• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.229-232
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• 2012

This paper describes performance evaluation using fixed-point Matlab modeling and simulation, and hardware design of LDPC decoder which is based on Improved Normalized Min-Sum(INMS) decoding algorithm. The designed LDPC decoder supports 19 block lengths(576~2304) and 6 code rates(1/2, 2/3A, 2/3B, 3/4A, 3/4B, 5/6) of IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard. Considering hardware complexity, it is designed using a block-serial(partially parallel) architecture which is based on layered decoding scheme. A DFU based on sign-magnitude arithmetic is adopted to minimize hardware area. Hardware design is optimized by using INMS decoding algorithm whose performance is better than min-sum algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.4A
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• pp.414-422
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• 2011

This paper describes a design of low-density parity-check(LDPC) decoder supporting block length 2,304-bit and code rate 1/2 of IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard. The designed LDPC decoder employs the min-sum algorithm and partially parallel layered-decoding architecture which processes a sub-matrix of $96{\times}96$ in parallel. By exploiting the properties of the min-sum algorithm, a new memory reduction technique is proposed, which reduces check node memory by 46% compared to conventional method. Functional verification results show that it has average bit-error-rate(BER) of $4.34{\times}10^{-5}$ for AWGN channel with Fb/No=2.1dB. Our LDPC decoder synthesized with a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS cell library has 174,181 gates and 52,992 bits memory, and the estimated throughput is about 417 Mbps at 100-MHz@l.8-V.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.471-479
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• 2013

WiBro technology provide mobile devices with a transmission speed of more than 1 Mbps even under the condition of high mobility (120 km/h). In a building, however, there is more demand for high bandwidth for various activities, and WiBro services may not be available. In order to guaranteeing a seamless service continuity and high transmission capability for mobile users within a specific establishment that has deployed WiBro network, we should secure an internetworking platform for WiBro and WiFi networks. This paper introduces WiMax forum and 3GPP standards, proposes WiBro-WiFi Interworking (WWI) architecture, its implementation details, and finally verifies validity of the proposal by using OPNet simulations.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.415-424
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• 2008

In this paper, we compare the QoS performance enhancement schemes according to the network architecture of mobile WiMAX system in order to improve the end-to-end QoS performance and propose QoS parameter mapping method and IP packet scheduling algorithm. To evaluate the end-to-end QoS performance, we implemented an end-to-end simulator of mobile WiMAX system using OPNET. Simulation results show that the proposed QoS parameter mapping scheme reduces the average delay of VoIP packet and improves uplink resource efficiency. And also, when the proposed IP packet scheduling algorithm is applied to the system, the end-to-end packet transmission delay of VoIP service can be reduced by 44-67 percent compared to FIFO and WRR scheduler.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.626-633
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• 2009

Lawful interception (LI) involves legally accessing private communication such as telephone calls or email messages. Numerous countries have been drafting and enacting laws concerning the LI procedures. With the proliferation of portable Internet services such as the IEEE 802.16e wireless mobile networks, surveillance over illegal users is an emerging technical issue in LI. The evermigrating users and their changing IP's make it harder to provide support for seamless LI procedures on 802.16e networks. Few studies, however, on seamless LI support have been conducted on the 802.16e mobile networks environments. Proposed in this paper are a seamless LI architecture and algorithms for the 802.16e networks. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed architecture improves recall rates in intercepting mobile user, when compared to the existing LI architectures.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1485-1488
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• 2008

Lawful Interception (LI) 이란 합법적인 형태의 도청을 말하며, 전통적인 Wired tapping 뿐만 아니라, 최근의 복잡해진 인터넷 및 통신환경의 여러 형태의 데이터들에 대한 감청이 포함 될 수 있다. 미국과 유럽 중심으로 개발 된 감청 표준들은 3 세대 통신망 위주의 감청을 위한 표준들이 대부분이며, 802.16e 기술중의 하나인 모바일 WiMax 를 위한 합법적 감청 표준 개발은 진행 중에 있는 실정이다. 특히, Wibro 와 같이 모바일 유닛(MU)이 Radio Access Contro (RAS)와 Access Control Router (ACR)를 자유롭게 이동하는 상황에서 패킷들에 대한 지속적인 추적은 합법적 감청 분야의 중요한 이슈 중의 하나이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 국내의 802.16e/WiBro 네트워크 사용자의 증가 및 그에 따른 보안위협 발생의 가능성 증가에 따라 합법적인 감청을 위한 효과적인 아키텍처를 제안하고자 한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 아키텍처는 802.16e/WiBro 망내의 합법적 감청을 위하여 네트워크상에서의 효과적인 감청 관련 정보 교환을 위한 기본적인 메커니즘을 포함하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.388-389
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• 2008

이중 이진 (double binary) 터보 디코더는 오류 정정 코드 중 하나로써, 높은 오류 정정 성능으로 인해 IEEE 802.16 표준 (WiMAX)에서 사용되고 있다. Maximum ${\alpha}$ posteriori probability (MAP) 디코딩 블록은 이중 이진 터보 디코더의 가장 핵심적인 블록으로, 본 논문은 이를 구현하기 위한 알고리즘 중 하나인 improved Max-Log-MAP 알고리즘에 대한 효율적인 하드웨어 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 하드웨어 구조는 기존의 하드웨어 구조와 비교하였을 때, 오류 정정 성능은 동일만 반면, 구떤 복잡도는 감소한다. 0.13um 공정에서 입력 비트폭을 8비트로 가정하고 시뮬레이션 한 결과, 속도와 칩 면적, 그리고 소비전력 측면에서 각각 8.92%, 1845%, 그리고 29.93%의 향상을 보인다. 제안하는 구조를 WIMAX 설계에 적용하여 성능 개선을 이끌어낼 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.9-16
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• 2011

This paper represents an interworking architecture for keeping the VLC audio quality between Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and IEEE 802.11 Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) where both mobile routers and mobile nodes are moving dynamically. Systematic performance analysis on the interworking architecture has been conducted by using OPNET simulator to show the results such as Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) and throughput. Based on simulation results, when the number of MANET nodes is small, PDR remains relatively stable even though data packets increase. However, with the many MANET nodes, PDR decreases as data traffic increases. Throughput is affected by the number of MANET nodes. Especially when the MANET node density has increased further, throughput is much higher, but it is not affected by the mobility speed. However, FTP download and upload response time is not affected much by both the number of MANET nodes and the mobility speed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.47-51
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• 2009

The low latency encoder for high data rate duo-binary turbo codes with tail biting trellises is considered. Encoder hardware architecture is proposed using inherent encoding property of duo-binary turbo codes. And we showed that half of execution time as well as the energy can be reduced with the proposed architecture.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.7B
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• pp.771-779
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• 2011

It is expected that many heterogeneous wireless systems, such as 3GPP LTE systems, WiMAX systems and WLAN systems, will coexist in the next generation wireless communication environments. Integrated radio resource management and seamless vertical handoff (VHO) should be supported to provide integrated communication services over multi-radio access networks. A new class of adaptive VHO system that views the handoff problem as a pattern recognition problem is proposed. In this paper, we propose a unified radio resource management (URRM) architecture and Support Vector Machine (SVM) based vertical handoff decision system. Extensive simulation studies show the proposed VHO algorithm outperforms RSS based VHO algorithms in terms of throughput and service cost.