Kwang Jae Lim

Opportunistic downlink interference alignment

We introduce an opportunistic downlink interference alignment (ODIA) for interference-limited cellular downlink, which intelligently combines user scheduling and downlink IA techniques. The proposed ODIA not only efficiently reduces the effect of inter-cell interference from other-cell base stations (BSs) but also eliminates intra-cell interference among spatial streams in the same cell. We show that compared to the existing downlink IA schemes, the minimum number of users required to achieve a target degrees-of-freedom (DoF) can be fundamentally reduced, i.e., the fundamental user scaling law can be improved, by using the ODIA. In addition, we introduce a limited feedback strategy in our ODIA framework, and then analyze the minimum number of feedback bits required to obtain the same performance as that of the ODIA assuming perfect feedback.

Multi-node Frequency Synchronization Method for Distributed Networks

In this paper, we propose a novel method of multi-node frequency synchronization for distributed networks. The proposed method synchronizes carrier frequencies of all nodes in the network and this enables new entry node to synchronize immediately. Moreover, when several groups exist in the network, inter-group synchronization method is proposed. The proposed distributed frequency synchronization method is expected to be very useful for the military operation scenario that new node entry is in a state of flux and group merging and splitting frequently happen.