• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1805-1824
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• 2013

Recently, the use of wireless body area networks (WBAN) has been increasing rapidly in medical healthcare applications. WBANs consist of smart nodes that can be used to sense and transmit vital data such as heart rate, temperature and ECG from a human body to a medical centre. WBANs depend on limited resources such as energy and bandwidth. In order to utilise these resources efficiently, a very well organized medium access control (MAC) protocol must be considered. In this paper, a new, adaptive and energy-efficient MAC protocol, entitled isMAC, is proposed for WBANs. The proposed MAC is based on multi-channel communication and aims to prolong the network lifetime by effectively employing (i) a collision prevention mechanism, (ii) a coordinator node (WCN) selection algorithm and (iii) a transmission power adjustment approach. The isMAC protocol has been developed and modelled, by using OPNET Modeler simulation software. It is based on a networking scenario that requires especially high data rates such as ECG, for performance evaluation purposes. Packet delay, network throughput and energy consumption have been chosen as performance metrics. The comparison between the simulation results of isMAC and classical IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) protocol shows that isMAC significantly outperforms IEEE 802.15.4 in terms of packet delay, throughput and energy consumption.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제35C권1호
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• pp.42-54
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• 1998

For decreasing intersymbol interference (ISI) due to band-limited channels in digitalcommunication, the uses of equalization techniques are necessary. Among the useful adaptive equalization techniques, because of their ease of implementation and nonlinear capabilites, the neural networks have been used as an alternative for effectively dealing with the channel distortion. In this paepr, a complex-valued multilayer percepron is proposed as a nonlinear adaptive equalizer. After the important properties that a suitable complex-valued activation function must possess are discussed, a new complex-valued activation function is developed for the proposed schemes to deal with M-ary QAM signals of any constellation sizes. It has been further proven that by the nonlinear transformation of the proposed function, the correlation coefficient between the real and imaginary parts of input data decreases when they are jointly Gaussian random variables. Lastly, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by simulations. The proposed scheme provides, compared with the linear equalizer using the least mean squares (LMS) algorith, an interesting improvement concerning Bit Error Rate (BER) when channel distortions are nonlinear.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권4B호
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• pp.298-307
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 향후 이동 통신 시스템의 표준안으로 고려되는 WCDMA의 순방향 링크에서 성능 향상된 시공간 다중 사용자 수신기를 제안하고 성능을 분석한다. 제안한 수신기는, 이동 통신 환경에서 다중 경로 및 다중 사용자 간섭에 대한 분석과 시공간 다이버시티에 대한 고찰을 통해 오류 확률을 개선하고자 하는 기법으로 조건부 적응 시공간 간섭 제거기 (Constrained Adaptive Space-time Interference Canceller; C-ASTIC) 라 부른다. 논문에서는 비교를 위해 단일 사용자 및 다중 사용자 WCDMA 시스템에 대한 수식적인 성능을 분석하여 결과에 반영하였다. 또한, 제안한 C-ASTIC를 기존의 단일 안테나 간섭 제거 시스템, 최대 결합비 RAKE 수신기, 그리고 시공간 전송 다이버시티 결합 RAKE 수신기와 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 그 성능을 비교하였다. 마지막으로 본 논문에서는 멀티미디어 환경에서의 유용성을 검증하기 위해 다중 전송률 시스템에서의 성능을 실험하였다. 결과로부터 C-ASTIC가 50% 이상의 시스템 용량 환경에서 $10^{-3}$의 BER에서 4 dB 이상의 성능 이득을 보였다.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 센서 네트워크용 병렬 시뮬레이터인 PASENS(Parallel SEnsor Network Simulator)를 이용하여 센서 네트워크에 이용되는 라우팅 알고리즘 중에서 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜의 대표적인 방식인 LEACH(Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)와 그의 변형인 TL-LEACH(Two Level Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), M-LEACH(Multihop Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), 그리고 LEACH-C(LEACH-Centralized)의 전력 소모량과 데이터의 수신율을 비교하고 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션을 이용한 분석 결과에 따르면, M-LEACH 라우팅 프로토콜의 경우에는 여러 센서 노드들을 통하여 데이터가 전달되기 때문에 일정한 크기 이상의 넓은 공간에서 높은 수신율을 보였으며, LEACH-C 라우팅 프로토콜은 싱크 노드(서버)가 전체 센서 노드의 잔여 에너지와 위치를 고려하여 클러스터 헤드를 결정하기 때문에 좁은 공간에서 보다 오랜 수명을 필요로 하는 센서 네트워크를 구축하는데 가장 효율적이라는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권12B호
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• pp.2109-2119
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• 2000

In this paper, the Packet CDMA Reservation ALOHA protocol is proposed to support the multi-traffic services such as voice and videophone services with handoff calls, high-rate data and low-rate data services efficiently on the multi-rate transmission in uplink cellular systems. The frame structure, composed of the access slot and the transmission slot, and the proposed access permission probability based on the estimated number of contending users for each service are presented to reduce MAI. The assured priority to the voice and the videophone handoff calls is given through higher access permission probability. And through the proposed code assignment scheme, the voice service can be provided without the voice packet dropping probability in the CDMA/PRMA protocols. The code reservation is allowed to the voice and the videophone services. The low-rate data service uses the available codes during the silent periods of voice calls and the remaining codes in the codes assigned to the voice service to utilize codes efficiently. The high-rate data service uses the assigned codes to the high-rate data service and the remaining codes in the codes assigned to the videophone service. Using the Markov-chain subsystem model for each service including the handoff calls in uplink cellular systems, the steady-state performances are simulated and analyzed. After a round of tests for the examples, through the proposed code assignment scheme and the access permission probability, the Packet CDMA Reservation ALOHA protocol can guarantee the priority and the constant QoS for the handoff calls even at large number of contending users. Also, the data services are integrated efficiently on the multi-rate transmission.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.617-627
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• 2021

Underwater Acoustic Channels (UAC) have inherent sparse characteristics. The traditional adaptive equalization techniques do not utilize this feature to improve the performance. In this paper we consider the Variable Adaptive Subgradient Projection (V-ASPM) method to derive a new sparse equalization algorithm based on the Minimum Symbol Error Rate (MSER) criterion. Compared with the original MSER algorithm, our proposed scheme adds sparse matrix to the iterative formula, which can assign independent step-sizes to the equalizer taps. How to obtain such proper sparse matrix is also analyzed. On this basis, the selection scheme of the sparse matrix is obtained by combining the variable step-sizes and equalizer sparsity measure. We call the new algorithm Sparse-Control Proportional-MSER (SC-PMSER) equalizer. Finally, the proposed SC-PMSER equalizer is embedded into a turbo receiver, which perform turbo decoding, Digital Phase-Locked Loop (DPLL), time-reversal receiving and multi-reception diversity. Simulation and real-field experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has better performance in convergence speed and Bit Error Rate (BER).

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.477-493
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• 2011

The IEEE 802.16 mobile multi-hop relay (MMR) task group 'j' (TGj) has introduced the multi-hop relaying concept in the IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN, wherein a relay station (RS) is employed to improve network coverage and capacity. Several RSs can be deployed between a base station and mobile stations, and configured to form a tree-like multi-hop topology. In such architecture, we consider the problem of a path selection through which the mobile station in and outside the coverage can communicate with the base station. In this paper, we propose a new path selection algorithm that ensures more efficient distribution of resources such as bandwidth among the relaying nodes for improving the overall performance of the network. Performance of our proposed scheme is compared with the path selection algorithms based on loss rate and the shortest path algorithm. Based on the simulation results using ns-2, we show our proposal significantly improves the performance on throughput, latency and bandwidth consumption.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.443-451
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• 2004

Since the publication of Alamouti's famous space-time block code, various quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes (QSTBC) for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) fading channels for more than two transmit antennas have been proposed. It has been shown that these codes cannot achieve full diversity at full rate. In this paper, we present a simple feedback scheme for rich scattering (flat Rayleigh fading) MIMO channels that improves the coding gain and diversity of a QSTBC for 2$^n$ (n=3, 4, ${\cdots}$) transmit antennas. The relevant channel state information is sent back from the receiver to the transmitter quantized to one or two bits per code block. In this way, signal transmission with an improved coding gain and diversity near to the maximum diversity order is achieved. Such high diversity can be exploited with either a maximum-likelihood receiver or low-complexity zero-forcing receiver.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.586-595
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 이동 환경에서 다시점 비디오를 제공하는 적응형 다시점 비디오 서비스 프레임워크를 제안한다. 중간시점 영상의 실시간 생성과 다시점 비디오의 클라이언트 적응을 통해 이동 환경이 갖는 성능 제약을 해결한다. 그리고 적응 변환 작업을 서버에서 수행함으로써 클라이언트의 부하를 줄이고, H.264/AVC를 채택하여 비디오의 압축 효율을 개선한다. 이를 위해, 멀티미디어 프레임워크 표준인 MPEG-21 DIA (Digital Item Adaptation)를 참조하여, 사용자 요구와 클라이언트 기기의 특성에 맞도록 비디오를 적응시키는 이동 환경을 위한 새로운 다시점 비디오 DIA를 구현한다. 제안 프레임워크의 효율성과 성능을 측정한 결과, 다시점 비디오의 이동 서비스는 양방향으로 해상도가 $320{\times}240$이면, 최대 초당 13 프레임까지 가능하고, 기존 3D 점의 투영 방법과 비교하여 5배 빠른 중간시점 영상을 생성한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권11A호
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• pp.1113-1119
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• 2006

적응형 자원 할당에 대해 낮은 복잡도를 요구하는 이동 채널에서의 다중 사용자 OFDM 시스템을 위해 다중 임계치를 사용하는 자원 할당 알고리듬을 제안한다. 임계치의 내림차순으로 할당을 수행하며, 각 임계치를 넘어서는 채널값을 갖는 부반송파에 대해서만 할당을 고려한다. 또한, 낮은 채널값을 갖는 부반송파들을 제거하여도 요구 데이터율을 여전히 만족시킬 수 있다면, 현재의 임계치를 이용한 할당 과정에서 해당 부반송파를 제거하여 다음 임계치에 대한 할당 과정에서 다른 사용자들을 위해 재할당되도록 한다. 제안된 대역폭 및 부반송파 할당알고리듬은 필요 전력과 할당에 소요되는 시간에 대해서 기존의 알고리듬들에 비해 매우 우수한 성능을 가지기 때문에 이동 환경에서 OFDM 시스템의 스펙트럼 효율을 높일 수 있는 기술로 예상된다.