• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.5A
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• pp.408-413
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• 2009

In this paper, minimum mean-square-error (MMSE)-based transceiver processing of a bidirectional amplify-and-forward (AF) relay having multiple antennas is proposed. Besides, the optimal beamforming vectors of users are designed in the sense of the sum rate maximization. Simulation results show that the proposed relay processing can effectively reduce both co-channel interferences and self-interferences and that the proposed beamforming method is proper to the bidirectional communication employing the AF relay.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.21 no.3 s.99
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• pp.91-99
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• 2006

중계기(relay station)는 기존의 이동통신 시스템에서 음영 지역 해소를 위해 도입되어 현재 사용중인 기술이다. 중계기 기술은 단순히 증폭 후 전달(amplify-and-forward)방식에서 디코딩 후 전달(decode-and-forward), 재구성/재조합 후 전달(reconfiguration/reallocation-and-forward) 등 지능화된 형태로 진화하고 있다. 특히, 차세대이동통신 시스템에서 지능화된 다수의 중계기 도입은 기지국 증설 비용과 백홀(backhaul) 통신망의 유지 비용을 줄이는 동시에 커버리지 확대와 데이터 처리율 향상을 위해 불가피할 것으로 예상된다. 이에 본 고에서는 중계기 방식과 종류 등 일반적인 사항에 대해 살펴보고, 최근 표준화 활동이 시작되어 이슈화되고 있는 IEEE 802.16MMR의 동향에 관해 기술한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.7A
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• pp.562-567
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• 2009

In this paper, two-hop beamforming relay system, with source, relay, and destination nodes, is considered and the transmit- and receive-beamforming vectors and the relay processing matrix are designed for minimizing a mean square error (MMSE) between the transmit and receive signals. Here, to reduce the transmit power of the source or the relay, two local inequality constraints are involved with MMSE problem. By adopting the Lagrange method, closed formed Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions (equalities) are derived and an iterative algorithm is developed to solve the entangled KKT equalities. Due to the inequality power constraints, the source or the relay can reduce its transmit power when the received signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the first- and the second-hop are different. Meanwhile, the destination can achieve almost identical bit-error-rate performance compared to an optimal beamforming system maximizing the received SNR. This claim is supported by a computer simulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.55-62
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a method on the training sequence based on channel estimation issues for relay networks that employ amplify-and-forward(AF) transmission scheme. In $^{[1]}$ and $^{[2]}$, we have to point out that jointly estimating the channel from source to relay and from relay to destination suffers from many drawbacks in fast fading case because the estimation of previous pilots is not suitable for current channel. In this paper, we consider a new joint estimation of overall channel impulse response(CIR) using one OFDM signal without pilots. Using the maximum likelihood(ML) function, we derive a channel estimator by taking the frequency domain of transmitted signal as Gaussian and averaging the ML function over the resulting Gaussian distribution. Simulation results show that our proposed channel estimator performs a fraction of 1dB compared with $^{[1]}$ in high SNR region.