• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.1B
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• pp.21-28
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• 2011

The femtocell is a miniaturized Base Station (BS) with low-cost and low-power using general broadband access network as backhaul. It is expected not only to improve indoor coverage but also to reduce a service charge. However, in IEEE 802,16e femtocells, when the Mobile Station (MS) scans neighbor BSs for handover, it takes a long time due to too many number of femto BSs. Also the size of the neighbor advertisement message that will be periodically sent by a serving BS is increased as the number of target femto BSs for scanning increases. In this paper, we proposed an efficient femtocell scanning scheme, using a triangulation mechanism and a femto BS monitoring scheme to reduce the number of scanning operations and the size of the neighbor advertisement messages. The proposed scheme can avoid wasting air resources and reduce scanning overheads by minimal scanning operation. The simulation results showed that the proposed scheme could improve scanning performance and avoid wasting air resources, compared with the conventional scheme of the IEEE 802.16e system.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.32-43
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• 2009

가정 또는 사무실과 같은 실내의 음영지역을 해소하고 한정된 주파수 자원을 효율적으로 사용하여 다수의 사용자에게 보다 좋은 무선 환경을 제공함으로써 대용량 데이터 전송 서비스를 가능하게 하는 초소형 기지국 연구에 대한 요구가 많아지고 있다. 이에 따라 이동통신 기지국의 신규 설치시 기지국 자체적으로 또는 인접한 기지국간의 자동 협업을 통하여 기지국간 간섭을 최소화하고 기지국의 용량을 증대시켜서 셀 커버리지를 최적화하는 기술에 대한 연구가 필요하게 되었다. 이를 위한 방안으로 셀 반경을 극도로 줄여 댁내 또는 소규모 비즈니스 환경에 알맞은 무선환경을 제공하려고 하는 펨토셀 서비스는 보다 나은 무선 환경을 필요로 하는 사용자 요구에 적극 대응하고, 사업자의 사업기회를 확대하며, 서비스의 질적 양적 개선 측면에 있어서 가장 중요하게 고려해야 할 기술이다. 본 고에서는 이러한 펨토셀 관련 주요 기술적 이슈를 정리하고 현재 진행되고 있는 기술 동향에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.275-280
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• 2009

Femtocells are viewed as a promising option for mobile operators to improve coverage and provide high-data-rate services in a cost-effective manner Femtocells can be used to serve indoor users, resulting in a powerful solution for ubiquitous indoor and outdoor coverage. TThe frequency accuracy and phase alignment is necessary for ensuring the quality of service (QoS) forapplications such as voice, real-time video, wireless hand-off, and data over a converged access medium at the femtocell. But, the GPS has some problem to be used at the femtocell, because it is difficult to set-up, depends on the satellite condition, and very expensive. The IEEE 1588 specification provides a low-cost means for clock synchronisation over a broadband Internet connection. The Time of Packet (ToP) specified in IEEE 1588 is able to synchronize distributed clocks with an accuracy of less than one microsecond in packet networks. However, the timing synchronization over packet switched networks is a difficult task because packet networks introduce large and highly variable packet delays. This paper proposes an enhanced filter algorithm to reduce ths packet delay variation effects and maintain ToP slave clock synchronization performance. The results are presented to demonstrate in the intra-networks and show the improved performance case when the efficient ToP filter algorithm is applied.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.9
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• pp.762-771
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an adaptive power control scheme employing a self-optimization concept in femtocell systems, in order to improve system capacity, thereby reducing call-drop probability. In the proposed scheme, each femto base station(FBS) controls individual channel's transmission power base on two parameters; the neighboring cell's transmission power for each individual channel which is delivered from a femto-gateway and the received power strength from neighboring cells which is periodically measured by means of a spectrum sensing. Adaptive adjustment of individual channel's transmission power in accordance with femto mobile station(FMS) mobility features can also reduce undesirable handovers and evenly distribute traffic load over all femtocells. In addition, the manipulative control of channel's transmission power is able to keep the system coverage and the call-drop probability within an acceptable range, regardless of density of femtocells. Computer simulation shows that the proposed scheme outperforms existing schemes in terms of the system coverage and the call-drop probability.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.3A
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• pp.240-249
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• 2011

In this paper, we consider a cell management and handover method in an IEEES02.16e based femto-cell systems. In a femto-cell system, Mobile Stations (MS) and Base Stations (BS) are temporarily overloaded during the process of MOB_NBR-ADV message because it includes huge information of macro-cell and a large number of femto-cells. Also, MS can be handover into another cell frequently, i.e. ping-pong phenomenon, if it is located in a overlapped cell area. In a femtocell system, so-called ping-pong phenomenon will burden the network opreation. In this paper, we propose construction of MOB_NBR-ADV message and it provides fast scanning and efficent handover by means of preselecting the candidate target femto-cells. Also, an adaptive method of hysteresis margin for handover is proposed. The simulation results show that the proposed schemes improve the MS's handover-related performance in terms of scanning power and scanning time compared with the conventional managements scheme of femto-cell systems.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.25-32
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• 2017

In this paper we propose a resource management method which enables to guarantee the quality of experience (QoE) for handover in the overlaid macro-femtocell networks. How to cope with the resource demand of handover calls is necessary to efficiently support the movement of mobile terminals, the QoE degradation or the load control. We attempt to satisfy the QoE requirements of users and maximize the capacity of the system at the same time. In order to achieve this goal, this scheme divides the shared resources into two part for the movement of MT and QoE degradation, and allocates those resources with the competition between four types of handovers. Simulation results show that our scheme provides better performances than the conventional one with respect to the outage probability, data transmission throughput.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.2811-2830
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• 2017

In this paper, we study the problem of mobile data offloading for a network that contains multiple mobile network operators (MNOs), multiple WiFi or femtocell access points (APs) and multiple mobile users (MUs). MNOs offload their subscribed MUs' data traffic by leasing the unused Internet connection bandwidth of third party APs. We propose a combinatorial auction-based two-stage matching mechanism comprised of MU-AP matching and AP-MNO matching. The MU-AP matching is designed to match the MUs to APs in order to maximize the total offloading data traffic and achieve better MU satisfaction. Conversely, for AP-MNO matching, MNOs compete for APs' service using the Nash bargaining solution (NBS) and the Vickrey auction theories and, in turn, APs will receive monetary compensation. We demonstrated that the proposed mechanism converges to a distributed stable matching result. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm well capture the tradeoff among the total data traffic, social welfare and the QoS of MUs compared to other schemes. Moreover, the proposed mechanism can considerably offload the total data traffic and improve the network social welfare with less computation complexity and communication overhead.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.269-272
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• 2007

In order to expand cell coverage, increase system capacity, and offer various multimedia service with high throughput in indoor environment, WiBro Access Point(AP) is developed. Home AP is IFA/Omni type and has stack-up structure of channel card and RF board. SOHO AP is designed to support up to 2FA and has remote RF(RRF) structure using UTP method. Inter-operational test with mobile terminal were completed for 3 terminals using web browsing service simultaneously. The performance test results of WiBro AP are as follows: RCE(EVM) value is -34.431 dB for 64-QAM and throughput is up to 6.79 Mbps(DL) and 1.1 Mbps(UL) with 2.5m Line-of-Sight(LOS) condition.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.23 no.2 s.110
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• pp.91-97
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• 2008

최근 들어 이동통신사업자를 중심으로 펨토셀을 이용한 서비스 도입에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 유럽의 경우 FMC와 FMS 서비스가 격돌하고 있고, 미국은 펨토셀 FMS 서비스에 관심을 가지고 있으며, 일본은 FMC 서비스에서 펨토셀 도입을 고려하고 있다. 이와 같이, 세계 각국에서 펨토셀에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으나, 아직까지 표준이 정해지지 않은 기술이며 상용화를 위해서는 해결해야 할 과제가 남아 있다. 펨토셀을 도입하면 실내 커버리지 확대, 통화 품질 향상, 영업비용 절감 등 다양한 이점이 있으며, 가입자와 사업자 모두에게 이익을 제공할 수 있는 상당한 성장 잠재력을 가지고 있으므로 펨토셀에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구는 펨토셀의 정의 및 장단점, Wi-Fi와 Bluetooth 등과 같은 기술과의 경쟁력 분석, 국내외 펨토셀 시장현황 및 업체동향을 살펴본다. 또한 펨토셀의 수익원천을 파악할 수 있는 비즈니스 모델을 제안하고 분석하여 펨토셀 산업에 대한 전반적인 시사점을 제시하고자 한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.318-329
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• 2018

Femtocell (FC) technology envisaged as a cost-effective approach to attain better indoor coverage of mobile voice and data service. Deployment of FCs over macrocell forms a heterogeneous network. In urban areas, the key factor limits the successful deployment of FCs is inter-cell interference (ICI), which severely affects the performance of victim users. Autonomous FC transmission power setting is one straightforward way for coordinating ICI in the downlink. Application of intelligent control using soft computing techniques has not yet explored well for wireless networks. In this work, autonomous FC transmission power setting strategy using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System is proposed. The main advantage of the proposed method is zero signaling overhead, reduced computational complexity and bare minimum delay in performing power setting of FC base station because only the periodic channel measurement reports fed back by the user equipment are needed. System level simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method by providing much better throughput, even under high interference activation scenario and cell edge users can be prevented from going outage.