• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.10-23
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• 2009

In this paper we propose a novel mobile terminal software architecture supporting energy efficient handover operation in heterogeneous networks. Since the legacy proposals for L3 handover are mostly dependent on IETF Mobile IP which has some problems in movement detection mechanism and no considerations on nested heterogeneous network environment as a result they make serious overload on networks and terminals by performing unnecessary handover in such network environments. The proposed architecture has terminal-oriented network selection and switching architecture where a mobile terminal periodically monitors network status and selects the optimum network, and reduces energy consumption by making L3 handover of Mobile IP to the finally selected network. The network selection method first picks up some candidate networks by considering a terminal speed and power consumption estimation, and determines the final target handover network among the candidates after evaluating multiple factors including QoS required by a terminal, network status, user preference and terminal battery status. Finally we verify the functionality and performance of the energy efficient vertical handover architecture by means of adopting it into a real mobile terminal.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.79-81
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• 2009

NEMO is technique to support mobility of a network, not a node, and ensures session continuity for all the nodes in a Mobile Network. However NEMO basic support protocol causes high handover latency, thus it is incongruent real-time services such as VoIP. One of schemes to reduce handover latency is FNEMO. FNEMO that combines conventional NEMO and FMIPv6, reduces latency during the handover, thus it supports fast handover. In this paper, we compare/analyze handover of FNEMO in heterogeneous/homogeneous network, and propose schemes to reduce handover latency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.11 s.353
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• pp.25-34
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose the new Cellular Ethernet System that supports faster handovers than IP layer handover scheme for WiBro Networks and analyze the performance of the proposed scheme. In WiBro Networks, it is very important for service providers that supports fast handovers for mobile users who want superior service. But in case of Mobile IPv6, which supports IP layer handovers, there exists very long latency for detecting movement and duplicated IP address. And besides, handovers in wired area must be carried out after completing handovers in wireless area. So, Mobile IPv6 cannot provide superior service to mobile users. To remedy these problems, we here propose the new Cellular Ethernet System that consists of MAC layer bridges for WiBro Networks and analyze the performance of Cellular Ethernet System handover scheme and show that it has better performance than Mobile IPv6.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.315-318
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• 2000

최근 휴대용 컴퓨터가 점점 소형화, 고성능화 되고 무선 액세스 기술이 향상됨에 따라 이동성에 대한 사용자의 요구가 증가하고 있다. 인터넷 상에서 이동성 제공을 위하여 네트워크 계층에서 호스트의 이동성을 제공하기 위한 연구로 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)에서 Mobile IP라는 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 기존 Mobile IP의 문제점을 분석하여 구성 요소의 기능을 재설계 함으로써 이동 노드가 접속점을 변경하는 핸드오버가 발생한 경우, 성능 향상을 위한 바인딩 캐쉬 서버의 도입과 지역 등록(Local Registration) 방안을 제안하였다. 바인딩 캐쉬 서버를 통해 이동 노드에 바인딩 경보를 관리하여 Macro Mobility를 지원하도록 하고, 인접 접속점으로의 핸드오버 시는 지역 등록으로 Micro Mobility를 가능하게 하였다 또한 바인딩 캐쉬 서버와 지역 등록 서버에 버퍼링 기능을 가지도록 하여 핸드오버 시 이를 포워딩함으로써 데이터 패킷의 손실을 방지하였다 제안한 방안은 전송 지연과 패킷 손실 측면에서 기존의 방안보다 우수한 성능을 나타내고, 효율적인 경로 설정이 가능하다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.287-295
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• 2007

IETF's FMIPv6 protocol enables a mobile node to switch to the reactive mode of handover operation when the prediction of the movement is incorrect. In this case, the mobile node may experience severe service disruption due to large handover latency and packet loss. In order to solve this problem, we propose a fast mobile IP handover with multiple pre-registrations. In the proposed approach, the new temporary IP addresses are prepared in advance at multiple locations where the mobile node may probably move into. In this case, even though the prediction is wrong, the mobile node can move into the alternative locations without causing service disruption. We have designed and implemented a prototype system, and measured the performance of the proposed system. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can reduce the handover latency drastically.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.7A
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• pp.659-665
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• 2006

When using the Mobile IP which is the representative technology to secure the mobility in general IP networks, the packet loss during the handover is inescapable. To remedy the packet loss problem, the smooth handover was introduced. However, the smooth handover causes the packets sequence disruption during the packet forwarding procedure and it may result in the degradation of the network performance. The same problem also occurs in the WiBro (High-speed Portable Internet) system that is the next generation portable IP service system. The WiBro system, which provides the high speed data service just like xDSL and leased line in wired internet, aims to guarantee the portability, mobility, and the differentiated service based on IEEE 802.16. So, the handover mechanisms that solve the problems of packet loss and packet sequence distribution are required in the WiBro system. In this paper, we propose the handover mechanism and the packet sequence control algorithm that provide the reliability and the differentiated service for the unicast service in the WiBro system.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1487-1492
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• 2012

Providing node mobility on IP-based wireless networks is required by the increasing Internet access of the mobile nodes and Mobile-IPv6 was suggested for IPv6. But Mobile-IPv6 degrades the overall performance of wireless networks by the packet loss while performing its handover function. Therefore, lots of efforts and researches to resolve this problem have been doing from now on. FMIPv6 is one of the improved methods that was designed to provide seemless handover. But it still has a problem that the handover is strictly depended on the triggered information of the unreliable link layer. In this paper, a scheme called mptFMIPv6 that minimizes delay of critical section of CoA registration process by reducing the link layer dependency was proposed.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1189-1193
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• 2010

Mobility management is one of the most important research issues in 6LoWPAN, Since the IP-WSN application domain is expanded to real-time applications such as healthcare and surveillance systems, a fast and seamless handover becomes an important criterion in 6LoWPAN. However, a draft of IETF 6LoWPAN WG for mobility support does not decrease handover delay. Although LoWMob supports a fast intra-PAN handover. it can be supported when the infrastructure node has the location information of the other nodes in the mobile node's moving direction. In this paper, we propose a fast and seamless mobility protocol to support intra-PAN handover, named intra-MARIO. In intra-MARIO, a parent node of the mobile node preconfigures its handover to the PAN when the parent node detects its movement, thereby reducing the handover delay. Since intra-MARIO also supports route optimization, the mobile node can communicate with its corresponding nodes through the optimal route. In this paper, we analysis the signaling cost and evaluates that the handover can be completed in 20ms by simulation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.2A
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• pp.97-102
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• 2006

This paper proposes a handover extension scheme to support effectively real-time services in Mobile IPv6 networks. The proposed scheme could simplify the handover procedure by using the proposed reserved addresses scheme so that it could reduce considerably handover latency in Mobile IPv6. The performance analysis shows that the handover latency in the proposed scheme could be reduced by minimum 1 second, maximum above 3 second compared to that of pure Mobile IPv6. Accordingly the proposed scheme could be considered as a strong candidate to support real-time services like VoIP in future network based on Mobile IPv6.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.19C no.2
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• pp.127-134
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a mobility management scheme which has a simple IP emulation method based on virtual interface. This scheme supports prevention of service abortion resulting from RAT (Radio Access Technology) interface switching during vertical handover and provides mobility management convenience according to maintenance of consistency in simple IP mobility management scheme of 3rd generation mobile network. Through the empirical experiments of proposed method, we check out the improvement of handover performance of the proposed scheme based on vertical handover latency comparing with a non-virtual interface system.