• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.148-156
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• 2009

The fixed spectrum assignment policy in today's wireless networks leads to inefficient spectrum usage. Cognitive radio network is a new communication paradigm that enables the unlicensed users to opportunistically use the spatio-temporally unoccupied portions of the spectrum, and hence realizing a dynamic spectrum access (DSA) methodology. Interference temperature model proposed by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permits the unlicensed users to utilize the licensed frequencies simultaneously with the primary users provided that they adhere to the interference temperature constraints. In this paper, we formulate two NP-hard optimal scheduling methods that meet the interference temperature constraints for cognitive radio networks. The first one maximizes the network throughput, whereas the second one minimizes the scheduling delay. Furthermore, we also propose suboptimal schedulers with linear complexity, referred to as maximum frequency selection (MFS) and probabilistic frequency selection (PFS). We simulate the throughput and delay performance of the optimal as well as the suboptimal schedulers for varying number of cognitive nodes, number of primary neighbors for each cognitive node, and interference temperature limits for the frequencies. We also evaluate the performance of our proposed schedulers under both additive white gaussian noise (AWGN) channels and Gilbert-Elliot fading channels.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2013

Cognitive radio has been recently considered a promising technology to improve spectrum utilization by enabling secondary access to licensed bands that are not used by primary users temporarily or spatially. A prerequisite to this secondary access is the lack of interference to the primary system. This requirement makes spectrum sensing a key process for cognitive radio. In this study, we consider amplify and forward (AF)-based cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks where multiple relay nodes are utilized to amplify and forward the primary user signal for better spectrum sensing, and maximum ratio combining is used for fusion detection by a cognitive coordinator. Further, the detection probability and the bit error rate of AF-based cooperative spectrum sensing are analyzed in fading multiple cognitive relay channels. The simulation results show that the AF-based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme outperforms the conventional scheme.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2010

최근 들어 기학급수적으로 증가하는 방송 및 통신 시스템으로 인해 무선 주파수 자원의 고갈 문제가 심각하게 대두되고 있다. 이와 같은 주파수 고갈과 비효율적인 주파수 사용 문제를 해결하기 위해 유휴 주파수를 합리적으로 이용하기 위한 인지무선 기술이 많은 관심을 받고 있다. Kuroda등은 인지무선네트워크를 위한 무선 독립적인 인증 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 Kuroda등의 인증 프로토콜에 존재하는 프라이버시 취약성을 보이고 이를 해결하기 위한 프라이버시가 강화된 인증 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.104-114
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• 2009

In this paper, a technique is proposed that enables secondary users to evaluate channel availability in cognitive radio networks. Here, secondary users estimate the utilization of channels via predicting the traffic pattern of primary user, and select a proper channel for radio transmission. The proposed technique reduces the channel switching rate of secondary users (the rate of switching from one channel to another) and the interference on primary users, while maintaining a reasonable call blocking rate of secondary users.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2017

스펙트럼 자원의 부족문제를 해결하고 스펙트럼 자원을 보다 효율적으로 사용하기 위해 인지무선통신기술이 제안되었으며 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 애드혹 인지무선통신에서 멀티 홉 라우팅은 저 전력으로 먼 거리까지 데이터 전송할 수 있는 중요한 기법이다. 멀티채널을 갖는 멀티홉 라우팅에서 전송채널을 선택할 때 우선적으로는 주 사용자에 대한 간섭을 최소화할 수 있는 채널선택이 되어야하며 전송용량을 극대화하기 위해 채널 간 간섭을 최소화할 수 있는 채널선택기법이 필요로 된다. 본 논문에서는 멀티채널 멀티 홉 인지무선네트워크에서에서 채널 간 간섭을 최소화하며 주 사용자와의 충돌을 줄임으로써 용량을 높일 수 있는 채널 스케줄링 방식을 제안하였다. 제안된 방식은 라우팅경로와 채널선택을 동시에 수행한다. 제안된 채널 할당방식에 대한 시뮬레이션을 통해 용량과 충돌률 관점에서 그 성능을 분석하였다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.322-327
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 셀룰러 인지 라디오 망에서 주 사용자들 (PU; primary user)의 다중 채널상에서 발생하는 스펙트럼 홀 (spectrum hole)을 그룹핑(grouping)하여, 광대역 인지 사용자 (WCRU; wideband cognitive radio user)의 서비스 품질 (QoS; quality of service)을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 스펙트럼 홀 그룹핑 방법은 같은 시간에 발생하는 스펙트럼 홀들을 위너예측과정으로 예측하고, 예측된 스펙트럼 홀을 그룹핑하여 광대역 인지 사용자를 지원함으로써 인지 사용자의 서비스 품질을 향상시킨다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 단일 스펙트럼 홀 채널을 이용한 경우와 비교하여 핸드오프 호의 손실률과 초기 발생 호의 차단률을 줄일 수 있음을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.3061-3080
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• 2012

To improve the sensing performance, cooperation among secondary users can be utilized to collect space diversity. In this paper, we focus on the optimization of cooperative spectrum sensing in which multiple cognitive users efficiently cooperate to achieve superior detection accuracy with minimum sensing error probability in multiple cross-over cognitive radio networks. The analysis focuses on two fusion strategies: soft information fusion and hard information fusion. Under soft information fusion, the optimal threshold of the energy detector is derived in both noncooperative single-user and cooperative multiuser sensing scenarios. Under hard information fusion, the optimal randomized rule and the optimal decision threshold are derived according to the rule of minimum sensing error (MSE). MSE rule shows better performance on improving the final false alarm and detection probability simultaneously. By simulations, our proposed strategy optimizes the sensing performance for each cognitive user which is randomly distributed in the multiple cross-over cognitive radio networks.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2012년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.39 No.1(D)
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• pp.294-296
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• 2012

In cognitive radio ad hoc networks, secondary users need to exchange control information before data transmission. This task is not trivial in cognitive radio networks due to the dynamic nature of environment. This problem is sometime called rendezvous problem of cognitive radio network. The rendezvous problem is normally tackled by using two famous approaches: the use of common control channel (CCC) and using channel hopping (a.k.a sequence-based protocols). However, these two famous solutions form a vicious cycle while solving the rendezvous problem. The main purpose of this paper is to point out how and why this vicious cycle is formed.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.331-343
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• 2015

We propose a distributed medium access control protocol for cognitive radio networks to opportunistically utilize multiple channels. Under the proposed protocol, cognitive radio nodes forecast and rank channel availability observing primary users' activities on the channels for a period of time by time series analyzing using smoothing models for seasonal data by Winters' method. The proposed approach protects primary users, mitigates channel access delay, and increases network performance. We analyze the optimal time to sense channels to avoid conflict with the primary users. We simulate and compare the proposed protocol with the existing protocol. The results show that the proposed approach utilizes channels more efficiently.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권2호
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• pp.321-323
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• 2012

Cognitive radio has been recently proposed to dynamically access unused-spectrum. Since the spectrum availability for opportunistic access is determined by spectrum sensing, sensing is identified as one of the most crucial issues of cognitive radio networks. The PHY-layer sensing, as a part of spectrum sensing in cognitive radio, concerns the sensing mechanism to determine channel to be sensed and to access. One of the important issues in the PHY-layer sensing control is to find an available sensing period and trade-off between spectrum sensing and data transmission. In this paper, we show the relationship between spectrum sensing and data transmission according to the sensing period. We analyze and propose the new scheme to evaluate optimal sensing period.