• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.402-408
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• 2008

This paper considers the problem of minimizing network-wide broadcast latency in multi-rate wireless mesh networks where a node can dynamically adjust its link layer transmission rates to its neighbors. We propose a broadcast algorithm that complements existing broadcast construct algorithm which chooses a multicast node randomly when each candidate node has same metric. We consider the currently accumulated broadcast latency from source node to the each candidate node so far to choose the next broadcast node. The proposed broadcast algorithm for minimizing latency in a multi-rate mesh networks which exploit wireless advantage and the multi-rate nature of the network. Simulation based on current 802.11 parameters shows that proposed MinLink_WCDS algorithm improves overall latency than the previous existing broadcast algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a QoS routing protocol for WiMAX based wireless mesh networks. The proposed routing protocol is a proactive hop-by-hop QoS routing protocol. It can find an optimal route that satisfies QoS requirements using bandwidth and delay as QoS parameters. In this paper, we first present a network model for WIMAX based wireless mesh networks and explain why QoS routing protocol is the most appropriate for WiMAX based wireless mesh networks. Then, we propose a proactive hop-by-hop QoS routing protocol that meets QoS requirements of traffic flowing between mesh client and the gateway. The simulation results show that the proposed routing protocol outperforms QOLSR protocol in terms of end-to-end delay, packet delivery ratio and routing overhead.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.49-58
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• 2010

The wireless sensor network technology becomes one of core technologies to make it possible to implement various e-business applications. Energy efficiency is an important issue in wireless sensor networks. IEEE 802.15.4, a representative international standard for wireless sensor networks, provides the beacon enabled mode for energy-efficient communication. However, the beacons may conflict each other when the network is of multi-hop topology such as mesh or cluster-tree topology with beacon-enabled mode. The beacon conflict causes the failure of synchronization between sensor nodes, and affects other nodes in the network in that unsynchronized nodes cannot participate in communication. In this paper, we suggest an energy-efficient beacon scheduling for the wireless sensor networks. Nodes can save their energy duringperiod and prevent beacon conflict using beacon scheduling. We implement the scheduling using QualNet, and evaluate the performance under mesh topology networks. It turns out that the proposed scheduling may improve the energy efficiency in the networks.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.272-283
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• 2010

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have gained a lot of attention recently. Based on the characteristic of WMNs as a highly connected wireless infrastructure, many efforts from research organizations are made in order to improve the performance of the flow throughput in WMNs. Therefore, it is very critical issue to establish efficient routing paths for multiple concurrent ongoing flows. In this paper, we propose a general modeling methodology to analyze the end-to-end throughput of multiple concurrent flows by analytical calculation taking into account the carrier sensing behaviors, interference and the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function mechanism. After the comparison of the average service time for each successful transmission at each node, we analyze the bottlenecks of flows, and hence obtain the maximum end-to-end throughput of them. By using our proposed model, it is possible to predicate the throughput of several candidate routing paths for multiple concurrent ongoing data flows, so we can select the most efficient route that can achieve the highest throughput. We carry out simulations with various traffic patterns of multiple flows in WMNs to validate our modeling and our efficient route selection mechanism.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.232-235
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• 2006

일반적으로 선형 토폴로지 (chain topology) 무선메쉬네트워크의 종단간 최대 전송률은 경쟁관계 그래프 (contention graph)에 기반하여 트래픽 병목 구간의 노드 개수와 1 홉 링크의 평균 전송률을 결정하여 계산하는 방식이 널리 이용된다. 본 논문은 평균을 이용한 방법은 IEEE 802.11 DCF (Distributed Coordination Function)를 MAC 프로토콜로서 사용하는 무선메쉬네트워크에서 정확성에 한계가 있음을 보이며, 이와 같은 정확성의 한계를 유도하는 인자로서 전송률의 편차를 소개한다. 또한 전송률 편차를 고려하여, 단일 선형 토폴로지에서 종단간 최대 전송률을 구하는 방법을 ns2 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.57-59
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• 2009

무선 메쉬 네트워크(Wireless Mesh Networks, WMNs)는 유비쿼터스 환경 및 무선 브로드밴드 액세스를 제공하기 위한 핵심적인 미래 기술로 대두되고 있다. WMN에서의 전체적인 성능은 채널의 간섭을 최소화함으로써 개선될 수 있다. 효율적인 채널 할당을 위해서는 채널 스캐닝 지연과 채널 의존성 문제를 고려해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 멀티채널 WMN에서의 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 클러스터 기반의 채널 할당(Cluster-Based Channel Assignment, CB-CA)을 제안한다. CB-CA에서는 클러스터 헤드 메쉬 라우터(Cluster Head Mesh Router, CHMR)들 간에는 동일 채널을 사용함으로써 채널 스캐닝과 채널 스위칭을 수행하지 않는다. 해당 클러스터 멤버 라우터(Cluster Member Mesh Router, CMMR)들과의 통신에는 CHMR들 간의 통신 채널에 영향을 미치지 않는 채널을 할당함으로써 멀티채널에서 발생할 수 있는 간섭을 최소화 할 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.9
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• pp.976-985
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• 2017

Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a promising technology for building a cost-effective and easily-deployed wireless networking infrastructure. To efficiently utilize limited radio resources in WMNs, packet transmissions (particularly, redundant packet transmissions) should be carefully managed. We therefore propose a lightweight traffic redundancy elimination (LTRE) scheme to reduce redundant packet transmissions in software-defined wireless mesh networks (SD-WMNs). In LTRE, the controller determines the optimal path of each packet to maximize the amount of traffic reduction. In addition, LTRE employs three novel techniques: 1) machine learning (ML)-based information request, 2) ID-based source routing, and 3) popularity-aware cache update. Simulation results show that LTRE can significantly reduce the traffic overhead by 18.34% to 48.89%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.7
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• pp.135-142
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• 2010

Wireless mesh network, which is an access network technology, adopts ubiquitous features of ad-hoc network that includes capabilities of self-configuration and self-management. This paper proposes a scheme which enables nodes along route in wireless mesh network to authenticate data and verify data integrity. The scheme distinguishes infra-node, which is a network device used to form mesh network, and user node in ad-hoc network, which operates functions as a sender, receiver or relayer, to deploy different authentication scheme. That is, hop-based authentication scheme along route forming wireless backbone differs from authentication scheme for user nodes in route over MANET. The proposed scheme is less complex than previously proposed schemes from the repects of security setup procedures and managements. In addition, the scheme is able to reduce transmission delay from a source to a destination owing to fast authentication over wireless backbone.

• 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 Industrial Convergence
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.131-137
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• 2019

In infrastructure wireless mesh networks (WMNs), in order to improve mobile users' satisfaction for the given cache hit ratio, we investigate an User centric Cache Allocation (UCA) scheme while reducing cache cost in a mesh router (MR) and expected transmission time (ETT) for content search in cache. To minimize ETT values of mobile users, a genetic algorithm based UCA (GA-UCA) scheme is provided. The goal is to maximize mobile users' satisfaction via our well defined utility, which considers content popularity and the number of mobile users. Finally, through solving optimization problem we show the optimal cache can be allocated for UCA and GA-UCA. Besides, a WMN provider can find the optimal number of mobile users for user centric cache allocation in infrastructure WMNs.