• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.389-405
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• 2014

Outdated Channel State Information (CSI) was proved to have negative effect on performance in two-way relay networks. The diversity order of widely used opportunistic relay selection (ORS) was degraded to unity in networks with outdated CSI. This paper proposed a multiple relay selection scheme for amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way relay networks (TWRN) with outdated CSI. In this scheme, two sources exchange information through more than one relays. We firstly select N best relays out of all candidate relays with respect to signal-noise ratio (SNR). Then, the ratios of the SNRs on the rest of the candidate relays to that of the Nth highest SNR are tested against a normalized threshold ${\mu}{\in}[0,1]$, and only those relays passing this test are selected in addition to the N best relays. Expressions of outage probability, average bit error rate (BER) and ergodic channel capacity were obtained in closed-form for the proposed scheme. Numerical results and Simulations verified our theoretical analyses, and showed that the proposed scheme had significant gains comparing with conventional ORS.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권3A호
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• pp.141-150
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 UWB 기술 기반 WiMedia Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) 표준 프로토콜에 적용할 수 있는 릴레이 자원 예약 프로토콜을 제안한다. 그리고, 무선 채널 상태에 따라 변화하는 UWB 링크 전송속도에 적응적인 릴레이 노드 선정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 UWB 링크에 적응적인 릴레이 통신 프로토콜은 분산적인 D-MAC 표준 기술과 호환성을 갖고, 각 디바이스에서 독립적으로 실행되는 Satisfaction of QoS (SoQ) 기준에 따라 실행된다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.2416-2432
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• 2017

In this paper, we investigate the security performance for cooperative networks over Nakagami-m fading channels. Based on whether the channel state information (CSI) of wiretap link is available or not, optimal relay selection (ORS) and suboptimal relay selection (SRS) schemes are considered. Also, multiple relays combining (MRC) scheme is considered for comparison purpose. The exact and asymptotic closed-form expressions for secrecy outage probability (SOP) are derived and simulations are presented to validate the accuracy of our proposed analytical results. The numerical results illustrate that the ORS is the best scheme and SRS scheme is better than MRC scheme in some special scenarios such as when the destination is far away from the relays. Furthermore, through asymptotic analysis, we obtain the closed-form expressions for the secrecy diversity order and secrecy array gain for the three different selection schemes. The secrecy diversity order is closely related to the number of relays and fading parameter between relay and destination.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.2732-2749
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• 2023

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication has received increasing attention and been studied extensively thanks to its advantages in improving spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of cellular networks. This paper proposes a novel relay selection algorithm for multi-hop full-duplex D2D communications underlaying cellular networks. By selecting the relay of each hop in a reverse manner, the proposed algorithm reduces the heavy signaling overhead that traditional relay selection algorithms introduce. In addition, the social domain information of mobile terminals is taken into consideration and its influence on the performance of D2D communications studied, which is found significant enough not to be overlooked. Moreover, simulations show that the proposed algorithm, in absence of social relationship information, improves data throughput by around 70% and 7% and energy efficiency by 64% and 6%, compared with two benchmark algorithms, when D2D distance is 260 meters. In a more practical implementation considering social relationship information, although the proposed algorithm naturally achieves less throughput, it substantially increases the energy efficiency than the benchmarks.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.528-535
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 환경에서 무선 협력 통신을 이용하여 성능을 향상 시키는 방법에 대해 제안한다. 기존 협력 통신 알고리즘은 소스(source)와 AP(Access Point) 사이에 1개의 릴레이(relay)를 두어 수행한 2 홉 릴레이(hop relay) 방식으로, 이는 알맞은 릴레이를 찾을 수 없는 경우가 발생하므로 보완이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 AP에서 네트워크 정보(노드 사이 전송률, 노드와 AP 사이 전송률)를 관리하여 릴레이 선정에 이 네트워크 정보를 이용한다. 이 정보를 이용하여 AP는 1개 이상의 릴레이를 선정하여 소스와 주위 노드에게 선정된 릴레이를 알리고 소스에서 데이터를 전송할 때 이 릴레이를 통해 협력 통신을 하도록 한다. 이러한 협력 통신 방법은 데이터 전송의 효율성을 높인다. 또한 본 논문에서는 소스의 데이터를 전송한 릴레이는 소스의 데이터를 전송한 후에 자신의 데이터 또한 전송할 수 있는 기회를 가지도록 하여 소스 데이터를 대신 전송하여 소비된 노드의 자원을 만회할 수 있는 기회를 가지게 한다. 이로써 제안된 방법을 이용하면 노드의 자원 소비를 보완함은 물론 전체 네트워크의 성능(throughput)을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권7A호
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• pp.530-539
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• 2009

Wireless Relaying is a promising solutions to overcome the channel impairments and provides high data rate coverage that appear for beyond 3G mobile communications. In this paper we present end to end BER performance of dual hop wireless communication systems equipped with multiple Decode and Forward relays over Rayleigh fading channel with the best relay selection. We compare the BER performance of the best relay with the BER performance of single relay. We select the best relay based on the end to end channel conditions. We further calculate the outage probability of the best relay. It is shown that the outage probability of the best relay is equivalent to the outage probability when all relays take part in the transmission. We apply Orthogonal Space Time Block coding(OSTBC) at the source terminal. Numerical and simulation results are presented to verify our analysis.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.364-374
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• 2016

With vast amounts of spectrum available in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, small cells at mmWave frequencies densely deployed underlying the conventional homogeneous macrocell network have gained considerable interest from academia, industry, and standards bodies. Due to high propagation loss at higher frequencies, mmWave communications are inherently directional, and concurrent transmissions (spatial reuse) under low inter-link interference can be enabled to significantly improve network capacity. On the other hand, mmWave links are easily blocked by obstacles such as human body and furniture. In this paper, we develop a multi-hop relaying transmission (MHRT) scheme to steer blocked flows around obstacles by establishing multi-hop relay paths. In MHRT, a relay path selection algorithm is proposed to establish relay paths for blocked flows for better use of concurrent transmissions. After relay path selection, we use a multi-hop transmission scheduling algorithm to compute near-optimal schedules by fully exploiting the spatial reuse. Through extensive simulations under various traffic patterns and channel conditions, we demonstrate MHRT achieves superior performance in terms of network throughput and connection robustness compared with other existing protocols, especially under serious blockage conditions. The performance ofMHRT with different hop limitations is also simulated and analyzed for a better choice of the maximum hop number in practice.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권9A호
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• pp.758-766
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• 2011

무선 협력 통신 기술은 유선 기간망과 연결 없이 설치 가능한 중계국(Relay Station)을 이용하여 추가적으로 기지국을 설치하지 않아도 커버리지 확장, 음영지역의 해소, 링크 전송률을 향상시킬 수 있다. 중계국은 중요한 이동 통신자원 중 하나로 등장하면서 많은 연구들이 최적의 중계국 선택 방안, 중계국 분배 알고리즘과 같은 주제에 초점을 맞추어 진행하여 왔다. 그러나 특정한 환경에 배치한 중계국 수와 획득할 수 있는 링크 전송률 이득사이 관계를 정확히 분석하는 수학적 모델에 대한 제안은 없었다. 본 논문에서는 Voronoi tessellation에 의한 중계국 기반 클러스터 기법을 제안한다. 또한 Voronoi tessellation에 기반하여 배치한 중계국 수와 사용자가 획득할 수 있는 링크 전송률 이득 사이 관계에 대한 수학적 분석 모텔을 추출한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 수학적 분석 모델의 정확성은 Erceg 경로 손실 모델에 기반한 시뮬레이션에 의해 검증되었다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2013

Multi-hop cellular networks (MCNs), which reduce the transmit power, mitigate the inter-cell interference, and improve the system performance, have been widely studied nowadays. The relay selection scheme is a key technique that achieves these advantages, and inappropriate relay selection causes frequent relay switchings, which deteriorates the overall performance. In this study, we analyze the conditions for relay switching in MCNs and obtain the expressions for the relay switching rate and relay activation time. Two mobile-based relay selection schemes are proposed on the basis of this analysis. These schemes select the relay node with the longest relay activation time and minimal relay switching rate through mobility prediction of the mobile node requiring relay and available relay nodes. We compare the system performances via simulation and analyze the impact of various parameters on the system performance. The results show that the two proposed schemes can obtain a lower relay switching rate and longer relay activation time when there is no reduction in the system throughput as compared with the existing schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4223-4239
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• 2016

In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) full-duplex relay network (FDRN) using simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, where a battery-free relay node harvests energy from the received radio frequency (RF) signals from a source node and uses the harvested energy to forward the source information to destination node. The time-switching relaying (TSR) protocol is studied, with the assumption that the channel state information (CSI) at the relay node is imperfect. We deliver a rigorous analysis of the outage probability of the proposed system. Based on the outage probability expressions, the optimal time switching factor are obtained via the numerical search method. The simulation and numerical results provide practical insights into the effect of various system parameters, such as the time switching factor, the noise power, the energy harvesting efficiency, and the channel estimation error on the performance of this network. It is also observed that for the imperfect CSI case, the proposed scheme still can provide acceptable outage performance given that the channel estimation error is bounded in a permissible interval.