• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권1B호
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• pp.136-143
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 임의로 분포되어 있는 레일리 페이딩(Rayleigh fading) 채널 하에서 소스노드와 목적지 노드 사이의 직접 경로가 존재하고 복호 후 전송(decode-and-forward) 방식을 사용하여 중계하는 시스템을 고려한다. 이때, 다수의 릴레이 가운데 베스트 릴레이를 선택하여 이중 홉을 사용하여 통신하는 경우와 다중 홉을 사용하여 통신하는 경우의 아웃티지 확률을 구하고, 이를 통해 그 성능을 비교한다. 여기서 소스 노드와 릴레이들로부터 목적지 노드가 받은 모든 신호는 maximum ratio combining (MRC) 기법을 사용하여 결합하였고, 모든 경우에 대하여 목적지 노드에서 받은 수신 신호의 SNR이 갖는 확률 밀도 함수(probability density function, PDF)와 누적 확률 변수(cumulative density function, CDF)를 유도하였다. 이와 같이 구한 아웃티지 확률을 통해 릴레이의 개수가 2개일 때를 가정하고 실험한 결과, 채널 상태가 나쁠수록 다중 홉을 사용하여 통신하는 기법이 베스트 릴레이 선택 기법보다 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• 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.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.616-623
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• 2010

In this paper, exact closed-form expressions for outage probability and bit error probability (BEP) are presented for multi-hop decode-and-forward (DF) relaying schemes in conjunction with cooperative diversity, in which selection combining technique is employed at each node. We have shown that the proposed protocol offers remarkable diversity advantage over direct transmission as well as the conventional DF relaying schemes with the same combining technique. We then investigate the system performance when different diversity schemes are employed. It has been observed that the system performance loss due to selection combining relative to maximal ratio combining is not significant. Simulations are performed to confirm our theoretical analysis.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.393-399
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• 2011

We evaluate the link-level performance of cooperative multi-hop relaying networks with an maximum distance separable (MDS) code. The effect of the code on the link-level performance at the destination is investigated in terms of the outage probability and the spectral efficiency. Assuming a simple topology, we construct an absorbing Markov chain. Numerical results indicate that significant improvement can be achieved by incorporating an MDS code. MDS codes successfully facilitate recovery of the message block at a relaying node due to powerful error-correcting capability, so that it can reduce the outage probability. Furthermore, we evaluate the average number of hops where the message block can be delivered.

• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권9A호
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• pp.853-866
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.22 기반의 인지라디오 시스템에서 다중 홉 릴레이 방식의 적용 방안을 제안한다. 먼저, 중계기를 통한 전송 시나리오를 가정하고 이를 지원하기 위한 물리 채널 프레임 구조를 예시한다. 다음으로, 분산 감지 (distributed sensing) 방식을 이용한 가용 채널 결정 방식을 제안하고 이를 토대로, 기지국 중심의 중앙집중형 (centralized) 채널 할당 기법 및 릴레이 전송을 위한 중계기 선택 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 그리고 수학적 해석과 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능 분석 결과는 제안한 다중 홉 릴레이 방식이 중계기를 사용하지 않은 기존의 인지 라디오 시스템에 비해 스펙트럼 이용효율과 시스템 수율 측면에서 성능 향상이 있음을 보여준다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2016

In this paper, the performance of dual-hop multi-relay maximum ratio transmission (MRT) over Rayleigh flat fading channels is studied with both conventional (all relays participate the transmission) and opportunistic (best relay is selected to maximize the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)) relaying. Performance analysis starts with the derivation of the probability density function, cumulative distribution function and moment generating function of the SNR. Then, both approximate and asymptotic expressions of symbol error rate (SER) and outage probability are derived for arbitrary numbers of antennas and relays. With the help of asymptotic SER and outage probability, diversity and array gains are obtained. In addition, impact of imperfect channel estimations is investigated and optimum power allocation factors for source and relay are calculated. Our analytical findings are validated by numerical examples which indicate that multi-relay MRT can be a low complexity and reliable option in cooperative networks.

• 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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• 제12권5호
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• pp.466-474
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• 2010

Various types of cooperative relaying (CR) schemes exhibit different levels of throughput and outage performance because of their inherent trade-off between diversity gain and opportunity cost; in other words, the overhead that is associated with cooperation. This article attempts to answer whether cooperative communication is beneficial or not from the system-level viewpoint and furthermore, if it is, how its average throughput can be maximized while maintaining the target outage rate. In order to improve throughput at the required outage performance, we propose a unified selection criterion to deal with different levels of combining gain and opportunity cost associated with each scheme, which allows for the employment of different CR schemes for various positions of the mobile station. Our system-level simulation results for an IEEE 802.16j multi-hop relay confirm the varying levels of trade-offs among different CR schemes and furthermore, show that CR will be a useful means of maximizing the average throughput for a multi-hop relay system as long as each type of the cooperating scheme is carefully selected, depending on the position of the mobile stations.