• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.11
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• pp.12-20
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• 2013

Even though extensive research results have been applied to wireless cellular systems to improve their capacity and coverage, severe performance degradation experienced in cell boundary areas still remains as a major limiting factor to prohibit further improvement of user equipment (UE) throughput. In the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) standard of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), Some advanced techniques have been introduced to overcome this "cell-edge problem", including coordinated multipoint transmission and reception (CoMP) and inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC). In this paper, we propose yet another strategy to improve the performance of low-tier UEs by using the concept of multiple beam direction patterns (BDPs). Such multiple BDPs can be implemented using multi-layer antenna arrays stacked vertically at base station (BS) sites to transmit signals in different main beam directions. In comparison to conventional three-sector antennas with a fixed beam pattern, the proposed methods makes signal transmission in a rotational fashion to significantly enhance the reception quality of UEs located near sector (or cell) edge areas, preventing the situation where certain UEs are marginally covered by the BS for the whole transmission time. Performance evaluation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional three-sector transmission by 171% in low 5% UEs in terms of the UE throughput.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8A
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• pp.648-660
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• 2012

The low-power, low-cost femtocell network has been proposed not only to alleviate traffic load to the macro base station (eNB) but also to cover the indoor coverage hole problem. However, in the dense femtocell environment where many femtocells are deployed to cover the whole large office building, performance of such femtocell environment can be deteriorated due to severe co-channel interference problem between the eNB and femtocells and among neighboring femtocells. In particular, a macro UE(mUE) located within femtocell coverage may experience severe co-channel interference from surrounding femtocells. Therefore, In this paper, we propose a novel power control schemes to mitigate interference to a mUE under such dense LTE femtocell environment. With proposed femtocell power control schemes, performance of the mUE can be greatly improved in terms of the outage probability and the SINR while maintaining satisfying femtocell performance. Simulation based performance study shows that the proposed power control scheme is able to enhance mUE performance more than 30% than the conventional dense femtocell in terms of the two performance metrics.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.7
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• pp.29-35
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• 2010

The cooperative transmission between sectors in next generation communications standards, e.g., 3GPP LTE-Advanced and IEEE 802.16m, has become an important research issue. Hence methods to decide the optimal antenna tilting angle in cooperative transmission between sectors are needed. This paper proposes methods to decide the optimal antenna tilting angle in cases of non-cooperative and cooperative transmissions between sectors. The proposed methods use an objective function that maximizes the cell average log rate or the cell average rate for users distributed uniformly within the radius of the sector. Also, the objective function which maximizes the cell average rate determined by adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) used in actual cellular systems is considered. When the cell average rate becomes the objective function, the system rate efficiency increases significantly for both cooperative and non-cooperative transmission. When the cell average log rate and the AMC rate become the objective functions, an optimal antenna tilting decision method which effectively increases the efficiency of cell boundary users is discussed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.12
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• pp.10-21
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• 2015

Cellular Network assisted device-to-device (D2D) communication has been growing to reduce the overload of eNodeB and mitigate the frequency shortage. However, by sharing the uplink frequency resource with the cellular network, the interference between cellular and D2D is increased. In this paper, we propose the advanced receiver based on soft decision to reduce the interference between cellular and D2D. The proposed receiver can suppress and cancel the interference by calculating the unbiased estimation value of interference signal using minimum mean square error (MMSE) or interference rejection combing (IRC) receiver. The interference signal is updated using soft information expressed by log-likelihood ratio (LLR). We perform a system level simulation based on the 20-MHz bandwidth of the 3GPP LTE-A system. Simulation results show that the proposed receiver can improve SINR, throughput and spectral efficiency compared to conventional receivers.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.355-359
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• 2008

와이브로(WiBro), 3G 무선인터넷(HSDPA), 3G LTE 등과 같은 와이어리스 브로드밴드(Wireless Broand) 기술이 점차 성숙됨에 따라 이들 망을 활용한 다양한 무선인터넷 서비스를 제공하려는 사업자들이 증가하고 있다. 기존의 WLAN, 2G/3G 회선망에서의 제한된 이동성 및 네트워크 전송 속도를 개선한 와이어리스 브로드밴드 서비스 시장은 국내에서도 2006년부터 WiBro 및 HSDPA가 사용됨에 따라 사업자간의 경쟁도 본격화되고 있다. 이러한 환경 속에서 사업자들은 신속하고 편리한 서비스 개통과 스마트폰, USB모뎀, 노트북, UMPC, PMP등 다양한 단말들의 펌웨어 업그레이드, A/S 처리 방안에 대해 고심을 하고 있으며, 이들 문제점은 막대한 비용과 고객 민원을 야기시키는 요인이기도 하다. 따라서 경제적인 관리비용으로 동적인 서비스/펌웨어 업그레이드 및 A/S에 대한 고객 만족도를 높이기 위한 단말 원격 관리 필요성이 절실히 요구된다. WiBro 단말의 안전하고 효율적으로 관리하기 위해서는 단말과 기지국사이의 무선구간에 대한 보안(security)을 강화시켜 줄 수 있으면서 이동성(mobility)을 고려한 OMA DM프로토콜을 이용하는 것이 적합하다. 또한, WiBro에서 가입자 인증을 채택하고 있는 UICC의 관리를 위해서 3GPP에서 정의하는 SMS/MMS기반의 또는 BIP(Bear Independent Protocol)기반의 OTA기술을 병행하여 사용하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 Wi-MAX단말 관리를 위한 OTA Provisioning 규격으로 OMA DM과 TR069이 WiMAX 단말을 위하여 어떻게 적용하도록 규정하고 있는지를 살펴본다. 특히, WiBro 가입자 인증뿐만 아니라 폰북, DRM, 금융서비스 등 다양한 부가 서비스를 위하여 사용되는 UICC의 원격관리를 위한 관리 요소들을 정의, 설계하고 이를 바탕으로 구현된 KTUICC OTA Provisioning시스템을 소개한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.209-214
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• 2014

IMS(IP Multi-Media Subsystem) is in the limelight as the Integrated wire and wireless Systems because of a sudden increase of smart mobile devices and growth of multimedia additional services such as IPTV. The structure of IMS is designed as a session control layer to provide various multimedia summative service using SIP based on IP communication network in order to carry out set-up, change and release by NGN of course, the existing voice services. But now It is broadly substituting in the IPTV, wire phone company and it is substituted in internet platform base on the soft-switch in currently. Especially, in currently, 4G LTE in a mobile communication company is rapidly growing in market. Therefore, in this study, we had designed and developed to the main prosser that can admit to 1000 user over and SIP gateway which can link the IMS Core that can link SIP Device which adopt the standard protocol on the SIP and to provide variable multimedia services.

• TTA Journal
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• s.175
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• pp.8-13
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• 2018

앞으로 대략 1년 뒤, 2019년 3월이면 우리나라에서 세계 최초로 5G 상용서비스가 시작된다. 1990년대 말에 cdmaOne, cdma2000 서비스, 2000년대 초 와이브로를 세계 최초로 상용화 했으며, HSDPA 서비스도 마찬가지였다. LTE는 날짜상으로는 스웨덴 대비 조금 늦게 시작하기는 했으나, 전국규모의 서비스 개시 시점을 고려하면 이것도 한국이 사실상 세계 최초라고 말할 수 있다. 그러나 5G 상용서비스 세계 최초라는 의의는 기존의 세계 최초 기록과는 차원을 달리한다고 말할 수 있다. 왜냐하면 ITU-R에서 5G의 비전과 로드맵 작업을 5G는 시기상조라는 반대를 무릅쓰고 한국이 주도했고, 많은 전문가들이 회의적이었던 밀리미터파 주파수 대역의 이동통신 활용 가능성을 한국에서 처음으로 주장했으며, 여러 가지 밀리미터파 대역 중 28GHz 주파수 대역을 선택하여 지지를 수렴해 온 것도 한국이다. 또한 최근 3GPP, ITU-R 표준에서도 당당히 주도세력 중의 하나로 자리매김하고 있으며, 2018년 겨울 올림픽이라는 절묘한 시범 서비스 기회를 행운으로 갖고 있기도 하다. 그러나 상용화를 1년 남짓 남겨두고 있는 지금의 상황은 과거 몇 년과는 사뭇 다른 양상을 보여주고 있다. 과거 5G의 미래가 불확실할 때에는 눈치를 보면서 소극적 자세를 보이던 세력들이 지금처럼 기술, 표준, 시장에 대한 위험도가 많이 사라진 틈을 타, 저마다 실리를 챙기기 위해서 오히려 적극적으로 돌변하고 있다. 기존 이동통신 시장규모는 대략 서비스-디바이스-인프라 장비의 비중이 30:10:1 정도 된다. 표준을 적기에 지원하는 제품과 서비스의 개발 및 이를 지원하는 생태계가 구축되지 않으면 모처럼 어렵게 만들어온 5G 시대의 열매를 정작 우리는 맛보지 못하는 어처구니 없는 일이 생길 수도 있다. 아무쪼록 본 특집을 통해 많은 분들이 5G의 현황을 제대로 이해하고, 이것을 도약대로 삼아서 알찬 5G 시대의 수확을 준비하는 계기가 되었으면 하는 바람이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.2998-3017
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• 2018

Massive (large-scale) MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is one of the key technologies in next-generation wireless communication systems. This paper proposes a high-performance low-complexity turbo receiver for SC-FDMA (single-carrier frequency-division multiple access) based MMIMO (massive MIMO) systems. Because SC-FDMA technology has the desirable characteristics of OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) and the low PAPR (peak-to-average power ratio) of SC transmission schemes, the 3GPP LTE (long-term evolution) has adopted it as the uplink transmission to meet the demand high data rate and low error rate performance. The complexity of computing will be increased greatly in base station with massive MIMO (MMIMO) system. In this paper, a low-complexity adaptive turbo equalization receiver based on normalized minimal symbol-error-rate for MMIMO SC-FDMA system is proposed. The proposed receiver is with low complexity than that of the conventional turbo MMSE (minimum mean square error) equalizer and is also with better bit error rate (BER) performance than that of the conventional adaptive turbo MMSE equalizer. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.7
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• pp.48-55
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• 2012

Because of increasing complexity in maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of four of higher antenna scenario, Partial Interference Cancellation (PIC) group decoding could be the perfect solution to reduce the decoding complexity occurs in ML decoding. In this paper, we separate the symbols the users in the layered basis and find the equivalent channel matrix. Based on the equivalent channel matrix we provide the grouping scheme. In our paper, we construct a block wise transmission technique which will achieve the desired code rate and reduce the complexity and provide less transmission time. Finally we show the different grouping performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.3A
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• pp.205-214
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• 2011

In 3rd generation project partnership long term evolution, wireless multicast techniques which send the same data to multiple users under single frequency networks have attracted much attention. In the multicast system, the transmission mode needs to be selected for efficient data transfer while satisfying the multicast coverage requirement. To achieve this, users' channel state information (CSI) should be available at the transmitter. However, it requires too much uplink feedback resource if all the users are allowed to transmit their CSI at all the time. To solve this problem, in this paper, the multicast coverage prediction is suggested. In the proposed algorithm, each user measures its transition probabilities between the success and the fail state of the decoding. Then, it periodically transmits its CSI to the basestation. Using these feedbacks, the basestation can predict the multicast coverage. From the simulation results, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme can predict the multicast system coverage.