• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.109-121
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• 2010

Recently, the military of Korea has been establishing the next generation wireless tactical communication system so called Tactical Information Communication Network (TICN). A routing protocol for TICN transport networks has to be able to select a path with high survivality, reliability, and stability while accommodating as many flows as possible with minimum QoS guarantees. The OSPF(Open Short Path First) used widely is determined to be the routing protocol for TICN. With the typical deployment practices OSPF, however, it cannot satisfy the requirements of TICN. In this paper, we propose a cost function for OSPF and a way to tune the OSPF protocol parameters for the TICN transport networks. Through simulations, it is shown that the OSPF with the proposed cost function provides better performance than the OSPF in terms of both the services provided to the applications and the network resources utilization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.11
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• pp.1148-1161
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• 2012

Recently, developments in the field of communication and network technologies induced new paradigm in the defense weapon system. As a consequence, military authorities develop the Tactical Information Communication Network(TICN) system to adapt to the changing paradigm. One of the most important functions of TICN is real-time communication. As a result, TICN system needs to receive real-time information from the battlefield, and the key technology to support these features is MANET(Mobile Ad-Hoc Network) routing protocol. In this paper, we analyze problems of the shortest path scheme in tactical Ad-Hoc networks, which is widely used in common Ad-Hoc networks. We propose efficient routing protocol for tactical MANET by considering the environment of small combat units, such as node position, speed and data size. The proposed algorithm shows reliable data transfer and low latency in battlefield.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

Network Centric Warfare(NCW) is becoming a prominent concept in the current trend of warfare. To support high quality communication between strategic/tactical units in the concept of NCW, Tactical Airborne Networks are likely to be constructed in the near future to take part in the NCW. In these Tactical Airborne Networks with dynamic topology variations due to very high mobility of participants nodes, more efficient and reliable neighbor discovery protocols are needed. This paper presents the adaptive HELLO message scheduling algorithm for Tactical Airborne Network using directional antennas. The purposed algorithm can reduce the overhead of periodic HELLO message transfer, while guaranteeing successful data transmission. We concluded a mathematical analysis and simulation studies using Qualnet 4.5 for evaluation the performance and efficiency of the proposed scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.397-399
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• 2005

최근 우선 네트워크 상에서 이동성을 보장하기 위한 다양한 인프라 기술에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 한국군 전술통신망은 이기종, 다특성 통신장비로 구성된 네트워크가 복합적으로 운용되고 있다. 임무수행을 위한 신속한 상황인식과 지휘통제가 최상위 지휘관으로부터 이동중인 최하위 전투원까지 이음새없는(seamless) 통합망을 통해 전달되어야 하나 현재 각 네트워크간 통합기술이나 통합 아키덱처에 관한 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 현재 가용한 이동 네트워크 기술 현황을 제시하고, 현 한국군 전술통신망의 특징과 장단정을 제시한 후, 복합적인 네트워크 환경 하에서 노드의 이동성을 지원하는 계층적 전술통신망 아키텍처에 대한 통신망 설계시 고려사항, 전체 아키텍처 구조 및 각 계층별 노드의 구조와 이들 노드간의 인터페이싱, 이동노드에 대한 이동성 관리 방안을 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.569-579
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• 2014

In a tactical-edge environment, where multiple weapon resources are coordinated together via services, it is essential to make an efficient binding between an abstract service and a resource that are needed to execute composite services for accomplishing a given mission. However, the tactical network that is used in military operation has low bandwidth and a high rate of packet loss. Therefore, communication overhead between services must be minimized to execute composite services in a stable manner in the tactical network. In addition, a tactical-edge environment changes dynamically, and it affects the connectivity and bandwidth of the tactical network. To deal with these characteristics of the tactical network we propose two service-resource reallocation methods which minimize the communication overhead between service gateways and effectively manage neutralization of gateways during distributed service coordination. We compared the effectiveness of these two - methods in terms of total communication overhead between service gateways and resource-allocation similarity between the initial resource allocation and the reallocation result.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.5B
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• pp.385-394
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• 2012

The tactical mobile communication network, which comprises a part of the next-generation Tactical Information and Communication Network (TICN), provides means of communication and control for Tactical Multi-Functional Terminals (TMFT) belonging to a Mobile Subscriber Access Point (MSAP). The next-generation of MSAP is capable of constructing a backbone network via LCTR and HCTR directional antennas. At the same time, WMN modules are used to create and manage a wireless mesh backbone. When directional antennas are used in mobile environments, seamless services cannot be efficiently supported as the movement of the node prevents the angle of the antenna to constantly match. Therefore, data communication through the wireless mesh networks is required to provide direct communication between mobile MSAPs. Accordingly, mutual authentication and data encryption mechanisms are required to provide reliable data transmission in this environment. To provide efficient mutual authentication between MSAP devices, the process of verifying a certificate of the other MSAP device through its own authentication server is required. This paper proposes mutual authentication mechanisms where the MSAP requiring authentication and the MSAP that permits it initiates low-cost and efficient authentication in a distributed way. More specifically, we propose a method of applying EAP-ELS (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security) in the next-generation TICN.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.2188-2195
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• 2015

In tactical wireless local area networks, jamming attack can easily occur by sending out continuous radio signals. The damage will be serious when the channel frequency is identical. Since wireless channel environment is open to everyone, the perfect solution for jamming attack does not exist. However, a channel-hopping scheme is well known for mitigating those jamming attacks. In this paper, I consider various channel-hopping schemes in order to analyze the throughput and fairness performance under smart jammer attack. Also an analytical model is introduced to evaluate the throughput performances of channel-hopping schemes. After analyzing well known channel-hopping schemes, I propose a simple channel-hopping scheme that can enhance fairness significantly at minimal throughput degradation expense.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.199-204
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• 2011

This paper evaluates on the feasibility of MIL-STD-188-220 protocol as a medium access protocol over WNW(Wideband Network Waveform) by simulating and comparing with IEEE 802.11e-based protocol. WNW is newly designed waveform for next-generation broadband tactical communication system. This paper shows the feasibility of using the MIL-STD-188-220 protocol that shows better performance than IEEE 802.11e-based protocol on the particular environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.298-299
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a stable mutual authentication protocol between unmanned combat systems in tactical wireless networks where long distance communications are not always guaranteed due to a poor channel condition. The proposed protocol generates an authentication code using hash collision of arbitrarily selected random data. The authentication requester encrypts and transmits it to the authenticator. They performs authentication by sharing the valid authentication code. We analyze the safety of the proposed method for various attack scenarios.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.79-88
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• 2011

In most existing warships combat simulation system, the tactics of a warship is manipulated by human operators. For this reason, the simulation results are restricted due to the stereotype of human operators. To deal with this, we have employed the genetic algorithm for supporting the evolutionary simulation environment. In which, the tactical decision by human operators is replaced by the human model with a rule-based chromosome for representing tactics so that the population of simulations are created and hundreds of simulation runs are continued on the basis of the genetic algorithm without any human intervention until to find emergent tactics which shows the best performance throughout the simulation. This paper proposes an evolutionary tactics generation methodology for the emergent tactics in many-to-many warship combat simulation. To do this, 3:3 warship combat simulation tests are performed.