• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.2668-2717
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• 2021

Demands for high-speed wireless data services grow rapidly. It is a big challenge to increasing the network capacity operating on licensed spectrum resources. Unlicensed spectrum cellular networks have been proposed as a solution in response to severe spectrum shortage. Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) was standardized by 3GPP, aiming to deliver data services through unlicensed 5 GHz spectrum. Furthermore, the 3GPP proposed 5G New Radio-Unlicensed (NR-U) study item. On the other hand, artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted enormous attention to implement 5G and beyond systems, which is known as Intelligent Radio (IR). To tackle the challenges of unlicensed spectrum networks in 4G/5G/B5G systems, a lot of works have been done, focusing on using Machine Learning (ML) to support resource allocation in LTE-LAA/NR-U and Wi-Fi coexistence environments. Generally speaking, ML techniques are used in IR based on statistical models established for solving specific optimization problems. In this paper, we aim to conduct a comprehensive survey on the recent research efforts related to unlicensed cellular networks and IR technologies, which work jointly to implement 5G and beyond wireless networks. Furthermore, we introduce a positioning assisted LTE-LAA system based on the difference in received signal strength (DRSS) to allocate resources among UEs. We will also discuss some open issues and challenges for future research on the IR applications in unlicensed cellular networks.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.10-17
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• 2012

최근 지구 온난화에 따른 이상 기후 변화로 인하여 지진, 쓰나미 등 각종 재해가 빈번히 발생 하고 있다. 특히, 2011년 일본 동북부 지역의 거대 지진과 쓰나미로 인하여 엄청난 재산손실 및 인명피해가 발생하였다. 이로 인하여, 전세계적으로 휴대 전화를 통한 재난문자 서비스의 필요성이 크게 부각되고 있는 상황이다. 본 고에서는 현재 3GPP 차세대 이동통신 (LTE) 망에서의 재난문자서비스 기술 및 표준화 동향에 대해서 알아본다. 또한, 일본, 미국, 유럽, 한국의 재난문자서비스 시스템 및 요구 사항들에 대해서 각각 설명하고 표준화 문서를 기반으로 현재까지 진행된 기술 내용에 대해서 알아본다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.345-359
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• 2011

Decode-and-forward relaying is a promising enhancement to existing radio access networks and is already standardized in 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) as a part of long term evolution (LTE)-Advanced Release 10. Two inband operation modes of relay nodes are supported, namely type 1 and type lb. Relay nodes promise to offer considerable gain for system capacity or coverage, depending on the deployment prioritization, in a cost-efficient way. Yet, in order to fully exploit the benefits of relaying, the inter-cell interference which is increased due to the presence of relay nodes should be limited. Moreover, large differences in the received power levels from different users should be avoided. The goal is to keep the receiver dynamic range low in order to retain the orthogonality of the single carrier-frequency division multiple access system. In this paper, an evaluation of the relay based heterogeneous deployment within the LTE-Advanced uplink framework is carried out by applying the standardized LTE Release 8 power control scheme both at evolved node B and relay nodes. In order to enhance the overall system performance, different power control optimization strategies are proposed for 3GPP urban and suburban scenarios. A comparison between type 1 and type 1b relay nodes is as well presented to study the effect of the relaying overhead on the system performance in inband relay deployments. Comprehensive system level simulations show that the power control is a crucial means to increase the cell edge and system capacities, to mitigate inter-cell interference and to adjust the receiver dynamic range for both relay node types.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.6A
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• pp.555-567
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• 2010

Unlike single-hop systems, multi-hop systems that use relay nodes assign a part of the overall resources to relay communications. If efficient resource allocation schemes are not adopted, this leads to a loss of resources. Moreover, because we may not be able to guarantee high-link performance due to the adjacent-cell interference in relay-based cellular systems, resource efficiency can be severely decreased. In this paper, we propose efficient resource allocation schemes for downlink relay-based networks in 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE (Long Term Evolution)-Advanced systems. Unlike conventional schemes that have static resource regions for each data link, the proposed schemes dynamically allocate the resources of each link to resource blocks, by considering the channel state and the capacity of each link. We also propose resource overlapping schemes in which two different links overlap at the same resource region, so as to improve cell or user throughput performance. The proposed resource overlapping schemes do not require additional processes such as interference cancellation in users, thank to considering additional interference from resource overlapping in advance.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.24-31
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• 2008

본고에서는 이동 통신 국제 표준화 기구인 3rd Generation Partnership Project(3GPP)의 차세대 무선 통신 표준 Long Term Evolution(LTE) 시스템 상향링크 물리 계층의 표준 기술 동향에 관하여 살펴본다. 구체적으로 Frequency Division Duplex(FDD) 방식에 대하여 정의된 규격 위주로 상향링크 물리 채널 및 물리 신호에 관하여 서술한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.23-28
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed and analyzed the performance of the adaptive switching equalization for SC-FDMA system. It is well known that SC-FDMA system have a fairly similar structure to OFDMA system. Furthermore, SC-FDMA system has great advantage of low PAPR compare to OFDM system. However, this system often suffers from wireless channel characteristics such as multipath fading and increased channel impulse response and so on. To reduce this channel influence, it strongly requires efficient adaptive equalization. Therefore, the proposed system operated upon two modes namely, ZF mode for slow speed and MMSE mode for high speed. From the simulation results, we can confirm that the proposed scheme has more efficient performance from the system complexity point of view. So we can expect that the proposed system will be applied design of 3GPP LTE uplink.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.12
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• pp.1119-1127
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• 2012

The one of features of M2M communications, which are recently attracted attention as a future business of mobile communications, is that there is a large number of devices compared with traditional communication services. Hence, the control signal that are generated by the M2M devices may cause a significant congestion in the network and in order to solve this problem, a standardization is progressing for reducing the redundant signaling by managing M2M devices as a group in 3GPP standardization. In this paper, we propose a method of group based mobility management by managing M2M devices that have the same mobility as a group. In the proposed method, M2M devices that have the same mobility are grouped by the Mobility Management Entity (MME) and the MME elects a group header among the M2M devices in the group. Then, the group header performs the Tracking Area Update (TAU) on behalf of the group members to reduce the signaling overhead of mobility management. With the proposed method, we can achieve 80% decrease of the signaling overhead of mobility management compared with the case where each M2M device individually performs its TAU procedure.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.6C
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• pp.539-546
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• 2010

In next generation wireless communication systems based on OFDM, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique is adopted in order to achieve high data throughput with limited bandwidth. As one of MIMO techniques, spatial multiplexing scheme needs high performance data detection algorithm that can be performed with low computational complexity. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that can compute QRM-MLD with reduced complexity. Also, hybrid detection technique is proposed, which can reduce the complexity by selecting between MMSE and QRM-MLD according to the channel condition. The proposed algorithm provides the trade-off between performance and complexity. The computer simulations for downlink transmission in 3GPP LTE system show that less than 0.1dB performance degradation can be achieved at 0.1% BER with 59% reduction on computational complexity compared with the conventional QRM-MLD algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.10
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• pp.898-907
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• 2013

For D2D communications underlaying cellular networks, it is essential to consider the mutual interference between the existing cellular communications and D2D communications as well as the spectral efficiency, as they need to share the same frequency. Accordingly, a resource allocation scheme should be designed in such a way that minimizes the mutual interference and maximizes the spectrum utilization efficiency at the same time. In this paper, we propose a resource allocation scheme based on cooperation of the base station and D2D terminals. Specifically, a D2D terminal senses the cellular spectrum to recognize the interference condition, chooses the best cellular resource, and reports the information to the base station. The base station allocates D2D resource such that the corresponding D2D link and cellular link share the same resource. The performance of the proposed resource allocation scheme is ated through compu under 3GPP LTE-Advanced scenarios.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.47-53
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• 2014

LTE-Advanced is the evolved version of LTE which is currently in progress at the 3GPP. At present, as the number of smart phone users is rapidly increasing, the demand for ever more capacity is driven largely by video usage and high quality data communication and so on, this let more researchers study about LTE-A all over the world. LTE-A aims to achieve improved service and communication quality over 3G system at the aspect of throughput, peak data rate, latency, and spectral efficiency. Among various features in LTE-A, the multi-user MIMO(MU-MIMO), in which the base station transmits several streams to multiple receivers, has expected to give better quality for system. In this paper, we investigate performances of various types of downlink receivers with fixed number of antennas. we first review the development process from LTE to LTE-A. Second we introduce TM9 which is adopted in Rel.10 for MU-MIMO system, including the MU-MIMO system model and the explanation on the algorithm used in system. We also have brief introduction about sub-blocking in turbo decoding, finally we compare the performance between the uncoded case and coded case which is using turbo encoding.