• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2010

Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) is an efficient tool to measure the performance of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems and cooperative systems. Recently, cooperative multicast system with wireless network coding stretched tremendous interesting due to that it can drastically enhance the throughput of the wireless networks. It is desirable to apply DMT to the performance analysis on the multicast system with wireless network coding. In this paper, DMT is performed at the three proposed wireless network coding protocols, i.e., non-regenerative network coding (NRNC), regenerative complex field network coding (RCNC) and regenerative Galois field network coding (RGNC). The DMT analysis shows that under the same system performance, i.e., the same diversity gain, all the three network coding protocols outperform the traditional transmission scheme without network coding in terms of multiplexing gain. Our DMT analysis also exhibits the trends of the three network coding protocols' performance when multiplexing gain is changing from the lower region to the higher region. Monte-Carlo simulations verify the prediction of DMT.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.463-471
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• 2011

Cooperative communications using relays in wireless networks have similar effects of multiple-input and multiple-output without the need of multiple antennas at each node. To implement cooperation into a system, efficient protocols are desired. In IEEE 802.11 families such as a/b/g, mobile stations can automatically adjust transmission rates according to channel conditions. However throughput performance degradation is observed by low-rate stations in multi-rate circumstances resulting in so-called performance anomaly. In this paper, we propose active relay-based cooperative medium access control (AR-CMAC) protocol, in which active relays desiring to transmit their own data for cooperation participate in relaying, and it is designed to increase throughput as a solution to performance anomaly. We have analyzed the performance of the simplified AR-CMAC using an embedded Markov chain model to demonstrate the gain of AR-CMAC and to verify it with our simulations. Simulations in an infrastructure network with an IEEE 802.11b/g access point show noticeable improvement than the legacy schemes.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권2B호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2008

We propose new routing scheme, Cooperative Diversity-based Routing (CDR)which utilize the cooperative space diversity for power saving and for performance enhancement of wireless ad-hoc networks. The end-to-end performance of the proposed routing, CDR, is analyzed based on the Haenggi's link model. The improved performance is compared with Multi-hop Relay Routing (MRR) by analytical methods. When the required outage probability is $1{\times}10^{-3}$ at the destination node in ad-hoc networks with 7 nodes, we noticed that each node can save power consumption by 21.5 dB in average, by using our proposed CDR compared to MRR.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1997년도 Proceedings International Workshop on New Video Media Technology
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• pp.83-88
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• 1997

In this study, we focus on precise and natural cooperative object manipulation in a virtual space. We introduce two virtually expanded physical laws-virtual mechanical equilibrium on a rigid object and exclusive object arrangement-to create realistic cooperative manipulation. We have built a trial system according to our proposed design. The method is expected to allow users to exchange intended manipulation by haptic and visual channels.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권12A호
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• pp.1138-1146
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• 2008

This paper considers 2-hop wireless cooperative communications networks with fixed decode-and-forward relays. Specifically, we first derive the closed-form BER expression for theoretically evaluating the end-to-end performance of these networks. Then, based on this expression and long-tenn fading statistics, we propose a power allocation method for source and relay. Such a method brings about multiple advantages in tenn of spectral efficiency and implementation complexity over other power allocation methods based on instantaneous fading statistics. A variety of numerical results reveal that the cooperative communications scheme with the proposed power allocation significantly outperforms that with the equal power allocation and the direct transmission scheme for any position of the relay subject to the same total transmit power constraint.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.156-162
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• 2008

Cooperative relays can provide spatial diversity and improve performance of wireless communications. In this paper, we study subcarrier power allocation at the relays for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless systems. For cooperative relay with amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) algorithms, we investigate the impact of power allocation to the mutual information between the source and destination. From our simulation results on word~error-rate (WER) performance, we find that the DF algorithm with power allocation provides better performance than that of AF algorithm in a single path relay network because the former is able to eliminate channel noise at each relay. For the multiple path relay network, however, the network structure is already resistant to noise and channel distortion, and AF approach is a more attractive choice due to its lower complexity.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.306-312
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• 2011

In this paper, an efficient retransmission scheme using cooperation from neighboring nodes is investigated. In the cooperative retransmission scheme, an erroneous packet is retransmitted to the destination by cooperative nodes where distributed beamforming is used to accommodate multiple cooperating nodes. A Markov model is used to analyze throughput efficiency and average delay of the proposed retransmission scheme. It is shown that the analytical results are well matched with the simulated results and improved throughput and delay performance can be achieved as compared to the traditional retransmission scheme. The performance of the proposed cooperative retransmission is investigated in the multi-hop configuration via computer simulation. The transmit power for retransmission packet is also investigated and it can be significantly reduced by using a small feedback channel.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.1397-1405
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• 2012

협력통신용 MAC 프로토콜은 주파수 자원이 한정된 무선통신망에서 프레임 전송속도를 증가시키는데 매우 중요한 역할을 담당한다. 본 논문에서는 협력통신용 MAC 프로토콜 기법에서 매우 중요한 협력노드를 선정하는 방법에 대하여 연구를 수행하였으며, 선행연구로서 기존에 제안된 도움노드 선정기법들을 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 성능평가를 직접 수행하여 성능결과를 서로 비교하였고, 각 기법의 장단점을 분석하였다. 성능평가 척도로는 시스템 처리량을 사용하였으며, 각 통신노드는 IEEE 802.11b 무선 랜 프로토콜을 사용하여 주어진 통신영역 내에서 자유롭게 이동하는 random way point 이동성 모델을 사용하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.1561-1570
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• 2009

Ad Hoc 네트워크는 이동통신망이나 AP (access point)와 통신하는 무선 랜과는 달리 유사한 특징을 가진 모든 단말들이 무선채널을 통해 직접 통신하는 좀 더 진화된 통신망이 라고 할 수 있다. Ad Hoc 네트워크에서 시스템 성능을 높이려는 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있는데 그 중의 하나가 Cooperative 통신이라고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 Cooperative 통신을 실현할 수 있는 CO-MAC 프로토콜을 제안하고, 수학식을 사용하여 성능평가를 수행하였다. 도출된 성능평가 결과를 통해 IEEE 802.11 표준인 DCF 기법, 그리고 기존 연구에서 제안된 rDCF 기법과 성능비교를 통해 프레임 전송오류 확률이 증가할 때 시스템 처리량이 많이 개선됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.3004-3015
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• 2014

This letter proposes an efficient joint resource allocation scheme for OFDM-based cooperative cognitive radio networks (CRNs) under various practical limitations. Compared with those traditional approaches, which guarantee the transmission rates of cognitive users, the proposed scheme ensures that cognitive users are maintained in proportion to the predefined target rates. Numerical simulation shows that the proposed scheme can achieve a reasonable tradeoff between performance and computational complexity.