• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2124-2143
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• 2016

In Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) systems, Inter-cell Interference (ICI) is a prominent limiting factor that affects the performance of the systems, especially at the cell edges. Based on the literature, Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) methods are known as efficient interference management techniques. In this report, the proposed Dynamic Fractional Frequency Reuse (DFFR) technique improved the capacity and cell edge coverage performance by 70% compared to the Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) technique. In this study, an improved power allocation method was adopted into the DFFR technique to reach the goal of not only reducing the ICI mitigation at the cell edges, but also improving the overall capacity of the LTE-A systems. Hence, an improved water-filling algorithm was proposed, and its performance was compared with that of other methods that were considered. Through the simulation results and comparisons with other frequency reuse techniques, it was shown that the proposed method significantly improved the performance of the cell edge throughput by 42%, the capacity by 75%, and the coverage by 80%. Based on the analysis and numerical expressions, it was concluded that the proposed DFFR method provides significant performance improvements, especially for cell edge users.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 회사 또는 백화점 등과 같은 고층 건물에 다수의 펨토셀 기지국들(Femtocell base stations, fBSs)이 밀집되어 배치되는 기업형 펨토셀 네트워크(Enterprise femtocell network, EFN) 환경에서 부분 주파수 재사용 (Fractional frequency reuse, FFR) 자원할당 방법을 이용하여 하향링크에 대한 시스템 성능을 분석한다. 이를 위해, 먼저 매크로셀과 펨토셀 사이의 주파수 간섭을 완화시키는 Split reuse 주파수 할당 방법에 대해 소개하고, 이후 EFN의 fBS들에게 주파수 간섭 완화 및 주파수 효율을 극대화할 수 있는 FFR을 이용한 자원할당 방법을 제안한다. 마지막으로 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 FFR 자원할당 방법의 시스템 성능을 분석하고, EFN 환경에서 주파수 재사용 계수(Frequency reuse factor: FRF)를 4로 사용하는 전형적인 FRF 4 방법보다 제안하는 FFR 자원할당 방법이 평균 fUE 용량, 전체 EFN 용량, 그리고 Outage probability 측면에서 우수한 성능임을 보인다.

• 한국통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국통신학회 2006년도 하계종합학술발표회 논문 초록집
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• pp.574-574
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• 2006

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2008

For mobile wireless systems with full frequency reuse, co-channel interference near the cell coverage boundaries has a significant impact on the signal reception performance. This paper addresses an approach to efficiently mitigate the effect of downlink co-channel interference when multi-antenna terminals are used in cellular environments, by proposing a signal detection strategy combined with a system-level coordination for dynamic frequency reuse. We demonstrate the utilization of multi-antennas to perform spatial demultiplexing of both the desired signal and interfering signals from adjacent cells results in significant improvement of spectral efficiency compared to the maximal ratio combining (MRC) performance, especially when an appropriate frequency reuse based on the traffic loading condition is coordinated among cells. Both analytic expressions for the capacity and experimental results using the adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) are used to confirm the performance gain. The robustness of the proposed scheme against varying operational conditions such as the channel estimation error and shadowing effects are also verified by simulation results.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2011

Downlink transmit power allocation schemes are proposed for soft fractional frequency reuse (FFR) in loose and tightly coordinated systems. The transmit powers are allocated so that the loss of spectral efficiency from the soft FFR is minimized, and the required cell edge user throughput is guaranteed. The effect of the soft FFR on spectral efficiency is evaluated depending on the power allocation schemes and the number of subbands. Results show that the loss of spectral efficiency from the soft FFR can be reduced by configuring an appropriate number of subbands in the loosely coordinated systems. In tightly coordinated systems, results show that the loss of spectral efficiency can be minimized regardless of the number of subbands due to its fast coordination.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권8B호
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• pp.687-694
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• 2012

OFDMA(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) 기반 셀룰러 시스템에서 셀 간 간섭은 셀 가장자리에 위치한 단말의 수신 성능을 악화시킴으로써 전체 시스템의 성능을 감소시킨다. 따라서 셀 간 간섭을 제거하는 것은 셀룰러 시스템의 성능 향상에 가장 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 이를 위해 4세대 통신망에는 부분 주파수 재사용(FFR : Fractional Frequency Reuse)이 도입되었다. FFR은 간섭 제어 기술 중의 하나로써, 하나의 셀을 내부 셀과 외부 셀로 분할하고 내부 셀의 경우 전체 시스템 대역폭을, 외부 셀의 경우 섹터에 따라 서로 다른 주파수 파티션을 할당한다. 이렇게 함으로써 외부 셀에 속한 단말은 인접한 셀로부터의 간섭을 무시할 수 있게 되고 이에 따라 셀 가장자리에 위치한 단말의 수신 성능이 대폭 개선된다. 하지만 FFR은 대역폭 측면에서 치명적인 부작용을 가진다. 외부 셀의 각 섹터에 서로 다른 주파수 파티션을 할당하기 위해서 하나의 섹터에는 전체 시스템 대역폭의 1/3만을 할당할 수 있게 된다. 이렇게 감소한 대역폭은 시스템 전송률을 직접적으로 감소시킨다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 분할대역을 일정 비율만큼 중첩해서 사용하는 새로운 FFR 방법을 제안하고 실제 셀룰러 시스템에 적합한 중첩 비율을 제시한다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

Small-cells in heterogeneous networks are one of the important technologies to increase the coverage and capacity in 5G cellular networks. However, due to the randomly arranged small-cells, co-tier and cross-tier interference increase, deteriorating the system performance of the network. In order to manage the interference, some channel management methods use fractional frequency reuse(FFR) that divides the cell coverage into the inner region(IR) and outer region(OR) based on the distance from the macro base station(MBS). However, since it is impossible to properly measure the distance in the method with FFR, we propose a new interference aware FFR(IA-FFR) method to enhance the system performance. That is, the proposed IA-FFR method divides the MUEs and SBSs into the IR and OR groups based on the signal to interference plus noise ratio(SINR) of macro user equipments(MUEs) and received signals strength of small-cell base stations(SBSs) from the MBS, respectively, and then dynamically assigns subchannels to MUEs and small-cell user equipments. As a result, the proposed IA-FFR method outperforms other methods in terms of the system capacity and outage probability.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.4819-4834
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• 2015

The spectral efficiency of cellular networks can be improved when proximate users engage in device-to-device (D2D) communications to communicate directly without going through a base station. However, D2D communications that are not properly designed may generate interference with existing cellular networks. In this paper, we study resource allocation and power control to minimize the probability of an outage and maximize the overall network throughput. We investigate three power control-based schemes: the Partial Co-channel based Overlap Resource Power Control (PC.OVER), Fractional Frequency Reuse based Overlap Resource Power Control (FFR.OVER) and Fractional Frequency Reuse based Adaptive Power Control (FFR.APC) and also compare their performance. In PC.OVER, a certain portion of the total bandwidth is dedicated to the D2D. The FFR.OVER and FFR.APC schemes combine the FFR techniques and the power control mechanism. In FFR, the entire frequency band is partitioned into two parts, including a central and edge sub-bands. Macrocell users (mUEs) transmit using uniform power in the inner and outer regions of the cell, and in all three schemes, the D2D receivers (D2DRs) transmit with low power when more than one D2DRs share a resource block (RB) with the macrocells. For PC.OVER and FFR.OVER, the power of the D2DRs is reduced to its minimum, and for the FFR.APC scheme, the transmission power of the D2DRs is iteratively adjusted to satisfy the signal to interference ratio (SIR) threshold. The three schemes exhibit a significant improvement in the overall system capacity as well as in the probability of a user outage when compared to a conventional scheme.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.259-260
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• 2008

This paper presents fractional frequency reuse (FFR) with sub-channel borrowing to improve spectral efficiency of the wireless broadband (WiBro) system. FFR has constraints on usable sub-channels to balance the interference and cell capacity. Our FFR with sub-channel borrowing allows use of the dedicated sub-channels assigned to neighboring cells. Simulation results show that the proposed FFR with sub-channel borrowing improves the performance of the WiBro system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권9호
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• pp.2153-2169
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• 2012

Femtocells provide high quality indoor communications with low transmit power. However, when femtocells are applied in cellular systems, a co-channel interference problem between macrocells and femtocells occurs because femtocells use the same spectrum as do the macrocells. To solve the co-channel interference problem, a previous study suggested a resource allocation scheme in LTE cellular systems using FFR. However, this conventional resource allocation scheme still has interference problems between macrocells and femtocells near the boundary of the sub-areas. In this paper, we define an optimization problem for resource allocation to femtocells and propose a femtocell resource allocation scheme to solve the optimization problem and the interference problems of the conventional scheme. The evaluation of the proposed scheme is conducted by System Level Simulation while varying the simulation environments. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme is superior to the conventional scheme and that it improves the overall performance of cellular systems.