• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.12A
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• pp.1276-1285
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• 2007

Since the TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) system is based on TDD (Time Division Duplexing), the uplink and downlink can be allocated asymmetrically according to the traffic e.g. Web browsing. Although this asymmetric allocation can increase the frequency utilization, it may cause time slot opposing, which implies the time slot is assigned in opposing direction between cells. The time slot opposing can generate significant interference between cells, which results in severe performance degradation. In the paper, a novel dynamic channel allocation (DCA) is proposed in the TD-SCDMA system, to mitigate the impact of time slot opposing considering smart antenna. When the smart antenna is applied in the system, the inter-cell interference is largely affected by beam pattern and beam direction between neighboring cells. Therefore, the time slot opposing and smart antenna should be considered together in the DCA. The intensive simulations show that the proposed scheme can improve the system capacity compared to the conventional DCA schemes.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.6A
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• pp.594-599
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• 2010

This paper studies the effect of the deployment position of the relay stations on the downlink signal-to-interference-noise-ratio (SINR) in multihop cellular networks. Two different relay deployment scenarios are considered where relay stations are located either inside cells or on the boundary among adjacent cells. The fundamental contribution is to compare fairly the average SINR between two scenarios with the proposed relay modeling framework that includes multi-cell geometries and inter-cell interferences. The mathematical results show that the SINR increases when relay stations are located inside cells because of higher received signal power.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.45-52
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• 2008

In typical cellular systems using frequency reuse scheme, the terminal suffers a performance degradation due to the intercell interference signals from adjacent cells as the terminal moves toward the cell boundary. In this paper, a signal transmission and reception scheme which achieve spatial multiplexing and beamforming gain from a distributed MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) channel using multiple-antenna terminal is proposed for the spectral efficiency enhancement in a multi-cell downlink environment, when geographically separated base stations cooperatively transmit signals. In particular, we analyze the effective signal-to-interference ratio and spectral efficiency of the proposed scheme for different frequency reuse patterns and for varying numbers of receive antennas, and compare with the performance of the MRC (maximal ratio combining) reception scheme in typical cellular systems. We evaluate the amount of transmission efficiency of the scheme by comparing the performance near the cell boundary where the strong intercell interference is experienced.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8A
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• pp.829-837
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• 2008

A cellular system with fixed relays is considered to be a technology that can support high data transmission service to wide areas. However, either inter-cell interference or inter-sector interference that can be produced by adding relays to the cellular system with fixed relays does not guarantee high link performance to deteriorate function, so that resource allocation for avoidance of interference is very much important. In the paper, the cellular system performance with repeater relay has been compared with the cellular system performance with relay, and cell coverage expansion at the use of relay repeater has been compared. To compare, this paper has suggested resource allocation method to avoid inter-cell interference and inter-sector interference at installation of fixed relay on the cellular system. The proposed method can allocate different frequency resources on adjacent base stations and relays to reduce interference and to expand high data transmission area, and all of frequency bands are used at each sector to elevate efficiency of the frequency when base stations and relays operate simultaneously.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.7
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• pp.389-397
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• 2014

This paper focuses on advanced receiver for interference suppression or cancellation from neighbor cells in the 3GPP Rel-12 standard. From UE (User Equipment) perspective, the advanced receiver which can manage inter-cell interference of adjacent cell is required to support and manage fast-growing wireless data traffic. In 3GPP standard, NAICS which is one of approaches to improve SINR and receiver performance by directly suppression or cancellation of data (PDSCH) and control (PDCCH) signal from interference cells is discussed. In this paper, we briefly introduce the concept and candidate receivers for NAICS (Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression) based on 3GPP Rel-12 standard, and simulation results for basic NAICS receiver performance are provided.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.4
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• pp.371-380
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• 2013

D2D (Device-to-Device) communication on an underlying cellular infrastructure which exploits the same spectrum has several advantages such as increased resource utilization and improved cellular coverage. However, D2D communication system needs to cope with ICI (Inter-Cell Interference) and interference between cellular and D2D links. As a result, macro UEs (User Equipments), especially those located near cell edge, will suffer from serious link performance degradation. We propose a novel interference avoidance mechanism assisted by SRN (Shared Relay Node) in this paper. SRN not only performs data re-transmission as a usual Type II relay but also has several features newly defined to avoid interference between cellular and D2D links. In particular, we suggest resource allocation methods based on the SRN for effective interference avoidance, and evaluate their performance through computer simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2009

현재 ITU (International Telecommunications Union)에서는 4세대 무선 광대역 표준에 대한 제안을 모색하고 있다. 4세대 표준의 유력한 후보군인 LTE-Advanced와 IEEE 802.16m은 고속이용 환경에서도 안정적으로 통신할 수 있도록 상형링크 및 하향링크에 변조기법으로 OFDMA을 사용하고 있다. 또한 셀(Cell) 변두리 지역에서 통신용량을 늘리기 위에 중계단말기를 사용하려고 한다. 이에 따라서 OFDMA 중계 네트워크에 대한 관심이 높아자고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 단일 셀 환경에서 확장된 다중 셀 환경의 OFDMA 중계 네트워크에서 부반송파 및 전력 할당 기법용 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 채널정보를 인접 셀과 공유하여 셀 간 간섭을 줄이고 부반송파와 전력을 적응적으로 분배함으로서 각 수신단말기의 최소통신용량을 확보하고 네트워크 지속시간을 늘리는 것을 목적으로 한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.70-79
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• 2012

스마트폰 사용이 활성화되면서 모바일 데이터 사용량이 급증하고 WiFi뿐만 아니라 펨토셀을 포함한 소형셀(small cell) 인프라가 각광을 받고 있다. 이에 따라, 가정 또는 사무실과 같은 실내에서 음영 지역을 해소하고 한정된 주파수 자원을 효율적으로 사용하여 대용량 데이터 전송 서비스를 가능하게 하는 초소형 기지국 연구에 대한 요구가 많아지고 있다. 또한, 이동통신 기지국의 신규 설치 시 기지국 자체적으로 또는 인접한 기지국 간의 자동 협업을 통하여 기지국 간 간섭을 최소화하고 기지국의 용량을 증대시켜서 셀 커버리지를 최적화하는 기술에 대한 연구가 필요하게 되었다. 이를 위한 방안으로 셀 반경을 극도로 줄여 댁내 또는 소규모 비즈니스 환경에 알맞은 무선 환경을 제공하려고 하는 펨토셀 서비스는 보다 나은 무선 환경을 필요로 하는 사용자 요구에 적극 대응하고, 사업자의 사업 기회를 확대하며, 서비스의 질적 양적 개선 측면에 있어서 가장 중요하게 고려해야 할 기술이다. 본고에서는 SON(Self Organizing Networks) 및 펨토셀 관련 주요 기술적 이슈를 정리하고 현재 진행되고 있는 기술동향에 대하여 살펴 보고자 한다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.988-996
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• 2012

Assuming perfect channel state information (CSI), the conventional interference alignment (IA) algorithm in the uplink cellular system suppresses inter-cell interference (ICI) by aligning ICI to a randomly selected reference vector. However, IA in practice relies on limited feedback between base stations and users, resulting in residual ICI. In this paper, we propose the optimization of the reference vector that minimizes the upper-bound of residual ICI power. Secondly, the iterative IA that designs the direction of transmit and receive filter is proposed to minimize the residual ICI as well as maximize the desired signals. Moreover, we propose the user scheduling method combined with proposed IA schemes which provides the multiuser diversity gain in multi-cell environments. Finally, the performance gain of the proposed IA algorithms compared with the existing IA are analyzed and demonstrated by simulation results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.10
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• pp.45-49
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• 2014

In this paper, the performance of the interference cancellation using multiple receive antennas is evaluated for heterogeneous cellular systems when user association and load balancing problems are optimized for cell edge users. The simulation results show that the interference cancellation method remarkably improves the rate performance of load-balanced cells.