• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.419-427
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• 2015

There have been increases in the elderly population worldwide, and this has been accompanied by rapid growth in the health-care market, as there is an ongoing need to monitor the health of individuals. Wireless body area networks (WBANs) consist of wireless sensors attached on or inside the human body to monitor vital health-related problems, e.g., electrocardiograms (ECGs), electroencephalograms (EEGs), and electronystagmograms (ENGs). With WBANs, patients' vital signs are recorded by each sensor and sent to a coordinator. However, because of obstructions by the human body, sensors cannot always send the data to the coordinator, requiring them to transmit at higher power. Therefore, we need to consider the lifetime of the sensors given their required transmit power. In the IEEE 802.15.6 standard, the transmission topology functions as a one-hop star plus one topology. In order to obtain a high throughput, we reduce the transmit power of the sensors and maintain equity for all sensors. We propose the multiple-hop transmission for WBANs based on the IEEE 802.15.6 carrier-sense multiple-access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol. We calculate the throughput and variance of the transmit power by performing simulations, and we discuss the results obtained using the proposed theorems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.4957-4976
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• 2016

This paper investigates the error performance of the amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying systems in the context of full-duplex (FD) communication. In addition to the inherent self-interference (SI) due to simultaneous transmission and reception, coexistent FD terminals may cause crosstalk. In this paper, we utilize the information exchange via the crosstalk channel to construct a particular distributed space-time code (DSTC). The residual SI is also considered. Closed-form pairwise error probability (PEP) is first derived. Then we obtain the upper bound of PEP in high transmit power region to provide more insights of diversity and coding gain. The proposed DSTC scheme can attain full cooperative diversity if the variance of SI is not a function of the transmit power. The coding gain can be improved by lengthening the frame and proper power control. Feasibility and efficiency of the proposed DSTC are verified in numerical simulations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.3585-3601
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• 2016

The error rate performance of circularly distributed antenna system is studied over Nakagami-m fading channels, where a dual-channel receiver is employed for the quadrature phase shift keying signals detection. To mitigate the Co-Channel Interference (CCI) caused by the adjacent cells and to save the transmit power, this work presents remote antenna unit selection transmission based on the best channel quality and the maximized path-loss, respectively. The commonly used Gaussian and Q-function approximation method in which the CCI and the noise are assumed to be Gaussian distributed fails to depict the precise system performance according to the central limit theory. To this end, this work treats the CCI as a random variable with random variance. Since the in-phase and the quadrature components of the CCI are correlated over Nakagami-m fading channels, the dependency between the in-phase and the quadrature components is also considered for the error rate analysis. For the special case of Rayleigh fading in which the dependency between the in-phase and the quadrature components can be ignored, the closed-form error rate expressions are derived. Numerical results validate the accuracy of the theoretical analysis, and a comparison among different transmission schemes is also performed.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.907-915
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• 2013

TPMS(Tire Pressure Monitoring System)는 자동차 타이어의 센서부에서 전송된 온도나 압력 등의 데이터를 기반으로 타이어의 상태를 파악하여 운전자가 수시로 이를 점검하여 차량의 주행조건을 최적의 상태로 유지시켜주기 위한 안전보조시스템이다. TPMS는 특성상 무선통신을 기반으로 데이터를 전송하는데, 무선통신 시 TPMS와 비슷한 주파수 대역을 사용하는 외부의 각종 전기 및 전자 장치들에 의한 간섭의 영향으로 통신 장애가 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 다양한 고출력의 간섭을 제거하기 위해 등간격 선형 안테나 어레이 구조의 다양한 빔형성 기술을 사용한다. 빔형성 기술은 많은 수의 안테나를 사용할수록 더욱 향상된 간섭제거 성능을 얻을 수 있는데, 차량 내부의 구조상 사용할 수 있는 안테나의 수는 제한적이다. 본 논문에서는 차량 내부에 설치되는 안테나 수를 늘리기 위해 안테나 사이의 간격을 줄였을 경우 빔형성기의 성능을 비교 분석한다. 빔형성기의 성능분석을 위해 최근에 제안된 TPMS용 스위칭(switching) 빔형성기와 MVDR(Minimum -Variance Distortionless-Response) 빔형성기를 고려한다.