• Review of KIISC
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.40-48
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• 2008

미래의 광대역 무선망은 고주파수의 대역을 사용하여 신호의 감쇠가 높고, 높은 multi-path fading효과를 가지므로 전력제어가 필요하고 사용자에게 넓은 대역폭을 제공할 것으로 예측한다. 이를 위해 셀의 크기가 줄게 되고 BS의 수가 증가하여 네트워크 설치비용도 증가하게 될 것이다. 무선 메쉬 네트워크는 이런 문제를 해결하여 망구축과 운영을 쉽게 하고 영역 확장과 용량 확장을 유연하게 하며 저비용의 무선 bakhaul로 높은 신뢰성을 제공하는 특성을 가진다. 무선 메쉬 네트워크는 노드와 노드간의 무선 멀티-홉 통신을 이용하여 끊김 없는 연속적인 연결을 제공하는 네트워크 기술이다. 이 기술은 메쉬 라우터와 메쉬 클라이언트라는 노드로 구성되며 각 노드는 라우터인 동시에 호스트로 동작할 수 있다 앞서 언급한 바와 같이 자가 구성, 자가 복구의 능력을 가지고 저 비용으로 신뢰성 있는 네트워크 구축을 제공하기 때문에 무선랜이나 WiMAX, WPAN 등에서 채택되고 있다. 이 논문에서는 메쉬 네트워크의 구조와 특징을 자세히 설명하고 IEEE 802.11s와 IEEE 802.16j에서 진행되는 무선 메쉬 네트워크 관련 표준화를 살펴본 후 관련업체에서의 메쉬 네트워크 관련 개발 현황과 실제 구축 현황을 설명하고자 한다. 또한 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서 발생하는 여러 가지 보안 문제와 적용기술들을 짚어 보고자 한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.37-46
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• 2007

무선 메쉬 네트워크(Wireless Mesh Network)는 무선으로 연결된 메쉬 라우터(Mesh Router)들 간에 멀티 홉 통신을 통해 다수의 사용자 단말에게 인터넷 접속 등의 서비스를 제공해줄 수 있는 망 기술로써, 네트워크 확장과 유지, 보수가 쉬운 장점이 있다. 무선 메쉬 네트워크를 통해 보다 많은 사용자와 트래픽을 처리하기 위해서는 네트워크의 용량(Capacity) 및 처리량(Throughput)을 높이는 것이 중요하며, 이를 위해 다수의 통신 인터페이스를 하나의 단말에 장비하는 멀티 인터페이스 기술이 각광받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선 메쉬 네트워크의 표준화 동향을 소개하고 멀티 인터페이스 기반 메쉬 네트워크 연구 활동 및 테스트 베드 구축 활동에 관해 요약한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.958-961
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• 2007

Recently, research and deployment have been very active on wireless mesh technologies. Wireless mesh networks extends the coverage of the WLAN easily and economically. Although existing protocols developed for MANET and WSN can be used for wireless mesh WLANs, considerable amount of research are still required, because they exhibit poor performance, when applied as they are, due to a few critically different requirements This paper examine research issues on physical and link layers of WLANs considering those requirements.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.83-90
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• 2009

Since traffic is aggregated to a MPP that acts as an Internet gateway, if traffic load is not balanced among the MPPs in a WMN, the overall performance of a WMN becomes poor even though the total traffic load is far below the capacity of the WMN. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a stochastic load balancing scheme where each MP (Mesh Point) probabilistically selects its serving MPP according to the congestion levels of MPPs. Through extensive simulations using ns-2, we have verified that our scheme can stabilize a WMN fast when congestion occurs and reduce packet loss rate by distributing traffic load of a congested MPP to multiple MPPs in the inverse proportional to their congestion levels. Compared to queue-based load balancing scheme, our method can decrease network stabilization time by 34 seconds, and reduce packet loss rate by 7.6%. Since the proposed scheme can reduce network stabilization time by efficiently using network resource, it is expected to contribute to the reliable operation of a WMN.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.254-259
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• 2008

Mesh WLANs, which consist of wireless mesh routers connecting each other in a mesh topology and self-operate after their autoconfiguration, have several advantages in convenience, swiftness and flexibility of deployment and operation over existing WLANs the expansions of which are done by connecting the APs with wires. However, many technical issues still remain to be solved. Among them, network performance degradations due to the interference between the adjacent hops in multi-hop mesh WLANs, and the reusability of the existing wireless network protocols are critical problems to be answered. This work evaluates the VoIP support performance of IEEE 802.11a/g-based mesh WLANs with multiple wireless interfaces with simulations. The results show that there exit an unfairness in VoIP packet delay performances among mobile routers located at different hops, and that although the capacity of the admitted calls can be increased by increasing the size of voice packet payload it is far less than the expected one. This suggests that the existing 802.11 MAC protocols have their limitation when applied in mesh networks and their enhancement or even a newer one nay be required.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2009

Wireless Mesh Network(WMN) is wireless backbone networks technique which has ease of network configuration and cost of advantage. Recently, WNM released a new product, but most of existing research and technology analysis the performance through the simulation. This paper build the wireless mesh network testbed for actual situation. Testbed supports multi-channel multi-interface using bridge, the Wireless Distribution System and dynamic location-based routing protocol. This routing protocol strongly design against wireless interference using metric for link channel change and real distance. Then, the address of mesh clients assigned by the centralized address management server. Mesh clients is designed and implemented to manage network through Simple Network Management Protocol.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.15C no.5
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• pp.375-382
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• 2008

As the use of Internet and information communication technology is being generalized, the SSL protocol is essential in Internet because the important data should be transferred securely. While the SSL protocol is designed to defend from active attack such as message forgery and message alteration, the cipher suite setting can be easily modified. If the attacker draw on a malfunction of the client system and modify the cipher suite setting to the symmetric key algorithm which has short key length, he should eavesdrop and cryptanalysis the encrypt data. In this paper, we examine the domestic web site whether they generate the security session in the symmetric key algorithm which has short key length and propose the solution of the cipher suite setting problem.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.778-782
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• 2008

The performance in combination of wired and wireless mesh network which will be a main access network in future internet is directly linked with service quality to users. In this paper, we evaluate variant TCP performance and analyze traffic characteristics on Wireless (Seoul National University Mesh testbed) - Wired (KOREN/Abilene) - Wireless (HP Mesh testbed in the USA) Network. We found that RTT is proper in this network to serve a VoIP service. Also we propose an enhanced TCP protocol which can perform well in both wireless network which has many packet losses and wired network which has high bandwidth and long delay.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1077-1082
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• 2009

Wireless Mesh Network(WMN) is wireless backbone networks technique which has ease of network configuration and cost of advantage. Recently, WNM released a new product, but most of existing research and technology analysis the performance through the simulation. This paper build the wireless mesh network testbed for actual situation. Testbed supports multi-channel multi-interface using bridge, the Wireless Distribution System and dynamic location-based routing protocol. This routing protocol strongly design against wireless interference using metric for link channel change and real distance. Then, the address of mesh clients assigned by the centralized address management server. Mesh clients is designed and implemented to manage network through Simple Network Management Protocol.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.91-96
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• 2009

In this paper, interoperability in heterogeneous wireless mesh network, and mesh nodes for providing efficient IP mobility technique offers multi-hop ARP. Heterogeneous wireless mesh networks to MANETs based on a wireless mesh network backbone and non-MANET architecture is based on a client wireless mesh network and the two mobile networks, combined with a hybrid wireless mesh network are separate. In two different hybrid wireless mesh network routing protocols used to connect the two protocols in the protocol conversion at the gateway to parallel processing problems seriously overload occurs. All of the network reliability and stability are factors that reduce. Therefore, for efficient integration with L3 routing protocols, design techniques to build ARP multi-hop go through the experiment to increase the number of mesh nodes, the packet forwarding rate and an increased hop number of the node was to ensure reliability and stability.