• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.9B
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• pp.795-801
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• 2008

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are popular due to their low cost and rapid deployment. Currently, many WMN researchers often considers the use of ad-hoc routing protocols because WMNs are similar to the ad-hoc networks. Some of currently deployed WMNs consider to use on-demand routing protocols such as Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). But, AODV are not appropriate for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), because flooding-based route discovery is both redundant and expensive in terms of control message overhead. In this paper, we propose a directional AODV (D-AODV) routing protocol based on hop count to a gateway. We implement the D-AODV routing protocol and evaluate the performance of the D-AODV on the testbed. The measurement results show that the D-AODV can enhance the network throughput by reducing the routing overhead.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.11
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• pp.1011-1019
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• 2012

This paper presents a novel hybrid authentication scheme in the next-generation Tactical Mobile Communication Systems(TMCS) with wireless MSAP mesh networks. The existing centralized and distributed authentication methods for security between MSAPs may have their pros and cons. The centralized authentication method induces overhead from frequent MSAP association which leads to long authentication delay. On the other hand, the distributed authentication method requires initial sharing of the authentication information. Therefore, a more efficient authentication scheme is needed to protect the network from malicious MSAPs and also maximize efficiency of the network security. The proposed scheme provides a hybrid method of efficiently managing the authentication keys in the wireless MSAP mesh network to reduce the induced authentication message exchange overhead. Also, as the authentication method between MSAP and TMFT is different, a method of utilizing the ACR for handling the EAP packets is proposed. In overall, the proposed scheme provides efficient mutual authentication between MSAPs especially for tactical environments and is analyzed through performance evaluation to prove its superiority.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.12
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• pp.1174-1185
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• 2012

This paper proposes a call admission control scheme for delay guarantee in the wireless mesh networks. The admission of a new call is determined based on the expected delay inferred from the class level available bandwidth at nodes on the path. All nodes under the effects of the new call are considered in designing the call admission control scheme to maintain the delay guarantee of the pre-existing traffic. An effective technique for estimating the available bandwidth of the neighbor nodes is proposed with no addition of message interchanges. The class-level delay control is mainly performed by the queueing discipline while keeping the MAC operation simple. Simulations are performed to show the validity of the proposals. We observe acceptable performances in delay expectation with the addition of new calls. We also show that the proposed call admission control is helpful in guaranteeing the delay performances.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.12A
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• pp.1152-1159
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• 2010

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) provides Internet accesses to users by forming backbone networks via wireless links. A key problem of WMN is network capacity. For this, multi-channel and multi-rate functions of IEEE 802.11 can be utilized. Depending on channel assignments, multi-channel determines node connectivity and channel diversity. Also, in IEEE 802.11 multi-rate networks, the rate anomaly problem occurs, the phenomenon that low-rate links degrades the performance of high-rate links. In this paper, we propose rate separating multi-channel (RSMC) protocols that improves the node connectivity and channel diversity, and mitigates the rate anomaly problem. RSMC increases the channel diversity by forming tree-based WMNs and decreases the rate anomaly by separating different rate links on the tree via channels. In addition, it uses network connectivity (NC) algorithm to increase the node connectivity. Through simulations, we demonstrate that the RSMC shows improved performance than existing multi-channel protocols in terms of aggregate throughput, node connectivity, channel diversity.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.430-436
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• 2014

This paper relates to the study about the street security light management system. The purpose of the wireless remote management system is to manage street security lights efficiently. The system is composed of three components like light controller, CDMA gateway and web based remote management server. The zigbee solution is adopted to make local wireless network between street security lights. The CDMA network is used for the wireless communication between street security light controller and the remote control center. The gateway to interconnect zigbee network and CDMA was designed with low power 32 bits Cortex M3 micro-controller. For the data communication between the management server and the gateway, SMS and socket based TCP streaming is used. The management server sends SMS to the gateway to deliver light control and management requests, and the gateway replies with the light controllers report via TCP streaming. By using both SMS and TCP streaming communication, it was verified that simple cost effective management is possible for street security lights. We tried real test for 95 street security lights in real environment during two months and analyzed the practical possibility for mass supply.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.2218-2226
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• 2009

TDMA based MAC protocol supporting wireless mesh network has many advantage rather than 802.11 DCF/EDCA protocol based on packet. But TDMA based MAC protocol require new synchronization method because of mobile point oscillator's difference, and distributed environments. This thesis propose synchronization method for TDMA based MAC protocol. It divides MP(Mobile Points) states into 4 types. If MP is in sync mode, it schedules TDMA local start time in time skew interval using beacon. It proposes compensation algorithms to compensate time skew caused by clock drift. This proposal show that general time error and clock drift rate value reduced and get synchronized result.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.1686-1692
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• 2015

This paper proposes a modified genetic algorithm that has the same beamforming performance and a fast convergence speed using general genetic algorithm in order to form a beam for the mobile node in a mesh network. The proposed beamforming genetic algorithm selects a part of chromosome a high fitness value in mating process to obtain fast convergence speed, and rest part of chromosome with longer fitness value in order to avoid local solution. Furthermore, the reference beam pattern with Gaussian shape reduces additional convergence speed. Simulation shows that the convergence speed of proposed algorithm improves 20% compared with that of conventional beamforming genetic algorithm.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.68-76
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• 2015

This paper proposes the antenna selection scheme and power control algorithms of multiple nodes beamforming when the vehicles equipped with circular array antennas is moving and construct mobile mesh networks. The proposed antenna selection scheme chooses beamforming antenna elements considering antenna radiation gain and allows duplicated antenna selection for multiple adjacent nodes. The proposed power control algorithms maximize SIR for the duplicated antenna selection. The simulation demonstrates that the proposed antenna selection and power control achieve 2.5dB higher SIR gain than that of conventional methods when two nodes are apart from $15^{\circ}$.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 건설현장에서 빈번히 발생하는 안전사고를 줄이기 위해 근로자의 안전모 턱끈 착용을 도와주고 안전관리 감독자가 쉽게 확인 및 관리할 수 있는 전자식 안전모 착용 확인 시스템을 개발하였다. 안전모 착용을 확인하기 위해 마그네틱 근접 센서를 안전모 턱끈에 장착하여 안전모 착용 여부를 검출할 수 있게 하였다. 그리고 무선 센서 네트워크를 구성하기 위해 424.700MHz 주파수를 사용하는 무선 모듈을 개발하여 안전모의형에 장착하여 센서 노드(Sensor Node)를 구성하였으며, 메쉬 토폴로지(Mesh Topology)를 적용하였다. 그리고 중앙 관리실에서 근로자의 상황 인지를 위한 안전모 확인 모니터링 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템으로 인하여 근로자의 안전을 도모하고, 안전 사고에서 근로자의 부상 및 인명 손실을 최소화할 수 있으며, 건설용 엘리베이터 안전 상황 인지, 타워크레인 안전 문제등의 시스템으로 활용이 가능할 것이다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.285-291
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• 2014

Recent, development of wireless communication devices are rapidly and these device being deployed to the user very fast. By this results, a wired network device and the new device such as wireless devices incorporate. Then a demand of new mesh network is rapidly growing. In this wired/wireless integrated network environment, the network is configured automatically, and a user or wireless communication devices must be provided for authentication services. But, these services do not in the real world. Therefore, in this paper, we propose that wired/wireless integrated network environment to automatically configure the network using OpenFlow and the authentication system using Kerberos method. Our proposed system to be able to provide authentication services, confidentiality, integrity services for user or wired/wireless communication devices. And it can be prvented as well to man-in-the-middle attacks.