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본 논문에서는 스몰셀 통신 환경에서 셀 간 간섭을 완화 시키고, 사용자 수용량을 증가시키기에 적합한 PB/MC-CDMA (Partial Block/MC-CDMA) 시스템을 소개한다. 5G 무선통신 환경에서는 IoT (Internet of Things) 서비스의 확장과 더불어 네트워크에 접속되는 디바이스의 수가 기하급수적으로 증가될 것으로 예상되며, 각 디바이스들은 콘텐츠 별로 다양한 전송속도가 요구 될 것으로 예상된다. 기존의 LTE/LTE-A 통신 서비스 환경에서는 데이터 전송속도와 주파수 효율성 향상을 중심으로 기술 연구가 진행 되었으나, IoT (Internet of Things)에서 요구하는 대규모 접속 및 다양한 전송속도 지원에는 한계성을 지니고 있다. 또한, 다수의 스몰셀 환경에서 셀간 간섭이 발생하여 속도저하 및 시스템 성능 열화가 발생한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 스몰셀에 적합한 PB/MC-CDMA 물리계층 기술을 소개하고, 셀간 간섭 존재하는 다중 셀 환경에서 시스템의 성능을 평가함으로써 IoT (Internet of Things) 환경에서 PB/MC-CDMA의 장점을 검증하였다.

In this paper, we introduce the PB/MC-CDMA (Partial Block/Multi-Carrier-Code Division Multiple Access) system to mitigate inter-cell interference (ICI) and enhance user capacity in the small cell environment. In 5G mobile communications, the number of devices connected to the network is expected to increase exponentially with the expansion of the IoT (Internet of Things) services. In addition, each device is expected to be required by the various data rates by their content types. In LTE/LTE-A, there are some limitations that large scale connectivity and supporting various data rates. Therefore, we introduce a PB/MC-CDMA physical layer system which is suitable for the small cell environment, and evaluate the performance in the multi cell environment which is affected by ICI. Through computer simulation results, we demonstrate the effectiveness of PB/MC-CDMA for the small cell environment.

In order to reduce Inter-Cell interference in multiple-input and multiple-output OFDM systems(MIMO-OFDM), We propose receiver using Interference Rejection Combining(IRC). Recently, efficient wireless communication system is one of the main goal in the wireless communication system research. Efficient wireless communication system is made of reducing Inter-Cell interference. Interference Rejection Combining(IRC) is efficient technique reducing Inter-Cell interference.

네트워크 수요량 향상 방안 중 가장 주목받고 있는 Proximity Service는 주파수 사용의 효 율성 증대를 위해 대부분 주파수 재사용 방식을 사용한다. 그 결과 셀 edge에서 셀룰러 사용 자의 Proximity Service 사용자의 셀 간 간섭 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 eNB에 Proximity Function의 기능과 파라미터를 새롭게 정의하고, ProSe 파라미터와 ProSe user equipment에 대한 정보를 X2 인터페이스를 통해 인접 셀과 교환하게 함으로써 셀 간섭 완화 방안을 제안한다. 우선 ProSe 탐색 과정에서 주파수 센싱을 통해 셀 간 간섭 문제를 일으키 지 않을 자원을 할당한다. 그리고 ProSe 통신 상황에서는 ProSe application code, ProSe application QoS, ProSe application ID의 validity timer를 기반으로 간섭을 일으키지 않을 적합 한 자원을 재 할당함으로써 셀 간 간섭 문제를 해결한다.

The Proximity Service, which is one of the most popular network capacity improvement methods, uses the frequency reuse in order to increase the frequency efficiency. As a result, inter-cell interference between cellular and proximity service users occurs at a cell edge. In this paper, we proposed a mitigation scheme for inter-cell interference, where we suggested a new function of and eNB with ProSe function exchanging information about ProSe parameters and ProSe user equipment with neighboring cells via the X2 interface. As the first step, the resource which did not cause the inter-cell interference problem were pre-allocated through the frequency sensing in the ProSe direct discovery. As the next step, the inter-cell interference problem was solved by reallocating appropriate resources based on the ProSe application code, the ProSe application QoS, the ProSe application ID and validity timer in ProSe direct communication.

Perhaps one of the most enabling features of Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard and its successors of the third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family is the addition of multiple transmission and reception antennas at one transmitting or receiving side or both for improving data throughput and network quality of service (QoS). This paper addresses the impact of employing MIMO in LTE base stations on coexistence requirements of deploying LTE cells in the band 2.6 GHz. Based on the developed coexistence model and simulation results, the adoption of MIMO can dramatically increase separation requirements, and therefore requires more careful site engineering and isolation measures to ensure peaceful coexisted systems.

Dense network deployment is an important approach to meet the requirements of the future mobile communications. LTE-Advanced Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) has been introduced by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to increase cell throughput, offload data from macro-cell and improve indoor coverage. However, it also brings serious inter-cell interference with the co-channel deployment. Although the Almost Blank Subframes (ABS) scheme, one solution of Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC), mitigates the interference, it results in undesirable fairness, huge difference of users’ throughput in the system and even the incapability of communication. To address this problem, we introduce Dynamic Subframes Assignment Guaranteeing Fairness (DSAGF), in which the ABS pattern is set to mitigate inter-cell interference while guaranteeing fairness. As demonstrated in the simulation results, DSAGF significant decline in outage ratios of user equipments, narrowing difference of users’ throughput, and improvement for fairness with inter-cell interference mitigation.

In this paper, we examine what changes the next-generation wireless communication systems will experience in terms of the technologies, services, and networks and, based on that, we investigate how the inter-cell interference management should evolve in various aspects. We identify that the main driving forces of the future changes involve the data-centric services, new dynamic service scenarios, all-IP core access networks, new physical-layer technologies, and heavy upload traffic. We establish that in order to cope with the changes, the next-generation inter-cell interference management should evolve to 1) set the objective of providing a maximal data rate, 2) take the form of joint management of power allocation and user scheduling, 3) operate in a fully distributed manner, 4) handle the time-varying channel conditions in mobile environment, 5) deal with the changes in interference mechanism triggered by the new physical-layer technologies, and 6) increase the spectral efficiency while avoiding centralized coordination of resource allocation of the users in the uplink channel.

In this thesis, we analyze performance related to reduction scheme of inter-cell interference causing serious problems in portable internet system. Frequency reusing factor(FUF) is 1 in portable internet system, and it means that a adjacent cell uses same frequency band. This channel environment raises inter-cell interference problem, which provokes serious problems related to system performance and channel capacity. Consequently, it affects deterioration in system performance as a whole. We analyze inter-cell interference when appling a various schemes such as (DCA)Dynamic Channel Allocation, CS(Channel Segregation), IDMA(Interleave Division Multiple Access), FH-OFDM, CRSA(Conceptual Random Subcarrier Allocation), and HDD

Next-generation (4G) systems are designed to support universal frequency reuse (UFR) to achieve best use of valuable spectra. However, it leads to undesirable interference level near cell borders. To control this, 4G systems adopt techniques, such as network multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC), to improve cell-edge throughput. Network MIMO aims at mitigating inter-cell interference towards cell-edge users (CEUs) through multi-cell cooperation, where each collaborative base station serves both cell-center users (CCUs) and CEUs, including other cells' CEUs, under a power constraint. The present ICIC strategies cannot be directly applied to network MIMO because they were designed in absence of multi-cell coordination. In the presence of network MIMO, this paper investigates antenna orientations in ICIC and the method of power management. Results show that a proper antenna orientation can improve the cell-edge capacity and meantime lower the interference to CCUs. Capacity inconsistency between CCUs and CEUs is detrimental to mobile communications. Simulation results show that the proposed power management for ICIC in network MIMO systems can achieve a uniform data rate regardless users' position.

The burgeoning growth of real-time applications, such as interactive video and VoIP, places a heavy demand for a high data rate and guarantee of QoS from a network. This is being addressed by fourth generation networks such as Long-Term Evolution (LTE). But, the mobility of user equipment that needs to be handed over to a new evolved node base-station (eNB) while maintaining connectivity with high data rates poses a significant challenge that needs to be addressed. Handover (HO) normally takes place at cell borders, which normally suffers high interference. This inter-cell interference (ICI) can affect HO procedures, as well as reduce throughput. In this paper, soft frequency reuse (SFR) and multiple preparations (MP), so-called SFRAMP, are proposed to provide a seamless and fast handover with high throughput by keeping the ICI low. Simulation results using LTE-Sim show that the outage probability and delay are reduced by 24.4% and 11.9%, respectively, over the hard handover method - quite a significant result.

차세대 무선통신에서는 높은 데이터 전송률을 필요로 하여 높은 밀도의 주파수 재사용을 요구하게 된다. 따라서 셀 간 간섭을 효율적으로 줄이는 방법을 필요로 하게 된다. 기존의 정적인 간섭 조정 기법들은 셀 가장자리 성능을 향상시키기 위해서 네트워크 전체의 성능을 희생한다는 단점이 존재한다. 한편, 높은 전송률을 필요로 하며, 동시에, 높은 신뢰도의 통신을 위해서 중계단말기를 사용한 OFDMA 중계 네트워크에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 다중 셀 환경의 OFDMA 중계 네트워크에서의 셀 간 간섭을 적응적으로 조정하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 셀 간 간섭을 줄여서 셀 가장자리 성능을 향상시킴과 동시에 네트워크 전체 성능 또한 향상시키는 것을 목적으로 한다. 모의실험을 통해, 제안된 알고리즘이 정적 셀 간 간섭조정 기법들 보다 셀 가장자리 성능과 네트워크 전체 성능이 우수함을 확인한다.

이종 네트워크(HetNet)란 매크로셀 내에 소형셀이 혼재한 네트워크이다. 이종 네트워크에서는 대형셀로부터 소형셀 사용자에게 미치는 간섭이 소형셀 사용자의 성능을 열화시키는 주 원인 중 하나이며, 이 간섭을 줄이기 위해 향상된 셀간 간섭 조정기법(eICIC)이 필요하다. 기존의 eICIC 관련 연구에서는 프레임별 채널 변화를 거의 고려하지 않고 네트워크의 장기 처리율을 최대화하는 데 치중되어 성능 향상이 제한적이었다. 이 논문에서는 네트워크 전체 효용을 최대화하기 위해 매 프레임마다 동적으로 셀간 간섭을 제어하고 사용자를 스케줄링하며, 전수검색보다 계산 복잡도가 낮은 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘이 기존 알고리즘보다 네트워크 전체 처리율을 향상시키며, 사용자의 수가 많을 때 사용자간 공평성을 향상시킴을 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 보인다.

Heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a network consisting of macrocells overlaid with small cells. In HetNet, the interference from macrocell to small cell users is a major cause of performance degradation of small cell users and enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) is needed to mitigate the interference. Previous works on eICIC gives limited performance gain because these works focus on maximizing long-term throughput and rarely consider varying channel conditions over frames. This paper proposes a new algorithm which dynamically coordinates interference and schedules users on each frame to maximize the total utility of the network with lower computational complexity than exhaustive search. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves higher total throughput than the throughput with the conventional algorithm, and has higher fairness index than the conventional algorithm when there large number of users.

TD-SCDMA combines TDMA and CDMA components to provide more efficient use of radio resources. However, since the same frequency band is used in both the uplink and downlink, serious interference may occur if the base stations are not synchronized. The interference caused by different transmission directions between neighboring cells is called cross-slot interference. This paper proposes a data rate control algorithm that can decrease the cross-slot interference in TD-SCDMA.

직교 주파수 분할 다중 접속 (OFDMA) 방식을 사용하는 중계 시스템에서는 기지국, 중계기, 사용자에게 어떤 주파수를 할당하느냐에 따라 성능이 달라질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 OFDMA 중계 시스템에서 인접셀 간섭과 네트워크 코딩을 고려하여 주파수를 할당하는 기법을 제안한다. 네트워크 코딩을 사용하는 구간에서는 중계기가 기지국과 사용자에게 네트워크 코딩을 이용하여 동시에 전송할 수 있는 환경을 고려한다. OFDMA 중계 시스템에서 하향 링크와 상향 링크 및 네트워크 코딩으로 동작하는 구간을 나누고, 각 구간별로 기지국, 중계기, 사용자가 이용하는 주파수를 인접셀 간섭을 고려하여 할당해준다. 제안하는 주파수 할당 기법에 대해서 시뮬레이션을 통해 성능 평가를 수행한다.

A subcarrier allocation scheme for base station (BS), relay station (RS) and mobile station (MS) can affect the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) relay systems. In this paper, we propose a subcarrier allocation scheme with inter-cell interference and network coding in OFDMA relay systems. In the network coding zone, we consider an environment where RS can transmit a frame to BS and MS simultaneously. We divide an OFDMA frame into downlink zone, uplink zone, and network coding zone. The proposed scheme allocates subcarriers to BS, RS, and MS for each zone with consideration of inter-cell interference in OFDMA relay systems. We evaluate the performance of the proposed subcarrier allocation scheme through simulation.

4세대 이동 통신 서비스를 위한 시스템들은 멀티미디어 서비스를 지원하기 위해 대용량 데이터 전송이 가능한 OFDM(Orthogonal frequency Division Multiplexing) 방식을 이용하고, 서비스의 질을 높이기 위해 통신 영역을 세분화하여 Macro Cell, Pico Cell, Femto Cell 등으로 구성하고 있다. 통신 영역의 세분화로 인해 기존에 단일 Cell 을 사용하는 것과 달리 동일한 채널에서 Cell을 중첩시켜 서비스해야 하므로 시스템들 간의 대역간 간섭이 문제가 된다. 특히, OFDM 신호는 독립적으로 변조된 많은 부반송파들로 구성되므로 이들이 동위상으로 더해질 때 신호의 진폭이 증가하여 PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) 문제가 발생한다. 높아진 PAPR은 전력 증폭기와 같은 비선형 소자를 통과하면서 신호의 왜곡이 발생하여 대역 외 스펙트럼 방출이 발생하므로 대역간 간섭으로 작용한다. 본 논문에서는 대역간 간섭을 최소화하기 위해 PAPR 감소기법을 적용한 후 전력증폭기와 같은 비선형 소자를 통과하면서 발생하는 대역 외 스펙트럼 방출에 대하여 분석하였다.

The systems for mobile communication services of fourth generation use OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) scheme that ran transmit large amounts of data to support the multimedia services, and consist of several types of cell, such as Macro Cell, Pico Cell, Femto Cell to improve the qualify of service. According to subdivision of communication region, superposition of cells in co-channel different from conventional single cell is used, but it cause inter band interference between systems. In particular, an OFDM signal consists of a number of independently modulated subcarriers, and superposition of these subcarriers causes a problem that ran give a large PAPR. Increased PAPR induces signal distortion passing through components such as power amplifier so that inter band interference is caused by out-of-band spectrum radiation. In order to minimize the inter band interference, this paper applies PAPR reduction scheme and analyzes the out-of-band spectrum radiation when the signal passes through nonlinear components such an power amplifier.