ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2023-0336
Seokwon Jang, Namseok Ko, Jaewook Lee, Yeunwoong Kyung, Haneul Ko
{"title":"Joint user plane function instance and base station scheduling in mobile networks","authors":"Seokwon Jang, Namseok Ko, Jaewook Lee, Yeunwoong Kyung, Haneul Ko","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0336","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0336","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To guarantee a high data transmission rate in heterogeneous mobile networks, sufficient small base stations (SBSs) and user plane function (UPF) instances should be active. However, the excessive operation of SBSs and UPF instances can increase the operating expenditure (OPEX) for the network operator. To balance the data rate and OPEX, we propose a joint UPF instance–SBS scheduling algorithm (J-UBSA). In the proposed J-UBSA, a controller periodically determines the appropriate number of active SBSs and UPF instances based on estimated variations in session requests. The decision-making process is formulated as a constrained Markov decision process and converted into a linear programming model to obtain the optimal solution using a traditional algorithm with low complexity. Evaluation results demonstrate that J-UBSA can substantially reduce the OPEX while guaranteeing a suitable average data rate for mobile devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 6","pages":"977-986"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2023-0336","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138716439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2022-0333
Euisok Chung, Hyun Woo Kim, Byunghyun Yoo, Ran Han, Jeongmin Yang, Hwa Jeon Song
{"title":"Dialog-based multi-item recommendation using automatic evaluation","authors":"Euisok Chung, Hyun Woo Kim, Byunghyun Yoo, Ran Han, Jeongmin Yang, Hwa Jeon Song","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2022-0333","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2022-0333","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we describe a neural network-based application that recommends multiple items using dialog context input and simultaneously outputs a response sentence. Further, we describe a multi-item recommendation by specifying it as a set of clothing recommendations. For this, a multimodal fusion approach that can process both cloth-related text and images is required. We also examine achieving the requirements of downstream models using a pretrained language model. Moreover, we propose a gate-based multimodal fusion and multiprompt learning based on a pretrained language model. Specifically, we propose an automatic evaluation technique to solve the one-to-many mapping problem of multi-item recommendations. A fashion-domain multimodal dataset based on Koreans is constructed and tested. Various experimental environment settings are verified using an automatic evaluation method. The results show that our proposed method can be used to obtain confidence scores for multi-item recommendation results, which is different from traditional accuracy evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 2","pages":"277-289"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2022-0333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138716139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2023-0142
Aare Gopal, Desireddy Krishna Reddy, Srinivasarao Chintagunta
{"title":"Symbol interferometry and companding transform for PAPR reduction of OTFS signal","authors":"Aare Gopal, Desireddy Krishna Reddy, Srinivasarao Chintagunta","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0142","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0142","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents methods for reducing the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) signal. These methods mainly consist of two operations: symbol interferometry (SI) and either \u0000<span></span><math>\u0000 <mi>μ</mi></math>-law or \u0000<span></span><math>\u0000 <mi>A</mi></math>-law companding. SI spreads the data of one OTFS symbol onto all symbols and is implemented using a simple inverse fast Fourier transform operation on each OTFS symbol. During the second operation, the PAPR of the OTFS signal is significantly reduced. For our performance analysis, the complementary cumulative distribution function, probability density function, and bit error rate are illustrated through simulations performed in MATLAB. The performance is also analyzed using a solid-state power amplifier at the transmitter and compared with OTFS, \u0000<span></span><math>\u0000 <mi>μ</mi></math>-law-based OTFS, and SI OTFS systems. The results indicate that the proposed OTFS system achieves a low PAPR.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 4","pages":"595-603"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2023-0142","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138561963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2023-0125
Ha Duy Hung, Hoang Van Toan, Tran Trung Duy, Le The Dung, Quang Sy Vu
{"title":"On the block error rate performance of cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access short-packet communications with full-duplex relay and partial relay selection","authors":"Ha Duy Hung, Hoang Van Toan, Tran Trung Duy, Le The Dung, Quang Sy Vu","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0125","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0125","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we mathematically investigate a downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system for short-packet communications (SPC) in which the near users are used as full-duplex (FD) relays to forward intended signals from the source to a far user. In addition, partial relay selection is employed to enhance the performance of the FD relays under the impact of imperfect interference cancellation. At the far user, selection combining (SC) or maximal ratio combining (MRC) is employed to combine the signals received from the source and the selected FD relay. The analytical expressions for the average block error rate (BLER) of two users over flat Rayleigh fading channels are derived. Furthermore, closed-form asymptotic expressions of the average BLERs at the near and far users in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regimes are obtained. The numerical results show that the analytical BLERs of the near user and far user closely match the simulation results.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 3","pages":"446-460"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2023-0125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138562361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2022-0391
Francisco R. Castillo-Soria, Carlos Gutierrez, Fermin M. Maciel-Barboza, Viktor I. Rodriguez Abdala, Jayanta Datta
{"title":"Relay-assisted multiuser MIMO-DQSM system for correlated fading channels","authors":"Francisco R. Castillo-Soria, Carlos Gutierrez, Fermin M. Maciel-Barboza, Viktor I. Rodriguez Abdala, Jayanta Datta","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2022-0391","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2022-0391","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents the performance evaluation of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay-assisted multiuser multiple input–multiple output (MU–MIMO) downlink transmission system for correlated fading channels. The overall system performance was improved by incorporating a double-quadrature spatial modulation (DQSM) scheme. The bit error rate (BER) performance and detection complexity of the AF–MU–MIMO–DQSM system were analyzed and compared with those of a conventional AF–MU–MIMO system under the same conditions and parameters. The results showed that the correlated fading channel severely affected the performance of systems with higher spectral efficiency (SE). Considering an SE of 12 bpcu/user, the AF–MU–MIMO–DQSM system yielded a gain of up to 3 dB in BER performance compared with that of its conventional counterpart for the analyzed cases. In terms of detection complexity, the AF–MU–MIMO–DQSM system showed a reduction of up to 56 % compared with that of the conventional system for the optimal maximum likelihood detection criterion.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 2","pages":"184-193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2022-0391","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138510287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2023-0075
Jinke Cao, Xiaofei Zhang, Honghao Hao
{"title":"Direct position tracking method for non-circular signals with distributed passive arrays via first-order approximation","authors":"Jinke Cao, Xiaofei Zhang, Honghao Hao","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0075","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, a direct position tracking method for non-circular (NC) signals using distributed passive arrays is proposed. First, we calculate the initial positions of sources using a direct position determination (DPD) approach; next, we transform the tracking into a compensation problem. The offsets of the adjacent time positions are calculated using a first-order Taylor expansion. The fusion calculation of the noise subspace is performed according to the NC characteristics. Because the proposed method uses the signal information from the previous iteration, it can realize automatic data associations. Compared with traditional DPD and two-step localization methods, our novel process has lower computational complexity and provides higher accuracy. Moreover, its performance is better than that of the traditional tracking methods. Numerous simulation results support the superiority of our proposed method.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 3","pages":"421-431"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2023-0075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138542250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2023-0083
Jinwuk Seok, Chang Sik Cho
{"title":"Numerical analysis of quantization-based optimization","authors":"Jinwuk Seok, Chang Sik Cho","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0083","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose a number-theory-based quantized mathematical optimization scheme for various NP-hard and similar problems. Conventional global optimization schemes, such as simulated and quantum annealing, assume stochastic properties that require multiple attempts. Although our quantization-based optimization proposal also depends on stochastic features (i.e., the white-noise hypothesis), it provides a more reliable optimization performance. Our numerical analysis equates quantization-based optimization to quantum annealing, and its quantization property effectively provides global optimization by decreasing the measure of the level sets associated with the objective function. Consequently, the proposed combinatorial optimization method allows the removal of the acceptance probability used in conventional heuristic algorithms to provide a more effective optimization. Numerical experiments show that the proposed algorithm determines the global optimum in less operational time than conventional schemes.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 3","pages":"367-378"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2023-0083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138510263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2023-0029
Shankaragouda M. Patil, Rajeshkumar Venkatesan
{"title":"Substrate-integrated-waveguide cavity-backed circularly polarized antenna with enhanced bandwidth and gain","authors":"Shankaragouda M. Patil, Rajeshkumar Venkatesan","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0029","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose a method for increasing the bandwidth of a substrate-integrated-waveguide (SIW) cavity-backed antenna with taper-based microstrip SIW transition feeding. For radio transmission, a circular slot is etched on top of the SIW cavity. For optimal antenna design, the slot is etched slightly away from the cavity center to generate circularly polarized waves. Simulations show a wide axial ratio bandwidth of 7.860<i>%</i> between 11.02 GHz and 11.806 GHz. Experimental results confirm a similar wide axial ratio bandwidth of 4.9<i>%</i> between 10.8 GHz and 11.35 GHz. An SIW feed from an inductive window excites the radiating circular slot, resulting in a simulated wide impedance range of 1.548 GHz (10.338 GHz–11.886 GHz) and bandwidth of 13.93<i>%</i>. Experimental results show a wide impedance of 2.08 GHz (10.2 GHz–12.08 GHz) and bandwidth of 18.84<i>%</i>. The SIW cavity-backed antenna creates a unidirectional pattern, leading to gains of 6.61 dBi and 7.594 dBi in simulations and experiments, respectively. The proposed antenna was fabricated on a Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 substrate, and the reflection coefficient, radiation patterns, and gains were tested and compared using a computer simulator. The developed broadband antenna seems suitable for X-band applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 3","pages":"404-412"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2023-0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138510282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2022-0446
Asep Haryono, Grafika Jati, Wisnu Jatmiko
{"title":"Oriented object detection in satellite images using convolutional neural network based on ResNeXt","authors":"Asep Haryono, Grafika Jati, Wisnu Jatmiko","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2022-0446","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2022-0446","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most object detection methods use a horizontal bounding box that causes problems between adjacent objects with arbitrary directions, resulting in misaligned detection. Hence, the horizontal anchor should be replaced by a rotating anchor to determine oriented bounding boxes. A two-stage process of delineating a horizontal bounding box and then converting it into an oriented bounding box is inefficient. To improve detection, a box-boundary-aware vector can be estimated based on a convolutional neural network. Specifically, we propose a ResNeXt101 encoder to overcome the weaknesses of the conventional ResNet, which is less effective as the network depth and complexity increase. Owing to the cardinality of using a homogeneous design and multibranch architecture with few hyperparameters, ResNeXt captures better information than ResNet. Experimental results demonstrate more accurate and faster oriented object detection of our proposal compared with a baseline, achieving a mean average precision of 89.41% and inference rate of 23.67 fps.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 2","pages":"307-322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2022-0446","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138510288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ETRI JournalPub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2023-0144
Seon-Ho Han, Bon-Tae Koo
{"title":"10-GHz band 2 × 2 phased-array radio frequency receiver with 8-bit linear phase control and 15-dB gain control range using 65-nm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology","authors":"Seon-Ho Han, Bon-Tae Koo","doi":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0144","DOIUrl":"10.4218/etrij.2023-0144","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose a 10-GHz 2 × 2 phased-array radio frequency (RF) receiver with an 8-bit linear phase and 15-dB gain control range using 65-nm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology. An 8 × 8 phased-array receiver module is implemented using 16 2 × 2 RF phased-array integrated circuits. The receiver chip has four single-to-differential low-noise amplifier and gain-controlled phase-shifter (GCPS) channels, four channel combiners, and a 50-Ω driver. Using a novel complementary bias technique in a phase-shifting core circuit and an equivalent resistance-controlled resistor–inductor–capacitor load, the GCPS based on vector–sum structure increases the phase resolution with weighting-factor controllability, enabling the vector–sum phase-shifting circuit to require a low current and small area due to its small 1.2-V supply. The 2 × 2 phased-array RF receiver chip has a power gain of 21 dB per channel and a 5.7-dB maximum single-channel noise-figure gain. The chip shows 8-bit phase states with a 2.39° root mean-square (RMS) phase error and a 0.4-dB RMS gain error with a 15-dB gain control range for a 2.5° RMS phase error over the 10 to10.5-GHz band.</p>","PeriodicalId":11901,"journal":{"name":"ETRI Journal","volume":"46 4","pages":"708-715"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2023-0144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135539690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}