• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1438-1443
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• 2016

In this paper, we investigate the effect of multiple antennas at a relay node on the performance of physical-layer network coding (PNC) in the two-way relay channel (TWRC). We assume that two source nodes have a single antenna and the relay node has multiple antennas. We extend the conventional TWRC environment with a signle antenna at both relay and source nodes to the case of multiple antennas at the relay node. In particular, we consider two decoding strategies: separate decoding (SD) and direct decoding (DD). The SD decodes each packet from the two sources and performs the network coding with bit-wise exclusive OR (XOR) operation, while the DD decodes the network-coded packet from the two sources. Note that both decoding strategies are based on log-likelihood ratio (LLR) computation. It is shown that the bit error rate (BER) performance becomes significantly improved as the number of antennas at the relay node.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2813-2819
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• 2015

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer network coding (PNC) technique in a two-way relay channel (TWRC) where two source nodes send and receive data with each other via a relay node. In particular, we consider the communication scenario where packet length from the two sources is different from each other. We analyze the bit error rate (BER) of the received packet at the relay node according to degree of overlapping between two packets. The BER of the short packet remains unchanged regardless of the degree of overlapping since the entire packet is overlapped with the longer packet, while the BER of the longer packet becomes improved as the degree of overlapping decreases. Thus, we need a novel transmission scheme to enhance BER performance of the PNC technique in TWRC environments since the overall BER performance of the PNC technique at the relay node depends on the worse BER between two ovelapping packets' BERs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.249-251
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• 2001

The two fuzzy criteria to distinguish the internal fault from the inrush for the power transformer protection have been identified. They are based on the terminal voltage, fundamental and second harmonic component of differential current. A systemetic way to determine the associated fuzzy membership function is also proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.108-111
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• 2013

최근 들어 무선 통신 트래픽이 급증하고 있다. 때문에 주파수, 시간 등과 같은 무선 통신 자원의 효율적 활용이 매우 중요해 지고 있다. 이러한 관점에서 스펙트럼 효율이 낮은 단방향 중계 시스템에 비해 이론적으로 약 2배에 가까운 스펙트럼 효율을 갖는 양방향 중계 기술에 대한 연구가 최근 들어 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 하지만 양방향 중계 시스템이 갖는 높은 스펙트럼 효율을 극대화하기 위해서는 단방향 릴레이 시스템에 비하여 증가하는 오버헤드의 증가량을 최소화하면서 요구 성능을 만족하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 하나의 대안으로 본 논문에서는 증폭 후 재전송(amplify-and-forward) 양방향 중계시스템에서 결합적 간섭제거 및 채널 등화를 위한 적응형 수신기를 제안한다. 제안하는 수신기는 적은 오버헤드만을 갖기 때문에 양방향 중계기술이 갖는 높은 스펙트럼 효율을 그대로 유지할 수 있으며, 복잡도가 높은 역행렬 연산 없이 채널 추정 기반 최소평균자승에러 (minimum mean-square error) 수신기가 갖는 성능을 제공한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.655-659
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• 2010

In the conventional PNC scheme, the relay node requires simultaneous transmission of two source nodes with strict power control and carrier-phase matching between two received symbols. However, this pre-equalization process at source nodes is not practical in fading channels. In this letter, we propose a novel physical-layer network coding (PNC) scheme with log-likelihood ratio (LLR) conversion for fading channels, which utilizes not pre-equalizer at transmitters (source nodes) but joint detector at receiver (relay node). The proposed PNC requires only channel side information at the receiver (CSIR), which is far more practical assumption in fading channels. In addition, the proposed PNC scheme can use the conventional modulation scheme like M-QAM regardless of modulation order, while the conventional PNC scheme requires reconfiguration of modulation scheme at the source nodes for detection of the received signal at relay node. We consider the combination of the proposed PNC and channel coding, and find that the proposed PNC scheme is easily combined the linear channel codes such as turbo codes, LDPC, and convolutional codes.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.23-28
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a simple bidirectional transmission protocol using network coding and digital Fountain codes. In particular, in the proposed scheme, two sources use digital Fountain codes to transmit their message to each other with the help of relays. Then, relays use Fountain codes and network coding to forward the source messages to both sources. To evaluate performance of the proposed protocols, we present the average total throughput over Rayleigh fading channels via Various Monte-Carlo simulations. Results show that the proposed protocol outperforms the two-way relaying transmission protocol without using network coding technique at high SNR region.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.92-95
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• 2010

기존의 반이중방식 단방향 중계 네트워크는 하나의 정보를 두 개의 시간 슬롯 동안에 보내므로 추가적인 자원을 필요로 하며 이로 인해 주파수 효율에서 감소가 생기게 된다. 이러한 주파수 효율의 감소를 막기 위해 제안된 양방향 중계 네트워크는 중계기에 중첩 부호화 또는 네트워크 부호화를 적용함으로써 기존의 단방향 중계 네트워크에 비해 향상된 주파수 효율을 제공한다. 한편, OFDMA 네트워크는 사용자에게 부반송파, 전력 등의 자원을 적응적으로 할당하여 네트워크의 성능 향상을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 복호 후 전송 중계 기법을 사용하는 양방향 OFDMA 중계 네트워크를 위한 적응적 부반송파 할당 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 각 사용자 쌍의 최소 전송속도를 보장하며 모든 사용자 쌍에 대한 달성 합 전송속도를 최대화 하기 위해 부반송파를 사용자 쌍과 중계기에 적응적으로 할당한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 알고리즘이 정적 알고리즘과 그리디 알고리즘, 두 알고리즘 모두 보다 훨씬 낮은 불능확률을 얻음을 확인한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.102-110
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• 2013

This paper considers a cooperative orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based cognitive radio network where the primary system leases some of its subchannels to the secondary system for a fraction of time in exchange for the secondary users (SUs) assisting the transmission of primary users (PUs) as relays. Our aim is to determine the cooperation strategies among the primary and secondary systems so as to maximize the sum-rate of SUs while maintaining quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of PUs. We formulate a joint optimization problem of PU transmission mode selection, SU (or relay) selection, subcarrier assignment, power control, and time allocation. By applying dual method, this mixed integer programming problem is decomposed into parallel per-subcarrier subproblems, with each determining the cooperation strategy between one PU and one SU. We show that, on each leased subcarrier, the optimal strategy is to let a SU exclusively act as a relay or transmit for itself. This result is fundamentally different from the conventional spectrum leasing in single-channel systems where a SU must transmit a fraction of time for itself if it helps the PU's transmission. We then propose a subgradient-based algorithm to find the asymptotically optimal solution to the primal problem in polynomial time. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can significantly enhance the network performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.902-910
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• 2016

Recently, the volume of mobile data traffic increases exponentially due to the emergence of various mobile services. In order to resolve the problem of mobile traffic increase, various new technologies have been devised. Especially, two-way relay communication in which two nodes can transfer data simultaneously through relay node, has gained lots of interests due to its capability to improve spectral efficiency. In this paper, we analyze the SM-PNC which combines Physical-layer Network Coding (PNC) and Spatial Modulation (SM) under two-way relay communication environment. Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) is considered and both separate decoding and direct decoding have been taken into account in performance analysis. Through performance evaluation, we have found that the bit error rate of the proposed scheme is improved compared to that of the conventional PNC scheme, especially when SNR is high and the number of antennas is large.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.29-39
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• 2009

The need for radio spectrum is recently considered as a huge hurdle towards the rapid development of wireless networks. Large parts of the spectrum are allocated to licensed radio services in proprietary way. However, enormous success of the wireless services and technologies in the unlicensed bands has brought new ideas and innovations. In recent years cognitive radio has gained much attention for solving the spectrum scarcity problem. It changes the way spectrum is regulated so that more efficient spectrum utilization is possible. Multi-hop relay technology on the other hand has intensively been studied in the area of ad hoc and peer-to-peer networks. But in cellular network, only recently the integration of multi-hop capability is considered to enhance the performance significantly. Multi-hop relaying can extend the coverage of the cell to provide high data rate service to a greater distance and in the shadowed regions. Very few papers still exist that combine these methods to maximize the spectrum utilization. Thus we propose a network architecture combining these two technologies in a way to maximize the system throughput. We present the throughput capacity equations for the proposed system model considering various system parameters like utilization factor by the primary users and primary users' transmission radius and through extensive numerical simulations we analyze the significance of work.