• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2022

Visible light communication (VLC) systems incorporate ambient lighting and wireless data transmission, and the experienced channel in indoor VLC is a major topic that should be examined for reliable communication. In this study, it is realized that multiple transmitters in classical alignment are the forceful factors for channel characteristics. In the frequency band, fluctuations with sudden drops are observed, where the fluctuation shape is related to the source layout and receiver location. These varying frequency-selective channels need solutions, especially for mobile users, because sustained channel estimation and equalization are necessary as the receiver changes its location. It is proven that using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with highly directional beams as sources or using a detector with a narrow field of view (FOV) in the receiver may help partially alleviate the problem; the frequency selectivity of the channel reduces in some regions of the room. For flat fading channel characteristics all over the room, LEDs should be aligned in hexagonal cellular structure, and detector FOV should be arranged according to the cell dimension outcomes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2859-2872
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• 2019

Interference alignment (IA) has been a powerful approach to achieve the maximum degree of freedom (DoF) for K users multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) interference channels. However, due to the feasibility constraint, aligning all the interference signals at each receiver is impractical for large K without symbol extension. In this paper, we propose two best-effort interference alignment (BEIA) schemes that the network selects the maximum number of interfering transmitters to align their signals given the feasibility conditions when each transmitter-receiver pair has a constant number of data streams. Besides, in case of not all interfering signals aligned at each receiver, an upper bound of the average throughput is derived. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes have superiority over the traditional methods, such as time division multiple access (TDMA) and cluster IA(CIA), in low and moderate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region in terms of average user throughput. In addition, the proposed max-min relative interference distance alignment scheme outperforms the proposed scheme of equal interfering transmitters number alignment in terms of both average user throughput and minimum user throughput.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2011

In wireless X networks where all transmitters send the independent messages to all receivers, the theoretical bound on the degrees of freedom (DOF) and interference alignment (IA) scheme for its achievability are given by Cadambe and Jafar [1]. However, IA scheme for wireless X network may be infeasible in practice unless the transmitters have the perfect channel information. In addition, if the transmitter with single antenna uses time-varying channel coefficients as a beamforming vector, the infinite channel extension is required to achieve the theoretical bound on the DOF of wireless X networks with perfect IA scheme. In this paper, we consider K-user MIMO X network where K transmitters and K receivers have M antennas each. While the beamforming vectors have been constructed with multiple channel uses over multiple time slot in the earlier work, we consider the beamforming vectors constructed only by a spatial signature over unit time. Accordingly the channel information at the transmitters can be available instantaneously. Then we propose the perfect IA scheme with no channel extension. Based on our sum-rate analysis and the simulation results, we confirm that our proposed scheme can achieve MK/2 DOF which is quite close to the theoretical bound on the DOF region of wireless X networks.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37B권10호
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• pp.938-946
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• 2012

간섭정렬(Interference Alignment : IA)은 높은 신호 대 잡음 비(Signal to Noise Ratio : SNR)에서 다중 사용자 간섭 채널에서 도달 가능한 최대 자유도를 얻을 수 있는 데이터 전송 기법이다. 그러나 대부분의 간섭정렬에 대한 연구는 네트워크 내의 모든 채널의 정보를 송, 수신단에서 완벽하게 알아야 하는 비현실적인 가정에 기반을 둔다. 본 논문에서는 K 사용자 다중안테나 간섭채널에서 간섭정렬을 위한 채널 상태 정보 (Channel-State Information : CSI)의 궤환 량을 효율적으로 감소시킬 수 있는 CSI 궤환 구조를 제안한다. 기존의 IA기법은 K의 2차함수의 형태로 궤환 오버헤드가 증가하는 반면, 제안된 궤환 구조는 송, 수신 단 사이에서 계산된 IA 송신기의 순차적인 교환을 통하여 K에 선형적으로 증가하는 오버헤드를 갖는다. 또한, 주어진 궤환 구조 하에서 제한된 궤환 채널에 의한 잔여 간섭의 세기를 분석하였으며, 이 때 발생하는 잔여 간섭을 최소화 할 수 있는 IA 조건, 즉, 주어진 채널환경에 따라 각 수신단에서 잔여 간섭을 최소화할 수 있는 최적의 IA 쌍을 순차적으로 결정하는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.1926-1945
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a distributed signal subspace interference alignment algorithm for single beam K-user ($3K{\geq}$) MIMO interference channel based on sum rate maximization and game theory. A framework of game theory is provided to study relationship between interference signal subspace and altruistic-egoistic bayesian game cost function. We demonstrate that the asymptotic interference alignment under proposed scheme can be realized through a numerical algorithm using local channel state information at transmitters and receivers. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve the total degrees of freedom that is equivalent to the Cadambe-Jafar interference alignment algorithms with perfect channel state information. Furthermore, proposed scheme can effectively minimize leakage interference in desired signal subspace at each receiver and obtain a moderate average sum rate performance compared with several existing interference alignment schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.692-710
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• 2013

Conventional interference alignment (IA) for a MIMO interference channel (IFC) requires global and perfect channel state information at transmitter (CSIT) to achieve the optimal degrees of freedom (DoF), which prohibits practical implementation. In order to alleviate the global CSIT requirement caused by the coupled relation among all of IA equations, we propose an IA scheme with a single feedback link of each receiver in a limited feedback environment for a three-user MIMO IFC. The main feature of the proposed scheme is that one of users takes out a fraction of its maximum number of data streams to decouple IA equations for three-user MIMO IFC, which results in a single link feedback structure at each receiver. While for the conventional IA each receiver has to feed back to all transmitters for transmitting the maximum number of data streams. With the assumption of a random codebook, we analyze the upper bound of the average throughput loss caused by quantized channel knowledge as a function of feedback bits. Analytic results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional IA scheme in term of the feedback overhead and the sum rate as well.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.95-106
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 8 괘(卦)와 같은 제안한 네트워크 토폴로지를 이용하여 기존의 간섭 제거에 대해 서술한다. 전송신호의 할당 제어를 통해 간섭할당 방법을 적절히 선택함으로서 다른 동기시간에 최적의 대칭 DoF가 달성될 수 있다는 점을 중요하게 서술한다. 그러나 이 결과 복잡한 문제가 발생되는데 간섭제거 및 반복 코딩과 같은 다른 방법을 혼합하여 사용하는 문제 때문이다. 이 방법에 덧붙여 최적의 DoF를 달성하기 위해 8 user 네트워크를 위한 TTC(triangular transmit cooperation) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 8 괘(卦)의 상보성원리를 위상 간섭제거에 응용했다. 상생과 상극개념을 송신과 수신의 직접신호와 간섭신호에 대응시켰다. 상보성 원리를 역(易)(I Ching)의 괘(卦)에서 뿌리를 찾았다. 즉 대(對)와 대(待)이다. 서로 대립하면서도 서로의 공존관계를 8개의 송 수신단에 적용한 결과 대칭 DoF는 4/3 였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.331-335
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• 2012

A miniaturized laser beam transmitter, in which a visible laser module at ${\lambda}$=650 nm is precisely stacked upon an infrared (IR) module at ${\lambda}$=905 nm, has been proposed and constructed to provide an IR collimated beam in conjunction with a collinear monitoring visible beam. In particular, the IR beam is selectively dispersed through a perforated sheet diffuser, so as to create a rapidly diverging close-range beam in addition to a highly defined long-range beam simultaneously. The complementary close-range beam plays a role in mitigating the blind region in the vicinity of the transmitter, which is inevitably missed by the main long-range beam, thereby uniformly extending the transmitter's effective trajectory that is sensed by a receiver. The proposed transmitter was designed through numerical simulations and then fabricated by incorporating a diffuser sheet, perforated with an aperture of 2 mm. For the manufactured transmitter, the IR long-range beam was observed to have divergences of ~2.3 and 1.6 mrad in the fast and slow axes, respectively, while the short-range beam yielded a divergence of ~24 mrad. The angular alignment between the long-range IR and visible beams was as accurate as ~0.5 mrad. According to an outdoor feasibility test involving a receiver, the combination of the IR long- and short-range beams was proven to achieve a nearly uniform trajectory over a distance ranging up to ~600 m, with an average detectable cross-section of ${\sim}60{\times}80cm^2$.