• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.11
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• pp.487-494
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• 2014

This paper focuses on an advanced congestion control scheme for M2M(Machine-to-Machine) communications in 3GPP LTE-A standard. A large number of MTC(Machine-type-Communication) devices try to access to LTE-A networks and send data to the networks all at once. In this characteristics, M2M communications will bring the serious network congestion problems into LTE-A cellular networks. To solve this critical problem, a congestion control mechanism will be required and it has been studied since Rel-10 LTE-A systems based on backoff mechanism for mobility management and session management. In this paper, we briefly introduce the main concept and operation about the congestion control scheme in 3GPP LTE-A standard. Also, simulation results for the basic congestion control and advanced congestion control scheme in MTC communication environment are provided and the improvement direction is considered in future 3GPP LTE-A standard.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.51-58
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• 2012

Accurate transmission and estimation of the channel statistics affected by high Doppler spread is one of the main issues of concern for the latest and future mobile communication systems. Therefore, it is important to research in novel channel estimation techniques that overcome the limitations of conventional methods. In this paper, we propose a novel channel estimation method that, after a simple estimation in the first OFDM symbol, uses Kalman filter to predict the channel in the rest of OFDM symbols with pilot subcarriers. Our method is designed considering the lattice-type arrangement of pilot subcarriers in LTE-Advanced, since most of the studies so far focus on block-type or comb-type pilot arrangements. In addition, to optimize the results, we use the filtering of channel impulse response and Wiener Filter for the estimation of the channel frequency response in the rest of the subcarriers.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.30-37
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a fast ICI suppression algorithm with adaptive channel estimation for the LTE-Advanced uplink system. In order to effectively remove phase noise and carrier frequency offset at time varying channel, we use the comb type pilot. The purpose is to improve performance by reducing computational complexity than conventional PNFS(Phase Noise & Frequency offset Suppression) algorithm. We reduce computational complexity by decreasing overlapping computation or unnecessary computation at conventional PNFS algorithm. Also, we propose an effective channel estimation method. We estimate and compensate multipath channel through the proposed adaptive channel estimation method. The BER performance of the proposed method is better about 0.5 dB than the conventional method at the Vehicular A channel.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.32-42
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• 2015

In this paper, we considered the scenario that one cellular link and muti-D2D links share the same frequency resource which can improve the spectrum efficiency during uplink communication in LTE (Long Term Evolution)-Advanced network. In order to reduce the interference caused to the D2D users, we set DME (Discovery and Management Entity) which can send the area information to eNB(evolved Node B). We proposed a resource allocation scheme by using these assistant devices to reduce the interference that CUE (Cellular User Equipment) causes to DUE Rx (D2D UE Receiver). Basing on the area information, in order to mitigate the interference among the D2D pairs which share the same frequency resource, a power control scheme has been proposed. The simulation results prove that by using the DMEs, the proposed schemes improve the stability of D2D communication and bring the highest performance of the communication system when comparing to the other different schemes.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.3
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• pp.151-161
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• 2014

3GPP LTE-Advanced (Release 10) system specifies carrier aggregation (CA) to enable high data rate on using multiple frequency bands, including the variout CA-specific deployment scenarios. Considering one of those scenarios in which the different directional sector antenna is employed by each frequency band, we propose a per-carrier cell selection scheme that can improve the average throughput of the cell-edge users by allowing each user equipment (UE) to select the frequency band of the adjacent cell. Furthermore, a distributed algorithm for inter-cell copperative scheduling in this scheme is proposed to support proportional fairness among the cells. It has been shown that the proposed scheduling algorithm for the per-carrier cell selection scheme improves the cell-edge user throughput roughly by 50% over that of the conventional scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.402-403
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• 2011

This paper has proposed a $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS RF Front-end transmitter for LTE-Advanced systems. The proposed RF Front-end supports a band 7 (from 2500 MHz to 2570 MHz) in E-UTRA of 3GPP. It can provide a maximum output power level of +10 dBm but it's a normal output power level is +0 dBm considering a low PAPR. The post-layout simulation results show that the quadrature up-conversion mixer and a driver amplifier consumes 14 mA and 28 mA from a 1.2 V supply voltage respectively, while providing a output power level of 0 dBm at the input power level of -13 dBm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.396-397
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• 2011

This paper has proposed a multi-channel low pass filter (LPF) for LTE-Advanced systems. The proposed LPF is an active-RC 5th chebyshev topology with three cut-off frequencies of 5 MHz, 10 MHz, and 40 MHz. A 3-bit tuning circuit has been adopted to prevent variations of each cut-off frequency from process, voltage, and temperature (PVT). To achieve a high cut-off frequency of 40 MHz, an operational amplifier used in the proposed filter has employed a PMOS cross-connection load with a negative impedance. A proposed filter has been implemented in a $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and consumes 20.2 mW with a 1.2V supply voltage.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12A
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• pp.941-948
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• 2009

In the 3GPP LTE systems, SC-FDMA is adopted for the uplink owing to its good PAPR efficiency. In the frequency domain, however, the performance of SC-FDMA is degraded due to frequency selective fading. As a compromise, a Hybrid OFDMA/SC-FDMA was proposed in the LTE-Advanced systems. Hybrid scheme uses SC-FDMA in the edge of cell area, while it uses OFDMA nearby the base-station. In this paper, uplink relays based on hybrid scheme is proposed to increase the performance of the 3GPP LTE systems. With different positions of mobile and relay, the proposed scheme can adaptively select SC-FDMA or OFDMA to improve the link performance. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves a better performance in terms of end-to-end BER and power consumption.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.18-25
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• 2011

펨토셀은 실내에 위치한 사용자들에게 고품질의 이동통신 서비스를 제공하기 위한 실내용 소출력 이동통신 기지국이다. 펨토셀은 가정 또는 사무실과 같은 실내환경에 설치되어 기 의 이동통신 기지국과 협력함으로써 이동통신망의 용량을 확장하고 실내 사용자들에게 보다 우수한 통선 품질을 제공해 줄 수 있다. 그러나 펨토셀의 통신 영역은 수십에서 수백 제곱 미터로 작아 단말이 접속 기지국을 빈번하게 전환할 수 있으므로 펨토셀 네트워크에서는 이동성 관리 기능의 중요성이 매우 높을 것으로 예상된다. 또한 펨토셀이 기존 매크로셀과 일한 무선 자원을 사용할 경우 펨토셀과 매크로셀 사이의 신호 간섭 이 발생하여 사용자의 통신 품질이 크게 저하될 우려가 있다. 본 고에서는 3GPP LTE-Advanced 기반 펨토셀 네트 크 환경에서 단말의 이동성 관리기법 및 그 절차를 소개한다. 또한 펨토셀로부터의 신호 간섭 에 의해 통신 품질이 크게 저하되는 피해 단말 탐색을 위한 3GPP LTE-Advanced 표준에서 정의하고 있는 핸드오버 절차 기반의 펨토셀과 매크로셀 기지국 사이의 협력 기법을 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.390-393
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 다양한 고속 멀티미디어 서비스를 수용할 LTE-Advanced 망의 핸드오버 상황에서 일정한 수준의 QoS 보장을 보장하기 위하여 사용자의 이동성과 관련된 자원 할당은 수락 제어, 부하 제어 의 상태를 고려한 멀티미디어 전송 방법을 제안하였다. 멀티미디어 트래픽의 전송 중에 핸드오버가 발생한다면, 멀티미디어 트래픽의 QoS가 지연 및 손실에 의하여 영향 받기 때문에 정지 상태와 동일한 QoS를 유지하기 위하여 효율적인 자원 예약 및 할당 방안이 필요하다.