• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.856-866
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• 2015

A heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a network topology composed by deploying multiple HetNets under the coverage of macro cells (MCs). It can improve network throughput, extend cell coverage, and offload network traffic; for example, the network traffic of a 5G mobile communications network. A HetNet involves a mix of radio technologies and various cell types working together seamlessly. In a HetNet, coordination between MCs and small cells (SCs) has a positive impact on the performance of the networks contained within, and consequently on the overall user experience. Therefore, to improve user-perceived service quality, HetNets require high-efficiency network protocols and enhanced radio technologies. In this paper, we introduce a 5G HetNet comprised of MCs and both fixed and mobile SCs (mSCs). The featured mSCs can be mounted on a car, bus, or train and have different characteristics to fixed SCs (fSCs). In this paper, we address the technical challenges related to mSCs. In addition, we analyze the network performance under two HetNet scenarios-MCs and fSCs, and MCs and mSCs.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2014

The heterogeneous network (HetNet) has been discussed in detail in the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE Advanced standards. However, the standardization of High-Speed Packet Access HetNet (HSPA HetNet) launched by 3GPP is pushing at full steam. Interference coordination (IC), which is responsible for dealing with the interference in the system, remains a subject worthy of investigation in regard to HSPA HetNet. In this paper, considering the network framework of HSPA HetNet, we propose a quasi-distributed IC (QDIC) scheme to lower the interference level in the co-channel HSPA HetNet. Our QDIC scheme is constructed as slightly different energy-efficient non-cooperative games in the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) scenarios, respectively. The existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium for these games are first revealed. Then, we derive the closed-form best responses of these games. A feasible implementation is finally developed to achieve our QDIC scheme in the practical DL and UL. Simulation results show the notable benefits of our scheme, which can indeed control the interference level and enhance the system performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.462-483
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• 2016

The research on optimization of cellular network's energy efficiency (EE) towards environmental and economic sustainability has attracted increasing attention recently. In this survey, we discuss the opportunities, trends and challenges of this challenging topic. Two major contributions are presented namely 1) survey of proposed energy efficiency metrics; 2) survey of proposed energy efficient solutions. We provide a broad overview of the state of-the-art energy efficient methods covering base station (BS) hardware design, network planning and deployment, and network management and operation stages. In order to further understand how EE is assessed and improved through the heterogeneous network (HetNet), BS's energy-awareness and several typical HetNet deployment scenarios such as macrocell-microcell and macrocell-picocell are presented. The analysis of different HetNet deployment scenarios gives insights towards a successful deployment of energy efficient cellular networks.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2022

The fifth generation (5G) mobile communication technology is designed to meet all communication needs. Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are a new emerging network structure. HetNets have greater potential for radio resource reuse and better service quality than homogeneous networks since they can evolve small cells into macrocells. Effective resource allocation techniques reduce inter-user interference while optimizing the utilization of limited spectrum resources in HetNets. This article discusses resource allocation in 5G HetNets. This paper explains HetNets and how they work. Typical cell types in HetNets are summarized. Also, HetNets models are explained in the third section. The fourth component addresses radio resource control and mobility management. Moreover, future study in this subject may benefit from this article's significant insights on how HetNets function.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1638-1654
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• 2018

The heterogeneous network (HetNet) has been one of the key technologies in Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) with growing capacity and coverage demands. However, the introduction of femtocells has brought serious co-layer interference and cross-layer interference, which has been a major factor affecting system throughput. It is generally acknowledged that the resource allocation has significant impact on suppressing interference and improving the system performance. In this paper, we propose a hybrid-clustering algorithm based on the $Mat{\acute{e}}rn$ hard-core process (MHP) to restrain two kinds of co-channel interference in the HetNet. As the impracticality of the hexagonal grid model and the homogeneous Poisson point process model whose points distribute completely randomly to establish the system model. The HetNet model based on the MHP is adopted to satisfy the negative correlation distribution of base stations in this paper. Base on the system model, the spectrum sharing problem with restricted spectrum resources is further analyzed. On the basis of location information and the interference relation of base stations, a hybrid clustering method, which takes into accounts the fairness of two types of base stations is firstly proposed. Then, auction mechanism is discussed to achieve the spectrum sharing inside each cluster, avoiding the spectrum resource waste. Through combining the clustering theory and auction mechanism, the proposed novel algorithm can be applied to restrain the cross-layer interference and co-layer interference of HetNet, which has a high density of base stations. Simulation results show that spectral efficiency and system throughput increase to a certain degree.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권8호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2013

LTE(Long Term Evolution)-Advanced에서는 저전력 피코셀(picocell)과 같은 소형셀을 중첩하여 배치해 시스템 성능을 향상시키기 위한 HetNet(Heterogeneous Network)에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 또한 HetNet에서 데이터 오프로딩 효과를 증대시키기 위해 셀 영역 확장(CRE: Cell Range Expansion) 기술이 소개되었다. 본 논문에서는 최적의 오프로딩 효과를 위해 SINR(Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) 기반 셀 선택 기법을 제안한다. 셀 확장 영역에 존재하는 사용자의 간섭 관리를 위해 ABS를 사용하며, 스펙스럼 효율을 증가시키기 위하여 동적인 ABS 비율을 사용한다. 모의실험 결과, 제안한 기법에서 피코셀뿐만 아니라 매크로셀 사용자의 스펙트럼 효율이 향상되어 전체적인 사용자의 성능이 향상 된 것을 볼 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권3호
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• pp.277-288
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• 2013

차세대 이동통신 시스템 규격으로서 3GPP LTE-Advanced (Third Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution-Advanced)는 급격하게 증가하는 무선 데이터 트래픽 요구를 해결하기 위해 펨토 셀 혹은 피코 셀과 같은 소형 기지국 및 단말과 단말 사이에 근거리 통신을 수행하는 D2D (Device-to-Device) 통신 방식을 도입하였다. 대형 기지국인 매크로 셀과 소형 기지국인 펨토 셀과 피코 셀 그리고 D2D 통신이 한 개의 셀 내에 혼재하면서 생기는 다양한 간섭 상황이 정리되었으며, 이를 해결하기 위해서 다양한 주제 범위에서 연구가 되었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 HetNet (Heterogeneous Network)에서 매크로 셀과 타 기종 네트워크 사이의 간섭을 관리하고 주파수 효율성을 높일 수 있는 간섭회피 방법을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 고려하는 CCN (Cluster Coordinator Node)의 도움을 받는 셀간 간섭회피 방법은 하나의 MeNB (Macro enhanced Node-B)와 다수 소형 셀들이 공존하는 HetNet 환경에서 다수 소형 셀들을 하나의 CCN이 관리하는 구조를 고려한다. HetNet에서 셀간 간섭관리를 위한 구체적인 방법으로 본 논문에서는 CCN 영역 내에 사용자들의 간섭회피를 위한 자원할당 방법을 제안하고, 이들 성능을 시스템 레벨 모의시험을 통해 검증하였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.139-146
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• 2022

Wireless access technologies are emerging to enable high data rates for mobile users and novel applications that encompass both human and machine-type interactions. An essential approach to meet the rising demands on network capacity and offer high coverage for wireless users on upcoming fifth generation (5G) networks is heterogeneous networks (HetNets), which are generated by combining the installation of macro cells with a large number of densely distributed small cells Deployment in 5G architecture has several issues because to the rising complexity of network topology in 5G HetNets with many distinct base station types. Aside from the numerous benefits that dense small cell deployment delivers, it also introduces key mobility management issues such as frequent handover (HO), failures, delays and pingpong HO. This article investigates 5G HetNet mobility management in terms of radio resource control. This article also discusses the key challenges for 5G mobility management.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2014

이종 네트워크(HetNet)란 매크로셀 내에 소형셀이 혼재한 네트워크이다. 이종 네트워크에서는 대형셀로부터 소형셀 사용자에게 미치는 간섭이 소형셀 사용자의 성능을 열화시키는 주 원인 중 하나이며, 이 간섭을 줄이기 위해 향상된 셀간 간섭 조정기법(eICIC)이 필요하다. 기존의 eICIC 관련 연구에서는 프레임별 채널 변화를 거의 고려하지 않고 네트워크의 장기 처리율을 최대화하는 데 치중되어 성능 향상이 제한적이었다. 이 논문에서는 네트워크 전체 효용을 최대화하기 위해 매 프레임마다 동적으로 셀간 간섭을 제어하고 사용자를 스케줄링하며, 전수검색보다 계산 복잡도가 낮은 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘이 기존 알고리즘보다 네트워크 전체 처리율을 향상시키며, 사용자의 수가 많을 때 사용자간 공평성을 향상시킴을 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3876-3895
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• 2014

Recently, Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) with Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) scheme is introduced into Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) systems to improve digital services for User Equipments (UEs), especially for cell-edge UEs. However, Radio Resource Management (RRM), including Resource Block (RB) scheduling and Power Allocation (PA), in this scenario becomes challenging, due to the intercell cooperation. In this paper, we investigate the RRM problem for downlink transmission of HetNet system with Joint Processing (JP) CoMP (both joint transmission and dynamic cell selection schemes), aiming at maximizing weighted sum data rate under the constraints of both transmission power and backhaul capacity. First, joint RB scheduling and PA problem is formulated as a constrained Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) which is NP-hard. To simplify the formulation problem, we decompose it into two problems of RB scheduling and PA. For RB scheduling, we propose an algorithm with less computational complexity to achieve a suboptimal solution. Then, according to the obtained scheduling results, we present an iterative Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) method to solve the PA problem. Extensive simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithms. Two kinds of JP CoMP schemes are compared with a non-CoMP greedy scheme (max capacity scheme). Simulation results prove that the CoMP schemes with the proposed RRM algorithms dramatically enhance data rate of cell-edge UEs, thereby improving UEs' fairness of data rate. Also, it is shown that the proposed PA algorithms can decrease power consumption of transmission antennas without loss of transmission performance.