• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2014

The trend of an increasing demand for a high-quality user experience, coupled with a shortage of radio resources, has necessitated more advanced wireless techniques to cooperatively achieve the required quality-of-experience enhancement. In this study, we investigate the critical problem of rate splitting in heterogeneous cellular networks, where concurrent transmission, for instance, the coordinated multipoint transmission and reception of LTE-A systems, shows promise for improvement of network-wide capacity and the user experience. Unlike most current studies, which only deal with spectral efficiency enhancement, we implement an optimal rate splitting strategy to improve both spectral efficiency and energy efficiency by exploring and exploiting cooperation diversity. First, we introduce the motivation for our proposed algorithm, and then employ the typical cooperative bargaining game to formulate the problem. Next, we derive the best response function by analyzing the dual problem of the defined primal problem. The existence and uniqueness of the proposed cooperative bargaining equilibrium are proved, and more importantly, a distributed algorithm is designed to approach the optimal unique solution under mild conditions. Finally, numerical results show a performance improvement for our proposed distributed cooperative rate splitting algorithm.

• 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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• 제16권11호
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• pp.3738-3760
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• 2022

Due to increasing spectrum demand for new wireless devices applications, cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) paradigm is the most promising solution to alleviate the spectrum shortage problem. However, in the interweave cognitive radio (CR) system, the inherent nature of CSS opens a hole to Byzantine attack, thereby resulting in a significant drop of the CSS security and efficiency. In view of this, a weighted differential sequential single symbol (WD3S) algorithm based on MATLAB platform is developed to accurately identify malicious users (MUs) and benefit useful sensing information from their malicious reports in this paper. In order to achieve this, a dynamic Byzantine attack model is proposed to describe malicious behaviors for MUs in an interweave CR system. On the basis of this, a method of data transmission consistency verification is formulated to evaluate the global decision's correctness and update the trust value (TrV) of secondary users (SUs), thereby accurately identifying MUs. Then, we innovatively reuse malicious sensing information from MUs by the weight allocation scheme. In addition, considering a high spectrum usage of primary network, a sequential and differential reporting way based on a single symbol is also proposed in the process of the sensing information submission. Finally, under various Byzantine attack types, we provide in-depth simulations to demonstrate the efficiency and security of the proposed WD3S.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권3A호
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• pp.235-243
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 무선 중계기를 사용하는 다중 사용자 OFDMA 시스템에서 주파수 효율성을 향상시키기 위한 효율적인 인지 협력 통신 기법을 고려하였다. 먼저 인지 기술을 통한 효율적인 주파수 재사용으로 하향 링크의 처리율 (throughput)을 높일 수 있는 프레임 구조를 제안하였다. 그리고 주파수 재사용시 중계기로부터의 간섭 제거를 위한 선부호화 (preceding) 기법으로서 비교적 낮은 복잡도로 구현하기 쉬운 THP (Tomlinson-Harashima preceding)가 사용될 때, 각 사용자들이 궤환하는 양자화된 채널값의 오류에 따른 링크의 유효 신호대 잡음비를 수학적으로 유도하여, 이를 바탕으로 기지국이 효과적으로 적응 전송률 제어 (adaptive rate control)를 수행할 수 있도록 하였다. 시스템 레벨 모의실험을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안하는 인지 협력 통신 기법이 수행될 경우 추가적으로 발생하는 궤환량을 함께 고려한 전체적인 시스템의 주파수 효율성이 향상됨을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2095-2110
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• 2015

This paper presents a design for a throughput-efficient online relay selection scheme for dual-hop multi-relay cooperative networks. Problems arise with these networks due to unpredictability of the relaying link quality and high time-consumption to probe the dual-hop link. In this paper, we firstly propose a novel probing and relaying protocol, which greatly reduces the overhead of the dual-hop link estimation by leveraging the wireless broadcasting nature of the network. We then formulate an opportunistic relay selection process for the online decision-making, which uses a tradeoff between obtaining more link information to establish better cooperative relaying and minimizing the time cost for dual-hop link estimation to achieve higher throughput. Dynamic programming is used to construct the throughput-optimal control policy for a typically heterogeneous Rayleigh fading environment, and determines which relay to probe and when to transmit the data. Additionally, we extend the main results to mixed Rayleigh/Rician link scenarios, i.e., where one side of the relaying link experiences Rayleigh fading while the other has Rician distribution. Numerical results validate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed relaying scheme, e.g., it achieves at least 107% throughput gain compared with the state of the art solution.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.3447-3469
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• 2019

It is well-known that the cooperative communication and error control technology can improve the network performance, but most existing cooperative MAC protocols have not focused on how to cope with the contention process caused by cooperation and how to reduce the bad influence of channel packet error rate on the system performance. Inspired by this, this paper first modifies and improves the basic rules of the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol to optimize the contention among the multi-relay in a cooperative ARQ scheme. Secondly, a hybrid ARQ protocol with soft combining is adopted to make full use of the effective information in the error data packet and hence improve the ability of the receiver to decode the data packet correctly. The closed expressions of network performance including throughput and average packet transmission delay in a saturated network are then analyzed and derived by establishing a dedicated two-dimensional Markov model and solving its steady-state distribution. Finally, the performance evaluation and superiority of the proposed protocol are validated in different representative study cases through MATLAB simulations.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.766-773
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• 2007

무선 센서 네트워크는 전력 및 주파수 사용이 매우 제한적이지만, 멀티미디어 센서 기술의 발전에 따라 고용량의 데이터를 전송할 수 있는 통신 시스템 개발이 요구되어진다. 협력 통신 시스템은 노드와 중계 노드의 조력을 통해 공간 다이버시티를 획득하고, 이에 따라 통신 전력을 감소시킬 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 기존의 협력 통신 시스템은 하나의 중계 노드가 하나의 센서 노드의 데이터 전송을 도와줌에 따라 노드의 동작이 빈번하게 발생한다. 이는 네트워크 수명을 급격히 단축시키는 원인으로 작용한다. 본 논문에서는 하나의 중계 노드가 M개의 센서 노드의 데이터 전송을 돕는 것을 제안한다. 이를 통하여 제안한 시스템은 기존 시스템과 동일한 다이버시티 효과를 획득하고 동시에 주파수 대역, 전력 및 중계 노드의 수를 감소시킨다. 또한, 센서 네트워크의 특성상 주위에 인접한 노드로 인한 신호 간섭이 발생하는데, 이를 직교성을 가진 부반송파를 이용하여 개선한다. 마지막으로 센서 노드들과 중계 노드의 전력 할당에 따른 시스템 성능을 분석하였다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2014

협력통신을 실제 무선 통신 시스템에 적용하기 위해서는 정보 전달을 담당하는 중계기를 설치해야한다. 그러나 중계기 설치는 비용 및 전력 낭비의 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 일반적인 중계기의 사용을 재고하여, 효율적인 중계기 사용을 위해 중계기를 사용자 모바일 단말기로 정의하였다. 제안하는 프로토콜에 따라 중계기(사용자 단말기)의 상태에 대해 유휴, 무휴상태로 나누었으며, 수신단에 대해 기지국 모델, 사용자 단말기 모델을 적용하였다. 이 경우, 추가적인 비용 없이 실제 네트워크에 협력 통신을 적용할 수 있으며, 네트워크 용량 및 스펙트럼 효율을 높일 수 있다. 마지막으로, 제안한 프로토콜을 레일리 페이딩 환경에서 Monte-Carlo 시뮬레이션을 통해 전체적인 시스템 모델의 비트오류율(BER)을 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.2354-2370
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• 2015

The advantages of employing SCTP-based Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT) have been demonstrated to be very useful for data delivery over multi-homed wireless networks. However, there is still significant ongoing work addressing some remaining limitations and challenges. The most important concern when applying CMT to data delivery is related to handling packet reordering and buffer blocking. Another concern on this topic is that current sender-based CMT solutions seldom consider balancing the overhead and sharing the load between the sender and receiver. This paper proposes a novel Receiver-driven Cooperation-based Concurrent Multipath Transfer solution (CMT-Rev) with the following aims: (i) to balance overhead and share load between the sender and receiver, by moving some functions including congestion and flow control from the sender onto receiver; (ii) to mitigate the data reordering and buffer blocking problems, by using an adaptive receiver-cooperative path aggregation model, (iii) to adaptively transmit packets over multiple paths according to their receiver-inspired sending rate values, by employing a new receiver-aware data distribution scheduler. Simulation results show that CMT-Rev outperforms the existing CMT solutions in terms of data delivery performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.2399-2418
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• 2023

The paper focuses on investigating secure transmission in wireless powered communication networks (WPCN) that involve multiple energy-constrained relays and one energy-constrained source. The energy is harvested from a power beacon (PB) while operating in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. The study primarily aims to achieve energy-efficient secure communications by examining the impact of channel estimation on the secrecy performance of WPCN under both perfect and imperfect CSI scenarios. To obtain practical insights on improving security and energy efficiency, we propose closed-form expressions for secrecy outage probability (SOP) under the linear energy harvesting (LEH) model of WPCN. Furthermore, we suggest a search method to optimize the secure energy efficiency (SEE) with limited power from PB. The research emphasizes the significance of channel estimation in maintaining the desired performance levels in WPCN in real-world applications. The theoretical results are validated through simulations to ensure their accuracy and reliability.