• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.362-369
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• 2013

The optimal number of users achieving the maximum sum throughput is analyzed in zero-forcing (ZF) based multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a large number of base station (BS) antennas. By utilizing deterministic ergodic sum rates for the ZF-beam forming (ZF-BF) and ZF-receiver (ZF-R) with a large number of BS antennas [1], [2], we can obtain the ergodic sum throughputs for the ZF-BF and ZF-R for the uplink and downlink frame structures, respectively. Then, we can also formulate and solve the optimization problems maximizing the ergodic sum throughputs with respect to the number of users. This paper shows that the approximate downlink sum throughput for the ZF-BF is a concave function and the approximate uplink sum throughput for the ZF-R is also a concave function in a feasible range with respect to the number of users. The simulation results verify the analyses and show that the derived numbers of users provide the maximum sum throughputs for the ZF-BF as well as ZF-R in multiuser MIMO systems with a large number of BS antennas.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.4006-4020
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• 2018

In recent years, one of the most remarkable 5G technologies is massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) system which increases spectral efficiency by deploying a large number of transmit-antennas (eg. tens or hundreds transmit-antennas) at base station (BS). However, conventional massive MIMO system using single-polarized (SP) transmit-antennas increases the size of the transmit-array proportionally as the number of transmit-antennas increases. Hence, size reduction of large-scale transmit-array is one of the major concerns of massive MIMO system. To reduce the size of the transmit-array at BS, dual-polarized (DP) transmit-antenna can be the solution to halve the size of the transmit-array since one collocated DP transmit-antenna deploys vertical and horizontal transmit-antennas compared to SP transmit-antennas. Moreover, proposed DP massive MIMO system increases the spectral efficiency by not only in the space domain but also in the polarization domain whereas the conventional SP massive MIMO system increases the spectral efficiency by space domain only. In this paper, the comparative performance of DP and SP massive MIMO systems is analyzed by space division multiple access (SDMA) and space-polarization division multiple access (SPDMA) respectively. To analyze the performance of DP and SP massive MIMO systems, DP and SP spatial channel models (SCMs) are proposed which consider depolarized propagation channels between transmitter and receiver. The simulation results show that the performance of proposed 32 transmitter (Tx) DP massive MIMO system improves the spectral efficiency by about 91% for a large number of user equipments (UEs) compare to 32Tx SP massive MIMO system for identical size of the transmit-array.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.2992-3009
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• 2016

The performance of D-MIMO systems is not only affected by multipath fading but also from shadowing fading, as well as path loss. In this paper, we investigate the ergodic capacity of D-MIMO systems operating in non-correlated K fading (Rayleigh/Gamma) channels. With the aid of majorization and Minkowski theory, we derive analytical closed-form expressions of the upper and lower bounds on the ergodic capacity for D-MIMO systems over non-correlated K fading channels, which are quite general and applicable for arbitrary signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the number of transceiver antennas. To intuitively reveal the impacts of system and fading parameters on the ergodic capacity, we deduce asymptotic approximations in the high and low SNR regimes. Finally, we pursue the massive MIMO systems analysis for the lower bound and derive closed-form expressions when the number of antennas at BS grows large, and when the number of antennas at transceivers becomes large with a fixed and finite ratio. It is demonstrated that the proposed expressions on the ergodic capacity accurately match with the theoretical analysis.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.280-285
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• 2015

대용량 다중 송신 다중 수신 안테나 환경에서 정합 필터 송신기는 다중 사용자 하향 링크 전송 용량(capacity)을 달성하는 방법으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 기지국이 유한 개수의 대용량 안테나를 장착한 경우 정합 필터는 다중 사용자 하향링크 전송 용량을 제공할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 유한 대용량 안테나를 갖춘 기지국이 낮은 신호 대 잡음비의 다수의 셀 경계 영역 사용자를 지원할 경우, 효율적 연산 복잡도로 전송 용량을 최대화하는 두 단계 선형 송수신기 설계 방법을 제안한다. 정합 필터로 구성된 첫째 단계 프리코더는 유효 채널 dimension 을 줄이면서 동시에 빔포밍 이득을 통해 수신 신호 대 잡음 비를 개선한다. 그리고 평균 자승 오류율 최소화 기법을 통해 전송 용량을 최대화하는 둘째 단계 선형 송수신기를 구한다. 시뮬레이션과 분석을 통해 전송 용량과 연산 복잡도 면에서 제안하는 방법이 우수함을 보인다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.6838-6844
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• 2014

LTE-A 시스템은 고속 데이터 전송을 위해 다중안테나를 장착하고 있다. 일반적으로 공간다중화 다중안테나 시스템의 수신기 복잡도는 후보벡터의 개수에 따라 증가한다. 후보벡터의 개수가 증가함에 따라 연판정 값의 신뢰도가 향상된다. 많은 수의 후보벡터를 생성하는 최우도 신호검출방식을 사용하면 우수한 성능을 달성할 수 있다. 반면 적은 개수의 후보벡터를 생성하는 저복잡도 수신기는 신뢰도가 낮은 연판정 값을 생성한다. 본 논문에서는 적은 수의 후보벡터를 사용해서 얻게되는 연판정 값의 신뢰도를 향상시키는 새로운 기술을 제안하고 모의실험을 통해 개선된 성능을 확인한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권9A호
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• pp.1022-1030
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• 2004

차세대 이동 및 우선통신 시스댐은 현재보나 얘우 큰 고속의 데이터 전송과 시스템 용량을 요구하고 였으며 이러한 요구를 충족시키기 위해서 복수의 안테나를 사용하여 송수신을 하는 MIMO(m 비 tiple input, multiple output) 기술이 널리 연구되고 있다 이 논문은 다수의 안테나를 가지고 있는 기지국, 소수의 안테나를 가지고 있는 단말기의 하향 링크에서 스케터령과 변동이 적으며 평탄한 페이딩 채널을 가정한다. 단영 사용가 MIMO 시스템에서 가지국이 채널상태정보를 가지고 있다연 SVD(singular value decomposition) 와 water filling 읍 사용 한 MIMO 기숭이 최대의 채널용량을 이룬다. 그러나 복수 사용자 시스템의 경우에는 공간분할 다중접속 기술을 이용하여, 보다 큰 전체 채널용량을 얻는 것이 가능하다 이 논문은 복수 사용가 시스템에서 각 사용자에게 복수 의 데이터 스트림을 전송하는 MIMO 공간분할 다중접속 기술을 제안한다. 제안하는 기술은 SVD 기반의 MIMO 기술이나 스마트 안테나를 사용한 공간분항 다중정속 기술보다 더 큰 전체 채널용량을 얻을 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.507-513
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• 2015

본 논문은 최대 32개의 송수신 안테나를 사용하는 준직교 공간시간 블록부호 (QOSTBC) 를 적용한 대규모 MIMO 시스템을 제안한다. QOSTBC 는 전송율 및 복호 복잡성에 있어서 장점을 가지고 있으며 2개 이상의 송수신 안테나를 적용한 MIMO 시스템에서는 중요한 전송다이버시티 기술이다. 대규모 MIMO 는 매우 많은 송수신 안테나를 적용한 MIMO 시스템이며 최소한 15개 이상의 안테나를 적용하여야 한다. 본 논문은 다양한 안테나 구성 ($2{\times}2$, $4{\times}4$, $8{\times}8$, $16{\times}16$, $32{\times}32$) 으로 QOSTBC를 적용한 대규모 MIMO를 제안하며 BPSK 변조를 적용하여 성능을 분석하였다. 기존 대규모 MIMO 시스템과 비교하여 QOSTBC를 적용한 대규모 MIMO 에서는 송수신 안테나 개수 증가에 따른 다이버시티 이득이 증가하면서 높은 성능 개선 효과를 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.370-382
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• 2013

Distributed massive MIMO systems, which have high bandwidth efficiency and can accommodate a tremendous amount of traffic using algorithms such as zero-forcing beam forming (ZFBF), may be deployed in large public venues with the antennas mounted under-floor. In this case the channel gain matrix H can be modeled as a multi-banded matrix, in which off-diagonal entries decay both exponentially due to heavy human penetration loss and polynomially due to free space propagation loss. To enable practical implementation of such systems, we present a multi-banded matrix inversion algorithm that substantially reduces the complexity of ZFBF by keeping the most significant entries in H and the precoding matrix W. We introduce a parameter p to control the sparsity of H and W and thus achieve the tradeoff between the computational complexity and the system throughput. The proposed algorithm includes dense and sparse precoding versions, providing quadratic and linear complexity, respectively, relative to the number of antennas. We present analysis and numerical evaluations to show that the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) increases linearly with p in dense precoding. In sparse precoding, we demonstrate the necessity of using directional antennas by both analysis and simulations. When the directional antenna gain increases, the resulting SIR increment in sparse precoding increases linearly with p, while the SIR of dense precoding is much less sensitive to changes in p.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.302-309
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• 2004

The transmission capacity of wireless communication systems may become dramatically high by employ multiple transmit and receive antennas with space-time coding techniques appropriate to multiple transmit antennas. For large number of transmit antennas and at high bandwidth efficiencies, the receiver may become too complex whenever correlation across transmit antennas is introduced. Reducing decoding complexity at receiver by combining array processing and space-time codes (STC) helps a communication system using STC to overcome the big obstacle that prevents it from achieving a desired high transmission rate. Multi-carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) allows providing good performance in a channel with high inter-symbol interference. Antenna array, STC and MC-CDMA system have a similar characteristic that transmit-receive data streams are divided into sub-streams. Thus, there may be a noticeable reduction of receiver complexity when we combine them together. In this paper, the combination of array processing and STC in MC-CDMA system over slow selective-fading channel is investigated and compared with corresponding existing MC-CDMA system using STC. A refinement of this basic structure leads to a system design principle in which we have to make a trade off between transmission rate, decoding complexity, and length of spreading code to reach a given desired design goal.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.338-351
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• 2013

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication may provide high spectral efficiency through the deployment of a very large number of antenna elements at the base stations. The gains from massive MIMO communication come from the use of multi-user MIMO on the uplink and downlink, but with a large excess of antennas at the base station compared to the number of served users. Initial work on massive MIMO did not fully address several practical issues associated with its deployment. This paper considers the impact of channel aging on the performance of massive MIMO systems. The effects of channel variation are characterized as a function of different system parameters assuming a simple model for the channel time variations at the transmitter. Channel prediction is proposed to overcome channel aging effects. The analytical results on aging show how capacity is lost due to time variation in the channel. Numerical results in a multicell network show that massive MIMO works even with some channel variation and that channel prediction could partially overcome channel aging effects.