• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1438-1443
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• 2016

In this paper, we investigate the effect of multiple antennas at a relay node on the performance of physical-layer network coding (PNC) in the two-way relay channel (TWRC). We assume that two source nodes have a single antenna and the relay node has multiple antennas. We extend the conventional TWRC environment with a signle antenna at both relay and source nodes to the case of multiple antennas at the relay node. In particular, we consider two decoding strategies: separate decoding (SD) and direct decoding (DD). The SD decodes each packet from the two sources and performs the network coding with bit-wise exclusive OR (XOR) operation, while the DD decodes the network-coded packet from the two sources. Note that both decoding strategies are based on log-likelihood ratio (LLR) computation. It is shown that the bit error rate (BER) performance becomes significantly improved as the number of antennas at the relay node.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.311-321
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• 2009

In a single frequency network (SFN) for Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) terrestrial digital television (DTV) system, the interference due to the use of same frequency among multiple transmitters or repeaters is inevitable for receivers. This problem can be solved by adjusting transmit power and time of each transmitter and repeater. To adjust SFNs, the ATSC recommended practice (RP) introduces a transmitter identification (TxID) signal which is embedded in a signal from each transmitter or repeater. This paper proposes an efficient method to estimate the individual reception power from each transmitter or repeater based on the channel profile of SFN and the total reception power. Moreover, field test results are provided to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.21-27
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• 2019

In this paper, we investigate the secrecy outage probability when using a partial relay selection scheme in cooperative communication systems based on decode-and-forward with multi-relay. It is assumed that both the receiving node and the eavesdropping node receive signals at both the transmitting node and the relaying node. The two received signals are used to obtain the diversity gain using the MRC scheme. In this paper, we compute the theoretical formula of secrecy outage probability and compare the theoretical value with the simulation value to prove that equation is valid. The simulation results show how the secrecy outage probability varies with the number of relays.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.5776-5782
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• 2014

Relay-assisted wireless communication systems have been studied widely to cope with shadow areas and extend the cell coverage. This paper proposes a space-frequency (SF) block coded single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) transmission system in a relaying multi-path shadow area and present the performance comparison of SC-FDMA systems based on the signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR) between a relay and a destination station. The performance of relaying SC-FDMA systems can be improved by applying SF block code to the recovered signals of relays before re-transmitting them. The simulation result showed that the SNR performance of the proposed SF block coded relaying SC-FDMA system was approximately 5 dB better than the SNR performance of the single-path relaying SC-FDMA system at a symbol error rate (SER) of $10^{-2}$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.12A
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• pp.941-949
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• 2011

In a cooperative communication system with a source node and multiple relays equipping single antenna and a destination node equipping multiple antennas, the selective cooperative spatial multiplexing scheme can obtain spatial multiplexing gain and additional selection diversity gain. But it can degrade a bit error rate performance because some received symbols forwarded from particular relays may be lost by attenuation due to path-loss. We propose a relay and transmission mode selection scheme which selects minimum number of multiple relays having the channel capacity larger than a given data rate and transmission mode which switches spatial multiplexing and spatial diversity mode in cooperation phase to enhance the bit error rate performance. The proposed scheme achieves 1.5~2dB gain at the low SNR range compared with the conventional scheme by obtaining additional spatial diversity gain.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.359-362
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• 2002

The increase in the number of PCS base station and repeater has increased the level of interference between PCS carriers. In this paper, interference of singular PCS repeater out-of-band noise power on mobile phone is analysed and compared with that of unified PCS repeater for multiple PCS carriers. It is shown that unified PCS repeater provide about 2∼3dB signal gain in comparison with conventional PCS repeater. As a result, the interference of out-of-band noise power on mobile phone is reduced. It is expected that PCS carriers are able to build an environmentally-friendly communications infrastructure and reduce the cost by using unified PCS revealer and apply it for the deployment of IMT-2000 network.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.43-45
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• 2002

이동통신 무선망 설계 시에는 전파강도가 부족하여 발생하는 부분적인 음영지역을 해결하기 위해서 기지국 신호를 재증폭하는 중계기를 이용하게 된다. 이러한 중계기는 입출력 안테나 사이에 충분한 격리도를 확보하지 않으면 증폭된 출력신호가 입력단으로 유입되어 시스템 발진현상이 발생하게 된다. 격리도에 따라 신호의 신호대잡음비를 저하시키는 수준의 미세발진이 발생하거나 출력증폭기의 한계점에 도달시키는 완전발진이 발생 된다. 기지국에 입력된 신호를 복조하여 신호의 상태에 따라 단말기 출력을 증가시키도록 제어하는 상황에서 이러한 중계기의 발진현상은 시스템 성능의 현저한 저하를 가져오게 된다. 본 논문에서는 실험적으로 발견된 중계기 발진현상을 수학적 모델링을 통하여 중계기의 특성 및 입출력 안테나 사이의 격리도와 미세발진현상과의 관계를 규명한다. 아울러 실험결과와의 비교분석을 통하여 본 논문에서 제시한 모델링의 타당성을 증명한다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.8-15
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• 2009

Relay-assisted multi-input multi-output (MIMO) technique has become a promising candidate for next generation broadband wireless communications for high speed access. In this paper, we propose channel selective relay-based MIMO transmission system. The performance of relay-based system can be improved by using the subcarriers selectively based on the channel condition between relay and mobile station. Simulation results show that the proposed relay-based system considerably outperforms the conventional relay-based system.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.173-176
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• 2004

CDMA 무선 이동전화 서비스가 대중화됨에 따라 사업자의 무선 망 환경도 보다 넓은 지역과 시스템 용량의 확대가 절실히 요구되기 시작했으며, 우리나라의 지형적 특성과 인구 밀집도의 특수성으로 인해 최적의 무선환경을 설계하는데 있어서 많은 음영지역에 대한 대책이 필요하게 됐다. 이러한 대책으로 중계기시스템이 도입되었고 이로 인해 이동전화 통화 품질 향상을 이루어 왔다. 중계기의 이동전화 서비스 장애 유무와 상태에 대한 모니터링은 이동 통신 사업자의 공통된 관심사가 되어왔다. 이를 위해 중계기 Network 관리 기술이 도입되었으며, 이 기술은 지금까지 이동 통신의 세대별 발전 과정에 발맞추어 발전해 왔다. 향후 도입될 제4세대 이동 통신 서비스의 환경에 맞게 발전할 것이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2A
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• pp.210-217
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• 2008

In this paper, the performance of equalization-based on-channel repeater for terrestrial DMB is analyzed. A primary concern in on-channel repeater is the performance degradation due to the echo and one of key component for on-channel repeater is the echo canceller, which usually employs LMS algorithm utilizing the repeater output as a reference for echo channel estimation and compensation. One problem using LMS algorithm is the tracking capability and there necessarily exists residual echo that has not been cancelled. To effectivelyremove the residual echo, we consider an equalization based on-channel repeater where the echo-cancellor is followed by an equalizer that performs channel estimation using pilot symbol and the channel inversion utilizing homomorphic decomposition. According to the simulation result, the performance degradation caused by the residual echo can be considerably alleviated by using the equalizer following the echo-canceller.