• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권3A호
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• pp.254-266
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• 2006

최근에 OFDM 기반 셀룰러 시스템의 Throughput 및 셀 커버리지를 향상시키기 위하여 SDMA(Spatial Division Multiple Access) 방식을 적용하는 자원 할당 방식에 대한 연구가 시작되고 있으나, 대부분의 OFDM/SDMA 기반 자원 할당 방식에 대한 연구는 시스템 Throughput 만을 최적화시키거나 단일 셀 환경에서만 적응이 가능한 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 요구하는 트래픽 특성에 맞는 High Layer QoS(Quality of Service) 파라미터를 고려하면서, 시스템의 Throughput의 손실을 최소화하고 인접 셀 간 간섭을 고려하여 다중 셀 환경에서도 적용이 가능한 하향 링크 OFDM/SDMA 기반 자원할당 알고리즘을 제안하고, Ped A 및 다중 안테나 채널모델인 SCME (Spatial Channel Model Extensions) 채널에서 제안된 알고리즘 성능을 분석한다.

• 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.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.267-274
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• 2015

Due to the difficulty of coordination in the cellular uplink, it is a practical challenge how to achieve the optimal throughput scaling with distributed scheduling. In this paper, we propose a distributed and opportunistic user scheduling (DOUS) that achieves the optimal throughput scaling in a single-input multiple-output interfering multiple-access channel, i.e., a multi-cell uplink network, with M antennas at each base station (BS) and N users in a cell. In a distributed fashion, each BS adopts M random receive beamforming vectors and then selects M users such that both sufficiently large desired signal power and sufficiently small generating interference are guaranteed. As a main result, it is proved that full multiuser diversity gain can be achieved in each cell when a sufficiently large number of users exist. Numerical evaluation confirms that in a practical setting of the multi-cell network, the proposed DOUS outperforms the existing distributed user scheduling algorithms in terms of sum-rate.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2015

LTE-advanced와 IEEE 802.16m과 같은 차세대 셀룰러 네트워크는 중계기를 이용하여 적은 비용으로 높은 전송률을 제공하며 음영지역을 해소한다. 하지만 중계기에 의해 좁아진 셀 간격 때문에 셀 간 간섭은 심화되며, 특히 OFDMA를 사용하는 셀룰러 네트워크의 하향 액세스 링크(access link)는 많은 양의 데이터를 기지국이나 중계기가 동시에 사용자 단말에게 전송하기 때문에 간섭에 의한 성능저하가 심각하다. 이를 해결하기 위한 기존의 연구는 중계기의 분포를 대칭적으로 가정하였기에 실제 네트워크에 적용하는 것은 불가능하였다. 본 논문에서는 임의의 위치에 설치된 다수의 중계기를 이용하는 다중홉 셀룰러 네트워크에서 셀 간의 간섭을 완화하기 위한 채널할당방안을 제안하여 신호대간섭잡음비(Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio)를 높이고, 전력 제어에 필요한 제어 메시지의 수를 감소시켜 네트워크의 데이터 전송률을 높이고자 한다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 2002년도 춘계공동학술대회
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• pp.144-151
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• 2002

Future wireless communication systems are expected to provide a broad range of multimedia services in which the asymmetry of traffic load between uplink and downlink is a significant feature. The rode division multiple access system with tune division duplex mode (CDMA/TDD) is a good solution to cope with the traffic asymmetry problem. However. the TDD system is subject to inter-cell interference compared to frequency division duplex (FDD) system. Since both uplink and downlink share the same frequency in TDD. uplink and downlink may interfere each other especially when neighboring cells require different rates of asymmetry. Thus, time slot allocation for tells is an important issue in TDD. In this paper. we propose a genetic algorithm based time slot allocation scheme which maximizes the residual system capacity. The proposed scheme allows that each cell employ different level of uplink/downlink asymmetry and satisfies the interference requirement.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.1282-1290
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• 1998

In this paper, the physical layer design of IMT-2000 system being developed by SK Telecom is introuduced. The outband signaling scheme and the two-pilot scheme are adopted for multimedia service and inter-cell asynchronous mode respectively. In addition, the synchronous transmission scheme is proposed to reduce the interference in the reverse link. The algorithm and simulation results of 'two-pilot scheme' for inter-cell asynchronous mode and 'reverse synchronous control' for synchronous transmission are presented.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.2797-2820
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• 2015

In order to accommodate huge number of antennas in a limited antenna size, a large scale antenna array is expected to have a three dimensional (3D) array structure. By using the Active Antenna Systems (AAS), the weights of the antenna elements arranged vertically could be configured adaptively. Then, a degree of freedom (DOF) in the vertical plane is provided for system design. So the three-dimension MIMO (3D MIMO) could be realized to solve the actual implementation problem of the massive MIMO. However, in 3D massive MIMO systems, the pilot contamination problem studied in 2D massive MIMO systems and the inter-cell interference as well as inter-vertical sector interference in 3D MIMO systems with vertical sectorization exist simultaneously, when the number of antenna is not large enough. This paper investigates the interference management towards the above challenges in 3D massive MIMO systems. Here, vertical sectorization based on vertical beamforming is included in the concerned systems. Firstly, a cooperative joint vertical beams adjustment and pilot assignment scheme is developed to improve the channel estimation precision of the uplink with pilots being reused across the vertical sectors. Secondly, a downlink interference coordination scheme by jointly controlling weight vectors and power of vertical beams is proposed, where the estimated channel state information is used in the optimization modelling, and the performance loss induced by pilot contamination could be compensated in some degree. Simulation results show that the proposed joint optimization algorithm with controllable vertical beams' weight vectors outperforms the method combining downtilts adjustment and power allocation.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.477-483
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• 2016

본 논문은 다중 셀 상향링크 네트워크에서 사용자의 신호 대 발생 간섭 및 잡음비 (SGINR)를 최대화하기 위하여 간섭인지 및 전력제어 기술을 이용한 분산 스케쥴링 방식을 제안한다. 먼저 시분할 시스템의 상호 호환성 특성을 이용하여 각 사용자는 인접 기지국으로부터 받은 파일럿 신호를 통하여 채널을 습득하고 데이터 전송 시 인접 셀 기지국들에 미칠 간섭을 각자 계산할 수 있다고 가정한다. 제안한 스케쥴링은 사용자가 인접 셀 기지국에 미치는 간섭의 양을 계산하여 미리 결정된 임계값보다 클 경우 자기 신호의 송신 전력을 낮추는 전력 제어 알고리즘을 이용하여 사용자를 분산적으로 선택한다. 제안한 기법의 상향링크 데이터 전송률은 기존의 사용자 스케쥴링 알고리즘들에 비하여 월등히 좋은 성능을 보인다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권4호
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• pp.371-380
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• 2013

셀룰러 인프라 구조에 기반하여 셀룰러 스펙트럼을 공유하여 사용하는 D2D (Device-to-Device) 통신은 몇 가지 장점이 있지만, 셀룰러 네트워크 사용자와 동일한 자원을 사용하므로 간섭이 생기는 큰 문제점이 있다. 특히, 다중 셀에서 셀 경계 D2D 사용자와 셀룰러 사용자 간의 간섭 문제는 셀의 중심부에서보다 훨씬 강도가 높게 발생한다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 인접한 셀들의 중심에 위치한 SRN (Shared Relay Node)이 셀룰러 링크와 D2D 링크 사이에 발생하는 간섭을 효율적으로 관리하는 새로운 방식을 제안한다. 제안하는 SRN은 기존 Type II 릴레이와 같이 데이터 재전송 역할을 수행할 뿐만 아니라, 추가적으로 간섭 관리를 위한 기능을 수행하기 때문에 몇 가지 기능이 새롭게 정의된다. 셀룰러 링크와 D2D 링크 사이에 간섭 관리를 위한 구체적인 방법으로 본 논문에서는 셀 경계영역 사용자들의 간섭 회피를 위한 SRN 기반 자원할당 방법을 제안하고 이들의 성능을 모의실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.559-567
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• 2015

This paper focuses on evaluating the performance of a cellular network using power control based frequency reuse partitioning (FRP) in downlink (DL). In our work, in order to have the realistic environment, the spectral efficiency of the system is evaluated through traffic analysis, which most of the previous works did not consider. To further decrease the cell edge user's outage, the concept of power ratio is introduced and applied to the DL FRP based cellular network. In considering network topology, we first divide the cell coverage area into two regions, the inner and outer regions. We then allocate different sub-bands in the inner and outer regions of each cell. In the analysis, for each zone ratio, the performance of FRP system is evaluated for the given number of power ratios. We consider performance metrics such as call blocking probability, channel utilization, outage probability and effective throughput. The simulation results show that there is a significant improvement in the outage experienced by outer UEs with power control scheme compared to that with no power control scheme and an increase in overall system throughput.