• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3860-3875
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• 2014

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) are composed of mobile users who can use multiple spectrum bands for communication. CRNs allow unlicensed users (called cognitive users) to efficiently utilize unused licensed spectrums without interfering with communications of licensed users (called primary users). The main goals of CRNs are to mitigate spectrum saturation and to improve spectrum utilization. This paper introduces state-of-the-art routing protocols for CRNs and addresses some limitations of these protocols. To resolve the limitations, we suggest a new research direction for routing protocols in CRNs. We implement our protocol to compare with the existing routing protocols for multi-hop CRNs. Our protocol shows good performance compared to the existing routing protocols in terms of network performance and PU protection.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4600-4616
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• 2021

In cognitive radio networks where unlicensed secondary users opportunistically access to licensed spectrum unused by licensed primary users, spectrum sensing is one of the key issues in order to effectively use the frequency resource. For enhancing the sensing performance in energy detection-based spectrum sensing, spatial diversity based on multiple antennas is utilized. However, the sensing performance can be degraded when antennas are spatially correlated, resulting in inducing the harmful interference to primary users. To overcome this problem, in this paper, an advanced energy detector is proposed. In the proposed sensing method, a weight matrix based on the eigenvalues of the spatial channels without any prior information on the primary signals is defined and utilized. In numerical simulations, it is shown that the proposed detector outperforms the conventional detector with regard to false-alarm and detection probabilities when antenna are spatially correlated.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.2231-2245
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• 2014

Cognitive Radio (CR) has very promising potential to improve spectrum utilization by allowing unlicensed Secondary Users (SUs) to access the spectrum dynamically without disturbing licensed Primary Users (PUs). Mitigating interference is a fundamental problem in CR scenarios. This is particularly problematic for deploying CR in cellular networks, when users are located at the cell edge, as the inter-cell interference mitigation and frequency reuse are critical requirements for both PUs and SUs. Further cellular networks require higher cell edge performance, then SUs will meet more challenges than PUs. To solve the performance decrease for SUs at the cell edge, a novel Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (DSA) scheme based on Game Theory is proposed in this paper. Full frequency reuse can be realized as well as inter-cell interference mitigated according to SUs' sensing, measurement and interaction in this scheme. A joint power/channel allocation algorithm is proposed to improve both cell-edge user experience and network performance through distributed pricing calculation and exchange based on game theory. Analytical proof is presented and simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves high efficiency of spectrum usage and improvement of cell edge SUs' performance.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.290-302
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• 2003

Ultra wide band (UWB) radio has recently attracted increased attention due to its expected unlicensed operation, and potential to provide very high data rates at relatively short ranges. In this article we briefly describe some main candidate multiple access and modulation schemes for UWB communications, followed with their power spectral density calculation and properties. We also present some illustrative capacity results, and provide a discussion of the impact of network topology on multiple access capacity.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2018

This article presents spectrum sharing policy trends both overseas and domestically. The Federal Communications Commission recently adopted rules for the commercial use of a 150 MHz bandwidth at 3.55 to 3.7 GHz, which has been utilized for defense and satellite services. This frequency band for spectrum sharing is called the citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) band. In Europe, the related regimes for licensed shared access application at 2.3 to 2.4 GHz has been organized, and interface standardization for sharing frequency information has been completed. In Korea, efforts are being made to establish spectrum-sharing policies to improve the efficiency of the frequency utilization. This article also introduces both the IEEE 802 local area network/metropolitan area network and 3GPP standardization activities with regard to frequency sharing technologies. To effectively solve the spectrum-sharing problem in IEEE 802, standardization activities on the CBRS and the mid-band (3.7-24 GHz) are underway. 3GPP is currently developing the standardization of a licensed assisted access technology, which extends mobile communication services provided in the licensed band to unlicensed bands.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.79-86
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• 2015

인지무선네트워크(Cognitive Radio Networks, CRNs)는 네트워크 환경을 인지하고 적응적으로 운용할 수 있는 지능형 무선 네트워킹을 제공하기 위한 기술로 인지되고 있다. CRN은 FCC(Federal Communications Commission)의 최근 정책으로 인해 비인가된 사용자가 네트워크의 주사용자를 방해하지 않는 한 유휴 스펙트럼을 활용할 수 있도록 허락하는 기술이다. 그러므로 CRNs의 보안 특성은 다른 네트워크와 달라야만 한다. 본 논문의 목적은 Tsai등의 위임기반 인증 프로토콜(TDAP)로부터 CRN상의 비인가된 사용자를 위한 보안의 특성을 추출함으로서 새로운 위임기반 인증 프로토콜(NDAP)을 제안하는데 있다. 먼저 TDAP에 대한 보안분석을 제시하고 비인가 사용자 인증을 위한 프로토콜 설계 목표를 설정한다. 그런 후 TDAP에 대한 보안 해결책과 CRNs를 위한 새로운 프로토콜로서 NDAP을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 NDAP은 CRNs과 다양한 융합응용의 보안 기반 구조로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.1074-1081
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• 2021

최근 무선통신 사용자들의 기술 요구사항과 고속 데이터 기술 개발의 필요성이 증가되면서 비면허 무선접속 기술 개발이 주목되고 있다. 더 높은 주파수와 더 넓은 대역폭을 가진 WiFi (Wireless Fidelity)와 같은 저전력 근접 무선통신 서비스와 더불어 광범위한 비면허 기술의 응용성을 위해 다양한 주파수 대역에서의 스펙트럼 공존 및 공유 연구가 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 지하철 내의 6GHz 비면허 대역의 WiFi와 기존 무선업무인 이동방송중계 시스템간의 간섭의 정도를 평가하고 공존을 위한 두 서비스간의 이격거리를 제안한다. 간섭 평가를 위해 최소결합손실 (MCL: Minimum Coupling Loss)방법과 몬테카를로 (MC: Monte Carlo)방법 기반의 간섭 시나리오를 설정하였으며, 두 시스템간의 동 대역과 주파수 이격에 따른 이격거리를 도출하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.371-388
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• 2014

Cognitive Radio (CR) has been recently proposed as a promising technology to remedy the problems of spectrum scarcity and spectrum underutilization by enabling unlicensed users to opportunistically utilize temporally unused licensed spectrums in a cautious manner. In Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks (CRAHNs), data routing is one of the most challenging tasks since the channel availability and node mobility are unpredictable. Moreover, the network performance is severely degraded due to large numbers of path failures. In this paper, we propose the Fault-Tolerant Cognitive Ad-hoc Routing Protocol (FTCARP) to provide fast and efficient route recovery in presence of path failures during data delivery in CRAHNs. The protocol exploits the joint path and spectrum diversity to offer reliable communication and efficient spectrum usage over the networks. In the proposed protocol, a backup path is utilized in case a failure occurs over a primary transmission route. Different cause of a path failure will be handled by different route recovery mechanism. The protocol performance is compared with that of the Dual Diversity Cognitive Ad-hoc Routing Protocol (D2CARP). The simulation results obviously prove that FTCARP outperforms D2CARP in terms of throughput, packet loss, end-to-end delay and jitter in the high path-failure rate CRAHNs.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.976-986
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• 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered the future network to support wireless communications. To realize an IoT network, sufficient spectrum should be allocated for the rapidly increasing IoT devices. Through cognitive radio, unlicensed IoT devices exploit cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) to opportunistically access a licensed spectrum without causing harmful interference to licensed primary users (PUs), thereby effectively improving the spectrum utilization. However, an open access cognitive IoT allows abnormal IoT devices to undermine the CSS process. Herein, we first establish a hard-combining attack model according to the malicious behavior of falsifying sensing data. Subsequently, we propose a weighted sequential hypothesis test (WSHT) to increase the PU detection accuracy and decrease the sampling number, which comprises the data transmission status-trust evaluation mechanism, sensing data availability, and sequential hypothesis test. Finally, simulation results show that when various attacks are encountered, the requirements of the WSHT are less than those of the conventional WSHT for a better detection performance.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권7호
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• pp.783-788
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• 2016

본 논문은 비면허대역을 위한 LTE 통신 기술인 LAA(Licensed Assisted Access)가 복수의 주파수 채널을 사용해 하향링크 전송을 수행하기 위한 액세스 기법을 설명하고, 액세스 기법의 세부 동작 설계에 따른 Wi-Fi와의 공존 특성 및 각 통신 기술의 성능 변화를 시뮬레이션을 통해 보인다. 이를 위해 LAA의 채널 본딩 규칙 적용 여부, LBT(Listen Before Talk)를 수행하는 채널, LBT 채널을 동적으로 변경 시 CW(Contention Window)의 설정방법, 그리고 Wi-Fi의 대역폭 설정 방식과 CW 조절 방식을 고려한다. 각 요소를 변경하였을 때 상호 간의 성능 변동 경향을 확인하고, 이를 통해 두 기술의 공존을 위해 다양한 요소가 복합적으로 고려되어야 함을 보인다.