• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.329-339
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• 2022

Small cells, particularly femtocells, are regarded a promising solution for limited resources required to handle the increasing data demand. They usually boost wireless network capacity. While widespread usage of femtocells increases network gain, it also raises several challenges. Interference is one of such concerns. Interference management is also seen as a main obstacle in the adoption of two-tier networks. For example, placing femtocells in a traditional macrocell's geographic area. Interference comes in two forms: cross-tier and co-tier. There have been previous studies conducted on the topic of interference management. This study investigates the principle of categorization of interference management systems. Many methods exist in the literature to reduce or eliminate the impacts of co-tier, cross-tier, or a combination of the two forms of interference. Following are some of the ways provided to manage interference: FFR, Cognitive Femtocell and Cooperative Resource Scheduling, Beamforming Strategy, Transmission Power Control, and Clustering/Graph-Based. Approaches, which were proposed to solve the interference problem, had been presented for each category in this work.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.508-522
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• 2011

Femtocell is an economical solution to provide high speed indoor communication instead of the conventional macro-cellular networks. Especially, OFDMA femtocell is considered in the next generation cellular network such as 3GPP LTE and mobile WiMAX system. Although the femtocell has great advantages to accommodate indoor users, interference management problem is a critical issue to operate femtocell network. Existing OFDMA resource management algorithms only consider optimizing system-centric metric, and cannot manage the co-channel interference. Moreover, it is hard to cooperate with other femtocells to control the interference, since the self-configurable characteristics of femtocell. This paper proposes a novel interference-aware resource allocation algorithm for OFDMA femtocell networks. The proposed algorithm allocates resources according to a new objective function which reflects the effect of interference, and the heuristic algorithm is also introduced to reduce the complexity of the original problem. The Monte-Carlo simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm compared to the existing solutions.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.1266-1275
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• 2015

본 리뷰 논문은 전이중 (Full-Duplex) 셀룰라 시스템의 간섭 제어에 관한 최근 연구동향을 소개한다. 먼저 전이중 셀룰라 시스템과 밀접한 연관이 있는 상향링크-하향링크 공존 환경에서의 간섭 제어에 대해 간략히 소개한다. 다음으로 전이중 셀룰라 시스템의 자기간섭 제어 기법과 이를 통한 전이중 셀룰라 시스템의 이론적 모델에 대해 소개한다. 전이중 셀룰라 시스템의 경우 자기간섭을 완벽히 제거하더라고 사용자간 간섭이라는 새로운 간섭현상이 존재한다. 따라서 전이중 통신을 통해 망의 용량을 획기적으로 증대하기 위해서는 이러한 사용자간 간섭을 효율적으로 제어하여야 한다. 최근 전이중 셀룰라 시스템에서 망의 최적 자유도를 달성하는 새로운 간섭 제어 기법이 제안되었다. 본 리뷰 논문은 이러한 최적 간섭 제어 기법에 대해 중점적으로 소개하고자 한다.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2017년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.35-36
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• 2017

The finish works of construction projects comprises approximately 40% of the total construction duration. Thus, the management of finish works have as big as impacts on total project duration as the earthworks, foundation and structure works. Process interference management is considered one of the most important issues dealt during finish works. However, it was investigated that effective management systems have yet not been applied for practical use. Accordingly, this paper suggests a mobile technology based finish works management system that mainly focuses on preventing process interference occurred due to ineffective communication between general and sub-contractors.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.258-267
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• 2008

In this paper, we examine what changes the next-generation wireless communication systems will experience in terms of the technologies, services, and networks and, based on that, we investigate how the inter-cell interference management should evolve in various aspects. We identify that the main driving forces of the future changes involve the data-centric services, new dynamic service scenarios, all-IP core access networks, new physical-layer technologies, and heavy upload traffic. We establish that in order to cope with the changes, the next-generation inter-cell interference management should evolve to 1) set the objective of providing a maximal data rate, 2) take the form of joint management of power allocation and user scheduling, 3) operate in a fully distributed manner, 4) handle the time-varying channel conditions in mobile environment, 5) deal with the changes in interference mechanism triggered by the new physical-layer technologies, and 6) increase the spectral efficiency while avoiding centralized coordination of resource allocation of the users in the uplink channel.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.384-394
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• 2014

The femtocell overlaid cellular network (FOCN) has been used to enhance the capacity of existing cellular systems. To obtain the desired system performance, both cross-tier interference and co-tier interference in an FOCN need to be managed. This paper proposes an interference management scheme that adaptively constructs a femtocell cluster, which is a group of femtocell base stations that share the same frequency band. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed scheme can enhance the performance of the macrocell-tier and maintain a greater signal to interference-plus-noise ratio than the outage level can for about 99% of femtocell users.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.519-527
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• 2014

An integrated multi-beam satellite and multi-cell terrestrial system is an attractive means for highly efficient communication due to the fact that the two components (satellite and terrestrial) make the most of each other's resources. In this paper, a terrestrial component reuses a satellite's resources under the control of the satellite's network management system. This allows the resource allocation for the satellite and terrestrial components to be coordinated to optimize spectral efficiency and increase overall system capacity. In such a system, the satellite resources reused in the terrestrial component may bring about severe interference, which is one of the main factors affecting system capacity. Under this consideration, the objective of this paper is to achieve an optimized resource allocation in both components in such a way as to minimize any resulting inter-component interference. The objective of the proposed scheme is to mitigate this inter-component interference by optimizing the total transmission power - the result of which can lead to an increase in capacity. The simulation results in this paper illustrate that the proposed scheme affords a more energy-efficient system to be implemented, compared to a conventional power management scheme, by allocating the bandwidth uniformly regardless of the amount of interference or traffic demand.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.639-648
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• 2016

Next-generation (4G) systems are designed to support universal frequency reuse (UFR) to achieve best use of valuable spectra. However, it leads to undesirable interference level near cell borders. To control this, 4G systems adopt techniques, such as network multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC), to improve cell-edge throughput. Network MIMO aims at mitigating inter-cell interference towards cell-edge users (CEUs) through multi-cell cooperation, where each collaborative base station serves both cell-center users (CCUs) and CEUs, including other cells' CEUs, under a power constraint. The present ICIC strategies cannot be directly applied to network MIMO because they were designed in absence of multi-cell coordination. In the presence of network MIMO, this paper investigates antenna orientations in ICIC and the method of power management. Results show that a proper antenna orientation can improve the cell-edge capacity and meantime lower the interference to CCUs. Capacity inconsistency between CCUs and CEUs is detrimental to mobile communications. Simulation results show that the proposed power management for ICIC in network MIMO systems can achieve a uniform data rate regardless users' position.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38B권10호
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• pp.843-850
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• 2013

인지 라디오 시스템은 1차 시스템이 사용 중인 주파수를 공유함으로써 지역 당 주파수 이용효율을 향상시킬 수 있는 중요한 기술로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 2차 시스템이 1차 시스템에 간섭을 미치지 않으며 주파수를 공유할 수 있는 보다 능동적인 간섭 관리 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 프로토콜을 통해 2차 사용자는 1차 시스템의 간섭 채널 정보 및 송 수신 필터 정보를 획득하고 이를 이용하여 프리코딩 행렬을 계산한다. 이때 2차 시스템으로부터의 간섭은 1차 시스템의 사용되지 않는 부채널로 모이기 때문에 1차 시스템은 추가적인 연산 없이 자동적으로 간섭을 제거한다. 그리고 2차 시스템은 백색화 정합 필터를 통해 1차 시스템으로부터의 간섭을 제거함으로써 스펙트럼 효율을 향상시킨다. 전산모의실험을 통해 제안된 기법이 1차 시스템에 간섭을 미치지 않는 동시에 2차 시스템의 성능을 향상시키고, 2차 시스템의 수가 증가하더라도 1차 시스템의 성능이 저하되지 않음을 보였다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 2006년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.288-300
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• 2006

In this paper, we consider a channel ordering problem that seeks to minimize the total interference in mobile radio networks. If a base station receives connection request from a mobile user, one of the empty channels that are fixed to the base station is assigned to the mobile user. Among several channels available, we can choose one that seems to make least interference with other channels assigned to adjacent base stations. However, a pair of channels that are not separated enough do not generate interference if both of them are not simultaneously used by mobile users. That is, interference between channels may vary depending on the channel assignment sequence for each base station and on the distribution of mobile users. To find a channel assignment sequence that seems to generate minimum interference, we develop an optimization model considering various scenarios of mobile user distribution. Simulation results show that channel assignment sequence determined by the scenario based optimization model significantly reduces the interference provided that scenarios and interference costs are properly generated.