• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권9C호
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• pp.661-668
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 STO(Symbol Timing Offset)를 갖는 cooperative SFBC-OFDM 시스템에 적합한 파일럿 톤 기반의 채널 추정 기법을 제안한다. Cooperative SFBC-OFDM 시스템에서는 MS(Mobile Station)의 위치에 따라 RS(Relay Station)와 MS간 STO가 다르게 발생하며 이 STO가 위상 회전 형태로 왜곡을 발생시키기 때문에 orthogonal 파일럿 사용시 위상과 크기에 대하여 선형 보간을 취하여 채널을 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 orthogonal code를 사용하는 파일럿 구조에서는 비선형 방정식의 해를 구함으로써 채널 추정을 수행하는 방법을 제안한다. STO를 갖는 cooperative SFBC-OFDM 시스템에서 제안된 기법을 적용할 경우에 채널 추정 성능이 크게 개선될 수 있음을 모의실험을 통하여 확인한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5149-5173
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• 2016

Cooperative forwarding has shown a substantial network performance improvement compared to traditional routing in multi-hop wireless network. To further enhance the system throughput, especially in the presence of highly congested multiple cross traffic flows, a promising way is to incorporate the multi-radio multi-channel (MRMC) capability into cooperative forwarding. However, it requires to jointly address multiple issues. These include radio-channel assignment, routing metric computation, candidate relay set selection, candidate relay prioritization, data broadcasting over multi-radio multi-channel, and best relay selection using a coordination scheme. In this paper, we propose a simple and efficient cluster-based cooperative data forwarding (CCDF) which jointly addresses all these issues. We study the performance impact when the same candidate relay set is being used for multiple cross traffic flows in the network. The network simulation shows that the CCDF with MRMC not only retains the advantage of receiver diversity in cooperative forwarding but also minimizes the interference, which therefore further enhances the system throughput for the network with multiple cross traffic flows.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.1026-1040
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• 2012

For a single relay channel, we compare the capacity of two different amplify-and-forward (AF) protocols, which are orthogonal AF (OAF) and non-orthogonal AF (NAF). The NAF protocol has been proposed to overcome a significant loss of performance of OAF in the high spectral efficiency region, and it was also theoretically proved that NAF performs better than OAF in terms of the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff. However, existing results have been evaluated at the asymptotically high signal to noise ratio (SNR), thus the power allocation problem between the source and the relay was neglected. We examine which protocol has better performance in a practical system operating at a finite SNR. We also study where a relay should be located if we consider the power allocation problem. A notable conclusion is that the capacity performance depends on both SNR and power allocation ratio, which indicates OAF may perform better than NAF in a certain environment.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.3-5
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• 2009

In this paper, we exploit the cooperative diversity relay protocol to compensate for defects of wireless communication in 60 GHz. We derive and proof results of the numerical expressions versus various scenarios using the computer simulations. Optimal location and scaling factor of relay are presented through analysis of performances and compared between direct-path and time diversity transmission. Consequently, our results confirm that cooperative diversity relay protocol is an effective mean of enhancing the performance of wireless communication systems in 60 GHz.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4326-4341
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• 2016

In this paper, an adjustable multiple relay selection (MRS) scheme for cooperative communication with amplify-and-forward (AF) relay under frequency selective channels is proposed. In the proposed scheme, the relays are ordered firstly by the steady-state mean square error (MSE), then the relays are sequentially selected out from N relays and the number of cooperating relays is adjusted dynamically according to the steady-state mean square joint error (MSJE). The aim of this work is to dynamically estimate the optimum number N_o of cooperating relays. Optimum means the minimum number of cooperating relays, N_o, achieving the minimum level of steady-state MSJE. Numerical results verify the analyses and show that the scheme can adaptively adjust the number of cooperating relays, and outperform conventional relay selection schemes. Hence, the proposed scheme provides better tradeoff between BER performance and spectral efficiency and to save more energy in cooperative wireless networks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.102-122
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• 2017

Nanotechnology has provided a set of tools that the engineers can use to design and manufacture integrated nano devices, which are capable of performing sensing, computing, data storing and actuation. One of the main hurdles for nano devices has been the amount of power that it can generate for transmission of data. In this paper, we proposed cooperative nano communication in the Terahertz (THz) Gap frequency band to increase the range of transmission. Outage probability (OP) performances for the proposed cooperative nano communication networks in the THz band (0.1 - 10THz) have been evaluated for the following scenarios; A) A single decode-and-forward (DF) relay over independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels, B) DF multi-relay network with best relay selection (BRS) over i.i.d. Rayleigh fading channels, and C) DF multi-relay network with multiple hops with BRS over i.i.d. Rayleigh fading channels. The results show that the transmission distance can be improved significantly by employing DF relays. Also, it is shown that by increasing the number of hops in a relay the OP performance is marginally degraded. The analytical results have been verified by Monte-Carlo simulation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.4180-4196
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• 2017

In this paper, we analyze average capacity of an amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative communication system model in multi-relay multiuser networks. In contrast to conventional cooperative networks, relays in the considered network have no embedded energy supply. They need to rely on the energy harvested from the signals broadcasted by the source for their cooperative information transmission. Based on this structure, a two-step selection scheme is proposed considering both channel state information (CSI) and battery status of relays. Assuming each relay has infinite or finite energy storage for accumulating the energy, we use the infinite or finite Markov chain to capture the evolution of relay batteries and certain simplified assumptions to reduce computational complexity of the Markov chain analysis. The approximate closed-form expressions for the average capacity of the proposed scheme are derived. All theoretical results are validated by numerical simulations. The impacts of the system parameters, such as relay or user number, energy harvesting threshold and battery size, on the capacity performance are extensively investigated. Results show that although the performance of our scheme is inferior to the optimal joint selection scheme, it is still a practical scheme because its complexity is much lower than that of the optimal scheme.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권9C호
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• pp.887-895
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• 2009

본 논문은 다중 안테나를 가진 릴레이가 설치된 다중-셀 다중-사용자 시스템에서 부분 채널 정보를 이용하여 기지국과 릴레이 간 협력적으로 전력을 할당하는 기법을 제안한다. 이중-흡 MISO (Multi-Input Single-Output) 릴레이 채널에서, 릴레이 채널 용량(end-to-end capacity)을 최대화하기 위해 홉 간 송신 전력을 채널 상태에 따라 동적으로 할당할 필요가 있다. 제안된 기법은 목표 릴레이의 평균 채널 이득과 인접 릴레이로부터의 원하는 채널과 간섭 채널의 송신 상관 행렬의 주요한 고유벡터의 상대적인 각도 차이를 고려하여 릴레이 송신 전력을 동적으로 할당한다. 상향-경계치 분석을 통해서 릴레이 채널 용량은 원하는 채널과 간섭 채널의 주요한 고유벡터의 상대적인 각도 차이가 직교가 될 때 최대가 됨을 이론적으로 증명하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.194-203
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• 2008

This paper considers the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) relay channel where multiple antennas are employed by each terminal. Compared to single-input single-output (SISO) relay channels, MIMO relay channels introduce additional degrees of freedom, making the design and analysis of optimal cooperative strategies more complex. In this paper, a partial cooperation strategy that combines transmit-side message splitting and block-Markov encoding is presented. Lower bounds on capacity that improve on a previously proposed non-cooperative lower bound are derived for Gaussian MIMO relay channels.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.3431-3445
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• 2017

Due to the advantages of low transmit power consumption, high spectral efficiency and extended system coverage, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication has drawn explosive attention in wireless communication field. Considering that intra-cell interference caused between cellular signals and D2D signals, in this paper, a network coding-based D2D relay cooperative transmission algorithm is proposed. Under D2D single-hop relay transmission mode, cellular interfering signals can be regarded as useful signals to code with D2D signals at D2D relay node. Using cellular interfering signals and network coded signals, D2D receiver restores the D2D signals to achieve the effect of interference suppression. Theoretical analysis shows that, compared with Amplify-and-forward (AF) mode and Decode-and-forward (DF) mode, the proposed algorithm can dramatically increase the link achievable rate. Furthermore, simulation experiment verifies that by employing the proposed algorithm, the interference signals in D2D communication can be eliminated effectively, and meanwhile the symbol error rate (SER) performance can be improved.