• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.74-84
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• 2022

The Korean mobile service market has persistently grown with the number of subscribers and volume of mobile traffic. It shows the slow diffusion of 5G subscribers, and rapid growth of both the MVNO(Mobile Virtual Network Operator) market and unlocked mobile phones. Therefore, this study derives the direction of telcos' strategies and policy implications by empirically analyzing the usage and attitude of LTE and 5G subscribers. Our major findings are as follows: First, our current mobile service subscription market constitutes most long-term customers for their incumbent carriers only by device change from lock-in with bundle services. Mobile tariffs, data speed, and benefits of bundle services are important factors affecting choices and customers' satisfaction with a provider and intentions of churning to another. Second, demand and satisfaction for using 5G are less because speeds and service tariffs act as pain points for 5G services. Third, the users' high preferences for MVNOs and unlocked mobile phones are linked to their subscription to MVNOs' low-cost plans with unlocked mobile phones on online channels. These streams lead to a big change in the market competition that MNO(Mobile Network Operator)s' market shares are expected to decrease and MVNOs' shares will be increased by two times, in the near future. Therefore, MNOs need to change their distribution strategies from offline to online channels and try to resolve the stereotype, "mobile tariffs are expensive," by enhancing their service values. Finally, as consumers prefer one-stop service in the same channel regardless of the distribution channel, policies should focus on the consumers' needs for convenience rather than on the channel separation for perfectly unlocked mobile phones.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.107-118
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• 2016

The advent of 5G mobile communications, which is expected in 2020, will provide many services such as Internet of Things (IoT) and vehicle-to-infra/vehicle/nomadic (V2X) communication. There are many requirements to realizing these services: reduced latency, high data rate and reliability, and real-time service. In particular, a high level of reliability and delay sensitivity with an increased data rate are very important for M2M, IoT, and Factory 4.0. Around the world, 5G standardization organizations have considered these services and grouped them to finally derive the technical requirements and service scenarios. The first scenario is broadcast services that use a high data rate for multiple cases of sporting events or emergencies. The second scenario is as support for e-Health, car reliability, etc.; the third scenario is related to VR games with delay sensitivity and real-time techniques. Recently, these groups have been forming agreements on the requirements for such scenarios and the target level. Various techniques are being studied to satisfy such requirements and are being discussed in the context of software-defined networking (SDN) as the next-generation network architecture. SDN is being used to standardize ONF and basically refers to a structure that separates signals for the control plane from the packets for the data plane. One of the best examples for low latency and high reliability is an intelligent traffic system (ITS) using V2X. Because a car passes a small cell of the 5G network very rapidly, the messages to be delivered in the event of an emergency have to be transported in a very short time. This is a typical example requiring high delay sensitivity. 5G has to support a high reliability and delay sensitivity requirements for V2X in the field of traffic control. For these reasons, V2X is a major application of critical delay. V2X (vehicle-to-infra/vehicle/nomadic) represents all types of communication methods applicable to road and vehicles. It refers to a connected or networked vehicle. V2X can be divided into three kinds of communications. First is the communication between a vehicle and infrastructure (vehicle-to-infrastructure; V2I). Second is the communication between a vehicle and another vehicle (vehicle-to-vehicle; V2V). Third is the communication between a vehicle and mobile equipment (vehicle-to-nomadic devices; V2N). This will be added in the future in various fields. Because the SDN structure is under consideration as the next-generation network architecture, the SDN architecture is significant. However, the centralized architecture of SDN can be considered as an unfavorable structure for delay-sensitive services because a centralized architecture is needed to communicate with many nodes and provide processing power. Therefore, in the case of emergency V2X communications, delay-related control functions require a tree supporting structure. For such a scenario, the architecture of the network processing the vehicle information is a major variable affecting delay. Because it is difficult to meet the desired level of delay sensitivity with a typical fully centralized SDN structure, research on the optimal size of an SDN for processing information is needed. This study examined the SDN architecture considering the V2X emergency delay requirements of a 5G network in the worst-case scenario and performed a system-level simulation on the speed of the car, radius, and cell tier to derive a range of cells for information transfer in SDN network. In the simulation, because 5G provides a sufficiently high data rate, the information for neighboring vehicle support to the car was assumed to be without errors. Furthermore, the 5G small cell was assumed to have a cell radius of 50-100 m, and the maximum speed of the vehicle was considered to be 30-200 km/h in order to examine the network architecture to minimize the delay.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.81-86
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• 2008

The paradigm of information & communication is rapidly changed into ubiquitous environment based electromagnetic wave, and antenna technology in the wireless ubiquitous communication is remarkably developed. Mini chip antenna has its within small card compared to the external AP antenna. Designed and Fabricated WLAN antenna has a broadband characteristics of 2.4~2.5GHz and 4.9~5.85GHz, and can be used triple mode of IEEE 802.11.a,g.b, and it has comparatively a constant performance in the dual frequency band.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.23-28
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• 2021

In recent years, research on smart factory wireless mobile communication technology that wirelessly remotely controls utilities is being actively conducted. The Wi-SUN(Wireless Smart Utility Network) Alliance proposed Wi-SUN protocol structure suitable for building a platform such as a smart factory as a new wireless communication standardization standard based on EEE802.15.4g/e. It analyzes the performance of the IEEE802.15.4e CSL(Coordinated Sampled Listening) Mode MAC(Media Access Control) in terms of latency and looks at considerations for efficient operation.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.145-152
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• 2021

In the Recent times, various technological enhancements in the field of artificial intelligence and big data has been noticed. This advancement coupled with the evolution of the 5G communication and Internet of Things technologies, has helped in the development in the domain of smart mine construction. The development of unmanned vehicles with enhanced and smart scheduling system for open-pit mine transportation is one such much needed application. Traditional open-pit mining systems, which often cause vehicle delays and congestion, are controlled by human authority. The number of sensors has been used to operate unmanned cars in an open-pit mine. The sensors haves been used to prove the real-time data in large quantity. Using this data, we analyses and create an improved transportation scheduling mechanism so as to optimize the paths for the vehicles. Considering the huge amount the data received and aggregated through various sensors or sources like, the GPS data of the unmanned vehicle, the equipment information, an intelligent, and multi-target, open-pit mine unmanned vehicle schedules model was developed. It is also matched with real open-pit mine product to reduce transport costs, overall unmanned vehicle wait times and fluctuation in ore quality. To resolve the issue of scheduling the transportation, we prefer to use algorithms based on artificial intelligence. To improve the convergence, distribution, and diversity of the classic, rapidly non-dominated genetic trial algorithm, to solve limited high-dimensional multi-objective problems, we propose a decomposition-based restricted genetic algorithm for dominance (DBCDP-NSGA-II).

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.595-601
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• 2011

This study proposed the system to automatically control the optimized raising environment for vegetation, raised in an equipment house, in which u-IT agricultural technology concept was applied. The system consists of environment sensors such as temperature, humidity, etc., biosensors such as EC, PH, etc., and requested automatic control devices, in which they were automatically controlled by the software system. The system is established in client systems, installed in each equipment house and the server system, collecting data from each client system as well. In addition, the system collects each farmer's data through the Internet and 3G network. In this phase, collected raising environment data comes to be analyzed in order to find out the optimized vegetation raising environment, finally, which is visualized and used for consulting each farmer.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.34-41
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• 2011

At present wireless internet access service is available through the 3G network, mobile WiMAX and WiFi anytime and anywhere. In this environment where there are various networks, users should be able to select specific networks depending on different situations. And it is necessary to provide mobility support between homogeneous and between heterogenous networks. Given this situation, the many proposals have been presented to link 3G, which has the largest service area among various networks, with mobile WiMAX(IEEE 802.16e), or with WiFi(IEEE 802.11). But, recently, with the increasing volume of wireless internet use and wireless internet data, due to the advents of net-book, e-book and smart phone, the service area of WiFi and mobile WiMAX has rapidly expanded. Especially, the availability of real-time application such as internet phone has led to the relative shrinking of the proportion of 3G mobile communication network giving conventional voice service, and enlargement of those of wireless internet access networks like WiFi and mobile WiMAX. This paper suggests a handover scheme based on PMIPv6, whitch support mobility between WiFi and mobile WiMAX, and minimizes handover delay. In this scheme, the mobile node has a dual stack structure composed of two interfaces-WiFi and mobile WiMAX. Since WiFi dose not support mobility, it is suggested that the mobile node have the capacity to deal with handover signaling between gateway in case of handover between homogeneous networks. This handover scheme, suggested comparing with current handovers between homogeneous networks, has proved, in its analytic evaluation, to be able to reduce handover, transmission, and signaling overhead.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10c
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• pp.145-147
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• 2001

최근 무선 이동통신 네트워크 분야의 큰 변화 중에 하나는 무선 이동통신 네트워크와 IP기반의 인터넷 네트워크 기술의 결합이라고 할 수 있다. 그러나 문선 이동통신 네트워크 환경에서는 제한된 네트워크 대역폭과 모바일 호스트(Mobile Host)의 잦은 이동성에 기인한 핸드오프(Hand-Off)로 인하여 다양한 종류의 트래픽(Traffic)에 대한 QoS(Quality of Service)를 보장하기가 용이하지 않다. 3G 네트워크 환경에서는 기존의 서킷 기반이 아닌 패킷 기반의 네트워크 구조로 진화하고 있으며 이동통신 네트워크내에서의 다양한 멀티미디어 트래픽 요구와 함께 이런 멀티미디어 지원을 위한 3G 네트워크안의 QoS 보장이 이루어져야 한다. 본 논문에서는 3세대 이동 통신인 UMTS 네트워크를 기반으로 다양한 멀티미디어 데이터를 위하여 Core네트워크에서의 자원예약을 위하여 내부의 QoS 메커니즘을 관리하여 개선된 RSVP 프로토콜을 제안한다. 또한 그로 인해 발생하는 Signaling 오버헤드를 줄이기 위한 Unified-msg object와 MH(Mobile Host)의 Handoff 지원을 제안한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.70-81
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• 2022

This study derived implications regarding competition policy to establish a reasonable spectrum allocation draft of a 3.7 GHz spectrum band by indepth analysis of 5G spectrum auctions. The following general features were identified by examining auctions of three countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Denmark, were completed in 2021. First, securing the minimum bandwidth that is essential for service competition was guaranteed by applying the spectrum cap. Second, a continuous spectrum band was allocated to all mobile network operators. Third, certain requirements were implemented to encourage the expansion of 5G service coverage. The spectrum cap that was implemented in Korea during the most recent spectrum auction was ineffective regarding competition policy. Additionally, it is anticipated that the allocation of 3.7-4.0 GHz spectrum will considerably impact market competition because the continuity of spectrum band is different among mobile service operators. Therefore, it is time to discuss promoting the 5G service competition in Korea by revising related laws.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.71-81
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• 2014

5G 무선통신시스템은 동일한 영역에서 스펙트럼 사용 효율성을 개선하기 위해 매크로셀과 소형셀이 공존하는 이종 네트워크(HetNet: Heterogeneous Network) 형태로 진화하고 있으며, 급증하는 모바일 트래픽을 효율적으로 처리하기 위해 소형셀들을 고밀도 네트워크(High dense network)로 구축하는 방안이 연구되고 있다. 매크로셀과 고밀도 소형셀들이 중첩되어 구축되는 HetNet 기반 셀룰러 네트워크에서 소형셀 시스템의 구성과 파라미터 최적화를 통한 성능 유지를 운영자가 수동으로 조정하는 것은 한계가 있으므로 네트워크 환경변화에 따라 시스템에서 자율적으로 파라미터를 조정하여 시스템 성능을 유지하는 기술이 요구되고 있다. 본고에서는 시스템 운용 중 자율적인 최적화를 통해 시스템 성능을 최적으로 유지하고 유지비용을 최소화하는 3GPP 자율적 네트워크 최적화 기술을 소개한다.