• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.11B
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• pp.1607-1617
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• 2010

In this paper we propose MA-CBRP, mesh adaptive algorithm for wireless mesh networks. MA-CBRP is a hybrid algorithm based on ad-hoc CBRP protocol. In MA-CBRP, the mesh router periodically sends the ANN message as like Hello-message in CBRP. ANN message allows to all clients periodically store a route towards the mesh-router and renewal information in their routing cache. While CBRP periodically reply Hello-message, MA-CBRP does not reply to achieve less overhead. After receiving ANN message, mesh client send JOIN message to mesh router when the route towards mesh router changed. at the same time Register the entry to mesh router, it can achieve to reduce overhead of control the route and shorten the time to find route. consequently, MA-CBRP shows 7% reduced overhead and shortened time to find route than CBRP with regardless of clients number.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2010

Multi-functional USN Gateway (MUG) is a multipurpose system combining a mesh router and a sensor gateway. The paper presents the design and implementation of the MUG system and the test-bed to verify the MUG system. MUG combines IEEE 802.11n based Wi-Fi mesh router functions and USN gateway functions. MUG supports IP sensor networks based on 6LoWPAN and non IP sensor networks based on ZigBee. MUG also provides various backhaul network interfaces including WiBro, HSDPA, and Ethernet Interfaces. We verify the feasibility of the MUG system through implementation and evaluate the performance by installing and testing several MUG systems in the test-bed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.454-456
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• 2005

본 논문은 Wireless Mesh Network를 위한 새로운 MAC 프로토콜의 설계에 관해 기술한다. Mesh Network는 Mesh Router에 의해 무선 인프라를 구성한다. WMN(Wireless Mesh Network)는 고정된 상태의 Mesh Router에 의한 인프라를 구성하고 인터넷과 같은 기존의 인프라와 연결되는 구조적 특징을 가진다. 또한 다양한 응용분야의 지원을 위한 QoS(Quality of Service)가 요구되어지기 때문에 end-to-end 전송 지연, 공정성, 그리고 데이터 손실 등 많은 사항을 고려한 프로토콜의 설계가 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 WMN의 이러한 특징을 지원하기 위한 토폴로지의 제안과 TDMA를 활용한 MAC 프로토콜을 설계하였으며, NS-2 시뮬레이션을 통해 성능을 측정하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.844-847
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• 2011

Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a type of mobile ad-hoc network consists of wireless router, mobile clients and gateway which connects the network with the Internet. To provide security in the network it is required to encrypt the message sent among the communicating nodes in such way so that only legitimate user can retrieve the original data. Several security mechanisms have been proposed so far to enhance the security of WMN. However, there still exists a need for a comprehensive mechanism to prevent attacks in data communication. Considering the characteristic of mesh network, in this paper we proposed a public key cryptography based security architecture to establish a secure key agreement among communicating nodes in mesh network. The proposed security architecture consists of two major sections: client data protection and network data protection. Client data protection deals with the mutual authentication between the client and the access router and provide client to access router encryption for data confidentiality using standard IEEE 802.11i protocol. On the other hand, network data protection ensures encrypted routing and data transfer in the multi hop backbone network. For the network data protection, we used the pre-distributed public key to form a secure backbone infrastructure.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.209-213
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose more efficient implementation architecture for realizing combination of heterogeneous routing protocols in wireless mesh routes. For realizing heterogeneous routing protocol in wireless mesh router, the following should be considered; which position in OS platform protocols should be implemented, how to define the common API for multiple routing protocols, how to provide architecture for providing high data transfer throughput and for supporting multi platform, and finally how to verify the throughput of protocol by using simulator. For solving those consideration, we propose HRPC(Heterogeneous Routing Protocol Coordinator) and describe the method for testing the protocols.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.57-59
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• 2009

무선 메쉬 네트워크(Wireless Mesh Networks, WMNs)는 유비쿼터스 환경 및 무선 브로드밴드 액세스를 제공하기 위한 핵심적인 미래 기술로 대두되고 있다. WMN에서의 전체적인 성능은 채널의 간섭을 최소화함으로써 개선될 수 있다. 효율적인 채널 할당을 위해서는 채널 스캐닝 지연과 채널 의존성 문제를 고려해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 멀티채널 WMN에서의 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 클러스터 기반의 채널 할당(Cluster-Based Channel Assignment, CB-CA)을 제안한다. CB-CA에서는 클러스터 헤드 메쉬 라우터(Cluster Head Mesh Router, CHMR)들 간에는 동일 채널을 사용함으로써 채널 스캐닝과 채널 스위칭을 수행하지 않는다. 해당 클러스터 멤버 라우터(Cluster Member Mesh Router, CMMR)들과의 통신에는 CHMR들 간의 통신 채널에 영향을 미치지 않는 채널을 할당함으로써 멀티채널에서 발생할 수 있는 간섭을 최소화 할 수 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.12A
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• pp.950-958
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• 2011

This paper focuses in the implementation of mesh router supporting multi-path routing based on IEEE 802.11s. In HWMP of IEEE 802.11s, the single path routing just was defined. So, in this work, we implemented not only the single path routing defined in IEEE 802.11s, but also a multipath routing based on AOMDV which extended the standard. A multi-channel multi-interface technology that can transmit and receive simultaneously and lower bandwidth reduction caused by interferences than a single-channel single-interface was implemented in our mesh router. We also developed an outdoor test bed with the mesh routers. The bandwidth of the mesh router and a real-time video streaming service were verified using the test bed. And, the single path and multipath routing algorithms are also compared. In this test bed, The average TCP bandwidth was 23.77 Mbps and the latency was 2.4 ms in five hops. The test bed could service real-time streaming with an average jitter of 0.547 ms in five hops. The mesh router that used the multipath routing path reduced the path recovery time by 12.73% on average.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.421-426
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• 2010

Due to the ease of deployment and the extended coverage, wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are gaining popularity and research focus. For example, the routing protocols that enhance the throughput on the WMNs and the link quality measurement schemes are among the popular research topics. However, most of these works assume that the locations of the mesh routers are predetermined. Since the operators in an Indoor mesh network can determine the locations of the mesh routers by themselves, it is essential to the WMN performance for the mesh routers to be initially placed by considering the performance issues. In this paper, we propose a mesh router placement scheme based on genetic algorithms by considering the characteristics of WMNs such as interference and topology. There have been many related works that solve similar problems such as base station placement in cellular networks and gateway node selection in WMNs. However, none of them actually considers the interference to the mesh clients from non-associated mesh routers in determining the locations of the mesh routers. By simulations, we show that the proposed scheme improves the performance by 30-40% compared to the random selection scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.11A
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• pp.912-923
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a routing protocol for WMNs to provide passengers in public transportation vehicles (e.g., bus and tram) with Internet access service. In order to support end users with a reliable Internet connection despite the mobility of vehicles, we assume that mesh router, called mobile mesh router (MMR), is installed in a vehicle and manages a route to Internet Gateway (IGW). We therefore propose an efficient routing protocol and its routing metric, called ETT-TR, considering trajectory information of vehicle as well as link quality in order to find a route between them. Using NS-2 simulations, we observe that our proposed routing protocol reduces the end-to-end delay and improves throughput performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.83-90
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• 2015

This paper proposes a Tabu search algorithm to maximize the connectivity between the router nodes and the client nodes in wireless mesh networks. As the number of the router nodes and the client nodes in the networks increases, the amount of calculation for finding the solution would be too much increased. To obtain the optimal solution within a reasonable computation time for a high-density network, we propose a Tabu search algorithm to obtain the optimal solution for maximizing the connectivity. In order to make a search more efficient, we propose some efficient neighborhood generating operations of the Tabu search algorithm. We evaluate those performances through some experiments in terms of the maximum number of the connectivity and the execution time of the proposed algorithm. The comparison results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms other existing algorithms.