• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권6A호
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• pp.588-599
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• 2007

This paper presents the coexistence issues between M-WiMAX TDD and WCDMA FDD systems. To improve the M-WiMAX system performance and to reduce the adjacent channel interference to WCDMA FDD system, transmit and receive beamforming techniques are applied in the base stations of M-WiMAX system. Furthermore, we propose an adjacent channel interference modeling methodology, which captures the effect of transmit beamforming on the adjacent channel interference. Besides, we verify the performance improvement in the uplink of WCDMA system due to the transmit beamforming in M-WiMAX downlink based on the proposed adjacent channel interference modeling methodology. We also verify the performance enhancement due to the receive beamforming in the uplink of M-WiMAX system through system level Monte Carlo simulations, considering random user position, the effect of shadowing and multi-path fading channel. Discussions on the gain of applying transmit and receive beamforming in M-WiMAX system comparing the case of SISO system are also included. Furthermore, we present the performance of cosited M-WiMAX and WCDMA systems, considering commercial deployment, additional channel filter at base stations and the effects of TxBF and RxBF.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권7A호
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• pp.727-732
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• 2008

The transmit diversity as well as beamforming can increase the performance of wireless communication systems. It is well known that the requirement for the spacing between the neighboring antennas in transmit diversity and beamforming is contradictive to each other. Therefore it is necessary to find the optimum configuration of multiple antennas for getting the maximum performance under the condition that the total number of antennas at transmitter site and the total power of transmitter are fixed. In this paper, the procedure for finding the optimum configuration of multiple antennas was derived through searching the maximum capacity and BER in the combined system with the transmit diversity (Tx diversity) and beamforming.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.308-315
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• 2008

When operating in frequency-division duplex (FDD) mode, transmit beamforming in multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless communication systems typically requires accurate knowledge of downlink channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. In practical FDD systems, obtaining such downlink CSI at the transmitter is challenging, if not impractical. To circumvent such challenge and support user mobility, we present a new method for transmit beamforming based on simple beam-control commands (BCCs) in MISO FDD mobile systems. We then numerically evaluate the effects of BCC errors in terms of transmit power efficiency, system capacity, and outage probability.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.19-20
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• 2006

In this paper, to reduce uplink feedback information for the beam weight and simultaneously maintaining the performance, we propose a MIMO-OFDM (Multi Input Multi Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system based on beamforming with antenna selection. In the proposed system, to perform the beamforming with more useful transmit antennas, the optimal combination of transmit antennas with maximum MRT (Maximum Ratio Transmission) beamforming gain is selected. Simulation results reveal that the proposed MIMO-OFDM system adopting the beamforming with antenna selection can reduce the feedback information for the beam weights as compared to the system using all the transmit antennas without serious degradation of system performance.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.879-884
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• 2012

When the number of users is finite, the performance improvement of the orthogonal random beamforming (ORBF) scheme is limited in high signal-to-noise ratio regions. In this paper, to improve the performance of the ORBF scheme, the user set and transmit power allocation are jointly determined to maximize sum rate under the total transmit power constraint. First, the transmit power allocation problem is expressed as a function of a given user set. Based on this expression, the optimal user set with the maximum sum rate is determined. The suboptimal procedure is also presented to reduce the computational complexity, which separates the user set selection procedure and transmit power allocation procedure.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권2A호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2009

안테나 그룹화(antenna grouping)는 빔 형성(beamforming)파 공간 다중화 기법(spatial multiplexing)의 결합이라 할 수 있다. 안테나 그룹화는 $N_t$개의 송신 안테나를 $N_r$개의 그룹으로 나누고, 한 그룹 내에서는 빔 형성으로 하나의 데이터 정보를, 각 그룹 사이에서는 공간 다중화 기법으로, 전체 $N_r$개의 데이터 정보를 전송하는 시스템을 가정한다. 안테나 그룹화를 통하면 빔 형성을 통하여 다이버시티 이득을 얻을 수 있는 동시에 공간 다중화 기법에 따른 다중화 이득을 통하여 주파수 효율을 높일 수 있다. 하지만 통신 채널이 조건 나쁜(ill-conditioned) 행렬로 모델링 되거나, 안테나 사이에 상관관계가 있는 경우에는 안테나 그룹화의 BER 성능이 열화될 수 있으므로, 이 경우에는 전체 시스템에서 하나의 데이터 정보만 전송하는 빔 형성의 성능이 가장 좋다. 이 논문에서는 채널이 안테나 그룹화에 적합하면 안테나 그룹화 모드를 선택하여 전송하고, 빔 형성에 적합하면 빔 형성 모드를 선택하여 전송하는 시스템을 가정하였다. 그리고 간단한 모드 선택 기법을 제안한다. 이 모드 선택 기법을 사용하면 매 시간동안 일정한 데이터를 전송할 때, 채널 상태에 따른 BER 성능의 열화를 막고, 최적의 BER 성능을 얻을 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1503-1515
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• 2023

This paper considers the jointly active and passive beamforming design in the IRS-aided MISO downlink vehicle communication system where both V2I and V2V communication paradigms coexist. We formulate the problem as an optimization problem aiming to minimize the total transmit power of the base station subject to SINR requirements of both V2I and V2V users, total transmit power of base station and IRS's phase shift constraints. To deal with this non-convex problem, we propose a method which can alternately optimize the active beamforming at the base station and the passive beamforming at the IRS. By using first-order Taylor expansion, matrix analysis theory and penalized convex-concave process method, the non-convex optimization problem with coupled variables is converted into two decoupled convex sub-problems. The simulation results show that the proposed alternate optimization algorithm can significantly decrease the total transmit power of the vehicle base station.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.289-294
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• 2014

본 논문은 상향링크 공간분할접속 시스템에서 사용자 스케쥴링, 전력제어, 수신 빔포밍을 다룬다. 사용자는 단일 안테나를 가지며 기지국은 다중 안테나를 가진다고 가정한다. 기지국에서는 미리 약속된 방식으로 수신 빔포밍을 수행하고 빔포밍 후의 정해진 스케쥴링 방식에 따라 사용자가 선택된다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 각자 자신이 다른 사용자의 신호에 미칠 간섭을 미리 계산하여 그 값이 특정 임계치보다 클 경우 자신의 송신 전력을 낮추는 전력 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 기술의 상향링크 데이터 전송률은 기존에 제안된 다양한 사용자 스케쥴링 알고리즘들에 비하여 월등히 좋은 성능을 보인다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권7호통권361호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 미래형 이동통신 시스템에서 셀 경계와 같이 반송파대간섭전력비 (Carrier-to-Interference Ratio; CIR)가 낮은 열악한 채널 환경에서 하향링크 실시간 트래픽의 전송 성능 개선을 위한 안테나 선택을 이용한 Grassmannian Beamforming 기반의 MIMO-OFDMA (Multi Input Multi Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) 시스템을 본 저자들은 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 Beamforming 적용으로 인한 상향링크로의 과도한 궤환 정보량이 시스템 주파수 효율 성능을 떨어뜨리는 문제점을 보완하기 위해 Codebook 기반의 Grassmannian Beamforming을 적용하고, 이와 더불어 기지국의 모든 송신 안테나를 사용하지 않고 특정 안테나만을 사용하여 Codebook Size를 줄이면서도 주파수 효율 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 안테나 선택 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 Beamforming을 수행하기 위해 최대 MRT(Maximum Ratio Transmission) 이득을 가지는 최적의 송신 안테나 조합이 선택된다. 모의실험 결과, 제안된 시스템은 기지국의 모든 안테나를 사용하여 Beamforming을 수행한 경우보다 향상된 주파수 효율 성능을 보이며, 상향링크의 궤환 정보량을 감안하더라도 Pseudo-Orthogonal Space Time Block Code를 사용하는 전형적인 개방루프형 MIMO-OFDMA 시스템에 비해 낮은 CIR 영역에서 월등히 개선된 주파수 효율 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.