• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.9A
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• pp.801-808
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• 2011

We propose MBAP(Multi-rate Broadcast Active Probing) technique to get the right measurements for link quality in Wireless Mesh Network (WMN). Most routing protocols for WMN make use of link quality-aware routing metrics, such as ETX(Expected Transmission Count) and ETT(Expected Transmission Time), while the hop count is usually used in MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork). A broadcast based active proving technique is adopted in the previous studies to get the ETX or ETT of a link. However this technique does not reflect the multi-rate feature of WLAN because it uses a single fixed transmission rate for broadcast which usually differs from the actual rate used in data transmissions. MBAP overcomes this shortage by exploiting various rate broadcast frames for probing. We implement MBAP on linux system by modifying WLAN driver and related kernel sub-systems. Experimental results show that MBAP can capture link quality more accurately than the existing techniques.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.1B
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• pp.16-23
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• 2009

This paper investigates how many optimal routes can be established in terms of a given wireless mesh routing metric. Although many of routing metrics have been devised to precisely derive the wireless link quality in mesh, most (if not all) metrics have not been evaluated their optimality along with routing protocols. We consider stateof-the-art routing metrics and a widely accepted routing protocol in order to observe the optimality of established routes varying the number of source nodes. Also, we propose a unidirectional routing to deal with possible link asymmetry feature in wireless links. Through comparative simulation evaluations, we show that the portion of optimally established routes becomes less as the network traffic load increases, regardless of employed metrics, network topologies, and routing protocols.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.370-372
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• 2005

무선 매쉬 네트워크에서의 액세스 포인트의 배치는 예상 가입자의 위치와 서비스 공급자의 위치, 액세스 포인트의 수를 모두 고려해야 하는 NP-complete 문제이나, 효율과 비용의 측면에서 간과할 수 없는 매우 중요한 문제이다. 본 연구에서는 대규모 매쉬 네트워크의 효율적인 배치를 위해, 유전 알고리즘을 사용하여 최소한의 액세스 포인트를 사용하여 최대한의 가입자를 수용할 수 있는 무선 메쉬 네트워크의 배치 방안을 모색한다. 구현을 통한 성능평가 결과와 수치적 분석은 본 문제 공간에서의 유전 알고리즘의 효용성을 입증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.601-602
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• 2013

경로손실 예측 모델은 무선 네트워크 설계를 위한 기본 척도이며, 적용 환경과 적용 시스템에 영향을 받는 특징이 있다. 대부분의 기존 연구는 도심, 교외와 같은 육상 환경을 기반으로 한다. 일반적으로 해수면 경로 손실은 전파의 잦은 굴절로 인해 지표면 보다 크며, 주파수에 비례한 경로손실이 있다고 알려져 있다. 하지만 해상 환경의 관련 연구는 자유공간에 적용하기 때문에 예측 모델의 정확성을 낮춘다. 본 논문은 해상 무선통신 서비스를 위한 2.4 GHz 대역의 해수면 경로손실 예측 모델을 제안한다. 이를 위해 육상과 해상에서 각각 수신신호 세기를 측정하고, 다양한 예측 모델과 비교 분석하여 실용성과 정확성을 입증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.257-258
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.2787-2794
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• 2011

A mesh node, a component of a mesh network, is connected with the network by dynamic routing using routing protocol and collects the information of adjacent or connected mesh nodes for its self-management and settings. Also, it relays packets between the mesh nodes and provides AP(Access Point) with its corresponding functions based on IEEE 802.11 a/b/g for clients' access to the network. In this paper, the study focused on the design and performance tests of Wireless Mesh Network(WMN) which is applied to the wireless communication network for the CBTC(Communications Based Train Control) system. The WMN was established on a K-AGT test-line (Kyeongsan city, Gyeongsangbuk-do), and to verify the applicability, its operation and performances are checked by measuring the data throughput, delay latency, quality measurements such as transmission loss, radio interference and path recovery and setup between the on-board and wayside.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10d
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• pp.585-588
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• 2007

WMNs(Wireless Mesh Networks)은 기존 유 무선망 구축 시 발생하는 고가의 비용 및 이동성 제약 등의 단점을 극복하기 위해 제안된 네트워크 구조로써 네트워크 구축비용에 비해 광범위한 인터넷 접근영역을 제공하는 장점을 가진다. 특히, IEEE 802.11e를 MAC 계층으로 사용하는 WMN은 기존 IEEE802.11에서 보다 강화된 QoS(Quality of Service)기능을 가지므로, 안정적 멀티미디어 관련 응용 계층을 지원하는 WMN 구축을 위해 주목받고 있는 기술 중 하나이다. 본 논문은 광주과학기술원에 설치된 MIMC(Multi-Interface Multi-Channel) WMN 테스트베드를 QoS 기능 지원을 위해 IEEE 802.11e 기반으로 확장한다. 특히, 확장에 필요한 소프트웨어 요소 및 하드웨어 요소에 대해 논한다. 또한, 확장된 IEEE 802.11e WMN 테스트베드를 사용하여 현재 주목받고 있는 IEEE 802.11e기반 WMN의 기본 쓰루풋 성능, 쓰루풋 차별화 성능등을 실험적으로 분석한다.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.27 no.B
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• pp.43-51
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• 2007

In mobile multi-hop wireless networks, the authentication between a base station and a mobile multi-hop node, between multi-hop nodes, and between user a station and a multi-hop node is needed for the reliable and secure network operation. In this paper, we survey various authentication schemes which can be considered to be adopted in mobile multi-hop wireless networks and propose a concept of novel mutual authentication scheme applicable to mobile multi-hop network architecture. The scheme should resolve the initial trust gain problem of a multi-hop node at its entry to the network, the problem of rogue mobile multi-hop node and the problem of hop-by-hop authentication between multi-hop nodes. Effectively, the scheme is a hybrid scheme of the distributed authentication method and the centralized authentication method which are considered to be deployed in the wireless ad-hoc network and the wireless network connected to wired authentication servers, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.1883-1890
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• 2009

Existing MAC protocol can not show good performance in WMN environment. New MAC protocols is proposed because of Mobile Point's mobility, entire distributed environment, heavy traffic problems. This thesis proposes new channel contention method fur Mesh DCF. Mesh DCF uses ACH phase in TDMA frame to perform selection and elimination. Prioritized phases's count m and Fair Elimination phases's count n is determine contention level and make string probability to only one win the contention. Contention Number group's count K to determine the contention level in Fair Elimination Phase gives Fairness but make low probability to only one win the contention. It is sure that enough size of n and K can improve entire performance as result.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.322-331
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• 2013

Wireless Mesh Networks(WMNs) is generally composed of radio nodes in the mesh topology. WMNs consists of mesh client, mesh router and gateway connected to a wired network. Each client and router relay messages to the gateway for communication. WMNs is widely used recently in many areas can provide extended coverage based on multi-hop communication and ubiquitous communication at any time and any location. However the competition and collision between each node to transmit data is inevitable when the same channel is used for transmission. The transmission opportunities and the throughput of nodes located far from gateway decrease more if the communication channel is accessed based on competitive CSMA/CA scheme using DCF(Distributed Coordination Function) provided by IEEE 802.11 MAC. In this paper, we improve the performance of the TCP fairness and throughput of the nodes with more than 2 hops by applying various algorithms for controlling contention window values. Also, we evaluate the performance using ns-2 simulator, According to the results, proposed scheme can enhance the fairness characteristic of each node irrespective of data to the gateway.