversity order)를 분석한다. 제안된 기법이 얻을 수 있는 다이버시티 차수는 중계기의 개수와 페이딩 파라미터에 의해 결정되며 최대 다이버시티(full diversity)를 얻음을 볼 수 있다. 그리고 모의 실험에서는 분석된 불능 확률 및 다이버시티 차수가 정확하게 일치하는 것을 확인한다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

Relay-assisted multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technique has become a promising candidate for next generation broadband wireless communications. In this paper, we propose maximum ratio combining (MRC) minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) equalization for single carrier-frequency domain equalizer (SC-FDE) in amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying networks. The performance of SC-FDE system can be improved considerably by achieving both the diversity gain and the MMSE equalization gain when the signals from source-destination (S->D) and source-relay-destination (S->R->D) are combined and equalized by means of the MMSE criteria. We find the weighting coefficients of MRC combining and the tap coefficients of MMSE equalizer for SC-FDE in AF relaying networks. Simulation results show that the proposed relay-based system considerably outperforms the conventional SC-FDE system.