• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.51-58
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• 2002

The conventional code division multiple access(CDMA) detector shows severe degradation in communication quality as the number of users increases due to multiple access interferences(MAI). This problem thus restricts the user capacity. Various multiuser detection algorithms have been proposed to overcome the MAI problem. The existing detectors can be generally classified into one of the two categories : linear multiuser detection and subtractive interference cancellation detectors. In the linear multiuser detection, a linear transform is applied to the soft outputs of the conventional detector. In the subtractive interference cancellation detection, estimates of the interference are generated and subtracted out from the received signal. There has been great interest in the family of the subtractive interference cancellation detection because the linear multiuser detection exhibits the disadvantage of taking matrix inversion operations. The successive interference cancellation (SIC) and the parallel interference cancellation (PIC) are the two most popular structures in the subtractive interference cancellation detector. The SIC structure is very simple in hardware complexity, but has the disadvantage of increased processing delay time, while the PIC structure is good in performance, but shows the disadvantage of increased hardware complexity. In this paper we propose a mixed structure form of SIC and PIC in order to achieve good performance as well as simple hardware complexity. A performance analysis of the proposed scheme has been made, and the superior characteristics of the mixed structure are demonstrated by extensive computer simulations. 

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.76-83
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• 2011

본고에서는 다중 사용자 환경에서 사용자간의 간섭을 효과적으로 제어하는 기법인 간섭정렬을 정보 이론적인 관점에서 살펴본다. 이제까지 발표된 여러 문헌들 가운데 주목할 만한 핵심 간섭정렬 아이디어를 소개하고, 이를 통해 결과적으로 얻을 수 있는 다중화 이득을 분석한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.61-69
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• 2017

The study on interference channel is very important information theoretically and many studies have been done on it. However, even in the simplest case, even in the case of two user interfering channels, the channel capacity is not yet known except in special cases. Recently, research on the multiplexing gain that shows the tendency of the transmission rate in the high signal to noise ratio (SNR) band has been actively carried out, instead of accurately grasping the channel capacity. Obtaining optimal multiplexing gain can reveal trends in channel capacity at high signal-to-noise ratio bands. In an interfering channel with two users, the best multiplexing gain can be obtained by eliminating the interference. However, recent research shows that when the number of users is more than three, the optimal multiplexing gain can not be obtained only by zero forcing and a new technique called interference sorting is needed. There are two types of interference sorting techniques. Beamforming A method of effectively separating signals and interference by properly selecting matrices and constructing structured codes using rational numbers and irrational numbers. The interference alignment technique can achieve optimal multiplexing gain in various environments such as interference channel, X channel, compound broadcast channel, and multi hop network for multi source multi destination. In recent years, it has also been applied to distributed storage. Lee et al., "Lattice Code Interference Alignment in Cooperative Multipoint Transmission (COMP) for Interference Channels of Three Users", Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers, vol.49-TC,no.6,2012. In this paper, the DoF of delayed channel information is obtained.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.12
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• pp.1093-1105
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• 2012

We propose an interference space reuse (ISR) algorithm for the MU-MIMO design in 3-cell downlink interference channels. Also, we provide a strategy for the adoption of the ISR scheme in the cellular network. In the multicell interference channels, the cell edge users may undergo severe interferences and their signals should be protected from the interferers for reliable transmissions. However, the intra cell users do not only experience small interferences but also they require small transmission power for stable communication. We provide a vector design algorithm based on ISR, where intra cell users are served through reusing the cell edge users' interference space. The performance enhancement reaches 20% compared to the fractional frequency reuse (FFR) scheme combined with IA through the scheduling between the cell edge users and the intra cell users. Also, it can be used to enhance the cell edge throughput when the quality of service (QoS) requirements of the intra cell users are fixed.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.49-55
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 실제적인 다중 셀 하향링크 네트워크 중 하나인 간섭 브로드캐스트 채널에서 유망한 간섭 정렬 기술인 반복적 간섭 정렬 기술을 소개한다. 또한, 가정하는 네트워크에서 상향링크/하향링크 채널 사이의 채널 상호성을 활용함으로써 다중안테나(MIMO: multiple-input multiple-output) 다중셀 하향링크 네트워크를 위한 개선된 반복적 간섭 정렬 기술을 제안한다. 구체적으로, 제안한 기술은 다중사용자 MIMO 기반 반복적 간섭 정렬 알고리즘을 설계하기 위해 반복적 빔형성과 하향링크 간섭 정렬 이슈를 지능적으로 결합한다. 각 기지국에서는 전처리기를 설계하기 위해 두 개의 순차적인 빔형성 행렬을 사용하는데, 이는 간섭 누수로 불리는 타 셀 기지국으로부터 생성된 셀 간 간섭을 효율적으로 줄일 뿐만 아니라 같은 셀 안에서의 셀 내 간섭을 완벽히 제거가 가능하다. 송신 및 수신 빔형성 행렬은 수렴할 때까지 반복적으로 업데이트된다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 제안하는 간섭 정렬 기술이 기존 두 가지 반복적 간섭 정렬 기술과 비교하여 더 높은 합 용량을 나타냄을 보인다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.56-60
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• 2005

To calculate the probability of bit error of UWB communication systems, the exact expression of multiple access interference is essential. So far, in many researches, MAI has been modeled by the Gaussian Approximation, which leads to the huge errors. And there are some tries to obtain the exact model fot the MAI but they have some problems such as long calculation time. We introduce the simple expression to calculate the probability of error of an UWB-TH system with BPSK. The multiple access interference is explained by the characteristic function method combined with the Gaussian approximation. It allows us to easily and fast calculate the bit error rate of an UWB-TH system.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.32-36
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a cancellation scheme of multiple access interference (MAI), which is caused by carrier frequency offset, for the receiver of an interleaved orthogonal frequency division multiple access (IFDMA) uplink system. In the IFDMA systems, carrier frequency offsets introduce adjacent channel interference from other users' subcarriers, which results in performance degradation. In the proposed method, we compensate the carrier frequency offset in time domain and then eliminate MAI by using parallel interference cancellation in frequency domain. Simulation results show that the proposed method is effective in removing the MAI especially when the number of users are large and the MAI severely degrades the system performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.7B
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• pp.944-950
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• 2001

현재 상용화된 CDMA (code division multiple access) 방식은 사용자가 증가함에 따라 다중 사용자 간섭에 의해 통화품질 향상 및 가입자 수용 용량 증대에 한계를 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 극복하기 위해 다양한 형태의 다중 사용자 검파 알고리즘이 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 여러 형태의 알고리즘들 가운데, 역상관 (decorrelating) 검파기와 병렬 간섭 제거 (parallel interference cancellation, PIC) 검파기, 연속 간섭 제거 (successive interference cancellation, SIC) 검파기와 PIC 검파기, zero-forcing decision-feedback (ZF-DF) 검파기와 PIC 검파기를 하이브리드 형태로 구성하는 방법을 제시하였고, Rayleigh 페이딩 환경에서 성능분석 및 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능 비교를 하였다. 컴퓨터 모의실험 결과, 본 논문에서 제안한 세 가지 하이브리드 검파기 모두 기존 검파기에 비하여 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.53-59
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• 2009

In multi-user MIMO systems, a base station transmits multiple data to multi-user simultaneously in order to improve performance and bandwidth efficiency. When the base station transmits multiple data to multi-user simultaneously, multi-user interference occurs severely. In this paper, we define a post-processing leakage as the total power leaked from desired user to all other users after combining at the output of each user. Using concept of the post-processing leakage, we also define a performance metric, the so called signal-to-post-processing-leakage-plus-noise ratio (SPPLNR). Assuming that the receiver is the minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver, we propose an iterative SPPLNR-based beamforming that determines beamforming vectors and combining vectors by using an iterative method. The proposed scheme does not impose a condition on the relation between the number of transmit antennas for the base station and the number of receive antennas for users. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms a beamforming scheme perfectly eliminating the multi-user interference when channel estimation error exists.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.6A
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• pp.631-639
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• 2004

In this paper, we presented a new interference suppression method based on code grouping and groupwise decorrelation for multirate DS-CDMA downlink. The code grouping is accomplished according to the correlation property between the mother code and the child codes in OVSF code tree. Using groupwise decorrelation, the proposed receiver has relatively low computational complexity and does not require any information about interference users, such as code, data, and amplitude. From the simulation results in multipath channels, the proposed receiver is to provide significant performance enhancement.