• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.516-525
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• 2012

In this paper, an efficient technique for enhancing the QoS of multimedia service for an WiMedia network applying distributed cooperative medium access (D-MAC) protocol is proposed. D-MAC protocol has been proposed to support high-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (HR-WPANs) by the WiMedia Alliance. Unlike the centralized IEEE 802.15.3 MAC, the D-MAC UWB specified by WiMedia supports all devices to be self-organized and removes the SOP (Simultaneous Operating Piconet) problem, i.e., packet collisions between overlapped piconets in the centralized IEEE 802.15.3 MAC. However the WiMedia D-MAC can't prevent reduce the throughput degradation occurred by mobile nodes with low data rate. Therefore, a distributed cooperative MAC protocol for multi-hop UWB network is proposed in this paper. The proposed technique can intelligently select the transmission path with higher data rate to provide real-time multimedia services with minimum delay, thus enhances QoS of multimedia service.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.175-176
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• 2007

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 2010

IEEE 802.15.4[1] has been standardized for the physical layer and MAC layer of LR-PANs(Low Rate-Wireless Personal Area Networks) as a technology for operations with low power on sensor networks. The standardization is applied to the variety of applications in the shortrange wireless communication with limited output and performance, for example wireless sensor or virtual wire, but it includes vulnerabilities for various attacks because of the lack of security researches. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerabilities against the denial of sleep attacks on the MAC layer of IEEE 802.15.4, and propose a detection mechanism against it. In results, we analyzed the possibilities of denial of sleep attacks by the modification of superframe, the modification of CW(Contention Window), the process of channel scan or PAN association, and so on. Moreover, we comprehended that some of these attacks can mount even though the standardized security services such as encryption or authentication are performed. In addition to, we model for denial of sleep attacks by Beacon/Association Request messages, and propose a detection mechanism against them. This detection mechanism utilizes the management table consisting of the interval and node ID of request messages, and signal strength. In simulation results, we can show the effect of attacks, the detection possibility and performance superiorities of proposed mechanism.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.29-38
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• 2005

Because IEEE 802.11 has several security vulnerabilities, IEEE 802.11i was proposed and accepted. But IEEE 802.11i has much overhead for most of users for the web surfing. Besides not only node the authentication but also the packet authentication is needed to communicate. Although IEEE 802.11i uses TKIP(Temporal Key integrity Protocol) and CCMP(CTR with CBC-MAC Protocol), they have a lot of overheads. In this paper, Lightweight Packet Authentication(LIPA) is proposed. LIPA has less overhead and short delay so that it can be affordable for simple web-surfing which does not need stronger security. After comparing performances of LIPA with those of TKIP and CCMP, LIPA is more efficient than other schemes for transmitting packets.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.1014-1017
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• 2009

Ubiquitous makes it possible to expand a short-distant wireless communications infra and provide various services. Especially, it is very important to develop multimedia contents service technology through ZigBee and WPAN technology. But because the data transmission rate of IEEE 802.15.4 Standard ZigBee is low, there are many barriers for multimedia contents services. In this paper, to improve ZigBee that has the limitation of transmission rate in IEEE 802.15.4 Standard, an upgraded model to 1Mbps through MAC Layer remodeling is designed. And Zigbee-based broadcasting multimedia contents services system is designed and implementation to provide the service in Ubiquitous environment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1287-1290
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• 2006

무선 네트워크의 전송 방식은 유선 네트워크와 다르며, 따라서 유선 네트워크를 기반으로 설계된 인터넷 프로토콜(TCP/IP)은 무선네트워크 환경에서 불안정 하게 작동한다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 유선 인터넷에 맞춰진 전송 프로토콜인 UDP와 TCP를 802.15.4 MAC기반의 ZigBee Protocol 환경에서 사용되는 특성과 AODV 및 확장 프로토콜인 AOMDV를 통해 인터넷에 결합된 네트워크 인터페이스를 가진 노드들의 특성과 관리의 중요함을 확인한다

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1042-1044
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• 2007

IEEE 802.15.4 표준을 기반으로 하는 무선 액세스 기술은 진화된 컴퓨팅 시스템을 구축하는 데 있어 광범위하게 사용될 수 있을 것이다. 이러한 기술의 활용은 보안성과 공정성이 보장되어야 하지만, 무선 환경에서 악의적인 디바이스는 불공정한 방법을 사용하여 채널 대역폭을 차지할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 공격에 대응할 수 있도록 코디네이터의 결정에 의해 정상적인 디바이스가 채널에 우선적으로 액세스 할 수 있는 메커니즘을 제안하고, 이를 위해 기존의 IEEE 802.15.4 표준을 활용할 수 있는 방안을 제시한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 본 논문에서 제안하는 메커니즘이 MAC 레이어에서의 공격을 효과적으로 방지할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.23-28
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• 2023

In a wireless smart utility network communication system, an asynchronous low power MAC is standardized and used according to IEEE 802.15.4e. An asynchronous MAC called RIT (Receiver Initiated Transmission) has a characteristic in which delay time and power consumption are greatly affected by a check-in interval (RIT period). By waking up from sleep every check-in interval and checking whether there is data to be received, power consumption in the receiving end can be drastically reduced, but power consumption in the transmitting end occurs due to an excessive wakeup sequence. If an excessive wake-up sequence is reduced by shortening the check interval, power consumption of the receiving end increases due to too frequent wake-up. In the RIT asynchronous MAC technique, power consumption performance according to traffic load and operation of check-in interval is analyzed and applied to Wi-SUN construction.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.406-423
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• 2014

The recent advances in wireless communication systems and semiconductor technologies are paving the way for new applications over wireless sensor networks. Health-monitoring application (HMA) is one such emerging technology that is focused on sensing and reporting human vital signs through the communication network comprising sensor devices in the vicinity of the human body. The sensed vital signs can be divided into two categories based on the importance and the frequency of occurrence: occasional emergency signs and regular normal signs. The occasional emergency signs are critical, so they have to be delivered by the specified deadlines, whereas the regular normal signs are non-critical and are only required to be delivered with best effort. Handling the occasional emergency sign is one of the most important attributes in HMA because a human life may depend on correct handling of the situation. That is why the underlying network protocol suite for HMA should ensure that the emergency signs will be reported in a timely manner. However, HMA based on IEEE 802.15.4 might not be able to do so owing to the lack of an appropriate emergency-handling mechanism. Hence, in this paper, we propose a new emergency-handling mechanism to reduce the emergency reporting delay in IEEE 802.15.4 through the modified superframe structure. A fraction of an inactive period is modified into three new periods called the emergency reporting period, emergency beacon period, and emergency transmission period, which are used opportunistically only for immediate emergency reporting and reliable data transmission. Extensive simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. The results reveal that the proposed scheme achieves improved latency and higher emergency packets delivery ratio compared with the conventional IEEE 802.15.4 MAC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.291-294
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• 2004

Wireless sensor network을 위 한 MAC(Medium Access Control) layer를 low-rate WPAN을 목적으로 한 IEEE 802.15.4 사양에 따라 구현하고 검증하였다. 센서 네트워크의 노드는 배터리로 동작하므로 에너지 소모가 가장 큰 걸림돌이 된다. power saving을 위한 몇 가지 방법을 포함한 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol을 구현함으로써 wireless sensor network에 적용 가능함을 보였다.