• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.625-634
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• 2014

This paper studies a dual-hop multiple-access relay network where two independent source nodes transmit information to a common destination node with the aid of multiple single-antenna amplify-and-forward relays. Each relay node is subject to an individual power constraint. We focus on the design of distributed beamforming schemes for the relays to support the transmission rate requirements of the two sources. To this end, we first characterize the achievable rate region for this network via solving a sequence of corner point optimization problems proposed in this paper. We also develop several low-complexity suboptimal schemes in closed form. Two inner bounds of the achievable rate region are theoretically shown to be approximately optimal in two special scenarios. Finally, numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approaches.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.2732-2749
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• 2023

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication has received increasing attention and been studied extensively thanks to its advantages in improving spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of cellular networks. This paper proposes a novel relay selection algorithm for multi-hop full-duplex D2D communications underlaying cellular networks. By selecting the relay of each hop in a reverse manner, the proposed algorithm reduces the heavy signaling overhead that traditional relay selection algorithms introduce. In addition, the social domain information of mobile terminals is taken into consideration and its influence on the performance of D2D communications studied, which is found significant enough not to be overlooked. Moreover, simulations show that the proposed algorithm, in absence of social relationship information, improves data throughput by around 70% and 7% and energy efficiency by 64% and 6%, compared with two benchmark algorithms, when D2D distance is 260 meters. In a more practical implementation considering social relationship information, although the proposed algorithm naturally achieves less throughput, it substantially increases the energy efficiency than the benchmarks.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.493-498
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• 2018

In this paper, we provide the performance analyses of a dual-hop amplify-and-forward(AF) relay transmission composed of asymmetric radio-frequence(RF) and free-space optical(FSO) links. In the mixed RF/FSO system, a relay is equipped with two receive antennas for RF signals and one additional transmit antenna for FSO signals. In order to improve a performance of RF link, a switch-and-stay (SSC) diversity technique is applied at the relay which can provide a proper link performance with a low complexity. Specifically, we offer the performance analyses of the proposed system in terms of outage probability and secrecy outage probability. In numerical examples, we compare the system performances with no diversity and selection combining systems and verify our analytical results via computer-based Monte-Carlo simulations.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권7A호
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• pp.562-567
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 여러 송수신 안테나를 갖는 송신기(source node), 중계기(relay node), 수신기(destination node)로 구성된 두 홉(two-hop) 빔포밍(beamforming) 중계 시스템을 고려한다. 송수신 심벌간 평균제곱오차(mean square error: MSE)를 최소화하는 송수신기 빔포밍 벡터와 중계기 가중치 행렬을 설계한다. 이때, 송신기 또는 중계기에 송신 전력을 줄이기 위하여, 국소(local)부동식전력제약(inequality power constraint)을 사용한다. 제약식이 있는 평균제곱오차 최소화 문제는 라그랑즈(Lagrange) 방법을 써 제약식이 없는 최적화 문제로 바꿀 수 있고, Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) 조건으로부터 그 해를 얻을 수 있다. 제안한 중계 시스템에 송신기와 중계기 송신전력을 각각 국소부동식으로 제약하여, 그 결과 두 홉에 채널 상태가 다를 경우, 최대 신호대잡음비(signal-to-noise ratio: SNR)를 얻는 기존 방식과 대등한 성능을 내며, 동시에 송신기 또는 중계기 송신 전력을 줄일 수 있다. 이를 모의실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.57-75
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• 2015

In evaluating the performance of a dual-hop wireless link, the effects of large and small scale fading has to be considered. To overcome this fading effect, several schemes, such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with orthogonal space time block codes (OSTBC), different combining schemes at the relay and receiving end, and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are used in both the transmitting and the relay links. In this paper, we first make compare the performance of a two-hop wireless link under a different combination of space diversity in the first and second hop of the amplify-and-forward (AF) case. Our second task in this paper is to incorporate the weak signal of a direct link and then by applying the channel model of two random variables (one for a direct link and another for a relayed link) we get very impressive result at a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that is comparable with other models at a higher SNR. Our third task is to bring other three schemes under a two-hop wireless link: use of transmit antenna selection (TAS) on both link with weak direct link, distributed Alamouti scheme in two-hop link and single relay antenna with OFDM subcarrier. Finally, all of the schemes mentioned above are compared to select the best possible model. The main finding of the paper is as follows: the use of MIMO on both hops but application TAS on both links with weak direct link and the full rate OFDM with the sub-carrier for an individual link provide a better result as compared to other models.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.2616-2635
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an iterative transceiver design in a multi-relay multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. The design criterion is to minimize sum mean squared error (SMSE) under relay sum power constraint (RSPC) where only local channel state information (CSI)s are available at relays. Local CSI at a relay is defined as the CSI of the channel between BS and the relay in the $1^{st}$ hop link, and the CSI of the channel between the relay and all users in the $2^{nd}$ hop link. Exploiting BS transmitter structure which is concatenated with block diagonalization (BD) precoder, each relay's precoder can be determined using local CSI at the relay. The proposed scheme is based on sequential iteration of two stages; stage 1 determines BS transmitter and relay precoders jointly with SMSE duality, and stage 2 determines user receivers. We verify that the proposed scheme outperforms simple amplify-and-forward (SAF), minimum mean squared error (MMSE) relay, and an existing good scheme of [13] in terms of both SMSE and sum-rate performances.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.352-363
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• 2012

In this paper, we study the role of cooperative relays to provide and improve secure communication rates through decodeand-forward (DF) strategies in a full-duplex multiple relay network with an eavesdropper. We consider the DF scheme as a basis for cooperation and propose several strategies that implement different versions of this scheme suited for cooperation with multiple relays. Our goal is to give an efficient cooperation paradigm based on the DF scheme to provide and improve secrecy in a multiple relay network. We first study the DF strategy for secrecy in a single relay network. We propose a suboptimal DF with zero forcing (DF/ZF) strategy for which we obtain the optimal power control policy. Next, we consider the multiple relay problem. We propose three different strategies based on DF/ZF and obtain their achievable secrecy rates. The first strategy is a single hop strategy whereas the other two strategies are multiple hop strategies. In the first strategy, we show that it is possible to eliminate all the relays' signals from the eavesdropper's observation (full ZF), however, the achievable secrecy rate is limited by the worst source-relay channel. Our second strategy overcomes the drawback of the first strategy, however, with the disadvantage of enabling partial ZF only. Our third strategy provides a reasonable compromise between the first two strategies. That is, in this strategy, full ZF is possible and the rate achieved does not suffer from the drawback of the first strategy. We conclude our study by a set of numerical results to illustrate the performance of each of the proposed strategies in terms of the achievable rates in different practical scenarios.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.743-747
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• 2008

이질적 무선 셀들의 계층적인 오버레이는 차세대 무선망을 위해서 예상되는 구조로 여겨지고 있다. 본 논문은 그러한 특별한 형식의 구조로서 WWAN/WLAN 2-홉 무선 중계 네트워크를 고려하였다. 먼저 이러한 망의 내부에서 기존의 PF 스케줄링 기법이 일으킬 수 있는 문제점을 구성하였다. 그리고 이 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 향상된 PF 스케줄링 기법을 제시하였다. 새롭게 제시된 기법에 대한 검증을 위해서, NS-2를 사용하여 UMTS/WLAN망에서의 시뮬레이션을 진행하였고, 그것을 기반으로 성능을 평가하였다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.163-168
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 두 사용자가 서로의 정보만을 주고받는 기존의 다중 홉 양방향 중계 통신과는 다른 두 사용자가 두 목적지 노드로 신호를 전송하는 새로운 양방향 중계통신 기법을 제안한다. 또한 기존의 다중 홉 양방향 중계 통신에서는 각 노드가 수신신호에서 자신의 신호 성분을 제거하는 back-propagating self-interference 기법을 수행해야하며, 이로 인해 각 노드에서 신호처리 복잡도가 크게 증가하는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 back-propagating self-interference 과정을 줄일 수 있는 Pre-cancellation 기법을 적용한다. 제안하는 기법이 기존의 다중 홉 양방향 중계 통신보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 시뮬레이션 결과로 보여주며, Pre-cancellation 기법의 사용 유무에 따른 시스템 복잡도와 성능간의 trade-off 관계를 분석한다.