• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1955-1971
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• 2013

This paper studies relay selection and power allocation for amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way relay networks (TWRN) with asymmetric traffic requirements (ATR). A joint relay selection and power allocation algorithm is proposed to decrease the outage probability of TWRN with ATR. In this algorithm, two sources exchange information with the help of the relay during two time slots. We first calculate the optimal power allocation parameters based on instantaneous channel state information (CSI), and then derive a tight lower bound of outage probability. Furthermore, we propose a simplified relay selection criterion, which can be easily calculated as harmonic mean of instantaneous channel gains, according to the outage probability expressions. Simulation results verified the theoretical analyses we presented. It is shown that the outage probability of our algorithm improves 3-4dB comparing with that of other existing algorithms, and the lower bound is tight comparing with actual value for the entire signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5361-5374
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• 2016

Combining channel coding and network coding in a physical layer in a fading channel, generalized joint channel-network coding (G-JCNC) is proved to highly perform in a two-way relay channel (TWRC). However, most relevant discussions are restricted to symmetric networks. This paper investigates the G-JCNC protocols in an asymmetric TWRC (A-TWRC). A newly designed encoder used by source nodes that is dedicated to correlate codewords with different orders is presented. Moreover, the capability of a simple common non-binary decoder at a relay node is verified. The effects of a power match under various numbers of iteration and code lengths are also analyzed. The simulation results give the optimum power match ratio and demonstrate that the designed scheme based on G-JCNC in an A-TWRC has excellent bit error rate performance under an appropriate power match ratio.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.250-256
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• 2011

A two-way relaying (TWR) system is analyzed, where two source terminals with unequal numbers of antennas exchange data via an amplify-and-forward relay terminal with a single antenna. In the system considered herein, the link quality between the sources and relay can generally be asymmetric due to the nonidentical antenna configuration, power allocation, and relay location. In such a general setup, accurate bounds on the average sum rate (ASR) are derived when beamforming or orthogonal space time block coding is employed at the sources. We show that the proposed bounds are almost indistinguishable from the exact ASR under various system configurations. It is also observed that the ASR performance of the TWR system with unequal numbers of source antennas is more sensitive to the relay location than to the power allocation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.717-726
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• 2015

In this paper, we study an asymmetric two-way relaying network where two source nodes intend to exchange information with the help of multiple relay nodes. A hybrid time-division broadcast relaying scheme with joint relay selection (RS) and power allocation (PA) is proposed to realize energy-efficient transmission. Our scheme is based on the asymmetric level of the two source nodes' target signal-to-noise ratio indexes to minimize the total power consumed by the relay nodes. An optimization model with joint RS and PA is studied here to guarantee hybrid relaying transmissions. Next, with the aid of our proposed intelligent optimization algorithm, which combines a genetic algorithm and a simulated annealing algorithm, the formulated optimization model can be effectively solved. Theoretical analyses and numerical results verify that our proposed hybrid relaying scheme can substantially reduce the total power consumption of relays under a traffic asymmetric scenario; meanwhile, the proposed intelligent optimization algorithm can eventually converge to a better solution.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4432-4450
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• 2014

It is widely observed that in practical wireless cooperative communication systems, different links may experience different fading characteristics. In this paper, we investigate into the outage probability and channel capacity of two-way amplify-and-forward (TWAF) relaying systems operating over a mixed asymmetric Rician and Rayleigh fading scenario, with different amplification policies (AP) adopted at the relay, respectively. As TWAF relay network carries concurrent traffics towards two opposite directions, both end-to-end and overall performance metrics were considered. In detail, both uniform exact expressions and simplified asymptotic expressions for the end-to-end outage probability (OP) were presented, based on which the system overall OP was studied under the condition of the two source nodes having non-identical traffic requirements. Furthermore, exact expressions for tight lower bounds as well as high SNR approximations of channel capacity of the considered scenario were presented. For both OP and channel capacity, with different APs, effective power allocation (PA) schemes under different constraints were given to optimize the system performance. Extensive simulations were carried out to verify the analytical results and to demonstrate the impact of channel asymmetry on the system performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.4087-4102
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• 2014

Two-way relaying is an effective way of improving system spectral efficiency by making use of physical layer network coding. However, energy efficiency in OFDM-based bidirectional relaying with asymmetric traffic requirement has not been investigated. In this study, we focused on subcarrier transmission mode selection, bit loading, and power allocation in a multicarrier single amplified-and-forward relay system. In this scheme, each subcarrier can operate in two transmission modes: one-way relaying and two-way relaying. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer programming problem. We adopt a structural approximation optimization method that first decouples the original problem into two suboptimal problems with fixed subcarrier subsets and then finds the optimal subcarrier assignment subsets. Although the suboptimal problems are nonconvex, the results obtained for a single-tone system are used to transform them to convex problems. To find the optimal subcarrier assignment subsets, an iterative algorithm based on subcarrier ranking and matching is developed. Simulation results show that the proposed method can improve system performance compared with conventional methods. Some interesting insights are also obtained via simulation.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권8호
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• pp.651-659
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• 2014

본 논문은 선단 내 해상 통신에서 두 통신 선박이 다중 안테나 릴레이 선박의 도움으로 데이터를 교환하는 양방향 릴레이 네트워크를 고려한다. 상기 네트워크에서 두 통신 선박의 정보 전송률이 다를 때 정보 전송 신뢰도를 높이는 전송률 인지 세 단계 아날로그 네트워크 부호화 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 릴레이에서 직교하게 수신된 각 통신 선박의 신호로부터 향상된 품질의 아날로그 네트워크 부호화 신호를 안테나 수신 전력만을 이용하여 생성함으로써 릴레이를 채널 추정 기능 없이 낮은 복잡도로 구현할 수 있도록 한다. 또한, 제안 기법은 두 통신 선박의 서로 다른 전송률을 고려한 전송률-인지 릴레이 전력 할당 방법을 적용하여 비대칭 전송률을 갖는 데이터 교환의 아웃티지 확률을 크게 줄일 수 있음을 모의실험으로 보였다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2013

최근 이동통신 뿐 만 아니라 TV방송 등에서도 릴레이를 이용한 양방향 무선채널의 전송효율을 높이기 위한 네트워크 코딩에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 동시에 여러 개의 릴레이가 전송하는 대신 최선의 릴레이를 이용하여 양방향 데이터를 전송하는 네트워크 코딩 시스템의 평균 전송용량 및 오수신율을 유도하였다. 일반적으로 양방향 통신 시스템의 경우 순방향 및 역방향 링크의 데이터 비대칭성이 존재하므로, 데이터 대칭 링크와 비대칭 링크도 포함하여 성능을 유도하였다. 유도한 결과 병렬 릴레이의 수가 증가할수록 공간 다이버시티에 의한 신호 대 잡음비(SNR) 이득이 증가함을 알 수 있었고, 대칭 링크의 경우 주어진 조건하에서 단일 릴레이를 사용하였을 때보다 9개의 릴레이가 존재하는 경우 11.4 dB의 SNR 이득을 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 비대칭 링크의 경우, 오수신율은 데이터 비대칭성보다는 릴레이의 수에 민감하다는 결과를 얻었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.890-910
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• 2014

This paper investigates the spectrum hole utilization of cooperative schemes for the two-way relaying model in order to improve the utilization efficiency of limited spectrum holes in cognitive radio networks with imperfect spectrum sensing. We propose two specific bidirectional secondary data transmission (BSDT) schemes with two-step and three-step two-way relaying models, i.e., two-BSDT and three-BSDT schemes, where the spectrum sensing and the secondary data transmission are jointly designed. In the proposed cooperative schemes, the best two-way relay channel between two secondary users is selected from a group of secondary users serving as cognitive relays and assists the bi-directional communication between the two secondary users without a direct link. The closed-form asymptotic expressions for outage probabilities of the two schemes are derived with a primary user protection constraint over Rayleigh fading channels. Based on the derived outage probabilities, the spectrum hole utilization is calculated to evaluate the percentage of spectrum holes used by the two secondary users for their successful information exchange without channel outage. Numerical results show that the spectrum hole utilization depends on the spectrum sensing overhead and the channel gain from a primary user to secondary users. Additionally, we compare the spectrum hole utilization of the two schemes as the varying of secondary signal to noise ratio, the number of cognitive relays, and symmetric and asymmetric channels.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권2B호
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• pp.97-109
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 기지국(base station: BS)과 릴레이(relay station: RS), 그리고 단말(mobile station: MS) 사이의 릴레이 채널과 액세스 채널의 품질이 서로 다른 양방향 비대칭 채널에서 네트워크 부호화 기법을 위한 변조 방식을 제안한다. 제안하는 변조 방식은 이중 성상도를 기반으로 하고 있으며, RS는 네트워크 부호화된 심볼을 연속된 두 심볼 구간 동안 서로 다른 성상도를 이용하여 BS와 MS로 방송한다. 레일리 페이딩 채널에서 제안하는 변조 방식의 비트 오류율 성능에 대한 상한 식을 수학적으로 유도하고, 기존에 양방향 비대칭 채널에서 네트워크 부호화 기반의 양방향 통신 기법을 위해 제안되었던 혼합 성상도 기반의 변조 방식과 성능을 비교 분석한다. 또한 제안하는 변조 방식을 사용하는 네트워크 부호화 기반의 양방향 통신 기법과 기존의 양방향 통신 기법들의 총 채널 사용 횟수를 비교 분석한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안하는 변조 방식이 양방향 비대칭 채널에서 기존 기법들과 동일한 대역 효율성을 유지하면서도 목표 비트 오류율 $10^{-2}$에서 3.5~4dB의 $E_b/N_0$ 이득이 있음을 보인다.