• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.997-1005
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• 2010

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the use of WLAN technology due to its easy deployment, flexibility and so on. Examples of WLAN applications range from standard internet services such as Web access to real-time services with strict latency/throughput requirements such as multimedia video and voice over IP on wireless network environments. Fair and efficient distribution of the traffic loads among APs(Access Points) has become an important issue for improved utilization of WLAN. This paper focuses on an AP selection scheme for achieving better load balance, and hence increasing network resource utilization for each user on wireless network environments. This scheme makes use of active scan patterns and the network delay as main parameters of load measurement and AP selection. This scheme attempts to estimate the AP traffic loads by observing the up/down delay and utilize the results to maximize the link resource efficiency through load balancing. We compared the proposed scheme with the original SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio)-based scheme using the NS-2(Network Simulation.2). We found that the proposed scheme improves the throughput by 12.5% and lower the network up/down link delay by 36.84% and 60.42%, respectively. All in all, the new scheme can significantly increase overall network throughput and reduce up/down delay while providing excellent quality for voice and video services.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.65-73
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• 2009

IEEE802.11 Wireless LAN(WLAN) is being widely used in public space such as airport, and increases the networking boundary in campus and enterprise, and it has lastly attracted considerable attention for mesh network and converged network with other 3G mobile communication networks. In WLAN, load balancing among Access Points(AP) is an important issue for efficient resource management or supporting the Quality of Service(QoS) of traffic, but most researches focused on the AP selection in network entry or roaming of Stations(STA). In this paper, we propose an AP-Initiated Flow Redirection(FR) for AP load balancing by monitoring AP's availability in the true sense. When the AP's resource becomes almost saturated, that is used more than a specific threshold, the AP queries the roaming possible neighbor APs about their availability and calculates the distribution of traffic load with statistical methods such as entropy or chi-square. Finally, the AP decides flows and new APs for redirection and performs it. Our simulation results show that our FR mechanism increases the performance in the various views.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.418-420
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• 2005

IEEE 802.11 에서 현재까지 많이 연구되어진 주제는 노드들 간의 공평성(fairness)에 중점을 두거나 처리율(throughput)을 높이는데 초점을 맞추어 진 것들이었다. 전체 처리율을 높이는데 AP의 백오프 방식에 관련해서는 노드들 간에 관한 연구에 비하여 비교적 연구가 적은편이다. 현재 AP와 노드들은 충돌이 발생하면 BEB(Binary Exponential backoff) 방식으로 셋팅되어 사용하고 있기 때문에 1:N의 불공평한(unfairness) 상황이 발생한다. 하향링크(downlink)가 대부분인 환경에서 AP가 다른 노드들과 같은 채널 접근확률을 가진다는 것은 바람직하지 않다. 따라서 AP가 노드들보다 우선권(priority)을 높여서 처리율을 높이는 방안이 필요하다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 AP의 백오프 방식 및 CW(Contention Window)가 변화하는데 따라서 전체 처리율에 어떤 영향을 끼치는가와 노드 수에 따른 AP의 적절한 전략 과 백오프 CW값을 분석해 보았다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.220-225
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• 2007

This paper presents an efficient input variable selection method using both principal component analysis(PCA) and adaptive partition mutual information(AP-MI) estimation. PCA which is based on 2nd order statistics, is applied to prevent a overestimation by quickly removing the dependence between input variables. AP-MI estimation is also applied to estimate an accurate dependence information by equally partitioning the samples of input variable for calculating the probability density function. The proposed method has been applied to 2 problems for selecting the input variables, which are the 7 artificial signals of 500 samples and the 24 environmental pollution signals of 55 samples, respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed methods has a fast and accurate selection performance. The proposed method has also respectively better performance than AP-MI estimation without the PCA and regular partition MI estimation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.525-530
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• 2006

This paper presents an efficient input variable selection method using both fixed-point independent component analysis(FP-ICA) and adaptive partition mutual information(AP-MI) estimation. FP-ICA which is based on secant method, is applied to quickly find the independence between input variables. AP-MI estimation is also applied to estimate an accurate dependence information by equally partitioning the samples of input variable for calculating the probability density function(PDF). The proposed method has been applied to 2 problems for selecting the input variables, which are the 7 artificial signals of 500 samples and the 24 environmental pollution signals of 55 samples, respectively The experimental results show that the proposed methods has a fast and accurate selection performance. The proposed method has also respectively better performance than AP-MI estimation without the FP-ICA and regular partition MI estimation.

• 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.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.146-151
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• 2013

With the development of mobile internet, requirements of positioning accuracy for the LBS (Location Based Service) are becoming more and more higher. The LBS is based on the position of each mobile device. So, it requires a proper acquisition of accurate user's indoor position. Thus indoor positioning technology and its accuracy is crucial for various LBS. In general, RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) measurements are used to obtain the position information of mobile unit under WLAN environment. However, indoor positioning error increases as multiple AP's configurations are becoming more complex. To overcome this problem, an enhanced indoor localization method by AP (Access Point) selection criteria adopting DOP (Dilution of Precision) is proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.118-121
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• 2018

끊김 없는 이동성은 멀티미디어가 풍부한 실시간 서비스를 지원하는 미래의 무선 네트워크에서 필수적이다. SDN (Software Defined Networking)은 중앙 집중식 컨트롤러를 통해 무선 네트워크에서 세밀한 플로우 수준의 이동성 관리를 제공할 수 있지만 핸드오버 지연의 새로운 네트워킹 패러다임이다. 스플릿 포인트 방식은 SDN 무선 네트워크에서 핸드오버 및 종단 간 전송 지연을 줄이는 효과적인 방법이다. 스플릿 포인트는 트래픽이 새로운 AP (Access Point)를 향하여 핸드오버 한 후에 기존 플로우 경로상에 존재하는 스위치이다. 본 논문에서는 MN-CN (Corresponding Node) 경로의 각 스위치의 가중치를 스위치와 후보 AP 사이의 평균 고리(홉)로 계산하고 최소 가중치를 갖는 스위치가 스플릿 포인트로 선택된다. 스플릿 포인트 선택 외에도 이 논문은 SDN 에서 제공하는 제어 및 데이터 플레인 분리를 이용하여 핸드오버 후 플로우에 대한 최적의 경로를 복원한다. 제안 아이디어의 수치 해석은 이전 솔루션과 비교하여 총 비용이 9.6 % ~ 13 % 향상되었음을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Zoological Society Korea Conference
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• 1995.10b
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• pp.341.1-341
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• 1995

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• Molecules and Cells
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.100-107
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• 2007

The moss Physcomitrella patens has two life cycles, filamentous protonema and leafy gametophore. A modified from of suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH), mirror orientation selection (MOS), was applied to screen genes differentially expressed in the P. patens protonema. Using reverse Northern blot analysis, differentially expressed clones were identified. The identified genes were involved mainly in metal binding and detoxification. One of these genes was an AP2 (APETALA2) domain-containing protein (PpACP1), which was highly up-regulated in the protonema. Alignment with other AP2/EREBPs (Ethylene Responsive Element Binding Proteins) revealed significant sequence homology of the deduced amino acid sequence in the AP2/EREBP DNA binding domain. Northern analysis under various stress conditions showed that PpACP1 was induced by ethephon, cadmium, copper, ABA, IAA, and cold. In addition, it was highly expressed in suspension-cultured protonema. We suggest that PpACP1 is involved in responses to metals, and that suspension culture enhance the expression of genes responding to metals.