• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.2275-2284
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 4 × 4 multiple input multiple output-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) 시스템에서 사용 가능한 Walsh 부호화된 시간영역 훈련신호를 설계하고 채널 추정 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 다중 경로 지연신호에 의하여 발생되는 훈련 신호간 상호간섭를 고려하면서 채널 응답 추정 공식을 closed-form으로 유도하였다. 컴퓨터 모의 실험결과 제안된 방법은 기존의 방법[9,14]에 비하여 성능이 우수하고 직교 훈련신호 설계시 대역폭을 증가시키지 않으며 4 × 4 MIMO-OFDM 시스템에서 널(null) 부반송파 존재하여도 채널 추정이 수행될 수 있음을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2893-2907
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• 2019

Wireless mobile communication systems in subway tunnels have been widely researched these years, due to increased demand for the communication applications. As a result, an accurate model is essential to effectively evaluate the communication system performance. Thus, a neoteric three-dimensional (3D) geometry-based stochastic model (GBSM) is proposed for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading channels in tunnel environment. Furthermore, the statistical properties of the channel such as space-time correlation, amplitude and phase probability density are analyzed and compared with those of the traditional two-dimensional (2D) model by numerical simulations. Finally, the ergodic capacity is investigated based on the proposed model. Numerical results show that the proposed model can describe the channel in tunnels more practically.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1098-1112
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• 2018

Achievable sum rate and energy efficiency (EE) are investigated for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (Massive MIMO) downlink with channel aging in the time varying Ricean fading channel. Specifically, the expression of the achievable sum rate of the system for the maximum ratio transmission (MRT) precoder with aged channel state information (CSI) in the time varying Ricean fading channel is first presented. Based on the expression, the effect of both channel aging and the Ricean factor on the power scaling law are studied. It is found that the transmit power of base station (BS) is scaled down by $1/{\sqrt{M}}$(where M is the number of the BS antennas) when the Ricean factor K is equal to zero (i.e., time varying Rayleigh fading channel), indicating that aged CSI does not affect the power scaling law. However, the transmit power of the BS is scaled down by 1/M for the time varying Ricean fading channel (where $K{\neq}0$) indicating that the Ricean factor affects the power scaling law and sum rate, and channel aging only leads to a reduction of the sum rate. Second, the EE of the system is analyzed based on the general power consumption model. Both the theoretical analysis and the simulations show that the channel aging could degrade the sum rate and the EE of the system, and it does not affect the power scaling law.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권7B호
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• pp.878-885
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• 2011

수중음향 통신은 대역이 제한되어 있고 음파가 해저 및 해수면에 반사되어 신호가 수신된다는 특성 때문에 신뢰성이 높고 전송속도가 빠른 수중음향 통신의 구현이 어렵다. 그러므로 최근의 수중 통신시스템에서 다수의 센서를 이용하는 MIMO 기술이 활발히 연구 중에 있다. 그러나 송수신단의 다중 센서를 이용한 수중통신에서의 MIMO 통신기술은 송수신단의 각 수신 센서에서의 상관값이 크기 때문에 다중 경로로 인하여 공간 다이버시티를 사용해 이득을 기대하기가 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 송신 센서는 두개를 설정하고 수신센서를 한 개로 하는 MISO 채널에서 부호화 기법으로는 LDPC 부호를 이용하여 채널 추정 보상 기법과 결합하여 성능을 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4240-4258
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• 2016

A practical iterative channel estimation technique is proposed for the multiple-input-multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system in the high-speed mobile environment, such as high speed railway scenario. In the iterative algorithm, the Kalman filter and data detection are jointed to estimate the time-varying channel, where the detection error is considered as part of the noise in the Kalman recursion in each iteration to reduce the effect of the detection error propagation. Moreover, the employed Kalman filter is from the canonical state space model, which does not include the parameters of the autoregressive (AR) model, so the proposed method does not need to estimate the parameters of AR model, whose accuracy affects the convergence speed. Simulation results show that the proposed method is robust to the fast time-varying channel, and it can obtain more gains compared with the available methods.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.768-780
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• 2023

The application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has recently attracted considerable interest in various areas. A three-dimensional multiple-input multiple-output concentric two-hemisphere model is proposed to characterize the scattering environment around a vehicle in an urban UAV-to-vehicle communication scenario. Multipath components of the model consisted of lineof-sight and single-bounced components. This study focused on the key parameters that determine the scatterer distribution. A time-variant process was used to analyze the nonstationarity of the proposed model. Vital statistical properties, such as the space-time-frequency correlation function, Doppler power spectral density, level-crossing rate, average fade duration, and channel capacity, were derived and analyzed. The results indicated that with an increase in the maximum scatter radius, the time correlation and level-crossing rate decreased, the frequency correlation function had a faster downward trend, and average fade duration increased. In addition, with the increase of concentration parameter, the time correlation, space correlation, and level-crossing rate increased, average fade duration decreased, and Doppler power spectral density became flatter. The proposed model was compared with current geometry-based stochastic models (GBSMs) and showed good consistency. In addition, we verified the nonstationarity in the temporal and spatial domains of the proposed model. These conclusions can be used as references in the design of more reasonable communication systems.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2014

최근 이동통신 시스템은 WCDMA(wideband code division multiple access)를 기반으로 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스를 지원하고 있다. 2013년 11월 통계에 따르면 국내 이동통신 가입자 수는 피처폰과 스마트폰 사용자를 모두 합하여, 5451만4397명으로 분석되었다. 따라서 이동통신 서비스 이용자는 이미 전체 인구수를 400만 명이상을 추월했다. 이동통신 가입자의 급격한 증가로 인해 이동통신 서비스 망의 운용과 분석은 무엇보다 중요하며, 그에 따른 서비스 품질도 다양하게 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 CDMA(code division multiple access)를 기반으로 하는 피처폰과 WCDMA를 기반으로 하는 스마트폰의 안정적인 서비스 지원을 위하여 이동통신망의 채널용량을 산출할 수 있는 시뮬레이터를 구현하고, 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 이동통신 서비스 환경에 따른 다양한 채널용량 특성을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocol, named underwater multi-channel MAC protocol (UMMAC), for underwater acoustic networks (UANs). UMMAC is a split phase and reservation based multi-channel MAC protocol which enables hosts to utilize multiple channels via a channel allocation and power control algorithm (CAPC). In UMMAC, channel information of neighboring nodes is gathered via exchange of control packets. With such information, UMMAC allows for as many parallel transmissions as possible while avoiding using extra time slot for channel negotiation. By running CAPC algorithm, which aims at maximizing the network's capacity, users can allocate their transmission power and channels in a distributed way. The advantages of the proposed protocol are threefold: 1) Only one transceiver is needed for each node; 2) based on CAPC, hosts are coordinated to negotiate the channels and control power in a distributed way; 3) comparing with existing RTS/CTS MAC protocols, UMMAC do not introduce new overhead for channel negotiation. Simulation results show that UMMAC outperforms Slotted floor acquisition multiple access (FAMA) and multi-channel MAC (MMAC) in terms of network goodput (50% and 17% respectively in a certain scenario). Furthermore, UMMAC can lower the end-to-end delay and achieves a lower energy consumption compared to Slotted FAMA and MMAC.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.635-656
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• 2019

In this paper, we investigate the degrees of freedom (DoF) of a multi-cell multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference broadcast channel (IBC) with non-cooperation distributed base stations (BS), where each BS serves users of its corresponding cell. When all BSs simultaneously transmit their own signals over the same frequency band in the MIMO IBC, the edge users in each cell will suffer the inter-cell interference (ICI) and inter-user interference (IUI) signals. In order to eliminate the ICI and IUI signals, a distributed space time interference alignment (DSTIA) approach is proposed where each BS has only limited access to distributed moderately-delay channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). It is shown that the DSTIA scheme can obtain the appreciate DoF gains. In addition, the DoF upper bound is asymptotically achievable as the number of antenna at each BS increases. It is shown that the DSTIA method can get DoF gains over other interference alignment schemes with delayed CSIT in literature. Moreover, the DSTIA method can attain higher DoFs than the IA schemes with global CSIT for certain antenna configurations.