• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권10호
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• pp.2587-2600
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• 2012

It has been demonstrated that choosing an appropriate relay node can improve the transmission rate for the system. However, such system improvement brought by the relay selection may be degraded with the presence of the malicious relay nodes, which are selected but refuse to cooperate for transmissions deliberately. In this paper, we formulate the relay selection issue as a restless bandit problem with the objective to maximize the average rate, while considering the credibility of each relay node, which may be different at each time instant. Then the optimization problem is solved by using the priority-index heuristic method effectively. Furthermore, a low complexity algorithm is offered in order to facilitate the practical implementations. Simulation results are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed trust-based relay selection scheme.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2010

본 논문은 underlay 기법으로 다수의 주 사용자 수신기들(primary receivers)이 부 사용자들(secondary users)과 공존할 때 부 사용자들의 협력을 통한 중계 전송의 성능을 평가하였다. 무선 인지 환경에 적합한 중계기 선택 기준을 사용하였을 때 부 사용자의 outage probability를 유도하였다. 이러한 분석을 통하여, 공존하는 다수의 주 사용자들로 인하여 증가하는 부 사용자의 outage probability 양을 정량적으로 표현하였다. 모의실험을 통하여, 주 사용자의 개수가 증가할수록 중계 전송이 직접 정송에 비하여 민감하게 성능이 감소하고, 이로 인하여 중계 전송이 직접 전송에 비하여 비효율적일 수 있음을 보여주었다. 또한, 비록 다수의 주 사용자가 존재하더라고 중계기 선택의 다이버시티를 늘려 줌으로서 중계 전송이 직접 전송보다 효율적일 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37B권12호
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• pp.1138-1147
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• 2012

케이블과 DSL의 대안으로서 라스트 마일(last mile)의 광역 접근을 무선으로 가능하게 해주며 고속 인터넷 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 표준 기술로 알려진 WiMAX에 셀 용량의 증대와 셀 커버리지를 확장하기 위하여 Mobile Multihop Relay 기술이 추가적으로 제안 되면서 많은 관심을 모으고 있다. 본 논문에서는 셀 커버리지를 확장하기 위하여 릴레이 노드(RS)를 운용하는 방법에 초점을 맞추고 사용자 노드(SS)들에 대한 형평성을 고려한 자원할당 알고리즘을 사용하여 다중홉 릴레이 네트워크의 성능을 분석하였으며, 특히 주파수 재사용 기법을 적용할 때에 릴레이 노드들 간의 간섭 현상이 셀 용량에 미치는 영향을 구체적으로 분석하여 비용 효과를 고려한 셀 커버리지 확장 방법을 제안한다.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2005년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.15 No.1
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• pp.125-130
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• 2005

This paper suggests an efficient method of protection ratio calculation and shows some calculated results applicable to frequency coordination in microwave relay system networks, and the net filter discrimination (NFD) associated with Tx spectrum mask and overall Rx filter characteristics has been examined to obtain the adjacent channel protection ratio. The protection ratio comprises several factors such as C/N of modulation scheme, noise-to-interference ratio, multiple interference allowance, fade margins of multi-path and rain attenuation, and NFD. According to computed results for 6.7 GHz, 64-QAM, and 60 km at BER $10^{-6}$, fade margin and co-channel protection ratio are 41.1 and 75.2 dB, respectively, In addition, NFD for channel bandwidth of 40 MHz reveals 28.9 dB at the first adjacent channel, which results in adjacent channel protection ratio of 46.3 dB. The proposed method provides some merits of an easy calculation, systematic extension, and applying the same concept to frequency coordination in millimeter wave relay system networks.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.677-687
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• 2016

Multi-way relay networks (MWRNs) allow multiple users to exchange information with each other through a single relay terminal. MWRNs are often incorporated with capacity achieving lattice codes to enable the benefits of high-rate signal constellations to be extracted. In this paper, we analytically characterize the symbol error rate (SER) performance of a functional decode and forward (FDF) MWRN in the presence of channel estimation errors. Considering M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with square constellations as an important special case of lattice codes, we obtain asymptotic expressions for the average SER for a user in FDF MWRN. The accuracy of the analysis at high signal-to-noise ratio is validated by comparison with the simulation results. The analysis shows that when a user decodes other users with better channel conditions than itself, the decoding user experiences better error performance. The analytical results allow system designers to accurately assess the non-trivial impact of channel estimation errors and the users' channel conditions on the SER performance of a FDF MWRN with M-QAM modulation.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.271-276
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• 2016

협력 네트워크는 여러 중계기를 통해서 수신되는 신호 및 직접파 신호를 결합하여 복조함으로써 전체 통신성능을 향상시킨다. 본 논문에서는 철도환경에서 혼합 중계 프로토콜을 이용하는 협력통신 시스템의 성능을 분석한다. 송신기와 수신기 사이에 여러 개의 중계기 사용을 가정하고, 각 중계기들은 하나의 정해진 중계 프로토콜이 아닌 복조 후 전송 혹은 증폭 후 전송 프로토콜을 이용하는 경우를 고려한다. 두 가지 중계 프로토콜이 존재하는 경우 각 중계 프로토콜이 전체 시스템의 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하고 중계기 위치에 따른 성능에 대해서도 고려한다. 변조방식은 철도환경과 같은 빠른 채널변화에서도 채널상태정보의 이용 없이 신호의 복조가 가능한 차등변조 방식을 적용한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권9호
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• pp.2098-2117
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• 2012

This paper jointly investigates the bandwidth allocation, transmission strategy and relay positions for two-way transmission aware cellular networks with network coding (NC). Our goal is to minimize the transmission power of mobile terminals (MTs). Consider a cellular system, where multiple MTs exchange information with their common base station, firstly, we propose an efficient bandwidth allocation method and then give a transmission strategy for each MT to determine whether to use relay stations (RSs) for its two-way transmission with the BS or not. To further improve the system performance, the optimal positions of RSs are also jointly discussed. A GA-based algorithm is presented to obtain the optimum positions for RSs. Besides, the impacts of frequency reuse on MT's transmission power and system spectral efficiency (SE) under different number of relays are also discussed in our work. Numerical results show that the proposed NC aware scheme can extend MTs' battery life at least 6% more than traditional method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.670-683
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• 2016

Network coding, as a new technique to improve the throughput, is studied combined with multi-relay model in this paper to address the challenges of long distance and power limit in deep space communication. First, an amplify-and-forward relaying approach based on analog network coding (AFNC) is proposed in multi-relay network to improve the capacity for deep space communication system, where multiple relays are introduced to overcome the long distance link loss. The design of amplification coefficients is mathematically formulated as the optimization problem of maximizing SNR under sum-power constraint over relays. Then for a dual-hop relay network with a single source, the optimal amplification coefficients are derived when the multiple relays introduce non-coherent noise. Through theoretic analysis and simulation, it is shown that our approach can achieve the maximum transmission rate and perform better over single link transmission for deep space communication.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

중계기를 활용한 다중 입출력 기술이 차세대 광대역 무선 이동 통선의 유력한 후보로 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 AF (amplify-and-forward) 방식 중계기 네트워크에서 SC-FDE (single carrier-frequency domain equalizer)를 위한 MRC (maximum ratio combining) MMSE (minimum mean-square-error) 등화 기법을 제안한다. 송신국과 수신국 간의 전송 신호와, 중계기를 통한 송신국과 수신국 간의 전송 신호를 MRC 방식으로 합쳐 MMSE 등화 기법을 적용하면 다이버시티 이득과 MMSE 등화 이득을 모두 획득하여 SC-FDE 시스템의 수신 성능을 크게 향상시킬 수 있다. AF 방식 중계기 네트워크에서 SC-FDE를 위한 MRC 계수 및 MMSE 등화탭의 수식을 정확히 도출하여 제시하고, 실험 결과를 통해 성능 향상을 확인한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.499-505
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• 2015

We analyze the performance of multistage cooperation in decode-and-forward relay networks where the transmission between source and destination takes place in $T{\geq}2$ equal duration and orthogonal time phases with the help of relays. The source transmits only in the first time phase. All relays that can decode the source's transmission forward the source's message to the destination in the second time phase, using a space-time code. During subsequent time phases, the relays that have successfully decoded the source message using information from all previous transmitting relays, transmit the space-time coded symbols for the source's message. The non-decoding relays keep accumulating information and transmit in the later stages when they are able to decode. This process continues for T cooperation phases. We develop and analyze the outage probability of multistage cooperation protocol under orthogonal relaying. Through analytical results, we obtain the near-optimal placement strategy for relays that gives the best performance when compared with most other candidate relay location strategies of interest. For different relay network topologies, we also investigate an interesting tradeoff between an increased SNR and decreased spectral efficiency as the number of cooperation stages is increased. It is also shown that the largest multistage cooperation gain is obtained in the low and moderate SNR regime.