• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.362-369
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• 2013

The optimal number of users achieving the maximum sum throughput is analyzed in zero-forcing (ZF) based multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a large number of base station (BS) antennas. By utilizing deterministic ergodic sum rates for the ZF-beam forming (ZF-BF) and ZF-receiver (ZF-R) with a large number of BS antennas [1], [2], we can obtain the ergodic sum throughputs for the ZF-BF and ZF-R for the uplink and downlink frame structures, respectively. Then, we can also formulate and solve the optimization problems maximizing the ergodic sum throughputs with respect to the number of users. This paper shows that the approximate downlink sum throughput for the ZF-BF is a concave function and the approximate uplink sum throughput for the ZF-R is also a concave function in a feasible range with respect to the number of users. The simulation results verify the analyses and show that the derived numbers of users provide the maximum sum throughputs for the ZF-BF as well as ZF-R in multiuser MIMO systems with a large number of BS antennas.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.151-161
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• 2012

This paper considers a two-user Gaussian interference channel with energy harvesting transmitters. Different than conventional battery powered wireless nodes, energy harvesting transmitters have to adapt transmission to availability of energy at a particular instant. In this setting, the optimal power allocation problem to maximize the sum throughput with a given deadline is formulated. The convergence of the proposed iterative coordinate descent method for the problem is proved and the short-term throughput maximizing offline power allocation policy is found. Examples for interference regions with known sum capacities are given with directional water-filling interpretations. Next, stochastic data arrivals are addressed. Finally, online and/or distributed near-optimal policies are proposed. Performance of the proposed algorithms are demonstrated through simulations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.2607-2625
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• 2014

Previous studies on multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mostly assume a homogeneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), where each user has the same average SNR. However, real networks are more likely to feature heterogeneous SNRs (a random-valued average SNR). Motivated by this fact, we analyze a multiuser MIMO downlink with a zero-forcing (ZF) receiver in a heterogeneous SNR environment. A transmitter with Mantennas constructs M orthonormal beams and performs the SNR-based proportional fairness (S-PF) scheduling where data are transmitted to users each with the highest ratio of the SNR to the average SNR per beam. We develop a new analytical expression for the sum throughput of the multiuser MIMO system. Furthermore, simply modifying the expression provides the sum throughput for important special cases such as homogeneous SNR, max-rate scheduling, or high SNR. From the analysis, we obtain new insights (lemmas): i) S-PF scheduling maximizes the sum throughput in the homogeneous SNR and ii) under high SNR and a large number of users, S-PF scheduling yields the same multiuser diversity for both heterogeneous SNRs and homogeneous SNRs. Numerical simulation shows the interesting result that the sum throughput is not always proportional to M for a small number of users.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.124-129
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• 2009

Although the maximum sum-rate capacity of multiple-input multiple output(MIMO) broadcast channels(BCs) can be achieved by dirty-paper coding(DPC), the results were obtained without fairness considerations in uncorrelated MIMO channels. In this paper, we propose new multiuser scheduling algorithms, which find a best user set for approaching the maximum sum-rate capacity while maintaining fairness among users. We analyze the performance of the proposed algorithms using zero-forcing dirty paper coding(ZF-DPC) in the correlated MIMO BCs for throughput and delay fairness, respectively. Numerical results demonstrate that a large time window can reduce the average throughput difference between users, but it increases head-of-line(HOL) delay jitters in the case of delay fairness.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권2A호
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• pp.121-127
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• 2010

이 논문에서는 다중 사용자 무선통신 환경에서 전송률-형평성 트레이드오프를 임의로 제어할 수 있는 계산이 효율적인 전송률-형평성 제어 스케줄링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안되는 스케줄링 기준은 최대의 전송률 합을 추구하는 스케줄링 기준과 최대의 형평성을 추구하는 스케줄링 기준을 제어 인자에 따라 전송률과 형평성을 조정할 수 있도록 선형적으로 결합한다. 이때, 선형 결합을 통한 전송률-형평성 트레이드오프 제어를 위하여 스케줄링 기준의 단위와 최적화 방향을 일치시키는 것이 필요하다. 제안된 알고리즘은 이러한 조건들을 만족시키기 위하여 순시 전송률과 평균 제공 전송률을 스케줄링 기준으로 결정하고, 이들을 제어 인자를 사용하여 최적화 방향이 일치하도록 선형적으로 결합하여 제어 인자 값에 따라 다양한 전송률형평성 성능을 제공할 수 있도록 한다. 추가적인 계산 간소화를 위하여 순시 전송률에 대한 높은 SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) 근사화 관계를 이용한다. 모의 실험을 통하여 독립적인 레일리 페이딩 다중 사용자 채널에서 제안된 스케줄링 알고리즘에 대하여 제어 인자 값에 따른 전송률과 형평성 성능을 분석하였고, 순시 전송률의 높은 SNR 근사화 관계를 이용한 성능 분석도 이루어졌다. 모의실험 결과, 제안된 스케줄링 알고리즘은 최대 전송률을 추구하는 스케줄링과 최대 형평성을 추구하는 스케줄링 사이에서 전송률-형평성 성능을 임의로 조절할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었고, 근사화 결과도 만족스러운 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.3012-3028
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a joint power control strategy for both the uplink and downlink transmission by considering the energy requirements of the user equipments' uplink data transmissions in data and energy integrated communication networks (DEINs). In DEINs, the base station (BS) adopts the power splitting (PS) aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technique in the downlink (DL) transmissions, while the user equipments (UEs) carry out their own uplink (UL) transmissions by exploiting the energy harvested during the BS's DL transmissions. In our DEIN model, there are M UEs served by the BS in order to fulfil both of their DL and UL transmissions. The orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique is adopted for supporting the simultaneous transmissions of multiple UEs. Furthermore, a transmission frame is divided into N time slots in the medium access control (MAC) layer. The mathematical model is established for maximizing the sum-throughput of the UEs' DL transmissions and for ensuring their fairness during a single transmission frame T, respectively. In order to achieve these goals, in each transmission frame T, we optimally allocate the BS's power for each subcarrier and the PS factor for each UE during a specific time slot. The original optimisation problems are transformed into convex forms, which can be perfectly solved by convex optimisation theories. Our numerical results compare the optimal results by conceiving the objective of maximising the sum-throughput and those by conceiving the objective of maximising the fair-throughput. Furthermore, our numerical results also reveal the inherent tradeoff between the DL and the UL transmissions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.2626-2646
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• 2014

This study presents a power and Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) joint allocation algorithm to coordinate uplink (UL) interference in the device-to-device (D2D) underlaying Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) networks. The objective is to find a mechanism to mitigate the UL interference between the two subsystems and maximize the weighted sum throughput as well. This optimization problem is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) which is further decomposed into PRBs assignment and transmission power allocation. Specifically, the scenario of applying imperfect channel state information (CSI) is also taken into account in our study. Analysis reveals that the proposed PRBs allocation strategy is energy efficient and it suppresses the interference not only suffered by the LTE-A system but also to the D2D users. In another side, a low-complexity technique is proposed to obtain the optimal power allocation which resides in one of at most three feasible power vectors. Simulations show that the optimal power allocation combined with the proposed PRBs assignment achieves a higher weighted sum throughput as compared to traditional algorithms even when imperfect CSI is utilized.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.3237-3256
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• 2012

In the context of effective usage of a scarce spectrum resource, emerging wireless communication standards will demand spectrum sharing with existing systems as well as multiple access with higher spectral efficiency. We mathematically analyze the sum throughput of a spectrum sharing space-division multiple access (SDMA) system, which forms a transmit null in the direction of other coexisting systems while satisfying orthogonal beamforming constraints. For a large number of users N, the SDMA throughput scales as log N at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) ((J-1) loglog N at normal SNR), where J is the number of transmit antennas. This indicates that multiplexing gain of the spectrum sharing SDMA is $\frac{J-1}{J}$ times less than that of the non-spectrum sharing SDMA only using orthogonal beamforming, whereas no loss in multiuser diversity gain. Although the spectrum sharing SDMA always has lower throughput compared to the non-spectrum sharing SDMA in the non-coexistence scenario, it offers an intriguing opportunity to reuse spectrum already allocated to other coexisting systems.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.48-58
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• 2016

본 논문은 GF(64) (160,80) 정규 (2,4) 비이진 LDPC 코드 복호기를 위한 높은 처리량의 병렬 아키텍처를 제안한다. 복호기의 복잡도를 낮추기 위해 체크 노드와 변수 노드의 차수가 작은 코드를 사용하며 뛰어난 에러 정정 성능을 위해 높은 위수의 유한체에서 정의된 코드를 사용한다. 본 논문은 Fully-parallel 아키텍처를 설계하고 체크 노드와 변수 노드를 interleaving하여 복호기의 데이터 처리량을 향상시켰다. 또한 체크 노드의 초기화 지연을 단축시킬 수 있는 조기 분류 기법을 제안하여 데이터 처리량을 추가로 향상시켰다. 제안된 복호기는 1 iteration에 37사이클이 소요되며 625MHz 동작주파수에서 1402Mbps의 데이터 처리량을 갖는다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권5A호
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• pp.387-393
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 WiBro 시스템의 특징을 바탕으로 데이터 트래픽의 수율을 최대로 유지 할 수 있도록 기존 방법을 개선한 부하 제어 방법을 제안하고 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 성능을 평가한다. 송신단에서 단위 사용자당 최대 할당 가능한 전력이 주어졌을 때, 송출 가능한 전력범위 내에서 최대의 수율을 갖도록 각 부반송파에 데이터 비트를 할당하는 알고리즘을 바탕으로 WiBro 시스템의 전체 수율(throughput)과 데이터 트래픽 관점에서 시스템의 수율을 고려하였다. 제안하는 방안의 평가를 위해 사용된 시스템의 파라메터로 WiBro시스템의 규격값들을 사용한다. 현재 시스템의 부하제어 절차로는 접속과다로 인한 대역폭 요구(bandwidth request)의 증가로 인하여 과부하 상태에 이를 때 시그널링 트래픽으로 인하여 데이터의 수율이 급격히 감소하며 접속지연이 매우 증가하게 된다. 이러한 현상을 막을 수 있는 부하 제어 방법을 제안하고 다중 사용자 환경에서 시뮬레이션을 통하여 평가한다.