• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.91-98
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• 2019

LTE's extension for unlicensed spectrum called Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) is equipped with Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) designed similar with the backoff mechanism of Wi-Fi for coexistence. However, Wi-Fi's backoff mechanism has not evolved from its old design for compatibility with legacy devices, thus LAA's LBT is not efficient either in utilizing spectrum. If LAA operates with no Wi-Fi systems in proximity, it can run more efficient LBT. In this paper, we propose Narrowband Clear Channel Assessment (NCCA) for narrowband transmission. In NCCA, an LAA node performs LBT in either wide or each narrow bandwidth segment. This allows multiple LAA nodes to perform simultaneous transmissions in orthogonal bandwidth segments in the same time slot. We design four variants of NCCA implementation and model their performance using a mathematical model. The coexistence performance of NCCA with conventional wideband nodes and the accuracy of the model are shown via simulation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.7B
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• pp.706-718
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• 2002

In bluetooth system, there are two kinds of interference. One is the frequency static interference, for example 802.11 direct sequence, the interferer uses fixed frequency band. Another is frequency dynamic interference, for example other piconets or 802.11 frequency hopping, the interferer uses dynamic frequency channel and cant be estimated. In this paper we introduce a novel solution of hybrid method of Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) and Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) to address the coexistence of bluetooth and Direct Sequence of wireless local area network (WLAN). Before any bluetooth packet transmission, in the turn around time of the current slot, both the sender and receiver sense the channel whether there is any transmission going on or not. If the channel is busy, packet transmission is withdrawn until another chance. This is the LBT in Bluetooth. Because of asymmetry sense ability of WLAN and bluetooth, AFH is introduced to combat the left front-edge packet collisions. In monitor period of AFH, LBT is performed to label the channels with static interference. Then, all the labeled noisy channels are not used in the followed bluetooth frequency hopping. In this way, both the frequency dynamic and frequency static interference are effectively mitigated. We evaluate the solution through packet collision analysis and a detail realistic simulation with IP traffic. It turns out that the hybrid method can combat both the frequency dynamic and frequency static interference. The packet collision analysis shows it almost doubles the maximal system aggregate throughput. The realistic simulation shows it has the least packet loss.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.7
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• pp.783-788
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• 2016

An LTE enhancement for licensed-assisted access (LAA) to unlicensed spectrum has been studied recently and the first version of its design has been released in early 2016. As both 2.4 and 5GHz ISM bands have multiple channels and Wi-Fi devices already support multi-channel operation, LTE LAA has also been designed such that an eNB can access multiple channels at the same time. In this paper, we review several design variants of listen before talk (LBT) procedure for multi-channel transmission in downlink and perform simulation to investigate coexistence of Wi-Fi and LAA as well as the performance of both.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.473-476
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 LBT(Listen Before Talk) 방식을 사용하는 ZigBee와 FH(Frequency Hopping) 방식을 사용하는 DCP, RFID, Bluetooth 등의 소출력 무선기기가 공유주파수대역에 공존할 경우 요구되는 적정 채널수를 산출하고 전체 공유주파수대역폭 산출법을 제시하였다. 한정된 주파수 대역에서 LBT 및 FH 방식을 사용하는 총 User 수가 포용되는 공유주파수대역폭 산출은 중요한 작업이다. 소출력 무선기기 시스템의 간섭 회피 기술로 사용되는 FH 방식과 LBT 방식에 대기행렬이론(Queueing Theory)을 적용하였으며, 주위의 전파환경을 감지하여 유휴 주파수대역을 찾아 데이터전송을 시도하는 LBT 방식은 random하게 주파수채널을 이동하며 통신을 시도하는 FH 방식과는 구별된다. 채널수 별 User의 통신시도 시간간격을 통계적으로 처리하여 Throughput을 분석한 결과, Throughput 70% 조건에서 FH 방식과 LBT 방식을 사용하는 250mW 소출력 무선기기들이 공존하는 공유주파수대역의 적정 채널수는 30개를 가지며, 전체 공유주파수대역폭은 채널수에 채널당 대역폭의 곱으로 산출이 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.351-354
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• 2008

유비쿼터스 네트워크의 실현을 위하여 다양한 연구가 진행되면, CR (Cognitive Radio) 구성의 연구는 주파수 자원의 효율적인 활용에 관한 연구를 부각시키고 있다. 또한, CR 적용형 소출력 무선기기의 활용에 따른 공유주파수대역의 소요대역폭에 대한 논의와 공통으로 사용하는 주파수 대역 내에서 혼용되는 통신기기들의 user 수를 만족하는 총 소요대역폭 산출은 더불어 중요한 작업이 되었다. 공통으로 사용하는 주파수 대역의 총 소요대역폭 산출은 소출력 무선기기의 간섭 회피 기술로 사용되는 Frequency Hopping (FH) 및 Listen Before Talk (LBT) 방식이 고려되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 Cognitive Radio (CR) 기반의 LBT 방식을 사용하는 ZigBee와 FH 방식을 사용하는 DCP, RFID, Bluetooth 등의 소출력 무선기기가 공통으로 사용하는 주파수 대역에 공존할 경우를 가정하고, 대기행렬이론 (Queuing Theory)을 적용하여 소요대역폭 산출을 수행했다. 채널수 별 user의 통신시도에 따른 throughput을 분석한 결과, throughput 84% 이상의 조건에서 FH 및 LBT 방식을 사용하는 250mW 소출력 무선기기들이 공존하는 공유주파수대역의 적정 채널수는 35개를 가지며, 총 소요대역폭은 채널수와 채널대역폭의 곱으로 산출이 가능함을 보였다. 이러한 접근방법은 다른 통신시스템의 소요대역폭 산출에도 유용할 것이다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.952-961
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• 2016

In this paper, we study a spectrum sharing network (SSN) where a spectrum sharing device (SSD) coexists with multiple wireless communication systems (WCSs) in the same channel. The SSD can operate with either a duty cycle (DC) channel access mechanism or a listen-before-talk (LBT) channel access mechanism, whereas WCSs operate with an LBT mechanism. An opportunistic channel selection scheme for the SSD in the SSN is first proposed to minimize the outage probability. The optimal data transmission time for the DC-based SSD is derived to further improve the outage probability. We also derive the exact and closed-form outage probability of the proposed channel selection in the SSN by assuming that the number of WCSs operating in each channel is uniformly distributed. The simulation results show that the proposed channel selection scheme outperforms other channel selection schemes. It was also observed that a DC-based SSD with an optimal data transmission time provides a better outage performance than an LBT-based SSD. As the number of available channels increases, the channel selection scheme plays an important role in minimizing the outage probability of the SSNs.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.17-23
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• 2016

LTE Licensed-Assisted Access(LAA)는 3GPP에서 진행되고 있는 비면허대역을 활용하여 LTE 시스템을 동작시키는 표준기술이다. LTE-LAA의 필요성과 표준의 진화 과정을 알아보고, Listen-Before-Talk(LBT) 등 핵심 표준기술들을 소개하였고, 특히, WiFi 등 기존의 비면허대역에서 동작하는 시스템과의 공정한 공존(fair coexistence)를 위해 어떠한 노력이 이루어졌는지를 중점적으로 살펴보았다. 마지막으로, 현재 3GPP 표준에서 논의되는 enhanced LAA를 통해 비면허대역을 활용하는 LTE 시스템 기술의 진화를 전망해 보았다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.177-185
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• 2017

In this paper, we proposed a concept of interference load to analyze the performance of spectrum sharing technologies in unlicensed frequency bands. The interference load can quantitatively compare the technical properties of various spectrum sharing technologies, such as frequency hopping(FH), duty cycle(DC), listen-before-talk(LBT). Therefore, it can help to evaluate whether a local regulation about spectrum sharing is reasonably established or not. In order to verify the suggested concept, we applied it to 2.4 GHz frequency bands. Also, we demonstrated a real-time test-bed. Two bit error rate(BER) curves for FH with 10 random channels and DC of 10 %, show such good agreement that our proposed concept is expected to be widely used to assess various spectrum sharing technologies.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.58-64
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed the methodology of interference analysis based on monte-carlo method for effective use of Industrial, Scientific, Medical (ISM) band. The interference scenario is divided according to the distance and density. The simulation of interference analysis evaluates the interference probability according to distribution density of Interfering Transmitters (It) in the Secure Interference Area (SIA). The SIA is gained from the Interference Efficiency Range that satisfied to Interference Permissible Range of Victim Receiver (Vr). Simulation result that apply the proposed interference scenario to the WLAN and bluetooth, Interference Permissible Range was 60~400m. And the WLAN was acceptable within interference permissible range to six bluetooth that exist in the SIA. In the same condition, when applied Listen Before Talk (LBT) based on Cognitive Radio (CR) to the bluetooth using Frequency Hopping (FH), interference probability was decreased sharply. The Spectrum Engineering Advanced Monte Carlo Analysis Tool (SEAMCAT) that has been developed based on the monte-carlo method by European Radio-communications Office (ERO) were used to the interference simulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.46-55
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• 2009

In RFID field, when the neighboring readers try to occupy the same or adjacent channel simultaneously, there exists reader-to-reader interference; it calls reader collision. From the reader collision, the tags cannot response correctly query from the reader. Reader anti-collision schemes have been developed, and particularly, the Listen-Before-Talk(LBT) scheme is proposed to avoid reader collision in ETSI in multi channel environment. However, in ETSI, there is a drawback that the reader collision does not decreases effectively because the reader selects randomly a channel without considering the channel environment and readers try to occupy the channel concurrently. In this paper, we propose a algorithm based on LBT scheme considering multi channel environment as well as made up for the drawbacks of LBT The proposed algorithm applies random backoff, the collision avoidance mechanism. And it can reduce delay because of our proposed estimation mechanism Simulation using OPNET shows that the proposed algorithm achieves higher superiority than that of the simple algorithms in sparse and dense reader mode.