• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.862-869
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• 2013

In order to support a cell-independent traffic asymmetry, the conventional TDD system cannot avoid crossed time slot (CTS) interference. Moreover, the TDD/FDD hierarchical overlay cellular systems is taken into account as a generally accepted cell model in a heterogeneous radio environment. In this paper, we propose an interference resolving radio resource allocation technique in a TDD-OFDMA cellular system that overlays a FDD-CDMA cell. In our proposed scheme, we exploit under-used FDD-CDMA uplink resource by TDD mobile abiding by a region based time slot(TS) allocation which in turn mitigates CTS interference considerably. It is demonstrated that combined with under-used resource utilization scheme based on mobile's location, the proposed technique can reduce CTS interference considerably and support the asymmetric traffic in TDD system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.508-522
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• 2011

Femtocell is an economical solution to provide high speed indoor communication instead of the conventional macro-cellular networks. Especially, OFDMA femtocell is considered in the next generation cellular network such as 3GPP LTE and mobile WiMAX system. Although the femtocell has great advantages to accommodate indoor users, interference management problem is a critical issue to operate femtocell network. Existing OFDMA resource management algorithms only consider optimizing system-centric metric, and cannot manage the co-channel interference. Moreover, it is hard to cooperate with other femtocells to control the interference, since the self-configurable characteristics of femtocell. This paper proposes a novel interference-aware resource allocation algorithm for OFDMA femtocell networks. The proposed algorithm allocates resources according to a new objective function which reflects the effect of interference, and the heuristic algorithm is also introduced to reduce the complexity of the original problem. The Monte-Carlo simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm compared to the existing solutions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권9호
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• pp.2153-2169
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• 2012

Femtocells provide high quality indoor communications with low transmit power. However, when femtocells are applied in cellular systems, a co-channel interference problem between macrocells and femtocells occurs because femtocells use the same spectrum as do the macrocells. To solve the co-channel interference problem, a previous study suggested a resource allocation scheme in LTE cellular systems using FFR. However, this conventional resource allocation scheme still has interference problems between macrocells and femtocells near the boundary of the sub-areas. In this paper, we define an optimization problem for resource allocation to femtocells and propose a femtocell resource allocation scheme to solve the optimization problem and the interference problems of the conventional scheme. The evaluation of the proposed scheme is conducted by System Level Simulation while varying the simulation environments. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme is superior to the conventional scheme and that it improves the overall performance of cellular systems.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.252-256
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• 2012

We consider resource allocation in femto-cell networks to maximize the throughput while minimizing interference to macro-users nearby. This can be achieved by allocating spectrum resource in a cognitive radio way. The proposed resource allocation is performed in two steps; spectrum sensing and resource scheduling. The femto base station detects idle frequency assignments (FAs) free from the occupation by macro-users and then allocates sub-channels in an idle FA to femto-users, effectively managing the interference problem. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by computer simulations.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.519-527
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• 2014

An integrated multi-beam satellite and multi-cell terrestrial system is an attractive means for highly efficient communication due to the fact that the two components (satellite and terrestrial) make the most of each other's resources. In this paper, a terrestrial component reuses a satellite's resources under the control of the satellite's network management system. This allows the resource allocation for the satellite and terrestrial components to be coordinated to optimize spectral efficiency and increase overall system capacity. In such a system, the satellite resources reused in the terrestrial component may bring about severe interference, which is one of the main factors affecting system capacity. Under this consideration, the objective of this paper is to achieve an optimized resource allocation in both components in such a way as to minimize any resulting inter-component interference. The objective of the proposed scheme is to mitigate this inter-component interference by optimizing the total transmission power - the result of which can lead to an increase in capacity. The simulation results in this paper illustrate that the proposed scheme affords a more energy-efficient system to be implemented, compared to a conventional power management scheme, by allocating the bandwidth uniformly regardless of the amount of interference or traffic demand.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 멀티 홉 릴레이 네트워크에서 기지국(base station), 중계국(relay station)과 각 단말(mobile station)간의 전송률(throughput)을 향상시킬 수 있는 자원 할당 방법과 간섭을 겪는 단말들의 간섭을 최소화하여 모든 단말의 전송률을 보장하는 방법을 제안하고 있다. 멀티 홉 릴레이 시스템에서 기지국과 릴레이가 주파수 자원을 공유할 수 있으므로 간섭에 취약한 단말들이 생길 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 각 단말의 신호대 잡음 간섭 비(signal to interference plus noise ratio)를 이용하여 엑세스 영역(access zone)과 릴레이 영역(relay zone)의 경계를 동적으로 조절하는 기법과 함께 간섭에 취약한 단말을 분류하고 이를 관리하는 기법을 제안한다. 성능 평가를 통해 제안하는 기법이 무선자원 사용의 효율성을 향상하고 각 단말들의 공평성을 보장하며 네트워크 전체 성능을 향상시키는 것을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.5800-5818
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• 2018

Interference may occur when several co-located wireless body area networks (WBANs) share the same channel simultaneously, which is compressed by resource scheduling generally. In this paper, a QoS-aware Adaptive Coloring (QAC) scheduling algorithm is proposed, which contains two components: interference sets determination and time slots assignment. The highlight of QAC is to determine the interference graph based on the relay scheme and adapted to the network QoS by multi-coloring approach. However, the frequent resource assignment brings in extra energy consumption and packet loss. Thus we come up with a launch condition for the QAC scheduling algorithm, that is if the interference duration is longer than a threshold predetermined, time slots rescheduling is activated. Furthermore, based on the relative distance and moving speed between WBANs, a prediction model for interference duration is proposed. The simulation results show that compared with the state-of-the-art approaches, the QAC scheduling algorithm has better performance in terms of network capacity, average delay and resource utility.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1471-1488
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• 2018

Interference mitigation is a significant issue in the cognitive heterogeneous networks, this paper studied how to reduce the interference to macrocell users (MU) and improve system throughput. Establish the interference model with imperfect spectrum sensing by analyzing the source of interference complexity. Based on the user topology, the optimize problem was built to maximize the downlink throughput under given interference constraint and the total power constraint. We decompose the resource allocation problem into subcarrier allocation and power allocation. In the subcarrier assignment step, the allocated number of subcarriers satisfies the requirement of the femtocell users (FU).Then, we designed the power allocation algorithm based on the Lagrange multiplier method and the improved water filling method. Simulation results and performance analyses show that the proposed algorithm causes less interference to MU than the algorithm without considering imperfect spectrum sensing, and the system achieves better throughput performance.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권12A호
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• pp.1191-1199
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• 2008

주파수 재사용도 K = 1을 사용하는 셀룰러 OFDMA 시스템에서 셀 경계 사용자의 동일 채널 간섭에 의한 수율 저하 문제를 완화하기 위한 대역 분산적 자원 할당 알고리즘을 제안하고, 이에 따른 성능 향상 효과를 분석한다. 본 논문에서 고려한 대역 분산적 자원 할당 알고리즘은 셀 내의 사용자를 경로 감쇄 순서로 내림차순으로 정렬한 후에 각 셀마다 다르게 미리 정해져 있는 자원 할당 영역부터 자원을 할당한다. 셀마다 다른 시간과 공간적인 영역에서 자원 할당을 시작하도록 되어 있으므로 셀 경계의 사용자부터 셀 중앙의 사용자들까지 셀 내 특정위치의 사용자를 특정 시간대에 배치하여 셀 경계 사용자들이 동시에 같은 자원을 사용하여 간섭이 매우 커지는 경우를 미리 방지하고 셀 내의 사용자들에게 간섭이 평준화되어 고르게 영향을 받도록 한다. 이러한 대역 분산적 자원 할당 방식을 사용하여 셀 경계 사용자의 전송률과 outage 성능이 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.159-167
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• 2012

In this paper, a new distributed resource allocation algorithm is proposed to alleviate the cross-tier interference for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access macrocell and femtocell overlay. Specifically, the resource allocation problem is modeled as a non-cooperative game. Based on game theory, we propose an iterative algorithm between subchannel and power allocation called distributed resource allocation which requires no coordination among the two-hierarchy networks. Finally, a macrocell link quality protection process is proposed to guarantee the macrocell UE's quality of service to avoid severe cross-tier interference from femtocells. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve remarkable performance gains as compared to the pure waterfilling algorithm.