• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.77-92
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• 2024

The 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) mobile communication standard has emerged as a leading standard in the market over the past 20 years, driving continuous development in protocol stacks and libraries that support the standard within simulation software for communication network research. We summarize and analyze seven communication network simulators that support the 3GPP standard specifications related to core network technologies. Through comparisons, we aim to offer valuable insights for researchers and engineers engaged into research and development related to mobile communication networks based on 3GPP standards. Our findings can provide assistance for making informed decisions on simulator selection.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.74-84
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• 2022

The Korean mobile service market has persistently grown with the number of subscribers and volume of mobile traffic. It shows the slow diffusion of 5G subscribers, and rapid growth of both the MVNO(Mobile Virtual Network Operator) market and unlocked mobile phones. Therefore, this study derives the direction of telcos' strategies and policy implications by empirically analyzing the usage and attitude of LTE and 5G subscribers. Our major findings are as follows: First, our current mobile service subscription market constitutes most long-term customers for their incumbent carriers only by device change from lock-in with bundle services. Mobile tariffs, data speed, and benefits of bundle services are important factors affecting choices and customers' satisfaction with a provider and intentions of churning to another. Second, demand and satisfaction for using 5G are less because speeds and service tariffs act as pain points for 5G services. Third, the users' high preferences for MVNOs and unlocked mobile phones are linked to their subscription to MVNOs' low-cost plans with unlocked mobile phones on online channels. These streams lead to a big change in the market competition that MNO(Mobile Network Operator)s' market shares are expected to decrease and MVNOs' shares will be increased by two times, in the near future. Therefore, MNOs need to change their distribution strategies from offline to online channels and try to resolve the stereotype, "mobile tariffs are expensive," by enhancing their service values. Finally, as consumers prefer one-stop service in the same channel regardless of the distribution channel, policies should focus on the consumers' needs for convenience rather than on the channel separation for perfectly unlocked mobile phones.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.903-914
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• 2022

Mobile and telecommunication networking uses temporary and random identifiers (IDs) to protect user privacy. For greater intelligence and security o the communications between the core network and the mobile user, we design and build a dynamic randomization scheme for the temporary IDs for mobile networking, including 5G and 6G. Our work for ID randomization (ID-RZ) advances the existing state-of-the-art ID re-allocation approach in 5G in the following ways. First, ID-RZ for ID updates is based on computing, as opposed to incurring networking for the re-allocation-based updates, and is designed for lightweight and low-latency mobile systems. Second, ID-RZ changes IDs proactively (as opposed to updating based on explicit networking event triggers) and provides stronger security (by increasing the randomness and frequency of ID updates). We build on the standard cryptographic primitives for security (e.g., hash) and implement our dynamic randomization scheme in the 5G networking protocol to validate its design purposes, which include time efficiency (two to four orders of magnitude quicker than the re-allocation approach) and appropriateness for mobile applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.841-844
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• 2005

As various mobile technologies, sensor technologies, remote control and infrastructure are developing and expectations on quality of life are increasing, a lot of researches and developments on home network technologies and services are actively on going. Until now, we focused on how to provide users with high-level home network services, while not many researches on home network security for guaranteeing safety are progressing, So, in this paper, we propose an access control model for home network that provides various users with home network services up one's characteristics and features, and protects home network systems from illegal accesses or intrusions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.733-736
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• 2006

As various mobile technologies, sensor technologies, remote control and network infrastructure are developing and expectations on quality of life are increasing, a lot of researches and developments on home network technologies and services are actively on going. Until now, home network is just beginning, and we are developing home network services necessary to users, incrementing easiness, however we need to research on the safety of home network system guaranteeing the easiness as the services are going actively. So, in this paper, we propose the access control mechanism for protecting the home network system against indoor/outdoor illegal accesses and unauthorized accesses.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.25-35
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• 2016

Mobile Edge Computing(MEC)은 무선 기지국에 분산 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술을 적용하여 다양한 서비스와 캐싱 콘텐츠를 이용자 단말에 가까이 전개함으로써 모바일 코어망의 혼잡을 완화하고, 새로운 로컬 서비스를 창출하는 기술이다. 현재는 European Telecommunications Standards Institute(ETSI)주도로 규격 작업이 진행되고 있으며, 동시에 산업계에서는 LTE 모바일 네트워크에 적용하는 시도들이 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 MEC기술은 Software Defined Network(SDN)/Network Functions Virtualization(NFV) 기술들과 함께 향후 2020년대에 도입될 5G 네트워크의 주요 구성 기술로서 부상하고 있다. 본고에서는 MEC의 개념과 다양한 서비스 시나리오, MEC 플랫폼 구조 및 기술동향 등을 살펴보고, 5G에서의 역할과 앞으로 도전하여야 할 기술적인 과제들에 대하여 분석한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.885-902
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• 2022

The mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO), combining the advantages of wide bandwidth in the mmWave frequency band and the high- and uniform-spectral efficiency of CFmMIMO, has recently emerged as one of the enabling technologies for 6G. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for energy-efficient mmWave CFmMIMO systems that uses low-resolution digital-analog converters (DACs) and phase shifters (PSs) to introduce lowcomplexity hybrid precoding. Additionally, we propose a heuristic pilot allocation scheme that makes the best effort to slash some interference from copilot users. The simulation results show that the proposed hybrid precoding and pilot allocation scheme outperforms the existing schemes. Furthermore, we reveal the relationship between the energy and spectral efficiencies for the proposed mmWave CFmMIMO system by modeling the whole network power consumption and observe that the introduction of low-resolution DACs and PSs is effective in increasing the energy efficiency by compromising the spectral efficiency and the network power consumption.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.12-22
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• 2002

A Mobile IP allows IP hosts to move between different networks without changing their IP addresses. Mobile IP systems supporting local registration were introduced to reduce the number of times a home registration with the remotely located home agent was needed. The local registration Mobile IP scheme enhanced performance by processing registration requests of mobile nodes at a local agent. The local registration approach may affect other aspects of the Mobile IP systems such as fault tolerance. In this paper, we briefly review previous solutions for supporting fault tolerance in local registration Mobile IP systems and propose a fault tolerance protocol with a backup foreign agent in a hierarchical local registration mobile IP to enhance the efficiency of such systems against foreign agent failures. We also describe the specification of the proposed protocol using LOTOS and perform its validation using MiniLite. Finally, we analyze the performance of our proposed fault tolerance protocol through simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.355-358
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• 2002

The network functional standard for MNP defines tile network functional structure and information flow to provide Number portability among the imt-2000 mobile phone. In this paper we define network function and system function and processing method of information which will be changed among them. In this paper, we also defines the processing method of SMS.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.97-106
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• 2017

The introduction of new access technologies in 5G radio networks has had a considerable impact on the design of transport networks. Research activities are underway on new transport technologies in both the wireless and optical domains to support 5G transport. This paper provides an overview of the concept and requirements of a fronthaul. We also discuss the research activities of a new fronthaul interface for future 5G networks, a 5G integrated fronthaul/backhaul transport network (5G-Crosshaul), a next-generation fronthaul interface (NGFI), a mobile xhaul network (MXN), and a next-generation mobile fronthaul architecture with multi-IF carrier transmission scheme.