• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권10호
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• pp.865-873
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 펨토셀을 채택한 셀룰러 통신망에서 매크로셀 사용자를 보호하기 위한 새로운 분산식 펨토셀 전송전력 제어 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서, 인근의 펨토셀로부터 심한 간섭을 받는 매크로셀 사용자는 그 사실을 매크로셀 기지국을 통해 해당 펨토셀 기지국에게 알린다. 펨토셀 기지국은 전송전력을 감소시켜 매크로셀 사용자를 보호한다. 제안된 기법은 매크로셀 기지국, 매크로셀 사용자 및 펨토셀 기지국 간에 교환해야 할 제어 정보가 많지 않고, 펨토셀 기지국의 계산량이 적어서 구현이 용이한 장점을 가진다. 시뮬레이션 결과에 따르면, 제안된 기법은 그 단순함에도 불구하고 최소한의 펨토셀 사용자의 성능 열화를 대가로 탁월한 매크로셀 성능 향상을 달성한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권1호
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• pp.44-57
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 co-channel deployment 방식을 사용하는 closed access 펨토셀 주변에서 마크로셀 단말의 동기소실 문제를 해결하고 펨토셀의 전력 누수 때문에 발생하는 셀 탐색을 줄이기 위하여 CS(Common Signal)을 사용한 펨토셀 탐색 기법을 제안한다. CS는 특정 마크로셀 내의 펨토셀들이 같은 시간에 공통으로 전송하는 신호로, 펨토셀이 CS를 송신할 경우 마크로셀 내에서 마크로셀 기지국의 CINR(Carrier to Interference Noise and Ratio) 값이 크게 유지되어 closed access 펨토셀 주변에서 마크로셀 단말이 동기를 유지할 수 있다. 또한, CS는 단말이 CS를 사용하여 측정한 CSCINR(Common Signal Carrier to Interference Noise and Ratio) 값을 이용하여 펨토셀 존재 여부를 판단할 수 있도록 설계되므로, 마크로셀 단말은 마크로셀 기지국에 동기를 유지하면서 펨토셀 존재여부를 판단할 수 있다. 그리고 제안된 방식에서는 옥외에서 이동 중인 단말이 자신의 이동성을 이용하여 펨토셀 탐색 여부를 판단함으로써 단말의 펨토셀 탐색 빈도를 줄인다. 따라서 펨토셀 탐색에 대한 부담을 줄이고, 이에 대한 부가적 이득으로 핸드오버 시도의 빈도 감소를 기대할 수 있다.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• 제18권1E호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2006

Artificial cracks were made in the cover concrete of specimens embedding ten types of steel rebars of different Cr contents. The research aims for developing Cr-bearing steel rebars resistant to macrocell corrosion environments induced by cracking in cover concrete. The cracks were subjected to intensive penetration of carbon dioxide (carbonation specimens) to form macrocells. The carbonation specimens were then treated with accelerated corrosion curing, during which current macrocell corrosion density was measured. The corrosion area and loss from corrosion were also measured at the end of 105 cycles of this accelerated curing. The results of the study showed that Cr-bearing steel with Cr content of 5% or more suppressed corrosion in a macrocell corrosion environment induced by the differences in the pH values due to carbonation of cracked parts. Cr-bearing steels with Cr content of 7% or more are proven to possess excellent corrosion resistance.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권5B호
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• pp.741-752
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• 2010

The ability to seamlessly switch between the macro networks and femtocell networks is a key driver for femtocell network deployment. The handover procedures for the integrated femtocell/macrocell networks differ from the existing handovers. Some modifications of existing network and protocol architecture for the integration of femtocell networks with the existing macrocell networks are also essential. These modifications change the signal flow for handover procedures due to different 2-tier cell (macrocell and femtocell) environment. The handover between two networks should be performed with minimum signaling. A frequent and unnecessary handover is another problem for hierarchical femtocell/macrocell network environment that must be minimized. This work studies the details mobility management schemes for small and medium scale femtocell network deployment. To do that, firstly we present two different network architectures for small scale and medium scale WCDMA femtocell deployment. The details handover call flow for these two network architectures and CAC scheme to minimize the unnecessary handovers are proposed for the integrated femtocell/macrocell networks. The numerical analysis for the proposed M/M/N/N queuing scheme and the simulation results of the proposed CAC scheme demonstrate the handover call control performances for femtocell environment.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권7A호
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• pp.440-450
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• 2003

The reverse link of a spectrally overlaid macrocell/microcell cellular CDMA system supporting multimedia traffic is characterized in terms of the required signal power, interference, and capacity. Several narrowband subsystems are overlaid with a wideband subsystem in macrocells, while a single wideband subsystem is operated in a microcell with the same spectrum as the macrocell wideband subsystem. Using a typical propagation model the reverse link signal power and interference are characterized as the relative user signal power and the cross-tier interference factors between the macrocell and the microcell. The reverse link capacity of the overlay system is then analyzed. Analytical results show that the dominant parameters affecting the system performance are the spectral overlay ratio and the distance between the microcell and macrocell base stations. In particular, when the distance equals a half of macrocell radius, optimum performance can be achieved by minimizing the cross-tier interference factors. These results can be applied to CDMA multimedia network planning in heavily populated traffic areas.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제33B권6호
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• pp.136-148
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• 1996

In this paper, we analyze the traffic characteristics in microcell and macrocell overlaid PCS system which process voice and dta calls separately each others. in this system, data calls are delayed in queue when all of channels are occupied, while voice calls are bolcked in that case. For this, we calculated inter-microcell handoff area dwelling time distribution and handoff area dwelling time distribution between microcell and macrocell. We analyze traffic performance using this results. We used M/M/C/K model, and analyzed traffic performance of macrocell with handoff area variation of microcell.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2015

The heterogeneous LTE (Long Term Evolution)-Advanced networks comprising a macrocell and femtocells can provide an efficient solution not only to extend macrocell coverage but also to deal with packet traffics increasing explosively within macrocells. An efficient resource management scheme is necessary to maintain the QoS (Quality of Service) of mobile multimedia services because the LTE-Advanced system should support not only voice but also mobile applications such as data, image and video. This paper proposes a resource management scheme to guarantee QoS continuity of multimedia services and to maximize the resource utilization in OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) based LTE-Advanced systems. This scheme divides the resources into several service blocks and allocates those resources based on the competition between macrocell and femtocell. Simulation results show that it provides better performances than the conventional one in respect of handover failure rate and blocking rate.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.159-167
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• 2012

In this paper, a new distributed resource allocation algorithm is proposed to alleviate the cross-tier interference for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access macrocell and femtocell overlay. Specifically, the resource allocation problem is modeled as a non-cooperative game. Based on game theory, we propose an iterative algorithm between subchannel and power allocation called distributed resource allocation which requires no coordination among the two-hierarchy networks. Finally, a macrocell link quality protection process is proposed to guarantee the macrocell UE's quality of service to avoid severe cross-tier interference from femtocells. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve remarkable performance gains as compared to the pure waterfilling algorithm.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.30-40
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• 2016

Co-channel interference between macro-femtocell networks is an unresolved problem, due to the frequency reuse phenomenon. To mitigate such interference, a secondary femtocell must acquire channel-state knowledge about a co-channel macrocell user and accordingly condition the maximum transmit power of femtocell user. This paper proposes a pilot-based spectrum sensing (PSS) algorithm for overlaid femtocell networks to sense the presence of a macrocell user over a channel of interest. The PSS algorithm senses the pilot tones in the received signal through the power level and the correlation metric comparisons between the received signal and the local reference pilots. On ensuring the existence of a co-channel macrocell user, the maximum transmit power of the corresponding femtocell user is optimized so as to avoid interference. Time and frequency offsets are carefully handled in our proposal. Simulation results show that the PSS algorithm outperforms existing sensing techniques, even at poor received signal quality. It requires less sensing time and provides better detection probability over existing techniques.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권8A호
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• pp.743-751
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• 2010

OFDMA 초소형 기지국은 기존의 대형 기지국을 대신하여 실내에서의 고속 데이터 통신을 지원하기 위해 개발된 기술이지만 아직 실용화를 위해 해결해야할 여러 문제를 가지고 있다. 특히 초소형 기지국이 대형 기지국과 같은 주파수 대역을 사용할 경우 발생하는 셀간 간섭 문제는 시스템의 성능을 저하시키는 주요 원인이 된다. 초소형 기지국에 대한 사용 권한이 없는 사용자는 초소형 기지국의 서비스 영역 내에서도 대형 기지국과 통신을 수행하여야 하며 이때 하향링크에서 초소형 기지국의 전송 신호는 대형 기지국 사용자에게 간섭으로 작용하게 된다. 따라서 초소형 기지국의 전송 전력을 최소화하여 대형 기지국 사용자에게 미치는 간섭을 제어할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 초소형 기지국의 전력 할당을 위한 margin adaptive 문제를 정의하고 이를 해결하기 위한 휴리스틱기법을 제안한다. 또한 모의실험을 통해 제안한 기법의 성능을 검증한다.