• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권9호
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• pp.2086-2097
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• 2012

A terminal-based dynamic clustering algorithm is proposed in a multi-cell scenario, where the user could select the cooperative BSs from the predetermined static base stations (BSs) set based on dynamic channel condition. First, the user transmission rate is derived based on linear precoding and per-cell feedback scheme. Then, the dynamic clustering algorithm can be implemented based on two criteria: (a) the transmission rate should meet the user requirement for quality of service (QoS); (b) the rate increment exceeds the predetermined constant threshold. By adopting random vector quantization (RVQ), the optimized number of cooperative BSs and the corresponding channel conditions are presented respectively. Numerical results are given and show that the performance of the proposed method can improve the system resources utilization effectively.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2016년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.98-100
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• 2016

Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission adopt the Base Stations (BS) cooperatively process User Equipment (UE) connected to multi-points to improve UEs spectral efficiency at the cell edge and eliminate the inter-cell interference (ICI). This technology is important for UEs at the cell edge. Considering the real environment, energy consumption and cost situation, we propose in a Local C-RAN architecture deployment of CoMP and observed its spectral efficiency and Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) in intra-site CoMP scenarios. Simulation results show that this approach has significantly enhanced than Non-CoMP.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권6A호
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• pp.594-599
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• 2010

본 논문은 멀티홉 셀룰러 네트워크에서 릴레이 노드의 배치 위치가 하향링크 SINR에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 분석 모델에서는 릴레이 노드가 셀 안쪽으로 배치되는 것과 인접한 두 셀의 경계지역에 배치되는 두 가지 시나리오를 가정한다. 본 논문에서는 위 두 가지 시나리오의 하향링크 SINR을 비교 분석하기 위한 수학적 모델을 도출한다. 제안하는 수학적 모델에서는 멀티-셀 구조 및 셀 간 간섭 등을 고려한다. 수학적 분석 결과는 릴레이 노드들을 셀 안쪽에 배치하는 경우에 셀 간 간섭의 증가에도 불구하고 수신 신호 세기의 증가로 인해 릴레이 노드들을 셀 경계에 배치하는 경우에 비해 SINR이 증가함을 보인다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.1153-1162
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• 2016

This paper addresses the resource allocation (RA) problem in multi-cell cognitive radio networks. Besides the interference power threshold to limit the interference on primary users PUs caused by cognitive users CUs, a proportional fairness constraint is used to guarantee fairness among multiple cognitive cells and the impact of imperfect spectrum sensing is taken into account. Additional constraints in typical real communication scenarios are also considered-such as a transmission power constraint of the cognitive base stations, unique subcarrier allocation to at most one CU, and others. The resulting RA problem belongs to the class of NP-hard problems. A computationally efficient optimal algorithm cannot therefore be found. Consequently, we propose a suboptimal RA algorithm composed of two modules: a subcarrier allocation module implemented by the immune algorithm, and a power control module using an improved sub-gradient method. To further enhance algorithm performance, these two modules are executed successively, and the sequence is repeated twice. We conduct extensive simulation experiments, which demonstrate that our proposed algorithm outperforms existing algorithms.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2011

Beamforming techniques have been successfully utilized for traffic channels in order to solve the interference problem. However, their use for control channels has not been sufficiently investigated. In this paper, a (semi-) centralized beamforming strategy that adaptively changes beam patterns and controls the total transmit power of cells is proposed for the performance enhancement of the common channel in hierarchical cell structure (HCS) networks. In addition, some examples of its practical implementation with low complexity are presented for two-tier HCS networks consisting of macro and pico cells. The performance of the proposed scheme has been evaluated through multi-cell system-level simulations under optimistic and pessimistic interference scenarios. The cumulative distribution function of user geometry or channel quality has been used as a performance metric since in the case of common control channel the number of outage users is more important than the sum rate. Simulation results confirm that the proposed scheme provides a significant gain compared to the random beamforming scheme as well as conventional systems that do not use the proposed algorithm. Finally, the proposed scheme can be applied simultaneously to several adjacent macro and pico cells even if it is designed primarily for the pico cell within macro cells.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2016

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach for cellular communication due to its energy efficiency and high achievable data rate. These advantages, however, can be realized only when channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitter. Since there are many antennas, CSI is too large to feed back without compression. To compress CSI, prior work has applied compressive sensing (CS) techniques and the fact that CSI can be sparsified. The adopted sparsifying bases fail, however, to reflect the spatial correlation and channel conditions or to be feasible in practice. In this paper, we propose a new sparsifying basis that reflects the long-term characteristics of the channel, and needs no change as long as the spatial correlation model does not change. We propose a new reconstruction algorithm for CS, and also suggest dimensionality reduction as a compression method. To feed back compressed CSI in practice, we propose a new codebook for the compressed channel quantization assuming no other-cell interference. Numerical results confirm that the proposed channel feedback mechanisms show better performance in point-to-point (single-user) and point-to-multi-point (multi-user) scenarios.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.282-290
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• 2006

In vertically overlaid cellular systems, a temporary traffic concentration can occur in a hot-spot area, and this adversely affects overall system capacity. In this paper, we develop an adaptive hot-spot operating scheme (AHOS) to mitigate the negative effects from the nonuniform distribution of user location and the variation in the mixture of QoS requirements in orthogonal frequency division multiple access downlink systems. Here, the base station in a macrocell can control the operation of picocells within the cell, and turns them on or off according to the system overload estimation function. In order to determine whether the set of picocells is turned on or off, we define an AHOS gain index that describes the number of subcarriers saved to the macrocell by turning a specific picocell on. For initiating the picocell OFF procedure, we utilize the changes in traffic concentration and co-channel interference to the neighboring cells. According to computer simulation, the AHOS has been proved to have maximize system throughput while maintaining a very low QoS outage probability under various system scenarios in both a single-cell and multi-cell environments.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.628-631
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• 2014

최근 다양한 형태의 스마트 기기 출현과 대중적 보급으로 인해 고속 데이터 전송에 대한 수요가 나날이 증가하고 있다. 이런 요구사항을 수용하기 위해 셀룰러 사업자 및 이동통신 장비 제조업체는 많은 새로운 기술에 대한 연구를 진행하였으며 이에 대한 결과로 향후 셀룰러 네트워크에서 성능 및 커버리지 향상을 위해 소형셀 기술을 하나의 중요한 요소 기술로 고려하고 있다. 셀룰러 네트워크에서 소형셀 기술은 데이터 요구량이 많은 위치에 소형셀을 밀집 배치하고 매크로 기지국 및 소형셀 기지국의 밀접한 협력을 통해 무선 네트워크의 용량을 증가시키는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 매크로 셀과 소형 셀이 다층으로 배치된 셀룰러 이동통신 구조를 제시하고 다층셀간의 협력을 통해 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 다양한 요소기술들에 대해서 기술한다. 또, 이들 요소기술들을 바탕으로 최근 3GPP에서 활발히 논의되고 있는 LTE 소형셀 향상 표준화 동향에 대해 기술한다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.80-84
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 MIMO (multi input multi output) 기술의 위성 통신에 적용을 위한 연구에 대해 논하고자 한다. 위성은 광역 커버리지의 장점을 활용하여 DVB-S/S2, DVB-SH와 같은 방송 서비스 및 지상망 커버리지외각에 대해 음성 및 데이터 fill-in 서비스 제공하여 왔다. 한편 최근의 지상망은 MIMO 기술을 적용하여 높은 전송 효율 및 전송 커비러지를 넓히는 것을 가능하게 하였다. 이러한 관점에서, 위성 시스템의 지상망과의 효율적인 공존 및 4세대 통신에서 요구하는 유비커터스 환경에 부합하기 위해서는 지상망의 핵심 기술인 MIMO 기술의 위성 시스템 적용을 위한 연구가 필요하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 위성 및 IMR (intermediate module repeater) 환경에서의 효과적인 MIMO적용을 위한 여러 시스템 시나리오들을 소개하고 각각의 시나리오 모델에서 필요로 하는 기술적 요구사항 및 적용 가능성에 대해 논하고 대략적인 실험 결과를 통해 그 가능성을 확인 하고자 한다. MIMO기술은 크게 Space time coding (STC)기법과 Spatial multiplexing (SM) 기법으로 나눌 수 있는데, 위성 통신에서는 STC 의 위성 및 IMR환경에서 전송 효율 및 IMR cell 커버리지를 증가 시키기 위해 사용되었으며, SM의 경우 IMR환경에서 위성에서 전송된 방송 외에 IMR cell지역의 지역 방송을 multiplexing 하기 위한 형태로 형태로 활용 되었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권10호
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• pp.4015-4033
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• 2015

The future mobile networks consist of hyper-dense heterogeneous and small cell networks of same or different radio access technologies (RAT). Integrating mobile networks of different RATs to provide seamless and smooth mobility service will be the target of future mobile converged network. Generally, handover from high-speed networks to low-speed networks faces many challenges from application perspective, such as abrupt bandwidth variation, packet loss, round trip time variation, connection disruption, and transmission blackout. Existing inter-RAT handover solutions cannot solve all the problems at the same time. Based on the high-layer convergence sublayer design, a new receiver-aided soft inter-RAT handover is proposed. This soft handover scheme takes advantage of multihoming ability of multi-mode mobile station (MS) to smooth handover procedure. In addition, handover procedure is seamless and applicable to frequent handover scenarios. The simulation results conducted in UMTS-WiMAX converged network scenario show that: in case of TCP traffics for handover from WiMAX to UMTS, not only handover latency and packet loss are eliminated completely, but also abrupt bandwidth/wireless RTT variation is smoothed. These delightful features make this soft handover scheme be a reasonable candidate of mobility management for future mobile converged networks.