• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.56-64
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• 2015

기회적 간섭 정렬 기술은 사용자 간섭 채널에서 탁월한 이론적 성능을 보이는 간섭 정렬 기술을 다수의 사용자와 기지국, 다수의 안테나가 존재하는 다중 셀 다중안테나 셀룰라 네트워크에 적용하는 기술 중 하나로서 각 셀의 사용자가 증가할수록 이론적인 최적 자유도를 달성하는 기술이다. 기회적 간섭 정렬 기법의 장점은 각 셀 상호 정보의 교환 없이 독립적으로 동작하고 각 사용자는 자신과 연관된 채널 정보(local channel state information, local CSI)만을 요구한다는 것이다. 셀의 크기가 감소하고 기지국 및 사용자 단말의 밀도가 크게 증가할 것으로 예상되는 5세대 이동통신 시스템에서는 각 통신링크간 간섭제어가 매우 중요할 것으로 예상된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 5세대 이동통신 시스템에서 핵심적인 역할을 할 것으로 예상되는 기회적 간섭 정렬 기법에 관하여 살펴본다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1077-1083
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• 2015

In this paper, we introduce an energy-efficient opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) scheme that greatly improves the sum-rates in multi-cell uplink networks. Each user employs optimal transmit vector design and power control in the sense of minimizing the amount of generated interference to other-cell base stations while satisfying a required signal quality. As our main result, it is shown that owing to the reduced interference level, the proposed OIA schemes attains larger sum-rates than those of OIA with no power control for almost all signal-to-noise ratio regions. In addition, when both zero-forcing and minimum mean square error (MMSE) detectors are employed at the receiver along with the OIA scheme, it is shown that the OIA scheme with MMSE detection shows superior performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.2014-2021
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• 2015

Opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) has been proposed for multi-cell random access networks (RAN), which minimizes the generating interference to neighboring RANs and yields better performance compared with the conventional techniques. The OIA for RANs considers both physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers. In this paper, we introduce a protocol of which each user maximizes the transmit signal regardless of the generating interference to neighboring RANs, contrary to the OIA technique. In addition, we compare the performance of the signal-maximization technique with the OIA technique.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.10
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• pp.956-964
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• 2012

An opportunistic interference alignment based on dynamic cell selection is proposed. Since the proposed method can switch the desired signal space and the interference space of received signals, an additional selective diversity gain increases. The performance analysis using probabilistic models provides a mathematical expression for the sum-rate capacity. Simulation examples show that the proposed method achieves the higher sum-rate capacity than that of the conventional opportunistic interference alignment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.11
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• pp.675-681
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• 2014

As the recently soaring wireless traffic, small-cell techniques have been actively studied in order to support such a wireless demand for cellular wireless networks. This paper studies interference mitigation methods for random-access small-cell networks. Although inter-cell interference between small random-access cells is one of the main factors to degrade overall performance, most of the previous works focused on interference mitigation between users in each cell. To address such limitation, dynamic opportunistic interference alignment is proposed exploiting statistical characteristics of random-access. It is demonstrated by simulation that the proposed scheme outperforms the previous approach as the number of cells or the number of users in each cell increases.