• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.7
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• pp.560-570
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose transceiver design strategies for the two-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interfering broadcast channel where inter-cell interference (ICI) exists in addition to inter-user interference (IUI). We first formulate the generalized zero-forcing interference alignment (ZF-IA) method based on the alignment of IUI and ICI in multi-dimensional subspace. We then devise a minimum weighted-mean-square-error (WMSE) method based on "regularizing" the precoders and decoders of the generalized ZF-IA scheme. In contrast to the existing weighted-sum-rate-maximizing transceiver, our method does not require an iterative calculation of the optimal weights. Because of this, the proposed scheme, while not designed specially to maximize the sum-rate, is computationally efficient and achieves a faster convergence compared to the known weighed-sum-rate maximizing scheme. Through analysis and simulation, we show the effectiveness of the proposed regularized ZF-IA scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1063-1070
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a distributed user scheduling with transmit power control based on the amount of generating interference to other base stations (BSs) in multi-cell multi-input multi-output (MIMO) networks. Assuming that the time-division duplexing (TDD) system is used, the interference channel from users to other cell BSs is obtained at each user. In the proposed scheduling, each user first generates a transmit beamforming vector by using singular value decompositon (SVD) over MIMO channels and reduces the transmit power if its generating interference to other BSs is larger than a predetermined threshold. Each BS selects the user with the largest effective channel gains among users, which reflects the adjusted power of users. Simulation results show that the proposed technique significantly outperforms the existing user scheduling algorithms.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.34-41
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• 2012

본 고에서는 LTE-Advanced 및 Beyond 4G 이동 통신 시스템에서 셀 경계 지역 간섭 문제 해결 및 전송률 향상을 위해 핵심기술로 간주되는 다중 안테나를 사용한 다중 셀 기지국 협력전송 방법에 대해 살펴본다. 특히, 다중 셀 통신 환경을 다중입력 단일출력(multiple-input single-output. MISO) 및 다중입력 다중출력 (multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO) 무선 간섭 채널로 모델링할 수 있는데, 이러한 MISO 및 MIMO 간섭 채널에서의 협력 및 분산 통신 방법에 관해 진행된 최근의 주요 연구 결과들을 소개한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.10
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• pp.937-945
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• 2014

As various services requiring high data rate are supported by introducing LTE/LTE-adv., mobile traffic increases rapidly. To cope with the continuous growth of traffic demand, small cell technology is considered as one of the most promising one. Small cell can increase system capacity by increasing the number of base stations with reduced cell radius. In this paper, we analyze the effect of cell densification with small cells in terms of SINR and average UE throughput considering cell split and the number of UE per unit area. As the cell becomes smaller, SINR degradation arises from high ICI(Inter Cell Interference) and we evaluate the effect of interference mitigation scheme in small cell environment where the proper interference mitigation technique is applied.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8B
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• pp.687-694
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• 2012

In OFDMA-based cellular system, inter-cell interference (ICI) reduces system capacity by aggravating receiving performance of the users located in edge of the cell. Therefore, to mitigate ICI is very important issue in cellular system. To deal with ICI problem, fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is introduced. FFR is an interference management technique. It separates each cell into inner cell and outer cell. Then, it allocates whole system bandwidth to inner cell and different frequency partition to each sector of outer cell. By doing this, outer cell users can ignore interferences from adjacent cells. So, the receiving performance of the cell edge users can be fairly increased. However, using FFR technique has a fatal side effect. In order to use different frequency partition among three sectors of outer cell, they can use only a third of the whole system bandwidth. Then, the reduction of available bandwidth reduces the system throughput directly. To solve this problem, we propose a new FFR method that allocates partially overlapped frequency partition to each sector of outer cell. And then, we suggest a proper overlapping ratio for practical cellular system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.6A
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• pp.371-378
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• 2003

In Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, the cell capacity is defined as the number of available channels in a cell, which is limited by the interferences. When a new call is accepted at its home cell, this adds the interference to the home and its neighboring cells. This paper proposes a call admission control based on mobile transmission power prediction. The home cell has enough capacity to admit new call and if home cell would have admitted a new call, it calculates the mobile transmission power. Also, its neighboring cell can predict the amount of interference using the predicted mobile transmission power. Thus, the new mobile is accepted by its home cell if QoS(Quality Of Service) is guaranteed in its neighboring cells. The simulation result shows that the proposed scheme largely reduces the outage probability in the neighboring cells.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12A
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• pp.1191-1199
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• 2008

We propose the Staggered-zone Resource Allocation (SRA) in order to relax throughput decrease problems by the co-channel interference of the cell boundary users at the cellular OFDMA system using frequency reuse factor K=1 and analyze the throughput improvement. The proposed algorithm allocates the resources to the users in compliance with resource allocation rule which is planned in order to minimize co-channel interference between cells without any additional information. The resource allocation method in the SRA lines up the users in pathloss order as descending series, and then allocates from pre-determined resource allocation region where decides differently in each cell. This algorithm prevents the co-channel interferences of the cell boundary user to be caused by using same resource simultaneously and equalizes interference to the users in the cell.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.87-90
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• 2015

스마트 소형셀은 반경 100 미터 내외의 작은 서비스 영역을 가지며, 소형셀 환경의 무선 채널 및 간섭 특성을 잘 활용하는 다중 안테나 기술과 간섭 제어 기술이 접목된 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 소형셀의 요소 기술을 소개하고, 도심형 지형환경에서 시스템 레벨 시뮬레이션으로 LTE 매크로셀 대비 단위 면적당 용량증대를 평가한다. 또한 상용 Software Defined Radio를 활용한 실시간 테스트베드구현으로 요소 기술들의 타당성(feasibility)을 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.5A
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• pp.276-283
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• 2003

Most of CDMA system algorithm must be verified by simulating the cellular system consisted of many other tier cells. But it takes long time to simulate such a huge CDMA cellular system. In this paper, we propose an effective time saving simulation scheme based on wraparound technique. And we study that how our remaining cell interference compensation method works on calculating of the total interference, SIR, outage probability, and cell capacity. We made a conclusion that by using proposed scheme, we can get the same result of maximum configuration cells with only one tier real cells and that we can minimize the simulation time.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.1986-1993
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• 2015

We investigate the optimal resource and power allocation for device-to-device (D2D) communications in a multicell environment. When D2D links reuse the cellular radio resources, each D2D user will interfere with a cellular link and other D2D links, in its own cell as well as in adjacent cells. Under such situation, we propose a coordinated resource allocation scheme that can handle the intercell interferences as well as the intracell interference. For a given resource allocation, we also formulate a power optimization problem and present an algorithm for finding the optimal solution. The resource and power allocation algorithms are designed to maximize the achievable rate of the D2D link, while limiting the generated interference to the cellular link. The performance of the proposed algorithms is evaluated through simulations in a multicell environment. Numerical results are presented to verify the coordination gain in the resource and power allocation.