• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.952-961
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• 2016

In this paper, we study a spectrum sharing network (SSN) where a spectrum sharing device (SSD) coexists with multiple wireless communication systems (WCSs) in the same channel. The SSD can operate with either a duty cycle (DC) channel access mechanism or a listen-before-talk (LBT) channel access mechanism, whereas WCSs operate with an LBT mechanism. An opportunistic channel selection scheme for the SSD in the SSN is first proposed to minimize the outage probability. The optimal data transmission time for the DC-based SSD is derived to further improve the outage probability. We also derive the exact and closed-form outage probability of the proposed channel selection in the SSN by assuming that the number of WCSs operating in each channel is uniformly distributed. The simulation results show that the proposed channel selection scheme outperforms other channel selection schemes. It was also observed that a DC-based SSD with an optimal data transmission time provides a better outage performance than an LBT-based SSD. As the number of available channels increases, the channel selection scheme plays an important role in minimizing the outage probability of the SSNs.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권1호
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• pp.140-142
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• 2013

Cognitive radio (CR) has been recently proposed to dynamically access unused-spectrum. Since the spectrum availability for opportunistic access is determined by spectrum sensing, sensing control is identified as one of the most crucial issues of cognitive radio networks. Out-of-band sensing to find an available channels to sense. Sensing is also required in case of spectrum hand-off. Sensing process needs to be done very fast in order to enhance the quality of service (QoS) of the CR nodes, and transmission not to be cut for longer time. During the sensing, the PU(primary user) detection probability condition should be satisfied. We adopt a channel prediction method to find target channels. Proposed prediction method combines chaotic global method and chaotic local method for channel idle probability prediction. Global method focus on channel history information length and order number of prediction model. Local method focus on local prediction trend. Through making simulation, Proposed method can find an available channel with very high probability, total sensing time is minimized, detection probability of PU's are satisfied.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.394-405
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• 2015

This paper considers a wideband cognitive radio network which can simultaneously sense multiple narrowband channels and thus aggregate the detected available channels for transmission and proposes a novel cognitive radio system that exhibits improved sensing throughput and can save power consumption of secondary user (SU) compared to the conventional cognitive radio system studied so far. More specifically, under the proposed cognitive radio system, we study the problem of designing the optimal sensing time and power allocation strategy, in order to maximize the ergodic throughput of the proposed cognitive radio system under two different schemes, namely the wideband sensing-based spectrum sharing scheme and the wideband opportunistic spectrum access scheme. In our analysis, besides the average interference power constraint at primary user, the average transmit power constraint of SU is also considered for the two schemes and then a subgradient algorithm is developed to obtain the optimal sensing time and the corresponding power allocation strategy. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to verify the performance of the two proposed schemes.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.360-366
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• 2011

In this paper, we investigate the problem of power allocation in a heterogeneous network that is composed of a pair of cognitive users (CUs) and an infrastructure-based primary network. Since CUs have only limited effective spectrum-sensing ability and primary users (PUs) are not active all the time in all locations and licensed bands, we set up a new multi-area model to characterize the heterogeneous network. A novel combined interference-avoidance policy corresponding to different PU-appearance situations is introduced to protect the primary network from unacceptable disturbance and to increase the spectrum secondary-reuse efficiency. We use dual decomposition to transform the original power allocation problem into a two-layer optimization problem. We propose a low-complexity joint power-optimizing method to maximize the transmission rate between CUs, taking into account both the individual power-transmission constraints and the combined interference power constraint of the PUs. Numerical results show that for various values of the system parameters, the proposed joint optimization method with combined PU protection is significantly better than the opportunistic spectrum access mode and other heuristic approaches.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2010

무선 접속을 통한 이동통신망이나 데이터망의 멀티미디어 서비스는 이제 현대 생활의 중요한 일부가 되었으며 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅이 확산됨에 따라 새로운 서비스에 필요한 주파수 스펙트럼에 대한 수요는 급증할 전망이다. 인지전파 기술은 지역과 시간에 따라 일시적으로 사용하지 않는 주파수 대역을 자동으로 인지하고 찾아서 환경에 맞게 통신방식, 주파수 대역폭 등을 능동적으로 판단하여 통신함으로서 한정적인 주파수 자원을 효율적으로 사용하고자 하는 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 인지 전파 망에서 오검출과 오경보의 불완전한 센싱이 주 사용자와 부 사용자의 스펙트럼 사용에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 연속시간 마르코프 체인 분석을 통하여 규명하였다. 연속시간 마르코프 체인의 닫힌 해(Closed Form Solution)를 통하여 센싱 오류, 제공 부하 등의 파라미터들이 시스템 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.401-403
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• 2013

동적 스펙트럼 접속 방식 중 하나인 myopic 방식은 즉각적인 처리율을 최대로 하는 방식으로 복잡하지 않고 단순하면서도 효율적인 것이 장점이다. myopic 방식의 단점은 이차 사용자가 많아짐에 따라 이차 사용자간의 충돌로 인해 효율성이 나빠질 수 있다는 것이다. 모든 이차 사용자들이 다른 이차 사용자를 고려하지 않고 자신의 처리율을 최대로 하는 채널을 선택한다면, 대부분의 이차 사용자들이 동일한 채널을 선택하여 전송을 시도할 것이기 때문에 이차 사용자간의 충돌이 많아질 것이다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 myopic/CA 방식이 제안되었다. 이 방식에서 이차 사용자는 자신의 성능을 최대로 하는 하나의 채널을 선택하는 것이 아니라, 자신에게 유리한 다수의 후보 채널을 선택하여 그 중 하나의 채널을 임의로 선택하여 전송하는 방식이다. 본 논문에서는 네트워크 환경에 따라 후보 채널의 수를 몇 개로 정하는 것이 전체 네트워크의 성능을 최대로 높일 수 있는지 분석한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.172-183
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• 2015

To provide an efficient link maintenance approach, we propose a cross layer medium access control (LM-MAC) protocol for multichannel cognitive radio ad hoc networks. Link establishment and reliable transmission are two key problems for a perfect link maintenance mechanism. Since the cognitive user (CU) pairs have to reestablish their links each frame, in the proposed MAC protocol, three different access modes are designed to guarantee transmission efficiency in continuous frames. To enhance the transmission reliability, each CU will create a father spectrum list (FSL) after joining in the network. FSL is divided into three groups of sub-channels with different functions to compensate the packet loss caused by the primary users' appearance and the deep fading. Meanwhile, since the transmitter and the receiver will share the same FSL, periodical cooperative sensing is adopted to further optimize the former problem. Finally, compared with the existing opportunistic multichannel (OMC)-MAC protocol, the proposed LM-MAC protocol achieves better system performance in terms of saturation throughput, continuity and access delay.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2018

In wireless communication, efficient spectrum usage is an issue that has been an attractive research area for many technologies. Recently new technologies innovations allow compact radios to transmit with power efficient communication over very long distances. For example, Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) are an attractive emerging platform to connect the Internet-of-Things (IoT). Especially, LoRa is one of LPWAN technologies and considered as an infrastructure solution for IoT. End-devices use LoRa protocol across a single wireless hop to communicate to gateway(s) connected to the internet which acts as a bridge and relays message between these LoRa end-devices to a central network server. The use of the (ISM) spectrum sharing for such long-range networking motivates us to implement spectrum sensing testbed for cognitive radio network based on LoRa and GNU radio. In cognitive radio (CR), secondary users (SUs) are able to sense and use this information to opportunistically access the licensed spectrum band in absence of the primary users (PUs). In general, PUs have not been very receptive of the idea of opportunistic spectrum sharing. That is, CR will harmfully interfere with operations of PUs. Subsequently, there is a need for experimenting with different techniques in a real system. In this paper, we implemented spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks based on LoRa and GNU Radio, and further analyzed corresponding performances of the implemented systems. The implementation is done using Microchip LoRa evolution kits, USRPs, and GNU radio.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.119-125
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• 2016

인지 무선 기술은 보조 사용자가 (SUs) 주 사용자 (PUs)에 간섭을 주지 않고 기회주의적 방식으로 라이선스 스펙트럼을 사용할 수 있는 기술이다. 인지 라디오의 핵심 기술은 스펙트럼 센싱이다. 그러나 인지 무선 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율적인 스펙트럼 센싱 기법에 대한 연구는 많지 않다. 본 논문에서는 클러스터 기반의 인지 무선 센서 네트워크를 위한 에너지 효율적인 협력 스펙트럼 센싱 노드 선택 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법에서, 허위 경보 확률 및 에너지 소비를 최적화하기 위하여 클러스터 내 스펙트럼 센싱 노드들의 수를 최소화하게 된다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 최적의 스펙트럼 센싱 노드 수를 적용하므로 스펙트럼 센싱 효율성이 향상되었고, 또한 네트워크의 에너지 효율성도 보장된 것을 검증하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1770-1785
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• 2013

In this paper, a multi-hop transmission protocol based on parallel communication of secondary users (SUs) is proposed. The primary multi-hop network coexists with a set of SUs by cooperative spectrum sharing. The main optimization target of our protocol is the overall performance of the secondary system with the guarantee of the primary outage performance. The energy consumption of the primary system is reduced by the cooperation of SUs. The aim of the primary source is to communicate with the primary destination via a number of primary relays. SUs may serve as extra decode-and-forward relays for the primary network. When an SU acts as a relay for a primary user (PU), some other SUs that satisfy the condition for parallel communication are selected to simultaneously access the primary spectrum for secondary transmissions. For the proposed protocol, two opportunistic routing strategies are proposed, and a search algorithm to select the SUs for parallel communication is described. The throughput of the SUs and the PU is illustrated. Numerical results demonstrate that the average throughput of the SUs is greatly improved, and the end-to-end throughput of the PU is slightly increased in the proposed protocol when there are more than seven SUs.