• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권10호
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• pp.4015-4033
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• 2015

The future mobile networks consist of hyper-dense heterogeneous and small cell networks of same or different radio access technologies (RAT). Integrating mobile networks of different RATs to provide seamless and smooth mobility service will be the target of future mobile converged network. Generally, handover from high-speed networks to low-speed networks faces many challenges from application perspective, such as abrupt bandwidth variation, packet loss, round trip time variation, connection disruption, and transmission blackout. Existing inter-RAT handover solutions cannot solve all the problems at the same time. Based on the high-layer convergence sublayer design, a new receiver-aided soft inter-RAT handover is proposed. This soft handover scheme takes advantage of multihoming ability of multi-mode mobile station (MS) to smooth handover procedure. In addition, handover procedure is seamless and applicable to frequent handover scenarios. The simulation results conducted in UMTS-WiMAX converged network scenario show that: in case of TCP traffics for handover from WiMAX to UMTS, not only handover latency and packet loss are eliminated completely, but also abrupt bandwidth/wireless RTT variation is smoothed. These delightful features make this soft handover scheme be a reasonable candidate of mobility management for future mobile converged networks.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.205-215
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• 2008

convergence networks (BcN). The problem seeks to minimize the total cost of switch and cable while satisfying the requirement of demand and quality of service (QoS). We develop mixed integer programming models to obtain the optimal switch location of the access network. We develop a Tabu Search (TS) heuristic algorithm for finding a good feasible solution within a reasonable time limit. We propose real networks with up to 25 nodes and 180 demands. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we generate lower bounds from nonlinear QoS relaxation problem. Computational results show that the proposed heuristic algorithm provides upper bounds within 5% optimality gap in 10 seconds.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.740-746
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• 2013

사물통신은 사람 대 사물, 사물 대 사물간 지능통신 서비스를 언제 어디서나 안전하고 편리하게 실시간으로 이용할 수 있는 융합 ICT 기반이다. 사물통신 플랫폼은 다양한 장치와 센서를 통해 사물의 정보를 취득 또는 생성하는 M2M 현장 네트워크, 이를 전달하는 광대역 무선 통신망, 수집된 정보를 가공, 활용하는 응용서비스들의 3요소로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 WCDMA 기반의 M2M 통신망과 지그비 또는 Wi-Fi 기반의 USN을 상호 연동하는데 현실적으로 걸림돌이 되는 두 가지 문제, 즉 WCDMA 망의 요금 문제와 게이트웨이 문제를 해결하기 위한 PWW(Person Wide Web) 기반의 M2M 플랫폼을 설계하고 개발하였다. 개발한 USN 게이트웨이를 통해 USN 기반 현장 네크워크와 응용서비스 단말로써의 스마트폰을 직접 연동시킴으로써 WCDMA 무선망 접속을 최소화하여 위에서 언급한 두 가지 현실적 문제를 회피할 수 있음을 보였다.