• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.10
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• pp.865-875
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• 2012

In this paper, we optimize antenna locations for a distributed antenna system (DAS) with distributed antenna (DA) ports equipped with multiple antennas under per-DA port power constraint. Maximum ratio transmission and scaled zero-forcing beamforming are employed for single-user and multi-user DAS, respectively. Instead of maximizing the cell average ergodic sum rate, we focus on a lower bound of the expected signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the single-cell scenario and the expected signal-to-leakage ratio (SLR) for the two-cell scenario to determine antenna locations. For the single-cell case, optimization of the SNR criterion generates a closed form solution in comparison to conventional iterative algorithms. Also, a gradient ascent algorithm is proposed to solve the SLR criterion for the two-cell scenario. Simulation results show that DAS with antenna locations obtained from the proposed algorithms achieve capacity gains over traditional centralized antenna systems.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.47-53
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• 2012

Time-reversal (TR) precoding focuses the energy of the effective channel in time and improves receive performance of a single tap receiver. Frequency-domain equal-gain-combining (FD-EGC) TR scheme, which works in linear block precoding fashion, has better temporal focusing performance than the traditional TR. Also, the FD-EGC improves receive performance of minimum mean square error receiver with distributed antenna systems (DAS). The detailed receive performance of the FD-EGC was analyzed in our previous work. In this paper, we focused on capacity analysis of the FD-EGC in DAS. We derived a scaling law which shows how the use of multiple antenna can increase the capacity of the FD-EGC precoding compared with that of no precoding. In addition, we analyze the secrecy rate of the FD-EGC which shows how high-rate messages can be transmitted towards an intended user without being decoded by the other users from the view point of information theoretic security.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.3-9
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• 2011

평균 셀 스펙트럼 효율 및 최대 데이터 전송 속도를 극대화 하는 방향으로 진화하던 3GPP LTE 표준 기술이 셀 가장자리에 있는 단말들까지 골고루 높은 데이터 전송 속도를 지원하는 기술로 진화하면서 전송 지점 간의 간섭 제어가 표준의 새로운 중요 사안으로 대두되고 있다. 이로 인해 전송지점 간의 간섭을 제어하기 위한 주요 기술인 협력 통신(coordinated multi-point transmission; CoMP) 이 LTEA-dvanced Release 11의 study item으로 합의되었고 표준화를 통한 CoMP 기술의 지원이 현실화되고 있는 상황이다. 특히 기지국의 안테나들이 셀 전 영역에 분산 배치되어 통신 서비스를 지원하는 분산 안테나 시스템 (distributed antenna system; DAS)을 heterogeneous 네트워크를 고려한 CoMP 기술중의 하나로 분류하고 DAS의 표준지원에 대한 가능성이 논의되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 LTE-Advanced Release 11에서 논의되고 있는 CoMP기술들의 표준화 진행 상황을 살펴보고 협력 통신 방법의 특성 및 시스템 설험을 통한 성능을 분석한다.