• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.6B
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• pp.338-348
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• 2005

Currently, IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN) is rising as the most popular means for the broadband wireless access network. In this thesis, we propose a QoS(Quality of Service)-Oriented mechanism using handshaking method of scanning phase in IEEE 802.11 handoff. In conventional process for handoff, the major criterion to select the best AP(Access Point) among candidates is normally based on the RSS(Received Signal Strength), which does not always make the selected network guarantee the maximum achievable performance. Even though the link quality with a neighboring AP is excellent, the AP may not be a good candidate to handoff to simply because MAC(Medium Access Control) protocol of IEEE 802.11 standard is contention-based such as CSMA/CA. Therefore, if we apply network level information to AP selection criteria, we can achieve better handoff efficiency rather than before. The analysis and simulation results applied to our new mechanism show clearly better performance than AP selection based on traditional handoff method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.29-38
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• 2005

Because IEEE 802.11 has several security vulnerabilities, IEEE 802.11i was proposed and accepted. But IEEE 802.11i has much overhead for most of users for the web surfing. Besides not only node the authentication but also the packet authentication is needed to communicate. Although IEEE 802.11i uses TKIP(Temporal Key integrity Protocol) and CCMP(CTR with CBC-MAC Protocol), they have a lot of overheads. In this paper, Lightweight Packet Authentication(LIPA) is proposed. LIPA has less overhead and short delay so that it can be affordable for simple web-surfing which does not need stronger security. After comparing performances of LIPA with those of TKIP and CCMP, LIPA is more efficient than other schemes for transmitting packets.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.21 no.3 s.99
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• pp.100-108
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• 2006

최근 높은 이동성을 제공하는 3G 이동통신시스템과 저렴하고 빠른 무선 인터넷을 제공하는 Wireless LAN간의 연동에 의한 무선 인터넷의 상용화가 눈앞에 다가왔다. 이와 함께 전송 속도 및 대역폭 등의 서로 다른 무선 특성을 가진 이질망간의 연동으로 서비스 절단 및 열화와 같은 서비스 품질(QoS) 보장 문제가 발생한다. 특히, 비동기 방식의 3GPP 이동통신시스템에서 패킷 기반 서비스들이 이미 엄격한 QoS 메커니즘을 제공하는 것과는 대조적으로 IEEE 802.11 기반의 WLAN에서는 IEEE 802.11e를 중심으로한 표준화가 최근 마무리중에 있다. 이러한 상황에서 현재 3GPP 시스템 구조작업반인 SA WG2에서는 Release 7 기반의 문서인 TR 23.836을 중심으로 3GPPWLAN연동을 위한 QoS 및 정책(policy)에 대한 표준화 작업을 진행하고 있다. 본 고에서는 최근 진행되고 있는 TR 23.836 문서를 중심으로 3GPP-WLAN 연동을 위한 QoS 보장에 대한 고려사항 및 표준화 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.4 s.100
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• pp.465-472
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• 2005

IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN technology is essential for wireless internet, next generation converged network and home network. But, it is certain that user's privacy must be provided to expand the applicable area in IEEE 802.11 WLAN. Recently, WEP and 802.11i security scheme can be used in MAC Layer. But with VPN technology which is applied to WLAN user, it means that suity mechanism is used redundantly. One bit authentication mechanism was already proposed to solve this redundancy. In this paper, we analyze problems of 1-bit Authentication mechanism which are failure of synchronization and waste of packet. And we propose new algorithm which synchronizes sender with receiver, at once, using duplicated-packet-count information. We show that our algorithm improves success probability of packet authentication up to $98\%$ and efficiency of authentication bit stream up to $97\%$.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.46-57
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• 2000

Ongoing standardization effort on 3G cellular system in 3GPP (UNTS) is based on GPRS core network and promises a global standard for systems capable of offering ubiquitous access to internet for mobile users. Considered radio access systems(FDD CDMA, TDD CDMA, and EDGE) are optimized for robust mobile use. However, there are alternative relatively high-rate radio interfaces being standardized for WLAN (IEEE802.11 and HIPER-LAN/2) which are capable of delivering significantly higher data rates to static or semi-static terminals with much less overhead. Also WPANs(BLUETOOTH, IEEE802.15), which will be present in virtually every mobile handset in the near future, are offering low cast and considerable access data rate and thus are very attractive for interworking scenarios. The prospect of using these interfaces as alternative RANs inthe modular UMTS architecture is very promising. Additionally, the recent inclusion of M-IP in the UMTS R99 standard opens the way for IP-level interfacing to the core network. This article offers an overview into WLAN-Cellular interworking. A brief overview of GPRS, UMTS cellular architectures and relevant WLAN standards is given. Possible interworking architectures are presented.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.1647-1653
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• 2004

In a contention-based wireless LAN protocol, maximization of channel utilization and fair bandwidth allocations are main topics to deal with. But it is very difficult to achieve these two goals simultaneously. Many studies have been done to achieve these goals. In this paper we propose a control mechanism to support fair transmissions among traffic classes in IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN. The proposed algorithm uses short-term and long-term transmission times of each traffic classes to control their $CW_{min}$ for fairness. The proposed algorithm don't need to know the exact number of nodes in the networks to support fairness as other studies do. Furthermore any modifications in AP and mobile hosts are not required.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.80-83
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• 2010

This paper describes an analysis of decoding performance of multi-mode LDPC(Low Density Parity Check) decoder which supports three block lengths (648, 1296, 1944) and four code rates (1/2, 2/3,3/4, 5/6) for IEEE 802.11n WLAN system. A fixed-point model of LDPC decoder which adopts min-sum algorithm and layered decoding scheme is implemented using Matlab. From fixed-point simulation results for various bit-width parameters such as internal bit-width, bit-width of integer and fractional parts, an optimal design condition and decoding performance of LDPC decoder are analyzed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.432-438
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• 2011

This paper describes an analysis of optimal design conditions of multi-mode LDPC(low density parity check) decoder which supports three block lengths (648, 1296, 1944) and four code rates (1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6) for IEEE 802.11n WLAN system. A fixed-point model of LDPC decoder, which adopts min-sum algorithm and layered decoding scheme, is implemented using Matlab. From fixed-point simulation results for various bit-width parameters such as internal bit-width, integer/fractional part bit-widths, optimal design conditions and decoding performance of LDPC decoder are analyzed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.261-266
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• 2009

We analyze the performances of the DCF, which is the medium access control protocol of IEEE 802.11 WLAN, assuming normal traffic condition. There have been much less research efforts under the normal condition than those under the saturated one. This paper proposes an analytical method of approximating the transmission attempt rate under normal condition as proportional to that under saturated condition. In result, we show that we can obtain the transmission attempt rate and the packet collision probability which quickly converge using iterative computations of relatively simple equations, and using these results we derive the network throughput and medium access delay. Numerical results show that our method is much less complex than those based on the Markov Chain while it can predict the performances quite accurately.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.1015-1022
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• 2007

In this paper, we proposed a wideband design of planar inverted-F antenna(PIFA) using two-layer, patches and modified ground structure. The antenna consists of two layer patches with common feed and modified ground plane to control resonance frequency and antenna input impedance. The measured bandwidth is 1,492 MHz(BW: 67.7 %, 1,457${\sim}2,949$ MHz) for VSWR<2, and 1,170 MHz(BW: 21 %, 4,970${\sim}$6,140 MHz) for VSWR<2.5. It covers service bands of DCS1800, DCS1900, UMTS(WCDMA), WiBro, WLAN(IEEE 802.11b), satellite DMB. WLAN(IEEE 802.11a) in Korea and radiation patterns shows constant figure with frequency change.