• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.8
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• pp.488-490
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• 2014

This paper deals with distributed time and frequency synchronization algorithms using the flocking technique for OFDMA-based wireless mesh networks. We propose a time and frequency synchronization model taking into account channel propagation delays existing in wireless mesh networks, and analyze the convergence condition of the proposed synchronization algorithm. Convergence performance of the proposed synchronization algorithm is analyzed via computer simulation in terms of synchronization parameters in the time and frequency synchronization model.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.43-48
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• 2009

Wireless mesh networks, unlike Ad-hoc network, has low mobility and multi-path communication between terminals and other networks because it has the backbone structures. Most studies are advanced on finding the optimal routing path in multi-hop wireless mesh network environment. Various routing metric, minimum number of hops(Hop_count) and ETX, ETT metric, are proposed to wireless mesh networks. However, most metrics cannot identify the high throughput routing paths because this metric uses a different measurement parameters in each direction. So actual delivery rate does not provide to this metric. This paper describes the metric and implementation of IETC as a metric. This paper shows the improvement in performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.9
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• pp.100-106
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• 2013

AMI enables bi-directional exchange of information between utilities and consumers in order to maximize energy efficiency. To enable the AMI, it is essentially required to construct stable communication networks. This paper shows the AMI system based on IEEE 802.11s as one of the communication methods. Experimental results show that the wireless mesh network technology achieves a stable communication performance over a wide coverage.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.10B
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• pp.872-882
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• 2006

The Wireless Mesh Network uses a wireless communication technology with transmission rates similar to that of a cable, which is used as a backbone network. The topology structure is in a Mesh form which resembles an Ad-hoc network, however a metric is needed in order to set the channel and channel methods since the operation intentions and interior motions are different. This thesis proposes a metric(ETR : Expected Transmission Rate) that sets the channel with physical link performance and multi hop transmission capabilities. This metric will also be based on multi channel creation methods and Hop-by-hop routing techniques for an effective multi hop transmission with no loops.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.7-13
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• 2011

While the TCP throughput degradation problem in coded wireless mesh networks is well-known, few effective solutions have been proposed. Most schemes proposed attempts to mask packet reordering by ordering packets at a lower layer or to adjust a packet transmission rate to solve the scarcity problem of coding opportunities. Through the throughput comparison of traditional standard TCP variants, we show that losses and duplication of TCP acknowledgements in coded wireless mesh networks can impact throughput. In addition, we show that a TCP variant that does not rely on duplicate acknowledgements is more suitable for coded wireless mesh networks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.1679-1686
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• 2007

Clustering is a topology control approach often used in wireless ad hoc networks to improve scalability and prolong network lifetime. Furthermore, it is also employed to provide semi-management functionalities and capacity enhancement. The usage of clustering topology control technique can also be applied to multi-radio wireless mesh network. This would utilize the advantages of the multi-radio implementation in the network. The aggregation would result to a more stable, connected, scalable and energy-efficient network. On this paper, we design a clustering algorithm for multi-radio wireless mesh network that would use these advantages and would take into consideration both mobility and heterogeneity of the network entities. We also show that the algorithm terminates at a definite time t and the message control overhead complexity is of constant order of O(1) per node.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.341-345
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• 2010

WMN is one of efficient solutions to provide Internet services for users by forming wireless backbone networks with wireless links. The dominant technology for WMNs is the IEEE 802.11, which provides multi-channel and multi-rate capabilities. One of important issues in WMNs is the network capacity and it is essential to design a multi-channel protocol that leverages the network capacity. However, when wireless links that use different data rates operate on the common channel, the performance of high-rate links is severely degraded by the presence of the low-rate links, which is often referred as performance anomaly. In this paper, we propose a Tree-based Channel Assignment (TreeCA) protocol to mitigate the performance anomaly problem by distributing data rates over multiple channels. TreeCA performs channel assignments based on the tree WMN architecture to accommodate the Internet traffics efficiently. Parent nodes on the tree distribute their child nodes over multiple channels so that the performance anomaly is reduced. Through simulations, we observed that the proposed TreeCA outperforms the existing multi-channel protocols for WMNs.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.103-111
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• 2011

Recently, wireless mesh networks are used in various application areas. However, wireless mesh networks have limited bandwidth by the wireless transmission property, and have severe throughput degradation in multi-hop transmission in single channel wireless mesh networks. To solve this problem and support QoS, a lot of routing protocols have been proposed in mesh networks. In this paper, we propose a wireless mesh networks architecture with MPLS for QoS service. The path and traffic management from the application could be independent from QoS routing protocols by using the MPLS in wirelss mesh networks. In this paper, we design a MPLS-based mesh router with IEEE 802.11e for traffic differentiation and investigate the operation by implementation and test.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.365-368
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• 2011

무선 메쉬 네트워크 (Wireless Mesh Network, WMN)는 인터넷 사용자에게 멀티홉 무선 백본 네트워크로 인터넷 접속을 제공하기 위한 기술로 각광받고 있다. IEEE 802.11에서는 3개 또는 12개의 겹치지 않는 (non-overlapping) 채널을 지원하지만, WMN 환경에서 멀티 채널을 활용하는 디자인은 중요한 이슈이다. 본 논문에서는 멀티 채널 WMN에서의 트래픽 요구에 맞추어 채널 할당과 라우팅을 분산적인 (Distributed) 방식으로 수행하는 OnCAR (On-demand Channel Assignment and Routing) 프로토콜을 제안한다. OnCAR는 트래픽의 요구에 따른 채널 할당이 가능하고, 채널 다양성 (diversity)를 고려한 라우팅 기법을 제공한다. NS-2를 사용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 OnCAR가 기존 멀티 채널 프로토콜에 비해 향상된 네트워크 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.202-206
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• 2010

무선 메쉬 네트워크(Wireless Mesh Network, WMN)는 유비쿼터스 환경 및 무선 브로드 밴드 액세스를 제공하기 위한 차세대 핵심기술로 떠오르고 있다. 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스가 존재하는 유비쿼터스 환경에서 실시간 서비스 제공을 위해서는 네트워크 용량 증대가 요구되며, 이를 위하여 WMN에서 네트워크 용량을 증대시키기 위한 다중 인터페이스 활용 기술이 중요한 이슈로 대두되고 있다. 하지만 WMN에서 주로 사용하는 인터페이스 기술인 IEEE 802.11 표준에서는 IEEE 802.11b/g 또는 IEEE 802.11a와 같은 스펙에 따라 간섭 없이 사용할 수 있는 채널은 3개 또는 12개로 한정되어 있기 때문에 다중 인터페이스 활용을 통해 증대된 가용 자원 효율성을 극대화하기 위해서 효율적인 채널 할당 기법의 연구가 요구되며, 이에 따라 본 논문에서는 채널 그룹 설정을 통하여 간섭 발생을 최소화하며 채널스캐닝 과정을 수행하지 않고 채널 변경을 진행함으로써 채널 스캐닝 과정으로 발생하는 전송 지연을 최소화하여 네트워크 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 채널 할당 기법을 제안한다.