• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1550-1553
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• 2020

In this paper, we maximize the lifetime of a multi-hop path through a cooperative wireless energy sharing scheme between constituent nodes in a wireless multi-hop communication. Considering a bidirectional multi-hop communication environment, we present an optimization problem to maximize path lifetime by adjusting the amount of energy each node needs to share with its neighboring nodes. On the basis of solidarity property, i.e., the lifetime of the multi-hop path is maximized when the lifetimes of all nodes are the same, we convert the considered optimization problem into a linear programming problem and solve it easily. Simulation result shows that the proposed two-way wireless energy sharing method maximizes the path lifetime of multi-hop communications and approximately doubles the path lifetime compared with the one-way energy sharing method.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.364-374
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• 2016

With vast amounts of spectrum available in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, small cells at mmWave frequencies densely deployed underlying the conventional homogeneous macrocell network have gained considerable interest from academia, industry, and standards bodies. Due to high propagation loss at higher frequencies, mmWave communications are inherently directional, and concurrent transmissions (spatial reuse) under low inter-link interference can be enabled to significantly improve network capacity. On the other hand, mmWave links are easily blocked by obstacles such as human body and furniture. In this paper, we develop a multi-hop relaying transmission (MHRT) scheme to steer blocked flows around obstacles by establishing multi-hop relay paths. In MHRT, a relay path selection algorithm is proposed to establish relay paths for blocked flows for better use of concurrent transmissions. After relay path selection, we use a multi-hop transmission scheduling algorithm to compute near-optimal schedules by fully exploiting the spatial reuse. Through extensive simulations under various traffic patterns and channel conditions, we demonstrate MHRT achieves superior performance in terms of network throughput and connection robustness compared with other existing protocols, especially under serious blockage conditions. The performance ofMHRT with different hop limitations is also simulated and analyzed for a better choice of the maximum hop number in practice.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2014

Mobility can lead to continual loss of data and service interruptions during communications in multi-hop cognitive radio networks. Mobility of primary users (PUs) or cognitive users (CUs) requires adjustment of multi-hop communications among CUs to avoid any interference to PUs. To provide durable and reliable data routing that ensures continuous network service, we propose mobility-aware cognitive routing (MCR) for multi-hop cognitive radio networks. MCR examines the risk level of each node against interference regions and selects the most reliable path for data delivery using a Markov predictor. Through simulation, we verify that the proposed scheme can avoid route destruction preemptively and achieve reliable data delivery.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2005년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 논문집 Vol.32 No.1 (A)
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• pp.484-486
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 센서네트워크를 위한 기존의 클러스터 라우팅 기법에 multi-hop pairwise key를 적용시킴으로써 multi-hop pairwise key를 기반으로 하는 클러스터를 구성하고 이를 통한 클러스터 간의 통신을 제안한다. 이는 암호화된 클러스터 통신을 위한 키 분배에 있어서 메모리 효율성을 높이고, 클러스터 라우팅의 난제였던 클러스터 헤드 선택과 관리를 효과적으로 할 수 있게 한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권7호
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• pp.566-572
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 다중 선박으로 구성된 해양 네트워크에서 선박 간 통신 거리를 확장하면서 전송률을 향상시키는 양방향 다중-홉 릴레이 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 두 단계 디지털 네트워크 부호화를 기반으로 각 선박의 데이터 전송 순서와 네트워크 부호화 순서를 알맞게 설계하여 데이터 교환에 필요한 시간 슬롯 수를 줄인다. 모의실험 결과 제안하는 양방향 다중 홉 릴레이 기법은 기존 기법의 전송률을 약 5/3배 향상시킴을 볼 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권6B호
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• pp.350-357
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• 2007

IEEE 802.15.3 High-rate WPAN(Wireless Personal Area Network)은 무선으로 약 l0m이내의 근거리 디바이스들을 연결하여 고속 통신을 지원하기 위해 개발되었다. 피코넷(piconet)은 하나의 PNC (Piconet Coordinator)와 하나 이상의 디바이스(device)로 구성된다. 부모 피코넷(parent piconet)에 합류(association)한 디바이스는 PNC가 되어 자식 피코넷(child piconet)을 형성할 수 있다. 부모 피코넷과 자식 피코넷들로 구성된 메쉬(mesh) 네트워크에서는 멀티-홉(multi-hop) 통신이 가능하게 된다. 본 논문에서 메쉬 네트워크의 최대 레벨과 가용 슈퍼프레임 크기를 분석하고, 멀티-홉 전송을 위한 디바이스 탐색시간을 랜덤 메쉬 네트워크 환경에서 분석한다. 일정한 영역에서 디바이스 수가 증가함에 따라 형성되는 메쉬 네트워크의 레벨은 최대 약 1.9까지 가능하며, 가용 슈퍼프레임 크기는 약 52ms이고, 디바이스 탐색시간은 약 155ms 소요됨을 확인할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.4967-4986
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• 2015

Multi-hop relaying communications have great potentials in improving transmission performance by deploying relay nodes. The benefit is critically dependent on the accuracy of the channel state information (CSI) of all the transmitting links. However, the CSI has to be estimated. In this paper, we investigate the channel estimation problem in one-way multi-hop MIMO amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system, where both the two-hop and three-hop communication link exist. Traditional point-to-point MIMO channel estimation methods will result in error propagation in estimating relay links, and separately tackling the channel estimation issue of each link will lose the gain as part of channel matrices involved in multiple communication links. In order to exploit all the available gains, we develop a novel channel estimation model by structuring different communication links using the PARAFAC and PARATUCK2 tensor analysis. Furthermore, a two-stage fitting algorithm is derived to estimate all the channel matrices involved in the communication process. In particular, essential uniqueness is further discussed. Simulation results demonstrate the advantage and effectiveness of the proposed channel estimator.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.3276-3292
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• 2015

Relay-assisted D2D communication extends the communication range of the D2D pairs and helps users to form D2D pairs effectively. However, due to the introduction of the multi-hop relaying, the D2D communication has to occupy extra transmission time, which may decrease the efficiency of the communication system. In this paper, we propose a scheme to make node receive D2D signal and BS signal at overlapping time to improve the spectrum efficiency according to ZigZag decoding and successive-interference-cancellation (SIC). In this way, more data can be delivered during the same duration, thus the network throughput can be further improved. Numerical results verify the performance improvement of the proposed scheme when compared with a baseline scheme. Moreover, we expand the proposed scheme from one-hop relay scenario to multi-hop relay scenario.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.63-74
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• 2012

Multicast data communication is an efficient communication scheme, especially inmulti-hop ad hoc networks where the media access control (MAC) layer is based on one-hop broadcast from one source to multiple receivers. Compared to unicast, multicast over a wireless channel should be able to deal with varying channel conditions of multiple users and user mobility to provide good quality to all users. IEEE 802.11 does not support reliable multicast owing to its inability to exchange request-to-send/clear-to-send and acknowledgement packets with multiple recipients. Thus, several MAC layer protocols have been proposed to provide reliable multicast. However, additional overhead is introduced, as a result, which degrades the system performance. In this paper, we propose an efficient wireless multicast MAC protocol with small control overhead required for reliable multicast in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks. We present analytical formulations of the system throughput and delay associated with the overhead.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.430-438
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• 2013

This paper addresses the issue of throughput-delay of one-to-many wireless multi-hop flows based on random linear network coding (RLNC). Existing research results have been focusing on the single-hop model which is not suitable for wireless multi-hop networks. In addition, the conditions of related system model are too idealistic. To address these limitations, we herein investigate the performance of a wireless multi-hop network, focusing on the one-to-many flows. Firstly, a system model with multi-hop delay was constructed; secondly, the transmission schemes of system model were gradually improved in terms of practical conditions such as limited queue length and asynchronous forwarding way; thirdly, the mean delay and the mean throughput were quantified in terms of coding window size K and number of destination nodes N for the wireless multi-hop transmission. Our findings show a clear relationship between the multi-hop transmission performance and the network coding parameters. This study results will contribute significantly to the evaluation and the optimization of network coding method.