• 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.

• 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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• 제12권2호
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• pp.566-578
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• 2018

In this paper, we design a segment training based individual channel estimation (STICE) scheme for the classical two-way relay network (TWRN) with multi-pair sources (MPS) and amplify-and-forward (AF). We adopt the linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) channel estimator to minimize the mean square error (MSE) without channel estimation error, where the optimal power allocation strategy from the relay for different sources is obtained. Then the MSE gains are given with different source pairs among the proposed power allocation scheme and the existing power allocation schemes. Numerical results show that the proposed method outperforms the existing ones.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5361-5374
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• 2016

Combining channel coding and network coding in a physical layer in a fading channel, generalized joint channel-network coding (G-JCNC) is proved to highly perform in a two-way relay channel (TWRC). However, most relevant discussions are restricted to symmetric networks. This paper investigates the G-JCNC protocols in an asymmetric TWRC (A-TWRC). A newly designed encoder used by source nodes that is dedicated to correlate codewords with different orders is presented. Moreover, the capability of a simple common non-binary decoder at a relay node is verified. The effects of a power match under various numbers of iteration and code lengths are also analyzed. The simulation results give the optimum power match ratio and demonstrate that the designed scheme based on G-JCNC in an A-TWRC has excellent bit error rate performance under an appropriate power match ratio.

• 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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• 제16권1호
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• pp.45-55
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• 2014

The paper investigates the problem of designing the multiple-antenna relay in a two-way relay network by taking into account the imperfect channel state information (CSI). The objective is to design the multiple-antenna relay based upon the CSI estimates, where the estimation errors are included to attain the robust design under the worst-case philosophy. In particular, the worst-case transmit power at the multiple-antenna relay is minimized while guaranteeing the worst-case quality of service requirements that the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at both sources are above a prescribed threshold value. Since the worst-case received SNR expression is too complex for subsequent derivation and processing, its lower bound is explored instead by minimizing the numerator and maximizing the denominator of the worst-case SNR. The aforementioned problem is mathematically formulated and shown to be nonconvex. This motivates the pursuit of semidefinite relaxation coupled with a randomization technique to obtain computationally efficient high-quality approximate solutions. This paper has shown that the original optimization problem can be reformulated and then relaxed to a convex problem that can be solved by utilizing suitable randomization loop. Numerical results compare the proposed multiple-antenna relay with the existing nonrobust method, and therefore validate its robustness against the channel uncertainty. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed design and the associated influencing factors are discussed by means of extensive Monte Carlo simulations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1955-1971
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• 2013

This paper studies relay selection and power allocation for amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way relay networks (TWRN) with asymmetric traffic requirements (ATR). A joint relay selection and power allocation algorithm is proposed to decrease the outage probability of TWRN with ATR. In this algorithm, two sources exchange information with the help of the relay during two time slots. We first calculate the optimal power allocation parameters based on instantaneous channel state information (CSI), and then derive a tight lower bound of outage probability. Furthermore, we propose a simplified relay selection criterion, which can be easily calculated as harmonic mean of instantaneous channel gains, according to the outage probability expressions. Simulation results verified the theoretical analyses we presented. It is shown that the outage probability of our algorithm improves 3-4dB comparing with that of other existing algorithms, and the lower bound is tight comparing with actual value for the entire signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1438-1443
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 양방향 중계 채널에서 중계기에 다중안테나가 존재할 경우 물리계층 네트워크 코딩 기법의 성능분석을 수행하였다. 2개의 소스 노드는 하나의 안테나를 가진다고 가정하고 중계기에는 다중안테나가 설치되었다고 가정한다. 본 논문에서는 소스 노드와 중계노드에 각각 하나의 안테나가 존재하는 기존 시스템을 중계기에 다중안테나가 존재하는 환경으로 확장한다. 특히, 중계기에서 2개의 소스 노드들로부터 도착한 패킷을 복호하는 과정에서 각 패캣을 복호한 후 네트워크 부호화를 수행하는 개별복호기술과 소스 노드들로부터 도착한 2개의 패킷을 동시에 고려하여 직접복호하는 기술을 비교분석한다. 다중안테나기반의 중계기를 사용할 경우 물리계층 네트워크 코딩의 비트오류성능이 중계기의 안테나의 개수가 증가함에 따라 향상되는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.147-151
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• 2010

논문에서는 양방향 중계기 통신에서 사용자와 중계기의 채널 환경을 기준으로 중계기의 QoS(Quality of Service)를 만족시키도록 하는 적응형 변조 기법을 이용한 네트워크 부호화 기반 양방향 중계기 통신을 제안한다. 양방향 중계기 통신은 두 사용자가 중계기의 도움을 받아 서로의 데이터를 교환하는 통신 방식이다. 네트워크 부호화를 이용한 양방향 중계기 통신은 기존의 양방향 통신에 비해 데이터 전송에 필요한 시간을 줄임으로써 높은 처리량(throughput)을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자와 중계기간의 채널 환경를 기준으로 M-QAM(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) 변조 기법을 이용하여 시스템의 QoS를 만족시키는 적응형 변조 방법을 제안한다. 모의 실험을 통해 제안한 방식이 시스템이 원하는 QoS를 만족시킴을 보인다.

• 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.