• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권10호
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• pp.2587-2600
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• 2012

It has been demonstrated that choosing an appropriate relay node can improve the transmission rate for the system. However, such system improvement brought by the relay selection may be degraded with the presence of the malicious relay nodes, which are selected but refuse to cooperate for transmissions deliberately. In this paper, we formulate the relay selection issue as a restless bandit problem with the objective to maximize the average rate, while considering the credibility of each relay node, which may be different at each time instant. Then the optimization problem is solved by using the priority-index heuristic method effectively. Furthermore, a low complexity algorithm is offered in order to facilitate the practical implementations. Simulation results are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed trust-based relay selection scheme.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2011년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.310-313
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• 2011

Broadcasting nature of wireless communications makes it possible to apply opportunistic network coding (OPNC) by overhearing transmitted packets from a source to sink nodes. However, it is difficult to apply network coding to the topology of multiple relay and sink nodes. We propose to use relay node selection, which finds a proper node for network coding since the OPNC alone in the topology of multiple relays and sink nodes cannot guarantee network coding gain. The proposed system is a novel combination of wireless network coding and relay selection, which is a key contribution of this paper. In this paper, with the consideration of channel state and potential network coding gain, we propose relay node selection techniques, and show performance gain over the conventional OPNC and a channel-based selection algorithm in terms of average system throughput.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.108-110
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• 2015

본 논문은 Delay Tolerant Networks(DTN)에서 이동노드의 속도, 방향과 같은 속성정보를 활용하여 이동노드의 상황에 따른 최적의 중계노드를 선정하는 기법을 제안한다. 중계노드의 이동성에 의하여 데이터 패킷을 전달함으로써 목적노드와 상이한 이동성의 중계노드가 선정되면, 전송 지연시간 및 패킷 손실이 자주 발생하였다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 전송 지연시간 및 패킷 손실이 증가하는 문제를 극복하기 위해, 이동노드의 속성정보를 활용하여 중계노드를 선정하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 서로 다른 이동노드가 접근하면 서로의 속도, 방향과 같은 속성정보를 교환한다. 또한 이동노드의 속성정보를 통해 각 이동노드의 상황을 인지하고 분석함으로써 목적노드에게 효율적으로 데이터를 전달 할 수 있는 중계노드를 선정하게 된다. 주어진 모의 실험결과 이동 노드의 속성정보를 활용하여 중계노드를 선정함으로써 패킷 전송률 측면에서 기존의 연구결과보다 향상된 결과를 보여주었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.2831-2847
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• 2017

In this paper, a joint destination-relay selection and antenna mode selection scheme for full-duplex (FD) relay network is investigated, which consists of one source node, N FD amplify-and-forward (AF) relays and M destination nodes. Multiple antennas are configured at the source node, and beamforming technique is adopted. Two antennas are employed at each relay, one for receiving and the other for transmitting. Only one antenna is equipped at each destination node. In the proposed scheme, the best destination node is firstly selected according to the direct links between the source node and destination nodes. Then the transmit and receive mode of two antennas at each relay is adaptively selected based on the relaying link condition. Meanwhile, the best relay with the optimal Tx/Rx antenna configuration is selected to forward the signals. To characterize the performance of the proposed scheme, the closed-form expression of the outage probability is derived; meanwhile, the simple asymptotic expressions are also obtained. Our analysis shows that the proposed scheme obtains the benefits of multi-relay diversity and multi-destination diversity. Moreover, extra space diversity in the medium SNR region can be achieved due to the antenna selection at the relay. Finally, Monte-Carlo simulations are provided to consolidate the analytical results, and show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.2894-2909
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• 2015

As the number of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets explodes, the need for new services or applications is also rapidly increasing. Smart class application is one of the emerging applications, in which most of contents are distributed to all members of a class simultaneously. It is highly required to select relay nodes to cover shadow area of radio as well as extend coverage, but existing algorithms in a smart class environment suffer from high control packet overhead and delay for exchanging topology information among all pairs of nodes to select relay nodes. In addition, the relay selection procedure should be repeated in order to adapt to the dynamic topology changes caused by link status changes or device's movement. This paper proposes the learning based relay selection algorithm to overcome aforementioned problems. The key idea is that every node keeps track of its relay quality in a fully distributed manner, where RQI (Relay Quality Indicator) is newly defined to measure both the ability of receiving packets from content source and the ability of successfully relaying them to successors. The RQI of each node is updated whenever it receives or relays broadcast packet, and the node having the higher RQI is selected as a relay node in a distributed and run-time manner. Thus, the proposed algorithm not only removes the overhead for obtaining prior knowledge to select relay nodes, but also provides the adaptability to the dynamic topology changes. The network simulation and experimental results prove that the proposed algorithm provides efficient and reliable content distribution to all members in a smart class as well adaptability against network dynamics.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2013

Multi-hop cellular networks (MCNs), which reduce the transmit power, mitigate the inter-cell interference, and improve the system performance, have been widely studied nowadays. The relay selection scheme is a key technique that achieves these advantages, and inappropriate relay selection causes frequent relay switchings, which deteriorates the overall performance. In this study, we analyze the conditions for relay switching in MCNs and obtain the expressions for the relay switching rate and relay activation time. Two mobile-based relay selection schemes are proposed on the basis of this analysis. These schemes select the relay node with the longest relay activation time and minimal relay switching rate through mobility prediction of the mobile node requiring relay and available relay nodes. We compare the system performances via simulation and analyze the impact of various parameters on the system performance. The results show that the two proposed schemes can obtain a lower relay switching rate and longer relay activation time when there is no reduction in the system throughput as compared with the existing schemes.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권8A호
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• pp.769-774
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• 2006

선택결합을 갖는 협동 다이버시티 시스템의 성능을 만족시키는 연결노드의 전력제어 범위를 검토하였다. 그리고 전력제한이 있는 연결노드가 시스템의 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 레일레이 페이딩 하에서 각 경로의 평균 신호 대 잡음비가 동일할 경우, 연결노드가 하나이며 선택결합을 갖는 협동 다이버시티의 이득은 수신오율 $1{\times}10^{-3}$에서 13.5 dB 이다. 그리고 전력제한이 있는 연결노드는 시스템의 성능에 많은 영향이 있음을 알 수 있었다. 그러므로 ad-hoc 네트워크에서 전력제한이 있는 노드는 협동 다이버시티의 연결노드로 바람직하지 않다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 M 개의 전송 안테나를 가진 송신국(source)이 단일 안테나를 가진 R 개의 릴레이(relay)를 이용하여 단일 안테나를 가진 수신국(destination)에 신호를 전송하는 증폭 후 전달(amplify-and-forward, AF) 릴레이 시스템에서의 outage 확률 성능을 살펴본다. 이때, R 개의 릴레이 중에서 수신국에서의 수신 신호에 대한 가장 큰 신호 대 잡음비(signal-to-noise ratio, SNR)를 보장하는 하나의 릴레이를 선택하는 최적 릴레이 선택(best relay selection) 기법이 사용되고, 송신국과 선택된 릴레이 링크에서 송신 maximum-ratio-combining(transmit MRC)이 적용되었을 때의 AF 릴레이 시스템의 outage 확률을 분석한다. 또한, 분석의 타당성을 입증하기 위해 모의실험들을 제공한다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1238-1240
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• 2009

In the wireless sensor network, cooperative transmission is an effective technique to combat multi-path fading and reduce transmitted power. Relay selection and power allocation are important technical issues to determine the performance of cooperative transmission. In this paper, we proposed a new multi-relay selection and power allocation algorithm to increase network lifetime. The proposed relay selection scheme minimizes the transmitted power and increase the network lifetime by considering residual power as well as channel conditions. Simulation results show that proposed algorithm obtains much longer network lifetime than the conventional algorithm.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 다수의 중계기가 존재하는 복호 후 재전송 기반의 협력 통신 시스템에서 부분적인 중계기 선택 기법을 사용 했을 때의 보안 불능 확률을 연구한다. 수신 노드와 도청 노드는 각각 송신 노드와 중계 노드 모두에서 신호를 수신한다고 가정한다. 수신된 두 신호는 MRC 기법을 사용하여 다이버시티 이득을 얻는데 이용된다. 본 논문에서는 다수의 중계기가 존재하는 시스템의 보안 불능 확률 식을 계산하고, 그 식이 타당한지 증명하기 위해서 이론값과 모의실험 결과값을 비교한다. 중계기의 수에 따라 보안 불능 확률이 어떻게 변하는지를 모의실험 결과를 통해 도출한다.