• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.352-363
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• 2012

In this paper, we study the role of cooperative relays to provide and improve secure communication rates through decodeand-forward (DF) strategies in a full-duplex multiple relay network with an eavesdropper. We consider the DF scheme as a basis for cooperation and propose several strategies that implement different versions of this scheme suited for cooperation with multiple relays. Our goal is to give an efficient cooperation paradigm based on the DF scheme to provide and improve secrecy in a multiple relay network. We first study the DF strategy for secrecy in a single relay network. We propose a suboptimal DF with zero forcing (DF/ZF) strategy for which we obtain the optimal power control policy. Next, we consider the multiple relay problem. We propose three different strategies based on DF/ZF and obtain their achievable secrecy rates. The first strategy is a single hop strategy whereas the other two strategies are multiple hop strategies. In the first strategy, we show that it is possible to eliminate all the relays' signals from the eavesdropper's observation (full ZF), however, the achievable secrecy rate is limited by the worst source-relay channel. Our second strategy overcomes the drawback of the first strategy, however, with the disadvantage of enabling partial ZF only. Our third strategy provides a reasonable compromise between the first two strategies. That is, in this strategy, full ZF is possible and the rate achieved does not suffer from the drawback of the first strategy. We conclude our study by a set of numerical results to illustrate the performance of each of the proposed strategies in terms of the achievable rates in different practical scenarios.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권1A호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

본 논문을 통해 i.n.d 레일리 패이딩 체널에서 서로 다른 변조/복조 기법을 사용하는 중계기들로 구성된 선택적 복호 후 재전송 네트워크의 성능평가를 보여준다. 본 논문은 i.i.d와 i.n.d 레일리 패이딩 채널 모두에서 선택적 복호 후 전송 프로토콜이 최대 다이버시티를 얻을 수 있다는 것을 보여준다. 또한 SC(selection combining)기법을 사용하는 시스템과 MRC(maximal ratio combining)기법을 사용하는 시스템의 성능을 비교하여 결합기술의 효과를 연구하였다. 높은 SNR에서 시뮬레이션 결과와 수식적 분석 결과가 정확하게 일치하는 것을 보여준다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권7A호
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• pp.523-529
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• 2009

This paper provides closed form expressions for the evaluation of the end-to-end outage probability, symbol error rate, bit error rate and average capacity of the partial-based Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay selection scheme with an arbitrary number of relays. In a comparison with the performance of systems that exploit Amplify-and-Forward (AF), it can be seen that the performance of our proposed protocol converges to that of partial-based AF relay selection in high SNR regime. We also perform Monte-Carlo simulations to validate the analysis.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.65-66
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• 2007

In this paper, a bit error rate (BER) study is presented for decode-and-forward (DF) relaying for user cooperation in independent and identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권4A호
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• pp.418-425
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• 2008

분산 다중 안테나 기반의 상호협력 통신(cooperative MIMO)을 구현하기 위해 대역 효율성 있는 두 가지 방식의 상호협력 전송 프로토콜을 제안하고 비교 분석한다. 같은 시분할 슬롯에 전송된 모든 심볼들 간에 간섭이 없다고 가정한 경우에 대해 각 전송 프로토콜의 BER 성능을 AF (Amplify-and-Forward)와 DF (Decode-and-Forward) 방식에서 각각 분석한다. 수학적 분석과 모의실험 결과를 통해 제안한 전송 방식이 직접 전송 방식(direct transmission)에 비해 대역폭을 추가로 사용하지 않고 많은 이득이 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39A권12호
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• pp.777-779
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 보호구간이 삽입된 OFDM 시스템의 단점을 개선한 IOTA-OFDM/OQAM 시스템을 소개한다. 또한 이를 기반으로 하는 DF 협력 통신 모델을 제안한다. 제안 모델의 최종 수신단은 소스와 릴레이로부터 수신한 직교 신호를 MRC 기법으로 결합한다. 이로 인해 얻게 되는 다이버시티 이득으로 제안 모델이 기존 시스템 대비 더 나은 BER 성능을 얻음을 전산 모의실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.26-35
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• 2014

We consider multiple-input multiple-output decode-and-forward relay systems in Rayleigh fading channels under the partial channel state information (CSI) that the channel statistics of the source-relay (SR) link and the instantaneous CSI of the source-destination and relay-destination links are known at the destination. In this paper, we propose a new near maximum likelihood (near-ML) decoder with two-level pairwise error probability (near-ML-2PEP) which uses the average PEP instead of the exact PEP. Then, we theoretically prove that the near-ML and near-ML-2PEP decoders achieve the maximum diversity, which is confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations. Moreover, we show that the near-ML-2PEP decoder can also achieve the maximum diversity by substituting the average PEP with the values that represent the error performance of the SR link.

• 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.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.480-488
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• 2009

Cooperative transmission is an effective solution to improve the performance of wireless communications over fading channels without the need for physical co-located antenna arrays. In this paper, selection combining is used at the destination instead of maximal ratio combing to optimize the structure of destination and to reduce power consumption in selective decode-and-forward relaying networks. For an arbitrary number of relays, an exact and closed-form expression of the bit error rate (BER) is derived for M-PAM, M-QAM, and M-PSK, respectively, in both independent identically distributed and independent but not identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels. A variety of simulations are performed and show that they match exactly with analytic ones. In addition, our results show that the optimum number of relays depend not only on channel conditions (operating SNRs) but also on modulation schemes which to be used.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.365-382
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• 2021

This paper proposes a novel two-way relaying (TWR) approach for a two-relay wireless network based on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), where two terminals exchange messages with a cellular base station (BS) via two intermediate relay stations (RSs). We propose a NOMA-based TWR approach with two relaying schemes, i.e., amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF), referred to as NOMA-AF and NOMA-DF. The sum-rate performance of our proposed NOMA-AF and NOMA-DF is analyzed. A closed-form sum-rate upper bound for the NOMA-AF is obtained, and the exact ergodic sum-rate of NOMA-DF is also derived. The asymptotic sum-rate of NOMA-AF and NOMA-DF is also analyzed. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms conventional orthogonal multiple access based transmission schemes. It is also shown that increasing the transmit power budget of the relays only cannot always improve the sum-rates.