• 융합보안논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.159-165
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• 2016

NFV (Network Function Virtualization)를 통해 네트워크 사업자, 캐리어 등과 같은 업계에서는 NFV가 추구하는 S/W 기반의 장치를 통하여 신규 서비스 제공의 신속성과 네트워크 구축의 유연성 (flexibility)를 향상 시켜 CAPEX/OPEX를 대폭 감소시키고자 하였다. NFV 네트워크를 구축하여 동적인 서비스를 제공하기 위한 가장 중요한 고려사항 중의 하나는 네트워크 서비스의 기본 구성 요소인 리소스 (VNF)들을 적재적소에 동적으로 할당하는 방식을 결정하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 NFV에서 임의의 NS를 제공하기 위해 필요한 VNF의 노드, 링크 할당 및 노드에서의 스케줄링에 관한 최신 연구 동향을 분석하였다. 또한 본 논문에서는 이러한 연구결과를 기반으로 향후 RA (Resource Allocation)에서 추가적으로 연구해야 하는 스케줄링 문제 또한 제안하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2081-2101
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• 2016

Successive interference cancellation (SIC) is considered to be a promising technique to mitigate multi-user interference and achieve concurrent uplink transmissions, but the optimal power allocation (PA) issue for SIC users is not well addressed. In this article, we focus on the optimization of the PA ratio of users on an SIC channel and analytically obtain the optimal PA ratio with regard to the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) threshold for successful demodulation and the sustainable demodulation error rate. Then, we design an efficient resource allocation (RA) scheme using the obtained optimal PA ratio. Finally, we compare the proposal with the near-optimum RA obtained by a simulated annealing search and the RA scheme with random PA. Simulation results show that our proposal achieves a performance close to the near-optimum and much higher performance than the random scheme in terms of total utility and Jain's fairness index. To demonstrate the applicability of our proposal, we also simulate the proposal in various network paradigms, including wireless local area network, body area network, and vehicular ad hoc network.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.1153-1162
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• 2016

This paper addresses the resource allocation (RA) problem in multi-cell cognitive radio networks. Besides the interference power threshold to limit the interference on primary users PUs caused by cognitive users CUs, a proportional fairness constraint is used to guarantee fairness among multiple cognitive cells and the impact of imperfect spectrum sensing is taken into account. Additional constraints in typical real communication scenarios are also considered-such as a transmission power constraint of the cognitive base stations, unique subcarrier allocation to at most one CU, and others. The resulting RA problem belongs to the class of NP-hard problems. A computationally efficient optimal algorithm cannot therefore be found. Consequently, we propose a suboptimal RA algorithm composed of two modules: a subcarrier allocation module implemented by the immune algorithm, and a power control module using an improved sub-gradient method. To further enhance algorithm performance, these two modules are executed successively, and the sequence is repeated twice. We conduct extensive simulation experiments, which demonstrate that our proposed algorithm outperforms existing algorithms.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2024

Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) is a widely adopted Internet of Things (IoT) protocol due to its high range and lower energy consumption. LoRaWAN utilizes Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) for efficient resource (e.g., spreading factor and transmission power) management. The ADR manages these two resource parameters on the network server side and end device side. This paper focuses on analyzing the ADR and Gaussian ADR performance of LoRaWAN. We have performed NS3 simulation under a static scenario by varying the antenna height. The simulation results showed that antenna height has a significant impact on the packet delivery ratio. Higher antenna height (e.g., 50 m) has shown an improved packet success ratio when compared with lower antenna height (e.g., 10 m) in static and mobility scenarios. Based on the results, it is suggested to use the antenna at higher allevation for successful packet delivery.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.744-761
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• 2016

For about the past decade and a half research efforts into cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have increased dramatically. This is because CRN is recognized as a technology that has the potential to squeeze the most out of the existing spectrum and hence virtually increase the effective capacity of a wireless communication system. The resulting increased capacity is still a limited resource and its optimal allocation is a critical requirement in order to realize its full benefits. Allocating these additional resources to the secondary users (SUs) in a CRN is an extremely challenging task and integer programming based optimization tools have to be employed to achieve the goals which include, among several aspects, increasing SUs throughput without interfering with the activities of primary users. The theory of the optimization tools that can be used for resource allocations (RA) in CRN have been well established in the literature; convex programming is one of them, in fact the major one. However when it comes to application and implementation, it is noticed that the practical problems do not fit exactly into the format of well established tools and researchers have to apply approximations of different forms to assist in the process. In this survey paper, the optimization tools that have been applied to RA in CRNs are reviewed. In some instances the limitations of techniques used are pointed out and creative tools developed by researchers to solve the problems are identified. Some ideas of tools to be considered by researchers are suggested, and direction for future research in this area in order to improve on the existing tools are presented.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권7호
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• pp.580-591
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• 2013

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access(OFDMA)는 4세대 무선 통신을 위해 고려되는 변조와 다중 접속 기술이다. 본 논문에서는, OFDMA 시스템에서 더 나은 proportional rate의 자원할당 기법을 위해 전체 전력, 비트 오류율, 유저 간의 rate proportionality에 대한 제한 조건을 만족시키면서, 유저의 전송률을 최대화 시키는 전략 할당 알고리즘에 대해 기술하였다. 그리고 subcarrier 할당의 비율과 유저의 정규화된 proportionality 조건에 기반을 둔 전력 할당 방식을 제안하였다. 유저에게 subcarrier 할당을 위한 방법으로는 greedy 알고리즘과 waterfilling 기술이 적용되었다. 제안된 알고리즘에 대한 평가는 시뮬레이션을 통해서 이루어졌으며, 시뮬레이션을 통해서 제안된 알고리즘이 유저 간의 rate proportionality를 유지하면서 더 높은 시스템 채널 용량과 적은 소요 시간을 보인다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.950-975
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• 2016

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular networks is a promising add-on component for future radio communication systems. It provides more access opportunities for local device pairs and enhances system throughput (ST), especially when mobile relays (MR) are further enabled to facilitate D2D links when the channel condition of their desired links is unfavorable. However, mutual interference is inevitable due to spectral reuse, and moreover, selecting a suitable transmission mode to benefit the correlated resource allocation (RA) is another difficult problem. We aim to optimize ST of the hybrid system via joint consideration of mode selection (MS) and RA, which includes admission control (AC), power control (PC), channel assignment (CA) and relay selection (RS). However, the original problem is generally NP-hard; therefore, we decompose it into two parts where a hierarchical structure exists: (i) PC is mode-dependent, but its optimality can be perfectly addressed for any given mode with additional AC design to achieve individual quality-of-service requirements. (ii) Based on that optimality, the joint design of MS, CA and RS can be viewed from the graph perspective and transferred into the maximum weighted independent set problem, which is then approximated by our greedy algorithm in polynomial-time. Thanks to the numerical results, we elucidate the efficacy of our mechanism and observe a resulting gain in MR-aided D2D communication.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.152-167
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• 2016

This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for two-hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) decode-and-forward (DF) relay network, where a relay harvests energy from radio frequency signals transmitted by a source and then uses the harvested energy to assist information transmission from the source to its destination. The power splitting receiver is considered at the relay. To explore the performance limit of such a SWIPT-enabled system, a resource allocation (RA) optimization problem is formulated to maximize the achievable information rate of the system, where the power allocation, the subcarrier pairing and the power splitting factor are jointly optimized. As the problem is non-convex and there is no known solution method, we first decompose it into two separate subproblems and then design an efficient RA algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can achieve the maximum achievable rate of the system and also show that to achieve a better system performance, the relay node should be deployed near the source in the SWIPT-enabled two-hop OFDM DF relay system, which is very different from that in conventional non-SWIPT system where the relay should be deployed at the midpoint of the line between the source and the destination.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.33-48
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• 2024

향상된 모바일 광대역(eMBB), 초저지연 및 고신뢰 통신(URLLC), 대규모 기계형 통신(mMTC) 등의 특징을 가진 5G의 등장으로 인해 효율적인 네트워크 관리와 서비스 제공을 위해 증가하는 네트워크 트래픽과 복잡성 해결이 시급한 상황이다.본 논문에서는 기계학습(Machine Learning, ML) 및 딥러닝(Deep Learning, DL)기술을 활용하여 5G 네트워크의 초고속, 초저지연, 초연결성이라는 주요 과제를 해결하면서 네트워크 슬라이싱 및 자원 할당을 동적으로 최적화하는 새로운 접근 방식을 제시한다. 제안된 기법에서는 네트워크 트래픽 및 자원 할당에 대한 예측 모델, 네트워크 대역폭 및 지연 시간을 최적화하면서 동시에 개인 정보와 보안을 향상시키기 위한 연합 학습(FL) 기법을 사용한다. 특히, 본 논문에서는 랜덤 포레스트와 LSTM 등 다양한 알고리듬과 모델의 구현 방법에 대해 자세히 다루며, 이를 통해 5G 네트워크 운영의 자동화와 지능화를 위한 방법론을 제시한다. 마지막으로 제안된 기법을 통해 5G 네트워크에 ML 및 DL을 적용하여 얻을 수 있는 성능향상 효과를 성능평가 및 분석을 통해 검증하고 다양한 산업 응용 분야에서 네트워크 슬라이싱 및 자원 관리 최적화를 위한 솔루션을 제시한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.963-973
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• 2023

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered a key candidate technology for next-generation wireless communication systems due to its high spectral efficiency and massive connectivity. Incorporating the concepts of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) into NOMA can further improve the system efficiency, but the hardware complexity increases. This study develops an energy-efficient (EE) subchannel assignment framework for MIMO-NOMA systems under the quality-of-service and interference constraints. This framework handles an energy-efficient co-training-based semi-supervised learning (EE-CSL) algorithm, which utilizes a small portion of existing labeled data generated by numerical iterative algorithms for training. To improve the learning performance of the proposed EE-CSL, initial assignment is performed by a many-to-one matching (MOM) algorithm. The MOM algorithm helps achieve a low complex solution. Simulation results illustrate that a lower computational complexity of the EE-CSL algorithm helps significantly minimize the energy consumption in a network. Furthermore, the sum rate of NOMA outperforms conventional orthogonal multiple access.