• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.613-615
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• 2004

Access Grid는 멀티캐스트 네트워크를 기반으로 음성, 영상 및 각종 데이터의 원격 공유를 통해 가상의 공동 작업 환경을 제공하는 원격 협업 시스템이다. 하지만 멀티캐스트를 지원하지 않는 네트워크로 말미암아, 일부 사용자들은 Access Grid를 통한 원격 협업 서비스 이용에 큰 불편을 겪고 있다. 멀티캐스트 브리지는 멀티캐스트를 지원하지 않는 네트워크에서도 멀티캐스트 데이터 전송을 지속시켜, 네트워크 문제를 극복할 수 있도록 하는 응용 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 현존하는 멀티캐스트 브리지들을 비교하여 멀티캐스트 브리지들이 지닌 한계점을 발견하고, Access Grid를 이용한 원활한 원격 협업 서비스 지원을 위한 멀티캐스트 브리지의 개선방향을 제시한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.153-164
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• 2007

The Access Grid (AG) provides collaboration environments over the IP multicast networks by enabling efficient exchange of multimedia contents among remote users; however, since lots of current networks are still multicast-disabled, it is not easy to deploy this multicast-based multi-party AG. For this problem, the AG provides multicast bridges as a solution by putting a relay server into the multicast networks. Multicast-disabled clients make UDP connections with this relay server and receive forwarded multicast traffics in unicast UDP packets. This solution is facing several limitations since it requires duplicate forwarding of the same packet for each unicast peer. Thus, in this paper, we propose an alternate solution for the multicast connectivity problem of the AG based on the UMTP (UDP multicast tunneling protocol). By taking advantage of flexibilities of UMTP, the proposed solution is designed to improve the efficiency of network and system utilization, to allow reuse of multicast-based AG applications without modification, and to partially address the NAT/firewall traversal issues. To verify the feasibility of proposed solution, we have implemented a prototype AG connectivity tool based on the UMTP, named as the AG Connector.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.2627-2640
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• 1998

In this paper, we analyze the performance of the virtual cell system[1] for the transmission of IP datagrams in mobile computer communications. A virtual cell consistsof a group of physical cells shose base stationsl are implemented b recote bridges and interconnected via high speed datagram packet switched networks. Host mobility is supported at the data link layer using the distributed hierachical location information of mobile hosts. Given mobility and communication ptems among physical cells, the problem of deploying virtual cells is equivalent to the optimization cost for the entire system where interclster communication is more expesive than intracluster communication[2]. Once an iptimal partitionof disjoint clusters is obtained, we deploy the virtual cell system according to the topology of the optimal partition such that each virtual cell correspods to a cluser. To analyze the performance of the virtual cell system, we adopt a BCMP open multipel class queueing network model. In addition to mobility and communication patterns, among physical cells, the topology of the virtual cell system is used to determine service transition probabilities of the queueing network model. With various system parameters, we conduct interesting sensitivity analyses to determine network design tradeoffs. The first application of the proposed model is to determine an adequate network bandwidth for base station networking such that the networks would not become an bottleneck. We also evaluate the network vlilization and system response time due to various types of messages. For instance, when the mobile hosts begin moving fast, the migration rate will be increased. This results of the performance analysis provide a good evidence in demonsratc the sysem effciency under different assumptions of mobility and communication patterns.