• Journal of Communications and Networks
• /
• 제17권4호
• /
• pp.406-418
• /
• 2015

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have emerged as a promising solution to the problem of spectrum under utilization and artificial radio spectrum scarcity. The paradigm of dynamic spectrum access allows a secondary network comprising of secondary users (SUs) to coexist with a primary network comprising of licensed primary users (PUs) subject to the condition that SUs do not cause any interference to the primary network. Since it is necessary for SUs to avoid any interference to the primary network, PU activity precludes attempts of SUs to access the licensed spectrum and forces frequent channel switching for SUs. This dynamic nature of CRNs, coupled with the possibility that an SU may not share a common channel with all its neighbors, makes the task of multicast routing especially challenging. In this work, we have proposed a novel multipath on-demand multicast routing protocol for CRNs. The approach of multipath routing, although commonly used in unicast routing, has not been explored for multicasting earlier. Motivated by the fact that CRNs have highly dynamic conditions, whose parameters are often unknown, the multicast routing problem is modeled in the reinforcement learning based framework of learning automata. Simulation results demonstrate that the approach of multipath multicasting is feasible, with our proposed protocol showing a superior performance to a baseline state-of-the-art CRN multicasting protocol.

• ETRI Journal
• /
• 제23권3호
• /
• pp.111-120
• /
• 2001

For scalable multicast transport, one of the promising approaches is to employ a control tree known as acknowledgement (ACK) tree which can be used to convey information on reliability and session status from receivers to a root sender. The existing tree configuration has focused on a 'bottom-up' scheme in which ACK trees grow from leaf receivers toward a root sender. This paper proposes an alternative 'top-down' configuration where an ACK tree begins at the root sender and gradually expands by including non-tree nodes into the tree in a stepwise manner. The proposed scheme is simple and practical to implement along with multicast transport protocols. It is also employed as a tree configuration in the Enhanced Communications Transport Protocol, which has been standardized in the ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC1. From experimental simulations, we see that the top-down scheme provides advantages over the existing bottom-up one in terms of the number of control messages required for tree configuration and the number of tree levels.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
• /
• 제13권5호
• /
• pp.536-543
• /
• 2011

The heterogeneous postal delivery model assumes that each intermediate node in the multicasting tree incurs a constant switching time for each message that is sent. We have proposed a new model where we assume a more generalized switching time at intermediate nodes. In our model, a child node v of a parent u has a switching delay vector, where the ith element of the vector indicates the switching delay incurred by u for sending the message to v after sending the message to i-1 other children of u. Given a multicast tree and switching delay vectors at each non-root node 5 in the tree, we provide an O(n$^{\frac{5}{2}}$) optimal algorithm that will decide the order in which the internal (non-leaf) nodes have to send the multicast message to its children in order to minimize the maximum end-to-end delay due to multicasting. We also show an important lower bound result that optimal multicast switching delay problem is as hard as min-max matching problem on weighted bipartite graphs and hence O(n$^{\frac{5}{2}}$) running time is tight.

• 방송공학회논문지
• /
• 제26권6호
• /
• pp.766-777
• /
• 2021

본 논문에서는 셀룰러 방송(cellular broadcast)을 위한 LTE (long term evolution) 기반 5G (fifth-generation) MBMS (multimedia broadcast and multicast services)와 5G NR (new radio)의 PBCH (physical broadcast channel) 검출 성능을 평가하고 5G NR의 PBCH 검출 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제시한다. 시간 영역에서 수신 신호와 모든 가능한 PSS (primary synchronization signal)의 상관(correlation)을 계산하고, 상관 값을 결합(combining)하여 SS/PBCH 블록의 시작 위치와 프레임 동기를 획득한다. 또한, PBCH 검출 성능 향상을 위해 프레임 내에 존재하는 모든 SS/PBCH 블록에 포함된 PBCH 신호를 결합하는 방법을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 적용한 PBCH 결합 방법에 대한 성능을 평가하고 기존 LTE 기반 5G MBMS의 PBCH 검출 성능과 비교한다. 전산 실험 결과는 가산 백색 가우시안 잡음(additive white Gaussian noise: AWGN) 환경과 고정 및 이동 환경에서 5G NR의 PBCH를 결합함으로써 검출 성능이 향상되고 기존 LTE 기반 5G MBMS 보다 우수한 성능을 보여준다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
• /
• 제6권4호
• /
• pp.362-375
• /
• 2004

An ad hoc network is a multi-hop wireless network. Its limited bandwidth and frequently changing topology require that its protocol should be robust, simple, and energy conserving. We have proposed PoolODMRP to reduce its control overhead greatly by its one-hop local route maintenance. However, PoolODMRP still has some shortcomings. In this paper, we propose PDAODMRP (passive data acknowledgement ODMRP) to extend PoolODMRP. Compared with PoolODMRP, PDAODMRP has the following contributions: (1) It knows the status of its downstream forwarding nodes by route information collected from data packets instead of BEACON signal of MAC layer; (2) it max simplifies the route information collected from data packets by pool nodes; (3) it adopts a dynamic local route maintenance to enforce its local route maintenance; (4) it adopts the route evaluation policy of NSMP (neighbor supporting multicast protocol). Compared with PoolODMRP, PDAODMRP has lower control overhead, lower data delivery delay, and lower data overhead.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
• /
• 제7권3호
• /
• pp.263-277
• /
• 2005

In this paper, we introduce algorithms for constructing broadcasting and multicasting trees. These algorithms are general because they may be used for tree cost functions that are of arbitrary form. Thus, essentially the same algorithmic procedures are used for different tree cost functions. We evaluate the effectiveness of the general algorithms by applying them to different cost functions that are often used to model wired and wireless net­works. Besides providing a unifying framework for dealing with many present and future tree-construction applications, these algorithms typically outperform some existing algorithms that are specifically designed for energy-aware wireless networks. These general algorithms perform well at the expense of higher computational complexity. They are centralized algorithms, requiring the full network information for tree construction. Thus, we also present variations of these general algorithms to yield other algorithms that have lower complexity and distributed implementation.

• 대한산업공학회지
• /
• 제34권3호
• /
• pp.289-295
• /
• 2008

The shared-route decision algorithms in multicasting communications networks to provide the internet-based services such as IPTV, remote education/health, and internet broadcasting are presented. The three main measures of maximum delay, average delay and estimated delay between each node and member are adopted. Under the Mesh network with the uniform random cost between each node, the algorithm's performance is compared to the optimal solution with the minimum cost by all enumeration. The simulation results show that the algorithm using the estimated delay outperforms the other two methods.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국정보처리학회 2000년도 추계학술발표논문집 (상)
• /
• pp.837-840
• /
• 2000

For secure communications in using multicast applications such as Cable-TV, It is essential for us to manage shared keys to encrypt/decrypt data through crypto algorithm as DES, which is called Group Key Management. In GKM, It is a hot issue that reduces the number of join/leave operation and subgroup key in key tree model. In this paper, we propose optimized mechanism of group key management required for providing multicast security.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제10권2호
• /
• pp.935-949
• /
• 2016

In this paper, we present a novel authenticated group key distribution scheme for large and dynamic multicast groups without employing traditional symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic operations. The security of our scheme is mainly based on the basic theories for solving linear equations. In our scheme, a large group is divided into many subgroups, where each subgroup is managed by a subgroup key manager (SGKM) and a group key generation center (GKGC) further manages all SGKMs. The group key is generated by the GKGC and then propagated to all group members through the SGKMs, such that only authorized group members can recover the group key but unauthorized users cannot. In addition, all authorized group members can verify the authenticity of group keys by a public one-way function. The analysis results show that our scheme is secure and efficient, and especially it is very appropriate for secure multicast communications in large and dynamic client-server networks.

• 한국통신학회논문지
• /
• 제26권9A호
• /
• pp.1475-1484
• /
• 2001

본 논문에서는 최근 이슈가 되고 있는 Mobile-IPv6에서의 새로운 smooth 핸드오프기반의 이동 멀티캐스트 데이터그램 전달 기법을 제안하고 이에 대한 성능을 평가한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 긴 라우팅 경로가 문제였던 Mobile-IPv4에서의 문제를 해결한 Mobile-IPv6를 기초로 하며, Mobile-IPv6 적용시 멀티캐스트 데이터그램 서비스를 운용하는데 요구되는 여러 성능 척도하에서 성능을 평가한다. 새로운 프로토콜의 핵심요소는 멀티캐스트 데이터그램 전달 경로를 줄이기 위해 MDA (Multicast Delivery Agent)를 도입한 것이다. 제안된 프로토콜은 현재까지 제안된 이동망에서의 멀티캐스트 지원 기법 등과 비교하여, 짧은 라우팅 경로 및 이동 호스트에 근접한 노드에서 이동 호스트로의 직접 데이터그램 전송을 통하여 성능 향상을 기대할 수 있다. 특히, 터널링 수 및 멀티캐스트 데이트그램의 평균 라우팅 길이가 줄었으며, 또한 멀티캐스트 트래픽 부하도 감소하였다.