• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.336-339
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• 2013

To enhance the symbol error rate (SER) performance of the two-way relay channels with physical layer network coding, this letter proposes a relay selection scheme, in which the relay with the maximal minimum distance between different points in its constellation among all relays is selected to assist two-way transmissions. We give the closed-form expression of minimum distance for binary phase-shift keying and quadrature phase-shift keying. Additionally, we design a low-complexity method for higher-order modulations based on look-up tables. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the SER performance for two-way relay networks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.562-576
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• 2020

The power allocation optimization problem is investigated for improving the physical-layer security in two-way relaying networks, where a full-duplex relay based half-jamming protocol (HJP-FDR) is considered. Specially, by introducing a power splitter factor, HJP-FDR divides the relay's power into two parts: one for forwarding the sources' signals, the other for jamming. An optimization problem for power split factor is first developed, which is proved to be concave and closed-form solution is achieved. Moreover, we formulate a power allocation problem to determine the sources' power subject to the total power constraint. Applying the achieved closed-form solutions to the above-mentioned problems, a two-stage strategy is proposed to implement the overall power allocation. Simulation results highlight the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm and indicate the necessity of optimal power allocation.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권8호
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• pp.651-659
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• 2014

본 논문은 선단 내 해상 통신에서 두 통신 선박이 다중 안테나 릴레이 선박의 도움으로 데이터를 교환하는 양방향 릴레이 네트워크를 고려한다. 상기 네트워크에서 두 통신 선박의 정보 전송률이 다를 때 정보 전송 신뢰도를 높이는 전송률 인지 세 단계 아날로그 네트워크 부호화 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 릴레이에서 직교하게 수신된 각 통신 선박의 신호로부터 향상된 품질의 아날로그 네트워크 부호화 신호를 안테나 수신 전력만을 이용하여 생성함으로써 릴레이를 채널 추정 기능 없이 낮은 복잡도로 구현할 수 있도록 한다. 또한, 제안 기법은 두 통신 선박의 서로 다른 전송률을 고려한 전송률-인지 릴레이 전력 할당 방법을 적용하여 비대칭 전송률을 갖는 데이터 교환의 아웃티지 확률을 크게 줄일 수 있음을 모의실험으로 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.617-620
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• 2012

The denoising mapping with the closest-neighbor clustering (CNC) method in denoise-and-forward two-way relay channels is studied. Specifically, the symmetry of the constellations in source terminals A and B is utilized to reduce the complexity of the CNC method. The specific case considered first to illustrate how the constellation symmetry works in the CNC method is the quadrature phase-shift keying constellation in A and B and the single-antenna deployment in all terminals. This case study shows that an enormous complexity reduction can be achieved. Next, the result is extended to multiple-antenna scenarios and square quadrature amplitude modulations.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.175-177
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• 2016

본 레터는 증폭-후-전달 양방향 릴레이 네트워크에서 무선 에너지 정보 동시 전송을 고려한다. 릴레이에서 전력 분할로 에너지 수확과 정보 전송을 수행할 때 아웃티지 확률을 최소로 하는 최적 전력 분할 비를 얻고 그 때의 성능 향상을 모의실험으로 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.3321-3341
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• 2014

This paper investigates the outage performance and optimization for the four-phase two-way transmission network with an energy harvesting (EH) relay. To enable the simultaneous information processing and energy harvesting at the relay, we firstly propose a power splitting-based two-way relaying protocol (PSTWR). Then, we discuss its outage performance theoretically and derive an explicit expression for the system outage probability. In order to find the optimal system configuration parameters such as the optimal power splitting ratio and the optimal transmit power redistribution factor, we formulate an outage-minimized optimization problem. As the problem is difficult to solve, we design a genetic algorithm (GA) based algorithm for it. Besides, we also investigate the effects of the power splitting ratio, the power redistribution factor at the relay, and the source to relay distance on the system outage performance. Finally, extensive simulation results are provided to demonstrate the accuracy of the analytical results and the effectiveness of the GA-based algorithm. Moreover, it is also shown that, the relay position greatly affects the system performance, where relatively worse outage performance is achieved when the EH relay is placed in the middle of the two sources.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.338-344
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 송신단, 수신단, 중계 전송단에서 모두 다중 안테나를 가지고 양방향 중계 증폭 전송 방식으로 동작하는 통신 환경을 고려한다. 양방향 중계 전송에서 발생하는 자기 간섭을 한 쪽의 수신단에서는 제거할 수 있고, 다른 한 수신단에서는 제거할 수 없는 상황에서 최대 전송률을 보내기 위해 릴레이 구조를 최적화하는 것을 목표로 한다. 먼저 최대 전송률을 구하기 위하여 GD(gradient descent) 기반의 지역 최적화 알고리즘을 개발하고, 보다 간단한 구조를 가지는 특이값 분해(SVD: singular value decomposition) 기반의 블록 삼각화 방법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안하는 양방향 기법들이 기존의 양방향 방법에 비해 자기간섭 제거 기능이 없는 기기가 상용될 때 향상된 성능을 얻는다는 것을 보여준다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.433-444
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• 2009

The bi-directional relay channel is the natural extension of a three-terminal relay channel where node a transmits to node b with the help of a relay r to allow for two-way communication between nodes a and b. That is, in a bi-directional relay channel, a and b wish to exchange independent messages over a shared channel with the help of a relay r. The rates at which this communication may reliably take place depend on the assumptions made on the relay processing abilities. We overview information theoretic limits of the bi-directional relay channel under a variety of conditions, before focusing on half-duplex nodes in which communication takes place in a number of temporal phases (resulting in protocols), and nodes may forward messages in four manners. The relay-forwarding considered are: Amplify and forward (AF), decode and forward (DF), compress and forward (CF), and mixed forward. The last scheme is a combination of CF in one direction and DF in the other. We derive inner and outer bounds to the capacity region of the bi-directional relay channel for three temporal protocols under these four relaying schemes. The first protocol is a two phase protocol where a and b simultaneously transmit during the first phase and the relay r alone transmits during the second. The second protocol considers sequential transmissions from a and b followed by a transmission from the relay while the third protocol is a hybrid of the first two protocols and has four phases. We provide a comprehensive treatment of protocols in Gaussian noise, obtaining their respective achievable rate regions, outer bounds, and their relative performance under different SNR and relay geometries.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권2B호
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• pp.97-109
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 기지국(base station: BS)과 릴레이(relay station: RS), 그리고 단말(mobile station: MS) 사이의 릴레이 채널과 액세스 채널의 품질이 서로 다른 양방향 비대칭 채널에서 네트워크 부호화 기법을 위한 변조 방식을 제안한다. 제안하는 변조 방식은 이중 성상도를 기반으로 하고 있으며, RS는 네트워크 부호화된 심볼을 연속된 두 심볼 구간 동안 서로 다른 성상도를 이용하여 BS와 MS로 방송한다. 레일리 페이딩 채널에서 제안하는 변조 방식의 비트 오류율 성능에 대한 상한 식을 수학적으로 유도하고, 기존에 양방향 비대칭 채널에서 네트워크 부호화 기반의 양방향 통신 기법을 위해 제안되었던 혼합 성상도 기반의 변조 방식과 성능을 비교 분석한다. 또한 제안하는 변조 방식을 사용하는 네트워크 부호화 기반의 양방향 통신 기법과 기존의 양방향 통신 기법들의 총 채널 사용 횟수를 비교 분석한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안하는 변조 방식이 양방향 비대칭 채널에서 기존 기법들과 동일한 대역 효율성을 유지하면서도 목표 비트 오류율 $10^{-2}$에서 3.5~4dB의 $E_b/N_0$ 이득이 있음을 보인다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.345-359
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• 2011

Decode-and-forward relaying is a promising enhancement to existing radio access networks and is already standardized in 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) as a part of long term evolution (LTE)-Advanced Release 10. Two inband operation modes of relay nodes are supported, namely type 1 and type lb. Relay nodes promise to offer considerable gain for system capacity or coverage, depending on the deployment prioritization, in a cost-efficient way. Yet, in order to fully exploit the benefits of relaying, the inter-cell interference which is increased due to the presence of relay nodes should be limited. Moreover, large differences in the received power levels from different users should be avoided. The goal is to keep the receiver dynamic range low in order to retain the orthogonality of the single carrier-frequency division multiple access system. In this paper, an evaluation of the relay based heterogeneous deployment within the LTE-Advanced uplink framework is carried out by applying the standardized LTE Release 8 power control scheme both at evolved node B and relay nodes. In order to enhance the overall system performance, different power control optimization strategies are proposed for 3GPP urban and suburban scenarios. A comparison between type 1 and type 1b relay nodes is as well presented to study the effect of the relaying overhead on the system performance in inband relay deployments. Comprehensive system level simulations show that the power control is a crucial means to increase the cell edge and system capacities, to mitigate inter-cell interference and to adjust the receiver dynamic range for both relay node types.