• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.1549-1555
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• 2009

The Relay node placement problem is one of the most important requirements for many wireless sensor networks because the lifetime of sensor networks is closely related with the placement of relay nodes which receive sensed data from sensor nodes and forward them to the base station. Relay node placement problem has focused at minimization of dissipated total energy of the sensor nodes in whole networks. However, minimum total energy causes the unbalance of consumed energy in sensor nodes due to different distances between relay nodes and sensor nodes. This paper proposes the concept of energy balance ratio and finds the locations of relay nodes using objective functions which maximize the energy balance ratio. Maximizing this ratio results in maximizing the network lifetime by minimizing the energy consumption of large-scale sensor networks. However, finding a solution to relay node placement problem is NP-hard and it is very difficult to get exact solutions. Therefore, we get approximate solutions to EBR-RNP problem which considers both energy balance ratio and relay node placement using constraint programming.

• 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.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.8
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• pp.733-738
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• 2013

In this paper, we consider a physical layer security of an amplify-and-forward (AF) transmission in a presence of an eavesdropper in a wiretap channel. The proposed wiretap channel consists of a source, a destination, a relay, and an eavesdropper. Specifically, we consider that the relay has multiple antennas to exploit a diversity gain and a receive/transmit antenna selection schemes are applied to maximize a signal-to-noise ratio. In a practical point of view, we focus on the practical scenario where the relay does not have any channel state information of the eavesdropper while performing an AF protocol at the relay. For a secrecy performance analysis, we analyze a secrecy outage probability of the proposed system in one-integral form and verify our analysis with the computer-based simulation.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.71-77
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• 2007

USN은 유비쿼터스 환경의 기반기술로서 저전력, 저비용 등 소규모의 특성을 갖고, 기지국과 같은 기반시설이 아닌 Ad_hoc 기법을 통해 통신한다. 일반적으로 센서노드 네트워크 구성을 위해 인력을 동원한 현장실측이나 또는 무작위 설치로 인하여 시간과 비용의 낭비와 환경적인 피해가 발생한다. 또한 중계망의 노드장애 등 관리를 위한 모니터링에 있어 GIS의 분석과 가시화 기능을 적극 활용할 필요가 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 GIS를 이용하여 RF 전파의 경로손실을 측정하고 중계노드의 RSSI를 산출하였으며, 중계노드의 구성과 중계경로망도 제작기법을 제시하였다. 연구지역은 경북대학교권역이며 RF대역은 국제표준인 2.4GHz를 기준으로 하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.2C
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• pp.57-64
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• 2011

A two-way relay channel is a bidirectional cooperative communication channel between two nodes using a relay. In many cooperative communication schemes, a relay transmits its data to each node using separate channels. However, in the two-way relay channel, a relay can broadcast the network-coded signal to both nodes in a same time slot, which can increase the system throughput. In this paper, a new cooperative network error correcting scheme using distributed turbo code in a two-way relay channel is proposed. The proposed scheme not only increases the system throughput using network code but also improves the performance by utilizing the LLR information from relay node and other user node through distributed turbo code. Also, a power allocation scheme is investigated for various channel conditions to improve the system performance.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.61-66
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• 2011

Cooperative Communication using relays which include network separated into fixed cooperative relaying and incremental cooperative relaying defending on method receiving signal from a source. If some nodes included network is Primary user ad source and destination, another is Secondary user as relay, The nodes included network excepting source can help PU transmit signal. In the case of all of SU playing a role as relay, destination can get diversity gain, but useless time slot is consumed for transmitting signal. So in this paper, we analysis cooperative relaying which a node succeeding to sense primary signal send signal to destination. We use matlab simulation tool and consider AF, DF, fixed relaying, incremental relaying

• 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.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.766-773
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• 2007

Conventional wireless sensor network(WSN) has limited power and bandwidth. In order to develop multimedia sensor technology, high data rate communication systems are required. Cooperative communication system can help to decrease power consumption through spatial diversity. In cooperative transmission, one partner node assists one sensor node to transmit their data to destination. Instead of using M partners for M sensor nodes, we propose 1 partner for M sensor nodes. Proposed protocol offers similar diversity order as conventional one with much less bandwidth and hardware. It is able to almost reduce scattered nodes interference using orthogonal sub-carriers. In addition, we examined a power allocation between sensor nodes and relay that optimize the system performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.397-399
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• 2014

DTN(Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks)은 노드의 불규칙적인 움직임으로 인한 연결단절과 불안정한 연결 상태를 극복하기 위해 효율적인 포워딩 전략이 필요하다. 제시하는 알고리즘은 노드의 속도, 방향 등의 상황정보를 활용하며 이를 통해 이후의 이동성을 예측하여 포워딩할 중계노드를 선택하기 위한 방법을 고려한다. 본 논문에서는 중계노드들의 상관관계를 분석하여 안정된 경로를 제공하기 위해 노드의 상황정보를 예측하는 EPCM(Efficient Prediction-based Context-awareness Matrix) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이를 위해 상황 매트릭스라는 상황 분석 도구를 사용하여 시간에 따라 상황정보를 저장하고, 변화의 추이를 분석하여 노드의 속도, 방향 등의 정보를 예측하는데 활용된다. EPCM 알고리즘은 예측된 상황정보를 활용하여 노드 간 미래의 연결성을 분석하고 중계노드를 선택함으로써 안정된 포워딩 경로를 제공할 수 있고, 불필요한 포워딩으로 인한 자원 낭비를 방지할 수 있다. 제안하는 알고리즘을 시뮬레이션 해본 결과 예측된 상황정보의 값이 실제의 값에 대하여 약 2%내의 오차율을 나타내어 예측의 정확도를 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.105-106
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 DTN(Delay Tolerant Network) 환경에서 효율적인 메시지 전달을 위해 확률적으로 중계 노드를 선택하는 기법을 제안한다. DTN은 종단 간 연결이 불확실한 네트워크에서의 통신을 Store-Carry-Forward 방식을 사용하여 메시지를 목적 노드에 전달한다. 또한 종단 간 연결이 불확실한 상황에서도 중계 노드를 통해 메시지를 목적 노드에 전달하여 높은 전송률을 보장한다. 하지만 에피데믹(Epidemic) 라우팅이나 Spray and Wait 라우팅과 같은 기존 다중 복사 라우팅 알고리즘은 접촉한 모든 노드에게 메시지를 복사하여 메시지 복사로 인한 오버헤드가 높아진다. 반면에 PROPHET 라우팅과 같은 단일 복사 알고리즘은 적은 오버헤드를 발생시키지만 중계 노드 수 감소로 인한 메시지 전송률 감소 현상이 나타난다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘은 기존 DTN 라우팅의 문제점을 보완하기 위해 확률적으로 노드 분포를 분석하여 현재 네트워크에 효율적인 메시지 복사 방식을 선택하여 작동한다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 알고리즘이 기존 DTN 라우팅 알고리즘과 오버헤드와 전송률을 비교하여 더 효율적임을 증명한다.