• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권8C호
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• pp.689-695
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• 2007

유선 Relay Station(RS)은 셀룰러 시스템의 기지국(Base Station; BS)과 Radio-over-Fiber(RoF) 형태로 연결되어 시스템의 용량을 증대시키고 음영 지역을 축소시키는 역할을 수행할 수 있다. 무선 멀티홉 시스템과는 달리 별도의 대역으로 BS와 RS 간 신호 전송을 함에 따라, 주파수 재사용으로 인한 간섭의 영향을 크게 감소시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 RS를 활용하는 셀룰러 시스템에서 안테나 어레이를 부가적으로 사용하는 경우 전송 용량 측면에서의 이득을 산출하고, 셀 내에 배치하는 안테나 어레이의 구성에 따른 성능 변화를 분석한다. 특히 성능 향상을 최대화하는 RS 위치의 선정, 주어진 안테나 원소 개수에 따른 배치 형태 결정, 안테나 원소의 개수 증가에 따른 성능 이득을 실험적으로 평가함으로써, 유선 RS와 안테나 어레이의 통합 활용 방안을 제시한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.5253-5270
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• 2016

With device-to-device (D2D) communications, an inactive user terminal can be utilized as a relay node to support multi-hop communication so that connective experience of the cell-edge user as well as the capacity of the whole system can be significantly improved. In this paper, we investigate the spectrum sharing for a cooperative relay assisted D2D communication underlying a cellular network. We formulate a joint relay selection and channel assignment problem to maximize the throughput of the system while guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS) requirements of cellular users (CUs) and D2D users (DUs). By exploiting coalition formation game theory, we propose two algorithms to solve the problem. The first algorithm is designed based on merge and split rules while the second one is developed based on single user's movement. Both of them are proved to be stable and convergent. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.5282-5300
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• 2017

Multi-hop cellular networks (MCNs) reduce the transmit power and improve the system performance. Recently, several research studies have been conducted on MCNs. The mobile relay selection scheme is a rising issue in the design of MCNs that achieves these advantages. The conventional opportunistic relaying (OR) is performed on the single factor for maximum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). In this paper, a comprehensive OR scheme based on Bi-Target is proposed to improve the system throughput and reduce the relay handover by constraining the amount of required bandwidth and SINR. Moreover, the proposed algorithm captures the variability and the mobility that makes it more suitable for dynamic real scenarios. Numerical and simulation results show the superiority of the proposed algorithm in both enhancing the overall performance and reducing the handover.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.216-225
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• 2004

In a cellular network, if there are too many data users in a cell, data may suffer long delay, and system's quality-of-service (QoS) will degrade. Some traditional schemes such as dynamic channel-allocation scheme (DCA) will assign more channels to hot (or overloaded) cells through a central control system (CC) and the throughput increase will be upper bounded by the number of new channels assigned to the cell. In mobile-assisted data forwarding (MADF), we add an ad-hoc overlay to the fixed cellular infrastructure and special channels-called forwarding channels- are used to connect mobile units in a hot cell and its surrounding cold cells without going through the hot cell's base station. Thus, mobile units in a hot cell can forward data to other cold cells to achieve load balancing. Most of the forwarding-channel management work in MADF is done by mobile units themselves in order to relieve the load from the CC. The traffic increase in a certain cell will not be upper bounded by the number of forwarding channels. It can be more if the users in hot cell are significantly far away from one another and these users can use the same forwarding channels to forward data to different cold neighboring cells without interference. We find that, in a system using MADF, under a certain delay requirement, the throughput in a certain cell or for the whole net-work can be greatly improved.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.3138-3151
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• 2022

Traffic safety and congestion are becoming more and more serious, especially the frequent occurrence of traffic accidents, which have caused great casualties and economic losses. Cellular Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) can assist in safe driving and improve traffic efficiency through real-time information sharing and communication between vehicles. All vehicles communicate directly with Base Stations (BS), which will increase the base station load. And when the communicating vehicles are too far apart, too fast or there are obstacles in the communication path, the communication link can be unstable or even interrupted. Therefore, choosing an effective and reliable multi-hop relay-assisted Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communication can not only reduce the base station load and improve the system throughput but also expand the base station coverage and improve the communication quality of edge vehicles. Therefore, a communication area division scheme based on regular hexagon segmentation technology is proposed, a relay-assisted V2V communication mechanism is designed for the divided communication areas, and an efficient communication link is constructed by selecting the best relay node. Simulation results show that the scheme can improve the throughput of the system by nearly 55% and enhance the robustness of the V2V communication link.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권9B호
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• pp.876-882
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 relay 기반 OFDMA 시스템에서 cell throughput 향상을 위한 Base Station (BS)과 Relay Station (RS)의 sub-cell 커버리지 조절 기법을 제안하였다. Relay 시스템에서는 BS-RS 링크에서 무선 자원을 추가로 소비하기 때문에, 이를 고려하지 않고 sub-cell 커버리지를 설정하면, 자원 사용량이 증가하여 throughput이 저하될 수 있기 때문에 자원 소모를 고려한 sub-cell 커버리지 설정이 필요하다. 이 때, 설정된 sub-cell 커버리지를 고정하여 운용할 수도 있지만, 트래픽 상황의 변화에 따라서 커버리지를 효과적으로 조절해주면, throughput 성능을 더욱 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 MS가 이동할 때에, 멀티홉 전송에 따른 relay link에서의 자원의 소모와 자원 재사용 정도를 함께 고려하여 sub-cell 커버리지를 조절하는 기법을 제안하고 분석하였다. 제안하는 커버리지 조절 기법에서는 BS와 RS로부터의 수신 SINR 값 비율로 threshold 값을 정하고 이를 이용하여 sub-cell 경계를 설정하였다. 그리고 트래픽의 변화에 따라 멀티홉에서의 자원의 소모와 자원 재사용을 고려한 effective transmitted bits per subchannel을 이용하여 sub-cell 경계를 적응적으로 조절하였다. 성능 분석을 위해 이 경우 cell throughput을 도출하였다. 제안하는 커버리지 조절 기법을 적용할 때, 고정하여 운용하는 경우에 비해, cell throughput이 향상되는 것을 확인하고, 정량적으로 분석하였다.