• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2008

기존의 1-1-1 협력 프로토콜은 멀티 홉이 가지고 있는 경로손실감소 이득과 함께 MIMO와 동일한 공간 다이버시티를 제공한다. 이를 통해 싱글 홈, 멀티 홉보다 뛰어난 정보의 신뢰도 및 에너지 소비 감소를 얻을 수 있다. 하지만 기존의 1-1-1 협력 프로토콜은 단일의 협력 중계기를 사용하므로 경로손실감소 이득과 다이버시티 이득 계수가 2로 제한되어 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 두개의 협력 중계기 R1, R2를 사용한 1-2-1 협력 프로토콜을 제안한다. 1-2-1 협력 프로토콜은 경로손실감소 이득을 높이고 계수가 3인 다이버시티 이득을 얻는다. 또한, 협력 중계가 R2에서도 계수가 2인 다이버시티 이득을 얻을 수 있다. 협력 중계기는 DF (Decode and Forward)와 DR (Decode and Reencode) 방식을 사용하여 1-2-1 DF 또는 DR 협력 프로토콜을 형성하고, 클러스터링 기반의 무선 센서 네트워크 (WSNs)에 적용한다. 제안한 프로토콜의 성능평가를 위해 레일리 페이딩과 AWGN (Additive White Gaussian Noise) 채널이 합해진 채널에서 모의실험을 한다.

• 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.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권7호
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• pp.1293-1310
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• 2011

A simple modification of well known Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol is proposed to exploit cooperative diversity. Instead of selecting a single cluster-head, we propose M cluster-heads in each cluster to obtain a diversity of order M. The cluster-heads gather data from all the sensor nodes within the cluster using same technique as LEACH. Cluster-heads transmit gathered data cooperatively towards the destination or higher order cluster-head. We propose a code combining based cooperative diversity protocol which is similar to coded cooperation that maximizes the performance of the proposed cooperative LEACH protocol. The implementation of the proposed cooperative strategy is analyzed. We develop the upper bounds on bit error rate (BER) and frame error rate (FER) for our proposal. Space time block codes (STBC) are also a suitable candidate for our proposal. In this paper, we argue that the STBC performs worse than the code combining cooperation.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.524-532
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• 2012

In this paper, we present the performance evaluation of the reliable cooperative media access control (RCO-MAC) protocol, which has been proposed in [1] by us in order to enhance system throughput in bad wireless channel environments. The performance of this protocol is evaluated with computer simulation as well as mathematical analysis in this paper. The system throughput, two types of average delays, average channel access delay, and average system delay, which includes the queuing delay in the buffer, are used as performance metrics. In addition, two different traffic models are used for performance evaluation: The saturated traffic model for computing system throughput and average channel access delay, and the exponential data generation model for calculating average system delay. The numerical results show that the RCO-MAC protocol proposed by us provides over 20% more system throughput than the relay distributed coordination function (rDCF) scheme. The numerical results show that the RCO-MAC protocol provides a slightly higher average channel access delay over a greater number of source nodes than the rDCF. This is because a greater number of source nodes provide more opportunities for cooperative request to send (CRTS) frame collisions and because the value of the related retransmission timer is greater in the RCO-MAC protocol than in the rDCF protocol. The numerical results also confirm that the RCO-MAC protocol provides better average system delay over the whole gamut of the number of source nodes than the rDCF protocol.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.66-70
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• 2009

The decode-and-forward cooperative communication protocol allows single-antenna users in wireless environments to obtain the powerful benefits of multi-antenna systems without the need for physical arrays. Evaluating the performance of this protocol through simulations is time-consuming and therefore, a need exists for an analytical BER expression to serve as a reference. This paper proposed such an expression for coherently BPSK-modulated data.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권9호
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• pp.789-800
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 선박 내 WiMedia 환경의 WSS에서 릴레이 기반 WUSB/DRD와 WLP 디바이스의 통신을 위한 연동 프로토콜을 제안한다. 이를 위해 릴레이 기반 협력 통신에 사용되는 RNT 테이블 구성과 RNS 릴레이 노드 알고리즘에 대해 알아본다. 또, WLP 네트워크를 구성하는 디바이스를 알아보고 WUSB/DRD/WLP 디바이스의 통신을 위한 연동 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 WLP 연동 프로토콜을 이용하면, 기존의 표준 DRP 예약과 WUSB 프로토콜의 DRP 예약을 이용하여 WUSB/DRD/WLP 디바이스의 통신이 가능하게 된다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2014

A new cooperative MAC protocol called the busy tone cooperative medium access control (BT-COMAC) protocol is proposed to overcome the drawbacks and maximize the advantages of existing schemes. This scheme uses a new metric called decibel power to decide an appropriate helper node. Using received power strength is more efficient in selecting an appropriate helper node, especially in a densely populated network, than the effective transmission rates used in conventional schemes. All communication nodes in a communication service area are assumed to move independently. Two performance metrics are used: System throughput and channel access delay. A performance evaluation of the BT-COMAC protocol is conducted using a computer simulation over a slow fading wireless channel, and its performance results are compared with those of four existing schemes. The numerical results show that the BT-COMAC protocol improves the system throughput by approximately 15% as compared to the best existing scheme.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.1561-1570
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• 2009

Ad Hoc 네트워크는 이동통신망이나 AP (access point)와 통신하는 무선 랜과는 달리 유사한 특징을 가진 모든 단말들이 무선채널을 통해 직접 통신하는 좀 더 진화된 통신망이 라고 할 수 있다. Ad Hoc 네트워크에서 시스템 성능을 높이려는 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있는데 그 중의 하나가 Cooperative 통신이라고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 Cooperative 통신을 실현할 수 있는 CO-MAC 프로토콜을 제안하고, 수학식을 사용하여 성능평가를 수행하였다. 도출된 성능평가 결과를 통해 IEEE 802.11 표준인 DCF 기법, 그리고 기존 연구에서 제안된 rDCF 기법과 성능비교를 통해 프레임 전송오류 확률이 증가할 때 시스템 처리량이 많이 개선됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.5035-5057
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• 2019

Advancements in nanotechnology and novel nano materials in the past decade have provided a set of tools that can be used to design and manufacture integrated nano devices, which are capable of performing sensing, computing, data storing and actuation. In this paper, we have proposed cooperative nano communication using Power Switching Relay (PSR) Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) protocol and Time Switching Relay (TSR) WPT protocol over independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels in the Terahertz (THz) Gap frequency band to increase the range of transmission. Outage Probability (OP) performances for the proposed cooperative nano communication networks have been evaluated for the following scenarios: A) A single decode-and-forward (DF) relay for PSR protocol and TSR protocol, B) DF multi-relay network with best relay selection (BRS) for PSR protocol and TSR protocol, and C) DF multi-relay network with multiple DF hops with BRS for PSR protocol and TSR protocol. The results have shown that the transmission distance can be improved significantly by employing DF relays with WPT. They have also shown that by increasing the number of hops in a relay the OP performance is only marginally degraded. The analytical results have been verified by Monte-Carlo simulations.