• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.55-63
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• 2010

On Handoff, existing AP search has chosen one of various APs according to signal strength. However IEEE 802.11 uses Medium Access method with CSMA/CA(Carrier Sensing Multiple Access /Collision Avoidance) that competes to obtain a channel by sharing common medium. For that reason, network performance is heavily affected by the number of nodes and network congestion aside from signal strength. Consequently, in this paper we propose the method that choose one AP which ensures more improved network performance and set up a link, reflecting AP network information in Handoff area, on Handoff in the process of AP selection. We also demonstrate through simulation that it gets maximum performance even in the wireless network which many users concurrently access to, and it has considerable effects on aspects of resources and network management by distribution of users.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1823-1824
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• 2007

핸드폰, PDA, Laptop이 보편화 되면서 이를 이용한 위치 인식 기술의 중요성이 높아지고 있다. 이러한 위치기반 서비스(LBS : Location Based Service)는 GPS를 이용한 실외 서비스와 WLAN, Zigbee, UWB 등을 이용한 실내 서비스로 나눌 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이미 많은 수의 기반시설(AP : Access Point)가 구축되어 있는 무선랜 기반의 효과적인 위치 측정 기법에 관한 연구를 모색 해보고자 한다. 각 AP에서 받은 신호세기(SS : Signal Strength)를 데이터 베이스에 저장한 후, 이동단말기(MU : Mobile Unit)의 위치가 요구되는 장소에서 다시 신호세기를 측정하여 데이터 베이스와 비교하여 가장 적합한 위치 데이터 정보를 리턴하는 핑거프린트(Fingerprint) 방식을 소개한다. 그리고 불안정한 신호 세기 데이터를 판별하기 위하여 단일 클래스 SVM 기법인 SVDD(Support Vector Data Description)을 이용하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.369-376
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• 2017

Recently, an RSSI-based fingerprinting localization technology has been widely used in indoor location-based services. In the conventional fingerprinting method, as many APs as possible are used to increase the accuracy of location estimation. In another study, a part of APs having the strongest RSSI signal intensity are selected and used to reduce the time spent for positioning. However, it does not reflect the influence of RSSI occurred from the changes of the surrounding environments such as human movement or moving obstacles in a real environment. The environmental changes may cause the difference between the predicted RSSI signal strength value and the measured value, and thus occur an unpredictable error in the position estimation. Therefore, in order to mitigate the error caused by environmental factors, it is necessary to select APs suitable for indoor positioning estimation considering the changes in the surrounding environments. In this paper, we propose a method to select stable APs considering the influence of surrounding environments and derive a suitable positioning algorithm. In addition, we compare and analyze the performance of the proposed method with that of the existing AP selection methods through experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.1096-1099
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• 2007

무선LAN 환경에서는 대체로 AP(Access Point)의 신호세기 만으로 사용할 AP를 선택하므로, 모바일 노드 사용이 한 영역으로 집중되면 특정 AP에 혼잡이 초래되어 전체 네트워크의 사용 효율이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 각 AP의 부하 정보를 이용해 핫스팟의 혼잡을 분산시키고 AP의 데이터 전송속도를 최대한 보장하는 AP 선택 정책을 제안하고 이를 응용하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 실측 데이터를 적용하여 시험한 결과, AP의 혼잡이 분산되고 네트워크 사용 효율이 기존 방식보다 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.63-69
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose an indoor positioning technique using the landmark based on relative Access Point (AP) signal strengths. The absolute values of AP signals are used to conventional indoor positioning technologies, but they may be different because of the difference of the measuring device, the measuring environment, and the timing of the measurements. However, we found the fact that the flow of the AP's RSSI in certain places shows almost constant patterns. Based on theses characteristics, we identify the relative strength between the APs and store the certain places as landmarks where they show certain patterns. Once the deployment of the landmark map is complete, system calculate position of user using the IMU sensor of smartphone and calibrate it with stored landmarks. Our system shows 75.2% improvement over technology that used only sensors, and 39.6% improvement over technology that used landmarks that were selected with absolute values.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.107-112
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• 2015

A smart phone and the number of wireless terminals are mobile-to the nature of the AP mobility are many call transfer between wireless terminals and AP (Access Point). Each wireless terminal that is the call processing process for each is relatively large to cause the wireless traffic, and a factor that inhibits the efficient use of the radio band on the AP. In this paper, we use the power intensity threshold and threshold timer of the AP received by the mobile station to reduce the amount of switching traffic between the AP's cause and traffic generation factors between the wireless device and the AP that can effectively utilize the radio traffic from the AP the measures proposed. The proposed method and the conventional method is improved by simulation to handle the amount of radio traffic from the AP it was confirmed that it is possible to effectively utilize the whole of the radio band.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.578-585
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• 2011

Nowadays, wireless local area networks are widely deployed so that stations can potentially associate with an access point. The AP selection strategy is one of the significant research areas for wireless local area networks. The selection strategy solves the relevant problem is which AP can be selected and associated with a station so that the efficient resource utilization can be obtained. Rather than merely choosing the AP with the strongest received signal strength, however, we calculate effective throughput for each neighboring AP and use it as a basis for AP selection. Referencing the throughput is better than referencing the signal strength only because the network may contain a severe load imbalance. We have performed computer simulations using OPNET modeler in order to verify the performance of the proposed scheme. The results show us that the proposed selection method outperforms that of the conventional one in terms of throughput and delay.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.13-20
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• 2022

IEEE 802.11ay Wi-Fi is the next generation wireless technology and operates in mmWave band. It supports the MU-MIMO (Multiple User Multiple Input Multiple Output) transmission in which an AP (Access Point) can transmit multiple data streams simultaneously to multiple STAs (Stations). To this end, the AP should perform MU-MIMO beamforming training with the STAs. For efficient MU-MIMO beamforming training, it is important for the AP to estimate signal strength measured at each STA at which multiple beams are used simultaneously. Therefore, in the paper, we propose a deep learning-based link quality estimation scheme. Our proposed scheme estimates the signal strength with high accuracy by utilizing a deep learning model pre-trained for a certain indoor or outdoor propagation scenario. Specifically, to estimate the signal strength of the multiple concurrent beams, our scheme uses the signal strengths of the respective single beams, which can be obtained without additional signaling overhead, as the input of the deep learning model. For performance evaluation, we utilized a Q-D (Quasi-Deterministic) Channel Realization open source software and extensive channel measurement campaigns were conducted with NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) to implement the millimeter wave (mmWave) channel. Our simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme outperforms comparison schemes in terms of the accuracy of the signal strength estimation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.433-439
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• 2011

The positioning system based on wireless AP collects AP information distributed in the real world, stores it into database, and measures the position objects by comparing with searched AP information. The existing fingerprinting method is a probabilistic modeling method that acquires much of the data collected from one location upon database composition, and stores the average of the data for the sake of use it in positioning objects. Using the average value, however, may cause the probability of errors Such errors are fatal weaknesses for services based on the accurate position. This paper described the characteristics and problems of the previously used wireless AP positioning system, and proposed a method of using the AP DB and an MSS mechanism for outdoor positioning in order to solve the aforementioned problems. And the results obtained from experimental tests showed that the proposed method achieved very low error rate(27%) compared with the existing method.