• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4326-4341
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• 2016

In this paper, an adjustable multiple relay selection (MRS) scheme for cooperative communication with amplify-and-forward (AF) relay under frequency selective channels is proposed. In the proposed scheme, the relays are ordered firstly by the steady-state mean square error (MSE), then the relays are sequentially selected out from N relays and the number of cooperating relays is adjusted dynamically according to the steady-state mean square joint error (MSJE). The aim of this work is to dynamically estimate the optimum number N_o of cooperating relays. Optimum means the minimum number of cooperating relays, N_o, achieving the minimum level of steady-state MSJE. Numerical results verify the analyses and show that the scheme can adaptively adjust the number of cooperating relays, and outperform conventional relay selection schemes. Hence, the proposed scheme provides better tradeoff between BER performance and spectral efficiency and to save more energy in cooperative wireless networks.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권4B호
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• pp.215-223
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• 2008

Retransmission signals from relays to destination when the destination fails to decode received signal from the source in Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) protocol make the destination receive signals more reliably. With using omni -direction antenna in the practical system, in communication range of both the source antenna and the destination antenna, there are some relays that can be used to transmit signal to the destination. However, using all relays to transmit signal consume power and bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a new protocol in which the best relays are chosen based on threshold of distance from the source to the relay and the relay to the destination when the relays use decode- and forward (DF) protocol. Simulation results prove the efficiency of the protocol when we compare using only the best relays with using all relays to transmit signal to the destination.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 중계기의 위치에 따른 협력 통신의 성능을 분석한다. 이를 통해 최적의 중계기는 송신단과 수신단의 신호 전송의 성능을 높이거나 송신단의 신호를 수신단이 복호하지 못하였을 경우 재전송을 하는 일종의 송신단 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 최적의 중계기를 선택함으로써의 성능 향상을 보이며 관련 수식을 유도한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.463-471
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• 2011

Cooperative communications using relays in wireless networks have similar effects of multiple-input and multiple-output without the need of multiple antennas at each node. To implement cooperation into a system, efficient protocols are desired. In IEEE 802.11 families such as a/b/g, mobile stations can automatically adjust transmission rates according to channel conditions. However throughput performance degradation is observed by low-rate stations in multi-rate circumstances resulting in so-called performance anomaly. In this paper, we propose active relay-based cooperative medium access control (AR-CMAC) protocol, in which active relays desiring to transmit their own data for cooperation participate in relaying, and it is designed to increase throughput as a solution to performance anomaly. We have analyzed the performance of the simplified AR-CMAC using an embedded Markov chain model to demonstrate the gain of AR-CMAC and to verify it with our simulations. Simulations in an infrastructure network with an IEEE 802.11b/g access point show noticeable improvement than the legacy schemes.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.815-822
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• 2010

중계기 선택 기반 양방향 중계 기법은 중계기 수에 따른 선택 다이버시티 이득을 얻을 수 있으며, 기존의 단방향 중계 기법보다 높은 데이터 율을 가진다. 그러나 기존의 중계기 선택 기반 양방향 중계 기법에서는 사용자 간의 직접 통신 링크를 고려하지 않아 협력 통신의 장점인 결합 이득을 얻을 수 없었다. 본 논문에서는 다수의 중계기가 존재하는 네트워크에서 선택 다이버시티 이득과 결합 이득 모두를 얻을 수 있는 기회주의적 협력양방향 중계 기법과 증분형 협력 양방향 중계 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 두 기법이 중계기 수에 따른 선택 다이버시티 이득과 결합 이득을 모두 얻음으로써 기존의 양방향 중계 기법보다 우수한 성능을 가짐을 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 증명한다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.528-535
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 환경에서 무선 협력 통신을 이용하여 성능을 향상 시키는 방법에 대해 제안한다. 기존 협력 통신 알고리즘은 소스(source)와 AP(Access Point) 사이에 1개의 릴레이(relay)를 두어 수행한 2 홉 릴레이(hop relay) 방식으로, 이는 알맞은 릴레이를 찾을 수 없는 경우가 발생하므로 보완이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 AP에서 네트워크 정보(노드 사이 전송률, 노드와 AP 사이 전송률)를 관리하여 릴레이 선정에 이 네트워크 정보를 이용한다. 이 정보를 이용하여 AP는 1개 이상의 릴레이를 선정하여 소스와 주위 노드에게 선정된 릴레이를 알리고 소스에서 데이터를 전송할 때 이 릴레이를 통해 협력 통신을 하도록 한다. 이러한 협력 통신 방법은 데이터 전송의 효율성을 높인다. 또한 본 논문에서는 소스의 데이터를 전송한 릴레이는 소스의 데이터를 전송한 후에 자신의 데이터 또한 전송할 수 있는 기회를 가지도록 하여 소스 데이터를 대신 전송하여 소비된 노드의 자원을 만회할 수 있는 기회를 가지게 한다. 이로써 제안된 방법을 이용하면 노드의 자원 소비를 보완함은 물론 전체 네트워크의 성능(throughput)을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.83-84
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• 2006

In this paper, we introduce the AF cooperative diversity with multiple relays using phase feedback. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes obtain the diversity gain according to the number of the cooperating terminals. The performance of proposed scheme using tolerable quantized feedback is close to that of proposed scheme using full feedback.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.135-141
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative routing protocol (NCRP) for wireless networks. The proposed protocol uses cooperative transmission to improve end-to-end outage probability. The broadcast nature ensures that the destination can receive a packet from the source or from the relays and if it cannot correctly decode the packet, the successful relays will start a retransmission. The NCRP protocol can skip some transmissions from the intermediate relays, thereby reducing the total power consumption. Theoretical results are derived and verified by simulation results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.1390-1405
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• 2014

This paper investigates optimal relay selection and power allocation under an aggregate power constraint for cooperative wireless sensor networks assisted by amplify-and-forward relay nodes. By considering both transmission power and circuit power consumptions, the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the destination node is calculated, based on which, a relay selection and power allocation scheme is developed. The core idea is to adaptively adjust the selected relays and their transmission power to maximize the received SNR according to the channel state information. The proposed scheme is derived by recasting the optimization problem into a three-layered problem-determining the number of relays to be activated, selecting the active relays, and performing power allocation among the selected relays. Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme provides a higher received SNR and a lower bit error rate as compared to the average power allocation scheme.