• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.1077-1093
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• 2013

This paper proposes a new network coordinator node design to select the most suitable wireless technology for WBANs by using fuzzy logic. Its goal is to select a wireless communication technology available considering the user/application requirements and network conditions. A WBAN is composed of a set of sensors placed in, on, or around human body, which monitors the human body functions and the surrounding environment. In an effort to send sensor readings from human body to medical center or a station, a WBAN needs to stay connected to a local or a wide area network by using various wireless communication technologies. Nowadays, several wireless networking technologies may be utilized in WLANs and/or WANs each of which is capable of sending WBAN sensor readings to the desired destination. Therefore, choosing the best serving wireless communications technology has critical importance to provide quality of service support and cost efficient connections for WBAN users. In this work, we have developed, modeled, and simulated some networking scenarios utilizing our fuzzy logic-based NCN by using OPNET and MATLAB. Besides, we have compared our proposed fuzzy logic based algorithm with widely used RSSI-based AP selection algorithm. The results obtained from the simulations show that the proposed approach provides appropriate outcomes for both the WBAN users and the overall network.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.921-940
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• 2015

In this paper, we investigate the multi-resource allocation problem, a unique feature of which is that the multiple resources can compensate each other while achieving the desired system performance. In particular, power and time allocations are jointly optimized with the target of energy efficiency under the resource-limited constraints. Different from previous studies on the power-time tradeoff, we consider a multi-server case where the concurrent serving users are quantitatively restricted. Therefore user selection is investigated accompanying the resource allocation, making the power-time tradeoff occur not only between the users in the same server but also in different servers. The complex multivariate optimization problem can be modeled as a variant of 2-Dimension Bin Packing Problem (V2D-BPP), which is a joint non-linear and integer programming problem. Though we use state decomposition model to transform it into a convex optimization problem, the variables are still coupled. Therefore, we propose an Iterative Dual Optimization (IDO) algorithm to obtain its optimal solution. Simulations show that the joint multi-resource allocation algorithm outperforms two existing non-joint algorithms from the perspective of energy efficiency.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.111-116
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• 2015

본 논문은 인지 통신의 1차, 2차 시스템 사이에서 발생되는 협력 스펙트럼 공유 모델을 고려한다. 제시된 모델은 동상 신호로 표현되는 1차 사용자의 메시지가 존재할 때, 직교 위상 기반의 신호인 2차 사용자의 메시지가 존재하기 위한 단일 2차 송신기 ST의 배치에 대해 표현한다. 상호 간섭이 없는 순간적인 스펙트럼 공유로 가정하였으므로, 2차 사용자의 동작으로 인한 1차 사용자의 동작을 보호하는 것은 불필요하다. 또한 1차 시스템의 신호, 2차 시스템의 신호가 동상 및 직교 위상인 직교 차원에 위치하는 것을 기반으로 하기 때문에, 1차 시스템과 2차 시스템의 신호는 상호 간섭이 발생하지 않으며 2차 시스템 전원의 일부를 사용하여 1차 시스템의 신호를 강화시킬 수 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.162-171
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• 2014

Spectrum sensing is a key technical challenge for cognitive radio (CR). It is well known that multicycle cyclostationarity (MC) detection is a powerful method for spectrum sensing. However, a conventional MC detector is difficult to implement because of its high computational complexity. This paper considers reducing computational complexity by simplifying the test statistic of a conventional MC detector. On the basis of this simplification process, an improved MC detector is proposed. Compared with the conventional detector, the proposed detector has low-computational complexity and high-accuracy sensing performance. Subsequently, the sensing performance is further investigated for the cases of Rayleigh, Nakagami-m, Rician, and Rayleigh fading and lognormal shadowing channels. Furthermore, square-law combining (SLC) is introduced to improve the detection capability in fading and shadowing environments. The corresponding closed-form expressions of average detection probability are derived for each case by the moment generation function (MGF) and contour integral approaches. Finally, illustrative and analytical results show the efficiency and reliability of the proposed detector and the improvement in sensing performance by SLC in multipath fading and lognormal shadowing environments.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2013

일반적으로 에너지 검파 기반 스펙트럼 감지 방식은 잡음 전력에 대한 불확실성에 취약한 것으로 알려져 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 방안 중의 하나로 이중 임계값을 사용하는 에너지 검파 기반 협력 스펙트럼 감지 방식이 제안된 바 있다. 그러나 아직까지 페이딩 채널 환경에서 이 방식에 대한 성능 분석이 수행된 바 없다. 본 논문에서는 에너지 검파 기반 스펙트럼감지 방식에 대한 이전 연구 결과를 활용하여 에너지 검파 기반 협력 스펙트럼 감지 방식에 대한 닫힌 형태의 수학적 분석 결과를 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.87-92
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 로컬 스펙트럼 감지 성능에서 1차 사용자 신호의 영향을 분석하는 데 초점을 맞추었다. 감지시간의 표본에서 신호 도착의 확률은 감지 시간에 따라 일정하게 분산되어있다. PU 신호의 임의의 도착에 따라 기존의 에너지 감지(CED)의 검출 결과에 저하를 일으키는 주요 요인을 분석한다. 따라서, PU 신호의 도착을 검출을 추정하고 복합 에너지 검출과 협동하여 검출 성능을 향상시키기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 수학적 분석과 시뮬레이션은 CED와 비교하여 제안된 기법의 출력이 적합한지 확인한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.280-292
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• 2014

This article presents a novel cooperative spectrum sharing (CSS) scheme. The primary transmitter transmits a complex Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal in the first phase, and CSS occurs in the second phase. The secondary transmitter with the largest forwarding channel gain among the nodes that successfully decode the primary signal in the first phase is selected for CSS. This selected node employs a pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) signal for primary information message (IM) instead of the QAM signal, and it employs a modified PAM signal for the secondary IM. The proposed modified PAM signal depends on the amplitude of the primary PAM signal. This method results in no mutual interference and negligible primary interference constraint and allows a higher degree of exploitation of spatial diversity, thus enabling increase in secondary power to improve primary transmission. The outage performance is enhanced in both the primary and secondary systems. The critical region, in which the primary outage performance is enhanced with the proposed CSS scheme, can be adjusted and widened by varying either the modulation cooperation sharing factor or the number of secondary transmitters.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.514-526
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• 2013

With a long sensing period, the inter-frame spectrum sensing in IEEE 802.22 standard is vulnerable to the effect of the traffic of the primary user (PU). In this article, we address the two degrading factors that affect the inter-frame sensing performance with respect to the random arrival/leaving of the PU traffic. They are the noise-only samples under the random arrival traffic, and the PU-signal-contained samples under the random leaving traffic. We propose the model in which the intra-frame sensing cooperates with the inter-frame one, and the inter-frame sensing uses the time-of-arrival (ToA), and time-of-leave (ToL) detectors to reduce the two degrading factors in the inter-frame sensing time. These ToA and ToL detectors are used to search for the sample which contains either the ToA or ToL of the PU traffic, respectively, which allows the partial cancelation of the unnecessary samples. At the final stage, the remaining samples are input into a primary user detector, which is based on the energy detection scheme, to determine the status of PU traffic in the inter-frame sensing time. The analysis and the simulation results show that the proposed scheme enhances the spectrum-sensing performance compared to the conventional counter-part.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.469-475
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an efficient interference management technique which controls the number of resource blocks (or subcarriers) shared with other cells based on statistical interference levels among cells. The proposed technique tries to maximize average throughput of a femto cell user under a constraint on non-real time control of a femto cell network while guaranteeing a target throughput value of a macro cell user. In our proposed scheme, femto cells opportunistically use resource blocks allocated to other cells if the required average user throughput is not attained with the primarily allocated resource blocks. The proposed method is similar to the underlay approach in cognitive radio systems, but resource block sharing among cells is statistically controlled. For the statistical control, a femto cell sever constructs a table storing average mutual interference among cells and periodically updates the table. This statistical approach fully satisfies the constraint of non-real time control for femto cell networks. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves higher average femto user throughput than conventional frequency reuse schemes for time varying number of users.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.3-8
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• 2014

TV 대역에 나타날 수 있는 무선 마이크 신호를 검출하는 방안으로 전력 스펙트럼의 최대값을 시험 통계량으로 사용하는 방안이 최근 발표되었다. 이 방식은 시험 통계량을 임계값과 비교하여 우선 사용자의 유무를 판정하는데, 이때 임계값은 목표로 하는 오경보 확률뿐만 아니라 배경 잡음 전력 수준에 따라 달라진다. 따라서 잡음 전력에 대한 불확실성이 존재하는 경우 그로 인한 성능 저하가 발생할 수 있다. 이에 대한 해결책으로 본 논문은 전력 스펙트럼의 최대값과 최소값의 비율을 시험 통계량으로 사용하는 방식을 제안하고, 그 분석 결과를 제시하고자 한다.