• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.11-27
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• 2009

Recently, IPTV attracts great attention along with the digital convergence of communication and media technologies. This study examined critical factors on the consumer's continued use of the IPTV service. Based on the expectation-confirmation theory and the innovation diffusion theory, we derived nine key factors in the research model-relative advantage, compatibility, ease of use, image, diversity of contents, interactivity, monetary value, social influence, and user satisfaction. Using the partial least square method, we found that content diversity and compatibility have a significant indirect effect on the continued use of the IPTV service via user satisfaction, and user satisfaction and social influence also have a significant direct impact on the IPTV use. These findings not only provide practical insights on the consumer acceptance of new technology-converging services, but also help managers to plan their marketing strategies better.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권11호
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• pp.2148-2150
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• 2015

본 논문은 셀 가장자리에서의 적응적 협력 전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 사용자의 위치를 고려하고, 그에 알맞은 협력 전송 기법을 적용한다. 셀룰러 시스템들에서, 사용자가 셀의 경계에 위치하게 되면 통신의 성능의 열화가 발생한다. 기존의 기법에서는 두 개의 기지국들이 다이버시티 이득을 얻기 위하여 사용된다. 하지만 사용자와 기지국 사이의 거리는 여전히 멀기 때문에, 기존의 방법만으로는 성능이 충분히 향상되지 않는다. 따라서 릴레이들을 사용하고 사용자의 위치에 따라 협력 전송 기법을 적응적으로 적용하는 기법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과들을 통해, 제안된 기법의 성능이 기존의 기법보다 좋다는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.989-1005
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• 2010

Cooperative diversity is a technique with which a virtual multiple antenna array is established among the single antenna users of the wireless network to realize space diversity. Signal space diversity (SSD) is a bandwidth-efficient diversity technique, which uses constellation rotation and interleaving techniques to achieve diversity gain. A new cooperative diversity scheme with rotated constellations (RCCD) is proposed in this paper. In this scheme, data are modulated by using a rotated constellation, and the source and the relays transmit different components of the modulated symbols. Since any one of the components contains full information of the symbols, the destination can obtain multiple signals conveying the same information from different users. In this way, space diversity is achieved. The RCCD scheme inherits the advantage of SSD - being bandwidth-efficient but without the delay problem of SSD brought by interleaving. The symbol error rate of the RCCD scheme is analyzed and simulated. The analysis and simulation results show that the RCCD scheme can achieve full diversity order of two when the inter-user channel is good enough, and, with the same bandwidth efficiency, has a better performance than amplify-and-forward and detect-and-forward methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.3026-3045
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• 2012

In this paper, diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) of three-user wireless multiple-antenna cooperative systems is investigated in general fading channels when half-duplex and decode-and-forward relay is employed. Three protocols, i.e., adaptive protocol, receive diversity protocol, and dual-hop relaying protocol, are considered. The general fading channels may include transmit and/or receive correlation and nonzero channel means, and are extensions of independent and identically distributed Rayleigh or Rician fading channels. Firstly, simple DMT expressions are derived for general fading channels with zero channel means and no correlation when users employ arbitrary number of antennas. Explicit DMT expressions are also obtained when all users employ the same number of antennas and the channels between any two users are of the same fading statistics. Finally, the impact of nonzero channel means and/or correlation on DMT is evaluated. It is revealed theoretically that the DMTs depend on the number of antennas at each user, channel means (except for Rayleigh and Rician fading statistics), transmit and/or receive correlation, and the polynomial behavior near zero of the channel gain probability density function. Examples are also provided to illustrate the analysis and results.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.301-303
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• 2016

본 논문은 모바일 사용자의 신뢰성 향상을 위하여 기지국의 범위 내에 소형 기지국들을 추가적으로 사용하여 전송 다이버시티 이득을 제공하는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 기지국은 기지국 셀 내에 위치한 소형 기지국들을 중계기로 이용한 협력 통신 기법을 적용하고 전송 다이버시티 이득을 얻기 위한 신호를 구성한다. 모바일 사용자는 결과적으로 기존의 기지국과 릴레이 역할의 소형 기지국들로부터 다중의 채널을 통하여 신호를 수신 받을 수 있게 되고, 이때 수신된 신호들은 전송 다이버시티 기법이 적용됨으로써 신뢰성이 크게 향상 될 수 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.366-374
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• 2010

Coded cooperation is a promising user cooperation scheme. In this paper, we first propose a novel network-coding-based coded cooperation scheme. When a user decodes its partner's information correctly in the first frame, it transmits the combination of the partner's parity bits and its own parity bits through network coding in the second frame. This is distinct from the classical scheme, where the user only transmits the partner's parity bits during cooperation. We analyze the outage probability of the proposed scheme, and show that it achieves a full diversity order. Numerical evaluations reveal that the proposed scheme outperforms the classical scheme when the inter-user channel is poor, yet is worse when the inter-user channel is strong. Also, the results show that the proposed scheme always outperforms that of no cooperation in various channel conditions while the performance of classical scheme is worse than that of no cooperation with the poor inter-user channels. This means that the performance of the proposed scheme is more stable than the classical scheme and the proposed scheme is more tolerant to the poor inter-user channels. To combine the advantages of the proposed scheme and the classical scheme under different inter-user channel conditions, we propose an adaptive solution. This adaptive scheme enhances the system performance considerably in all channel conditions in spite of the inter-user channel quality, at the expense of only one acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement bit.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권12호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 WCDMA LCR-TDD 시스템에서 멀티레벨 제어 신호 방식을 적용한 하향 링크 ARQ-TSTD (ARQ-aided Time Switched Transmit Diversity)의 성능을 계산한다. 제안된 ARQ-TSTD는 멀티레벨 제어 선호 방식을 적용하여 수신측이 에러체크를 수행한 후 송신측으로 기존의 응답신호 (ACK or NACK or 신호) 이외에 NACK2 선호를 정의하고 이를 피드백한다. 송신측은 NACK2 신호를 본 논문에서 제안한 전송지연과 다중사용자 스케줄링 방식을 적용하는데 활용한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 3km/h의 이동국 속도에서 프레임 오류 확률 (Frame Error Rate)이 10%일 때 5개 서브프레임 전송지연 방식, 2명의 사용자 스케줄링 방식이 각각 약 1.3dB, 약1.4dB의 성능향상이 있었다. 그리고 Eb/N0=-3dB에서 각각 약 14% 11.5%의 수율 성능 이득이 있었다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2018

Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) is the core technology for improving the channel capacity compared to Single-User MIMO (SU-MIMO) by using multiuser gain and spatial diversity. Key problem for the MU-MIMO is the user selection which is the grouping the users optimally. To solve this problem, we adopt Extreme Value Theory (EVT) at the beginning of the proposed algorithm, which defines a primary user set instead of a single user that has maximum channel power according to a predetermined threshold. Each user in the primary set is then paired with all of the users in the system to define user groups. By comparing these user groups, the group that produces a maximum sum rate can be determined. Through computer simulations, we have found that the proposed method outperforms the conventional technique yielding a sum rate that is 0.81 bps/Hz higher when the transmit signal to noise ratio (SNR) is 30 dB and the total number of users is 100.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1279-1300
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• 2017

In the interweave cognitive networks, the interference from the primary user degrades the performance of the cognitive user transmissions. In this paper, we propose an adaptive cooperation scheme in the interweave cognitive networks to improve the performance of the cognitive user transmissions. In the proposed scheme for the bidirectional communication of two end-source cognitive users, the bidirectional communication is completed through the non-relay direct transmission, the one-way relaying cooperation transmission, and the two-way relaying cooperation transmission depending on the limited feedback from the end-sources. For the performance analysis of the proposed scheme, we derive the outage probability and the finite-SNR diversity multiplexing tradeoff (f-DMT) in a closed form, considering the imperfect spectrum sensing, the interference from the primary user, and the power allocation between the relay and the end-sources. The results show that compared with the direct transmissions (DT), the pure one-way relaying transmissions (POWRT), and the pure two-way relaying transmissions (PTWRT), the proposed scheme has better outage performance. In terms of the f-DMT, the proposed scheme outperforms the full cooperation transmissions of the POWRT and PTWRT.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.112-117
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• 2007

In this paper, we focus on the total transmission power minimization problem for downlink beamforming multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems while ensuring each user's QoS requirement. Although the linear integer programming (LIP) solution we formulate provides the performance upper bound of the margin adaptive (MA) optimization problem, it is hard to be implemented in practice due to its high computational complexity. By regarding each user's equivalent channel gain as approximate independent values and using iterative descent method, we present a heuristic MA resource allocation algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm efficiently converges to the local optimum, which is very close to the performance of the optimal LIP solution. Compared with existing space division multiple access (SDMA) OFDM systems with or without adaptive resource allocation, the proposed algorithm achieves significant performance improvement by exploiting the frequency diversity and multi-user diversity in downlink multiple-input single-output (MISO) OFDM systems.