Abstract: A method for manufacturing a gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell wherein carbon nanotubes are impregnated into Korean paper, thereby enhancing electroconductivity, and a gas diffusion layer manufactured thereby. The method for manufacturing a gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell which is to manufacture a gas diffusion layer as a constituent member of a unit cell in a fuel cell, includes a support preparation step of preparing a support with Korean paper; a dispersion preparation step of dispersing a carbon substance in a solvent to form a dispersion, a coating step of coating the support with the dispersion, and a thermal treatment step of thermally treating the dispersion-coated support to fix the carbon substance to the support.

Abstract: A method for controlling a first node transmitting a transmission message to a plurality of second nodes may be provided. The method includes dividing the transmission message into at least one sub-message, encoding the at least one sub-message to a data stream, determining a first transmission direction of the data stream toward at least one of the plurality of second nodes, based on a polynomial of a channel gain between the first node and the at least one of the plurality of second nodes, and transmitting the data stream to the at least one of the plurality of second nodes, based on the determined first transmission direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method supportive of distributed turbo coding based on relay network utilizing a noisy network coding scheme. For this, included is a relay node operating as a component encoder to relay a signal from a source node to a next node in a distributed turbo coding scheme. The relay node quantizes the signal transmitted from the source node and then interleaves the quantized signal using a predetermined pattern to distinguish the signal transmitted from the source node from a signal to be output from an opposing node, so that the signal transmitted from the source node is relayed to the next node based on a noisy network coding scheme.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to control interference in a relay node are provided and include simultaneously receiving a symbol from source nodes, adjusting channel coefficients; and relaying the symbol to destination nodes with adjusted channel coefficients. The simultaneously receiving and the relaying are performed during a symbol transmission process between the source and destination nodes.

Abstract: A communication method of a macro base station, a macro terminal, a micro base station, and a micro terminal determines an interference control scheme for each interference condition between a micro cell and a micro cell and between a macro cell and a micro cell in a hierarchical cellular network, and controls interference in the hierarchical cellular network where a detailed operation for each determined interference control scheme, a message associated with the detailed operation, and a resource management scheme are defined.

Abstract: Provided are a communication method and apparatus for device-to-device (D2D). More particularly, the communication method for D2D includes configuring a network topology using at least one cooperating base station to communicate among devices included in multiple heterogeneous cells, creating an association between multiple device pairs and at least one base station based on configuring the network topology, and determining a cooperation context for communication among the multiple device pairs is provided. The communication apparatus carries out such a method.

Abstract: A method of multi-hop cooperative communication includes recognizing a plurality of relays capable of cooperating with one another to amplify or quantize and forward mixed signals received from a plurality of different nodes, selecting a transmission mode from a direct mode for transmission from a base station directly and a cooperation mode for transmission from the base station via the plurality of relays, transmitting data from the base station directly to a terminal through a first radio resource in the direct mode in response to the selected transmission mode being the direct mode, and transmitting data from the base station to the terminal via the plurality of relays through a second radio resource in the cooperation mode in response to the selected transmission mode being the cooperation mode.

Abstract: A method of controlling interference of relay nodes and node pairs in a multi-hop network, includes relaying signals received from source nodes among the node pairs to destination nodes pairing with the source nodes, and cancelling a part of interference signals between the node pairs by controlling channel coefficients of the relay nodes. The destination nodes are configured to cancel residual interference signals among the interference signals, using the signals received by the destination nodes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to control interference in a relay node are provided and include simultaneously receiving a symbol from source nodes, adjusting channel coefficients; and relaying the symbol to destination nodes with adjusted channel coefficients. The simultaneously receiving and the relaying are performed during a symbol transmission process between the source and destination nodes.

Abstract: Provided is a communication method of a base station and a terminal for enhancing a recovery performance of a signal using a feedback control message. The feedback control message may include information about a target received power at the base station with respect to feedback information of each of a plurality of terminals and information associated with a feedback mode of the feedback information.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are described for a cooperative scheduling using interference between multiple points. For each link, a cooperation set is set including cooperation links for a cooperative scheduling. A cooperation session map is generated that defines a cooperation link selected from the cooperation set for each link in each session of a network. A cooperation group is determined to be scheduled simultaneously using the cooperation session map.

Abstract: A scheduling method and a scheduling apparatus based on physical layer network coding for bidirectional traffic are provided. The method includes setting up paths passing through a node to perform the physical layer network coding of the bidirectional traffic of sessions that pass through the node. The method further includes requesting, from neighboring nodes of the node, information to be used to schedule the sessions for the physical layer network coding. The method further includes scheduling the sessions for the physical layer network coding based on a queue differential of each session that is calculated based on the information, and a rate of each link of each session.

Abstract: Provided is an interference aligning method and apparatus that does not perform full feed-forwarding in a hierarchical cell communication. A macro base station may generate respective transmission beamforming vectors of macro terminals to null interference channels to pico terminals and to remove interference among the macro terminals. The effective interference channels are based on reception beamforming vectors of the pico terminals. The macro base station may transmit, to a macro terminal, a feed-forward indicator (FFI) indicating a method of transmitting information associated with a reception beamforming vector of the macro terminal. The macro terminal may obtain information associated with the reception beamforming vector based on the FFI.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method supportive of distributed turbo coding based on relay network utilizing a noisy network coding scheme. For this, included is a relay node operating as a component encoder to relay a signal from a source node to a next node in a distributed turbo coding scheme. The relay node quantizes the signal transmitted from the source node and then interleaves the quantized signal using a predetermined pattern to distinguish the signal transmitted from the source node from a signal to be output from an opposing node, so that the signal transmitted from the source node is relayed to the next node based on a noisy network coding scheme.

Abstract: A data transmission system that determines data transmission power using a virtual cell is provided. A base station may receive transmission data from a plurality of cooperative base stations positioned around the base station, and model terminals receiving an interference signal from the base station and the plurality of cooperative base stations into a virtual cell. The base station may calculate the influence of the interference signal transmitted to the terminal, using the virtual cell, and determine a transmission power for a plurality of frequency bands based on the interference signal.

Abstract: Provided is a cognitive inter-cell interference control method and apparatus. Inter-cell interference may be measured based on various methods in order to recognize an interference channel, and an appropriate interference control algorithm may be applied to the interference channel by modeling based on overhead. Accordingly, interference may be controlled.

Abstract: A communication system performs an uplink communication and a downlink communication using respective radio resources that at least partially overlap each other in both time and frequency, which may cause interference to occur in at least one downlink terminal due to at least one uplink terminal. The at least one uplink terminal and the at least one downlink terminal may process the interference according to a rate split scheme, an interference control scheme, and the like. Interference occurring between at least one transmit antenna and at least one receive antenna of a base station may be processed according to an echo cancellation scheme and the like.

Abstract: Provided is a hierarchical rate splitting method and apparatus in a hierarchical cell communication system. An upper node or a macro base station may adaptively determine a hierarchical splitting mode based on a channel condition of a channel between the macro base station and a macro terminal and/or a performance of pico terminals in comparison to a performance of the macro terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a method of generating a transmit beamforming vector and a receive beamforming vector to substantially eliminate the effect of interference transmitted from macro terminals to a pico base station in a hierarchical cell environment. Also, provided is a method of selecting, from a plurality of macro terminals, a macro terminal for transmitting data to a macro base station.

Abstract: A beamforming method and apparatus for using a rate splitting scheme in a multi-cell multi-antenna system, are provided. The multi-cell multi-antenna system determines transmission and reception beamforming vectors, thereby being divided into a plurality of pairs of single input and single output (SISO) interference channels. A rate splitting scheme may be applied to each of the plurality of pairs.