• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.87-95
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 다중 홉 시스템에서 하나의 홉에 대한 채널 정보만을 이용하는 효율적인 부분 중계 노드 선택(efficient partial relay selection, EPRS) 기법에 대한 아웃티지 확률을 레일레이 페이딩 채널에서 분석한다. 특히, 디코딩 후 전달 중계 기반의 EPRS 기법에 대한 정확한 아웃티지 확률의 식을 유도한다. 또한, 다중 홉 시스템에서 EPRS 기법의 실효성을 확인하기 위하여, 임의의 중계 경로에서 종단간 신호 대 잡음비와 각 홉의 신호 대 잡음비의 상관관계를 분석한다. 그리고, 수치적 결과를 통해 EPRS 기법과 모든 채널 정보를 이용하는 중계 노드 선택 기법의 아웃티지 성능을 비교한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권1B호
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• pp.136-143
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 임의로 분포되어 있는 레일리 페이딩(Rayleigh fading) 채널 하에서 소스노드와 목적지 노드 사이의 직접 경로가 존재하고 복호 후 전송(decode-and-forward) 방식을 사용하여 중계하는 시스템을 고려한다. 이때, 다수의 릴레이 가운데 베스트 릴레이를 선택하여 이중 홉을 사용하여 통신하는 경우와 다중 홉을 사용하여 통신하는 경우의 아웃티지 확률을 구하고, 이를 통해 그 성능을 비교한다. 여기서 소스 노드와 릴레이들로부터 목적지 노드가 받은 모든 신호는 maximum ratio combining (MRC) 기법을 사용하여 결합하였고, 모든 경우에 대하여 목적지 노드에서 받은 수신 신호의 SNR이 갖는 확률 밀도 함수(probability density function, PDF)와 누적 확률 변수(cumulative density function, CDF)를 유도하였다. 이와 같이 구한 아웃티지 확률을 통해 릴레이의 개수가 2개일 때를 가정하고 실험한 결과, 채널 상태가 나쁠수록 다중 홉을 사용하여 통신하는 기법이 베스트 릴레이 선택 기법보다 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2014

In multi-hop communication systems, two-way relaying is one of the solutions to mitigate the spectral efficiency loss caused by a half-duplex transmission. In this paper, a simple two-way relaying scheme is proposed for two-hop two-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. In the proposed system, a base station and a relay station (RS), both equipped with two antennas, form a point-to-point MIMO channel, while the RS and two single-antenna mobile users form a point-to-multipoint multiuser (MU)-MIMO channel. Numerical examples show that the proposed system achieves a significant sum rate gain as compared to a one-way relaying system as the distance between a relay and the two users decreases. We also show that although we can expand the proposed scheme to more than two users, its performance gain as compared to that of one-way relaying decreases with an increase in the number of users.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.151-152
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• 2006

Multi-hop system has advantage of low power consumption, improved cell capacity, and enlarged service coverage. Most of previous researches show that multi-hop relaying beyond dual-hop relaying does not improve system performance significantly. This leads most researches are focused on dual-hop relaying system. In this paper, we propose an optimal boundary condition to support maximal data rate for fluctuation of traffic load in single cell dual-hop relay system.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권9A호
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• pp.853-866
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.22 기반의 인지라디오 시스템에서 다중 홉 릴레이 방식의 적용 방안을 제안한다. 먼저, 중계기를 통한 전송 시나리오를 가정하고 이를 지원하기 위한 물리 채널 프레임 구조를 예시한다. 다음으로, 분산 감지 (distributed sensing) 방식을 이용한 가용 채널 결정 방식을 제안하고 이를 토대로, 기지국 중심의 중앙집중형 (centralized) 채널 할당 기법 및 릴레이 전송을 위한 중계기 선택 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 그리고 수학적 해석과 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능 분석 결과는 제안한 다중 홉 릴레이 방식이 중계기를 사용하지 않은 기존의 인지 라디오 시스템에 비해 스펙트럼 이용효율과 시스템 수율 측면에서 성능 향상이 있음을 보여준다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.616-623
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• 2010

In this paper, exact closed-form expressions for outage probability and bit error probability (BEP) are presented for multi-hop decode-and-forward (DF) relaying schemes in conjunction with cooperative diversity, in which selection combining technique is employed at each node. We have shown that the proposed protocol offers remarkable diversity advantage over direct transmission as well as the conventional DF relaying schemes with the same combining technique. We then investigate the system performance when different diversity schemes are employed. It has been observed that the system performance loss due to selection combining relative to maximal ratio combining is not significant. Simulations are performed to confirm our theoretical analysis.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.393-399
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• 2011

We evaluate the link-level performance of cooperative multi-hop relaying networks with an maximum distance separable (MDS) code. The effect of the code on the link-level performance at the destination is investigated in terms of the outage probability and the spectral efficiency. Assuming a simple topology, we construct an absorbing Markov chain. Numerical results indicate that significant improvement can be achieved by incorporating an MDS code. MDS codes successfully facilitate recovery of the message block at a relaying node due to powerful error-correcting capability, so that it can reduce the outage probability. Furthermore, we evaluate the average number of hops where the message block can be delivered.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.4967-4986
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• 2015

Multi-hop relaying communications have great potentials in improving transmission performance by deploying relay nodes. The benefit is critically dependent on the accuracy of the channel state information (CSI) of all the transmitting links. However, the CSI has to be estimated. In this paper, we investigate the channel estimation problem in one-way multi-hop MIMO amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system, where both the two-hop and three-hop communication link exist. Traditional point-to-point MIMO channel estimation methods will result in error propagation in estimating relay links, and separately tackling the channel estimation issue of each link will lose the gain as part of channel matrices involved in multiple communication links. In order to exploit all the available gains, we develop a novel channel estimation model by structuring different communication links using the PARAFAC and PARATUCK2 tensor analysis. Furthermore, a two-stage fitting algorithm is derived to estimate all the channel matrices involved in the communication process. In particular, essential uniqueness is further discussed. Simulation results demonstrate the advantage and effectiveness of the proposed channel estimator.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.142-147
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel protocol called Cooperative Multi-hop transmission using Incremental Relaying (CMIR). We evaluate the performance of the CMIR protocol by deriving expressions for the average end-to-end outage probability and the average number of transmissions. Monte Carlo simulations are presented to verify the accuracy of the theoretical analyses.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2095-2110
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• 2015

This paper presents a design for a throughput-efficient online relay selection scheme for dual-hop multi-relay cooperative networks. Problems arise with these networks due to unpredictability of the relaying link quality and high time-consumption to probe the dual-hop link. In this paper, we firstly propose a novel probing and relaying protocol, which greatly reduces the overhead of the dual-hop link estimation by leveraging the wireless broadcasting nature of the network. We then formulate an opportunistic relay selection process for the online decision-making, which uses a tradeoff between obtaining more link information to establish better cooperative relaying and minimizing the time cost for dual-hop link estimation to achieve higher throughput. Dynamic programming is used to construct the throughput-optimal control policy for a typically heterogeneous Rayleigh fading environment, and determines which relay to probe and when to transmit the data. Additionally, we extend the main results to mixed Rayleigh/Rician link scenarios, i.e., where one side of the relaying link experiences Rayleigh fading while the other has Rician distribution. Numerical results validate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed relaying scheme, e.g., it achieves at least 107% throughput gain compared with the state of the art solution.