• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.68-82
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• 2011

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) provide high-speed backbone networks without any wired cable. Many researchers have tried to increase network throughput by using multi-channel and multi-radio interfaces. A multi-radio multi-channel WMN requires channel assignment algorithm to decide the number of channels needed for each link. Since the channel assignment affects routing and interference directly, it is a critical component for enhancing network performance. However, the optimal channel assignment is known as a NP complete problem. For high performance, most of previous works assign channels in a centralized manner but they are limited in being applied for dynamic network environments. In this paper, we propose a simple flow estimation algorithm and a hybrid channel assignment algorithm. Our flow estimation algorithm obtains aggregated flow rate information between routers by packet sampling, thereby achieving high scalability. Our hybrid channel assignment algorithm initially assigns channels in a centralized manner first, and runs in a distributed manner to adjust channel assignment when notable traffic changes are detected. This approach provides high scalability and high performance compared with existing algorithms, and they are confirmed through extensive performance evaluations.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.824-832
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• 2009

Multi-radio multi-channel Wireless Mesh Network requires an effective management policy to control the assignment of channels to each radio. We concentrated our investigation on modeling method and solution to find a dynamic channel assignment scheme that is adapted to change of network traffic. Multi-path routing scheme was chosen to overwhelm the unreliability of wireless link. For a particular traffic state, our optimization model found a specific traffic distribution over multi-path and a channel assignment scheme that maximizes the overall network throughput. We developed a simple heuristic method for channel assignment by gradually removing clique load to obtain higher throughput. We also presented numerical examples and discussion of our models in comparison with existing research.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.163-177
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• 2010

In this paper, we consider a channel ordering problem that seeks to maximize the service quality in mobile radio communication systems. If a base station receives a connection request from a mobile user, one of the empty channels belonging to the base station is assigned to the mobile user. In case multiple empty channels are available, we can choose one that incurs least interference with other channels assigned to adjacent base stations. However, note that a pair of channels that are not separated enough generates interference only if both channels are assigned to mobile users. That is, interference between channels may vary depending on the channel assignment sequence for each base station and on the distribution of mobile users. To find a channel assignment sequence that seems to generate minimum interference, we develop an optimization model considering various scenarios of mobile user distribution. Simulation results show that channel assignment sequence determined by the scenario based optimization model significantly reduces the interference provided that scenarios and interference cost are properly generated.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.291-306
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• 2012

Recently, Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) technology recently has been used in various industries. Especially, a number of multi-channel assignment schemes have been presented to improve the throughput of IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop WMN. However, performance of the conventional multi-channel assignment schemes is not enough to satisfy the industry requirements. We, thus, should study more about the multi-channel assignment scheme in order to enhance the performance. This paper proposes a novel channel assignment scheme that employs Multi-channel and Multi-Interface in the WMN. The proposed scheme can obtain the traffic information of the network and the efficient channel assignment result without any message exchanges. We verify the efficiency of the proposed scheme through the mathematical modeling and the real-world experiments. The results show that the proposed scheme improves the throughput of the network compared with the conventional schemes.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권10B호
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• pp.964-972
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• 2009

무선 메쉬 네트워크(Wireless Mesh Network, WMN)는 다중 인터페이스와 다중 채널을 지원함으로써 기존의 무선 네트워크에서 발생되는 여러 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 핵심적인 미래기술로 대두되고 있다. WMN에서 다중 채널의 사용은 무선 네트워크 노드들이 사용하는 대역폭을 본질적으로 증가시켜준다. 그러나 이러한 대역폭을 충분히 사용하기 위해서는 다중 채널 환경에서 발생할 수 있는 채널 간 간섭을 최소화하는 채널 할당 기법이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 WMN의 성능 향상을 위하여 클러스터링 기반의 최소 간섭 채널 할당(Minimum Interference Channel Assignment, MI-CA) 알고리즘을 제안한다. MI-CA 알고리즘은 클러스터 간의 Inter-Cluster 채널 할당과 클러스터 내부의 Intra-Cluster 채널 할당으로 구성된다. Inter-Cluster 채널 할당에서는 전체 WMN을 위한 베어본 채널을 MST(Minimum Spanning Tree) 기반으로 클러스터 헤더와 보더 노드에 할당하고, Intra-Cluster 채널 할당에서는 클러스터 멤버들 간에 직교채널을 재 할당함으로써 간섭을 최소화 한다. 시뮬레이션 결과 본 논문에서 제안한 MI-CA 알고리즘이 채널 간섭을 최소화함으로써 WMNs의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 입증하였다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.487-493
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• 2013

스마트 기기의 보급 확대로 다양한 콘텐츠를 서비스하는 이동 단말기의 한정된 채널 할당 문제가 심화되고 있다. 이동통신망에서는 이동국에서 채널할당 요청이 있을 때 교환국에서 각 기지국에 속한 이동국에 채널을 할당한다. 이 때 한정된 채널을 효과적으로 할당하기 위한 다양한 방식들이 제안되고 있는데, 여기서는 하이브리드 채널 할당에 유전 알고리즘을 이용한 UHGA(Universal Hybrid Channel Assignment using Genetic Algorithm)이 농촌 지역이나 도심 지역과 같은 다양한 환경의 범용 망에 적용되어 효율성이 있음을 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증한다.

• 산업공학
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.504-511
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• 2005

The NP-hard channel assignment problem becomes more and more important to use channels as efficiently as possible because there is a rapidly growing demand and the number of usable channel is very limited. The hybrid genetic and local search (HGLS) method in this paper is a hybrid method of genetic algorithm with no interference channel assignment (NICA) in clustering stage for diversified search and local search in tuning stage when the step of search is near convergence for minimizing blocking calls. The new representation of solution is also proposed for effective search and computation for channel assignment.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 2006년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.288-300
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• 2006

In this paper, we consider a channel ordering problem that seeks to minimize the total interference in mobile radio networks. If a base station receives connection request from a mobile user, one of the empty channels that are fixed to the base station is assigned to the mobile user. Among several channels available, we can choose one that seems to make least interference with other channels assigned to adjacent base stations. However, a pair of channels that are not separated enough do not generate interference if both of them are not simultaneously used by mobile users. That is, interference between channels may vary depending on the channel assignment sequence for each base station and on the distribution of mobile users. To find a channel assignment sequence that seems to generate minimum interference, we develop an optimization model considering various scenarios of mobile user distribution. Simulation results show that channel assignment sequence determined by the scenario based optimization model significantly reduces the interference provided that scenarios and interference costs are properly generated.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2007

무선 메쉬 네트워크(WMN: Wireless Mesh Network)는 다중 홉 환경에서 동일한 플로우 내의 홉간의 간섭뿐만 아니라 서로 다른 플로우의 홉간의 간섭으로 인하여 거쳐가는 흡수가 증가할수록 플로우의 종단간 수율이 크게 저하되는 문제점을 가진다. 본 논문은 이동성이 없는 매쉬 라우터로 구성된 WMW의 성능 향상을 위한 홉 기반 분산형 다중 채널 할당 방안 (DMASH: Distributed Multi-channel Assignment Scheme based on Hops)을 제안한다. 제안한 DMASH는 IEEE 802.11 기반의 다중 인터페이스 환경에서 전송 시 무선 채널간의 간섭을 줄임으로써 종단간 수율을 향상시킬 수 있는 새로운 홉 기반의 분산형 다중 채널 할당 방안이다. DMASH는 채널 설정 단계에서 게이트웨이로부터의 흡수를 기반으로 인접 홉간에 서로 간섭을 갖지 않는 채널 그룹을 각 홉에 할당하고, 통일 홉 안에서의 각 노드들은 할당된 채널 그룹 내에서 임의의 채널을 하나 선택한다. DMASH는 WMN에서 각 노드들이 자신의 채널을 자율적으로 선택할 수 있는 분산형 채널 할당 방안으로 중앙 제어형에 비해 오버헤드가 적을 뿐 아니라 구현이 간단한 장점을 가진다 NS-2 시뮬레이션을 통해 DMASH는 다중 홉 환경에서 임의 채널 할당 방식보다 망 전체 수율을 크게 향상할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제22권B호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2002

The objective of this paper is to develop an efficient genetic algorithm (GA) to find a channel assignment method for minimum interference among the channels within reasonable time. The series of specific channel number is used as a representation of chromosome. We use minimum-channel-distance encoding scheme within the same cell to consider cosite channel interference (CSI) when chromosomes are generated. The cell base crossover is also used. This proposed method improves solution quality within limited time.