• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2010

Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) is an efficient tool to measure the performance of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems and cooperative systems. Recently, cooperative multicast system with wireless network coding stretched tremendous interesting due to that it can drastically enhance the throughput of the wireless networks. It is desirable to apply DMT to the performance analysis on the multicast system with wireless network coding. In this paper, DMT is performed at the three proposed wireless network coding protocols, i.e., non-regenerative network coding (NRNC), regenerative complex field network coding (RCNC) and regenerative Galois field network coding (RGNC). The DMT analysis shows that under the same system performance, i.e., the same diversity gain, all the three network coding protocols outperform the traditional transmission scheme without network coding in terms of multiplexing gain. Our DMT analysis also exhibits the trends of the three network coding protocols' performance when multiplexing gain is changing from the lower region to the higher region. Monte-Carlo simulations verify the prediction of DMT.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.240-249
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• 2011

Cooperative diversity protocols have attracted a great deal of attention since they are thought to be capable of providing diversity multiplexing tradeoff among single antenna wireless devices. In the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region, cooperation is rarely required; hence, the spectral efficiency of the cooperative protocol can be improved by applying a proper cooperation selection technique. In this paper, we present a simple "cooperation selection" technique based on instantaneous channel measurement to improve the spectral efficiency of cooperative protocols. We show that the same instantaneous channel measurement can also be used for relay selection. In this paper two protocols are proposed-proactive and reactive; the selection of one of these protocols depends on whether the decision of cooperation selection is made before or after the transmission of the source. These protocols can successfully select cooperation along with the best relay from a set of available M relays. If the instantaneous source-to-destination channel is strong enough to support the system requirements, then the source simply transmits to the destination as a noncooperative direct transmission; otherwise, a cooperative transmission with the help of the selected best relay is chosen by the system. Analysis and simulation results show that these protocols can achieve higher order diversity with improved spectral efficiency, i.e., a higher diversity-multiplexing tradeoff in a slow-fading environment.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권10A호
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• pp.746-751
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 부분 중계기 협력 다중화 기술에서 중계기의 위치에 따른 최적의 시스템 용량을 얻기 위한 동적 최적 시간 할당 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법은 중계기 시스템의 전송 조건식을 추가함으로써 중계기의 유동적인 위치에 따라 최대의 시스템 용량을 가지도록 각 시간 구간의 길이를 최적화하였다. 전산 모의실험을 통해 균일하게 고정된 시간 할당을 가지는 기존의 부분 중계기 협력 다중화 기술에 비해 향상된 시스템 용량을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권1C호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

Cooperative diversity is a novel technique to improve diversity gains, capacity gains, and energy saving. This technique involves multiple terminals sharing resources in order to build a virtual antenna array in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we propose a multi-user cooperative diversity protocol called Relay-assisted Multiple Access Channel(R-MAC) that allows multiple source terminals to transmit their signals simultaneously and the relay terminal forwards the aggregated signal received from the source terminals to the destination terminal. The proposed protocol converts the distributed antenna channels into an effective MIMO channel by exploiting a relay, increasing both diversity gain and system throughput. We investigate the performance of the proposed protocol in terms of outage probability and diversity-multiplexing tradeoff where we assume block fading channel environment. Our simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperforms direct transmission in the high spectral efficiency regime where the conventional cooperative diversity protocols cannot outperform direct transmission.

• 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.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.13-19
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• 2008

이 논문에서는MIMO(Multi-Input Multi-Out)-OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템에 다중 안테나를 가진 relay를 적용 할 경우, cooperation 통신을 하기 위한 기법을 제안하고 성능을 분석한다. 이동국과 relay간 뿐만 아니라 relay와 기지국간에도 STC(space time coding)에 의해 MIMO채널이 형성되어 cooperative diversity와 MIMO에 의한 diversity 이득을 함께 얻을 수 있어 시스템의 성능이 크게 향상된다. 또한 이동국과 relay에서 송신전력을 위한 간략화 된 전력할당 기법을 제안하여 이에 따른 시스템의 성능이 향상됨을 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.3026-3045
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• 2012

In this paper, diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) of three-user wireless multiple-antenna cooperative systems is investigated in general fading channels when half-duplex and decode-and-forward relay is employed. Three protocols, i.e., adaptive protocol, receive diversity protocol, and dual-hop relaying protocol, are considered. The general fading channels may include transmit and/or receive correlation and nonzero channel means, and are extensions of independent and identically distributed Rayleigh or Rician fading channels. Firstly, simple DMT expressions are derived for general fading channels with zero channel means and no correlation when users employ arbitrary number of antennas. Explicit DMT expressions are also obtained when all users employ the same number of antennas and the channels between any two users are of the same fading statistics. Finally, the impact of nonzero channel means and/or correlation on DMT is evaluated. It is revealed theoretically that the DMTs depend on the number of antennas at each user, channel means (except for Rayleigh and Rician fading statistics), transmit and/or receive correlation, and the polynomial behavior near zero of the channel gain probability density function. Examples are also provided to illustrate the analysis and results.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.1311-1317
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 셀 간 협동을 수행하는 cooperative spatial multiplexing(CSM)의 상향 링크 용량을 개선하기 위한 무선 자원 관리 알고리즘을 제안한다. 인접 기지국에 대한 상향 링크 간섭을 억제하기 위해 각 이동국에서 독립적으로 수행되는 최대 송신 전력 제한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 서비스 기지국과 간섭 기지국이 서로 상향 링크 채널 정보를 공유하는 coordinated CSM 시스템에서 셀 간 상향 링크 간섭 억제를 통해 용량을 개선하는 협동 스케줄링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘들은 낮은 복잡도로 동작하지만 인접 기지국의 상향 링크 간섭을 효과적으로 억제하여 상향 링크 시스템 용량을 증가시킬 수 있다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.710-713
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• 2013

We propose a new space-time block coding (STBC) for asynchronous cooperative systems in full-duplex mode. The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission technique is used to combat the timing errors from the relay nodes. At the relay nodes, only one OFDM time slot is required to delay for a pair-wise symbol swap operation. The decoding complexity is lower for this new STBC than for the traditional quasi-orthogonal STBC. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves excellent performances.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권5C호
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• pp.479-486
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 비동기 협력 통신 시스템을 위한 주파수 분할 다중화 (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: OFDM) 기반의 새로운 저복잡도 Alamouti 시공간 전송 기법을 제안한다. Li와 Xia에 의해 제안된 기존 기법은 목적지 노드에서 Alamouti 부호 구조를 생성하기 위해 릴레이 노드와 목적지 노드에서 추가적인 시간 전환 및 이동 연산을 요구한다. 뿐만 아니라, 릴레이 노드에서 시간 동기화 오류가 발생할 경우 심각한 비트 오류율 (bit error rate: BER) 성능 열화가 초래된다. 제안한 기법은 소스 노드에서의 심볼 조합과 릴레이 노드에서의 간단한 부호 반전 및 허수 곱을 통하여 시간 전환 및 이동 연산을 사용하지 않아도 목적지 노드에서 부 반송파 별로 Alamouti 부호 구조를 생성하여 협력 다이버시티 이득을 획득한다. 또한, 릴레이 노드에서의 순환 전치 추가 연산을 이용하여 기존 기법에서 발생하는 릴레이 노드의 시간 동기화 문제를 해결한다. 모의실험 결과를 통해 제안한 기법은 기존 기법에 비해 데이터 전송률은 절반으로 감소하지만 두 배만큼 증가한 차수가 4인 다이버시티 이득을 얻으며, 릴레이 노드에서 시간 동기화 오류가 존재할 때도 우수한 BER 성능을 획득하는 사실을 확인한다.