• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.83-95
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• 2022

5G goes beyond people to serve indoor and outdoor companies and industries, as well as campuses such as halls, industrial complexes, educational institutions, stadiums, dense urban areas, rural areas, and government institutions. Therefore, a new approach to small cells is needed. Accordingly, 3GPP and Small Cell Forum are researching 5G small cell architecture; 3GPP, Small Cell Forum, and 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation are also researching private networks tailored to meet the specific requirements of various companies and local governments. In particular, in the UK, a small cell-based technology is required for realizing the Joint Operator Technical Specifications-Neutral Host In-Building specification to cost-effectively secure indoor coverage. Further, the research on the SON(Self-Organizing Network) technology for small cells in 5G, where commercialization has begun, is required. The 5G-based small cell structure, private network, and Neutral Host In-Building and SON reviewed in this study are at the initial research stages; therefore, additional research is needed to secure the competitiveness of the small cell technology in 5G and Beyond 5G.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.856-866
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• 2015

A heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a network topology composed by deploying multiple HetNets under the coverage of macro cells (MCs). It can improve network throughput, extend cell coverage, and offload network traffic; for example, the network traffic of a 5G mobile communications network. A HetNet involves a mix of radio technologies and various cell types working together seamlessly. In a HetNet, coordination between MCs and small cells (SCs) has a positive impact on the performance of the networks contained within, and consequently on the overall user experience. Therefore, to improve user-perceived service quality, HetNets require high-efficiency network protocols and enhanced radio technologies. In this paper, we introduce a 5G HetNet comprised of MCs and both fixed and mobile SCs (mSCs). The featured mSCs can be mounted on a car, bus, or train and have different characteristics to fixed SCs (fSCs). In this paper, we address the technical challenges related to mSCs. In addition, we analyze the network performance under two HetNet scenarios-MCs and fSCs, and MCs and mSCs.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39A권1호
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• pp.50-61
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• 2014

기존 매크로셀 내에 소형셀을 추가하여 전체 시스템의 용량을 개선하는 연구에 대한 관심이 높다. 소형셀에 허가된 사용자만 접속할 수 있는 폐쇄형 접속 방식의 경우, (동일한 주파수 채널을 사용하는) 인접한 매크로셀 사용자의 성능저하가 불가피 하다. 본 논문에서는 빌딩 내에 다수의 소형셀 기지국이 분포하는 환경에서, 해당 빌딩에 인접한 매크로셀 사용자의 성능저하를 우선적으로 최소화하며, 다음으로 빌딩 내 소형셀 기지국 간의 간섭전력을 최소화하는 동적 주파수 채널 할당 알고리즘을 제안한다. 매크로셀 내 빌딩(소형셀)의 위치에 따라 인접한 매크로셀 사용자가 겪는 간섭전력이 변한다. 제안하는 알고리즘을 통해 소형셀은 이러한 위치에 따른 간섭영향의 변화에 적응적으로 스스로 주파수 채널을 선택할 수 있다. 소형셀이 시간에 따른 주변 간섭환경의 변화에 따라 최적의 주파수 채널을 할당할 수 있는 간단하고 실용적인 방법을 제안했다는 것이 본 연구의 가장 큰 기술적 기여이다. 모의실험을 통해 제안한 채널 할당 기법은 매크로셀의 성능개선에 효과적이며, 소형셀은 달성 가능한 최대 처리용량 대비 최대 81%를 제공할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.450-459
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• 2015

Small cell networks, as an important evolution path for next-generation cellular networks, have drawn much attention. Different from the traditional base stations (BSs) always-on model, we proposed a BSs on-off model, where a new, simple expression for the probabilities of active BSs in a heterogeneous network is derived. This model is more suitable for application in practical networks. Based on this, we develop an analytical framework for the performance evaluation of small cell networks, adopting stochastic geometry theory. We derive the system coverage probability; average energy efficiency (AEE) and average uplink power consumption (AUPC) for different association strategies; maximum biased received power (MaBRP); and minimum association distance (MiAD). It is analytically shown that MaBRP is beneficial for coverage but will have some loss in energy saving. On the contrary, MiAD is not advocated from the point of coverage but is more energy efficient. The simulation results show that the use of range expansion in MaBRP helps to save energy but that this is not so in MiAD. Furthermore, we can achieve an optimal AEE by establishing an appropriate density of small cells.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4108-4122
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• 2016

To address challenges of an unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic, the ultra-dense network deployment is a cost efficient solution to off-load the traffic over other small cells. However, the real traffic is often much lower than the peak-hour traffic and certain small cells are superfluous, which will not only introduce extra energy consumption, but also impose extra interference onto the radio environment. In this paper, an elastic energy efficient cell management scheme is proposed based on flow scheduling among multi-layer ultra-dense cells by a SDN controller. A significant power saving was achieved by a cell-level energy manager. The scheme is elastic for energy saving, adaptive to the dynamic traffic distribution in the office or campus environment. In the end, the performance is evaluated and demonstrated. The results show substantial improvements over the conventional method in terms of the number of active BSs, the handover times, and the switches of BSs.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권11호
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• pp.1387-1401
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• 2016

기존의 이종 셀룰러 망 환경에 허가된 사용자만이 기지국에 접속되는 closed access 정책이 적용되면, 매크로셀 사용자는 주변의 접속이 허용되지 않는 소형셀 기지국으로 인한 cross-tier 간섭 문제를 겪게 된다. 이 문제를 완화하기 위해 해당 소형셀 기지국이 매크로셀 사용자의 채널에 직교하는 빔형성 벡터를 사용하여 자신에게 속한 사용자에게 데이터를 전송하는 기법이 제안되었다. 이 기법을 적용하기 위해서는 매크로셀 기지국, 매크로셀 사용자, 소형셀 기지국 간의 상호 정보교환이 필요하므로 이로 인해 시스템의 복잡도가 증가하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 상호 정보교환 없이 소형셀 기지국이 스스로 환경을 인지하여 co-tier 간섭전력뿐만 아니라 cross-tier 간섭전력을 동시에 줄일 수 있는 인지 빔형성 기법을 제안한다. 구체적으로 소형셀 기지국이 cross-tier 간섭문제를 겪는 사용자를 파악한 후, 해당 사용자의 채널과 주변 소형셀 사용자 채널에 동시에 직교하는 빔형성 벡터를 생성하여 데이터 전송에 사용하여 cross-tier 간섭과 co-tier 간섭을 동시에 줄인다. 제안 기법의 유효성을 검증하기 위해 시스템 레벨 시뮬레이션을 수행하였고, 해당 결과를 통해 제안된 기법이 cross-tier 간섭을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.181-187
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• 2002

Connection admission control(CAC), which decides whether or not to accept a new call request, is one of the most Important preventive congestion control techniques in asynchronous transfer mode(ATM) networks. To develop a practical CAC scheme, first we propose a "Modified Cell Loss Probability MP${\nu}"$, which is based on "Virtual Cell Loss Probability P${\nu}"$, taking into account mean burst duration of input traffic source and buffer size in ATM networks. MP${\nu}"$ computes more accurate cell loss probability than P${\nu}"$ without increasing computational complexity, since P${\nu}"$ is formulated simply form the maximum and the average cell rate of input traffic. P${\nu}"$ is overestimated as compared to the real cell loss probability when the mean burst duration is relatively small to the buffer capacity. Then, we Propose a CAC scheme, based on "Modified Virtual Bandwidth(MVB)" method, which may individualize the cell loss probabilities in heterogeneous traffic environments. For the proposed approach, we define the interference intensity to identify interferences between heterogeneous traffic sources and use it as well as MP${\nu}"$ to compute MVB. Our approach is well suitable for ATM networks since it provides high bandwidth utilization and guarantees simple and real time CAC computation for heterogeneous traffic environments.heterogeneous traffic environments.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2015

With the recent popularity of smart terminals, the demand for high-data-rate transmission is growing rapidly, which brings a new challenge for the traditional cellular networks. Both device-to-device (D2D) communication and small cells are effective to improve the transmission efficiency of local communication. In this paper, we apply D2D communication into a small cell network system (SNets) and study about the optimization problem of resource allocation for D2D communication. The optimization problem includes system scheduling and resource allocation, which is exponentially complex and the optimal solution is infeasible to achieve. Therefore, in this paper, the optimization problem is decomposed into several smaller problems and a hierarchical scheme is proposed to obtain the solution. The proposed hierarchical scheme consists of three steps: D2D communication groups formation, the estimation of sub-channels needed by each D2D communication group and specific resource allocation. From numerical simulation results, we find that the proposed resource allocation scheme is effective in improving the spectral efficiency and reducing the outage probability of D2D communication.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

Small-cells in heterogeneous networks are one of the important technologies to increase the coverage and capacity in 5G cellular networks. However, due to the randomly arranged small-cells, co-tier and cross-tier interference increase, deteriorating the system performance of the network. In order to manage the interference, some channel management methods use fractional frequency reuse(FFR) that divides the cell coverage into the inner region(IR) and outer region(OR) based on the distance from the macro base station(MBS). However, since it is impossible to properly measure the distance in the method with FFR, we propose a new interference aware FFR(IA-FFR) method to enhance the system performance. That is, the proposed IA-FFR method divides the MUEs and SBSs into the IR and OR groups based on the signal to interference plus noise ratio(SINR) of macro user equipments(MUEs) and received signals strength of small-cell base stations(SBSs) from the MBS, respectively, and then dynamically assigns subchannels to MUEs and small-cell user equipments. As a result, the proposed IA-FFR method outperforms other methods in terms of the system capacity and outage probability.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.494-513
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• 2019

A multi-channel access problem based on hypergraph model in ultra-dense small cell networks is studied in this paper. Due to the hyper-dense deployment of samll cells and the low-powered equipment, cumulative interference becomes an important problem besides the direct interference. The traditional binary interference model cannot capture the complicated interference relationship. In order to overcome this shortcoming, we use the hypergraph model to describe the cumulative interference relation among small cells. We formulate the multi-channel access problem based on hypergraph as two local altruistic games. The first game aims at minimizing the protocol MAC layer interference, which requires less information exchange and can converge faster. The second game aims at minimizing the physical layer interference. It needs more information interaction and converges slower, obtaining better performance. The two modeled games are both proved to be exact potential games, which admit at least one pure Nash Equilibrium (NE). To provide information exchange and reduce convergecne time, a cloud-based centralized-distributed algorithm is designed. Simulation results show that the proposed hypergraph models are both superior to the existing binary models and show the pros and cons of the two methods in different aspects.