• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2949-2963
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• 2019

A novel distributed compress-and-forward (CF) system based on multi-relay network is presented. In this system, as the direct link between the source and destination is invalid due to some reasons, such as the limited power, special working environment, or even economic factors, relays are employed to receive analog signals and carry on distributed compressed encoding. Subsequently, the digital signals are transmitted to the destination via wireless channel. Moreover, a theoretical analysis for the system is provided by utilizing the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) theory and Shannon channel capacity theory, and the rate-distortion function as well as the connection between the transmission rate and the channel capacity are constructed. In addition, an optimal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) -based power allocation method is proposed to maximize the quantization SNR under the limited total power. Simulation result shows that the proposed CF system outperforms the amplify-and-forward (AF) system versus the SNR performance.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.433-444
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• 2009

The bi-directional relay channel is the natural extension of a three-terminal relay channel where node a transmits to node b with the help of a relay r to allow for two-way communication between nodes a and b. That is, in a bi-directional relay channel, a and b wish to exchange independent messages over a shared channel with the help of a relay r. The rates at which this communication may reliably take place depend on the assumptions made on the relay processing abilities. We overview information theoretic limits of the bi-directional relay channel under a variety of conditions, before focusing on half-duplex nodes in which communication takes place in a number of temporal phases (resulting in protocols), and nodes may forward messages in four manners. The relay-forwarding considered are: Amplify and forward (AF), decode and forward (DF), compress and forward (CF), and mixed forward. The last scheme is a combination of CF in one direction and DF in the other. We derive inner and outer bounds to the capacity region of the bi-directional relay channel for three temporal protocols under these four relaying schemes. The first protocol is a two phase protocol where a and b simultaneously transmit during the first phase and the relay r alone transmits during the second. The second protocol considers sequential transmissions from a and b followed by a transmission from the relay while the third protocol is a hybrid of the first two protocols and has four phases. We provide a comprehensive treatment of protocols in Gaussian noise, obtaining their respective achievable rate regions, outer bounds, and their relative performance under different SNR and relay geometries.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39A권7호
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• pp.404-412
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• 2014

이동 단말기에 다중 안테나를 장착하는 것은 단말기의 크기와 전력 소모 문제로 현실적인 어려움을 안고 있다. 본 논문에서는 셀룰러 네트워크에서 단일 안테나를 가지는 이동 단말기의 전송 용량 증대를 위해, 다중안테나 통신 (MIMO)을 통해서 얻을 수 있는 선형적인 전송 용량 증대를 달성하는 신호 중계 기반 분산 다중 안테나기법을 제안하고 성능을 분석한다. 분산 다중안테나 시스템을 위한 단말 간 신호 중계에 증폭 후 전달 기법(Amplify-and-Forward)을 사용할 경우에 비해 양자화 후 전달 (Quantize-Map-and-Forward) 기법을 사용하는 경우, 처리율 측면에서 보다 우수한 성능을 달성할 수 있음을 실험을 통해서 보인다. 또한, 선형적 전송 용량 증대폭을 보다 향상시키기 위해 양자화 후 전달 중계 방식을 활용하여 다중접속채널을 구성하는 방법을 제안하고, 이러한 다중접속채널 구성이 가능한 조건을 충족시키기 위한 단말기 선택을 가능하게 하는 후보 이동 단말기 수를 분석하였다. 이러한 분산 다중 안테나 통신 기법은 셀룰러 시스템에서 지역적으로 분리된 클러스터들을 서비스하기 때문에 주파수 재사용을 가능하게 하며, 이로 인해 클러스터의 숫자에 비례하는 전체 셀룰러 용량 증대에 기여한다.