• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.266-276
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• 2011

In wireless networks, it is well-known that intermediate nodes can be used as cooperative relays to reduce the transmission energy required to reliably deliver a message to an intended destination. When the network is under a central authority, energy allocations and cooperative pairings can be assigned to optimize the overall energy efficiency of the network. In networks with autonomous selfish nodes, however, nodes may not be willing to expend energy to relay messages for others. This problem has been previously addressed through the development of extrinsic incentive mechanisms, e.g., virtual currency, or the insertion of altruistic nodes in the network to enforce cooperative behavior. This paper considers the problem of how selfish nodes can decide on an efficient energy allocation and endogenously form cooperative partnerships in wireless networks without extrinsic incentive mechanisms or altruistic nodes. Using tools from both cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, the three main contributions of this paper are (i) the development of Pareto-efficient cooperative energy allocations that can be agreed upon by selfish nodes, based on axiomatic bargaining techniques, (ii) the development of necessary and sufficient conditions under which "natural" cooperation is possible in systems with fading and non-fading channels without extrinsic incentive mechanisms or altruistic nodes, and (iii) the development of techniques to endogenously form cooperative partnerships without central control. Numerical results with orthogonal amplify-and-forward cooperation are also provided to quantify the energy efficiency of a wireless network with sources selfishly allocating transmission/relaying energy and endogenously forming cooperative partnerships with respect to a network with centrally optimized energy allocations and pairing assignments.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.5323-5343
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• 2018

Mobile applications and social networks tend to enhance the need for high-quality content access. To address the rapid growing demand for data services in mobile networks, it is necessary to develop efficient content caching and distribution techniques, aiming at significantly reduction of redundant content transmission and thus improve content delivery efficiency. In this article, we develop optimal cooperative content cache and distribution policy, where a geographical cluster model is designed for content retrieval across the collaborative small cell base stations (SBSs) and replacement of cache framework. Furthermore, we divide the SBS storage space into two equal parts: the first is local, the other is global content cache. We propose an algorithm to minimize the content caching delay, transmission cost and backhaul bottleneck at the edge of networks. Simulation results indicates that the proposed neighbor SBSs cooperative caching scheme brings a substantial improvement regarding content availability and cache storage capacity at the edge of networks in comparison with the current conventional cache placement approaches.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.141-150
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 모바일 무선 센서네트워크에서 전송효율을 효과적으로 지원하기 위한 Cross-Layer 협력도움 라우팅 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 구조 및 방법의 주요한 특징 및 기여도는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 모바일 노드들의 위치정보를 이용한 클러스터링을 하부구조로 사용한다. 둘째, 전송효율 및 채널효율을 효과적으로 지원하기 위해서 네트워크계층, MAC 계층, 물리계층을 이용한 Cross-Layer 협력도움 라우팅 및 전송전략이 사용된다. 셋째, 기존의 센서네트워크는 주로 고정된 센서 노드들로 구성된 환경에서 많은 연구가 되어 왔지만, 본 연구에서는 노드들의 이동성을 고려한 모바일 무선 센서네트워크에서 연구가 이루어진다. 제안된 방법의 성능평가는 OPNET(Optimized Network Engineering Tool)을 사용한 시뮬레이션과 이론적 분석을 통하여 이루어진다. 성능평가를 통하여 제안된 Cross-Layer 협력도움 라우팅 구조는 전송효율을 효과적으로 증가 시킬 수 있음을 알 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.5335-5353
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• 2019

The definition of the bandwidth efficiency (BE) of cognitive cooperative network (CCN) is the ratio between a number of the licensed slot(s) or sub-channel(s) used by the unlicensed users to transmit a single data packet from the unlicensed transmitter to unlicensed destination, and from unlicensed relay(s) to unlicensed destination. This paper analyzes and improves the BE in the underlay CCN with a new reactive relay selection under interference and power constraints. In other words, this paper studies how unlicensed cooperative users use the licensed network slot(s) or sub-channel(s) efficiently. To this end, a reactive relay selection method named as Relay Automatic Repeat Request (RARQ) is proposed and utilized with a CCN under interference and power constraints. It is shown that the BE of CCN is higher than that of cooperative transmission (CT) due to the interference and power constraint. Furthermore, the BE of CCN is affected by the distance of the interference links which are between the unlicensed transmitter to the licensed destination and unlicensed relay to the licensed destination. In addition, the BE for multiple relays selection over a CCN under interference and power constraints is also analyzed and studied, and it is shown that the BE of CCN decreases as the number of relays increases.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권11호
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• pp.2148-2150
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• 2015

본 논문은 셀 가장자리에서의 적응적 협력 전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 사용자의 위치를 고려하고, 그에 알맞은 협력 전송 기법을 적용한다. 셀룰러 시스템들에서, 사용자가 셀의 경계에 위치하게 되면 통신의 성능의 열화가 발생한다. 기존의 기법에서는 두 개의 기지국들이 다이버시티 이득을 얻기 위하여 사용된다. 하지만 사용자와 기지국 사이의 거리는 여전히 멀기 때문에, 기존의 방법만으로는 성능이 충분히 향상되지 않는다. 따라서 릴레이들을 사용하고 사용자의 위치에 따라 협력 전송 기법을 적응적으로 적용하는 기법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과들을 통해, 제안된 기법의 성능이 기존의 기법보다 좋다는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.102-122
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• 2017

Nanotechnology has provided a set of tools that the engineers can use to design and manufacture integrated nano devices, which are capable of performing sensing, computing, data storing and actuation. One of the main hurdles for nano devices has been the amount of power that it can generate for transmission of data. In this paper, we proposed cooperative nano communication in the Terahertz (THz) Gap frequency band to increase the range of transmission. Outage probability (OP) performances for the proposed cooperative nano communication networks in the THz band (0.1 - 10THz) have been evaluated for the following scenarios; A) A single decode-and-forward (DF) relay over independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels, B) DF multi-relay network with best relay selection (BRS) over i.i.d. Rayleigh fading channels, and C) DF multi-relay network with multiple hops with BRS over i.i.d. Rayleigh fading channels. The results show that the transmission distance can be improved significantly by employing DF relays. Also, it is shown that by increasing the number of hops in a relay the OP performance is marginally degraded. The analytical results have been verified by Monte-Carlo simulation.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권6C호
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• pp.403-411
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 주파수 선택적 페이딩 채널에서 (frequency selective fading channels) 인지 무선 통신을 위한 Alamouti 코딩 기반 협력 전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 기법은 시간 반전 연산과 (time-reversal operation) 공액 복소 연산을 (conjugate operation) 사용하는 기존 기법과 다르게 소스 노드에서의 간단한 심볼 조합을 통해 목적지 노드에서 Alamouti 부호 구조를 획득한다. 모의실험 결과를 통하여 제안한 기법의 다이버시티 이득 차수가 기존 기법의 다이버시티 이득 차수보다 높은 것을 확인한다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2013

본 논문에선, 정적 무선 네크워크에서 에너지 절약을 얻기 위한 멀티 홉 협력 전송 프로토콜을 제안한다. 네트워크의 각 터미널에서는 수신된 신호를 각 수신단에서 등 이득 결합 기법을 사용하고 단일 안테나를 설치한다. 또한, 각 구간에서 최적의 전체 전송 전력의 할당 방법을 제안한다. 몬테-카를로 시뮬레이션으로 평균 전체 전송 전력과 구간의 평균 수의 부분에서 멀티 홉 직접 전송(MDT)와 Khadani에 의해 제안된 협력 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안된 프로토콜로 성능을 비교 분석한다.

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