• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.232-239
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• 2011

This paper investigates the user selection problem of successive zero-forcing precoded multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) downlink systems, in which the base station and mobile receivers are equipped with multiple antennas. Assuming full knowledge of the channel state information at the transmitter, dirty paper coding (DPC) is an optimal precoding strategy, but practical implementation is difficult because of its excessive complexity. As a suboptimal DPC solution, successive zero-forcing DPC (SZF-DPC) was recently proposed; it employs partial interference cancellation at the transmitter with dirty paper encoding. Because of a dimensionality constraint, the base station may select a subset of users to serve in order to maximize the total throughput. The exhaustive search algorithm is optimal; however, its computational complexity is prohibitive. In this paper, we develop two low-complexity user scheduling algorithms to maximize the sum rate capacity of MU-MIMO systems with SZF-DPC. Both algorithms add one user at a time. The first algorithm selects the user with the maximum product of the maximum column norm and maximum eigenvalue. The second algorithm selects the user with the maximum product of the minimum column norm and minimum eigenvalue. Simulation results demonstrate that the second algorithm achieves a performance similar to that of a previously proposed capacity-based selection algorithm at a high signal-to-noise (SNR), and the first algorithm achieves performance very similar to that of a capacity-based algorithm at a low SNR, but both do so with much lower complexity.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1286-1291
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• 2013

부족한 주파수 자원의 효율성을 높이기 위하여 다중 사용자 기반 Massive MIMO에 대한 활발한 연구가 이루어진다. 이렇게 많은 송신 안테나를 사용하는 Massive MIMO 기술은 기지국의 기저대역 (Baseband)과 Radio Frequency와 같은 전송단의 하드웨어 복잡도와 빔포밍 벡터 계산량이 급격히 증가시키는 문제를 야기한다. 이러한 문제점은 기지국에서 전송단의 개수를 송신 안테나 수보다 작게 제한하고, 전체 송신 안테나들 중에서 채널 상태를 고려하여 전송단의 개수에 해당하는 안테나만을 선택하여 데이터를 전송함으로써 큰 성능 저하 없이 해결될 수 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 다중 사용자 기반의 Massive MIMO 시스템에 적용할 수 있는 간단하고 효율적인 안테나 선택 기법을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.4242-4263
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• 2017

Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) technology has recently attracted significant attention from academia and industry because of it is increasingly important role in improving networks' capacity and data rate. Moreover, MU-MIMO systems for the Fifth Generation (5G) have already been researched. High Quality of Service (QoS) and efficient operations at the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer have become key requirements. In this paper, we propose a downlink MU-MIMO MAC protocol based on adaptive Channel State Information (CSI) feedback (called MMM-A) for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). A modified CSMA/CA mechanism using new frame formats is adopted in the proposed protocol. Specifically, the CSI is exchanged between stations (STAs) in an adaptive way, and a packet selection strategy which can guarantee a fairer QoS for scenarios with differentiated traffic is also included in the MMM-A protocol. We then derive the expressions of the throughput and access delay, and analyze the performance of the protocol. It is easy to find that the MMM-A protocol outperforms the commonly used protocols in terms of the saturated throughput and access delay through simulation and analysis results.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권4C호
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• pp.386-394
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 다수의 사용자 각자가 다수의 수신 안테나를 가지고 하나의 기지국과 통신하는 다중 사용자 MIMO 시스템 환경에서, 사용자 간의 간섭을 제거하기 위한 적응적 coordinated Tx-Rx 빔형성 기법을 제안하였다. 기존의 coordinated Tx-Rx 빔형성 기법은 전송 순간의 채널 환경과는 상관없이 각 사용자에게 동일한 수의 데이터 스트림 수를 할당하여, 채널 환경이 좋지 않은 사용자에게도 같은 양의 데이터를 전송하는 비효율적인 문제가 있다. 제안된 적응적 coordinated Tx-Rx 빔형성 기법에서는 전송 순간의 채널 상태를 고려하여 사용자에게 적응적으로 데이터 스트림 수를 할당함으로써, 시스템 전반적인 BER 성능의 향상을 달성한다. 모의실험 결과는 제안된 coordinated Tx-Rx 빔형성 기법이 수신단에서 선형수신기법 사용을 가정한 경우에, target BER 10-2에서 기존의 coordinated Tx-Rx 빔형성 기법에 비하여 약 2.5dB정도의 성능을 향상시킴을 입증한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권11C호
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• pp.1564-1572
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• 2004

WPAN의 통신방식으로 표준화 작업이 진행 중에 있는 U(Ultra Wide Band)는 기존 시스템과 간섭으로 인하여 전송 전력에 큰 제약이 따른다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위한 방안으로 여러 개의 송수신 안테나 구성에 의한 MIMO(Multi-Input Multi-Output) 채널을 형성하고 이에 따른 성능을 분석한다. 또한 MIMO 채널 형성 시 발생되는 안테나 사이의 간섭을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 획득하고 이것이 시스템에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 UWB 시스템은 다중경로로 인한 신호간의 간섭 및 다중 사용자로 인한 간섭을 상쇄시키는 최소제곱(least square) 방식과 ML 검출기(Maximum Likelihood Detector) 구조를 갖는다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.290-296
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• 2006

In this paper, a generalized blind adaptive algorithm is introduced for multi-user detection of direct sequence code division multiple access (OS-COMA) wireless communication systems. The main property of the proposed algorithm is its ability to resolve the multipath fading channel resulting in inter symbol interference (ISI) as well as multiple access interference (MAI). Other remarkable properties are its low complexity and mitigation to the near-far problem as well as its insensitivity to asynchronous transmission. The proposed system is based on the minimization of the output energy and convergence to the minimum mean square error (MMSE) detector. It is blind in the sense that it needs no knowledge of the other users' signatures, only the intended user signature and timing are required. Furthermore, the convergence of the minimum output energy (MOE) detector to the MMSE detector is analytically proven in case of M-ary PSK. Depicted results show that the performance of the generalized system dominates those previously considered. Further improvements are obtained when multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technique is employed.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.2616-2635
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an iterative transceiver design in a multi-relay multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. The design criterion is to minimize sum mean squared error (SMSE) under relay sum power constraint (RSPC) where only local channel state information (CSI)s are available at relays. Local CSI at a relay is defined as the CSI of the channel between BS and the relay in the $1^{st}$ hop link, and the CSI of the channel between the relay and all users in the $2^{nd}$ hop link. Exploiting BS transmitter structure which is concatenated with block diagonalization (BD) precoder, each relay's precoder can be determined using local CSI at the relay. The proposed scheme is based on sequential iteration of two stages; stage 1 determines BS transmitter and relay precoders jointly with SMSE duality, and stage 2 determines user receivers. We verify that the proposed scheme outperforms simple amplify-and-forward (SAF), minimum mean squared error (MMSE) relay, and an existing good scheme of [13] in terms of both SMSE and sum-rate performances.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.2365-2382
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• 2014

While single-user spatial multiplexing multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) allows spatially multiplexed data streams to be transmitted to one node at a time, multi-user spatial multiplexing MIMO (MU-MIMO) enables the simultaneous transmission to multiple nodes. However, if the transmission time required to send packets to each node varies considerably, MU-MIMO may fail to utilize the available MIMO capacity to its full potential. The transmission time typically depends upon two factors: the link quality of the selected channel and the data length (packet size). To utilize the cumulative capacity of multiple channels in MIMO applications, the assignment of channels to each node should be controlled according to the measured channel quality or the transmission queue status of the node.A MAC protocol design that can switch between MU-MIMO and multiple SU-MIMO transmissions by considering the channel quality and queue status information prior to the actual data transmission (i.e., by exchanging control packets between transmitter and receiver pairs) could address such issues in a simple but in attractive way. In this study, we propose a new MAC protocol that is capable of performing such switching and thereby improve the system performance of very high throughput WLANs. The detailed performance analysis demonstrates that greater benefits can be obtained using the proposed scheme, as compared to conventional MU-MIMO transmission schemes.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.922-927
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 다중 안테나 시스템(Multiple Input Multiple Output: MIMO)를 사용하는 상향 링크 다중 사용자 환경에서 공간 변조(Spatial Modulation: SM) 기법을 사용하고, 변조된 신호를 수신 신호와 모든 송신 신호 후보를 비교하는 최대 우도(Maximum Likelihood: ML) 기법으로 복조하는 방법을 사용하여 시스템의 성능을 평가한다. 같은 데이터 율(date rate)로 전송하였을 때 공간 변조 기법이 기존에 제안된 다중 사용자 환경에서의 공간편이 방식(Space Shift Keying: SSK)보다 비트오류율(Bit Error Rate: BER) 성능이 좋아졌다.

• 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.