• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.711-732
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• 2019

Many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications have been employed for performing data collection in facilitating tasks such as surveillance and monitoring objectives in remote and dangerous environments. In light of the fact that most of the existing UAV relaying applications operate in conventional half-duplex (HD) mode, a full-duplex (FD) based UAV relay aided wireless network is investigated, in which the UAV relay helps forwarding information from the source (S) node to the destination (D). Since the activated UAV relays are always floating and flying in the air, its channel state information (CSI) as well as channel capacity is a time-variant parameter. Considering decode-and-forward (DF) relaying protocol in UAV relays, the cooperative relaying channel capacity is constrained by the relatively weaker one (i.e. in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR)) between S-to-relay and relay-to-D links. The channel capacity can be optimized by adaptively optimizing the transmit power of S and/or UAV relay. Furthermore, a hybrid HD/FD mode is enabled in the proposed UAV relays for adaptively optimizing the channel utilization subject to the instantaneous CSI and/or remaining self-interference (SI) levels. Numerical results show that the channel capacity of the proposed UAV relay aided wireless networks can be maximized by adaptively responding to the influence of various real-time factors.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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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.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.638-644
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• 2018

최근 5G에 기술에서는 신호 감쇄와 신호 도달 거리 확장을 위해 사용될 수 있는 릴레이(Relay)를 통한 통신 기술이 주목 받고 있다. 릴레이는 소형 기지국으로 사용이 가능하며, 셀룰러 망으로 지원하기 어려운 환경하에서 통신 기기들이 협력하여 통신하는 자율 네트워크 기법에 사용이 가능하기 때문에, 저전력화와 무선 용량 증대에 활용이 가능할 것으로 기대되고 있다. 한정된 릴레이 자원을 활용하여 최적의 성능을 달성하기 위해서는 효과적인 릴레이 선택 기법이 필요하다. 특히, 두 개의 노드가 릴레이를 통해 메시지를 교환하는 경우, 릴레이 선택 방법에 따라서, 릴레이의 공간적 위치를 활용하여 간섭을 줄이고, 시스템 전송률을 최대화 할 수 있다. 이를 위해서는 릴레이 선택에 따른 평균 데이터 전송률에 대한 분석이 선행되어야 한다. 본 논문은 두 노드가 릴레이를 이용하여 동시 전송을 통해 메시지를 교환할 경우, 평균 데이터 전송률을 분석한다. 이를 위해 Nakagami-m 페이딩 채널 환경하에서 복호 후 전송(Decode and Forward) 방식으로 동작하는 이중홉(dual-hop) 릴레이의 동시 전송으로 인한 간섭을 고려하여 전체 데이터 전송률을 유도한다. 분석식은 m=1인 Rayleigh 페이딩 채널을 포함하여 다양한 Nakagami-m 페이딩 채널에 대한 전체 데이터 전송률을 보여준다. 유도된 분석은 몬테카를로 모의실험을 통해 정확성을 입증하였으며, 요구되는 데이터 전송률이 높을수록, 자원 효율적인 동시 전송 방식이 전체 시스템의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.354-361
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 1차 시스템의 협력 통신에서 중계기가 2차 시스템의 송신단으로 동작함으로써 2차 스펙트럼 접근이 가능한 협력 통신 기법을 제안한다. 일반적인 협력 통신 시스템에서는 Phase 1에 1차 시스템의 송신단은 자신의 신호를 모든 노드에 브로드캐스트하고, 나머지 노드는 이 신호를 수신한다. 그런 다음, Phase 2에 1차 시스템의 중계기 역할을 하는 2차 시스템 송신단은 1차 시스템에서 수신 후 복호한 신호와 자신이 전송하고자 하는 신호를 결합하여 각 수신단으로 브로드캐스트 한다. 이를 수신하는 각 1차 및 2차 수신단에서는 큰 잡음을 가지는 신호를 수신하며, 이는 수신 성능 감소의 원인이 된다. 이를 극복하기 위해서 1차 시스템 수신단이 1 phase만에 수신에 성공할 시에 2차 시스템 송신단이 자신의 신호만을 전송하는 적응 증분형 복호 후 전송 프로토콜을 제안한다. 이를 이용하여 전체 시스템의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 모의실험을 통해 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.3026-3045
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• 2012

In this paper, diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) of three-user wireless multiple-antenna cooperative systems is investigated in general fading channels when half-duplex and decode-and-forward relay is employed. Three protocols, i.e., adaptive protocol, receive diversity protocol, and dual-hop relaying protocol, are considered. The general fading channels may include transmit and/or receive correlation and nonzero channel means, and are extensions of independent and identically distributed Rayleigh or Rician fading channels. Firstly, simple DMT expressions are derived for general fading channels with zero channel means and no correlation when users employ arbitrary number of antennas. Explicit DMT expressions are also obtained when all users employ the same number of antennas and the channels between any two users are of the same fading statistics. Finally, the impact of nonzero channel means and/or correlation on DMT is evaluated. It is revealed theoretically that the DMTs depend on the number of antennas at each user, channel means (except for Rayleigh and Rician fading statistics), transmit and/or receive correlation, and the polynomial behavior near zero of the channel gain probability density function. Examples are also provided to illustrate the analysis and results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.3321-3341
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• 2014

This paper investigates the outage performance and optimization for the four-phase two-way transmission network with an energy harvesting (EH) relay. To enable the simultaneous information processing and energy harvesting at the relay, we firstly propose a power splitting-based two-way relaying protocol (PSTWR). Then, we discuss its outage performance theoretically and derive an explicit expression for the system outage probability. In order to find the optimal system configuration parameters such as the optimal power splitting ratio and the optimal transmit power redistribution factor, we formulate an outage-minimized optimization problem. As the problem is difficult to solve, we design a genetic algorithm (GA) based algorithm for it. Besides, we also investigate the effects of the power splitting ratio, the power redistribution factor at the relay, and the source to relay distance on the system outage performance. Finally, extensive simulation results are provided to demonstrate the accuracy of the analytical results and the effectiveness of the GA-based algorithm. Moreover, it is also shown that, the relay position greatly affects the system performance, where relatively worse outage performance is achieved when the EH relay is placed in the middle of the two sources.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.288-307
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• 2013

This paper formulates resource allocation for decode-and-forward (DF) relay assisted multi-cell orthogonal frequency division multiple (OFDM) networks as an optimization problem taking into account of inter-cell interference and users fairness. To maximize the transmit rate of system we propose a joint interference coordination, subcarrier and power allocation algorithm. To reduce the complexity, this semi-distributed algorithm divides the primal optimization into three sub-optimization problems, which transforms the mixed binary nonlinear programming problem (BNLP) into standard convex optimization problems. The first layer optimization problem is used to get the optimal subcarrier distribution index. The second is to solve the problem that how to allocate power optimally in a certain subcarrier distribution order. Based on the concept of equivalent channel gain (ECG) we transform the max-min function into standard closed expression. Subsequently, with the aid of dual decomposition, water-filling theorem and iterative power allocation algorithm the optimal solution of the original problem can be got with acceptable complexity. The third sub-problem considers dynamic co-channel interference caused by adjacent cells and redistributes resources to achieve the goal of maximizing system throughput. Finally, simulation results are provided to corroborate the proposed algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1786-1804
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• 2013

We consider a specific interference-limited wireless relay system that comprises several cooperation units (CUs) which are defined as a source and destination node pair with an associated relay node. In the wireless relay system, all source nodes simultaneously transmit their own signals and the relay node in each CU then forwards the received signal to the destination node, causing co-channel interference at both the relay node and the destination node in each CU. The co-channel interference at the relay node is closely related to that at the destination node in each CU. We first derive the end-to-end outage probability in a CU over Rayleigh slow-fading channels with interference for the decode-and-forward (DF) relaying strategy. Then, on the assumption that each CU is allocated with equal power we design an optimal power allocation between the source node and the relay node in each CU to minimize the outage probability of the investigated CU. At last, in the case that each CU is not allocated with equal power and the sum of their power is constrained, we present an optimal power allocation between CUs to minimize the sum of the outage probability of all CUs. The analytical results are verified by simulations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.2177-2193
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• 2018

This paper studies resource allocation schemes for the relay-aided cooperative system consisting of multiple source-destination pairs and decode-forward (DF) relays. Specially, relaying selection, multisubcarrier pairing and assignment, and power allocation are investigated jointly. We consider a combinatorial optimization problem on quality of experience (QoE) and energy consumption based on relay-aided cooperative system. For providing better QoE and lower energy consumption we formulate a multi-objective optimization problem to maximize the total mean opinion score (MOS) value and minimize the total power consumption. To this end, we employ the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm version II (NSGA-II) and obtain sets of Pareto optimal solutions. Specially, two formulas are devised for the optimal solutions of the multi-objective optimization problems with and without a service priority constraint. Moreover, simulation results show that the proposed schemes are superior to the existing ones.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.273-288
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a cooperative multi-relay scheme for a secondary system to achieve spectrum access along with a primary system. In the primary network, a primary transmitter (PT) transmits the primary signal to a primary receiver (PR). In the secondary network, N secondary transmitter-receiver pairs (ST-SR) selected by a centralized control unit (CCU) are ready to assist the primary network. In particular, in the first time slot, PT broadcasts the primary signal to PR, which is also received by STs and SRs. At STs, the primary signal is regenerated and linearly combined with the secondary signal by assigning fractions of the available power to the primary and secondary signals respectively. The combined signal is then broadcasted by STs in a predetermined order. In order to achieve diversity gain, STs, SRs and PT will combine received replicas of the primary signal, using selection combining technique (SC). We derive the exact outage probability for the primary network as well as the secondary network. The simulation results are presented to verify the theoretical analyses.