• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.1208-1222
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• 2014

Due to the low utilization and scarcity of frequency spectrum in current spectrum allocation methodology, cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have been proposed as a promising method to solve the problem, of which spectrum sensing is an important technology to utilize the precious spectrum resources. In order to protect the primary user from being interfered, most of the related works focus only on the restriction of the missed detection probability, which may causes over-protection of the primary user. Thus the interference probability is defined and the interference-aware sensing model is introduced in this paper. The interference-aware sensing model takes the spatial conditions into consideration, and can further improve the network performance with good spectrum reuse opportunity. Meanwhile, as so many fading factors affect the spectrum channel, errors are inevitably exist in the reporting channel in cooperative sensing, which is improper to be ignored. Motivated by the above, in this paper, we study the throughput tradeoff for interference-aware cognitive radio networks over imperfect reporting channel. For the cooperative spectrum sensing, the K-out-of-N fusion rule is used. By jointly optimizing the sensing time and the parameter K value, the maximum throughput can be achieved. Theoretical analysis is given to prove the feasibility of the optimization and computer simulations also shows that the maximum throughput can be achieved when the sensing time and the parameter of K value are both optimized.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.5800-5818
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• 2018

Interference may occur when several co-located wireless body area networks (WBANs) share the same channel simultaneously, which is compressed by resource scheduling generally. In this paper, a QoS-aware Adaptive Coloring (QAC) scheduling algorithm is proposed, which contains two components: interference sets determination and time slots assignment. The highlight of QAC is to determine the interference graph based on the relay scheme and adapted to the network QoS by multi-coloring approach. However, the frequent resource assignment brings in extra energy consumption and packet loss. Thus we come up with a launch condition for the QAC scheduling algorithm, that is if the interference duration is longer than a threshold predetermined, time slots rescheduling is activated. Furthermore, based on the relative distance and moving speed between WBANs, a prediction model for interference duration is proposed. The simulation results show that compared with the state-of-the-art approaches, the QAC scheduling algorithm has better performance in terms of network capacity, average delay and resource utility.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.508-522
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• 2011

Femtocell is an economical solution to provide high speed indoor communication instead of the conventional macro-cellular networks. Especially, OFDMA femtocell is considered in the next generation cellular network such as 3GPP LTE and mobile WiMAX system. Although the femtocell has great advantages to accommodate indoor users, interference management problem is a critical issue to operate femtocell network. Existing OFDMA resource management algorithms only consider optimizing system-centric metric, and cannot manage the co-channel interference. Moreover, it is hard to cooperate with other femtocells to control the interference, since the self-configurable characteristics of femtocell. This paper proposes a novel interference-aware resource allocation algorithm for OFDMA femtocell networks. The proposed algorithm allocates resources according to a new objective function which reflects the effect of interference, and the heuristic algorithm is also introduced to reduce the complexity of the original problem. The Monte-Carlo simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm compared to the existing solutions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.4844-4864
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• 2017

Interference-aware routing protocol design for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is one of the key strategies in reducing packet loss in the highly hostile underwater environment. The reduced interference causes efficient utilization of the limited battery power of the sensor nodes that, in consequence, prolongs the entire network lifetime. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient interference-aware routing (EEIAR) protocol for UWSNs. A sender node selects the best relay node in its neighborhood with the lowest depth and the least number of neighbors. Combination of the two routing metrics ensures that data packets are forwarded along the least interference paths to reach the final destination. The proposed work is unique in that it does not require the full dimensional localization information of sensor nodes and the network total depth is segmented to identify source, relay and neighbor nodes. Simulation results reveal better performance of the scheme than the counterparts DBR and EEDBR techniques in terms of energy efficiency, packet delivery ratio and end-to-end delay.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

Small-cells in heterogeneous networks are one of the important technologies to increase the coverage and capacity in 5G cellular networks. However, due to the randomly arranged small-cells, co-tier and cross-tier interference increase, deteriorating the system performance of the network. In order to manage the interference, some channel management methods use fractional frequency reuse(FFR) that divides the cell coverage into the inner region(IR) and outer region(OR) based on the distance from the macro base station(MBS). However, since it is impossible to properly measure the distance in the method with FFR, we propose a new interference aware FFR(IA-FFR) method to enhance the system performance. That is, the proposed IA-FFR method divides the MUEs and SBSs into the IR and OR groups based on the signal to interference plus noise ratio(SINR) of macro user equipments(MUEs) and received signals strength of small-cell base stations(SBSs) from the MBS, respectively, and then dynamically assigns subchannels to MUEs and small-cell user equipments. As a result, the proposed IA-FFR method outperforms other methods in terms of the system capacity and outage probability.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.1229-1242
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• 2017

In this paper, an interference aware distributed multi-channel MAC (IDMMAC) protocol is proposed for wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs). The WSAN consists of a huge number of sensors and ample amount of actors. Hence, in the IDMMAC protocol a lightweight channel selection mechanism is proposed to enhance the sensor's lifetime. The IDMMAC protocol divides the beacon interval into two phases (i.e., the ad-hoc traffic indication message (ATIM) window phase and data transmission phase). When a sensor wants to transmit event information to the actor, it negotiates the maximum packet reception ratio (PRR) and the capacity channel in the ATIM window with its 1-hop sensors. The channel negotiation takes place via a control channel. To improve the packet delivery ratio of the IDMMAC protocol, each actor selects a backup cluster head (BCH) from its cluster members. The BCH is elected based on its residual energy and node degree. The BCH selection phase takes place whenever an actor wants to perform actions in the event area or it leaves the cluster to help a neighbor actor. Furthermore, an interference and throughput aware multi-channel MAC protocol is also proposed for actor-actor coordination. An actor selects a minimum interference and maximum throughput channel among the available channels to communicate with the destination actor. The performance of the proposed IDMMAC protocol is analyzed using standard network parameters, such as packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and energy dissipation, in the network. The obtained simulation results indicate that the IDMMAC protocol performs well compared to the existing MAC protocols.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권12호
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• pp.2272-2293
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• 2011

Communication technology of future networks is predicted to provide a large variety of services including WiFi service in vehicular network. In this paper, we assume that vehicles are embedded with WiMAX antenna and in-vehicle terminals receive WiMAX traffic through WiFi interface. This assumption will impose severe performance degradation due to interference among mobile BSSs when WiFi access points (APs) are densely located. Existing interference avoidance techniques cannot properly resolve the above problems and do not cope with dynamically moving vehicular scenario since they focus only on the fixed network topology. In this paper, we propose a mobility-aware interference avoidance scheme for WiFi services. The proposed scheme computes the interference duration by exploiting mobility vector and location information of neighboring APs. If the interference duration is not negligible, our scheme searches for another channel in order to avoid interference. However, if the interference duration is negligible, our scheme continues to use the channel to reduce switching overhead. To measure the effectiveness of the proposed scheme against other existing techniques, we evaluated performance by using OPNET simulator. Through the simulation, we obtained about 60% reduction in the maximum interference frequency and about 67% improvement in throughput. Furthermore, our scheme provides fair channel usage.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2015

LTE-advanced와 IEEE 802.16m과 같은 차세대 셀룰러 네트워크는 중계기를 이용하여 적은 비용으로 높은 전송률을 제공하며 음영지역을 해소한다. 하지만 중계기에 의해 좁아진 셀 간격 때문에 셀 간 간섭은 심화되며, 특히 OFDMA를 사용하는 셀룰러 네트워크의 하향 액세스 링크(access link)는 많은 양의 데이터를 기지국이나 중계기가 동시에 사용자 단말에게 전송하기 때문에 간섭에 의한 성능저하가 심각하다. 이를 해결하기 위한 기존의 연구는 중계기의 분포를 대칭적으로 가정하였기에 실제 네트워크에 적용하는 것은 불가능하였다. 본 논문에서는 임의의 위치에 설치된 다수의 중계기를 이용하는 다중홉 셀룰러 네트워크에서 셀 간의 간섭을 완화하기 위한 채널할당방안을 제안하여 신호대간섭잡음비(Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio)를 높이고, 전력 제어에 필요한 제어 메시지의 수를 감소시켜 네트워크의 데이터 전송률을 높이고자 한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.1063-1070
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• 2015

본 논문은 다중 셀 기반의 다중 안테나 상향링크 네트워크에서 사용자가 인접 셀 기지국에 미치는 간섭의 양을 기반으로 송신 전력을 제어하고 사용자를 분산적으로 스케쥴링 방식을 제안한다. 시분할 시스템의 상호 호환성 특성을 이용하여 각 사용자는 인접 기지국으로부터 받은 파일럿 신호를 통하여 간섭 채널을 습득하고 데이터 전송 시 인접 셀 기지국들에 미칠 간섭을 각자 계산할 수 있다고 가정한다. 각 사용자는 특이값 분해를 통해서 송신 빔포밍 벡터를 생성하고 인접 셀 기지국으로 미칠 간섭의 양을 계산하여 미리 결정된 임계값보다 클 경우 자신의 송신 전력을 낮춘다. 각 기지국에서는 사용자들 중 전력 제어된 채널 이득 값이 가장 큰 사용자를 선택한다. 제안된 기법의 상향링크 데이터 전송률은 기존의 사용자 스케쥴링 알고리즘들에 비하여 월등히 좋은 성능을 보인다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2006

유비쿼터스와 퍼베이시브 환경에서의 위치인지 기술은 자동차 내비게이션, 지능형 로봇, 대화형 가상 게임, 물류 서비스, 그리고 자산 추적 등 다양한 응용 기회를 제공해 주고 있다. 더욱이 위치 인식 정보뿐 아니라 객체 혹은 센서 노드 주변의 상황 정보까지도 전달하여 제한된 공간에서의 다양한 응용에 활용될 것으로 보인다. 그러나 위치 측정에 있어 환경적 요소와 측정 매체 등에 의해 간섭이라는 문제점을 갖는다. 특히 실내 좁은 공간에서 비컨 신호간의 간섭은 거리 측정의 심각한 오류뿐 아니라 더 나아가 위치 인식 시스템 전체 성능에도 영향을 미치게 된다. 이러한 간섭 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 비컨의 초음파 및 RF 신호 세기를 각 노드 별로 차별화하는 방식인 EEM을 제안한다.