• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.3823-3840
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• 2017

This paper analyzes the nodes deployment optimization problem in energy constrained wireless sensor networks, which multi-hop cooperative beamforming (CB) based cooperative-multi-input-single-output (CMISO) transmission is adopted to reduce the energy consumption. Firstly, we establish the energy consumption models for multi-hop SISO, multi-hop DSTBC based CMISO, multi-hop CB based CMISO transmissions under random nodes deployment. Then, we minimize the energy consumption by searching the optimal nodes deployment for the three transmissions. Furthermore, numerical results present the optimal nodes deployment parameters for the three transmissions. Energy consumption of the three transmissions are compared under optimal nodes deployment, which shows that CB based CMISO transmission consumes less energy than SISO and DSTBC based CMISO transmissions. Meanwhile, under optimal nodes deployment, the superiorities of CB based CMISO transmission over SISO and DSTBC based CMISO transmissions can be more obvious when path-loss-factor becomes low.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2018

This paper proposes a pseudo-random beamforming technique for time-synchronized mobile base stations (BSs) for multi-cell downlink networks which have mobility. The base stations equipped with multi-antennas and mobile stations (MSs) are time-synchronized based on global positioning system (GPS) signals and generate a number of transmit beamforming matrix candidates according to the predetermined pseudo-random pattern. In addition, MSs generate receive beamforming vectors that correspond to the beam index number based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) using transmit beamforming vectors that make up a number of transmit beamforming matrices and wireless channel matrices from BSs estimated via the reference signals (RS). Afterward, values of received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) with regard to all transmit beamforming vectors are calculated, and the resulting values are then feedbacked to the BS of the same cells along with the beam index number. Each of the BSs calculates each of the sum-rates of the transmit beamforming matrix candidates based on the feedback information and then transmits the calculated results to the BS coordinator. After this, optimum transmit beamforming matrices, which can maximize a sum-rate of the entire cells, are selected at the BS coordinator and informed to the BSs. Finally, data signals are transmitted using them. The simulation results verified that a sum-rate of the entire cells was improved as the number of transmit beamforming matrix candidates increased. It was also found that if the received SINR values and beam index numbers are feedbacked opportunistically from each of the MSs to the BSs, not only nearly the same performance in sum-rate with that of applying existing feedback techniques could be achieved but also an amount of feedback was significantly reduced.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.83-91
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• 2006

In this paper, we develop space-time(ST) Rake receivers for Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access(TD-SCDMA) base stations(BS). The beamforming of BS transforms the uplink MIMO channel space into many sub-sectors' channels to be nearly orthogonal, thus, well established 1-D Rake technology can be used to TD-SCDMA base station to construct ST Rake, which simplified the system's implementation as well as enlarged users' capacity by the beamforming. The construction and capacity of MIMO sub-sectors by multi-beamforming have been presented. The proposed ST Rake algorithm include the multi-beamforming algorithm for MIMO sub-sectors and classical 1-D Rake algorithm. The calculating formulas for interference plus noise ratio(SINR) and bit error rate(BER) have been derived. Simulations verify that the proposed ST Rake receiver for BS is effective, and the BS systems can get higher system capacity and can be of better performance than presented TD-SCDMA systems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.3789-3808
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• 2017

This paper studies a multi-antenna wireless relay network in the presence of a jammer. In this network, the source node transmits signals to the destination node through a multi-antenna relay node which adopts the amplify-and-forward scheme, and the jammer attempts to inject additive signals on all antennas of the relay node. With the linear beamforming scheme at the relay node, this network can be modeled as an equivalent Gaussian arbitrarily varying channel (GAVC). Based on this observation, we deduce the mathematical closed-forms of the capacities for two special cases and the suboptimal achievable rate for the general case, respectively. To reduce complexity, we further propose an optimal structure of the beamforming matrix. In addition, we present a second order cone programming (SOCP)-based algorithm to efficiently compute the optimal beamforming matrix so as to maximize the transmission rate between the source and the destination when the perfect channel state information (CSI) is available. Our numerical simulations show significant improvements of our propose scheme over other baseline ones.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2009

다중사용자 다중 송수신 안테나 시스템의 전송 효율을 높이기 위해 기지국은 여러 사용자에게 동시에 데이터를 전송해야 하고, 이러한 경우 사용자간 간섭이 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 포스트-프로세싱 리키지를 각 사용자의 수신 결합 후 어떤 사용자의 신호에 의해 다른 사용자들에게 나타나는 간섭 전력의 합으로 정의한다. 또한 이것을 이용하여 새로운 성능계수인 신호 대 포스트-프로세싱 리키지 및 잡음비를 정의한다. 사용자간 간섭에 대처하기 위해 기존 기법들은 사용자간 간섭을 완전히 제거하는데 집중하는 반면, 본 논문에서는 각 사용자가 최소 평균 제곱 오차 결합 방법을 사용한다고 가정하고 신호 대 포스트-프로세싱 리키지 및 잡음비 최대화하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 안테나 수에 대한 조건을 필요로 하지 않는다는 장점이 있다. 모의 실험을 통하여 제안된 기법은 사용자간 간섭을 완벽히 제거하는 기법보다 채널 추정 오차가 있을 때 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.735-743
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• 2016

This paper proposes a direction-of-arrival (DOA)-based beamforming approach for multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output systems with uniform rectangular arrays (URAs). The proposed approach utilizes the steering vectors of the URA to form a basis of the spatial space and selects the partial space for beamforming according to the DOA information. As a result, the proposed approach is of lower computational complexity than the existing methods which utilize the channel covariance matrices. Moreover, the analysis demonstrates that the proposed approach can eliminate the interference in the limit of infinite number of the URA antennas. Since the proposed approach utilizes the multipaths to enhance the signal rather than discarding them, the proposed approach is of better performance than the existing low-complexity method, which is verified by the simulation results.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.87-92
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• 2012

Speech enhancement aims to improve speech quality by removing background noise from noisy speech. Independent vector analysis is a type of frequency-domain independent component analysis method that is known to be free from the frequency bin permutation problem in the process of blind source separation from multi-channel inputs. This paper proposed a new method of microphone array based speech enhancement that combines independent vector analysis and beamforming techniques. Independent vector analysis is used to separate speech and noise components from multi-channel noisy speech, and delay-sum beamforming is used to determine the enhanced speech among the separated signals. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, experiments for computer simulated multi-channel noisy speech with various signal-to-noise ratios were carried out, and both PESQ and output signal-to-noise ratio were obtained as objective speech quality measures. Experimental results have shown that the proposed method is superior to the conventional microphone array based noise removal approach like GSC beamforming in the speech enhancement.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.274-281
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a hybrid multi-antenna technique that can minimize the outage probability by combining the diversity and beamforming techniques. The hybrid technique clusters the transmission antennas into multiple groups and exploit diversity among different groups and beamforming within each group. We analyze the performance of the resulting hybrid technique for an arbitrary correlation among the transmission antennas. Through the performance analysis, we derive a closed-form expression of the outage probability for the hybrid technique. This enables to optimize the antenna grouping for the given spatial correlation. We show through numerical results that the hybrid technique can balance the trade-offs between diversity and beamforming according to the spatial correlation and that the optimally designed hybrid technique yields a much lower outage probability than the diversity or beamforming technique does in partially correlated fading channels.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권1A호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2012

랜덤 빔형성 기법은 사용자에게 심호 대 간섭 잡음비를 되먹임 받아 사용자를 선택하는 다중 안테나 전송 기법이다. 해당 기법은 사용자 수가 많은 환경일 경우 다중 사용자 이득에 따라 좋은 성능을 보이지만 사용자 환경이 적을 경우 다중 사용자 이득이 감소하여 좋은 성능을 얻기 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 빔형성 메트릭스 변환 기법 및 이에 따른 사용자 선택 기법을 제안한다. 빔형성 메트릭스 변환 기법은 사용자로부터 되먹임 받은 정보를 기반으로 빔형성 메트릭스를 변환 시키며, 사용자 수가 적은 환경에서 기존 기법 보다 더 좋은 성능을 가진다. 또한, 제안하는 빔형성 메트릭스 변환 기법에 적합한 사용자 선택 기법을 이용하면 사용자 수의 증가에 따른 성능 향상을 기대 할 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권8A호
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• pp.827-835
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• 2007

본 논문은 ECMA(European Computer Manufacturers Association) 표준의 MB-OFDM(MultiBand-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) UWB 시스템에 AAS(Adaptive Antenna Systems)를 적용함으로써 데이터 전송범위를 확장하는 방법을 제안하고, ECMA UWB 시스템의 다중 접속 방법으로 사용되는 CSMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) 환경에서 AAS를 적용할 때 발생하는 음영 빔 문제를 해결하기 위해 보완 빔 형성 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 보완 빔은 그람-슈미츠(Gram-Schmidt) 직교화 방법을 이용하여 주 빔에 간섭을 주지 않고 빔 음영 지역의 노드들이 채널의 사용 유무를 감지할 수 있도록 하였으며, 주 빔을 형성할 때 다양한 빔 형성 알고리즘의 적용이 가능한 장점이 있다. 전산 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 AAS 및 보완 빔 방법이 480Mbps 데이터 전송 속도의 데이터 전송 범위를 2m에서 3.95m로 증가시키고, 일반적인 ECMA UWB AAS 시스템에 비해 시스템 전송률을 약 20%정도 향상시키는 것을 확인하였다.