• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose an opportunistic data relay scheme in narrowband multihop combat radio networks. Narrowband networks have physical restrictions on high-speed transmission. Furthermore, the topology changes dynamically due to the jamming of the enemy, signal interference between friendly forces, and movement of network entities. Therefore, the traditional relay scheme that collects topology information and calculates a relay path before transmission is unsuitable for such networks. Our proposed scheme does not collect topology information and transmits data opportunistically. The scheme can cause unnecessary data relaying that is not related to data delivery to the destination node. However, for small networks, the effect of increasing network throughput by not gathering topology information is much greater than the effect of reducing throughput by unnecessary data relays. We demonstrate the performance superiority of the proposed scheme through simulation in the worst case of network topology.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.1804-1810
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 듀얼 홉 중계 시스템에서의 협력 전송 방식과 비협력 전송 방식간의 효율적인 선택을 통하여 아웃티지 성능을 향상시키는 기회적 협력 방식에 대해 연구한다. 특히, 디코딩 후 전달 중계 시스템에서 부분 중계 노드 선택 기법을 이용한 기회적 협력 방식의 아웃티지 성능을 분석한다. 여기서, 독립적이고 균일 분포를 갖는 레일레이 페이딩 채널을 가정하여 정확한 아웃티지 확률 표현식과 점근적인 아웃티지 확률 표현식을 유도한다. 수치적 결과에서, 유도된 표현식들을 검증하고, 데이터율의 목표치와 중계 노드 수에 대한 아웃티지 성능을 분석한다. 또한, 기존의 협력 방식과 기회적 협력 방식의 아웃티지 성능을 비교한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권7호
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• pp.546-551
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 릴레이 기반의 선박 통신 네트워크에서 데이터 전송률을 높이기 위한 기회주의적 서브채널 할당기법을 제안한다. 릴레이 시스템을 기반으로 하는 기존 연구에서, 릴레이는 매 프레임마다 기지국으로부터 수신 받은 데이터를 선박에게 즉시 전달 해준다. 이때, 이중 홉 네트워크(기지국과 릴레이, 릴레이와 선박 간 링크)에서 전송 가능한 최대 수율은 두 링크의 채널 상태에 의해 결정된다. 만약, 채널 상태에 따른 두 링크가 가지는 채널 용량의 차이가 크다면 자원이 낭비되는 상황이 발생하게 된다. 이러한 문제점은 시스템의 성능을 저하시키며, 제한된 무선 자원을 효율적으로 활용하지 못하는 문제점이 발생하게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 두 링크 사이에서 발생하는 자원의 낭비를 최소화 시킴과 동시에 자원을 효율적으로 할당 할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. 또한 제안하는 기법의 계산 복잡도를 줄이기 위해서 차선의 기법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해서, 제안하는 기법은 기존 연구 대비 계산의 복잡도는 증가하지만 시스템의 데이터 전송률 성능이 최대 14.0% 향상됨을 확인 할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5149-5173
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• 2016

Cooperative forwarding has shown a substantial network performance improvement compared to traditional routing in multi-hop wireless network. To further enhance the system throughput, especially in the presence of highly congested multiple cross traffic flows, a promising way is to incorporate the multi-radio multi-channel (MRMC) capability into cooperative forwarding. However, it requires to jointly address multiple issues. These include radio-channel assignment, routing metric computation, candidate relay set selection, candidate relay prioritization, data broadcasting over multi-radio multi-channel, and best relay selection using a coordination scheme. In this paper, we propose a simple and efficient cluster-based cooperative data forwarding (CCDF) which jointly addresses all these issues. We study the performance impact when the same candidate relay set is being used for multiple cross traffic flows in the network. The network simulation shows that the CCDF with MRMC not only retains the advantage of receiver diversity in cooperative forwarding but also minimizes the interference, which therefore further enhances the system throughput for the network with multiple cross traffic flows.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2095-2110
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• 2015

This paper presents a design for a throughput-efficient online relay selection scheme for dual-hop multi-relay cooperative networks. Problems arise with these networks due to unpredictability of the relaying link quality and high time-consumption to probe the dual-hop link. In this paper, we firstly propose a novel probing and relaying protocol, which greatly reduces the overhead of the dual-hop link estimation by leveraging the wireless broadcasting nature of the network. We then formulate an opportunistic relay selection process for the online decision-making, which uses a tradeoff between obtaining more link information to establish better cooperative relaying and minimizing the time cost for dual-hop link estimation to achieve higher throughput. Dynamic programming is used to construct the throughput-optimal control policy for a typically heterogeneous Rayleigh fading environment, and determines which relay to probe and when to transmit the data. Additionally, we extend the main results to mixed Rayleigh/Rician link scenarios, i.e., where one side of the relaying link experiences Rayleigh fading while the other has Rician distribution. Numerical results validate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed relaying scheme, e.g., it achieves at least 107% throughput gain compared with the state of the art solution.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.175-185
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• 2008

In this paper, we investigate the effect of cooperative and selection relaying schemes on multiuser diversity in downlink cellular systems with fixed relay stations (RSs). Each mobile station (MS) is either directly connected to a base station (BS) and/or connected to a relay station. We first derive closed-form solutions or upper-bound of the ergodic and outage capacities of four different downlink data relaying schemes: A direct scheme, a relay scheme, a selection scheme, and a cooperative scheme. The selection scheme selects the best access link between the BS and an MS. For all schemes, the capacity of the BS-RS link is assumed to be always larger than that of RS-MS link. Half-duplex channel use and repetition based relaying schemes are assumed for relaying operations. We also analyze the system capacity in a multiuser diversity environment in which a maximum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scheduler is used at a base station. The result shows that the selection scheme outperforms the other three schemes in terms of link ergodic capacity, link outage capacity, and system ergodic capacity. Furthermore, our results show that cooperative and selection diversity techniques limit the performance gain that could have been achieved by the multiuser diversity technique.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.618-633
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• 2014

Relay technology is becoming more important for mobile communications and wireless internet of things (IoT) networking because of the extended access network coverage range and reliable quality of service (QoS) it can provide at low power consumption levels. Existing mobile multihop relay (MMR) technology uses fixed-point stationary relay stations (RSs) and a divided time-frame (or frequency-band) to support the relay operation. This approach has limitations when a local fixed-point stationary RS does not exist. In addition, since the time-frame (or frequency-band) channel resources are pre-divided for the relay operation, there is no way to achieve high channel utilization using intelligent opportunistic techniques. In this paper, a different approach is considered, where the use of mobile/IoT devices as RSs is considered. In applications that use mobile/IoT devices as relay systems, due to the very limited battery energy of a mobile/IoT device and unequal channel conditions to and from the RS, both minimum energy consumption and QoS support must be considered simultaneously in the selection and configuration of RSs. Therefore, in this paper, a mobile RS is selected and configured with the objective of minimizing power consumption while satisfying end-to-end data rate and bit error rate (BER) requirements. For the RS, both downlink (DL) to the destination system (DS) (i.e., IoT device or user equipment (UE)) and uplink (UL) to the base station (BS) need to be adaptively configured (using adaptive modulation and power control) to minimize power consumption while satisfying the end-to-end QoS constraints. This paper proposes a minimum transmission power consuming RS selection and configuration (MPRSC) scheme, where the RS uses cognitive radio (CR) sub-channels when communicating with the DS, and therefore the scheme is named MPRSC-CR. The proposed MPRSC-CR scheme is activated when a DS moves out of the BS's QoS supportive coverage range. In this case, data transmissions between the RS and BS use the assigned primary channel that the DS had been using, and data transmissions between the RS and DS use CR sub-channels. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed MPRSC-CR scheme extends the coverage range of the BS and minimizes the power consumption of the RS through optimal selection and configuration of a RS.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2014

협력통신을 실제 무선 통신 시스템에 적용하기 위해서는 정보 전달을 담당하는 중계기를 설치해야한다. 그러나 중계기 설치는 비용 및 전력 낭비의 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 일반적인 중계기의 사용을 재고하여, 효율적인 중계기 사용을 위해 중계기를 사용자 모바일 단말기로 정의하였다. 제안하는 프로토콜에 따라 중계기(사용자 단말기)의 상태에 대해 유휴, 무휴상태로 나누었으며, 수신단에 대해 기지국 모델, 사용자 단말기 모델을 적용하였다. 이 경우, 추가적인 비용 없이 실제 네트워크에 협력 통신을 적용할 수 있으며, 네트워크 용량 및 스펙트럼 효율을 높일 수 있다. 마지막으로, 제안한 프로토콜을 레일리 페이딩 환경에서 Monte-Carlo 시뮬레이션을 통해 전체적인 시스템 모델의 비트오류율(BER)을 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2144-2165
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• 2016

In a vehicular ad hoc network, the communication links are unsteady due to the rapidly changing topology, high mobility and traffic density in the urban environment. Most of the existing geographical routing protocols rely on the continuous transmission of beacon messages to update the neighbors' presence, leading to network congestion. Source-based approaches have been proven to be inefficient in the inherently unstable network. To this end, we propose an opportunistic beaconless packet forwarding approach based on a modified handshake mechanism for the urban vehicular environment. The protocol acts differently between intersections and at the intersection to find the next forwarder node toward the destination. The modified handshake mechanism contains link quality, forward progress and directional greedy metrics to determine the best relay node in the network. After designing the protocol, we compared its performance with existing routing protocols. The simulation results show the superior performance of the proposed protocol in terms of packet delay and data delivery ratio in realistic wireless channel conditions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.5862-5887
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a two-way relaying scheme using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology. In this scheme, two sources transmit packets with each other under the assistance of the decode-and-forward (DF) relays, called as a TWDFNOMA protocol. The cooperative relays exploit successive interference cancellation (SIC) technique to decode sequentially the data packets from received summation signals, and then use the digital network coding (DNC) technique to encrypt received data from two sources. A max-min criterion of end-to-end signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINRs) is used to select a best relay in the proposed TWDFNOMA protocol. Outage probabilities are analyzed to achieve exact closed-form expressions and then, the system performance of the proposed TWDFNOMA protocol is evaluated by these probabilities. Simulation and analysis results discover that the system performance of the proposed TWDFNOMA protocol is improved when compared with a conventional three-timeslot two-way relaying scheme using DNC (denoted as a TWDNC protocol), a four-timeslot two-way relaying scheme without using DNC (denoted as a TWNDNC protocol) and a two-timeslot two-way relaying scheme with amplify-and-forward operations (denoted as a TWANC protocol). Particularly, the proposed TWDFNOMA protocol achieves best performances at two optimal locations of the best relay whereas the midpoint one is the optimal location of the TWDNC and TWNDNC protocols. Finally, the probability analyses are justified by executing Monte Carlo simulations.