• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2011

수중 환경은 육상 환경과 많은 차이를 보이며 무선 통신에 사용되는 자원과 제약 조건들도 다르다. 일반적으로 수중 통신 환경은 육상 통신 환경보다 열악하고, 파도, 조류와 같은 해수의 흐름으로 인한 노드의 이동성 때문에 오류 발생 가능성이 기존의 지상 무선 센서 네트워크 보다 높다. 따라서 수중 무선 센서 네트워크의 통신 환경을 고려하여 노드 간 데이터 전송률을 향상시키기 위한 기법들에 대한 요구가 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 수중 무선 센서 네트워크의 통신 환경을 고려하여 클러스터 헤드 노드의 오류 발생 시 이를 빠른 시간 내에 복구하기 위한 체크포인팅 기법을 제안한다. 또한 실험을 통해 제안 기법이 네트워크 운영의 신뢰도를 향상 시킬 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 에너지 소모량과 오류 복구 지연 시간 측면에서 제안 기법을 적용하지 않았을 때보다 좋은 성능을 보인다는 것을 검증한다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2007년도 학술대회
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• pp.264-268
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• 2007

This article presents the performance evaluation case study of circuit-switched WCDMA R5MSC(Mobile Switching Center) Server and CS-MGW(Circuit Switched Media Gateway) in 3'rd generation mobile telecommunication (UMTS : Universal Mobile Telecommunication System). The presented work adopted circuit switching scenarios recommended by 3GPP(Third Generation Partnership Project) and terrestrial spectrum calculation parameters and its values defined in ITU-R M.2023 and M.1390 to do the case study on performance evaluation of circuit switched system (R5 MSC Server and CS-MGW) in WCDMA core network. This paper describes test results by using simulator which substitutes for wireless section (MS, Node-B, RNC).

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.411-417
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• 2023

무인 항공기(UAV) 지원 중계는 분포가 쉽고 통신 채널이 양호하며, 이동성이 뛰어나 기존 지상 중계에 비해 높은 무선 연결성을 가질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선 주파수(RF) 대역을 활용하여 소스로부터 에너지를 수확하고 테라헤르츠(THz) 대역을 활용하여 2차 송신기와 해당 수신기 간에 정보를 전송할 수 있는 UAV 지원 중계 네트워크를 설계한다. 그 후, 릴레이 채널 용량을 최대화하는 UAV의 최적 위치를 결정하기 위한 최적화 문제의 해를 유도하고, 유도된 해를 활용하여 두 가지 UAV 궤적(직선 궤적과 타원 궤적)을 설계하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 제안된 알고리즘은 UAV 직선 궤도가 수확된 에너지 및 채널 용량 측면에서 더 나은 시스템 성능을 제공할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.97-107
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• 2013

수중무선통신시스템은 AUV간 수중 무선통신, 해양환경 모니터링, 양식장 관리, 항만 감시, 자원 탐사 및 개발, 지형 및 지질 조사 등 다양한 산업에 활용 가능하다. 하지만 수중 무선 통신은 지상 무선 통신과는 달리 물이 가지고 있는 매질의 특성때문에 전력손실, 주위 잡음 및 인위 잡음, 멀티패스 등으로 인한 높은 에러율 그리고 긴 전송지연 등과 같은 요소들을 고려하여야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 ALOHA 기반의 Media Access Control(MAC) 프로토콜과 CSMA/CA 기반의 MAC 프로토콜을 혼합하여 수중 환경에 적합한 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 성능을 평가하기 위해 수학적 분석 모델을 제시하고, 구현을 통해 기존 MAC 프로토콜과 비교함으로써 성능의 개선점을 검증한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.451-460
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• 2006

Since low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations have important advantages over geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) systems such as low propagation delay, low power requirements, and more efficient spectrum allocation due to frequency reuse between satellites and spotbeams, they are considered to be used to complement the existing terrestrial fixed and wireless networks in the evolving global mobile network. However, one of the major problems with LEO satellites is their higher speed relative to the terrestrial mobile terminals, which move at lower speeds but at more random directions. Therefore, handover management in LEO satellite networks becomes a very challenging task for supporting global mobile communication. Efficient and accurate methods are needed for LEO satellite handovers between the moving footprints. In this paper, we propose a new seamless handover management scheme for LEO satellites (SeaHO-LEO), which utilizes the handover management schemes aiming at decreasing latency, data loss, and handover blocking probability. We also present another interesting handover management model called satellite mobility pattern based handover management in LEO satellites (PatHO-LEO) which takes mobility pattern of both satellites and mobile terminals into account to minimize the handover messaging traffic. This is achieved by the newly introduced billboard manager which is used for location updates of mobile users and satellites. The billboard manager makes the proposed handover model much more flexible and easier than the current solutions, since it is a central server and supports the management of the whole system. To show the performance of the proposed algorithms, we run an extensive set of simulations both for the proposed algorithms and well known handover management methods as a baseline model. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithms are very promising for seamless handover in LEO satellites.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.58-66
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• 2015

Aeronautical communication networks (ACN) is an emerging concept in which aeronautical stations (AS) are considered as a part of multi-tier network for the future wireless communication system. An AS could be a commercial plane, helicopter, or any other low orbit station, i.e., Unmanned air vehicle, high altitude platform. The goal of ACN is to provide high throughput and cost effective communication network for aeronautical applications (i.e., Air traffic control (ATC), air traffic management (ATM) communications, and commercial in-flight Internet activities), and terrestrial networks by using aeronautical platforms as a backbone. In this paper, we investigate the issues about connectivity, throughput, and delay in ACN. First, topology of ACN is presented as a simple mobile ad hoc network and connectivity analysis is provided. Then, by using information obtained from connectivity analysis, we investigate two communication models, i.e., single-hop and two-hop, in which each source AS is communicating with its destination AS with or without the help of intermediate relay AS, respectively. In our throughput analysis, we use the method of finding the maximum number of concurrent successful transmissions to derive ACN throughput upper bounds for the two communication models. We conclude that the two-hop model achieves greater throughput scaling than the single-hop model for ACN and multi-hop models cannot achieve better throughput scaling than two-hop model. Furthermore, since delay issue is more salient in two-hop communication, we characterize the delay performance and derive the closed-form average end-to-end delay for the two-hop model. Finally, computer simulations are performed and it is shown that ACN is robust in terms of throughput and delay performances.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1706-1727
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• 2023

Under Water Sensor Networks (UWSN) has gained attraction among various communities for its potential applications like acoustic monitoring, 3D mapping, tsunami detection, oil spill monitoring, and target tracking. Unlike terrestrial sensor networks, it performs an acoustic mode of communication to carry out collaborative tasks. Typically, surface sink nodes are deployed for aggregating acoustic phenomena collected from the underwater sensors through the multi-hop path. In this context, UWSN is constrained by factors such as lower bandwidth, high propagation delay, and limited battery power. Also, the vulnerabilities to compromise the aquatic environment are in growing numbers. The paper proposes an Energy-Efficient standalone Intrusion Detection System (EEIDS) to entail the acoustic environment against malicious attacks and improve the network lifetime. In EEIDS, attributes such as node ID, residual energy, and depth value are verified for forwarding the data packets in a secured path and stabilizing the nodes' energy levels. Initially, for each node, three agents are modeled to perform the assigned responsibilities. For instance, ID agent verifies the node's authentication of the node, EN agent checks for the residual energy of the node, and D agent substantiates the depth value of each node. Next, the classification of normal and malevolent nodes is performed by determining the score for each node. Furthermore, the proposed system utilizes the sheep-flock heredity algorithm to validate the input attributes using the optimized probability values stored in the training dataset. This assists in finding out the best-fit motes in the UWSN. Significantly, the proposed system detects and isolates the malicious nodes with tampered credentials and nodes with lower residual energy in minimal time. The parameters such as the time taken for malicious node detection, network lifetime, energy consumption, and delivery ratio are investigated using simulation tools. Comparison results show that the proposed EEIDS outperforms the existing acoustic security systems.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.153-166
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• 2013

A hierarchical time division multiple access (HTDMA) medium access control (MAC) protocol is proposed for clustered mobile underwater acoustic networks. HTDMA consists of two TDMA scheduling protocols (i.e., TDMA1 and TDMA2) in order to accommodate mobile underwater nodes (UNs). TDMA1 is executed among surface stations (e.g., buoys) using terrestrial wireless communication in order to share mobility information obtained from UNs which move cluster to cluster. TDMA2 is executed among UNs, which send data to their surface station as a cluster head in one cluster. By sharing mobility information, a surface station can instantaneously determine the number of time slots in a TDMA2 frame up to as many as the number of UNs which is currently residing in its cluster. This can enhance delay and channel utilization performance by avoiding the occurrence of idle time slots. We analytically investigate the delay of HTDMA, and compare it with that of wellknown contention-free and contention-based MAC protocols, which are TDMA and Slotted-ALOHA, respectively. It is shown that HTDMA remarkably decreases delay, compared with TDMA and Slotted-ALOHA.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.213-225
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• 2023

Physical layer security (PLS) can improve the security of both terrestrial and nonterrestrial wireless communication networks. This study proposes a simplified framework for nonterrestrial cyclic prefixed orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF)-encoded multiple-input and multiple-output nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems to ensure complete network security. Various useful methods are implemented, where both improved sine map and multiple parameter-weighted-type fractional Fourier transform encryption schemes are combined to investigate the effects of hybrid PLS. In addition, OVSF coding with power domain NOMA for multi-user interference reduction and peak-toaverage power ratio (PAPR) reduction is introduced. The performance of $\frac{1}{2}$-rated convolutional, turbo, and repeat and accumulate channel coding with regularized zero-forcing signal detection for forward error correction and improved bit error rate (BER) are also investigated. Simulation results ratify the pertinence of the proposed system in terms of PLS and BER performance improvement with reasonable PAPR.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.337-344
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• 2008

음파를 이용한 수중 센서 네트워크는 지상에서의 무선 네트워크 환경과 다르게 긴 전파 지연과 낮은 전송 속도를 가진다. 따라서 기존의 선 네트워크에서 사용되는 프로토콜을 수중 센서 네트워크에 적용될 경우 매우 제한적이며 비효율적으로 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 수중 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율과 처리율 향상을 위한 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 프로토콜은 슬롯 기반의 경쟁 기법을 사용하며 데이타 패킷을 전송하기 위해 사전에 슬롯을 예약하게 된다. 제안된 프로토콜에서는 경쟁방식에 의하여 노드간의 충돌이 발생할 수 있으나 예약방식에 의하여 인접 노드의 채널을 미리 인지함으로써 충돌을 최소화하고 노드의 불필요한 에너지 소모를 줄임과 동시에 처리율 향상을 가져온다. 제안된 프로토콜에 대한 성능을 평가하기 위해 시뮬레이션을 수행하며 소모된 에너지, 충돌횟수, 채널효율, 처리율과 전송지연시간에 대하여 평가한다. 또한 기존의 MAC 프로토콜과 비교함으로써 제안된 프로토콜이 기존의 프로토콜에 비해 성능이 우수함을 보인다.