• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.109-110
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• 2007

The sum-rate capacity of multi-antenna broadcast channels recently has attracted much research interests. However, those effort mainly has focused on a single-cell system. In this paper, we consider a multi-cell system where a transmitter uses zero-forcing beamforming with multiple antennas. We select a linear zero-forcing weight that maximizes the sum-rate when intercell interference exists. With numerical investigation, we will show the sum-rate gain achieved by the proposed method gets larger when the number of interfering cells increases.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.145-159
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• 2019

To reduce the number of radio frequency (RF) chains in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, generalized spatial modulation (GSM) techniques have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we propose a zero-forcing (ZF)-based detector, which performs an initial pruning of the search tree that will be considered as the initial condition in a sphere decoding (SD) algorithm. The proposed method significantly reduces the computational complexity of GSM systems while achieving a near maximum likelihood (ML) performance. We analyze the performance of the proposed method and provide an analytic performance difference between the proposed method and the ML detector. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed method is very close to that of the ML detector, while achieving a significant computational complexity reduction in comparison with the conventional SD method, in terms of the number of visited nodes. We also present some simulations to assess the accuracy of our theoretical results.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2010

To better understand the physical processes that maintain the high-latitude lower thermospheric dynamics, we have identified relative contributions of the momentum forcing and the heating to the high-latitude lower thermospheric winds depending on the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and altitude. For this study, we performed a term analysis of the potential vorticity equation for the high-latitude neutral wind field in the lower thermosphere during the southern summertime for different IMF conditions, with the aid of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Thermosphere-Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (NCAR-TIEGCM). Difference potential vorticity forcing and heating terms, obtained by subtracting values with zero IMF from those with non-zero IMF, are influenced by the IMF conditions. The difference forcing is more significant for strong IMF $B_y$ condition than for strong IMF $B_z$ condition. For negative or positive $B_y$ conditions, the difference forcings in the polar cap are larger by a factor of about 2 than those in the auroral region. The difference heating is the most significant for negative IMF $B_z$ condition, and the difference heatings in the auroral region are larger by a factor of about 1.5 than those in the polar cap region. The magnitudes of the difference forcing and heating decrease rapidly with descending altitudes. It is confirmed that the contribution of the forcing to the high-latitude lower thermospheric dynamics is stronger than the contribution of the heating to it. Especially, it is obvious that the contribution of the forcing to the dynamics is much larger in the polar cap region than in the auroral region and at higher altitude than at lower altitude. It is evident that when $B_z$ is negative condition the contribution of the forcing is the lowest and the contribution of the heating is the highest among the different IMF conditions.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.472-474
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• 2009

In this letter, an ordered successive interference cancellation (OSIC) scheme is applied for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection in ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems. The error rate expression of an OSIC receiver on a log-normal multipath fading channel is theoretically derived in a closed form solution. Its bit error rate performance is analytically compared with that of a zero forcing receiver in the UWB MIMO detection scheme followed by RAKE combining.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.384-390
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• 2004

We propose a new bandwidth-efficient technique that achieves high data rates over a wideband wireless channel. This new scheme is targeted for a multiple-input multiple- output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system that achieves transmit diversity through a space frequency block code and capacity enhancement through the iterative joint processing of zero-forcing detection and maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding. Furthermore, the proposed scheme is compared to the coded Bell Labs Layered Space-Time OFDM (BLAST-OFDM) scheme.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.1577-1582
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 수조에서 실험을 통해 획득한 데이터를 이용하여 MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) 수중음향통신의 성능을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 먼저 여러 송수신 위치에서 채널 전달 특성을 측정하였다. 송신신호는 QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying)로 변조하였으며, 수신신호는 Zero Forcing 등화기 등을 포함하는 검출기를 거쳐 복원되었다. 실험이 이루어진 수조 환경이 물리적으로 폐쇄된 매우 심한 다중 경로 전달 환경이어서 최대 30~40 ms의 지연 현상이 나타났다. 실험 결과 송신 및 수신 센서가 각각 두 개인 $2{\times}2$ MIMO 시스템을 사용하였을 때 채널 특성으로 인해 비트 오차율이 비교적 크게 나타났지만 SISO (Single-Input Single-Output) 시스템에 비해 약 15% 정도 향상된 성능을 갖는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.232-239
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• 2011

This paper investigates the user selection problem of successive zero-forcing precoded multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) downlink systems, in which the base station and mobile receivers are equipped with multiple antennas. Assuming full knowledge of the channel state information at the transmitter, dirty paper coding (DPC) is an optimal precoding strategy, but practical implementation is difficult because of its excessive complexity. As a suboptimal DPC solution, successive zero-forcing DPC (SZF-DPC) was recently proposed; it employs partial interference cancellation at the transmitter with dirty paper encoding. Because of a dimensionality constraint, the base station may select a subset of users to serve in order to maximize the total throughput. The exhaustive search algorithm is optimal; however, its computational complexity is prohibitive. In this paper, we develop two low-complexity user scheduling algorithms to maximize the sum rate capacity of MU-MIMO systems with SZF-DPC. Both algorithms add one user at a time. The first algorithm selects the user with the maximum product of the maximum column norm and maximum eigenvalue. The second algorithm selects the user with the maximum product of the minimum column norm and minimum eigenvalue. Simulation results demonstrate that the second algorithm achieves a performance similar to that of a previously proposed capacity-based selection algorithm at a high signal-to-noise (SNR), and the first algorithm achieves performance very similar to that of a capacity-based algorithm at a low SNR, but both do so with much lower complexity.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권7호
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• pp.560-570
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 셀 간 간섭과 셀 내 사용자 간 간섭이 공존하는 two-cell 다중 안테나 하향링크 간섭 채널에서 송수신기 설계 방법을 제안한다. 우선 셀 간 간섭과 셀 내 사용자 간 간섭을 다차원 subspace에 정렬하는 zero-forcing 간섭 정렬 방법을 일반화한다. 그리고 일반화한 zero-forcing 간섭 정렬 방법에서 구한 송수신기를 "regularizing" 하는 minimum weighted-mean-square-error 기반 regularized ZF-IA 방법을 제안한다. 기존 weighted-sum-rate-maximizing 송수신기 설계 방법에 비해 제안하는 방법은 weight 를 구하는 반복 연산 과정이 필요하지 않다. 그 결과 제안하는 방법은 비록 sum-rate 최대화하도록 설계되진 않았지만, 기존의 weighted-sum-rate maximizing 방법 보다 계산 복잡도 면에서 효율적이고 더 빠른 수렴 속도를 얻을 수 있다. 다양한 분석과 실험을 통해 제안하는 regularized ZF-IA 방법의 우수성을 확인하였다. 구체적으로 반복 연산 수가 작은 경우, 제안하는 regularized ZF-IA 방법의 sum-rate 성능이 기존의 weighted-sum-rate maximizing 방법보다 SNR = 20 [dB] 에서 약 49.8 % 이상 나음을 확인할 수 있다. 더불어 채널 정보에 오차가 있는 경우 상당한 robustness를 제공하는 robust 송수신기 설계 방법도 제시한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권10A호
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• pp.974-983
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 제로포싱 빔형성 (ZFBF)을 이용한 Multiuser MIMO-OFDM 시스템에서 각 사용자의 주어진 요구정보량을 만족시키면서 총송신전력을 최소화하기 위한 부반송파 할당방법을 제안한다. 최적 방법의 복잡도는 부반송파의 수에 지수적으로 비례하여 증가하기 때문에 복잡도를 줄이기 위한 부최적 방법을 제안한다. 부최적 방법에서는 사용자 그룹의 채널간 직교도가 클수록 유효채널이득이 증가하는 특성을 이용하여 채널간 직교도가 큰 사용자 그룹을 할당함으로써 송신전력을 최소화한다. 모의실험 결과에서 제안한 부최적 방법이 복잡도를 현저히 감소시키면서 총 송신전력의 측면에서는 최적화된 방법과 유사한 성능을 가진다는 것을 보인다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.222-230
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a closed-form approximation of the average sum rate of zero-forcing (ZF) beamforming (BF) with semi-orthogonal user selection (SUS). We first derive the survival probability associated with the SUS that absolute square of the channel correlation between two users is less than the orthogonalization level threshold (OLT).With this result, each distribution for the number of surviving users at each iteration of the SUS and the number of streams for transmission is calculated. Secondly, the received signal power of ZF-BF is represented as a function of the elements of the upper triangular matrix from QR decomposition of the channel matrix. Thirdly, we approximate the received signal power of ZF-BF with the SUS as the maximum of scaled chisquare random variables where the scaling factor is approximated as a function of both OLT and the number of users in the system. Putting all the above derivations and order statistics together, the approximated ergodic sum rate of ZF-BF with the SUS is shown in a closed form. The simulation results verify that the approximation tightly matches with the sample average for any OLT and even for a small number of users.