• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.263-269
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• 2010

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) has been considered one of the key enablers of broadband wireless communications. The indoor environment is known to be favorable to ensure both high rank property and high signal-to-interference/noise ratio (SINR) to fully exploit MIMO spatial multiplexing (SM) gain. In this paper, we describe several practical deployment cases where repeater links (or relay links), such as those present with an indoor distributed antenna system (DAS), can act as keyholes to degenerate the rank property of MIMO communications. In this case, we cannot exploit MIMO SM gain in indoor environment. We propose a novel MIMO communication scheme which uses simple converter in the devices in repeater links to resolve the rank degeneration issue and to ensure MIMO SM gain in highly MIMO-favorable indoor environment. MIMO SM is possible over the indoor DAS with single cable line through use of simple converters, which enables practical deployment in real fields.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.4967-4986
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• 2015

Multi-hop relaying communications have great potentials in improving transmission performance by deploying relay nodes. The benefit is critically dependent on the accuracy of the channel state information (CSI) of all the transmitting links. However, the CSI has to be estimated. In this paper, we investigate the channel estimation problem in one-way multi-hop MIMO amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system, where both the two-hop and three-hop communication link exist. Traditional point-to-point MIMO channel estimation methods will result in error propagation in estimating relay links, and separately tackling the channel estimation issue of each link will lose the gain as part of channel matrices involved in multiple communication links. In order to exploit all the available gains, we develop a novel channel estimation model by structuring different communication links using the PARAFAC and PARATUCK2 tensor analysis. Furthermore, a two-stage fitting algorithm is derived to estimate all the channel matrices involved in the communication process. In particular, essential uniqueness is further discussed. Simulation results demonstrate the advantage and effectiveness of the proposed channel estimator.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.700-713
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• 2015

It is critical to design energy-efficient routing protocols for battery-limited mobile ad hoc networks, especially in which the energy-consuming MIMO techniques are employed. However, there are several challenges in such a design: first, it is difficult to characterize the energy consumption of a MIMO-based link; second, without a careful design, the broadcasted RREP packets, which are used in most energy-efficient routing protocols, could flood over the networks, and the destination node cannot decide when to reply the communication request; third, due to node mobility and persistent channel degradation, the selected route paths would break down frequently and hence the protocol overhead is increased further. To address these issues, in this paper, a novel Greedy Energy-Efficient Routing (GEER) protocol is proposed: (a) a generalized energy consumption model for the MIMO-based link, considering the trade-off between multiplexing and diversity gains, is derived to minimize link energy consumption and obtain the optimal transmit model; (b) a simple greedy route discovery algorithm and a novel adaptive reply strategy are adopted to speed up path setup with a reduced establishment overhead; (c) a lightweight route maintenance mechanism is introduced to adaptively rebuild the broken links. Extensive simulation results show that, in comparison with the conventional solutions, the proposed GEER protocol can significantly reduce the energy consumption by up to 68.74%.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2013

Under an imperfect channel estimation, a Device-to-Device (D2D) communication framework based on MIMO relay technology is presented. The model consists of a D2D pair equipped with M antennas and a relay equipped with N antennas as well as a cellular user equipped with M antennas. The outage probability under different relaying protocols (i.e. AF and DF protocol) with and without considering a direct link was derived. The actual and theoretical outage probability of the five links under different antenna numbers was emulated. The number of user antennas and channel estimation error was analyzed carefully to determine their impact on the outage probability of a system. The simulation verified the theory analyses and the results showed that MIMO relaying improves the D2D communication system performance.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.26-35
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• 2014

We consider multiple-input multiple-output decode-and-forward relay systems in Rayleigh fading channels under the partial channel state information (CSI) that the channel statistics of the source-relay (SR) link and the instantaneous CSI of the source-destination and relay-destination links are known at the destination. In this paper, we propose a new near maximum likelihood (near-ML) decoder with two-level pairwise error probability (near-ML-2PEP) which uses the average PEP instead of the exact PEP. Then, we theoretically prove that the near-ML and near-ML-2PEP decoders achieve the maximum diversity, which is confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations. Moreover, we show that the near-ML-2PEP decoder can also achieve the maximum diversity by substituting the average PEP with the values that represent the error performance of the SR link.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.18-25
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a codebook-based interference alignment (IA) scheme in the constant multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel especially for the uplink scenario. In our proposed scheme, we assume cooperation among base stations (BSs) through reliable backhaul links so that global channel knowledge is available for all BSs, which enables BS to compute he transmit precoder and inform its quantized index to the associated user via limited rate feedback link. We present an upper bound on the rate loss of the proposed scheme and derive the scaling law of the feedback load to maintain a constant rate loss relative to IA with perfect channel knowledge. Considering the impact of overhead due to training, cooperation, and feedback, we address the effective degrees of freedom (DOF) of the proposed scheme and derive the maximization of the effective DOF. From simulation results, we verify our analysis on the scaling law to preserve the multiplexing gain and confirm that the proposed scheme is more effective than the conventional IA scheme in terms of the effective DOF.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.57-75
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• 2015

In evaluating the performance of a dual-hop wireless link, the effects of large and small scale fading has to be considered. To overcome this fading effect, several schemes, such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with orthogonal space time block codes (OSTBC), different combining schemes at the relay and receiving end, and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are used in both the transmitting and the relay links. In this paper, we first make compare the performance of a two-hop wireless link under a different combination of space diversity in the first and second hop of the amplify-and-forward (AF) case. Our second task in this paper is to incorporate the weak signal of a direct link and then by applying the channel model of two random variables (one for a direct link and another for a relayed link) we get very impressive result at a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that is comparable with other models at a higher SNR. Our third task is to bring other three schemes under a two-hop wireless link: use of transmit antenna selection (TAS) on both link with weak direct link, distributed Alamouti scheme in two-hop link and single relay antenna with OFDM subcarrier. Finally, all of the schemes mentioned above are compared to select the best possible model. The main finding of the paper is as follows: the use of MIMO on both hops but application TAS on both links with weak direct link and the full rate OFDM with the sub-carrier for an individual link provide a better result as compared to other models.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권6A호
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• pp.519-536
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 최근 많은 연구가 진행되고 있는 공간 다중화 기법인 Iterative BLAST를 기반으로 채널 값의 Sum을 이용하여 양호한 통신 링크를 적응적으로 선택하는 송/수신 안테나 선택 기법과 선택된 안테나를 사용하여 시스템의 신뢰성을 향상시키기 위한 안테나 스케줄링 기반 Hybrid-Automatic Repeat reQuest (UARO) 스위칭 기법을 결합한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 HARQ 스위칭 알고리즘은 각 안테나에 삽입된 CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) 코드를 사용하여 안테나별로 ACK (Acknowledgement) 와 NAK (Non Acknowledgement)를 확인한 후, 재전송 요구 시, 송신 안테나를 스케줄링하여 ACK 안테나에서는 CC (Chase Combining) 기법을, NAK 안테나에서는 IR (Incremental Redundancy) 기법을 적용하여 재전송이 이루어지게 한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘의 적용시, SNR 이득과 공간 다이버시티 이득이 발생하여 기존 HARQ 시스템에 비하여 링크 성능이 향상됨을 SCM-E 채널 환경에서 모의 실험을 통하여 검증한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.1055-1064
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• 2015

We demonstrate a next-generation high-capacity mobile fronthaul based on radio over fiber (RoF) technology, which links between a digital unit and a radio unit supporting two frequency assignments and $2{\times}2$ multiple input, multiple output antennas. To confirm the technical feasibility of a mobile fronthaul, we experimentally investigate its down- and uplink end-to-end performances including the optical and radio frequency (RF) signal path. Frequency-dependent performance deviations, error vector magnitude variations, overall system performance variations caused by optical to electrical conversion, and intermediate frequency to RF conversions are examined. Experimental verifications on multiple LTE uplink signals are performed for the first time. We also demonstrate several commercial mobile Internet services, YouTube video streaming, and file transfers using off-the-shelf mobile devices, through a mobile fronthaul based on RoF.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권9A호
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• pp.844-855
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• 2006

다중 안테나 통신시스템은 서비스 및 채널 환경의 특성에 따라 송수신 다이버시티 기법, 공간 다중화 기법과 빔형성 기법 등을 이용하여 링크의 신뢰성 혹은 시스템 용량을 증가시킨다. 이러한 다중 안테나 통신 시스템은 공간 채널 환경에 민감한 특징을 갖는다. 다이버시티 기법의 경우, 각 링크 간 채널 상관도가 낮을수록 성능이 향상된다. 하지만, 실제 채널 환경은 안테나 간의 상관관계가 많이 존재하며, 이상적인 경우와 실제 성능의 차이가 클 수 있다. 이와 반대로 빔형성 기법의 경우, 채널 상관도가 높은 LoS (Line-of-Sight) 환경에서 가장 좋은 성능을 나타낸다. 이와 같은 공간 채널의 특성을 활용한 공간채널 적응전송기법을 사용할 경우, 최소한의 링크 성능을 유지하며, 전체적인 시스템 성능을 보장할 수 있게 된다. 본 논문에서는 채널의 이러한 특성을 이용하여 링크의 신뢰성이 요구되는 시스템에서 공간 채널 상관도에 따른 다이버시티 기법과 빔형성 기법 간의 적응 송 수신을 통한 성능 향상 방안을 제시한다.