• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3751-3774
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• 2014

With the rapid development of wireless communication, the confliction between the scarce frequency resources and the low spectral efficiency caused by the stationary spectrum sharing strategies seriously restricts the evolution of the future mobile communication. For this purpose, cognitive radio (CR) emerges as one of the most promising inventions which can overcome the spectrum shortage. As the key technology and main objective of CR, spectrum sharing can make full use of the limited spectrum, alleviate the scarcity of frequency resources and improve the system utilities, playing thereby an important role in improving the system performance of cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In this survey, the spectrum sharing in CRNs is discussed in terms of the sharing process, mainstream sharing technologies and spectrum sharing models. In particular, comparisons of different spectrum sharing strategies are concluded, as well as that of different spectrum sensing schemes in sharing procedure. Moreover, some application examples of the spectrum sharing in CRNs, such as smart grid, public safety, cellular network and medical body area networks are also introduced. In addition, our previous related works are presented and the open research issues in the field of spectrum sharing are stated as well.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.1606-1612
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• 2012

인지라디오 네트워크는 현재 주파수 사용 현황을 인지하여 허가받은 주 사용자가 사용하지 않는 채널을 통해 데이터 통신을 하는 기술로써, 이러한 유휴 채널을 효율적으로 이용하기 위해서는 스펙트럼 할당 기술이 중요하다. 하지만 인지라디오 네트워크는 기존의 네트워크와는 달리 사용가능한 스펙트럼이 유동적이므로 자원 할당 시 이러한 자원 변화를 효율적으로 활용할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 인지라디오 사용자들 간의 공평성과 시스템 수율을 동시에 만족시키기 위해 비례공정 채널할당기법을 적용하였다. 이때 유동적인 인지라디오 채널 변화를 고려하여 인지라디오 네트워크의 사용자 간섭 확률을 줄일 수 있도록 기존의 스케줄러를 수정한 스펙트럼 할당기법을 제안하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.1549-1558
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• 2011

In this paper, we address the problem of bandwidth sharing among multiple primary users and multiple secondary users in a cognitive radio network. In cognitive radio networks, effective spectrum assignment for primary and secondary users is a challenge due to the available broad range of radio frequency spectrum as well as the requisition of harmonious coexistence of both users. To handle this problem, firstly, Bertrand game model is used to analyze a spectrum pricing in which multiple primary users emulate with each other to acquire maximal profit. After that, we employ Cournot game to model the spectrum sharing of secondary users to obtain optimal profit for each user also. Simulation results show that our scheme obtains optimal solution at Nash equilibrium.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.371-388
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• 2014

Cognitive Radio (CR) has been recently proposed as a promising technology to remedy the problems of spectrum scarcity and spectrum underutilization by enabling unlicensed users to opportunistically utilize temporally unused licensed spectrums in a cautious manner. In Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks (CRAHNs), data routing is one of the most challenging tasks since the channel availability and node mobility are unpredictable. Moreover, the network performance is severely degraded due to large numbers of path failures. In this paper, we propose the Fault-Tolerant Cognitive Ad-hoc Routing Protocol (FTCARP) to provide fast and efficient route recovery in presence of path failures during data delivery in CRAHNs. The protocol exploits the joint path and spectrum diversity to offer reliable communication and efficient spectrum usage over the networks. In the proposed protocol, a backup path is utilized in case a failure occurs over a primary transmission route. Different cause of a path failure will be handled by different route recovery mechanism. The protocol performance is compared with that of the Dual Diversity Cognitive Ad-hoc Routing Protocol (D2CARP). The simulation results obviously prove that FTCARP outperforms D2CARP in terms of throughput, packet loss, end-to-end delay and jitter in the high path-failure rate CRAHNs.

• 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.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제49권7호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2012

스케쥴링 및 데이터율의 결합 제어와 같은 자원할당 기술은 전파인지 네트워크에서는 매우 중요한 문제이다. 그러나 전파인지 네트워크에서는 주사용자 채널의 스토케스틱 특성으로 인하여 데이터율 및 스케쥴링을 결합하여 제어하는 것은 매우 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 전파인지 네트워크에서 신뢰성 제한 조건들을 고려한 비대칭 데이터율 및 스케쥴링 결합 제어 기법을 제안한다. 데이터율 및 스케쥴링 문제를 컨벡스 최적화 기법으로 공식화하고 쌍대성 분해 기법을 사용하여 부분 문제로 변환하여 분산화 하였다. 본 논문에서는 전체 시스템의 효용함수를 최대화 하도록 분산 노드들의 데이터율을 분산적으로 제어하는 알고리즘을 제안 하였다. 반면, 스케줄링은 기지국이 최적화하는 비대칭 기법을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 비대칭 결합 제어 알고리즘은 전체 최적화 해로 수렴하는 것을 수치해석 기법으로 검증하였다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2018

In wireless communication, efficient spectrum usage is an issue that has been an attractive research area for many technologies. Recently new technologies innovations allow compact radios to transmit with power efficient communication over very long distances. For example, Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) are an attractive emerging platform to connect the Internet-of-Things (IoT). Especially, LoRa is one of LPWAN technologies and considered as an infrastructure solution for IoT. End-devices use LoRa protocol across a single wireless hop to communicate to gateway(s) connected to the internet which acts as a bridge and relays message between these LoRa end-devices to a central network server. The use of the (ISM) spectrum sharing for such long-range networking motivates us to implement spectrum sensing testbed for cognitive radio network based on LoRa and GNU radio. In cognitive radio (CR), secondary users (SUs) are able to sense and use this information to opportunistically access the licensed spectrum band in absence of the primary users (PUs). In general, PUs have not been very receptive of the idea of opportunistic spectrum sharing. That is, CR will harmfully interfere with operations of PUs. Subsequently, there is a need for experimenting with different techniques in a real system. In this paper, we implemented spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks based on LoRa and GNU Radio, and further analyzed corresponding performances of the implemented systems. The implementation is done using Microchip LoRa evolution kits, USRPs, and GNU radio.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3860-3875
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• 2014

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) are composed of mobile users who can use multiple spectrum bands for communication. CRNs allow unlicensed users (called cognitive users) to efficiently utilize unused licensed spectrums without interfering with communications of licensed users (called primary users). The main goals of CRNs are to mitigate spectrum saturation and to improve spectrum utilization. This paper introduces state-of-the-art routing protocols for CRNs and addresses some limitations of these protocols. To resolve the limitations, we suggest a new research direction for routing protocols in CRNs. We implement our protocol to compare with the existing routing protocols for multi-hop CRNs. Our protocol shows good performance compared to the existing routing protocols in terms of network performance and PU protection.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2012

무선인지 네트워크에서 비면허 사용자는 면허 스펙트럼 대역을 감지하여 가회가 있을 때마다 면허 사용자에 간섭을 일으키지 않고 매체에 접근한다. 특히 애드혹 네트워크에서는 MAC 계층이 비면허 사용자들간 스펙트럼 접근을 조정하는 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 이에 따라 최근 많은 MAC 프로토콜이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선인지 애드혹 네트워크에서의 MAC 프로토콜을 비교 분석한다. 먼저 프로토콜들을 공통 제어 채널을 기준으로 분류하고 각 종류별 주요 프로토콜을 분석한다. 그리고 나서 프로토콜들을 고유 특성과 성능 측면에서 정성적으로 비교한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3775-3788
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• 2014

With the increasing number of the wireless and mobile networks, the way that people use the Internet has changed substantively. Wireless multimedia services, such as wireless video streaming, mobile video game, and mobile voice over IP, will become the main applications of the future wireless Internet. To accommodate the growing volume of wireless data traffic and multimedia services, cognitive radio (CR) and Information-Centric Network (ICN) have been proposed to maximize the utilization of wireless spectrum and improve the network performance. Although CR and ICN have high potential significance for the future wireless Internet, few studies have been conducted on collaborative operations of CR and ICN. Due to the lack of infrastructure support in multi-hop ad hoc CR networks, the problem is more challenging for video streaming services. In this paper, we propose a Cross-layer Video Streaming Mechanism (CLISM) for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Information Centric Networks (CRAH-ICNs). The CLISM included two distributed schemes which are designed for the forwarding nodes and receiving nodes in CRAH-ICNs. With the cross-layer approach, the CLISM is able to self-adapt the variation of the link conditions without the central network controller. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CLISM efficiently adjust video transmission policy under various network conditions.