• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.506-516
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• 2015

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are generally comprised of densely deployed sensor nodes, which results in highly redundant sensor data transmissions and energy waste. Since the sensor nodes depend on batteries for energy, previous studies have focused on designing energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols to extend the network lifetime. However, the energy-efficient protocols induce an extra end-to-end delay, and therefore recent increase in focus on WSNs has led to timely and reliable communication protocols for mission-critical applications. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient and delay guaranteeing node scheduling scheme inspired by biological systems, which have gained considerable attention as a computing and problem solving technique.With the identification of analogies between cellular signaling systems and WSN systems, we formulate a new mathematical model that considers the networking challenges of WSNs. The proposed bio-inspired algorithm determines the state of the sensor node, as required by each application and as determined by the local environmental conditions and the states of the adjacent nodes. A control analysis shows that the proposed bio-inspired scheme guarantees the system stability by controlling the parameters of each node. Simulation results also indicate that the proposed scheme provides significant energy savings, as well as reliable delay guarantees by controlling the states of the sensor nodes.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.600-609
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a two-stage base station (BS) sleeping scheme to save energy consumption in cellular networks. The BS sleeping mode is divided into a light sleeping stage and a deep sleeping stage according to whether there is a user in the BS's coverage. In the light sleeping stage, a BS will retain its coverage and frequently switch between the on state and the doze state according to the service characteristics. While in the deep sleeping stage analysis, the BS will shut down its coverage, and neighbor BSs will patch the coverage hole. Several closed-form formulas are derived to demonstrate the power consumption in each sleeping stage and the stage switching conditions are discussed to minimize the average power consumption. The average traffic delay caused by BS sleeping and the average deep sleeping rate under a given traffic load have also been studied. In addition, it is shown that BS sleeping is not always possible because of the limited quality of service (QoS) requirements. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively reduce the average BS power consumption, at the cost of some extra traffic delay. In summary, our proposed framework provides an essential understanding of the design of future green networks that aim to take full advantage of different stages of BS sleeping to obtain the best energy efficiency.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.514-535
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• 2019

Information-centric networks operate under the assumption that all network components have built-in caching capabilities. Integrating the caching strategies of information centric networking (ICN) with wireless virtualization improves the gain of virtual infrastructure content caching. In this paper, we propose a framework for software-defined information centric virtualized wireless device-to-device (D2D) networks. Enabling D2D communications in virtualized ICN increases the spectral efficiency due to reuse and proximity gains while the software-defined network (SDN) as a platform also simplifies the computational overhead. In this framework, we propose a joint virtual resource and cache allocation solution for latency-sensitive applications in the next-generation cellular networks. As the formulated problem is NP-hard, we design low-complexity heuristic algorithms which are intuitive and efficient. In our proposed framework, different services can share a pool of infrastructure items. We evaluate our proposed framework and algorithm through extensive simulations. The results demonstrate significant improvements in terms of visiting latency, end user QoE, InP resource utilization and MVNO utility gain.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제31권B호
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• pp.99-105
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• 2011

Recently, smartphones have been widely used in wireless communications which caused severe data overload in cellular networks. Cellular companies consider increasing wireless data capacity in overloaded areas. Determining overloaded areas is mainly made from user reports which are currently collected by calling or simple apps by some active users experiencing overloads. Since the current reporting method is inconvenient and does not contain detail information about the overload conditions, and therefore is used by only some active users, the overloaded areas determined from the reports are not likely to be accurate. Therefore, we need a new reporting method which is convenient enough for even inactive users to willingly report the overload condition and which delivers detail information about the overloads. In this paper, we design and implement a measurement function of smartphone's WCDMA communication quality including overload condition and management system of mobile wireless communication networks about smartphones' communication quality.

• 한국정보기술학회 영문논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.13-25
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• 2018

The paper analyzes the sum spectral efficiency (SE) for a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) which has the backhaul, provided with wireless full-duplex massive multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) with hardware distortions. We derive approximate expressions to obtain the uplink/downlink sum SE of the backhaul. The analytic results have been shown to be exact when compared to Monte Carlo simulations. From the analysis, it is shown that the desired signal and the hardware distortion noise have the same order. The sum SE generally improves when the number of receive antennas increases but degrades when the hardware quality reduces. A sum SE performance ceiling is introduced by the hardware quality level.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.74-77
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• 1998

We consider connection-oriented wireless cellular networks. These networks employ dedicated radio channels for the transmission of signaling information. A forward signaling channel is a common signaling channel assigned to carry the multiplexed stream of paging and channel allocation(virtual circuit allocation) packets from a base station to mobile stations. The delay levels experienced by paging and channel allocation packets have serious effect on the utilization level of the limited radio channel capacity. While a slotted mode operation is used to reduce the power consumption level at mobile stations, it may induce an increase in packet delay levels. In this paper, we thus consider a multiplexing scheme for paging and channel allocation packets under which slots are dynamically allocated for the paging packet transmission. For this dynamic scheme, we develop an analytical method for deriving the delay characteristics exhibited by paging and channel allocation packets, and investigate the effect of network parameters on the delay level by using this method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2132-2143
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• 2015

This paper presents two distance geometry-based algorithms for wireless location in cellular network systems-distance geometry filtering (DGF) and distance geometry constraint (DGC). With time-of-arrival range measurements, the DGF algorithm estimates the mobile station position by selecting a set of measurements with relatively small NLOS (non-line-of-sight) errors, and the DGC algorithm optimizes the measurements first and then estimates the position using those optimized measurements. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms can mitigate the impact of NLOS errors and effectively improve the accuracy of wireless location.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.47-52
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• 2006

In this paper, we suggested new network architecture to provide seamless service between the cellular system and new wireless broadband network such as IEEE 802.16e, called WiBro. The interworking technologies are very important issue because mobile operator should provide service connectivity between various wireless networks based on different access technologies. Moreover a change and modification on legacy network should be minimized for providing interworking with new wireless broad-band network. We implemented proposed interworking architecture between 3G cellular network and 802.16e network to provide seamless service including interworking unit in real test environment. Also, we performed performance evaluation in hybrid network environments.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.91-96
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• 2015

이종의 셀룰러 망은 다양한 무선 환경에서의 이동 단말 서비스를 지원한다. 최근 셀룰러 망에서는 음성 서비스 및 데이터 서비스의 요구가 폭발적으로 증가하고 있는 추세로 기술적 기반이 LTE-A (Long-Term Evolution Advanced)와 IEEE 802.16m 무선망으로 전환되어 보다 많은 수의 기지국 서비스 지원을 필요로 하게 되었다. 셀룰러 망에서의 전력 수요는 대부분 기지국에서 소모되며 이에 기지국의 에너지 소모의 절감이 요구되고 있는 시점이다. 본 논문에서는 동적인 전력 관리 방안을 기반으로 기지국의 전력 소비를 줄이는 방안을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션을 통하여 저전력 기지국 수행을 위한 핸드오버 방식의 성능 분석을 수행한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권11A호
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• pp.1101-1112
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• 2006

무선 환경에서의 이동 중 고속의 멀티미디어 서비스 제공에 대한 수요가 증가하면서 (Wireless Broadband internet) 시스템과 같은 MBWA (Mobile Broadband Wireless Access) 기술에 대한 관심이 점차 증가하고 있다. 이러한 WiBro 시스템은 기존의 셀룰라(Cellular) 시스템 기반의 이동 통신망과는 달리 기본적으로 IP 기반의 백본 네트워크로 구성될 것이며 ALL-lP로의 망 진화의 흐름에 따라서 궁극적으로는 IPv6 (IP version six) 기반의 백본 네트워크로 도입될 것이다. 이와 같은 무선 이동 환경에서는 WiBro 시스템의 물리 계층이나 매체 접근 제어 계층에서의 이동성 지원 방안뿐만 아니라 네트워크 계층에서의 이동성 지원 프로토콜 지원이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 IPv6 기반의 WiBro 시스템에서 단말의 서브넷 (Subnet) 간 핸드오버 성능을 향상시키기 위한 고속 핸드오버 방안을 제안하고 모의실험을 통해서 제안한 메카니즘 (Mechanism)이 서브넷 간 핸드오버 시 발생할 수 있는 데이터 유실 문제와 핸드오버 지연 발생 문제 등을 개선할 수 있다는 것을 보인다.