• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권9호
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• pp.1164-1170
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• 2020

In this paper, we consider the wireless-powered backscatter communication which consists of a power beacon, a source, a relay, and a destination. For the proposed wireless-powered backscatter communication, the source transmits its signals to both the relay and the destination via a backscattering channel and the relay which has a rechargeable battery performs an energy harvesting as well as an information forwarding based on the time switching relay (TSR) protocol. Based on the decode-and-forward (DF) relay transmission, we investigate performances of the proposed system in terms of outage probability and transmission rate in which the exact performance analysis of outage probability is given. Finally, some numerical examples are given to verify our provided analytical results for different system conditions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.3321-3341
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• 2014

This paper investigates the outage performance and optimization for the four-phase two-way transmission network with an energy harvesting (EH) relay. To enable the simultaneous information processing and energy harvesting at the relay, we firstly propose a power splitting-based two-way relaying protocol (PSTWR). Then, we discuss its outage performance theoretically and derive an explicit expression for the system outage probability. In order to find the optimal system configuration parameters such as the optimal power splitting ratio and the optimal transmit power redistribution factor, we formulate an outage-minimized optimization problem. As the problem is difficult to solve, we design a genetic algorithm (GA) based algorithm for it. Besides, we also investigate the effects of the power splitting ratio, the power redistribution factor at the relay, and the source to relay distance on the system outage performance. Finally, extensive simulation results are provided to demonstrate the accuracy of the analytical results and the effectiveness of the GA-based algorithm. Moreover, it is also shown that, the relay position greatly affects the system performance, where relatively worse outage performance is achieved when the EH relay is placed in the middle of the two sources.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.3412-3431
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• 2015

This paper considers the effect of co-channel interference on hybrid satellite-terrestrial relay network. In particular, we investigate the problem of amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying in hybrid satellite-terrestrial link, where the relay is interfered by multiple co-channel interferers. The direct link between satellite and terrestrial destination is not available due to masking by surroundings. The destination node can only receive signals from satellite with the assistance of a relay node situated at ground. The satellite-relay link is assumed to follow the shadowed Rice fading, while the channels of interferer-relay and relay-destination links experience Nakagami-m fading. For the considered AF relaying scheme, we first derive the analytical expression for the moment generating function (MGF) of the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). Then, we use the obtained MGF to derive the average symbol error rate (SER) of the considered scenario for M-ary phase shift keying (M-PSK) constellation under these generalized fading channels.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.118-127
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• 2007

We propose a link adaptation and selection method for the links constituting an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless relay network. The proposed link adaptation and selection method selects the forwarding, modulation, and channel coding schemes providing the highest end-to-end throughput and decides whether to use the relay or not. The link adaptation and selection is done for each sub-channel based on instantaneous signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) conditions in the source-to-destination, source-to-relay and relay-to-destination links. The considered forwarding schemes are amplify and forward (AF) and simple adaptive decode and forward (DF). Efficient adaptive modulation and coding decision rules are provided for various relaying schemes. The proposed end-to-end link adaptation and selection method ensures that the end-to-end throughput is always larger than or equal to that of transmissions without relay and non-adaptive relayed transmissions. Our evaluations show that over the region where relaying improves the end-to-end throughput, the DF scheme provides significant throughput gain over the AF scheme provided that the error propagation is avoided via error detection techniques. We provide a frame structure to enable the proposed link adaptation and selection method for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-time division duplex relay networks based on the IEEE 802.16e standard.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.3008-3028
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• 2022

In this paper, we investigate traffic scheduling for a delay-sensitive multi-hop relay network, and aim to minimize the priority-based end-to-end delay of different data packet via joint relay selection, subcarrier assignment, and power allocation. We first derive the priority-based end-to-end delay based on queueing theory, and then propose a two-step method to decompose the original optimization problem into two sub-problems. For the joint subcarrier assignment and power control problem, we utilize an efficient particle swarm optimization method to solve it. For the relay selection problem, we prove its convexity and use the standard Lagrange method to deal with it. The joint relay selection, subcarriers assignment and transmission power allocation problem for each hop can also be solved by an exhaustive search over a finite set defined by the relay sensor set and available subcarrier set. Simulation results show that both the proposed routing scheme and the resource allocation scheme can reduce the average end-to-end delay.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.377-384
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• 2011

Cooperative beamforming has previously been proven to be an efficient way to improve the cooperative diversity. This method generally requires all relay nodes to participate in beamforming, which can be seen as "all participate" cooperative beamforming. However, not all relay nodes have constructive impacts on the end-to-end bit error rate (BER) performance. Based on this observation, we propose a new cooperative scheme which only selects those "appropriate" relay nodes to perform cooperative beamforming. Such relay nodes can be simply determined with mean channel gains. Therefore, the selection complexity is significantly reduced as global instantaneous channel state information is not required. This scheme guarantees that energy is only allocated to the "appropriate" relay nodes, and hence provides superior diversity. We also prove that power allocation among source and selected relay nodes is a convex problem, and can be resolved with lower computational complexity. Simulation results demonstrate that our scheme achieves an essential improvement in terms of BER performance for both optimal and limited feedback scenarios, as well as high energy-efficiency for the energy-constrained networks.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권3B호
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• pp.304-310
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 OFDMA 기반 relay 시스템에서 사용자에게 VoIP 서비스를 제공할 경우, relay station (RS)의 capability에 따른 시스템의 성능 차이를 분석하였다. Relay 시스템은, relay의 스케줄링 수행 여부에 따라 mid-capability (MC)와 high-capability (HC) relay를 적용한 시스템으로 구분할 수 있다. HC relay를 적용한 시스템의 경우, base station (BS) 뿐만 아니라 RS도 직접 스케줄링을 수행한다. 반면에 MC relay를 적용한 시스템의 경우, 각 RS로부터 mobile station (MS) 들의 수신 SINR, 발생 traffic양 등의 정보를 BS에서 수집하여, BS가 단독으로 스케줄링을 수행한다. 이 경우 MS의 정보 수집 및 RS로의 스케줄링 정보 전달을 위해 control 오버헤드는 커지지만, BS가 모든 MS에 대한 정보를 알고 있으므로 효율적인 자원 할당 및 스케줄링이 가능하다. 따라서 RS의 capability에 따라 전체 시스템의 성능이 달라질 수 있고, 이에 대한 분석이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 모의 실험을 통해 VoIP traffic 환경에서 RS의 capability에 따른 평균 packet delay, good packet ratio, cell goodput 등을 도출하였다. 선정한 VoIP 성능 지표에 의하면, MC relay를 적용한 시스템이 HC relay를 적용한 시스템에 비해 성능이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.287-292
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 사용자들의 밀집도 정보를 기반으로 설정된 목표지역과 릴레이 단말의 수를 제한한 환경에서 광고 확산을 위한 최대 거리 기반 릴레이 단말 선택 알고리즘과 최대 효율 기반 릴레이 단말 선택 알고리즘의 성능을 비교 분석하였다. 최대 거리 기반 릴레이 단말 선택 알고리즘은 단말간의 거리 정보만을 이용하여 릴레이 단말을 선택하고, 최대 효율 기반 릴레이 단말 선택 알고리즘은 설정된 목표지역들을 활용하여 최대 광고 효율을 위한 광고 확산 루트를 설정하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 광고를 섹터 수의 변화에 따른 성공적으로 수신한 전체 사용자 수와 전송 효율에 대한 성능을 비교하여, 최대 거리 기반 릴레이 단말 선택 알고리즘 보다 최대 효율 기반 릴레이 단말 선택 알고리즘 성능의 우수성에 대해 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.3524-3542
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• 2017

In a single-source and multi-relay amplify-forward (AF) cooperative network, the outage probability and the power allocation are two key factors to influence the performance of an entire system. In this paper, an optimized AF relay selection by an exclusive method and near optimal power allocation (NOPA) is proposed for both good outage probability and power efficiency. Given the same power at the source and the relay nodes, a threshold for selecting the relay nodes is deduced and employed to minimize the average outage probability. It mainly excludes the relay nodes with much higher thresholds over the aforementioned threshold and thus the remainders of the relay nodes participate in cooperative forwarding efficiently. So the proposed scheme can improve the utility of the resources in the cooperative multi-relay system, as well as reduce the computational complexity. In addition, based on the proposed scheme, a NOPA is also suggested to approach sub-optimal power efficiency with low complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme obtains about 2.1dB and 5.8dB performance gain at outage probability of $10^{-4}$, when compared with the all-relay-forward (6 participated relays) and the single-relay-forward schemes. Furthermore, it obtains the minimum outage probability among all selective relay schemes with the same number of the relays. Meanwhile, it approaches closely to the optimal exhaustive scheme, thus reduce much complexity. Moreover, the proposed NOPA scheme achieves better outage probability than those of the equal power allocation schemes. Therefore, the proposed scheme can obtain good outage probability, low computational complexity and high power efficiency, which makes it pragmatic efficiently in the single-source and multi-relay AF based cooperative networks.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.392-398
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 사용자와 중계기 간의 채널 환경을 고려하여 동작하는 적응형 양방향 중계기 협력 통신을 제안하며, 오수신 확률을 분석한다. 네트워크 부호화를 이용한 양방향 중계기 통신은 기존의 통신보다 시간 슬롯을 줄여 높은 전송량을 얻을 수 있다. 하지만 기존의 양방향 중계기 통신은 중계기에서 수신 신호를 올바르게 복호한다는 가정을 하며, 만약 사용자와 중계기의 채널 환경이 열악한 경우에는 오류를 발생한다. 본 논문에서 는 사용자 A가 사용자 B와 중계기 R에게 신호를 전송하며, 중계기는 복호 유무에 따라 유동적으로 동작하는 적응형 양방향 중계기 협력 통신을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안한 적응형 양방향 중계기 협력 통신이 사용자와 중계기의 채널 환경이 열악한 경우 높은 성능을 얻으며, 또한 다이버시티 이득을 얻을 수 있음을 보인다.