• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.58-64
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 다중사용자 Massive MIMO 시스템 환경에서 계산 복잡도와 성능의 균형을 고려한 효율적인 송신 안테나 선택 기법을 제안한다. Massive MIMO 시스템은 차세대 5G 이동 통신의 목표 성능을 달성하기 위한 핵심 기술 중 하나로, 높은 주파수 효율과 신뢰성, 다중화 이득 등을 얻을 수 있다. 하지만 기지국에 장착되는 대규모 송신 안테나들과 RF chain은 높은 하드웨어 비용과 복잡도, 높은 소비 전력 등의 문제를 야기한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기지국의 RF chain의 수를 줄이는데 효과적인 송신 안테나 선택기법을 연구하고, 기존의 기법에서 성능과 복잡도의 균형을 고려한 새로운 송신 안테나 선택 기법을 제안한다. 또한 주파수 효율분석과 함께 최적의 안테나를 찾는데 필요한 탐색 수 분석을 통해 각 송신 안테나 기법 별 성능과 복잡도를 나타낸다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.280-290
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• 2016

To implement high-order multiuser multiple input and multiple output (MU-MIMO) for massive MIMO systems, there must be a feedback scheme that can warrant its performance with a limited signaling overhead. The interference-to-noise ratio can be a basis for a novel form of Codebook (CB)-based MU-MIMO feedback scheme. The objective of this paper is to verify such a scheme's performance under a practical system configuration with a 3D channel model in various radio environments. We evaluate the performance of various CB-based feedback schemes with different types of overhead reduction approaches, providing an experimental ground with which to optimize a CB-based MU-MIMO feedback scheme while identifying the design constraints for a massive MIMO system.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권8호
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• pp.724-732
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• 2013

본 논문은 다중 사용자 (multiuser) 다중 안테나 (MIMO, multiple-input and multiple-output) 시스템을 기반으로 거대 안테나 시스템 (massive MIMO system)에 대한 성능 분석을 진행한다. 하향 링크 프레임 구조를 고려한 평균 셀 용량을 도출하고, 해당 평균 셀 용량을 기지국 안테나 수 및 사용자 수에 대하여 분석한다. 평균 셀 용량은 기지국 안테나 수 및 사용자 수에 대해 오목 함수 (concave function)이며 이러한 특징을 통해 최적의 기지국 안테나 수 및 사용자 수를 도출한다. 실험 결과를 통해 수식적으로 도출한 최적 안테나 수 및 사용자 수는 실험을 통한 최적 값과 일치함을 확인하였으며 도출한 최적 값을 통해 최대 값의 평균 셀 용량을 얻을 수 있음을 확인할 수 있다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.885-902
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• 2022

The mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO), combining the advantages of wide bandwidth in the mmWave frequency band and the high- and uniform-spectral efficiency of CFmMIMO, has recently emerged as one of the enabling technologies for 6G. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for energy-efficient mmWave CFmMIMO systems that uses low-resolution digital-analog converters (DACs) and phase shifters (PSs) to introduce lowcomplexity hybrid precoding. Additionally, we propose a heuristic pilot allocation scheme that makes the best effort to slash some interference from copilot users. The simulation results show that the proposed hybrid precoding and pilot allocation scheme outperforms the existing schemes. Furthermore, we reveal the relationship between the energy and spectral efficiencies for the proposed mmWave CFmMIMO system by modeling the whole network power consumption and observe that the introduction of low-resolution DACs and PSs is effective in increasing the energy efficiency by compromising the spectral efficiency and the network power consumption.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.5410-5426
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• 2019

With the advent of the fifth-generation (5G) era, Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay systems have experienced the rapid development. Recently, the performance analysis models of Massive MIMO relay systems have been proposed, which are mostly based on Rayleigh fading channels. In order to create a more suitable model for 5G Internet of Things scenarios, our study is based on the Rician fading channels, where line-of-sight (LOS) path exists in the channels. In this paper, we assume the channel state information (CSI) is perfect. In this case, we use statistical information to derive the analytical exact closed-form expression for the achievable sum rate of the uplink for the Massive MIMO two-hop relay system over Rician fading channels. Moreover, considering the different communication scenarios, we derive the analytical exact closed-form expression for the achievable sum rates of the uplink for other three scenarios. Finally, based on these expressions, we make simulations and analyze the performance under different transmit powers and Rician-factors, which provides a theoretical basis and reference for further research.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39A권9호
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• pp.528-534
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 LDPC 부호화된 멀티유저 상향링크 massive-MIMO 시스템에서, 연판정 MRC 검출기와 LDPC 복호기를 이용한 반복적 검출 및 복호 수신기를 제안한다. 우선 MRC 검출기에 대해 연판정 기법을 제안하고, 검출기와 LDPC 복호기간 정보 교환 관계를 유도한다. 제안된 반복적인 검출 및 복호 과정을 통해 성능이 향상될 수 있음을 시뮬레이션을 통해 확인한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.1239-1247
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• 2015

Frequency-division duplex (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) 시스템에서 하향 링크 채널 추정의 계산 복잡도는 기지국의 안테나 개수와 비례한다. 그러므로 이러한 시스템에서의 효율적인 채널 추정 방식이 연구 될 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 채널이 시간적, 공간적 상관관계를 가지는 모델에서 Kalman 필터와 least mean square (LMS) 등과 같은 적응 신호처리 기법을 이용한 채널 추정 방식을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.237-253
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• 2019

For massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) circumstances with time division duplex (TDD) protocol, pilot contamination becomes one of main system performance bottlenecks. This paper proposes an uplink pilot sequence assignment to alleviate this problem for spatially correlated massive MIMO circumstances. Firstly, a single-cell TDD massive MIMO model with multiple terminals in the cell is established. Then a spatial correlation between two channel response vectors is established by the large-scale fading variables and the angle of arrival (AOA) span with an infinite number of base station (BS) antennas. With this spatially correlated channel model, the expression for the achievable system capacity is derived. To optimize the achievable system capacity, a problem regarding uplink pilot assignment is proposed. In view of the exponential complexity of the exhaustive search approach, a pilot assignment algorithm corresponding to the distinct channel AOA intervals is proposed to approach the optimization solution. In addition, simulation results prove that the main pilot assignment algorithm in this paper can obtain a noticeable performance gain with limited BS antennas.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2018

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, linear channel estimation algorithms are widely applied owing to their simple structures. However, they may cause pilot contamination, which affects the subsequent data detection performance. Therefore, herein, for an uplink multicell massive multiuser MIMO system, we consider using an alternating projection (AP) for channel estimation to eliminate the effect of pilot contamination and improve the performance of data detection in terms of the bit error rates as well. Even though the AP is nonlinear, it iteratively searches the best solution in only one dimension, and the computational complexity is thus modest. We have analyzed the mean square error with respect to the signal-to-interference ratios for both the cooperative and non-cooperative multicell scenarios. From the simulation results, we observed that the channel estimation results via the AP benefit the following signal detection more than that via the least squares for both the cooperative and non-cooperative multicell scenarios.

• 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.