• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.18-25
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• 2011

펨토셀은 실내에 위치한 사용자들에게 고품질의 이동통신 서비스를 제공하기 위한 실내용 소출력 이동통신 기지국이다. 펨토셀은 가정 또는 사무실과 같은 실내환경에 설치되어 기 의 이동통신 기지국과 협력함으로써 이동통신망의 용량을 확장하고 실내 사용자들에게 보다 우수한 통선 품질을 제공해 줄 수 있다. 그러나 펨토셀의 통신 영역은 수십에서 수백 제곱 미터로 작아 단말이 접속 기지국을 빈번하게 전환할 수 있으므로 펨토셀 네트워크에서는 이동성 관리 기능의 중요성이 매우 높을 것으로 예상된다. 또한 펨토셀이 기존 매크로셀과 일한 무선 자원을 사용할 경우 펨토셀과 매크로셀 사이의 신호 간섭 이 발생하여 사용자의 통신 품질이 크게 저하될 우려가 있다. 본 고에서는 3GPP LTE-Advanced 기반 펨토셀 네트 크 환경에서 단말의 이동성 관리기법 및 그 절차를 소개한다. 또한 펨토셀로부터의 신호 간섭 에 의해 통신 품질이 크게 저하되는 피해 단말 탐색을 위한 3GPP LTE-Advanced 표준에서 정의하고 있는 핸드오버 절차 기반의 펨토셀과 매크로셀 기지국 사이의 협력 기법을 소개한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.5
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• pp.451-458
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• 2013

This paper proposes a cross-tier interference avoidance scheme to improve femtocell performance in single frequency heterogeneous cellular networks (SFHCN). The scheduled macrocell users located close femtocell base stations cause serious interference to those femtocells so that the performance of femtocell is dramatically deteriorated. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an interference avoidance scheme by reversing the uplink and downlink frames of such femtocells. After reversing the uplink and downlink frames, femtocell base station relays the macrocell user data as well as transmitting its own data. In the 1st relaying link, femtocell and macrocell users transmit their data respectively divided uplink frames and in the 2nd relaying link, femtocell base station transmit macrocell and femtocell data using a simultaneously superposition coding scheme. Computer simulation results confirm performance improvement of proposed scheme.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.112-127
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 FMC/FMS의 네트워크 진화에 따른 펨토셀의 도입 배경 및 특징, 국내외 펨토셀 표준화 현황, 통신사업자/제조업체 동향 등을 간단히 기술한 후, 국내 WiBro 펨토셀 도입을 위한 논의단계에서 검토해야 할 항목으로서 실내동기, 출력, 이용자 제한 등을 필수적인 전파이용조건 항목으로 제시하고 있다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.16-22
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• 2017

In this paper, we first introduce a mobile data traffic offload method called Local IP Access (LIPA) with femtocell networks. Then, we evaluate the traffic transmission time and probability of mobile data traffic that is transmitted to the core network (CN) when mobile devices transmit the mobile data traffic to indoor devices in three different scenarios, i.e., conventional systems, femtocell based systems, and femtocell and LIPA based systems. Through performance results, it is shown that the next generation mobile network with the femtocell and LIPA not only decrease the density of the mobile data traffic in CNs but also reduce the total transmission time of the mobile data traffic in indoor environments. That is, for the traffic transmission time, the conventional systems and femtocell based systems have 3 and 4 times higher than the femtocell and LIPA based systems, respectively, when the Internet delay is 10ms while 14 and 26 times higher than that, respectively, when the Internet delay is 100ms.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.22-28
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• 2009

최근 가정이나 사무실 등 옥내 사용자들의 통신 환경의 개선을 위해 펨토셀에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 펨토셀의 서비스 반경 특성상 고정된 대역폭을 효율적으로 사용하는 여러 방법들이 제안되고 있으며, 이는 향후 통신환경에서 중요한 이슈로 대두되고 있다 [1]-[3]. 본고에서는 3GPP-Long Term Evolution (LTE) 환경에서 물리 계층 표준의 프레임 구조를 살펴보고, 3GPP-LTE 구조에 여러 펨토셀이 적용되었을 때 효율적인 간섭회피 방법을 제안한다. 펨토셀 환경은 사용자에게 서비스를 제공하는 반경이 넓지 않아 주파수 대역의 재사용이 용이하다. 이와 같은 특성을 이용하여 전체 시스템에 부하를 최소화할 수 있는 분산형 동적 대역폭 조정을 수행하는 방법을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.5A
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• pp.339-347
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• 2012

Femtocells as home base station for indoor coverage extension and wideband data service, have been studied with significant interests. When femtocell is deployed, the existing cell structural of changes causes various technical problems. In this paper, we investigate the femto-macro cell interference mitigation in OFDMA system. We propose dynamic downlink resource management scheme which adjust the transmitted power of femtocell according to the strength of received macrocell signal and allocates subcarrier to femtocells in a dynamic manner. In this way, the interference between the macrocell users and femtocells is reduced. The simulation results show that proposed scheme enhances both macrocell and femtocell throughputs.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a novel frequency reuse method using the fractional frequency reuse (FFR) for enterprise femtocell networks (EFNs) in which a lot of femtocell base stations (fBSs) are deployed in a buinding, e.g., business companies, department stores, etc, and evaluate the system performance for the downlink of EFNs. First, we introduce the concept of the split reuse method to allocate the frequency bandwidth with considering the interference between the macrocell and femtocell. Then, we propose the resource allocation with the FFR for fBSs of EFNs to reduce the interference and increase the system capacity. Through simulations, we show that the proposed FFR method outperforms a traditional resource allocation method with frequency reuse factor 4 in terms of the mean fUE capacity, total EFN capacity, and outage probability.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.3A
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• pp.259-266
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• 2011

Femtocells are expected as the surest way to increase the system capacity with higher-quality links and more spatial reuse in future networks. In spite of their great potential, the system capacity is highly susceptible to network density because a large portion of users are exposed to inter-cell interference (ICI). In this work, we proposed a dynamic interference avoidance scheme in densely deployed cell environments. Our proposed DDIA (Distributed Dynamic ICI Avoidance) scheme not only works in a fully distributed manner, but also controls interference link connectivity of users with high agility so that it is suited for self-organizing networks (SONs). We introduced the concept of ICI-link and two-tier scheduling in designing the DDIA scheme. To avoid ICI without any central entity, our scheme tries to harmonize all base stations (BSs) with users adaptively. Through extensive simulations, it was shown that our proposed scheme improves the throughput of users by more than twice on average compared to the frequency reuse factor 1 scheme, who are exposed to ICI while maintaining or even improving overall network performance. Our scheme operates well regardless of network density and topology.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.107-116
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• 2011

Recently, femtocell has been concerned as one of effective solutions to relieve shadow region and provide high quality services to users in indoor environments. Even though femtocell offers various benefits to cellular operators and users, many technical issues, such as interference coordination, network synchronization, self-configuration, self-optimization, and so on, should be solved to deploy the femtocell in current network. In this paper, we develop a simulator for evaluating performance of long term evolution (LTE) femtocell systems under various interference scenarios. The simulator consists of a main-module and five sub-modules. The main-module connects and manages five sub-modules which have the functionality managing user mobility, packet scheduling, call admission control, traffic generation, and modulation and coding scheme (MCS). To provide user convenience, the simulator adopts graphical user interface (GUI) which can observes simulation results in real time. We expect that this simulator can contribute to developing effective femtocell systems by supporting a tool for analyzing the effect of interference between macrocell and femtocell.

• TTA Journal
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• s.129
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• pp.68-72
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• 2010