• Journal of Communications and Networks
• /
• 제18권1호
• /
• pp.112-122
• /
• 2016

Cognitive radio (CR) is considered an attractive technology to deal with the spectrum scarcity problem. Multi-radio access technology (multi-RAT) can improve network capacity because data are transmitted by multiple RANs (radio access networks) concurrently. Thus, multi-RAT embedded in a cognitive radio network (CRN) is a promising paradigm for developing spectrum efficiency and network capacity in future wireless networks. In this study, we consider a new CRN model in which the primary user networks consist of heterogeneous primary users (PUs). Specifically, we focus on the energy-efficient resource allocation (EERA) problem for CR users with a special location coverage overlapping region in which heterogeneous PUs operate simultaneously via multi-RAT. We propose a two-tier crossover genetic algorithm-based search scheme to obtain an optimal solution in terms of the power and bandwidth. In addition, we introduce a radio environment map to manage the resource allocation and network synchronization. The simulation results show the proposed algorithm is stable and has faster convergence. Our proposal can significantly increase the energy efficiency.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
• /
• 제14권3호
• /
• pp.771-789
• /
• 2018

In heterogeneous wireless networks supporting multi-access services, selecting the best network from among the possible heterogeneous connections and providing seamless service during handover for a higher Quality of Services (QoSs) is a big challenge. Thus, we need an intelligent vertical handover (VHO) decision using suitable network parameters. In the conventional VHOs, various network parameters (i.e., signal strength, bandwidth, dropping probability, monetary cost of service, and power consumption) have been used to measure network status and select the preferred network. Because of various parameter features defined in each wireless/mobile network, the parameter conversion between different networks is required for a handover decision. Therefore, the handover process is highly complex and the selection of parameters is always an issue. In this paper, we present how to maximize network utilization as more than one target network exists during VHO. Also, we show how network parameters can be imbedded into IEEE 802.21-based signaling procedures to provide seamless connectivity during a handover. The network simulation showed that QoS-effective target network selection could be achieved by choosing the suitable parameters from Layers 1 and 2 in each candidate network.

• ETRI Journal
• /
• 제44권5호
• /
• pp.746-758
• /
• 2022

This paper focuses on a mobile edge-computing-enabled heterogeneous network. A battery level-aware task-scheduling framework is proposed to improve the energy efficiency and prolong the operating hours of battery-powered mobile devices. The formulated optimization problem is a typical mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem. To solve this nondeterministic polynomial (NP)-hard problem, a decomposition-based task-scheduling algorithm is proposed. Using an alternating optimization technology, the original problem is divided into three subproblems. In the outer loop, task offloading decisions are yielded using a pruning search algorithm for the task offloading subproblem. In the inner loop, closed-form solutions for computational resource allocation subproblems are derived using the Lagrangian multiplier method. Then, it is proven that the transmitted power-allocation subproblem is a unimodal problem; this subproblem is solved using a gradient-based bisection search algorithm. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves better energy efficiency than other frameworks. Additionally, the impact of the battery level-aware scheme on the operating hours of battery-powered mobile devices is also investigated.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
• /
• 제27권7호
• /
• pp.650-664
• /
• 2000

NOW(Network of Workstations)는 병렬 프로그램들을 수행하기 위한 플랫폼으로 많이 고려되어지고 있다. NOW에서 병렬 프로그램이 좋은 성능으로 실행되기 위해 해결되어야할 기본적인 문제들 중 하나가 작업의 스케쥴링 문제를 효율적으로 결정하는 것이다. 현재 NOW에 관한 대부분의 연구는 NOW를 구성하는 모든 워크스테이션이 같은 처리 능력을 가지고 있다고 가정하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 NOW를 구성하는 워크스테이션들이 다른 계산 능력을 가지고 있는 것을 고려한다. 이질적인 계산 능력을 가지고 있는 워크스테이션들로 구성된 NOW에 적용할 수 있는 10가지 공간 분할 스케쥴링 방법을 제시하 고, 시뮬레이터를 통하여 이 스케쥴링 정책들을 비교한다. 시뮬레이터는 합성된 순차/병렬 부하를 입력으로 받아 병렬 작업의 응답 사간과 기다림 시간을 성능 지표로 발생시킨다. 실험 결과 워크스테이션의 계산 능력에 비례하여 병렬 프로그램을 이질적으로 분할하는 경우가 균등 분할하는 경우보다 성능이 우수함을 알 수 있었다. 병렬 프로세스를 수행하는 워크스테이션에 소유자가 돌아온 경우 병렬 프로세스를 새 유휴 워크스테이션에 이주하는 것보다는 단지 우선 순위를 낮추는 것이 높은 성능을 보여 주었다. 우선 순위 낮춤을 사용하는 이질적 분할의 경우 적응 할당 정책이 넓은 범위의 병렬 프로그램 도착시간에서 좋은 성능을 보이나 부하 불균형이 높아지는 경우 수정된 적응 할당 정책이 높은 성능을 보여준다 .

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
• /
• 제3권3호
• /
• pp.320-332
• /
• 2000

웹은 네트워크로 연결된 모든 컴퓨터를 하나로 묶는 거대한 가상 시스템을 구성한다. 인터넷에 존재하는 수많은 유휴 상태 시스템을 이용하여 병렬 처리함으로써 비용 대 성능비가 매우 높으며 강력한 컴퓨팅 파워를 요구하는 거대한 문제를 해결할 수 있다. 하지만, 로컬 네트워크가 아닌 인터 넷 전체를 대상으로 하는 글로벌 환경에서 병렬 수행하는데 호스트들간의 이질성, 접근의 용이성, 작업에 대한 신뢰성을 고려해야 한다. 본 논문은 가상 병렬 처리 시스템인 WebImg를 설계 및 구현하여 웹 컴퓨팅 이 가능하며 동일한 작업을 여러 호스트에게 분배하기 위한 유연성 있는 작업 할당 전략을 제시하고 그 성능을 평가한다. 작업에 참여한 이 기종 호스트들이 가변적인 환경에서 작업 수행 도중 시스템의 성능변화에 대처하여 재할당 연산을 이용한 유연성 있는 작업 할당 기법을 제시한다. 더욱이 제안한 작업 할당 전략은 참여 호스트의 상태를 수시로 제어하여 결함내성을 제공한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제9권6호
• /
• pp.1979-1995
• /
• 2015

Network convergence is regarded as the development tendency of the future wireless networks, for which self-organization paradigms provide a promising solution to alleviate the upgrading capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX). Self-optimization, as a critical functionality of self-organization, employs a decentralized paradigm to dynamically adapt the varying environmental circumstances while without relying on centralized control or human intervention. In this paper, we present comprehensive surveys of heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and investigate the enhanced self-optimization models. Self-optimization approaches such as dynamic mobile access network selection, spectrum resource allocation and power control for HetNets, etc., are surveyed and compared, with possible methodologies to achieve self-optimization summarized. We hope this survey paper can provide the insight and the roadmap for future research efforts in the self-optimization of convergence networks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제11권2호
• /
• pp.628-649
• /
• 2017

Security and resource-saving are both demands of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks. In this paper, we study the secrecy spectrum efficiency (SSE) and secrecy energy efficiency (SEE) of a K-tier massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enabled heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet), in which artificial noise (AN) are employed for secrecy enhancement. Assuming (i) independent Poisson point process model for the locations of base stations (BSs) of each tier as well as that of eavesdroppers, (ii) zero-forcing precoding at the macrocell BSs (MBSs), and (iii) maximum average received power-based cell selection, the tractable lower bound expressions for SSE and SEE of massive MIMO enabled HetNets are derived. Then, the influences on secrecy oriented spectrum and energy efficiency performance caused by the power allocation for AN, transmit antenna number, number of users served by each MBS, and eavesdropper density are analyzed respectively. Moreover, the analysis accuracy is verified by Monte Carlo simulations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제13권10호
• /
• pp.4865-4885
• /
• 2019

We propose a FPGA based design that performs real-time power-efficient analysis of heterogeneous sensor data using adaptive ANN on edge gateway of smart military wearables. In this work, four independent ANN classifiers are developed with optimum topologies. Out of which human activity, BP and toxic gas classifier are multiclass and ECG classifier is binary. These classifiers are later integrated into a single adaptive ANN hardware with a select line(s) that switches the hardware architecture as per the sensor type. Five versions of adaptive ANN with different precisions have been synthesized into IP cores. These IP cores are implemented and tested on Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA using Microblaze test system and LabVIEW based sensor simulators. The hardware analysis shows that the adaptive ANN even with 8-bit precision is the most efficient IP core in terms of hardware resource utilization and power consumption without compromising much on classification accuracy. This IP core requires only 31 microseconds for classification by consuming only 12 milliwatts of power. The proposed adaptive ANN design saves 61% to 97% of different FPGA resources and 44% of power as compared with the independent implementations. In addition, 96.87% to 98.75% of data throughput reduction is achieved by this edge gateway.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제8권11호
• /
• pp.3876-3895
• /
• 2014

Recently, Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) with Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) scheme is introduced into Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) systems to improve digital services for User Equipments (UEs), especially for cell-edge UEs. However, Radio Resource Management (RRM), including Resource Block (RB) scheduling and Power Allocation (PA), in this scenario becomes challenging, due to the intercell cooperation. In this paper, we investigate the RRM problem for downlink transmission of HetNet system with Joint Processing (JP) CoMP (both joint transmission and dynamic cell selection schemes), aiming at maximizing weighted sum data rate under the constraints of both transmission power and backhaul capacity. First, joint RB scheduling and PA problem is formulated as a constrained Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) which is NP-hard. To simplify the formulation problem, we decompose it into two problems of RB scheduling and PA. For RB scheduling, we propose an algorithm with less computational complexity to achieve a suboptimal solution. Then, according to the obtained scheduling results, we present an iterative Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) method to solve the PA problem. Extensive simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithms. Two kinds of JP CoMP schemes are compared with a non-CoMP greedy scheme (max capacity scheme). Simulation results prove that the CoMP schemes with the proposed RRM algorithms dramatically enhance data rate of cell-edge UEs, thereby improving UEs' fairness of data rate. Also, it is shown that the proposed PA algorithms can decrease power consumption of transmission antennas without loss of transmission performance.

• 한국항행학회논문지
• /
• 제14권6호
• /
• pp.859-864
• /
• 2010

차세대 이동통신은 하나의 시스템으로 다양한 서비스망에서의 운용을 위해 Multi-Core 시스템 구현에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 따라서 하나의 시스템으로 WiBro(Wireless Broadband), CDMA(Code Division Multiplexing Access), WCDMA(Wideband CDMA)등을 지원할 수 있는 모바일 시스템들이 출현할 것으로 예상된다. 하나의 시스템을 이용하여 다양한 서비스를 지원하기 위한 시스템은 광대역 주파수를 수용하여 다양한 FA(Frequency Assignment)를 지원해야 하며, 다양한 서비스 망으로의 핸드오버를 지원해야 한다. 특히, 셀 단위로 구성된 이동통신 시스템은 이동국이 사용하는 불안정한 송신 전력이 인접 시스템에 간섭으로 작용하여 시스템 채널 용량 및 셀 크기에 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이동통신 시스템에서 발생되는 불안정한 시스템 동작에 의한 불규칙한 송신전력을 개선하고, 다양한 서비스 지원을 위한 이종망간 핸드오버 시 발생하는 불규칙한 전력 변화에도 안정적으로 전력을 사용할 수 있는 RF(Radio Frequency) Calibration 기법을 제안하였으며, 제안한 기법을 이용하여 이종망간 핸드오버 시 시스템의 전력사용에 대하여 분석하였다.