• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.156-162
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• 2008

Cooperative relays can provide spatial diversity and improve performance of wireless communications. In this paper, we study subcarrier power allocation at the relays for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless systems. For cooperative relay with amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) algorithms, we investigate the impact of power allocation to the mutual information between the source and destination. From our simulation results on word~error-rate (WER) performance, we find that the DF algorithm with power allocation provides better performance than that of AF algorithm in a single path relay network because the former is able to eliminate channel noise at each relay. For the multiple path relay network, however, the network structure is already resistant to noise and channel distortion, and AF approach is a more attractive choice due to its lower complexity.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.28-35
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• 2011

고용량의 멀티미디어 데이터 전송이 비약적으로 늘어나는 차세대 이동통신 시스템에서 cooperative ARQ 기법은 단말의 QoS를 만족시키기 위한 효과적인 방법이다. 그러나 기존의 cooperative ARQ 기법은 수신노드의 feedback을 받아서 재전송을 하기 때문에 채널 변화가 극심한 MANET 환경에서는 실시간 전송을 보장하기 어렵다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 ad-hoc OFDMA 통신 네트워크에서 cognitive relay를 이용한 협력통신 기반 cooperative ARQ 재전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 송신노드가 전송한 신호의 SINR을 relay가 사전에 sensing함으로써, 수신노드가 feedback 신호를 전송하기 전에 협력 통신을 능동적으로 제안한다. 이를 통하여, 무선 채널의 변화에 따른 지연 분산 특성을 극소화함으로써 실시간 통신을 원활하게 한다. 또한, relay에서 협력 통신을 제안할 때, 잘못된 제안을 최소화하기 위하여 최적의 sensing threshold를 유지할 수 있도록 하는 적응적 sensing threshold 최적화 알고리듬을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통하여, 실시간 멀티미디어 데이터 전송 시스템에서 제안된 cooperative ARQ 재전송 기법이 기존의 알고리듬에 비하여 프레임 전달시간 및 프레임 손실률 측면에서 우수한 성능을 가짐을 확인하였다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 인지무선통신에서 중요한 기술 중 하나인 스펙트럼 센싱의 Hidden node의 문제나 셀룰라 시스템에서 셀 경계에서 CPE(Customer Premises equipments)의 낮은 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio)로 인한 센싱 성능 저하를 해결하기 위해 CPE들의 협력 릴레이 기법을 사용한 협력 스펙트럼 센싱을 제안하고 검출확률 성능을 분석한다. 송신단과 수신단 사이의 릴레이(Relay) 적용된 협력 스펙트럼 센싱은 가상의 공간 다이버시티이득(Spatial Diversity Gain)을 얻을 수 있어 센싱 성능이 향상된다. 협력 통신 기법 중 다중안테나를 적용한 AF(Amplify and Forward) 고정형 중계기를 사용하여 다이버시티이득을 얻는 시스템 모델을 제안하고, 검출 성능 향상을 분석한다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 인지무선통신에서 중요한 기술 중 하나인 스펙트럼 센싱의 Hidden node의 문제나 셀룰라 시스템에서 셀 경계에서 CPE(Customer-Primise equipments)의 낮은 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio)로 인한 센싱 성능 저하를 해결하기 위해 CPE들의 협력릴레이 기법을 사용한 협력 스펙트럼 센싱을 제안하고 검출확률 성능을 분석한다. 송신단과 수신단 사이의 릴레이(Relay) 적용된 협력 스펙트럼 센싱은 가상의 공간 다이버시티이득(Spatial Diversity Gain)을 얻을 수 있어 센싱 성능이 향상된다. 협력 통신 기법 중 AF(Amplify and Forward)와 DF(Decoded and Forward)방식이 대표적이다. 따라서 이 두가지 협력통신 기법을 적용하여 협력스펙트럼 센싱의 검출확률의 성능을 비교하고 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2047-2066
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• 2016

In this paper, we investigate joint power allocation and relay selection (PARS) schemes in non-orthogonal cooperative protocol (NOCP) based cognitive relay networks. Generally, NOCP outperforms the orthogonal cooperative protocol (OCP), since it can provide more transmit diversity. However, most existing PARS schemes in cognitive relay networks focus on OCP, which are not suitable for NOCP. In the context of NOCP, we first derive the joint constraints of transmit power limit for secondary user (SU) and interference constraint for primary user (PU). Then we formulate optimization problems under the aforementioned constraints to maximize the capacity of SU in amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) modes, respectively. Correspondingly, we derive the closed form solutions with respect to different parameters. Numerical results are provided to verify the performance improvement of the proposed PARS schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.3524-3542
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• 2017

In a single-source and multi-relay amplify-forward (AF) cooperative network, the outage probability and the power allocation are two key factors to influence the performance of an entire system. In this paper, an optimized AF relay selection by an exclusive method and near optimal power allocation (NOPA) is proposed for both good outage probability and power efficiency. Given the same power at the source and the relay nodes, a threshold for selecting the relay nodes is deduced and employed to minimize the average outage probability. It mainly excludes the relay nodes with much higher thresholds over the aforementioned threshold and thus the remainders of the relay nodes participate in cooperative forwarding efficiently. So the proposed scheme can improve the utility of the resources in the cooperative multi-relay system, as well as reduce the computational complexity. In addition, based on the proposed scheme, a NOPA is also suggested to approach sub-optimal power efficiency with low complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme obtains about 2.1dB and 5.8dB performance gain at outage probability of $10^{-4}$, when compared with the all-relay-forward (6 participated relays) and the single-relay-forward schemes. Furthermore, it obtains the minimum outage probability among all selective relay schemes with the same number of the relays. Meanwhile, it approaches closely to the optimal exhaustive scheme, thus reduce much complexity. Moreover, the proposed NOPA scheme achieves better outage probability than those of the equal power allocation schemes. Therefore, the proposed scheme can obtain good outage probability, low computational complexity and high power efficiency, which makes it pragmatic efficiently in the single-source and multi-relay AF based cooperative networks.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권1C호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

Cooperative diversity is a novel technique to improve diversity gains, capacity gains, and energy saving. This technique involves multiple terminals sharing resources in order to build a virtual antenna array in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we propose a multi-user cooperative diversity protocol called Relay-assisted Multiple Access Channel(R-MAC) that allows multiple source terminals to transmit their signals simultaneously and the relay terminal forwards the aggregated signal received from the source terminals to the destination terminal. The proposed protocol converts the distributed antenna channels into an effective MIMO channel by exploiting a relay, increasing both diversity gain and system throughput. We investigate the performance of the proposed protocol in terms of outage probability and diversity-multiplexing tradeoff where we assume block fading channel environment. Our simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperforms direct transmission in the high spectral efficiency regime where the conventional cooperative diversity protocols cannot outperform direct transmission.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.5335-5353
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• 2019

The definition of the bandwidth efficiency (BE) of cognitive cooperative network (CCN) is the ratio between a number of the licensed slot(s) or sub-channel(s) used by the unlicensed users to transmit a single data packet from the unlicensed transmitter to unlicensed destination, and from unlicensed relay(s) to unlicensed destination. This paper analyzes and improves the BE in the underlay CCN with a new reactive relay selection under interference and power constraints. In other words, this paper studies how unlicensed cooperative users use the licensed network slot(s) or sub-channel(s) efficiently. To this end, a reactive relay selection method named as Relay Automatic Repeat Request (RARQ) is proposed and utilized with a CCN under interference and power constraints. It is shown that the BE of CCN is higher than that of cooperative transmission (CT) due to the interference and power constraint. Furthermore, the BE of CCN is affected by the distance of the interference links which are between the unlicensed transmitter to the licensed destination and unlicensed relay to the licensed destination. In addition, the BE for multiple relays selection over a CCN under interference and power constraints is also analyzed and studied, and it is shown that the BE of CCN decreases as the number of relays increases.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권9호
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• pp.789-800
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 선박 내 WiMedia 환경의 WSS에서 릴레이 기반 WUSB/DRD와 WLP 디바이스의 통신을 위한 연동 프로토콜을 제안한다. 이를 위해 릴레이 기반 협력 통신에 사용되는 RNT 테이블 구성과 RNS 릴레이 노드 알고리즘에 대해 알아본다. 또, WLP 네트워크를 구성하는 디바이스를 알아보고 WUSB/DRD/WLP 디바이스의 통신을 위한 연동 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 WLP 연동 프로토콜을 이용하면, 기존의 표준 DRP 예약과 WUSB 프로토콜의 DRP 예약을 이용하여 WUSB/DRD/WLP 디바이스의 통신이 가능하게 된다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.3501-3523
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• 2017

It is a classical integer optimization difficulty to design an optimal selection scheme in cooperative relay networks considering co-channel interference (CCI). In this paper, we solve single-objective and multi-objective relay selection problem. For the single-objective relay selection problem, in order to attain optimal system performance of cooperative relay network, a novel quantum differential evolutionary algorithm (QDEA) is proposed to resolve the optimization difficulty of optimal relay selection, and the proposed optimal relay selection scheme is called as optimal relay selection based on quantum differential evolutionary algorithm (QDEA). The proposed QDEA combines the advantages of quantum computing theory and differential evolutionary algorithm (DEA) to improve exploring and exploiting potency of DEA. So QDEA has the capability to find the optimal relay selection scheme in cooperative relay networks. For the multi-objective relay selection problem, we propose a novel non-dominated sorting quantum differential evolutionary algorithm (NSQDEA) to solve the relay selection problem which considers two objectives. Simulation results indicate that the proposed relay selection scheme based on QDEA is superior to other intelligent relay selection schemes based on differential evolutionary algorithm, artificial bee colony optimization and quantum bee colony optimization in terms of convergence speed and accuracy for the single-objective relay selection problem. Meanwhile, the simulation results also show that the proposed relay selection scheme based on NSQDEA has a good performance on multi-objective relay selection.