• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.66-76
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• 2015

In this work, we propose an efficient selective retransmission method for multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems under orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signaling. A typical received OFDM frame may have some symbols in error, which results in a retransmission of the entire frame. Such a retransmission is often unnecessary, and to avoid this, we propose a method to selectively retransmit symbols that correspond to poor-quality subcarriers. We use the condition numbers of the subcarrier channel matrices of the MIMO-OFDM system as a quality measure. The proposed scheme is embedded in the modulation layer and is independent of conventional hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) methods. The receiver integrates the original OFDM and the punctured retransmitted OFDM signals for more reliable detection. The targeted retransmission results in fewer negative acknowledgements from conventional HARQ algorithms, which results in increasing bandwidth and power efficiency. We investigate the efficacy of the proposed method for optimal and suboptimal receivers. The simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method on throughput for MIMO-OFDM systems.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.868-874
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a new jammer suppression algorithm that uses orthogonal waveform space projection (OWSP) processing for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar system exposed to a jamming signal. Generally, a conventional suppression algorithm based on adaptive beamforming (ABF) needs a covariance matrix composed of the jammer and noise only. By exploiting the orthogonality of the transmitting waveforms of MIMO, we can construct a transmitting waveform space (TWS). Then, using the OWSP processing, we can build a space orthogonal to the TWS that contains no SOI. By excluding the SOI from the received signal, even in the case that contains the SOI and jamming signal, the proposed algorithm makes it possible to evaluate the covariance matrix for ABF. We applied the proposed OWSP processing to suppressing the jamming signal in bistatic MIMO radar. We verified the performance of the proposed algorithm by comparing the SINR loss to that of the ideal covariance matrix composed of the jammer and noise only. We also derived the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm and compared the estimation of the DOD and DOA using the SOI with those using the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) algorithm.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.248-256
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• 2009

MIMO(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) 시스템에서 EB(Eigen-Beamforming)는 MIMO 채 널의 특이 값 분해(Singular Value Decomposition: SVD)를 통하여 수신기의 유효 신호 대 잡음비(Signal-to-Interference Plus Noise Ratio: SI-NR)를 최대화하는 빔을 형성하는 방법으로써 널리 활용되고 있으나, 인접 셀 간섭 신호의 영향으로 셀 경계에 위치한 단말기의 신호 검출 성능은 급격히 열화되고 전송 효율은 감소하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 EB 전송을 활용하는 경우, 적응적 인접 셀 간섭 완화 방안을 제시하고 그 수신 성능을 평가한다. 특히, EB 전송을 이용하여 기지국예서 전송된 신호를 단말기가 수신할 때, 최대의 유효 신호 대 간섭 잡음비를 얻기 위한 OC(Optimum Combining) 및 MMSE-ISD(Minimum Mean-Squared Error for Intercell Spatial Demultiplexing)를 적응적으로 사용하기 위한 기준을 제시하고 유효 신호 대 간섭 잡음비 및 전송 용량 측면의 수신 성능을 분석한다. 제안하는 적응적 수신 방식은 수신 빔포밍 벡터만을 사용하는 기존의 EB 수신 방식 대비 평균 전송 용량 측면에서 향상된 성능을 보이며, 셀 경계 지역에 단말기가 위치할 경우 최대 2 bps/Hz 성능 개선을 가져온다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.2607-2625
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• 2014

Previous studies on multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mostly assume a homogeneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), where each user has the same average SNR. However, real networks are more likely to feature heterogeneous SNRs (a random-valued average SNR). Motivated by this fact, we analyze a multiuser MIMO downlink with a zero-forcing (ZF) receiver in a heterogeneous SNR environment. A transmitter with Mantennas constructs M orthonormal beams and performs the SNR-based proportional fairness (S-PF) scheduling where data are transmitted to users each with the highest ratio of the SNR to the average SNR per beam. We develop a new analytical expression for the sum throughput of the multiuser MIMO system. Furthermore, simply modifying the expression provides the sum throughput for important special cases such as homogeneous SNR, max-rate scheduling, or high SNR. From the analysis, we obtain new insights (lemmas): i) S-PF scheduling maximizes the sum throughput in the homogeneous SNR and ii) under high SNR and a large number of users, S-PF scheduling yields the same multiuser diversity for both heterogeneous SNRs and homogeneous SNRs. Numerical simulation shows the interesting result that the sum throughput is not always proportional to M for a small number of users.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2009

We investigate the connectivity of fading wireless ad-hoc networks with a pair of novel connectivity metrics. Our first metric looks at the problem of connectivity relying on the outage capacity of MIMO channels. Our second metric relies on a probabilistic treatment of the symbol error rates for such channels. We relate both capacity and symbol error rates to the characteristics of the underlying communication system such as antenna configuration, modulation, coding, and signal strength measured in terms of signal-to-interference-noise-ratio. For each metric of connectivity, we also provide a simplified treatment in the case of ergodic fading channels. In each case, we assume a pair of nodes are connected if their bi-directional measure of connectivity is better than a given threshold. Our analysis relies on the central limit theorem to approximate the distribution of the combined undesired signal affecting each link of an ad-hoc network as Gaussian. Supported by our simulation results, our analysis shows that (1) a measure of connectivity purely based on signal strength is not capable of accurately capturing the connectivity phenomenon, and (2) employing multiple antenna mobile nodes improves the connectivity of fading ad-hoc networks.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.122-130
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• 2008

최근 무선통신의 발달로 인하여 음성 서비스 이외의 동영상, 인터넷 서비스와 같은 보다 큰 전송률을 요구하는 다양한 서비스 요구가 급속도로 높아지고 있다. 고속 전송률 서비스를 낮은 가격으로 많은 사용자에게 제공하기 위해 제한된 통신자원을 이용하여 보다 많은 데이터를 전송할 수 있는 물리계층 기술이 필요하게 되어 직교 주파수 다중 방식인 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)과 다수의 송 수신 안테나를 이용하는MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output)시스템을 사용하게 되었다. MIMO 기술 중 Spatial Multiplexing은 전송용량 이득은 가질 수 있지만, 다수의 안테나로 인한 상관으로 인해 Diversity gain을 얻지 못하는 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 차세대 전송기술로 부각되고 있는 고속의 무선 데이터 전송기술 내에서, MIMO-OFDM 시스템인 SDM방식에서 Diversity gain을 얻고자 제안된 Multi-Block을 이용한 SDM의 성능에 대해 알아보고, 앞으로의 연구 방향에 대해 설명하고자 한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.2063-2081
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• 2018

A resource allocation algorithm is proposed in this paper to simultaneously minimize the total system power consumption and maximize the system throughput for the downlink of multi-user multiple input multiple output-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems. With the Lagrange dual decomposition method, we transform the original problem to its convex dual problem and prove that the duality gap between the two problems is zero, which means the optimal solution of the original problem can be obtained by solving its dual problem. Then, we use convex optimization method to solve the dual problem and utilize bisection method to obtain the optimal dual variable. The numerical results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to traditional single-objective optimization method in both the system throughput and the system energy consumption.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2008

전통적인 무선 통신 시스템에서 주된 전력의 소모는 송신 전력이다. 따라서 최근에는 에너지가 제한된 무선 네트워크에 대한 많은 연구가 집중되고 있다. 예를 들어, 다중입력 다중출력 구조나 다중 안테나 통신 기술은 무선 시스템 및 네트워크에서 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 무선 네트워크에서 Go-back-N ARQ 기법을 적용한 MISO 시스템의 비트 오율과 처리율 성능을 분석하였고 MISO 기반의 무선 네트워크에서 에너지 소모를 SISO 기반의 무선 네트워크와 비교하였다. 얻어진 결과를 통하여 스마트한 시스템 디자인으로 이루어진 무선 네트워크에서 Go-back-N ARQ 기법을 적용한 MISO 시스템의 적용가능성을 보여준다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권10C호
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• pp.929-936
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• 2009

기존의 MIMO 다중 송수신기들이 협대역 flat 채널을 공유하고 있는 환경에서 오버레이 MIMO 시스템의 디자인을 고려한다. 오버레이 시스템의 수신기로 수신되는 기존 시스템 신호의 2nd-order 통계량과 오버레이 송신단으로부터 기존 시스템들의 수신단 사이의 채널이 모두 알려져 있다고 가정한다. 평균 송신 전력 제약과 이미 관심대역을 차지하고 있는 기존 시스템들의 수신단에 간섭을 일으키지 않는다는 제약 아래 오버레이 시스템의 각 수신안테나 출력에서의 데이터 심볼의 평균 제곱 오차 (MSE: mean-squared error)의 합인 전체 MSE를 최소화 하는 최적 오버레이 시스템의 선형 precoding과 decoding 행렬을 유도한다. 최적 해가 존재하기 위한 필요충분 조건 또한 유도하고, 제안된 시스템의 성능에 대한 모의 실험 결과를 제공한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.5745-5758
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• 2017

In this paper, we develop a simple but very effective 4 by 4 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna system for mobile phones consisting of different types of antennas to achieve low correlation property at the frequency ranges of 1710 to 2170 MHz, which covers wide LTE service bands, from band 1 to band 4. The proposed antenna system consists of two pair of antennas. Each pair consists of a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) and a coupling antenna which has the property of the loop. The use of two different antenna types of IFA and a coupling achieves high isolation. Proposed antenna system occupies relatively small area and positions at the four corners of a printed circuit board. The gap between the two antennas is 4 mm, in order to realize the good isolation performance. To evaluate the performance of our proposed antenna system, we perform various experiments. The proposed antenna shows a wide operating bandwidth greater than 460 MHz with isolation between the feeding ports higher than 17.5-dB. It also shows that the proposed antenna has low Envelop Correlation Coefficient (ECC) values smaller than 0.08 over the all desired frequency tuning ranges.