• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1330-1350
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• 2022

As a preprocessing operation of transmitter antennas, the hybrid precoding is restricted by the limited computing resources of the transmitter. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel hybrid precoding that guarantees the communication efficiency with low complexity and a fast computational speed. First, the analog and digital precoding matrix is derived from the maximum eigenvectors of the channel matrix in the sub-connected architecture to maximize the communication rate. Second, the extended power iteration (EPI) is utilized to obtain the maximum eigenvalues and their eigenvectors of the channel matrix, which reduces the computational complexity caused by the singular value decomposition (SVD). Third, the Aitken acceleration method is utilized to further improve the convergence rate of the EPI algorithm. Finally, the hybrid precoding based on the EPI method and the Aitken acceleration algorithm is evaluated in millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce the computational complexity with the high performance in mmWave massive MIMO systems. The method has the wide application prospect in future wireless communication systems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2546-2566
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• 2016

This paper investigates an efficient transmission scheme for the remote wireless sensors to receive information which is rarely discussed in the integrated remote wireless sensor and multibeam satellite networks (IWSMSNs). The networks can be employed to exchange sensing information for emergency scenario, ocean scenario, and so on, which are isolated from available terrestrial networks. As the efficient transmission link is important to the IWSMSNs, we propose a hybrid full frequency (HFF) precoding by taking advantage of frequency reuse and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoding. Considering energy efficiency and sinks fairness are crucial to transmission link, thus the HFF precoding problems are formulated as transmit power minimization (TPM) and max-min fair (MMF) received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) problems, which can be transformed to indefinite quadratic optimization programs. Then this paper presents a semi-definite programming (SDP) algorithm to solve the problems for the IWSMSNs. The promising potential of HFF for the real IWSMSNs is demonstrated through simulations.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.885-902
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• 2022

The mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO), combining the advantages of wide bandwidth in the mmWave frequency band and the high- and uniform-spectral efficiency of CFmMIMO, has recently emerged as one of the enabling technologies for 6G. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for energy-efficient mmWave CFmMIMO systems that uses low-resolution digital-analog converters (DACs) and phase shifters (PSs) to introduce lowcomplexity hybrid precoding. Additionally, we propose a heuristic pilot allocation scheme that makes the best effort to slash some interference from copilot users. The simulation results show that the proposed hybrid precoding and pilot allocation scheme outperforms the existing schemes. Furthermore, we reveal the relationship between the energy and spectral efficiencies for the proposed mmWave CFmMIMO system by modeling the whole network power consumption and observe that the introduction of low-resolution DACs and PSs is effective in increasing the energy efficiency by compromising the spectral efficiency and the network power consumption.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.274-279
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• 2021

일반적인 대용량 안테나 시스템은 RF 체인의 개수가 매우 많기 때문에, 구현 비용 및 복잡도가 크게 증가하는 단점이 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 하이브리드 프리코더 설계 기법들이 제안되었으나, RF 체인이 모든 안테나에 연결되기 때문에, 여전히 구현 비용과 복잡도가 너무 높은 상태이다. 본 논문에서는 부분 중첩 안테나 구조를 갖는 대용량 MIMO 시스템을 고려하고 하이브리드 프리코더 설계 방법을 제안한다. 부분 중첩 구조에서는 RF 대역 아날로그 프리코딩 행렬의 많은 원소들이 0의 값을 갖는 듬성 행렬 형태를 갖는다. 이러한 듬성 행렬의 특성을 이용하여, GTP 기반의 RF 대역 아날로그 프리코딩 행렬 및 기저대역 디지털 프리코딩 행렬을 설계하는 방법을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통하여, 제안 기술이 일반적인 완전 연결 구조를 갖는 경우와 비교해서 20~30% 정도의 구현 복잡도를 가지고도, 완전 연결 구조의 85% 이상의 주파수 효율 성능을 갖는다는 것을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1042-1058
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• 2024

Terahertz (THz) communication is becoming a key technology for future 6G wireless networks because of its ultra-wide band. However, the implementation of THz communication systems confronts formidable challenges, notably beam splitting effects and high computational complexity associated with them. Our primary objective is to design a hybrid precoder that minimizes the Euclidean distance from the fully digital precoder. The analog precoding part adopts the delay-phase alternating minimization (DP-AltMin) algorithm, which divides the analog precoder into phase shifters and time delayers. This effectively addresses the beam splitting effects within THz communication by incorporating time delays. The traditional digital precoding solution, however, needs matrix inversion in THz massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, resulting in significant computational complexity and complicating the design of the analog precoder. To address this issue, we exploit the characteristics of THz massive MIMO communication systems and construct the digital precoder as a product of scale factors and semi-unitary matrices. We utilize Schatten norm and Hölder's inequality to create semi-unitary matrices after initializing the scale factors depending on the power allocation. Finally, the analog precoder and digital precoder are alternately optimized to obtain the ultimate hybrid precoding scheme. Extensive numerical simulations have demonstrated that our proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods in mitigating the beam splitting issue, improving system performance, and exhibiting lower complexity. Furthermore, our approach exhibits a more favorable alignment with practical application requirements, underlying its practicality and efficiency.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권12호
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• pp.3-11
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• 2014

다중 안테나는 송신부가 채널상태정보(CSI : channel state information)를 알고 있으면 높은 채널용량을 제공할 수 있다. 프리코딩(precoding)이란 송신부 측에서 CSI를 이용하는 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 HMP (hybrid multiple-input multiple-output precoding)라 부르는 적응적인 프리코딩 방법을 제시한다. HMP 는 선형과 비선형 프리코딩을 조합한 기술이다. 기존 안테나 선정방법은 4개 이하의 안테나를 사용하나 HMP 방법은 5개 이상의 안테나를 사용한다. 채널 용량을 극대화시키기 위해 주어진 채널 중에서 반드시 선택 되어야하는 채널을 좋은 채널 (good channel)이라 하며, 나쁜 채널 (bad channel) 은 나머지 채널을 의미한다. HMP 방법에서는 좋은 채널에 비선형 프리코딩을 사용하고, 나쁜 채널에 선형 프리코딩을 사용한다. 비선형 프리코딩으로서 고려되고 있는 것은 널리 알려진 THP(Tomlinson-Harashima precoding)이다. 기존 방법인 BD(block diagonalization), antenna selection 및 THP와 제안한 HMP 방법의 성능을 비교하기 위해 이 시스템이 달성할 수 있는 throughput MSE (minimum square error)를 제시하였다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2022

차세대 이동통신시스템에서 RF 체인의 개수를 증가시키지 않으면서 달성 가능 데이터 전송률을 크게 증가시킬 수 있는 방법은 하이브리드 대용량 MIMO 기법을 사용하는 것이다. 최근에 하이브리드 프리코더에 대한 계산량을 줄이기 위하여 SIC 기반의 설계 방식이 제안되었다. 그러나 기저대역 프리코딩을 위해 단순히 대각 행렬을 사용함으로써 동시에 전송되는 스트림 간에 존재하는 간섭 문제를 해결할 수 없고, 아날로그 프리코딩을 위해서는 1개의 위상변환기를 사용함으로써 데이터 전송률 성능 향상에 한계가 있었다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위하여, 본 논문에서는 유효 채널에 대한 SVD 기반의 디지털 프리코딩을 적용하고 두 개의 위상 변환기를 사용하는 아날로그 프리코딩 방법을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통하여 제안하는 기법이 기존 기법보다 더 높은 달성 가능 데이터 전송률 성능과 SINR 성능을 갖는다는 것을 보인다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.925-935
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• 2022

In this study, we propose a limited feedback-based frequency divided group beamforming with sparse space-frequency transmit diversity coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system for ultrareliable low latency communication (URLLC) scenario. The proposed scheme has several advantages over the traditional hybrid beamforming approach, including not requiring downlink channel state information for baseband precoding, supporting distributed multipoint transmission structures for diversity, and reducing beam sweeping latency with little uplink overhead. These are all positive aspects of physical layer characteristics intended for URLLC. It is suggested in the system to manage the multipoint transmission structure realized by distributed panels using a power allocation method based on cooperative game theory. Link-level simulations demonstrate that the proposed scheme offers reliability by achieving both higher diversity order and array gain in a nonline-of-sight channel of selectivity and limited spatial scattering.