• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.151-159
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• 2008

Mobile broadband wireless network is emerging as one of the hottest research areas due to technical advances, and the demands of users who wish to enjoy the same network experience on the move. In this paper, we investigate the handover process at the medium access control (MAC) layer in an IEEE 802.16e-based system. In particular, we identify problems concerned with the scan initiation Process called cell reselection and propose a received signal strength (RSS) estimation scheme to dynamically trigger a scanning process. We show how the RSS estimation scheme can timely initiate a scanning process by anticipating RSS values considering scan duration required.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.1014-1017
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• 2007

무선랜에서는 작은 셀 크기로 인해 노드들의 이동에 따른 빈번한 핸드오프가 이루어진다. 그래서 무선랜에서는 지속적인 통신 서비스를 제공하기 위한 방법으로 모바일 아이피와 같은 방법을 개발하고 있다. 모바일 아이피는 모바일 노드가 한 장소에서 다른 장소로 이동할 때 IP 주소의 변경 없이도 이동할 수 있도록 해준다. 그러나 모바일 아이피는 긴 시간의 등록과정과 연결 재설정 때문에 시간지연이나 패킷 손실과 같은 오버헤드를 발생시킨다. 따라서 무선랜의 QOS(Quality Of Service)를 향상시키기 위해서 Mobile IP 의 핸드오프 시간을 줄여야만 한다. 본 논문은 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 핸드오프 지연 시간을 감소시키는 기법을 제안한다. 제안기법의 기본 아이디어는 모바일 노드의 이동 네트워크를 예상하여, 미리 패킷 포워딩을 수행하는데 있다. 우리는 각 모바일 노드들에게 connection proxy table 정보를 추가하였다. 그리고 이 테이블 정보를 이용함으로써 모바일 노드들은 홈에이전트와 포린에이전트에 COA(Care of address)를 미리 등록하는 것이 가능해졌다. 그 결과로 이동 노드들은 홈 네트워크를 완전히 벗어나지 않고도 핸드오프가 이루어져 지속적인 서비스가 가능하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법이 기존 Mobile IP 와 비교해 볼 때 핸드오프가 이루어지는 동안 비 연결 시간을 줄일 수 있다는 것을 실험결과를 통해서 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.62-72
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• 2007

Mobile Virtual Private Network (MVPN) provides VPN services without geographical restriction to mobile workers using mobile devices. Coexistence of Mobile IP (MIP) protocol for mobility and IPsec-based VPN technology are necessary in order to provide continuous VPN service to mobile users. However, Problems like registration failure or frequent IPsec tunnel re-negotiation occur when IPsec-based VPN Gateway (GW) and MIP are used together. In order to solve these problems, IETF proposes a mechanism which uses external home agent (x-HA) located external to the corporate VPN GW. In addition, based on the IETF proposal, a mechanism that assigns x-HA dynamically in the networks where MN is currently located was also proposed with the purpose to reduce handover latency as well as end-to-end delay. However, this mechanism has problems such as exposure of a session key for dynamic Mobility Security Association (MSA) or a long latency in case of the handover between different networks. In this paper, we propose a new MVPN protocol in order to minimize handover latency, enhance the security in key exchange, and to reduce data losses cause by handover. Through a course of simulation, the performance of proposed protocol is compared with the existing mechanism.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.7 no.1 s.12
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• pp.80-87
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• 2003

This paper proposes a routing scheme for multi-hop LEO satellite networks with inter-satellite links aiming for reducing the number of link handovers while keeping the efficient use of network resource. The proposed routing scheme controls the link handovers by taking account of the deterministic LEO satellite system dynamics, geographical location of a ground terminal and statistic information of call duration. The performance of the proposed routing scheme has been evaluated and compared with previous routing schemes in terms of average number of link handovers during a call, the call blocking and dropping probability, and the network utilization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.12A
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• pp.975-982
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• 2003

A connection admission control scheme is proposed that can seamlessly support QoS in face of handoff in mobile packet networks. The proposed scheme is based on the adaptive time-selective bandwidth reservation with the reduced signaling and computational overhead. The reservation parameters are adjusted dynamically to cope with user mobility. Throughout the computer simulations, the performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated. As a result, it is shown that the proposed scheme reduces handoff call blocking probability remarkably, while other parameters (new call blocking probability and bandwidth utilization efficiency) are slightly deteriorated.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.34-50
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• 2005

Recently, various proposals for supporting network mobility, which provides efficient Internet access when a network formed within a vehicle moves around as a unit, have emerged. The schemes in those proposals, though, manifest some major drawbacks with respect to scalability: If the number of mobile nodes within a mobile network is large, the handoff latency would increase greatly, causing communication disruption; Data delivery to a node within a nested mobile network nay suffer extremely inefficient pinball routing. We propose a scalable network mobility supporting mechanism named SNEMOS (Scalable NEtwork Mobility Support), which resolves the above two major problems of the existing schemes. The performance of SNEMOS is compared with the existing schemes through extensive simulations. The numerical results show that SNEMOS outperforms the existing schemes with respect to handoff latency hop counts of routing paths, packet delivery time, header overhead in data packets, and signaling overhead.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.146-157
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• 2004

In order to provide continuous QoS guaranteed to a mobile user, it is required to deploy some kind of mechanisms which reserves resources in advance at the locations to which the mobile user is expected to move. An important issue with regards to these mechanisms is to minimize the waste of resources caused by redundant reservations while keeping up the QoS guaranteed services to the user In this paper, we propose a wireless network domain structure which deploys a special cell, called “a gray cell”. The boundaries of two or more neighboring domains are surrounded by the gray cells, and the gray cells are supposed to belong to all of its neighboring domains. Based on this wireless domain structure, we propose a mechanism which completely removes the waste of redundant resource reservation in the wireless network domain while greatly reducing the risk of reservation disruption caused by inter-domain handover. Using simulation, it is shown that the proposed mechanism can deal with inter-domain handover as effectively as it does with intra-domain handover. It is also presented that the proposed mechanism outperforms existing mechanisms with respect to reservation disruption time and packet losses caused by handovers.