• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.1001-1009
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• 2016

In LTE networks, the base station transmits control information over the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including scheduling grants, which are used to indicate the resources that the user equipment uses to send data to the base station. Because the size of the PDCCH message and the number of the PDCCH transmissions increase in proportion to the number of user equipments, the overhead of the PDCCH may cause serious network congestion problems in the narrowband LTE (NB-LTE) system. This paper proposes the compact PDCCH information bit allocation to reduce the size of the PDCCH message and evaluates the performance of the semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) in the NB-LTE system. The simulation results show that the SPS can significantly reduce the signaling overhead of the PDCCH and therefore increase the system utilization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.562-565
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• 2017

In this letter, we consider a 7-step transmission procedure of a large number of machine nodes when they simultaneously request random access to transmit uplink data. We model the radio resource utilization of LTE systems, and analyze the overloaded resources. From the simulation results, we show that the resource of PDCCH becomes significantly overloaded as the number of machine nodes increases in a cell. To alleviate the overload of PDCCH, we allocate radio resource of PDSCH to PDCCH. The result shows that the resource utilization of PDCCH is improved.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.1026-1037
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• 2016

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is the progressing standardization of the narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) system to support massive devices for the Internet of Things (IoT) services. The NB-IoT system uses a coverage class technique to increase the performance of the NB-IoT system while serving massive devices in very wide coverage area. A moving device can change the coverage class according to the distance or the channel state between the base station and the moving device. However, in the conventional NB-IoT standard, the performance of the NB-IoT system degrades because the coverage class is changed based on the fixed criterion. This paper proposes the coverage class adaptation schemes to increase the performance of the NB-IoT system by dynamically change the coverage class according to the location or the channel state of the device. Simulation results show that the proposed coverage class adaptation scheme decreases both the signaling overhead and the PDCCH decoding error rate in comparison with the conventional coverage class adaptation scheme in the 3GPP standard.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.7
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• pp.389-397
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• 2014

This paper focuses on advanced receiver for interference suppression or cancellation from neighbor cells in the 3GPP Rel-12 standard. From UE (User Equipment) perspective, the advanced receiver which can manage inter-cell interference of adjacent cell is required to support and manage fast-growing wireless data traffic. In 3GPP standard, NAICS which is one of approaches to improve SINR and receiver performance by directly suppression or cancellation of data (PDSCH) and control (PDCCH) signal from interference cells is discussed. In this paper, we briefly introduce the concept and candidate receivers for NAICS (Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression) based on 3GPP Rel-12 standard, and simulation results for basic NAICS receiver performance are provided.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.903-910
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• 2016

This paper investigates an advanced receiver for interference mitigation of downlink control channel in the 3GPP Rel-13 standard. There are several features for downlink throughput performance improvement with inter-cell interference management such as network coordination and advanced receivers during Rel-10~Rel-12. These features can be operated always under the assumption that UE perfectly decodes control channels (PCFICH and PDCCH) of serving cell. However, the performance of control channels could be deteriorated in the cell edge region due to inter-cell interference. In this paper, we introduce the advanced receivers and analyze performance for control channel interference mitigation (CCIM) based on 3GPP Rel-13 standard. Additionally, we propose UE behavior depending on network condition.