• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.634-644
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• 2009

A diversity of wireless networks, with rapidly evolving wireless technology, are currently in service. Due to their innate physical layer vulnerability, wireless networks require enhanced security components. WLAN, WiBro, and UMTS have defined proper security components that meet standard security requirements. Extensive research has been conducted to enhance the security of individual wireless platforms, and we now have meaningful results at hand. However, with the advent of ubiquitous service, new horizontal platform service models with vertical crosslayer security are expected to be proposed. Research on synchronized security service and interoperability in a heterogeneous environment must be conducted. In heterogeneous environments, to design the balanced security components, quantitative evaluation model of security policy in wireless networks is required. To design appropriate evaluation method of security policies in heterogeneous wireless networks, we formalize the security properties in wireless networks. As the benefit of security protocols is indicated by the quality of protection (QoP), we improve the QoP model and evaluate hybrid security policy in heterogeneous wireless networks by applying to the QoP model. Deriving relative indicators from the positive impact of security points, and using these indicators to quantify a total reward function, this paper will help to assure the appropriate benchmark for combined security components in wireless networks.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2004

오늘날 무선 네트워크는 통신에서 매우 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 예를 들어, 오늘날의 무선 네트워크는 이메일, FTP와 같은 기본 서비스로부터 웹 서비스 같은 멀티미디어 응용 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 무선 네트워크에서의 이와 같은 다양한 응용들의 서비스 질에 대한 요구는 유선 네트워크에서와 마찬가지로 무선 네트워크에서도 계속 이어질 것이 확실하다. 최근에 인터넷에서 서비스의 차별화를 지원하려는 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 무선 환경에서는 제한된 대역폭과 채널 상태의 변화로 인하여 이러한 차별화서비스 지원이 더욱 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 트래픽 서비스와 비실시간 트래픽 서비스가 공존하는 인터넷 환경에서 실시간 트래픽 서비스의 질을 지원하는 수정된 무선 토큰링 프로토콜을 제안하고 있다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 실시간 트래픽 서비스 노드가 비실시간 트래픽 서비스 노드보다 토큰 수신에 있어서 우선권을 가진다. 따라서 제안된 알고리즘은 실시간 트래픽 서비스 노드의 빠른 전송을 지원하며, 또한 기존의 토큰 전송 방식에 약간의 수정만을 통하여 QoS를 지원하는 장점을 가진다. 또한 본 논문에서는 손실된 토큰 회복 메커니즘에 대한 고찰이 이루어진다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.477-488
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• 2001

무선 네트워크 환경에서는 네트워크의 제한된 대역폭과 이동 호스트의 잦은 셀 간 이동으로 인하여, 각 호스트가 요구하는 서비스의 질(Quality of Service)을 보장하기 힘들다. 이런 무선 통신의 특성에서도, 실시간 서비스와 같은 특정 종류의 서비스의 경우에는 요구되어지는 범위 내에서 그 서비스의 질이 반드시 보장되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 무선 이동 네트워크 환경에서 각 서비스의 서비스 율을 어떻게 조정할 것인가에 대해 논의한다. 무선 네트워크 환경에서 이동 호스트가 다른 셀로 이동하였을 경우, 부족한 대역폭을 고려하여 호스트의 서비스 율이 조정된다. 본 논문에서 각 플로우의 QoS Spec을 고려하여 서비스 율을 할당하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 각 플로우가 요구하는 QoS spec 값에 비례하도록 서비스 율을 정하여 부족한 네트워크 자원을 동적으로 할당함으로써, 무선 네트워크 자원을 보다 효율적으로 사용할 수 있게 한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.408-416
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• 2005

Quality of service (QoS) provision is an important and indispensable function for multi-service wireless networks. In this paper, we present a new scheduling/admission control frame­work, including an efficient rate-guaranteed opportunistic scheduling (ROS) scheme and a coordinated admission control (ROS­CAC) policy to support statistic QoS guarantee in multi-service wireless networks. Based on our proposed mathematical model, we derive the probability distribution function (PDF) of queue length under ROS and deduce the packet loss rate (PLR) for individual flows. The new admission control policy makes admission decision for a new incoming flow to ensure that the PLR requirements of all flows (including the new flow) are satisfied. The numerical results based on ns-2 simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the new joint packet scheduling/admission control framework.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.1973-1991
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• 2018

Multimedia applications over wireless networks have been evolving to augmented reality or virtual reality services. However, a rich data size compared to conventional multimedia services causes bandwidth bottlenecks over wireless networks, which is one of the main reasons why those applications are not used widely. To overcome this limitation, bandwidth aggregation techniques, which exploit a multi-path transmission, have been considered to maximize link utilization. Currently, most of the conventional researches have been focusing on the user end problems to improve the quality of service (QoS) through optimal load distribution. In this paper, we address the joint pricing and load distribution problem for multi-homing in heterogeneous wireless access networks (ANs), considering the interests of both the users and the service providers. Specifically, we consider profit from resource allocation and cost of power consumption expenditure for operation as an utility of each service provider. Here, users decide how much to request the resource and how to split the resource over heterogeneous wireless ANs to minimize their cost while supporting the required QoS. Then, service providers compete with each other by setting the price to maximize their utilities over user reactions. We study the behaviors of users and service providers by analyzing their hierarchical decision-making process as a multileader-, multifollower Stackelberg game. We show that both the user and service provider strategies are closed form solutions. Finally, we discuss how the proposed scheme is well converged to equilibrium points.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1152-1168
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• 2010

Recently, due to the prevalence of various mobile devices and wireless broadband networks, there has been a significant increase in interest and demand for multimedia streaming services such as the mobile IPTV. In such a wireless broadband network, transmitting a continuous stream of multimedia data is difficult to achieve due to mobile stations (MSs) movement. Providing Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia video streaming applications requires the server and/or client to be network-aware and adaptive. Therefore, in order to deploy a mobile IPTV service in wireless broadband networks, offering users efficient wireless resource utilization and seamlessly offering user perceived QoS are important issues. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive streaming scheme, called MARC (Mobile-aware Adaptive Rate Control), which adjusts the quality of bit-stream and transmission rate of video streaming based on the wireless channel status and network status. The proposed scheme can control the rate of multimedia streaming to be suitable for the wireless channel status by using awareness information of the wireless channel quality and the mobile station location. The proposed scheme can provide a seamless multimedia playback service in wireless broadband networks in addition to improving the QoS of multimedia streaming services. The proposed MARC scheme alleviates the discontinuity of multimedia playback and allocates a suitable client buffer to the wireless broadband network. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.4068-4086
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• 2014

Due to the prevalence of powerful mobile terminals and the rapid advancements in wireless communication technologies, the wireless video streaming service has become increasingly more popular. Recent studies show that video streaming services via Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are becoming more practical. TCP has more advantages than User Diagram Protocol (UDP), including firewall traversal, bandwidth fairness, and reliability. However, each video service shares an equal portion of the limited bandwidth because of the fair sharing characteristics inherent in TCP and this bandwidth fair sharing cannot always guarantee the video quality for each user. To solve this challenging problem, an Adaptive Multiple TCP (AM-TCP) scheme is proposed in this paper to guarantee the video quality for mobile devices in wireless networks. AM-TCP adaptively controls the number of TCP connections according to the video Rate Distortion (RD) characteristics of each stream and network status. The proposed scheme can minimize the total distortion of all participating video streams and maximize the service quality by guaranteeing the quality of each video streaming session. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme can significantly improve the quality of video streaming in wireless networks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.1108-1130
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• 2013

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are becoming increasingly important to solve the issue of health care. IEEE 802.15.6 is a wireless communication standard for WBANs, aiming to provide a real-time and continuous monitoring. In this paper, we present our development of a modified Markov Chain model and a backoff model, in which most features such as user priorities, contention windows, modulation and coding schemes (MCSs), and frozen states are taken into account. Then we calculate the normalized throughput and average access delay of IEEE 802.15.6 networks under saturation and ideal channel conditions. We make an evaluation of network performances by comparing with IEEE 802.15.4 and the results validate that IEEE 802.15.6 networks can provide high quality of service (QoS) for nodes with high priorities.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.244-250
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• 2011

Gossip is a well-known protocol which was proposed to implement broadcast service with a high reliability in an arbitrarily connected network of sensor nodes. The probabilistic techniques employed in gossip have been used to address many challenges which are caused by flooding in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, very little work has yet been done on real-time wireless sensor networks which require not only highly reliable packets reception but also strict time constraint of each packet. Moreover, the unique energy constraining feature of sensor makes existing solutions unsuitable. Combined with unreliable links, redundant messages overhead in real-time wireless sensor networks is a new challenging issue. In this paper, we introduce a Reliable Gossip Zone, a novel fine-tailored mechanism for real-time wireless sensor networks with unreliable wireless links and low packet redundancy. The key idea is the proposed forwarding probability algorithm, which makes forwarding decisions after the realtime flooding zone is set. Evaluation shows that as an oracle broadcast service design, our mechanism achieves significantly less message overhead than traditional flooding and gossip protocols.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.103-111
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• 2011

최근 메쉬 네트워크는 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있다. 그러나 메쉬 네트워크는 무선 전송의 특성으로 인한 제한적인 대역폭을 제공하며, 특히 단일 채널로 구성된 메쉬 네트워크의 경우 다중 홉 전송 시 전송률 저하 문제 등이 발생한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하고 QoS(Quality of Service)를 제공하기 위해 다양한 라우팅방식이 제안되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 MPLS(Multi Protocol Label Switching)를 적용하여 QoS를 제공하는 MPLS 메쉬 네트워크 구조를 제안한다. MPLS를 적용한 메쉬 네트워크를 통해 하부 QoS 제공방식과 무관하게 상위 응용계층에서의 경로관리가 용이해지며 트래픽관리가 용이해진다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11e 표준을 적용하여 트래픽에 대한 차별적인 서비스를 제공하도록 MPLS 적용 메쉬 라우터를 설계하고, 구현 및 실험을 통하여 동작을 검증하였다.