• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.338-351
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• 2013

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication may provide high spectral efficiency through the deployment of a very large number of antenna elements at the base stations. The gains from massive MIMO communication come from the use of multi-user MIMO on the uplink and downlink, but with a large excess of antennas at the base station compared to the number of served users. Initial work on massive MIMO did not fully address several practical issues associated with its deployment. This paper considers the impact of channel aging on the performance of massive MIMO systems. The effects of channel variation are characterized as a function of different system parameters assuming a simple model for the channel time variations at the transmitter. Channel prediction is proposed to overcome channel aging effects. The analytical results on aging show how capacity is lost due to time variation in the channel. Numerical results in a multicell network show that massive MIMO works even with some channel variation and that channel prediction could partially overcome channel aging effects.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39A권7호
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• pp.413-423
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• 2014

전송 데이터 용량의 요구치가 급속히 증가하면서 공간 스트림마다 독립된 정보를 전송할 수 있는 spatial multiplexing (SM) 기반 multi-input multi-output (MIMO) 기술에 대한 관심이 증대되고 있다. 3GPP LTE-advanced, IEEE 802.11ac 등의 최근 표준들에서는 최대 8개까지의 공간 스트림을 지원하고 있으며, beyond 4G 시스템의 핵심 기술로 고려되고 있는 massive MIMO나 mm-wave 시스템에서는 수십~수백개 이상의 안테나 까지도 지원을 고려하고 있다. SM MIMO 시스템의 최적 복조 기법인 maximum likelihood (ML) 방식의 연산복잡도는 안테나수에 지수적으로 증가하므로, 안테나 수의 급속한 증가는 연산량의 급격한 증가를 유발하게 되어 낮은 복잡도로 구현 가능한 수신 기법들에 대한 필요성을 증대시키게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 SM MIMO 복조 기법들에 대한 연구 결과들을 설명한다. 또한, 기존의 복조 기법들과 달리, 지수적으로 복잡도의 증가가 필요하지 않는 간단한 선형 기법에 기반한 massive MIMO 시스템용 수신 기법에 대해서도 설명하고 향후의 시스템 디자인 시 고려할 사항들에 대해 간략히 정리한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.735-743
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• 2016

This paper proposes a direction-of-arrival (DOA)-based beamforming approach for multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output systems with uniform rectangular arrays (URAs). The proposed approach utilizes the steering vectors of the URA to form a basis of the spatial space and selects the partial space for beamforming according to the DOA information. As a result, the proposed approach is of lower computational complexity than the existing methods which utilize the channel covariance matrices. Moreover, the analysis demonstrates that the proposed approach can eliminate the interference in the limit of infinite number of the URA antennas. Since the proposed approach utilizes the multipaths to enhance the signal rather than discarding them, the proposed approach is of better performance than the existing low-complexity method, which is verified by the simulation results.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.398-406
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• 2013

In this paper, we investigate two types of in-phase and quadrature-phase (IQ) data transfer methods for cloud multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network operation. They are termed "after-precoding" and "before-precoding". We formulate a cloud massive MIMO operation problem that aims at selecting the best IQ data transfer method and transmission strategy (beamforming technique, the number of concurrently receiving users, the number of used antennas for transmission) to maximize the ergodic sum-rate under a limited capacity of the digital unit-radio unit link. Based on our proposed solution, the optimal numbers of users and antennas are simultaneously chosen. Numerical results confirm that the sum-rate gain is greater when adaptive "after/before-precoding" method is available than when only conventional "after-precoding" IQ-data transfer is available.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.326-335
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• 2017

In the uplink transmission of massive (or large-scale) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, large dimensional signal detection and its hardware design are challenging issues owing to the high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose low-complexity hardware architectures of Richardson iterative method-based massive MIMO detectors. We present two types of massive MIMO detectors, directly mapped (type1) and reformulated (type2) Richardson iterative methods. In the proposed Richardson method (type2), the matrix-by-matrix multiplications are reformulated to matrix-vector multiplications, thus reducing the computational complexity from $O(U^2)$ to O(U). Both massive MIMO detectors are implemented using a 65 nm CMOS process and compared in terms of detection performance under different channel conditions (high-mobility and flat fading channels). The hardware implementation results confirm that the proposed type1 Richardson method-based detector demonstrates up to 50% power savings over the proposed type2 detector under a flat fading channel. The type2 detector indicates a 37% power savings compared to the type1 under a high-mobility channel.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.582-591
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• 2018

In this paper, we present a performance analysis of large-scale multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems for wireless backhaul networks. We focus on fully connected N nodes in a wireless meshed and multi-hop network topology. We also consider a large number of antennas at both the receiver and transmitter. We investigate the transmission schemes to support fully connected N nodes for half-duplex and full-duplex transmission, analyze the achievable ergodic sum rate among N nodes, and propose a closed-form expression of the achievable ergodic sum rate for each scheme. Furthermore, we present numerical evaluation results and compare the resuts with closed-form expressions.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1055-1062
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• 2022

매시브 배열 안테나를 이용한 매시브 MIMO(: Multi Input Multi Output) 기술을 이용하기 위해서는 신호의 도래각(Angle of Arrival : AOA) 파악이 필수적으로 요구된다. 매시브 배열 안테나를 하면 기존 AOA 추정 알고리즘은 뛰어난 추정 성능을 갖지만, 안테나 요소 수에 비례하여 계산복잡도가 증가하는 단점이 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 캐스케이드 AOA 추정 알고리즘이 제안되었으며 다수의 논문을 통해 단일 형상의 (비)매시브 배열 안테나에 대한 성능이 입증되었다. 하지만 단일 및 이중 림 어레이 안테나가 적용된 캐스케이드 AOA 추정 알고리즘의 계산복잡도 비교는 이루어지지 않았다. 본 논문에서는 단일 및 이중 림 어레이를 캐스케이드 AOA 추정 알고리즘에 적용된 경우 AOA 추정을 위한 계산복잡도를 비교 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.794-815
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• 2023

The rapid development of mobile communication not only has made the industry gradually diversified, but also has enhanced the service quality requirements of users. In this regard, it is imperative to consider jointly network slicing and mobile edge computing. The former mainly ensures the requirements of varied vertical services preferably, and the latter solves the conflict between the user's own energy and harsh latency. At present, the integration of the two faces many challenges and need to carry out at different levels. The main target of the paper is to minimize the energy consumption of the system, and introduce a multi-slice joint task offloading and resource allocation scheme for massive multiple input multiple output enabled heterogeneous networks. The problem is formulated by collaborative optimizing offloading ratios, user association, transmission power and resource slicing, while being limited by the dissimilar latency and rate of multi-slice. To solve it, assign the optimal problem to two sub-problems of offloading decision and resource allocation, then solve them separately by exploiting the alternative optimization technique and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Finally, a novel slices task offloading and resource allocation algorithm is proposed to get the offloading and resource allocation strategies. Numerous simulation results manifest that the proposed scheme has certain feasibility and effectiveness, and its performance is better than the other baseline scheme.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2016

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach for cellular communication due to its energy efficiency and high achievable data rate. These advantages, however, can be realized only when channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitter. Since there are many antennas, CSI is too large to feed back without compression. To compress CSI, prior work has applied compressive sensing (CS) techniques and the fact that CSI can be sparsified. The adopted sparsifying bases fail, however, to reflect the spatial correlation and channel conditions or to be feasible in practice. In this paper, we propose a new sparsifying basis that reflects the long-term characteristics of the channel, and needs no change as long as the spatial correlation model does not change. We propose a new reconstruction algorithm for CS, and also suggest dimensionality reduction as a compression method. To feed back compressed CSI in practice, we propose a new codebook for the compressed channel quantization assuming no other-cell interference. Numerical results confirm that the proposed channel feedback mechanisms show better performance in point-to-point (single-user) and point-to-multi-point (multi-user) scenarios.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.123-129
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• 2018

최근 요구되는 트래픽이 지속적으로 증가하면서 광대역의 주파수를 확보할 수 있는 밀리미터파 기반의 이동통신 기술이 주목을 받고 있다. 하지만 밀리미터파 대역의 채널은 NLoS (Non-Line-of-Sight) 환경에 취약하며 경로 감쇠가 매우 큰 문제점을 갖는다. 이를 위해 기지국에 수십 개 이상의 안테나를 장착하여 빔 형성을 통해 경로 감쇠를 보완하는 Massive MIMO (Multiple Input and Multiple Output) 시스템이 연구되고 있다. 기존 빔 형성 기법에는 아날로그 방식과 디지털 방식이 있지만 시스템의 복잡도와 비용적인 측면에서 Massive MIMO 시스템에 적용하기에 현실적인 어려움이 따른다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 밀리미터파 대역의 Massive MIMO 시스템에서 상기 두 방식을 융합한 하이브리드 빔 형성 기법을 연구한다. 또한 다수의 안테나를 장착한 다중 사용자를 서비스할 수 있도록 공간 다중화 기법을 고려한다. 주파수 효율 분석을 통해 빔 형성 및 공간 다중화에 의한 이득을 평가한다.