• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.414-435
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• 2017

As network adaptive streaming technology becomes increasingly common, transport protocol also becomes important in guaranteeing the quality of multimedia streaming. At the same time, because of the appearance of high-quality video such as Ultra High Definition (UHD), preventing buffering as well as preserving high quality while deploying a streaming service becomes important. The Internet Engineering Task Force recently published Multipath TCP (MPTCP). MPTCP improves the maximum transmission rate by simultaneously transmitting data over different paths with multiple TCP subflows. However, MPTCP cannot preserve high quality, because the MPTCP subflows slowly increase the transmission rate, and upon detecting a packet loss, drastically halve the transmission rate. In this paper, we propose a new multipath congestion control scheme for high-quality multimedia streaming. The proposed scheme preserves high quality of video by adaptively adjusting the increasing parameter of subflows according to the network status. The proposed scheme also increases network efficiency by providing load balancing and stability, and by supporting fairness with single-flow congestion control schemes.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2406-2412
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• 2015

Multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) system has attracted the 4^th generation wireless network as one of core technique for performance enrichment. In this system rate control is a challenging problem and another problem is optimization. Proper scheduling can resolve these problems by deciding which set of user and at which rate the users send their data. This paper proposes a new multi-parameter based scheduling (MPS) for downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system under space-time block coding (STBC) transmissions. Goal of this MPS scheme is to offer improved link level performance in terms of a low average bit error rate (BER), high packet delivery ratio (PDR) with improved resource utilization and service fairness among the user. This scheme allows the set of users to send data based on their channel quality and their demand rates. Simulation compares the MPS performance with other scheduling scheme such as fair scheduling (FS), normalized priority scheduling (NPS) and threshold based fair scheduling (TFS). The results obtained prove that MPS has significant improvement in average BER performance with improved resource utilization and fairness as compared to the other scheduling scheme.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.299-308
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• 2023

다양한 서비스가 등장으로 인해 스펙트럼 부족 문제가 가속하됨에 따라, 면허 대역에서 통신하던 사용자들을 비면허 대역에서 통신하는 NR-U(New Radio-Unlicensed)가 등장하였다. 하지만 NR-U 네트워크 사용자로 인해 동일한 비면허 대역에서 통신하는 Wi-Fi 네트워크 사용자의 성능이 감소하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 NR-U 네트워크 사용자와 WiFi 네트워크 사용자가 공존해있는 비면허 대역의 처리량과 비면허 대역의 사용에 대한 공평성을 동시에 최대화하는 것을 목표로 한다. 먼저 비면허 대역에서 전송률 분할 다중 접속 기술을 활용한 NR-U 네트워크의 합-전송 속도 (Sum of Rate)를 최대화하기 위해 강화 학습의 몬테 카를로 정책 하강법(Monte Carlo Policy Gradient)을 활용한 최적의 전력 할당 기법을 제안하였다. 그 뒤, 동일한 비면허 대역에서 NR-U 네트워크와 WiFi 네트워크의 공존을 위해 시스템 처리량과 공정성을 동시에 최대화할 수 있는 게임 이론의 순차적 라이파 협상 해법(Sequential Raiffa Bargaining Solution)을 활용한 채널 점유 시간 분할 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과에서 동일한 전력 할당 기법을 사용하였을 때, 본 논문에서 제안한 전송률 분할 다중 접속 기술이 기존의 다중 접속 기술들보다 더 빠른 합-전송속도를 보임을 확인하였다. 또한 비면허 대역 네트워크의 전송량과 공평성을 비교해본 결과 본 논문의 순차적 라이파 협상 해법을 활용한 채널 점유 시간 분할 알고리즘이 타 알고리즘보다 처리량과 공정성을 동시에 만족함을 입증하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권7호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2015

End to end 데이터 전송프로토콜에서 가용대역폭을 정확하게 추정하는 것은 매우 중요하다. UDT (UDP based Data Transfer)는 송신자에서 주기적으로 보낸 패킷 쌍을 이용하여 수신자에서 현재 링크의 최대 전송 가능한 속도 (MTR: Maximum Transfer Rate)를 추정하고 송신자에서 EWMA 알고리즘을 통해 MTR을 결정한다. 가용대역폭의 크기는 MTR과 현재 전송속도 차이로 구하기 때문에 정확한 가용대역폭 추정을 위해서는 정확한 MTR 추정이 우선시된다. 하지만 트래픽 영향으로 인한 혼잡상황에서 다수의 UDT 플로우가 경쟁하는 경우 심각한 공평성 문제를 초래한다. 본 논문에서는 혼잡도를 기반으로 한 MTR 추정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 혼잡도는 병목구간에서 트래픽 영향으로 인한 혼잡상태를 나타내는 상대적인 지수이며 패킷 쌍들의 도착간격을 이용하여 구할 수 있다. 그리고 혼잡도에 따라 EWMA 알고리즘을 세분화함으로써 실제에 근접한 가용대역폭 추정이 가능하다. Ns-2 시뮬레이션 실험 결과 제안기법은 다수의 경쟁플로우가 동일 링크를 점유하는 상황에서 데이터 전송거리에 따라 UDT 보다 확연하게 높은 공평성을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2003

This paper studies power and rate control for data users on the forward link of CDMA system with two cells. The QoS for data users is specified by delay and error rate constraints as well as a family of utility functions representing system throughput and fairness among data users. Optimal power and rate allocation problem is mathematically formulated as a nonlinear programming problem, which is to maximize total utility under delay and error rate constraints, and optimal power and rate allocation scheme (OPRAS) is proposed to obtain a good solution in a fast time. Computational experiments show that the proposed scheme OPRAS works very well and increases total utility compared to the separate power and rate allocation scheme (SPARS) which considers each cell individually.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.30-42
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• 2010

In this work we consider the problem of downlink resource allocation for proportional fairness of long term received rates of data users and quality of service for real time sessions in an OFDMA-based wireless system. The base station allocates available power and subchannels to individual users based on long term average received rates, quality of service (QoS) based rate constraints and channel conditions. We formulate and solve a joint bandwidth and power optimization problem, solving which provides a performance improvement with respect to existing resource allocation algorithms. We propose schemes for flat as well as frequency selective fading cases. Numerical evaluation results show that the proposed method provides better QoS to voice and video sessions while providing more and fair rates to data users in comparison with existing schemes.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.344-354
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• 2014

Transmission control protocol friendly rate control (TFRC) is designed to mainly provide optimal service for unicast applications, such as multimedia streaming in the best-effort Internet environment. However, high bandwidth networks with large delays present an environment where TFRC may have a problem in utilizing the full bandwidth. TFRC inherits the slow-start mechanism of TCP Reno, but this is a time-consuming process that may require many round-trip-times (RTTs), until an appropriate sending rate is reached. Another disadvantage inherited from TCP Reno is the RTT-unfairness problem, which severely affects the performance of long-RTT flows. In this paper, we suggest enhanced TFRC for high quality video streaming over high bandwidth delay product networks. First, we propose a fast startup scheme that increases the data rate more aggressively than the slow-start, while mitigating the overshooting problem. Second, we propose a bandwidth estimation method to achieve more equitable bandwidth allocations among streaming flows that compete for the same narrow link with different RTTs. Finally, we improve the responsiveness of TFRC in the presence of severe congestion. Simulation results have shown that our proposal can achieve a fast startup and provide fairness with competing flows compared to the original TFRC.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.720-726
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• 2009

대규모 데이터베이스 시스템에는 다양한 종류의 데이터들이 공존하고 있으며, 사용자에게 정확하고 유용한 정보를 제공하기 위해 데이터의 신선도를 유지하는 문제는 중요한 이슈로 등장하고 있다. 대부분의 이런 문제의 해결책은 적절한 시간내에 요청된 갱신질의어를 얼마나 효율적으로 수행하는가 하는 것이 관건이다. 본 논문에서는 데이터의 신선도 유지와 기아상태의 공정성을 유지하기 위한 갱신 스케줄링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 요청된 갱신질의어 실행시간 할당을 위해 목표 갱신 비율을 일정한 스케줄링 주기마다 재 계산한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘을 사용함에 따라 데이터들의 공정성과 신선도를 유지 할 수 있다. 동적, 반-동적, 정적 데이터의 갱신처리 결과를 보여주기 위해 통합 웹사이트를 구현하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.559-567
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• 2014

In this paper, a framework for power allocation of downlink transmissions in orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based decode-and-forward cellular relay networks is investigated. We consider a system with a single base station communicating with multiple users assisted by multiple relays. The relays have limited power which must be divided among the users they support in order to maximize the data rate of the whole network. Advanced power allocation schemes are crucial for such networks. The optimal relay power allocation which maximizes the data rate is proposed as an upper bound, by finding the optimal power requirement for each user based on knapsack problem formulation. Then by considering the fairness, a new relay power allocation scheme, called weighted-based scheme, is proposed. Finally, an efficient power reallocation scheme is proposed to efficiently utilize the power and improve the data rate of the network. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed power allocation schemes can significantly improve the data rate of the network compared to the traditional scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.720-740
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• 2011

Wi-Fi-enabled portable devices have recently been introduced into the consumer electronics market. These devices download or upload content, from or to a host machine, such as a personal computer, a laptop, a home gateway, or a media server. This paper investigates the fairness among multiple Wi-Fi-enabled portable devices in a home network when they are simultaneously communicated with the host machine. First, we present that, a simple IEEE 802.11-based home network suffers from unfairness, and the fairness is exaggerated by the wireless link errors. This unfairness is due to the asymmetric response of the TCP to data-packet loss and to acknowledgment-packet loss, and the wireless link errors that occur in the proximity of any node; the errors affect other wireless devices through the interaction at the interface queue of the home gateway. We propose a QoS-provisioning framework in order to achieve per-device fairness and service differentiation. For this purpose, we introduce the medium access price, which denotes an aggregate value of network-wide traffic load, per-device link usage, and per-device link error rate. We implemented the proposed framework in the ns-2 simulator, and carried out a simulation study to evaluate its performance with respect to fairness, service differentiation, loss and delay. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method enforces the per-device fairness, regardless of the number of devices present and regardless of the level of wireless link errors; furthermore it achieves high link utilization with only a small amount of frame losses.