• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2011

In cell biology area, microscopy enables detecting objects inside cells that are stained or fluorescently tagged. It is disadvantageous for observing these objects because of the noisy characteristics of their environmental surrounding. In this paper, a framework is proposed to increase the throughput and reliability for analysis of these images. First, we apply adaptive beamlet transform to extract edges meaningfully followed by orientation, location, and length in different scales. Then, a post-process is implemented to extend and map them onto original image. Our proposed scheme is compared with Canny edge detector and conventional beamlet transform from four evaluation aspects. It produces better results when experiments are conducted on real images. Much better results for observing internal parts make this framework competitive for analysis of cell images.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2124-2143
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• 2016

In Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) systems, Inter-cell Interference (ICI) is a prominent limiting factor that affects the performance of the systems, especially at the cell edges. Based on the literature, Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) methods are known as efficient interference management techniques. In this report, the proposed Dynamic Fractional Frequency Reuse (DFFR) technique improved the capacity and cell edge coverage performance by 70% compared to the Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) technique. In this study, an improved power allocation method was adopted into the DFFR technique to reach the goal of not only reducing the ICI mitigation at the cell edges, but also improving the overall capacity of the LTE-A systems. Hence, an improved water-filling algorithm was proposed, and its performance was compared with that of other methods that were considered. Through the simulation results and comparisons with other frequency reuse techniques, it was shown that the proposed method significantly improved the performance of the cell edge throughput by 42%, the capacity by 75%, and the coverage by 80%. Based on the analysis and numerical expressions, it was concluded that the proposed DFFR method provides significant performance improvements, especially for cell edge users.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.886-900
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• 2015

Small cells are deployed in Heterogeneous Networks (HetNet) to improve overall performance. These access points can provide high-rate mobile services at hotspots to users. In a Small Cell Network (SCN), the good deployment of small cells can guarantee the performance of users on the basis of average and cell edge spectrum efficiency. In this paper, the performance of small cell deployment is analyzed by using system-level simulations. The positions of small cells can be adjusted according to the deployment radius and angle. Moreover, different Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) techniques are also studied, which can be implemented either in time domain or in frequency domain. The network performances are evaluated under different ICIC techniques when the locations of Small evolved Nodes (SeNBs) vary. Simulation results show that the average throughput and cell edge throughput can be greatly improved when small cells are properly deployed with the certain deployment radius and angle. Meanwhile, how to optimally configure the parameters to achieve the potential of the deployment is discussed when applying different ICIC techniques.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39B권3호
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• pp.151-161
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• 2014

3GPP LTE-Advanced 시스템(Release 10)의 Carrier Aggregation (CA) 규격은 고속의 전송률을 지원하기 위해 다수의 주파수 밴드를 통합하면서, 이를 고려한 다양한 배치 시나리오를 제시하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 각 주파수 밴드 별로 상이한 방향성 섹터 안테나를 사용하는 배치 시나리오를 고려하며, 이때 단말이 인접 셀의 주파수 밴드를 선택 가능하게 함으로써 셀 경계 사용자의 수율 성능을 향상할 수 있는 셀 선택 방식을 제안한다. 그리고 이러한 방식 하에 셀 간에 비례공정성(proportional fairness)이 확보될 수 있도록 하는 분산 방식의 셀간 협력 스케쥴링 알고리즘을 제시하며, 이를 통해 기존 방식보다 셀 경계 사용자의 수율이 약 50% 향상되는 것을 확인한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37A권12호
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• pp.1093-1105
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 3-Cell 간섭 환경에서의 하향링크 MU-MIMO를 위한 간섭 공간 재활용 기술 (ISR)과 그 적용방안을 제시한다. 멀티 셀 간섭환경의 셀 경계 사용자들의 안정적인 통신을 위해서는 효율적인 간섭 관리가 필요하다. 하지만 셀 중심부의 사용자들의 경우 간섭의 영향을 적게 받으며 적은 전송 전력으로도 안정적인 통신이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 셀 경계 사용자의 간섭 공간을 재사용하여 셀 중심부 사용자에게 서비스를 제공하는 ISR 기반 전송 신호 설계 방법을 제시한다. ISR 방식은 간섭정렬(IA)과 결합된 부분적 주파수 재활용 (fractional frequency reuse : FFR) 방식과 비교하여 볼 때 셀 중심 사용자와 셀 경계 사용자에 대한 scheduling에 따라 전체 네트워크 데이터 전송용량 측면에서 20%의 성능 향상을 보이며 또한 셀 중심 사용자의 서비스 품질 (QoS) 요구조건이 고정되어 있는 경우 ISR 방식에 의해 기지국에서의 전송 신호 벡터를 설계함으로서 셀 경계 사용자의 데이터 전송 용량을 증가시킬 수 있다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2016년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.83-85
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• 2016

C-RAN (Cloud Radio Access Network) structure is the most popular approach for 5G stander, it employs CoMP (Coordinated Multiple Points Transmission/Reception) to enhance frequency utilization and increase throughput for cell-edge users. C-RAN mainly includes two parts: baseband units (BBU) and remote radio heads (RRH). In this paper we propose a new resource block allocation (spectrum allocation) scheme by the permutation and combination of BBUs, and we also use the CoMP (Coordinated Multiple Points Transmission/Reception) technique according to the different environment to improve the spectrum utilization and reduce resource waste in different environment. The simulation results expound that the scheme significantly enhances throughput and improves the spectrum utilization.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.420-428
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• 2016

In this paper, we investigate the scheduling and power allocation for coordinated multi-point transmission in downlink long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) systems, where orthogonal frequency division multiple-access is used. The proposed scheme jointly optimizes user selection, power allocation, and modulation and coding scheme (MCS) selection to maximize the weighted sum throughput with fairness consideration. Considering practical constraints in LTE-A systems, the MCSs for the resource blocks assigned to the same user need to be the same. Since the optimization problem is a combinatorial and non-convex one with high complexity, a low-complexity algorithm is proposed by separating the user selection and power allocation into two subproblems. To further simplify the optimization problem for power allocation, the instantaneous signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and the average SINR are adopted to allocate power in a single cell and multiple coordinated cells, respectively. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can improve the average system throughput and the cell-edge user throughput significantly compared with the existing schemes with limited feedback.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.559-567
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• 2015

This paper focuses on evaluating the performance of a cellular network using power control based frequency reuse partitioning (FRP) in downlink (DL). In our work, in order to have the realistic environment, the spectral efficiency of the system is evaluated through traffic analysis, which most of the previous works did not consider. To further decrease the cell edge user's outage, the concept of power ratio is introduced and applied to the DL FRP based cellular network. In considering network topology, we first divide the cell coverage area into two regions, the inner and outer regions. We then allocate different sub-bands in the inner and outer regions of each cell. In the analysis, for each zone ratio, the performance of FRP system is evaluated for the given number of power ratios. We consider performance metrics such as call blocking probability, channel utilization, outage probability and effective throughput. The simulation results show that there is a significant improvement in the outage experienced by outer UEs with power control scheme compared to that with no power control scheme and an increase in overall system throughput.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.175-185
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• 2020

Inter-cell interference (ICI) is a major problem in heterogeneous networks, such as two-tier femtocell (FC) networks, because it leads to poor cell-edge throughput and system capacity. Dynamic ICI coordination (ICIC) schemes, which do not require prior frequency planning, must be employed for interference avoidance in such networks. In contrast to existing dynamic ICIC schemes that focus on homogeneous network scenarios, we propose a novel semi-distributed dynamic ICIC scheme to mitigate interference in heterogeneous network scenarios. With the goal of maximizing the utility of individual users, two separate algorithms, namely the FC base station (FBS)-level algorithm and FC management system (FMS)-level algorithm, are employed to restrict resource usage by dominant interference-creating cells. The distributed functionality of the FBS-level algorithm and low computational complexity of the FMS-level algorithm are the main advantages of the proposed scheme. Simulation results demonstrate improvement in cell-edge performance with no impact on system capacity or user fairness, which confirms the effectiveness of the proposed scheme compared to static and semi-static ICIC schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.3370-3392
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• 2017

Next Generation Beyond 4G/5G systems will rely on the deployment of small cells over conventional macrocells for achieving high spectral efficiency and improved coverage performance, especially for indoor and hotspot environments. In such heterogeneous networks, the expected performance gains can only be derived with the use of efficient interference coordination schemes, such as Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR), which is very attractive for its simplicity and effectiveness. In this work, femtocells are deployed according to a spatial Poisson Point Process (PPP) over hexagonally shaped, 6-sector macro base stations (MeNBs) in an uncoordinated manner, operating in hybrid mode. A newly introduced intermediary region prevents cross-tier, cross-boundary interference and improves user equipment (UE) performance at the boundary of cell center and cell edge. With tools of stochastic geometry, an analytical framework for the signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) distribution is developed to evaluate the performance of all UEs in different spatial locations, with consideration to both co-tier and cross-tier interference. Using the SINR distribution framework, average network throughput per tier is derived together with a newly proposed harmonic mean, which ensures fairness in resource allocation amongst all UEs. Finally, the FFR network parameters are optimized for maximizing average network throughput, and the harmonic mean using a fair resource assignment constraint. Numerical results verify the proposed analytical framework, and provide insights into design trade-offs between maximizing throughput and user fairness by appropriately adjusting the spatial partitioning thresholds, the spectrum allocation factor, and the femtocell density.