• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.509-515
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• 2017

In this paper, for a cooperative communication system with multiple relays, we consider a relay selection method by exploiting the trust degree information of relay nodes. In the cooperative communication system, we interpret the trust degree of relays as the probability that relay helps the communication between the transmitter and receiver. We first provide an expected achievable rate at the receiver by taking into account the both cases that the relay helps the transmission of transmitter and the relay does not help the transmission of transmitter according to its trust degree. For given trust degree information, we propose an efficient relay selection method to maximize the expected achievable rate at the receiver. For the various configurations, the simulation results confirm that the proposed relay selection method outperforms the conventional relay selection method, which does not consider the trust degree of relay nodes.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.7-12
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• 2014

The data forwarding transmission is an important function of the relay in cooperative communication in wireless communication systems. However, additional relay cause the waste of power consumption and cost. Therefore, in this paper, we consider how to use the user mobile devices in stead of relays to deal with this problem. In this paper, we proposed the protocol that divide each relay into two states of idle and non-idle. The receiver has two functions of base station and user mobile device. In this case, it is possible that no additional cost, and improve the spectral efficiency and network capacity. We verified BER performance for the proposed protocol over Rayleigh fading through Monte-Carlo simulation.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.69-74
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• 2014

In this paper, an energy harvesting scheme is investigated in the multi-relay cooperation communication. Our proposal is to maximize the diversity gain and overcome the disadvantages of the limited power wireless devices. The best relay is selected based on the maximizing channel gains from source to relays so that the harvested energy at selected relay is best. If an internal power of the best relay is lower than a defined target power, the best relay will harvest the energy from the source, and the help of the source-destination link is changed to the second best relay. By this operation method, the diversity gain is maintained and the performance of the network is improved. Finally, performance of the proposed protocol is analyzed in terms of bit error rate, utilization efficiency, power collection efficiency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1180-1187
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• 2012

In this paper, joint transmission space division multiple access(JT-SDMA) scheme is proposed to mitigate inter-cell interference(ICI) in cooperative wireless communications system with limited feedback. We propose a systematic design method for a codebook consisting of a finite number of unitary matrices suitable for network multiple-input multiple-output( MIMO) channel characteristics. A centralized cluster scheduling scheme is proposed to both mitigate ICI and maximizes multiuser diversity gain with limited feedback. It is shown that the proposed JT-SDMA scheme outperforms a existing coordinated SDMA scheme even in wireless network environments where sufficient multiuser diversity order can not be provided through efficient ICI mitigation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

In this paper, CDD(Cyclic Delay Diversity)-DF(Decode-and-Forward)-Relay scheme is proposed for MC-CDMA(Multicarrier-Code Division Multiple Access) systems over multipath Rayleigh fading channels. The advantages of general DF schemes come at the expense of the spectral efficiency since the source and all the relays must transmit on orthogonal channels. In order to mitigate this disadvantage of general DF schemes, we have applied CDD techniques to each relays so that all the relays can transmit on single channel. It means that all R-D link channels can be considered as a single channel which is widely delay spread. Namely, it causes the increasing the number of multipath so that the frequency diversity gain can be achieved in MC-CDMA systems. By simulations, we have compared proposed one with general DF scheme. Therefore, it is confirmed that the proposed one can be a possible solution to achieve cooperative diversity gain without a reduction of spectral efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.11
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• pp.24-29
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• 2010

Selection-type relaying protocol, which is one of cooperative relaying protocols, provides low decoding complexity and improved system performance due to selection diversity. In this paper, we deal with linear precoding technique that minimize the error probability of cooperative MIMO system. Under the assumption that full channel state information is available at whole nodes, linear source and relay precoders, which minimize mean squared error of the estimated symbol vector, are proposed. Moreover, unlikely to the conventional selection-type relaying protocol using a fixed threshold signal-to-noise-ratio, new transmission link selection algorithm selects direct link or relay link as a transmission link, is introduced. Simulation results show that the proposed linear precoder with the transmission link selection algorithm outperforms the conventional precoders for two-hop relaying protocols or selection-type relaying protocols.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.31-37
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• 2008

Conventional cooperative communications can attain gain of spatial diversity and path loss reduction because destination node independently received same signal from source node and relay node located between source node and destination node. However, these techniques bring about decreased spectral efficiency with relay node and increased complexity of receiver by using maximal ratio combining (MRC). This paper has proposed cooperative ARQ protocol that can improve the above problems and can get the better performance. This method can increase the spectral efficiency than conventional cooperative communication because if the received signal from source node is satisfied by the destination preferentially, the destination transmits ACK message to both relay node and source node and then recovers the received signal. In addition, if ARQ message indicates NACK relay node operates selective retransmission and we can increase reliability of system compared with that of general ARQ protocol in which source node retransmits data. In the proposed protocol, the selective retransmission and ARQ message are to be determined by comparing log-likelihood ratio (LLR) computation of received signal from source node with predetermined threshold values. Therefore, this protocol don't waste redundant bandwidth with CRC code and can reduce complexity of receiver without MRC. We verified spectral efficiency and BER performance for the proposed protocol through Monte-Carlo simulation over Rayleigh fading plus AWGN.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.31-34
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• 2008

양방향 중계 채널(two-way relay channel)은 2명의 사용자가 중계기(relay)의 도움을 받아 서로 정보를 주고받는 통신 채널이다. 중계기에서는 각각의 사용자로부터 독립적으로 수신한 두 데이터 패킷에 네트워크 코딩 기법을 적용하고, 이를 통해 만든 패킷을 두 사용자에게 동시에 전송한다. 따라서 양방향 중계 채널에서는 기존의 협력 통신에 비해 보다 효율적인 자원의 사용이 가능하다. 한편, 다중 중계기 환경에서의 중계기 선택 기반 전송 방식은 시스템의 전력 제한(power constraint), 전송 패킷의 동기화(synchronization) 문제 등을 고려할 때 다중 중계기 기반 전송 방식보다 우수한 성능을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 양방향 다중 중계기 채널에서 중계기 선택 기법을 제안한다. 양방향 중계 채널에서는 수신한 두 신호의 결합을 위해 중계기에서 네트워크 코딩 기법을 적용함으로써 중계기의 부담이 보다 증가하는 특징이 있다. 또한, 중계기는 신호 전송 시 두 사용자 모두에게 전송하게 되고 이로 인해 두 수신지와의 채널 조건을 모두 고려하여야 한다. 따라서 중계기 선택은 데이터 패킷의 전송이 시작되기 전에 분산된 방식(distributed method)으로 이루어지며, 각각의 사용자와 중계기 간 일시적(instantaneous) 채널 이득을 바탕으로 사용자-사용자 간(end-to-end) 경로 조건의 최대값을 계산하는 메트릭(metric)을 중계기 선택 기준으로 사용한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 중계기 선택 기법이 중계기의 개수에 해당하는 다이버시티 이득을 얻을수 있음을 보여준다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.1
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• pp.19-25
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• 2013

In this paper, we proposed an enhanced monopulse MIMO radar system for the tactical scenario where the ground receivers are connected wireless backhaul and closely spaced. By applying the ${\alpha}{\beta}$ filter to the conventional monopulse MIMO radar, we show that the localization performance can be improved significantly. We also propose an efficient localization algorithm for a system with lower rate feedback. Using numerical simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme can improve the localization performance while reducing the feedback over conventional scheme.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.25-32
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• 2010

This paper evaluates the outage probability of cognitive relay networks with cooperation between secondary users based on the underlay approach, when multiple primary receivers coexist with secondary users. Using an appropriate relay selection criterion in cognitive radio networks, we derive the outage probability of secondary user. It is shown that the outage probability increases as the number of primary receivers increases and we quantify the increase. Through the simulation results, we verify that the performance of relaying transmission is varied more sensitively compared to that of direct transmission as the number of primary receivers increases. In addition, the relaying transmission can be less efficient than the direct transmission when multiple primary receiver exist but it can be more efficient than the direct transmission by increasing the relay selection diversity.