• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.119-132
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• 2021

To accommodate various mobile communication frequency bands, the study of metamaterial antennas have begun since the mid-2000s to solve the Trilemma problem between antenna gain-occupied bandwidth-size. As an adaptive reconfiguration function is required in a multi-array antenna system since 4G, the metamaterial array antenna using low-power variable elements has been used to change the basic structure of the antenna. Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is made of metasurface with reconfigurability, has been studied to effectively cope with the randomly varying radio channels and be used for various purposes such as reflection/transmission/modulation. As a result of RIS-related patent information analysis in this study, it was confirmed that most of the patents are metamaterial antennas and metamaterial array antennas, but the metasurface antenna technology was in the early stages. Particularly, as the intelligent metasurface antenna is in a more initial stage, the investment to R&D of RIS is urgent to secure patent competitiveness in B5G and 6G.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.28-44
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• 2023

We propose short packet communication in an underlay cognitive radio network assisted by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) composed of multiple reconfigurable reflectors. This scheme, called the IRS protocol, operates in only one time slot (TS) using the IRS. The IRS adjusts its phases to give zero received cumulative phase at the secondary destination, thereby enhancing the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio. The transmitting power of the secondary source is optimized to simultaneously satisfy the multi-interference constraints, hardware limitations, and performance improvement. Simulation and analysis results of the average block error rates (BLERs) show that the performance can be enhanced by installing more reconfigurable reflectors, increasing the blocklength, lowering the number of required primary receivers, or sending fewer information bits. Moreover, the proposed IRS protocol always outperforms underlay relaying protocols using two TSs for data transmission, and achieves the best average BLER at identical transmission distances between the secondary source and secondary destination. The theoretical analyses are confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.425-429
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 reconfigurable intelligent surface(RIS)의 능동소자를 활성화하는 기법을 제안한다. 최근 RIS는 무선 통신 시스템에서 통신 커버리지와 주파수 효율을 향상기키는 기술로 주목받고 있다. RIS는 수신받는 신호의 위상과 진폭을 조절할 수 있는 기술로 도심과 같이 장애물이 많은 지역에 활용하면 더 좋은 통신 성능을 보장할 수 있다. 하지만 RIS에 의해 신호는 두 번의 페이딩을 겪게 되고 이에 따라 통신 성능의 저하가 발생한다. 최근 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 능동 반사 소자를 활용한 RIS가 연구되고 있다. 하지만 RIS 전체를 능동 반사 소자로 활용하게 되면 에너지 소비량이 증가하게 된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 RIS 반사 소자 중 일부만 능동 반사 소자로 활용하는 시스템을 제안하고 활성화되는 능동 반사 소자를 선택하는 기법에 대해 제안한다.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2023

최근 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)은 높은 유동성 및 낮은 하드웨어 비용으로 5G, 6G 무선 통신에서 큰 관심을 받고 있다. 여전히 Blockage와 에너지 문제가 존재하지만 이러한 문제들은 Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)를 활용하여 해결할 수 있다. 또한 RIS를 UAV 통신에 이용함으로써 신호를 받지 못하는 사용자에게 신호를 전송하여 Spectral Efficiency를 향상시키며, 에너지 소비를 줄일 수 있다. 현재 대부분의 연구들은 송신 전력과 RIS 위상을 교대로 최적화하여 Power Consumption 최소화 및 데이터 전송 Delay 최소화 등의 목적을 달성하였다. 본 논문에서는 대역폭 최적화를 포함하여 합산 정보 전달율을 최대화하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이에 대한 성능평가를 진행하였고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 알고리즘의 우수성을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.1823-1840
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• 2023

In order to improve spectral efficiency and reduce power consumption for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted wireless communication systems, a joint design considering irregular RIS topology, RIS on-off switch, power allocation and phase adjustment is investigated in this paper. Firstly, a multi-dimensional variable joint optimization problem is established under multiple constraints, such as the minimum data requirement and power constraints, with the goal of maximizing the system energy efficiency. However, the proposed optimization problem is hard to be resolved due to its property of nonlinear nonconvex integer programming. Then, to tackle this issue, the problem is decomposed into four sub-problems: topology design, phase shift adjustment, power allocation and switch selection. In terms of topology design, Tabu search algorithm is introduced to select the components that play the main role. For RIS switch selection, greedy algorithm is used to turn off the RISs that play the secondary role. Finally, an iterative optimization algorithm with high data-rate and low power consumption is proposed. The simulation results show that the performance of the irregular RIS aided system with topology design and RIS selection is better than that of the fixed topology and the fix number of RISs. In addition, the proposed joint optimization algorithm can effectively improve the data rate and energy efficiency by changing the propagation environment.