• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.101-106
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• 2016

A femtocell network has been attracting attention as a promising solution for providing high data rate transmission over the conventional cellular network in an indoor environment. In this paper, we propose a distributed power control algorithm considering both indoor coverage and data load balancing in the femtocell network. As data traffic varies by time and location according to user distribution, each femto base station suffers from an unbalanced data load, which may degrade network performance. To distribute the data load, the base stations are required to adjust their transmission power dynamically. Since there are a number of base stations in practice, we propose a distributed power control algorithm. In addition, we propose the simple algorithm to detect the faulty base station and to recover coverage. We also explain how to insert a new base station into a deployed network. We present the simulation results to evaluate the proposed algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.3A
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• pp.259-266
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• 2011

Femtocells are expected as the surest way to increase the system capacity with higher-quality links and more spatial reuse in future networks. In spite of their great potential, the system capacity is highly susceptible to network density because a large portion of users are exposed to inter-cell interference (ICI). In this work, we proposed a dynamic interference avoidance scheme in densely deployed cell environments. Our proposed DDIA (Distributed Dynamic ICI Avoidance) scheme not only works in a fully distributed manner, but also controls interference link connectivity of users with high agility so that it is suited for self-organizing networks (SONs). We introduced the concept of ICI-link and two-tier scheduling in designing the DDIA scheme. To avoid ICI without any central entity, our scheme tries to harmonize all base stations (BSs) with users adaptively. Through extensive simulations, it was shown that our proposed scheme improves the throughput of users by more than twice on average compared to the frequency reuse factor 1 scheme, who are exposed to ICI while maintaining or even improving overall network performance. Our scheme operates well regardless of network density and topology.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.7B
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• pp.505-516
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• 2012

According to distribute of resource of macro cell and reduce distance between transmitter and receiver, Femto cell system is promising to provide costeffective strategy for high data traffic and high spectral efficient services in future wireless cellular system environment. However, the co-channel operation with existing Macro networks occurs some severe interference between Macro and Femto cells. Hence, the interference cancellation or management schemes are imperative between Macro and Femto cells in order to avoid the decrease of total cell throughput. First, we briefly investigate the conventional resource allocation and interference cancellation scheme between Macro and Femto cells. So we found that cell throughput and frequency reuse ware decreased Then, we propose an adaptive resource allocation scheme based on the distribution of Femtocell traffic in order to increase the cell throughput and also maximize the spectral efficiency over the FFR (Fractional Frequency Reuse) based conventional resource allocation schemes. Simulation Results show that the proposed scheme attains a bit similar SINR (Signal to Interference Noise Ratio) distribution but achieves much higher total cell throughput performance distribution over the conventional resource allocation schemes for FFR and future IEEE 802.16m based Femtocell network environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.11
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• pp.771-778
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• 2014

We propose Femto-cell power control scheme in HeNet with Game Theory. The Femto-cell which provide high quality with low power is issued by many benefits, however there is a bunch of interferences when many Femto-cells use overlapped bandwidth with Macro-cell. We defined base station of cellular networks and mobile users as players of Game Theory, and configured interference effect among each other as power utility function. Futhermore, we showed enhanced overall system performance, lower power usage and interference decrease by using optimal power.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.62-70
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.103-104
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• 2016

사물 인터넷에서는 대부분의 기기가 와이맥스와 같은 무선 통신을 사용하는데 음영지역이 발생할 경우 펨토셀이 필요하다. 펨토셀은 안전적인 통신을 제공하지만 외부에서 무선 송신을 통해 접근할 수 있어 중간자 공격이 발생하기 쉽다. 강제 지연 인터락 프로토콜은 중간자 공격을 탐지하지만 고정된 지연 시간을 통해 패킷 전송 시간은 일정하다. 본 논문은 평가 함수를 사용하여 동적 지연 시간 결정을 통해 패킷 전달 시간에 대해 감소하는 방법을 제안한다. 이로 인해 제안 기법에서는 지연 시간이 효율적으로 감소하여 전송 속도를 향상한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.523-526
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• 2011

셀룰러 네트워크에서 핸드오버는 사용자에게 끊김 없는 통신을 제공하기 위한 중요한 이슈 중에 하나이다. 그러나 커버리지가 작은 펨토셀이 급격하게 설치되면, 끊김 없는 통신의 지원은 더욱 어려워질 것이다. 이를 해결 하기 위해서는 단말이 시기 적절하게 핸드오버 할 수 있도록 지원해야 한다. 만약 핸드오버가 너무 이르거나 혹은 너무 늦게 수행되면, 사용자는 일시적으로 통신 단절인 RLF (Radio Link Failure)을 경험하게 된다. 핸드오버의 시기는 핸드오버 파라미터에 의해 결정될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 RLF 을 최소화하고, eNB 가 네트워크 운용자의 도움 없이 최적화된 핸드오버 파라미터를 자가 구성할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 기존의 방법에 비해 효과적으로 RLF 을 줄일 수 있음을 확인 할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.75-86
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• 2014

Demand for the femtocell is largely credited to the surge in a more always best connected communication conscious public. 3GPP defines new architecture and security requirement for Release 9 to deal with femtocell, Home eNode B referred as HeNB. In this paper, we analyze the HeNB security with respect to mutual authentication, access control, and secure key agreement. Our analysis pointed out that a number of security vulnerabilities have still not been addressed and solved by 3GPP technical specification. These include eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attack, compromising subscriber access list, and masquerading as valid HeNB. To the best of our knowledge, any related research studying HeNB security was not published before. Towards this end, this paper proposes an improved authentication and key agreement mechanism for HeNB which adopts proxy-signature and proxy-signed proxy-signature. Through our elaborate analysis, we conclude that the proposed not only prevents the various security threats but also accomplishes minimum distance from use-tolerable authentication delay.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.5B
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• pp.338-347
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose the cooperative transmission scheme (CTS) for system throughput maximization in OFDMA based enterprise femtocell networks. In our scheme, the user equipment (UE) can receive the desired signal from serving femtocell BS (fBS) as well as an adjacent fBS. Thus, UE achieves an improved signal to interference plus and noise ratio (SINR) by the synchronized two signals. The performances of this strategy consider not only the call-level quality of service (QoS) but also the packet-level QoS. We first measure the call blocking probability and utilization for the downlink resources for various offered load in femtocell. Based on that, the outage probability and effective throughput of the system are simulated. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can reduce the outage probability for enterprise femtocell compared with conventional systems.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.9
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• pp.764-774
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• 2013

The number of users and data packets has increased in 4G cellular networks. Therefore, 4G cellular network providers suffer from the network capacity problem. In order to solve this problem, femtocell concept is suggested. It can reduce the coverage hole and enhance the QoS. However, only small number of femtocells experience the large amount of loads. To solve this problem, Mobility Load Balancing (MLB) algorithm is suggested, which is a kind of load balancing algorithm. To distribute the traffic load, MLB algorithm modifies the handover region. If the handover region is reduced by MLB algorithm, some cell edge users are compulsively handed over to neighbor femtocell. In this paper, we analyze the relation between MLB performing period and performance indicators. For example throughput and blocking probability is reduced, if period is decreased. On the contrast, if period is increased, the number of handover frequency is decreased. Using this relation, we suggest the adaptive periodic MLB algorithm. This algorithm includes the advantage of both long period and short period MLB algorithm, such as high throughput, the small number of handover frequency, and low blocking probability.