• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.1249-1254
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• 2016

최근 들어서, Multi-User Massive MIMO 네트워크에서 하드웨어와 알고리즘 측면에서 복잡도를 낮추면서 높은 전송률을 얻을 수 있는 다양한 전송 안테나 선택 기법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 또한, 차세대 이동통신 네트워크에서 에너지 소모량을 줄이기 위한 다양한 기술들에 대한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 그래서, 본 논문에서는 Multi-User Massive MIMO 네트워크에서 낮은 계산 복잡도를 달성하면서 에너지 효율성을 높일 수 있는 전송 안테나 선택 기법을 연구하였다. 먼저, Brute-Force 탐색 기반의 최적 방식을 소개하고 최적 방식 대비 계산 복잡도를 획기적으로 줄일 수 있는 새로운 안테나 선택 기법을 제안하였다. 안테나 수가 증가할수록 최적 방식의 복잡도는 지수적으로 증가하는 반면 제안 방식은 선형적으로 증가한다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 제안 방식과 모든 경우를 고려하는 최적 방식의 에너지 효율 성능 차이는 크지 않다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.338-351
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• 2013

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication may provide high spectral efficiency through the deployment of a very large number of antenna elements at the base stations. The gains from massive MIMO communication come from the use of multi-user MIMO on the uplink and downlink, but with a large excess of antennas at the base station compared to the number of served users. Initial work on massive MIMO did not fully address several practical issues associated with its deployment. This paper considers the impact of channel aging on the performance of massive MIMO systems. The effects of channel variation are characterized as a function of different system parameters assuming a simple model for the channel time variations at the transmitter. Channel prediction is proposed to overcome channel aging effects. The analytical results on aging show how capacity is lost due to time variation in the channel. Numerical results in a multicell network show that massive MIMO works even with some channel variation and that channel prediction could partially overcome channel aging effects.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.649-657
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• 2016

In this paper, we investigate energy efficiency (EE) of the traditional co-located and the distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. First, we derive an approximate EE expression for both the idealistic and the realistic power consumption models. Then an optimal energy-efficient remote access unit (RAU) selection algorithm based on the distance between the mobile stations (MSs) and the RAUs are developed to maximize the EE for the downlink distributed massive MIMO systems under the realistic power consumption model. Numerical results show that the EE of the distributed massive MIMO systems is larger than the co-located massive MIMO systems under both the idealistic and realistic power consumption models, and the optimal EE can be obtained by the developed energy-efficient RAU selection algorithm.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.398-406
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• 2013

In this paper, we investigate two types of in-phase and quadrature-phase (IQ) data transfer methods for cloud multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network operation. They are termed "after-precoding" and "before-precoding". We formulate a cloud massive MIMO operation problem that aims at selecting the best IQ data transfer method and transmission strategy (beamforming technique, the number of concurrently receiving users, the number of used antennas for transmission) to maximize the ergodic sum-rate under a limited capacity of the digital unit-radio unit link. Based on our proposed solution, the optimal numbers of users and antennas are simultaneously chosen. Numerical results confirm that the sum-rate gain is greater when adaptive "after/before-precoding" method is available than when only conventional "after-precoding" IQ-data transfer is available.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.352-361
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• 2013

Combining multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) with a massive number of transmit antennas (massive MIMO-OFDM) is an attractive way of increasing the spectrum efficiency or reducing the transmission energy per bit. The effectiveness of Massive MIMO-OFDM is strongly affected by the channel state information (CSI) estimation method used. The overheads of training frame transmission and CSI feedback decrease multiple access channel (MAC) efficiency and increase the CSI estimation cost at a user station (STA). This paper proposes a CSI estimation scheme that reduces the training frame length by using a novel pilot design and a novel unitary matrix feedback method. The proposed pilot design and unitary matrix feedback enable the access point (AP) to estimate the CSI of the signal space of all transmit antennas using a small number of training frames. Simulations in an IEEE 802.11n channel verify the attractive transmission performance of the proposed methods.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.58-67
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a data-driven-based beam selection scheme for massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems in ultra-dense networks (UDN), which is capable of addressing the problem of high computational cost of conventional coordinated beamforming approaches. We consider highly dense small-cell scenarios with more small cells than mobile stations, in the millimetre-wave band. The analog beam selection for hybrid beamforming is a key issue in realizing millimetre-wave UDN MIMO systems. To reduce the computation complexity for the analog beam selection, in this paper, two deep neural network models are used. The channel samples, channel gains, and radio frequency beamforming vectors between the access points and mobile stations are collected at the central/cloud unit that is connected to all the small-cell access points, and are used to train the networks. The proposed machine-learning-based scheme provides an approach for the effective implementation of massive MIMO system in UDN environment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.628-649
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• 2017

Security and resource-saving are both demands of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks. In this paper, we study the secrecy spectrum efficiency (SSE) and secrecy energy efficiency (SEE) of a K-tier massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enabled heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet), in which artificial noise (AN) are employed for secrecy enhancement. Assuming (i) independent Poisson point process model for the locations of base stations (BSs) of each tier as well as that of eavesdroppers, (ii) zero-forcing precoding at the macrocell BSs (MBSs), and (iii) maximum average received power-based cell selection, the tractable lower bound expressions for SSE and SEE of massive MIMO enabled HetNets are derived. Then, the influences on secrecy oriented spectrum and energy efficiency performance caused by the power allocation for AN, transmit antenna number, number of users served by each MBS, and eavesdropper density are analyzed respectively. Moreover, the analysis accuracy is verified by Monte Carlo simulations.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2015

최근 폭발적으로 증가하고 있는 모바일 데이터 트래픽를 효과적으로 서비스하기 위한 기술 중의 하나로 다중 사용자 거대 다중 안테나 네트워크가 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 그러나, 다중 사용자 거대 다중 안테나 네트워크는 기지국에 복잡한 하드웨어 구성이 필요할 뿐만 아니라 최적의 사용자 조합을 선택하기 위하여 많은 계산량을 유발한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 하드웨어 복잡도와 사용자 선택 알고리즘의 계산량을 동시에 획기적으로 감소시킬 수 있는 안테나와 사용자 선택 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방식은 $O((N-S_a+1){\times}min(S_a,K))$의 계산 복잡도를 가지며, 이는 Brute-Force 탐색 기반의 최적 방식의 계산 복잡도 $$O\left({_N}C_S_a\sum_{i=1}^{min(S_a,K)}_KC_i\right)$$보다 획기적으로 감소된 것이다. 여기서 N은 모든 전송안테나의 수, $S_a$은 선택된 안테나 수, K는 사용자의 수를 나타낸다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권8호
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• pp.712-723
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• 2013

근래 전 세계적으로 스마트 폰의 수요가 급증하면서 기존의 3G 표준에 비해 높은 데이터 전송률을 제공하는 long term evolution (LTE) 서비스가 활발히 보급되고 있다. 특히, 이동통신 강국인 우리나라는 LTE의 최신 릴리즈인 LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) 서비스를 최근 시작하였다. 높은 데이터 전송률을 얻기 위한 LTE와 LTE-A 시스템의 핵심기술로 다중입출력 안테나 (multiple-input-multiple-output; MIMO)기술을 들 수 있다. MIMO 기술은 주파수와 전력의 증가 없이 안테나 수에 비례하는 채널용량을 얻을 수 있는 장점으로 큰 주목을 받아왔으며 다양한 측면에서 진화 발전이 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 단일사용자 MIMO에서 다중사용자 MIMO, 그리고 최근 주목받고 있는 대용량 MIMO까지 MIMO기술의 이론적 배경 및 시스템을 구현하기 위해 필요한 고려사항들을 살펴본다.

• 한국정보기술학회 영문논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.13-25
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• 2018

The paper analyzes the sum spectral efficiency (SE) for a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) which has the backhaul, provided with wireless full-duplex massive multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) with hardware distortions. We derive approximate expressions to obtain the uplink/downlink sum SE of the backhaul. The analytic results have been shown to be exact when compared to Monte Carlo simulations. From the analysis, it is shown that the desired signal and the hardware distortion noise have the same order. The sum SE generally improves when the number of receive antennas increases but degrades when the hardware quality reduces. A sum SE performance ceiling is introduced by the hardware quality level.