• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.299-309
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• 2011

Energy consumption is a key issue in body sensor networks (BSNs) since energy-constrained sensors monitor the vital signs of human beings in healthcare applications. In this paper, packet size optimization for BSNs has been analyzed to improve the efficiency of energy consumption. Existing studies on packet size optimization in wireless sensor networks cannot be applied to BSNs because the different operational characteristics of nodes and the channel effects of in-body and on-body propagation cannot be captured. In this paper, automatic repeat request (ARQ), forward error correction (FEC) block codes, and FEC convolutional codes have been analyzed regarding their energy efficiency. The hop-length extension technique has been applied to improve this metric with FEC block codes. The theoretical analysis and the numerical evaluations reveal that exploiting FEC schemes improves the energy efficiency, increases the optimal payload packet size, and extends the hop length for all scenarios for in-body and on-body propagation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.759-769
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• 2011

Cooperative hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocols, which can exploit the spatial and temporal diversities, have been widely studied. The efficiency of cooperative HARQ protocols is higher than that of cooperative protocols because retransmissions are only performed when necessary. We classify cooperative HARQ protocols as three decode-and-forward-based HARQ (DF-HARQ) protocols and two amplified-and-forward-based HARQ (AF-HARQ) protocols. To compare these protocols and obtain the optimum parameters, two unified frameworks are developed for protocol analysis. Using the frameworks, we can evaluate and compare the maximum throughput and outage probabilities according to the SNR, the relay location, and the delay constraint. From the analysis we can see that the maximum achievable throughput of the DF-HARQ protocols can be much greater than that of the AF-HARQ protocols due to the incremental redundancy transmission at the relay.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권12호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 WCDMA LCR-TDD 시스템에서 멀티레벨 제어 신호 방식을 적용한 하향 링크 ARQ-TSTD (ARQ-aided Time Switched Transmit Diversity)의 성능을 계산한다. 제안된 ARQ-TSTD는 멀티레벨 제어 선호 방식을 적용하여 수신측이 에러체크를 수행한 후 송신측으로 기존의 응답신호 (ACK or NACK or 신호) 이외에 NACK2 선호를 정의하고 이를 피드백한다. 송신측은 NACK2 신호를 본 논문에서 제안한 전송지연과 다중사용자 스케줄링 방식을 적용하는데 활용한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 3km/h의 이동국 속도에서 프레임 오류 확률 (Frame Error Rate)이 10%일 때 5개 서브프레임 전송지연 방식, 2명의 사용자 스케줄링 방식이 각각 약 1.3dB, 약1.4dB의 성능향상이 있었다. 그리고 Eb/N0=-3dB에서 각각 약 14% 11.5%의 수율 성능 이득이 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권10호
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• pp.52-56
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 WCDMA LCR-TDD 시스템에서 ARQ 방식을 적용한 하향 링크 TSTD (Time Switched Transmit Diversity)에서 전력 램핑이 적용된 경우의 성능을 계산한다. 제안된 전력 램핑 방식은 ARQ 방식을 적용한 TSTD에서 수신측이 에러체크를 수행한 후 송신측으로 응답신호 (ACK or NACK 신호)를 전송하고 전송된 응답신호가 NACK 신호인 경우 전력을 램핑하여 해당 에러 프레임을 재전송한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 3km/h의 이동국 속도에서 프레임 오류 확률 (Frame Error Rate)이 1%일 때 제안된 방법이 기존의 ARQ방식을 적용한 TSTD보다 약 0.7dB의 평균 Eb/N0의 성능이득이 있으며, 평균 Eb/N0가 0dB일 때 약 2.5%의 수율 개선이 있음을 보여준다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.62-77
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• 2010

Emerging applications with high data rates will need to transport bulk data reliably in wireless sensor networks. ARQ (Automatic Repeat request) or Forward Error Correction (FEC) code schemes can be used to provide reliable transmission in a sensor network. However, the naive ARQ approach drops the whole frame, even though there is a bit error in the frame and the FEC at the bit level scheme may require a highly complex method to adjust the amount of FEC redundancy. We propose a bulk data transmission scheme based on erasure-resilient code in this paper to overcome these inefficiencies. The sender fragments bulk data into many small blocks, encodes the blocks with LT codes and packages several such blocks into a frame. The receiver only drops the corrupted blocks (compared to the entire frame) and the original data can be reconstructed if sufficient error-free blocks are received. An incidental benefit is that the frame error rate (FER) becomes irrelevant to frame size (error recovery). A frame can therefore be sufficiently large to provide high utilization of the wireless channel bandwidth without sacrificing the effectiveness of error recovery. The scheme has been implemented as a new data link layer in TinyOS, and evaluated through experiments in a testbed of Zigbex motes. Results show single hop transmission throughput can be improved by at least 20% under typical wireless channel conditions. It also reduces the transmission time of a reasonable range of size files by more than 30%, compared to a frame ARQ scheme. The total number of bytes sent by all nodes in the multi-hop communication is reduced by more than 60% compared to the frame ARQ scheme.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권4C호
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• pp.370-378
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• 2007

The most appropriate low density parity check (LDPC) code for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) system suitable for future multimedia communication systems is presented in this paper. HARQ system with punctured LDPC code is investigated at first. And two transmission schemes with parallel concatenated LDPC code are also presented and their performances are analyzed according to the various values of mean column weight (MCW). As a result, the parallel concatenated LDPC code with the diversity effect of information bit is considered to be more appropriate for HARQ system considering the throughput as well as error performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1016-1030
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• 2018

In this paper, an error-detection-coding-aided iterative hard decision interference cancellation (EDC-IHIC) scheme for multiple-input multiple-output systems employing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) for multi-packet transmission is developed and investigated. In the EDC-IHIC scheme, only packets identified as error-free by the EDC are submitted to the interference cancellation (IC) stage for cancellation from the received signals. Therefore, the possibility of error propagation, including inter-transmission error propagation, can be eliminated using EDC-IHIC. Because EDC must be implemented in systems that employ HARQ to determine packet retransmission, error propagation can be prevented without the need for additional redundancy. The results of simulations conducted herein verify that the EDC-IHIC scheme outperforms conventional hard decision IC schemes in terms of the packet error rate in various environments.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2005년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.1605-1608
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 센서 네트워크(sensor networks)의 가장 대표적인 MAC 프로토콜인 S-MAC 의 에너지 효율을 높이기 위한 새로운 ACK(Acknowledgement) 기법을 제안한다. S-MAC 의 데이터 전송 절차는 Stop and Wait ARQ(Automatic Repeat Request) 방식을 사용하기 때문에 ACK 패킷으로 인한 불필요한 에너지 소비가 크다. 에너지 효율성은 센서 네트워크의 가장 중요한 고려사항이므로 불필요한 에너지 소비를 줄이는 새로운 ACK 기법을 제안한다. 우리는 시뮬레이션을 통해 S-MAC 과 제안된 ACK 기법의 에너지 효율을 비교했다. 시뮬레이션 결과에서 제안한 기법이 S-MAC 보다 에너지 효율성이 높았다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 통신소사이어티 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.157-163
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• 2003

IEEE 802.11a Distributed Coordination Function(DCF) Protocol을 사용하여 Real-Time MultiMedia Data의 전송을 수행할 경우, DCF Protocol의 적합하지 못한 Mechanism에 의하여, Data 전송의 극대화를 이루지 못한다. Retransmission이 반복되는 경우, Binary Slotted Exponential Backoff Mechanism은 거대한 Packet Delay와 Jitter의 원인이 되며 Automatic Repeat Request(ARQ) 방식의 Ack Mechanism은 MultiMedia Data를 전송하기에 적합하지 못하다. 본 논문은 위와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 Real-Time MultiMedia Data을 주로 전송하는 STA에 따른 Real-Time/Non-Real-Time(RT/NRT) Station(STA)의 구분과 보내고자 하는 Real-Time MultiMedia Data의 Network Traffic Load(The Required Bandwidth)를 고려하여, Modified DCF(mDCF) Protocol의 Modified Backoff(mBackOff), Modified BlockAck(mBlockAck) Mechanism을 제시함으로서, Data 전송의 극대화를 제공하며, 또한 IEEE 802.11a와의 호환성을 제공한다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.189-195
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel protocol called a Multi-hop Diversity Transmission protocol in which the retransmission is realized by a relay that is Nearest to a current Source (MDTNS). We derive the mathematical expressions of the packet error rate (PER) and the average number of transmissions over Nakagami-m fading channels, and verify them by Monte Carlo simulations. The simulation results show that the MDTNS protocol improves the performance of the network in terms of PER when compared to the Multi-hop Diversity Transmission protocol in which the retransmission is done by a relay that is Nearest to Destination (MDTND) and to the conventional multi-hop transmission (CMT) protocol.