• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.117-124
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• 2012

A client collaboration (CC) system is proposed for a user relay system. The proposed scheme focuses on the management of transmit power and leakage interference. In the proposed CC system, edge users transmit signals to the masters considered as user relays. The masters relay the signals of the edge users to the base station using the resource blocks (RBs) that are assigned to the edge users. The leakage interference and power consumption were analyzed in the CC system. In addition, an optimal master location problem was formulated based on the signal-to-leakage-plus-noise ratio (SLNR). Because the optimal master location problem is quite complex, a sub-optimal master location problem was proposed and a closed-form sub-optimal master location was obtained. The edge users generate smaller leakage interference and power consumption in the proposed CC system compared to the system without the CC. The numerical results showed that the edge users generate smaller leakage interference and power consumption in the proposed CC system compared to the system without the CC, and the average throughput increases.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.12 no.5
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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.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1194-1199
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• 2010

In this paper, for a relay-based cellular network, a interference avoidance beamforming technique is proposed to enhance direct link capacity while minimizing loss in the capacity of concurrent relaying link. A direct link is transmitted by beamforming at the transmitter, and the relaying link with the least interference to the direct link is scheduled to transmit data by a collision avoidance scheduling algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed IA beamforming provides a considerable direct link capacity enhancement while minimizing relaying link capacity loss by effectively mitigating inference between concurrent direct and relaying links only with limited feedback.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.1675-1686
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• 2011

We propose a spectrally efficient relaying scheme with multiple antennas for cellular networks which consist of base station (BS), relay station (RSs), and mobile stations (MSs). In general, a BS has more antennas than an RS or an MS. By using multiple antennas, a BS can support another MS with the same frequency resource, where an RS transmits data to a specific MS. In this case, the MS receiving data form an RS also receives the interference form the BS because the BS also uses the same frequency resource at the same time. In this paper, we propose ing and pre-whitening techniques as a pre-coding scheme at the BS for reducing the interference at the MS receiving data from the RS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.21-24
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 계층변조를 적용하는 릴레이 통신 시스템의 성능을 분석한다. 릴레이 통신 시스템의 전송은 릴레이(relay station)의 사용으로 인해 두 개의 시간 슬롯이 필요하다. 첫 번째 시간 슬롯에서는 소스에서 변조된 신호를 릴레이와 목적지로 동시에 전송한다. 릴레이는 수신된 신호를 복조하고 재 변조하여 두 번째 시간 슬롯동안 재 변조된 신호를 목적지로 전송한다. 소스는 소스-릴레이 링크와 소스-목적지 링크의 서로 다른 채널 SNR(signal-to-noise power ratio)에 맞추기 위해 계층변조를 사용한다. 계층변조를 사용하는 릴레이통신 시스템의 BER(bit error rate)은 계층변조 파라미터의 값에 의해 달라진다. 본 논문에서는 BER과 계층변조 파라미터와의 관계를 유도하고, 모의실험을 통해 최소 BER을 얻을 수 있는 최적의 계층변조 파라미터를 찾아낸다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.283-284
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• 2012

최근 무선 네트워크의 사용이 증가하고 전송하는 데이터의 크기가 증가함에 따라 광대역 무선 네트워크에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 광대역 무선 네트워크 기술인 IEEE 802.16j MMR(Mobile Multi-hop Relay)은 높은 전송률과 셀 영역 확장을 목표로 하는 기술로써 RS(Relay Station)를 통하여 멀티 홉을 지원한다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.16j MMR 환경에서 링크 상태를 고려하여 동적으로 라우팅 주기를 조절하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 라우팅 주기 조절 기법을 통해 경로 복구 지연시간을 최소화 하고 네트워크 자원 소모의 효율성을 높인다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안하는 기법이 네트워크 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.21 no.3 s.99
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• pp.91-99
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• 2006

중계기(relay station)는 기존의 이동통신 시스템에서 음영 지역 해소를 위해 도입되어 현재 사용중인 기술이다. 중계기 기술은 단순히 증폭 후 전달(amplify-and-forward)방식에서 디코딩 후 전달(decode-and-forward), 재구성/재조합 후 전달(reconfiguration/reallocation-and-forward) 등 지능화된 형태로 진화하고 있다. 특히, 차세대이동통신 시스템에서 지능화된 다수의 중계기 도입은 기지국 증설 비용과 백홀(backhaul) 통신망의 유지 비용을 줄이는 동시에 커버리지 확대와 데이터 처리율 향상을 위해 불가피할 것으로 예상된다. 이에 본 고에서는 중계기 방식과 종류 등 일반적인 사항에 대해 살펴보고, 최근 표준화 활동이 시작되어 이슈화되고 있는 IEEE 802.16MMR의 동향에 관해 기술한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.618-633
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• 2014

Relay technology is becoming more important for mobile communications and wireless internet of things (IoT) networking because of the extended access network coverage range and reliable quality of service (QoS) it can provide at low power consumption levels. Existing mobile multihop relay (MMR) technology uses fixed-point stationary relay stations (RSs) and a divided time-frame (or frequency-band) to support the relay operation. This approach has limitations when a local fixed-point stationary RS does not exist. In addition, since the time-frame (or frequency-band) channel resources are pre-divided for the relay operation, there is no way to achieve high channel utilization using intelligent opportunistic techniques. In this paper, a different approach is considered, where the use of mobile/IoT devices as RSs is considered. In applications that use mobile/IoT devices as relay systems, due to the very limited battery energy of a mobile/IoT device and unequal channel conditions to and from the RS, both minimum energy consumption and QoS support must be considered simultaneously in the selection and configuration of RSs. Therefore, in this paper, a mobile RS is selected and configured with the objective of minimizing power consumption while satisfying end-to-end data rate and bit error rate (BER) requirements. For the RS, both downlink (DL) to the destination system (DS) (i.e., IoT device or user equipment (UE)) and uplink (UL) to the base station (BS) need to be adaptively configured (using adaptive modulation and power control) to minimize power consumption while satisfying the end-to-end QoS constraints. This paper proposes a minimum transmission power consuming RS selection and configuration (MPRSC) scheme, where the RS uses cognitive radio (CR) sub-channels when communicating with the DS, and therefore the scheme is named MPRSC-CR. The proposed MPRSC-CR scheme is activated when a DS moves out of the BS's QoS supportive coverage range. In this case, data transmissions between the RS and BS use the assigned primary channel that the DS had been using, and data transmissions between the RS and DS use CR sub-channels. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed MPRSC-CR scheme extends the coverage range of the BS and minimizes the power consumption of the RS through optimal selection and configuration of a RS.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.9
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• pp.17-24
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the sub-cell reuse partitioning among relays as an efficient resource reuse scheme in the relay-based OFDMA systems. If the frequency resource is reused among relays aggressively, we can increase the cell throughput. However, the interferences due to the frequency reuse may cause the fairness decrease due to the SINR degradation especially at the edge of RS sub-cells. In this paper, to make the cell throughput and fairness performance improved at the same time, we propose a sub-cell reuse partitioning scheme that divides a relay sub-cell into inner zone for aggressive reuse and outer zone for sparse reuse. The performance of the proposed scheme has been analyzed by computer simulation. We also applied a scheduling algorithm that can work together with the proposed sub-cell reuse partitioning scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can improve both the throughput and the fairness performances. In particular, when the scheduling is applied for the improvement of fairness, it is shown that the throughput performance can be enhanced more efficiently by the proposed scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.7C
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• pp.435-442
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• 2011

The MIMO has weak points such as size and cost of systems and the complexity of hardware augment. Thus, the cooperative transmission techniques have been recently discussed briskly and it also solves problems by increase of shadowy area. However, limited cooperation scheme is utilized due to a single-antenna at the destination. The base station is simply equipped with multiple antennas. When the base station has multiple antennas, cooperative diversity and multiplexing schemes can be easily applied in the base station. To guarantee reliability with high throughput, a cooperative hybrid cyclic relay diversity transmission scheme is proposed which can use an arbitrary number of relays without rate loss and a modification of the base station. The presented results show that the proposed schemes can be effectively applied to the existing various MIMO-OFDM communication system.