• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1904-1921
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• 2019

In this paper, we investigate the problem of secure communications in multiple-input-multiple-output interference networks from the perspective of physical layer security. Specifically, the legitimate transmitter-receiver pairs are divided into different categories of active and inactive. To enhance the security performances of active pairs, inactive pairs serve as cooperative jammers and broadcast artificial noises to interfere with the eavesdropper. Besides, active pairs improve their own security by using joint transceivers. The encoding of active pairs and inactive pairs are designed by maximizing the difference of mean-squared errors between active pairs and the eavesdropper. In detail, the transmit precoder matrices of active pairs and inactive pairs are solved according to game theory and linear programming respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has fast convergence speed, and the security performances in different scenarios are effectively improved.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.148-155
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• 2008

In wireless data communication systems, retransmission of an erroneous packet is inevitable due to the harsh communication environment. In this paper, an efficient retransmission scheme using cooperation from neighboring nodes is investigated. In the cooperative retransmission scheme, an erroneous packet is transmitted to the destination by cooperative nodes which have favorable channels. This cooperative retransmission scheme requires no a priori information of neighboring nodes and has no limitation on the number of cooperating nodes. Distributed beamforming is used to accommodate multiple cooperating nodes. Phase and frequency offsets of cooperating signals are extracted from the NACK message and used to co-phase retransmitted data packets. The outage probability of the cooperative retransmission scheme is analyzed for the case of perfect synchronization and when the offsets are estimated. To reduce the impact of the residual phase and frequency offsets in cooperating signals, a low-rate feedback scheme is also investigated. It is shown that improved outage probability and reduced packet error rate (PER) performance can be achieved even for long data packets. The proposed cooperative retransmission scheme is found to outperform simple retransmission by the source as well as decode-and-forward cooperation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.1668-1688
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• 2012

Cooperative communications and network coding schemes have been proposed to increase system throughput for ad hoc networks. In this paper, we present throughput and delay analysis of the new network coding-enabled cooperative MAC protocol called NC-MAC, which has been proposed by us in order to significantly enhance system performance. This protocol introduces an approach that can accommodate both cooperative communication and network coding for wireless ad hoc networks by slightly increasing overhead and modifying standards. The protocol's performance is evaluated using mathematical analysis and computer simulation and two performance measures, system throughput and average channel access delay, are used for a performance comparison with previous schemes. It is assumed that all the frames exchanged over a wireless channel are susceptible to transmission errors, which is a new but more reasonable assumption differentiating this research from previous research. Numerical results show this protocol provides significantly enhanced system performance compared with conventional cooperative MAC protocols used in previous research. For instance, system performance is 47% higher using the NC-MAC protocol than when using the rDCF protocol.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.256-264
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• 2015

Energy harvesting devices have been proposed for sensor networking applications where batteries cannot be replaced, and cooperative communication schemes have been used to increase energy efficiency for wireless systems. Here, we develop transmission scheduling schemes for multi-terminal cooperative energy harvesting networks that maximize the packet delivery ratio, i.e., the probability that an event is reported successfully. We see that the proposed scheme provides virtually the same performance as the state-of-the-art threshold-based scheme, but does not require auxiliary parameter optimization. The proposed scheme also permits extensions to multiple cooperating nodes and sources, and it can be modified to accommodate fairness constraints.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.445-454
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• 2009

Cooperative transmission protocols are always designed to achieve the largest diversity gain and the network capacity simultaneously. The concept of diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems has been extended to this field. However, DMT constrains a better understanding of the asymptotic interplay between transmission rate, outage probability (OP) and signal-to-noise ratio. Another formulation called the throughput-reliability tradeoff (TRT) was then proposed to avoid such a limitation. By this new rule, Azarian and Gamal well elucidated the asymptotic trends exhibited by the OP curves in block-fading MIMO channels. Meanwhile they doubted whether the new rule can be used in more general channels and protocols. In this paper, we will prove that it does hold true in decode-and-forward cooperative protocols. We deduce the theoretic OP curves predicted by TRT and demonstrate by simulations that the OP curves will asymptotically overlap with the theoretic curves predicted by TRT.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.589-595
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• 2019

최근 친밀도와 신뢰도 같은 사용자들의 사회적 관계와 모바일 통신 네트워크를 동시에 고려한 모바일 소셜 네트워크가 차세대 이동통신 네트워크 모델로 큰 관심을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사회적 관계 중 신뢰도 정보를 기반으로 하는 협력통신 네트워크를 고려한다. 완벽한 신뢰도 정보를 고려했던 기존 연구들과 다르게 송신단에서 불완전한 신뢰도 정보 기반 정보 처리율 최대화 협력 통신 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 불완전한 신뢰도 정보를 확률적인 분포로 모델링하고, 신뢰도의 확률 분포를 이용하여 아웃티지 확률을 유도한다. 마지막으로 송신단에서 아웃티지 확률과 정보 전송율을 동시에 고려한 정보 처리율을 최대화하는 전송 기법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 정보 처리율 관점에서 기존 기법들과의 비교를 통해서 제안한 협력통신 기법의 우수성을 증명한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권3A호
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• pp.290-296
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 무선 애드혹 네트워크에서 전력 절약과 성능 개선을 위하여 협동 공간 다이버시티를 이용한 새로운 협동다이버시티 라우팅 방식을 제안한다. 제안한 방식은 기존에 사용되어온 방식인 다중 릴레이 라우팅 방법과 해석적인 방법으로 성능의 우수성을 비교하였다. 7개의 노드를 갖는 애드혹 네트워크에서 최종 노드에서 요구되는 오수신율이 $1\times10^{-3}$일 때, 제안한 협동다이버시티 라우팅 방식은 다중 릴레이 라우팅방식과 비교하여 노드당 평균 15.5 dB 전력을 절약할 수 있었다.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국ITS학회 2008년도 제7회 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.328-331
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• 2008

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.364-373
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose combined relay selection and cooperative beamforming schemes for physical layer security. Generally, high operational complexity is required for cooperative beamforming withmultiple relays because of the required information exchange and synchronization among the relays. On the other hand, while it is desirable to reduce the number of relays participating in cooperative beamforming because of the associated complexity problem, doing so may degrade the coding gain of cooperative beamforming. Hence, we propose combined relay selection and cooperative beamforming schemes, where only two of the available relays are selected for beamforming and data transmission. The proposed schemes introduce a selection gain which partially compensates for the decrease in coding gain due to limiting the number of participating relays to two. Both the cases where full and only partial channel state information are available for relay selection and cooperative beamforming are considered. Analytical and simulation results for the proposed schemes show improved secrecy capacities compared to existing physical layer security schemes employing cooperative relays.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.1811-1819
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 무선통신에서의 시스템 성능을 향상시키기 위해 협력통신에서 매우 중요한 도움노드를 선정하는 방법에 대하여 연구를 수행하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 BT-COMAC (busy tone cooperative MAC) 프로토콜은 사후(reactive) 도움노드 선정기법을 채용하였으며, 기존 기법의 장점을 극대화하면서 단점을 보완한 새로운 협력통신용 MAC 프로토콜이다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 성능평가를 수행하였으며, 시스템 처리량과 채널 액세스 지연시간을 성능평가 척도로 사용하였다. 모든 통신노드들이 통신영역 내에서 독자적으로 움직이는 이동성 모델을 사용하였으며, 슬로우 페이딩 채널 환경에서 수신 전력을 기반으로 전송속도를 결정하는 방법을 사용하였다. 성능평가 결과 본 논문에서 제안한 기법이 기존 방식에 비해 시스템 처리량 측면에서 최대 15% 정도 성능개선을 달성한 것을 확인할 수 있었다.