• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.186-196
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• 2015

In resource-constrained, low-cost, radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensor-based mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), ensuring security without performance degradation is a major challenge. This paper introduces a novel combination of steps in lightweight protocol integration to provide a secure network for RFID sensor-based MANETs using error-correcting codes (ECCs). The proposed scheme chooses a quasi-cyclic ECC. Key pairs are generated using the ECC for establishing a secure message communication. Probability analysis shows that code-based identification; key generation; and authentication and trust management schemes protect the network from Sybil, eclipse, and de-synchronization attacks. A lightweight model for the proposed sequence of steps is designed and analyzed using an Alloy analyzer. Results show that selection processes with ten nodes and five subgroup controllers identify attacks in only a few milliseconds. Margrave policy analysis shows that there is no conflict among the roles of network members.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권8B호
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• pp.689-698
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• 2008

The performance of a TCP protocol on MANETs has been studied in a numerous researches. One of the significant reasons of TCP performance degradation on MANETs is inability to distinguish between packet losses due to congestion from those caused by nodes mobility and as consequence broken routes. This paper presents the Cluster-Label-based Routing (CLR) protocol that is an attempt to compensate source of TCP problems on MANETs - multi-hop mobile environment. By utilizing Cluster-Label-based mechanism for Backbone, the CLR is able to concentrate on detection and compensation of movement of a destination node. The proposed protocol provides better goodput and delay performance than standardized protocols especially in cases of large network size and/or high mobility rate.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.741-762
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• 2011

Recently, multicast routing protocols become increasingly important aspect in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), as they effectively manage group communications. Meanwhile, multimedia and real-time applications are becoming essential need for users of MANET. Thus it is necessary to design efficient and effective Quality of Service (QoS) multicast routing strategies. In this paper, we address the scalability problem of multicast routing protocols to support QoS over MANETs. In particular, we introduce a Position-Based QoS Multicast Routing Protocol (PBQMRP). Basically, the protocol based on dividing the network area into virtual hexagonal cells. Then, the location information is exploited to perform efficient and scalable route discovery. In comparison with other existing QoS multicast routing protocols, PBQMRP incurs less control packets by eliminating network flooding behavior. Through simulation, the efficiency and scalability of PBQMRP are evaluated and compared with the well-known On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP). Simulation results justify that our protocol has better performance, less control overhead and higher scalability.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.684-702
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• 2011

This paper proposes a TDMA-based multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol for QoS provisioning in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) that enables nodes to transmit their packets in distributed channels. The IEEE 802.11 standard supports multichannel operation at the physical (PHY) layer but its MAC protocol is designed only for a single channel. The single channel MAC protocol does not work well in multichannel environment because of the multichannel hidden terminal problem. Our proposed protocol enables nodes to utilize multiple channels by switching channels dynamically, thus increasing network throughput. Although each node of this protocol is equipped with only a single transceiver but it solves the multichannel hidden terminal problem using temporal synchronization. The proposed energy efficient multichannel MAC (EM-MAC) protocol takes the advantage of both multiple channels and TDMA, and achieves aggressive power savings by allowing nodes that are not involved in communications to go into power saving "sleep mode". We consider the problem of providing QoS guarantee to nodes as well as to maintain the most efficient use of scarce bandwidth resources. Our scheme improves network throughput and lifetime significantly, especially when the network is highly congested. The simulation results show that our proposed scheme successfully exploits multiple channels and significantly improves network performance by providing QoS guarantee in MANETs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.271-287
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• 2013

We propose a new multipath-based reliable routing protocol on MANETs, Multipath-based Reliable routing protocol with Fast-Recovery of failures (MRFR). For reliable message transmission, MRFR tries to find the most reliable path between a source and a destination considering the end-to-end packet reception reliability of the routes. The established path consists of a primary path that is used to transmit messages, and the secondary paths that are used to recover the path when detecting failures on the primary path. After establishing the path, the source transmits messages through the primary path. If a node detects a link failure during message transmission, it can recover the path locally by switching from the primary to the secondary path. By allowing the intermediate nodes to locally recover the route failure, the proposed protocol can handle the dynamic topological change of the MANETs efficiently. The simulation result using the QualNet simulator shows that the MRFR protocol performs better than other protocols in terms of the end-to-end message delivery ratio and fault-tolerance capability.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.294-306
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• 2005

Group oriented multicast applications are becoming increasingly popular in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Due to dynamic topology of MANETs, stateless multicast protocols are finding increased acceptance since they do not require maintenance of state information at intermediate nodes. Recently, several multicast schemes have been proposed which scale better' with the number of multicast sessions than traditional multicast strategies. These schemes are also known as explicit multicast (Xcast; explicit list of destinations in the packet header) or small group multicast (SGM). In this paper, we propose a new scheme for small group' multicast in MANETs named extended explicit multicast (E2M), which is implemented on top of Xcast and introduces mechanisms to make it scalable with number of group members for a given multicast session. Unlike other schemes, E2M does not make any assumptions related to network topology or node location. It is based on the novel concept of dynamic selection of Xcast forwarders (XFs) between a source and its potential destinations. The XF selection is based on group membership and the processing overhead involved in supporting the Xcast protocol at a given node. If the number of members in a given session is small, E2M behaves just like the basic Xcast scheme with no intermediate XFs. As group membership increases, nodes may dynamically decide to become an XF. This scheme, which can work with few E2M aware nodes in the network, provides transparency of stateless multicast, reduces header processing overhead, minimizes Xcast control traffic, and makes Xcast scalable with the number of group members.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권9A호
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• pp.898-904
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• 2007

MANETs(Mobile Ad-hoc Networks)에서는 네트워크에 참여하는 노드 간 통신을 위해 노드 식별 주소를 받아야 한다. 주소는 노드 자신 또는 다른 노드에 의해 생성되며, 이 주소가 사용 가능한 유일한 주소인지 검사하기 위해 주소 중복 검사(Duplicate Address Detection)를 수행한다. 하지만 이런 방법은 MANETs의 확장성이 떨어지는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문은 MANETs에서 이동 노드들을 그룹으로 묶어 그룹 단위로 관리 할 수 있고 제어 메시지의 교환 부하 감소 및 이동성 관리가 용이해지는 클러스터의 특성을 주소할당 프로토콜에 적용하여 주소 중복 검사에 소요되는 시간을 최소화하고 확장성 문제를 해결하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 시뮬레이션을 통한 결과 MANETConf[2]보다 노드 수 증가에 따라 우수한 성능을 보여준다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.270-286
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel routing protocol called the Cartography Enhanced OLSR (CE-OLSR) for multi hop mobile ad hoc networks (multi hop MANETs). CE-OLSR is based on an efficient cartography gathering scheme and a stability routing approach. The cartography gathering scheme is non intrusive and uses the exact OLSR reduced signaling traffic, but in a more elegant and efficient way to improve responsiveness to the network dynamics. This cartography is a much richer and accurate view than the mere network topology gathered and used by OLSR. The stability routing approach uses a reduced view of the collected cartography that only includes links not exceeding a certain distance threshold and do not cross obstacles. In urban environments, IEEE 802.11 radio signals undergo severe radio shadowing and fading effects and may be completely obstructed by obstacles such as buildings. Extensive simulations are conducted to study the performances of CE-OLSR and compare them with those of OLSR. We show that CE-OLSR greatly outperforms OLSR in delivering a high percentage of route validity, a much higher throughput and a much lower average delay. In particular the extremely low average delay exacerbated by CE-OLSR makes it a viable candidate for the transport of real time data traffic in multi hop MANETs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.3081-3099
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• 2012

We propose a new multipath-based reliable routing protocol on MANETs, Multipath-based Reliable routing protocol with Fast-Recovery of failures (MRFR). For reliable message transmission, MRFR tries to find the most reliable path between a source and a destination considering the end-to-end packet reception reliability of the routes. The established path consists of a primary path that is used to transmit messages, and the secondary paths that are used to recover the path when detecting failures on the primary path. After establishing the path, the source transmits messages through the primary path. If a node detects a link failure during message transmission, it can recover the path locally by switching from the primary to the secondary path. By allowing the intermediate nodes to locally recover the route failure, the proposed protocol can handle the dynamic topological change of the MANETs efficiently. The simulation result using the QualNet simulator shows that the MRFR protocol performs better than other protocols in terms of the end-to-end message delivery ratio and fault-tolerance capability.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제42권11호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2005

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)은 기존의 기반구조에 의존하지 않고 자치적으로 구성${\cdot}$운영되는 네트워크이다. 다른 네트워크 토폴로지에서처럼, 보완은 MANET의 사용 확산에 중요한 요소이며, 특히 노드들의 구성이 자주 빠르게 변하고, 기존의 기반구조에 대한 접속이 불가능한 MANET에서 이러한 특성을 지원하는 보안 프로토콜의 개발이 중요하다. 유선의 기반구조를 적용한 네트워크에서 이미 개발되어 사용 중인 신뢰 모델과 인증 프로토콜은 MANET에서 사용될 수 없다. 이 논문에서는 아주 넓은 지역에 걸쳐 분포된 이동 사용자에게 효율적인 인증 문제를 주제로 주목하고, 위와 같은 MANET 환경에 맞는 새로운 인증 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 노드들에게 CA(Certification Authority)의 기능을 분산시키고 CA이 기능이 구현된 노드들 사이에 인증 정보를 효율적으로 공유하기 위해 randomized group을 사용한다. 또한 randomized group을 적용한 인증 메커니즘의 성능을 평가한다.