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Packet Off-Loading Scheme Using a Femto-Cell Local Gateway and D2D Communication at Remote Shipyards (원격 조선소의 펨토셀 로컬 게이트웨이와 D2D 통신 기술을 이용한 패킷 오프로드 방식)

  • Han, Kyeongil;Cho, Yongcheon;Lee, Seongro;Min, Sangwon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39C no.11
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    • pp.1139-1145
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    • 2014
  • In shipyard site, a ship is constructed by integrating lots of modules that are made in several sites with different capabilities and specifications. Recently, it needs to make a shipyard to be smart communicating various multimedia information with wired and wireless broadband networks between hierarchical shipyards. In this paper, we propose an additional function of an LTE femtocell local gateway at a remote shipyard, an information exchange method between hierarchical shipyards, and an offload method to separate the general traffic. To reduce traffic of duplicated requests in shipyard, we apply a D2D communication scheme for supporting communication between shipyard equipments without IP service network. Hence, it is expected to increase the productivity of shipyard industry with mobile communications, D2D and broadband Internet technologies.

Energy Efficiency Enhancement of Macro-Femto Cell Tier (매크로-펨토셀의 에너지 효율 향상)

  • Kim, Jeong-Su;Lee, Moon-Ho
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.47-58
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    • 2018
  • The heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) is most significant as a key technology for future fifth generation (5G) wireless networks. The heterogeneous network considered consists of randomly macrocell base stations (MBSs) overlaid with femtocell base stations (BSs). The stochastic geometry has been shown to be a very powerful tool to model, analyze, and design networks with random topologies such as wireless ad hoc, sensor networks, and multi- tier cellular networks. The HCNs can be energy-efficiently designed by deploying various BSs belonging to different networks, which has drawn significant attention to one of the technologies for future 5G wireless networks. In this paper, we propose switching off/on systems enabling the BSs in the cellular networks to efficiently consume the power by introducing active/sleep modes, which is able to reduce the interference and power consumption in the MBSs and FBSs on an individual basis as well as improve the energy efficiency of the cellular networks. We formulate the minimization of the power onsumption for the MBSs and FBSs as well as an optimization problem to maximize the energy efficiency subject to throughput outage constraints, which can be solved the Karush Kuhn Tucker (KKT) conditions according to the femto tier BS density. We also formulate and compare the coverage probability and the energy efficiency in HCNs scenarios with and without coordinated multi-point (CoMP) to avoid coverage holes.

Femtocell System Technology Analysis (Femtocell 시스템 기술 분석)

  • Jung, Jae-Hwan;Sohn, In-Soo
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.169-173
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    • 2009
  • In the recent, the communication market increased every year. Because of the user's demands and exhaustion of wireless resource, we needs a new technology of the communication system. The femtocell is one of the new technology of the communication system. 'Femto' means very small. By using the femtocell that made up the very small cell, the frequency efficiency increase. The femtocell has different cell environments. In the paper, we look around the femtocell system model, the femtocell system technology and simulation result of system performance.

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Resource Allocation Based on the Type of Handovers in Overlaid Macro-Femto Networks

  • Lee, Jong-Chan;Lee, Moon-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2016
  • In this paper we propose the resource allocation scheme for the overlaid macro-femtocell networks, which considers the type of handovers such as the inter-macrocell, macrocell-to-femtocell, femtocell-to-macrocell, or inter-femtocell in order to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS) and expand the accommodation capacity. Our proposed scheme takes into account the movement of mobile terminals, the QoS degradation, or the load control which trigger handovers in the overlaid networks, before it allocates resources dynamically. Moreover it considers QoS requirements of realtime or non-realtime mobile multimedia services such as video communication, Video on Demand (VoD) and dataa services. Simulation results show that our scheme provides better performances than the conventional one with respect to the outage probability, data transmission throughput and handover failure rate.

Multi-Objective Handover in LTE Macro/Femto-Cell Networks

  • Roy, Abhishek;Shin, Jitae;Saxena, Navrati
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.578-587
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    • 2012
  • One of the key elements in the emerging, packet-based long term evolution (LTE) cellular systems is the deployment of multiple femtocells for the improvement of coverage and data rate. However, arbitrary overlaps in the coverage of these femtocells make the handover operation more complex and challenging. As the existing handover strategy of LTE systems considers only carrier to interference plus noise ratio (CINR), it often suffers from resource constraints in the target femtocell, thereby leading to handover failure. In this paper, we propose a new efficient, multi-objective handover solution for LTE cellular systems. The proposed solution considers multiple parameters like signal strength and available bandwidth in the selection of the optimal target cell. This results in a significant increase in the handover success rate, thereby reducing the blocking of handover and new sessions. The overall handover process is modeled and analyzed by a three-dimensional Markov chain. The analytical results for the major performance metrics closely resemble the simulation results. The simulation results show that the proposed multi-objective handover offers considerable improvement in the session blocking rates, session queuing delay, handover latency, and goodput during handover.

Dynamic Downlink Resource Management of Femtocells Using Power Control in OFDMA Networks (OFDMA 펨토셀 환경에서 전력 제어를 이용한 동적 하향링크 자원관리 방법)

  • Lee, Sang-Tae;Ahn, Chun-Soo;Shin, Ji-Tae
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37 no.5A
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    • pp.339-347
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    • 2012
  • Femtocells as home base station for indoor coverage extension and wideband data service, have been studied with significant interests. When femtocell is deployed, the existing cell structural of changes causes various technical problems. In this paper, we investigate the femto-macro cell interference mitigation in OFDMA system. We propose dynamic downlink resource management scheme which adjust the transmitted power of femtocell according to the strength of received macrocell signal and allocates subcarrier to femtocells in a dynamic manner. In this way, the interference between the macrocell users and femtocells is reduced. The simulation results show that proposed scheme enhances both macrocell and femtocell throughputs.

Distributed BS Transmit Power Control for Utility Maximization in Small-Cell Networks (소형 셀 환경에서 유틸리티 최대화를 위한 분산화된 방법의 기지국 전송 전력 제어)

  • Lee, Changsik;Kim, Jihwan;Kwak, Jeongho;Kim, Eunkyung;Chong, Song
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38A no.12
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    • pp.1125-1134
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    • 2013
  • Small cells such as pico or femto cells are promising as a solution to cope with higher traffic explosion and the large number of users. However, the users within small cells are likely to suffer severe inter-cell interference (ICI) from neighboring base stations (BSs). To tackle this, several papers suggest BS transmit power on/off control algorithms which increase edge user throughput. However, these algorithms require centralized coordinator and have high computational complexity. This paper makes a contribution towards presenting fully distributed and low complex joint BS on/off control and user scheduling algorithm (FDA) by selecting on/off pattern of BSs. Throughput the extensive simulations, we verify the performance of our algorithm as follows: (i) Our FDA provides better throughput performance of cell edge users by 170% than the algorithm without the ICI management. (ii) Our FDA catches up with the performance of optimal algorithm by 88-96% in geometric average throughput and sufficiently small gap in edge user throughput.

Highly Linear 2-Stage Doherty Power Amplifier Using GaN MMIC

  • Jee, Seunghoon;Lee, Juyeon;Kim, Seokhyeon;Park, Yunsik;Kim, Bumman
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.399-404
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    • 2014
  • A power amplifier (PA) for a femto-cell base station should be highly efficient, linear and small. The efficiency for amplification of a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) signal was improved by designing an asymmetric Doherty PA (DPA). The linearity was improved by applying third-order inter-modulation (IM3) cancellation method. A small size is achieved by designing the DPA using GaN MMIC process. The implemented 2-stage DPA delivers a power-added efficiency (PAE) of 38.6% and a gain of 33.4 dB with an average power of 34.2 dBm for a 7.2 dB PAPR 10 MHz bandwidth LTE signal at 2.14 GHz.

A Fast Measurement Method of System Information for 3GPP LTE System (3GPP LTE 시스템에서 시스템 정보 측정 속도 향상을 위한 고속 측정 방법)

  • Lee, Choong-Hee;Kim, Jae-Hyun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37 no.3B
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    • pp.158-164
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    • 2012
  • Heterogeneous Network and CSG cell are hot issues in the 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced system. In this paper, we analyze the system information measurement methods which are essential for handover to CSG cell. Since there have been no sufficient discussion about this problem, we present and analyze five possible solutions. Moreover, we propose a novel solution to reduce system information measurement delay. In the proposed Autonomous Measurement with Parallel Small Gap(AMPSG) method, the UE measures system information of neighbor cells in a parallel manner. As a result, the proposed method shows better delay performance. Therefore, the proposed AMPSG method can reduce handover delay since the UE have to measure the system information of neighbor cells before CSG handover decision.

Interaction of Bovine Growth Hormone with Buffalo Adipose Tissue and Identification of Signaling Molecules in Its Action

  • Sodhi, R.;Rajput, Y.S.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.1030-1038
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    • 2007
  • Results on localization of growth hormone receptor (GHR), interaction of growth hormone (GH) with receptor in buffalo adipose tissue and identification of activated signaling molecules in the action of GH are presented. Bovine GH (bGH) was labeled with fluorescein or biotin. Fluorescein-labelled bGH was used for localization of GHRs in buffalo adipocytes. The receptors were present on the cell surface. The affinity of binding of GH to its receptor was determined by designing an experiment in which buffalo adipose tissue explants, biotinylated GH and streptavidin-peroxidase conjugate were employed. The affinity constant was calculated to be $2{\times}10^8M^{-1}$. The receptor density on adipose tissue was found to be 1 femto mole per mg of tissue. Signalling molecules generated in the action of GH were tentatively identified by employing Western blot and enhanced chemiluminescence techniques using anti-phosphotyrosine antibody. Based on molecular weights of proteins reactive to anti-phosphotyrosine antibody, three signaling molecules viz. insulin receptor substrate, Janus activated kinase (Jak) and mitogen activated protein were tentatively identified. These signaling molecules appeared in a time (incubation time of explants with growth hormone) dependent way. The activation of Jak2 was confirmed by employing anti-Jak2 antibody in a Western blot. The activation of Jak2 occurred during 5 min incubation of buffalo adipose tissue explants with GH and incubation for an additional period, viz. 30 min. or 60 min., resulted in a drastic reduction in activation. The results suggest that Jak2 activation is an early event in the action of GH in buffalo adipose tissue.