• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2873-2892
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• 2019

Reducing the interference to the licensed mobile users and obtaining the energy efficiency are key issues in cognitive heterogeneous networks. A corresponding rate loss constraint is proposed to be used for the sensing-based spectrum sharing (SBSS) model in cognitive heterogeneous networks in this paper. Resource allocation optimization strategy is designed for the maximum energy efficiency under the proposed interference constraint together with average transmission power constraint. An efficiency algorithm is studied to maximize energy efficiency due to the nonconvex optimal problem. Furthermore, the relationship between the proposed protection criterion and the conventional interference constraint strategy under imperfect sensing condition for the SBSS model is also investigated, and we found that the conventional interference threshold can be regarded as the upper bound of the maximum rate loss that the primary user could tolerate. Simulation results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed protection criterion overcome the conventional interference power constraint.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.2675-2690
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• 2014

We study the problem of optimal opportunistic spectrum access with unknown and heterogeneous channel dynamics in cognitive radio networks. There is neither statistic information about the licensed channels nor information exchange among secondary users in the respective systems. We formulate the problem of maximizing network throughput. To achieve the desired optimization, we propose a win-shift lose-stay algorithm based only on rewards. The key point of the algorithm is to make secondary users tend to shift to another channel after receiving rewards from the current channel. The optimality and the convergence of the proposed algorithm are proved. The simulation results show that for both heterogeneous and homogenous systems the proposed win-shift lose-stay algorithm has better performance in terms of throughput and fairness than an existing algorithm.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.112-122
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• 2016

Cognitive radio (CR) is considered an attractive technology to deal with the spectrum scarcity problem. Multi-radio access technology (multi-RAT) can improve network capacity because data are transmitted by multiple RANs (radio access networks) concurrently. Thus, multi-RAT embedded in a cognitive radio network (CRN) is a promising paradigm for developing spectrum efficiency and network capacity in future wireless networks. In this study, we consider a new CRN model in which the primary user networks consist of heterogeneous primary users (PUs). Specifically, we focus on the energy-efficient resource allocation (EERA) problem for CR users with a special location coverage overlapping region in which heterogeneous PUs operate simultaneously via multi-RAT. We propose a two-tier crossover genetic algorithm-based search scheme to obtain an optimal solution in terms of the power and bandwidth. In addition, we introduce a radio environment map to manage the resource allocation and network synchronization. The simulation results show the proposed algorithm is stable and has faster convergence. Our proposal can significantly increase the energy efficiency.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.90-97
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• 2012

급격한 무선구간의 트래픽 폭증으로 이종 네트워크간의 연동에 의한 Off-loading과 같은 트래픽 분산기법 등과 같은 새로운 연동방법을 매개로한 다양한 서비스와 네트워크의 융합이 가속화되면서 이종 네트워크별 효과적 이동성 관리에 대한 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이종 네트워크 중 이동 IP 네트워크의 구조에 적합한 이동성 모델을 고려하여 주어진 환경 하에서 사용자 이동에 따른 다양한 성능평가와 관련된 지수를 도출하고 이를 활용하기 위한 방안을 제시한다. 또한 미래의 스마트 인지 네트워킹 환경 하에서는 개별 사용자의 이동성이 체계적으로 관리되어야 네트워크 자원의 효율적 활용과 무선 접속을 위한 주파수 스펙트럼의 효과적 활용에 매우 중요하다. 기존의 이동성 모델은 개별 네트워크 측면에서 다루어지면서 새로운 융합 이종 네트워크 환경에 적용하는데 적합성이 낮으므로 새로운 이동성 모델을 고려하여 융합 네트워크의 성능을 평가하는데 유용할 것으로 기대된다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.156-161
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• 2012

임의 접속(random access) 프로토콜은 기본적으로 센싱 기능을 가지고 있으며, 이것을 이용하여 분산형 무선 네트워크 시스템 구축에 적합한 특징을 가지고 있다. 이러한 기술적 특징은 중앙식 제어(centralized control)가 어려운 이기종 시스템들이 동작하는 인지 무선 통신 환경에 대하여 장점을 가지며, 인지 무선 통신 환경에서 임의 접속의 성능을 검증해 보아야 한다는 동기를 제공한다. 이 논문에서 우리는 인지 무선 통신 환경에서 CSMA/CA(carrier-sensing multiple access with collision avoidance)기법을 도입하고, 성능을 분석하는 기본 틀을 제공한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.2987-3002
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• 2013

The problem of optimal channel sensing in heterogeneous cognitive networks is considered to maximize the system throughput performance. The characteristics of an optimal operating sensing point maximizing the overall system rate are investigated under several rate criteria including the sum rate, the minimum of the primary and secondary rates, and the secondary rate with a guaranteed primary rate. Under the sum rate criterion, it is shown that the loss by imperfect sensing is no greater than half of the sum rate achieved by the perfect time sharing approach in a two user case if the sensing point is optimally designed.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1471-1488
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• 2018

Interference mitigation is a significant issue in the cognitive heterogeneous networks, this paper studied how to reduce the interference to macrocell users (MU) and improve system throughput. Establish the interference model with imperfect spectrum sensing by analyzing the source of interference complexity. Based on the user topology, the optimize problem was built to maximize the downlink throughput under given interference constraint and the total power constraint. We decompose the resource allocation problem into subcarrier allocation and power allocation. In the subcarrier assignment step, the allocated number of subcarriers satisfies the requirement of the femtocell users (FU).Then, we designed the power allocation algorithm based on the Lagrange multiplier method and the improved water filling method. Simulation results and performance analyses show that the proposed algorithm causes less interference to MU than the algorithm without considering imperfect spectrum sensing, and the system achieves better throughput performance.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.77-83
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• 2012

다양한 서비스와 네트워크의 융합이 가속화되면서 이종 네트워크별 효과적 이동성 관리에 대한 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이종 네트워크 중 이동 IP 네트워크의 구조에 적합한 이동성 모델을 고려하고 주어진 환경 하에서 사용자 이동에 따른 다양한 성능평가와 관련된 지수를 도출하고 이를 활용하기 위한 방안을 제시한다. 또한 미래의 스마트 인지 네트워킹 환경 하에서는 개별 사용자의 이동성이 체계적으로 관리되어야 네트워크 자원의 효율적 활용과 무선 접속을 위한 주파수 스펙트럼의 효과적 활용에 매우 중요하다. 기존의 이동성 모델은 개별 네트워크 측면에서 다루어지면서 새로운 융합 이종 네트워크 환경에 적용하는데 적합성이 낮으므로 새로운 이동성 모델을 고려하여 융합 네트워크의 성능을 평가하는데 유용할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.360-366
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• 2011

In this paper, we investigate the problem of power allocation in a heterogeneous network that is composed of a pair of cognitive users (CUs) and an infrastructure-based primary network. Since CUs have only limited effective spectrum-sensing ability and primary users (PUs) are not active all the time in all locations and licensed bands, we set up a new multi-area model to characterize the heterogeneous network. A novel combined interference-avoidance policy corresponding to different PU-appearance situations is introduced to protect the primary network from unacceptable disturbance and to increase the spectrum secondary-reuse efficiency. We use dual decomposition to transform the original power allocation problem into a two-layer optimization problem. We propose a low-complexity joint power-optimizing method to maximize the transmission rate between CUs, taking into account both the individual power-transmission constraints and the combined interference power constraint of the PUs. Numerical results show that for various values of the system parameters, the proposed joint optimization method with combined PU protection is significantly better than the opportunistic spectrum access mode and other heuristic approaches.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.149-168
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• 2015

In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), hybrid overlay and underlay sharing transmission mode is an effective technique for improving the efficiency of radio spectrum. Unlike existing works in the literature, where only one secondary user (SU) uses overlay and underlay modes, the different transmission modes should be allocated to different SUs, according to their different quality of services (QoS), to achieve the maximal efficiency of radio spectrum. However, hybrid sharing mode allocation for heterogeneous services is still a challenge in CRNs. In this paper, we propose a new resource allocation method for hybrid sharing transmission mode of overlay and underlay (HySOU), to achieve more potential resources for SUs to access the spectrum without interfering with the primary users. We formulate the HySOU resource allocation as a mixed-integer programming problem to optimize the total system throughput, satisfying heterogeneous QoS. To decrease the algorithm complexity, we divide the problem into two sub-problems: subchannel allocation and power allocation. Cutset is used to achieve the optimal subchannel allocation, and the optimal power allocation is obtained by Lagrangian dual function decomposition and subgradient algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm further improves spectrum utilization with a simultaneous fairness guarantee, and the achieved HySOU diversity gain is a satisfactory improvement.