• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.377-384
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• 2011

Cooperative beamforming has previously been proven to be an efficient way to improve the cooperative diversity. This method generally requires all relay nodes to participate in beamforming, which can be seen as "all participate" cooperative beamforming. However, not all relay nodes have constructive impacts on the end-to-end bit error rate (BER) performance. Based on this observation, we propose a new cooperative scheme which only selects those "appropriate" relay nodes to perform cooperative beamforming. Such relay nodes can be simply determined with mean channel gains. Therefore, the selection complexity is significantly reduced as global instantaneous channel state information is not required. This scheme guarantees that energy is only allocated to the "appropriate" relay nodes, and hence provides superior diversity. We also prove that power allocation among source and selected relay nodes is a convex problem, and can be resolved with lower computational complexity. Simulation results demonstrate that our scheme achieves an essential improvement in terms of BER performance for both optimal and limited feedback scenarios, as well as high energy-efficiency for the energy-constrained networks.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2047-2066
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• 2016

In this paper, we investigate joint power allocation and relay selection (PARS) schemes in non-orthogonal cooperative protocol (NOCP) based cognitive relay networks. Generally, NOCP outperforms the orthogonal cooperative protocol (OCP), since it can provide more transmit diversity. However, most existing PARS schemes in cognitive relay networks focus on OCP, which are not suitable for NOCP. In the context of NOCP, we first derive the joint constraints of transmit power limit for secondary user (SU) and interference constraint for primary user (PU). Then we formulate optimization problems under the aforementioned constraints to maximize the capacity of SU in amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) modes, respectively. Correspondingly, we derive the closed form solutions with respect to different parameters. Numerical results are provided to verify the performance improvement of the proposed PARS schemes.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.280-285
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• 2014

In this paper, the optimal power control problem in a cooperative relay network is investigated and a new power control scheme is proposed based on a non-cooperative differential game. Optimal power allocated to each node for a relay is formulated using the Nash equilibrium in this paper, considering both the throughput and energy efficiency together. It is proved that the non-cooperative differential game algorithm is applicable and the optimal power level can be achieved.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1131-1136
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• 2020

협력 네트워크는 중계기를 이용하여 신호를 전송하고, 수신기에서는 여러 중계기를 통해서 수신된 신호를 결합하여 복조함으로써 통신성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 송신기-중계기 사이에서는 일반적인 변조 방식을 사용하고 중계기-수신기 사이에서는 공간 시간 코드 방식을 적용하는 협력 네트워크 시스템을 가정하여, 자원 할당에 따른 효과를 분석한다. 일반적인 변조 방식은 동기 변조 방식과 차등 변조 방식 두 가지를 고려하고 공간 시간 코드 방식은 차등 변조 방식을 적용한다. 자원 할당은 중계기의 위치와 전송에너지를 고려하며 중계기의 개수에 따른 성능 또한 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5249-5267
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• 2016

Cognitive radio is an efficient technique to improve spectrum efficiency and relieve the pressure of spectrum resources. In this paper, we investigate the spectrum sensing period in cooperative relay cognitive radio networks; analyze the relationship between the available capacity and the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal of second users, the target probability of detection and the active probability of primary users. Finally, we derive the closed form expression of the optimal spectrum sensing period in terms of maximum throughput. We simulate the probability of false alarm and available capacity of cognitive radio networks and compare optimal spectrum sensing period scheme with fixed sensing period one in these performance. Simulation results show that the optimal sensing period makes the cognitive networks achieve the higher throughput and better spectrum sensing performance than the fixed sensing period does. Cooperative relay cognitive radio networks with optimal spectrum sensing period can achieve the high capacity and steady probability of false alarm in different target probability of detection. It provides a valuable reference for choosing the optimal spectrum sensing period in cooperative relay cognitive radio networks.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.89-91
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• 2009

This letter considers the problem of resource sharing among a relay and multiple user nodes in cooperative transmission networks. We formulate this problem as a sellers' market competition and use a noncooperative game to jointly consider the benefits of the relay and the users. We also develop a distributed algorithm to search the Nash equilibrium, the solution of the game. The convergence of the proposed algorithm is analyzed. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed game can stimulate cooperative diversity among the selfish user nodes and coordinate resource allocation among the user nodes effectively.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.671-676
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• 2015

협력네트워크는 중계기를 이용하여 데이터를 전송함으로서 음영지역을 해소하고 가상의 다중입출력 구성을 통해 통신성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 송신기와 중계기 사이에서는 동기변조 방식을 이용하고 중계기와 수신기 사이에서는 차등변조 방식을 이용하는 부분차등변조 방식을 적용한 협력네트워크의 성능을 중계기의 위치에 따라 분석한다. 성능분석은 송신기와 수신기사이의 직접파가 존재하는 시스템과 존재하지 않는 시스템 두 가지를 고려하는데, 직접파는 차등변조 방식을 적용한다. 또한 전체시스템이 차등변조 방식을 이용했을 경우에 중계기 위치에 따른 성능을 부분차등변조 방식과 비교한다. 시스템의 성능은 송신기와 수신기 사이의 심벌오류율을 이용한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.3501-3523
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• 2017

It is a classical integer optimization difficulty to design an optimal selection scheme in cooperative relay networks considering co-channel interference (CCI). In this paper, we solve single-objective and multi-objective relay selection problem. For the single-objective relay selection problem, in order to attain optimal system performance of cooperative relay network, a novel quantum differential evolutionary algorithm (QDEA) is proposed to resolve the optimization difficulty of optimal relay selection, and the proposed optimal relay selection scheme is called as optimal relay selection based on quantum differential evolutionary algorithm (QDEA). The proposed QDEA combines the advantages of quantum computing theory and differential evolutionary algorithm (DEA) to improve exploring and exploiting potency of DEA. So QDEA has the capability to find the optimal relay selection scheme in cooperative relay networks. For the multi-objective relay selection problem, we propose a novel non-dominated sorting quantum differential evolutionary algorithm (NSQDEA) to solve the relay selection problem which considers two objectives. Simulation results indicate that the proposed relay selection scheme based on QDEA is superior to other intelligent relay selection schemes based on differential evolutionary algorithm, artificial bee colony optimization and quantum bee colony optimization in terms of convergence speed and accuracy for the single-objective relay selection problem. Meanwhile, the simulation results also show that the proposed relay selection scheme based on NSQDEA has a good performance on multi-objective relay selection.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.445-450
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• 2020

협력 네트워크는 전송기에서 송신기로 신호를 전송할 때 여러 개의 중계기를 통해 신호를 전송함으로써 통신성능을 향상시키고 전송용량을 증가시키는 장점을 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 송신기와 중계기 사이에서는 일반적인 이진변조방식을 이용하여 신호를 전송하고 중계기와 수신기 사이에서는 차등 공간 시간 코드 방식을 적용한 신호전송 시스템을 고려한다. 먼저 송신기와 중계기 사이에서 동기방식과 차등변조 방식을 적용했을 때의 성능을 분석한다. 변조방식 및 중계기의 개수를 고려한 다양한 중계기 위치에서의 성능 또한 비교한다.