• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권10A호
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• pp.972-979
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• 2008

양방향 중계 채널 (two-way relay channel)은 2개의 단말이 중계기 (relay)의 도움을 받아 양방향의 정보를 주고 받는 협력 통신 (cooperative communication) 채널이다. 기존의 협력 통신에서는 중계기가 시간 또는 주파수 자원을 나누어 양방향으로 신호를 송신하지만, 네트워크 부호화 (network coding)를 사용한 양방향 중계 채널에서는 중계기가 동일 자원을 사용하여 두 단말로 신호를 동시에 송신하므로 기존 기법보다 높은 통신용량을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 ARQ환경에서 네트워크 부호화를 사용한 헙력통신 프로토콜을 보이고, 이를 스테이트 다이어그램 (state diagram) 을 이용하여 성능을 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.389-405
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• 2014

Outdated Channel State Information (CSI) was proved to have negative effect on performance in two-way relay networks. The diversity order of widely used opportunistic relay selection (ORS) was degraded to unity in networks with outdated CSI. This paper proposed a multiple relay selection scheme for amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way relay networks (TWRN) with outdated CSI. In this scheme, two sources exchange information through more than one relays. We firstly select N best relays out of all candidate relays with respect to signal-noise ratio (SNR). Then, the ratios of the SNRs on the rest of the candidate relays to that of the Nth highest SNR are tested against a normalized threshold ${\mu}{\in}[0,1]$, and only those relays passing this test are selected in addition to the N best relays. Expressions of outage probability, average bit error rate (BER) and ergodic channel capacity were obtained in closed-form for the proposed scheme. Numerical results and Simulations verified our theoretical analyses, and showed that the proposed scheme had significant gains comparing with conventional ORS.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4432-4450
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• 2014

It is widely observed that in practical wireless cooperative communication systems, different links may experience different fading characteristics. In this paper, we investigate into the outage probability and channel capacity of two-way amplify-and-forward (TWAF) relaying systems operating over a mixed asymmetric Rician and Rayleigh fading scenario, with different amplification policies (AP) adopted at the relay, respectively. As TWAF relay network carries concurrent traffics towards two opposite directions, both end-to-end and overall performance metrics were considered. In detail, both uniform exact expressions and simplified asymptotic expressions for the end-to-end outage probability (OP) were presented, based on which the system overall OP was studied under the condition of the two source nodes having non-identical traffic requirements. Furthermore, exact expressions for tight lower bounds as well as high SNR approximations of channel capacity of the considered scenario were presented. For both OP and channel capacity, with different APs, effective power allocation (PA) schemes under different constraints were given to optimize the system performance. Extensive simulations were carried out to verify the analytical results and to demonstrate the impact of channel asymmetry on the system performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.3409-3422
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• 2014

The frequency spectrum available for the wireless communication is extremely crowded. In order to improve the spectral efficiency, the two-way relay networks have aroused great attention. A simple $N^{th}$ best-relay selection criterion for the opportunistic two-way relay networks is proposed, which can be implemented easily by extending the distributed timer technique in practice, since the proposed criterion is mainly based on the channel gains. The outage performance of the proposed relay selection scheme is analyzed under the outdated channel state information (CSI), and a tight closed-form lower bound and asymptotic value of the outage probability over Rayleigh fading channels are obtained. Simulation results demonstrate that the tight closed-form lower bound of the outage probability very closely matches with simulated ones in the whole SNR region, and the asymptotic results provide good tight approximations to the simulation ones, especially in the high SNR region.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1355-1359
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• 2004

The two way subscriber transmission systems have tendency to spread its carrier frequency bandwidth or information bit rate and average bit error rate according to popularization of high speed information through the digital communication system, transmission medium and the Internet. This fact is an important incentive to realize new systems. These two way subscriber transmission systems usually use same cable or same carrier frequency bandwidth for up stream channel and down stream channel. In the systems, the disturbances of noise, crosstalk or fading affect the characteristics. Specifically, these disturbances cause the decrease of information bit rate and degradation of transmission quality. This paper proposes the improved method of their degradations using the particular feature of two way subscriber transmission systems and it makes clear proposed method is effective by theoretically and some numerical examples.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.371-383
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• 2008

Application of network coding in wireless two-way relay channels (TWRC) has received much attention recently because its ability to improve throughput significantly. In traditional designs, network coding operates at upper layers above (including) the link layer and it requires the input packets to be correctly decoded. However, this requirement may limit the performance and application of network coding due to the unavoidable fading and noise in wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a new wireless network coding scheme for TWRC, which is referred to as soft network coding (SoftNC), where the relay nodes applies symbol-by-symbol soft decisions on the received signals from the two end nodes to come up with the network coded information to be forwarded. We do not assume further channel coding on top of SoftNC at the relay node (channel coding is assumed at the end nodes). According to measures of the soft information adopted, two kinds of SoftNC are proposed: amplify-and-forward SoftNC (AF-SoftNC) and soft-bit-forward SoftNC (SBF-SoftNC). We analyze the both the ergodic capacity and the outage capacity of the two SoftNC schemes. Specifically, analytical form approximations of the ergodic capacity and the outage capacity of the two schemes are given and validated. Numerical simulation shows that our SoftNC schemes can outperform the traditional network coding based two-way relay protocol, where channel decoding and re-encoding are used at the relay node. Notable is the fact that performance improvement is achieved using only simple symbol-level operations at the relay node.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.3589-3605
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• 2018

In this paper, we investigate an individual channel estimation problem for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) two-way amplify-and-forward (AF) relay networks. To avoid self-interference during the estimation of the individual MIMO channels, a novel blind interference cancellation (BIC) approach is proposed based on an orthogonal preceding framework, where a pair of orthogonal precoding matrices is utilized at the source nodes. By designing an optimal decoding scheme, we propose to decompose the bidirectional transmission into a pair of unidirectional transmissions. Unlike most existing approaches, we make the practical assumption that the nonreciprocal MIMO channel and the mutual interference of multiple antennas are both taken into consideration. Under the precoding framework, we employ an orthogonal superimposed training strategy to obtain the individual MIMO channels. However, the AF strategy causes the noise at the terminal to be the sum of the local noise and the relay-propagated noise. To remove the relay-propagated noise during the estimation of the second-hop channel, a partial noise-nulling method is designed. We also derive a closed-form expression for the total mean square error (MSE) of the MIMO channel from which we compute the optimal power allocation. The simulation results demonstrate that the analytical and simulated curves match fully.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.351-363
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• 2016

This paper investigates the performance of interference-limited two-way transmission protocols in the Rayleigh fading channels. New lower bound of outage probability and approximate expression of bit error rate (BER) for three-phase two-way relaying (3P-TWR) protocol are derived in closed-form. These expressions are valid for arbitrary signal-to-noise ratio values, numbers of co-channel interferers and amajority of modulation formats employed in the practical system. Then a comparative study is developed for the performance of three two-way transmission protocols, i.e., direct transmission (DT) protocol, two-phase two-way relaying (2P-TWR) protocol and 3P-TWR protocol based on the asymptotic expressions of outage probability and BER. On the basis of the theoretical results, the thresholds on the strength (variance) of direct channel and target rate for the relative performance of different protocols are obtained and the effect of interferences at the terminal and relay on the relative performance is analyzed. The results present key insights on how to choose proper two-way transmission protocol with the knowledge of fading channels, required date rate and modulation format to optimize the system performance in the practical interference-limited scenarios. Simulation results are presented to validate the theoretical analysis.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.134-143
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 양방향 다중 중계기 채널(two-way multiple relay channel)에서의 중계기 선택 기법을 제안한다. 양방향 다중 중계기 채널에서는 2명의 사용자가 다수의 중계기의 도움을 받아 서로 정보를 주고받는다. 단방향 중계 채널에서와 같이 중계기는 복호화 재전송 프로토콜 또는 증폭 재전송 프로토콜을 기반으로 정보를 중계하며, 정보 전송에 필요한 채널 자원을 줄이기 위해 정보의 결합 과정을 추가로 적용한다. 특히, 중계기가 다수인 환경에서는 정보 전송 경로의 수가 증가함으로 인해 다이버시티 이득이 증가한다는 것이 알려져 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 다수의 중계기 중 채널 조건을 바탕으로 가장 좋은 중계기를 선택하는 기법을 제안하고 이를 통해 다이버시티 이득의 향상을 확인한다. 우선, 중계기들은 핸드셰이킹(handshaking) 과정을 이용하여 채널 정보의 크기를 얻고, 이를 바탕으로 데이터의 전송이 이루어지기 전에 분산된 방식으로 최적의 중계기 선택이 이루어진다. 중계기 선택 기준은 각각의 사용자와 중계기 간 일시적 채널 이득을 바탕으로 사용자-사용자 간(end-to-end) 경로 조건의 최대값을 계산하는 메트릭(metric)을 사용한다. 또한, 전송량을 계산하기 위해 자동반복요구(automatic repeat request, ARQ)를 사용한 알고리즘을 제안하고, 이를 통해 전송량을 분석한다. 모의실험을 통해, 제안된 중계기 선택 기법은 사용 가능한 중계기의 수가 증가함에 따라 전송량이 증가함을 보이고, 사용 가능한 중계기의 개수에 해당하는 다이버시티 이득을 얻을 수 있음을 보여준다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.4469-4482
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• 2015

In this paper, we investigate the outage performance of a two-way decode-and-forward relaying network in an interference-limited Nakagami-m fading environment. More specifically, assuming the presence of Nakagami-m faded multiple co-channel interferers at the source/destination terminals, the closed-form approximate expression for the outage probability is derived by using moment-based estimators attaining the appropriate Nakagami-m fading parameter. Simulation results demonstrate that our analytical result is in excellent agreement with the Monte Carlo simulation.