• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.2113-2120
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• 2011

In this paper, so as to improve spectral efficiency for cell-boundary users, we introduce a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) system, which is one of inter-cell cooperative transmission strategies studied in 3GPP long-term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) systems, and develop a system-level simulator to evaluate performance. To identify performance improvement of the system with inter-cell cooperative transmission, we select a 3GPP LTE system as a reference, which shows the highest performance among the existing mobile communication systems, and conduct a performance comparison. System-level simulation is performed based on widely-used OPNET tool. We implement modules including central unit (CU), CoMP eNodeB (CeNB), user equipment (UE), and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel model, while designing the inter-cell cooperative transmission system. Under WINNER wireless channel model and international telecommunication union (ITU) network model environments, we then evaluate the performance of edge users who belong to the lower 5% in terms of spectral efficiency. It is finally shown that throughput of the proposed CoMP system gets improved up to 2.5 times compared to that of the 3GPP LTE reference system.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.3-9
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• 2011

평균 셀 스펙트럼 효율 및 최대 데이터 전송 속도를 극대화 하는 방향으로 진화하던 3GPP LTE 표준 기술이 셀 가장자리에 있는 단말들까지 골고루 높은 데이터 전송 속도를 지원하는 기술로 진화하면서 전송 지점 간의 간섭 제어가 표준의 새로운 중요 사안으로 대두되고 있다. 이로 인해 전송지점 간의 간섭을 제어하기 위한 주요 기술인 협력 통신(coordinated multi-point transmission; CoMP) 이 LTEA-dvanced Release 11의 study item으로 합의되었고 표준화를 통한 CoMP 기술의 지원이 현실화되고 있는 상황이다. 특히 기지국의 안테나들이 셀 전 영역에 분산 배치되어 통신 서비스를 지원하는 분산 안테나 시스템 (distributed antenna system; DAS)을 heterogeneous 네트워크를 고려한 CoMP 기술중의 하나로 분류하고 DAS의 표준지원에 대한 가능성이 논의되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 LTE-Advanced Release 11에서 논의되고 있는 CoMP기술들의 표준화 진행 상황을 살펴보고 협력 통신 방법의 특성 및 시스템 설험을 통한 성능을 분석한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.27-38
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• 2012

In this paper, we introduce CoMP in 3GPP LTE-Advanced Release 11 to take care of shadowing effects appearing in cell-edge areas to meet rapidly increasing demand for high speed transmission and multi-media data. In order to mitigate interference, orthogonalizing is ideal but it is slightly difficult to be applied to real systems. Therefore, interference alignment and avoidance are used in practical applications. Interference alignment is a scheme enabling us to consider interference our friend not enemy. We show lattice codes in Gaussian channel achieve Shannon capacity where strong interference exists. In addition, we show the relationship between channel parameter a and DoF(Degree of Freedom) applying lattice codes to interference alignment for interference channel with three users.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1828-1847
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• 2014

Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission has been regarded as a potential technology for LTE-Advanced. In frequency division duplexing systems, channel quantization is applied for reporting channel state information (CSI). Considering the dynamic number of cooperation base stations (BSs), asymmetry feature of CoMP channels and high searching complexity, simply increasing the size of the codebook used in traditional multiple antenna systems to quantize the global CSI of CoMP systems directly is infeasible. Per-cell codebook based channel quantization to quantize local CSI for each BS separately is an effective method. In this paper, the theoretical upper bounds of system throughput are derived for two codeword selection schemes, independent codeword selection (ICS) and joint codeword selection (JCS), respectively. The feedback overhead and selection complexity of these two schemes are analyzed. In the simulation, the system throughput of ICS and JCS is compared. Both analysis and simulation results show that JCS has a better tradeoff between system throughput and feedback overhead. The ICS has obvious advantage in complexity, but it needs additional phase information (PI) feedback for obtaining the approximate system throughput with JCS. Under the same number of feedback bits constraint, allocating the number of bits for channel direction information (CDI) and PI quantization can increase the system throughput, but ICS is still inferior to JCS. Based on theoretical analysis and simulation results, some recommendations are given with regard to the application of each scheme respectively.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.63-68
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• 2015

We consider a cell edge environment. In cell edge, a user interfered by signal which is generated by a base stations not including the user. In cell edge environment, that is, there are inter cell interference (ICI) as well as multi user interference (MUI). Coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) is a technique which mitigates ICI between base stations. In CoMP, therefore, base stations can coordinate with each other by sharing user state information (CSI) in order to mitigate ICI. To improve sum rate performance in CoMP, each base station should generate optimal user group and transmit data to users selected in the optimal user group. In this paper, we propose a user selection algorithm in CoMP. The proposed method use signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) as criterion of selecting users. Because base station can't measure accurate SINR of users, in this paper, we estimate SINR equation considering ICI as well as MUI. Also, we propose a user selection algorithm based on the estimated SINR. Through MATAL simulation, we verify that the proposed method improves the system sum rate by an average of 1.5 ~ 3 bps/Hz compared to the conventional method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.650-669
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• 2017

Coordinated multiple points transmission and reception (CoMP) technology is used to mitigate the inter-cell interference, and increase cell average user normalized throughput and cell edge user normalized throughput. There are two kinds of radio resource schedule strategies in LTE-A/5G CoMP system, and they are called centralized scheduling strategy and distributed scheduling strategy. The regional centralized scheduling cannot solve interference of inter-region, and the distributed scheduling leads to worse efficiency in the utilize of resources. In this paper, a novel distributed scheduling scheme named 9-Cell alternate authorization (9-CAA) is proposed. In our scheme, time-domain resources are divided orthogonally by coloring theory for inter-region cooperation in 9-Cell scenario [6]. Then, we provide a formula based on 0-1 integer programming to get chromatic number in 9-CAA. Moreover, a feasible optimal chromatic number search algorithm named CNS-9CAA is proposed. In addition, this scheme is expanded to 3-Cell scenario, and name it 3-Cell alternate authorization (3-CAA). At last, simulation results indicate that 9/3-CAA scheme exceed All CU CoMP, 9/3C CU CoMP and DLC resource scheduling scheme in cell average user normalized throughput. Especially, compared with the non-CoMP scheme as a benchmark, the 9-CAA and 3-CAA have improved the edge user normalized throughput by 17.2% and 13.0% respectively.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.130-134
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• 2013

This paper describes the basic principles of 3D broadcast system and proposes new 3D broadcast technology that reduce the amount of data by applying CS(Compressed Sensing). Differences between Sampling theory and the CS technology concept was described. Recently proposed CS algorithm AMP(Approximate Message Passing) and CoSaMP(Compressive Sampling Matched Pursuit) was described. Image data that compressed and restored by these algorithm was compared. Calculation time of the algorithm having a low complexity is determined.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.129-133
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• 2012

Coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) is a candidate technique for next generation cellular communications systems. One of the primary elements discussed in LTE-Advanced technology is CoMP, which can improve cell edge user data rate as well as spectral efficiency due to multiple input multiple output - orthogonal frequency division multiplex (MIMO-OFDM). We consider a system with multiple cells in which base stations coordinate with each other by sharing user channel state information (CSI), which mitigates inter cell interference (ICI), especially for users located at the cell edge. We introduce a new user scheduling method of ICI cancellation and the loss reduction of effective channel gain during the beamforming process, the proposed method improves the system sum rate, when compared to the conventional method by an average of 0.55bps/Hz in different number of total users per cell. It also outperforms the conventional method by approximately 0.38bps/Hz using different SNRs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.138-141
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• 2014

무선 사용자들의 증가로 인해 대용량 서비스가 요구 됨에 따라 셀 영역내의 효율적인 자원 할당 방식이 요구된다. 때문에 본 논문에서는 Cell-Edge 영역에 데이터 전송 성능이 저하되는 문제를 해결하기 위해 CoMP(coordinated multi-point transmission and reception) 기술 중에 하나인 Joint Processing 기술을 사용하여 셀간 간섭 완화의 이점을 갖는다. 이 기술의 사용을 위해 FFR(Fractional Frequency Reuse) 기반의 효율적인 자원 할당 방식을 제안한다. 각 셀은 3-sector reuse 방식을 사용하며, Joint Processing 에 최적화하기 위한 자원 할당 방식을 제안함으로써, 기존의 방식보다 SINR 성능이 향상되는 결과를 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.32-37
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• 2008

Freestanding hydride vapor phase epitaxy grown GaN(Gallium Nitride) substrates subjected to various polishing methods were characterized for their surface and subsurface conditions, Although CMP(Chemical Mechanical Polishing) is one of the best approaches for reducing scratches and subsurface damages, the removal rate of Ga-polar surface in CMP is insignificant($0.1{\sim}0.3{\mu}m$/hr) as compared with that of N-polar surface, Therefore, conventional MP(Mechanical Polishing) is commonly used in the GaN substrate fabrication process, MP of (0001) surface of GaN has been demonstrated using diamond slurries with different abrasive sizes, Diamond abrasives of size ranging from 30nm to 100nm were dispersed in ethylene glycol solutions and mineral oil solutions, respectively. Significant change in the surface roughness ($R_a$ 0.15nm) and scratch-free surface were obtained by diamond slurry of 30nm in mean abrasive size dispersed in mineral oil solutions. However, MP process introduced subsurface damages confirmed by TEM (Transmission Electronic Microscope) and PL(Photo-Luminescence) analysis.