• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.9B
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• pp.1305-1313
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• 2010

Last few years, wireless personal area network (WPAN) has been widely researched for various healthcare applications. Due to restriction of device hardware (e.g., energy and memory), we need to design a highly-versatile MAC layer protocol for WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network). In addition, when an emergency occurs to a patient, a priority mechanism is necessitated for a urgent message to get through to the final destination. This paper presents a priority mechanism referred to as hybrid priority MAC for WBAN. Through extensive simulation, we show the proposed MAC protocol can minimize the average packet latency for urgent data. Thus, when patients have an emergency situation, our MAC allows adequate assistance time and medical treatment for patients. The simulation based on NS-2 shows that our Hybrid Priority MAC has the good performance and usability.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.2178-2187
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• 2015

Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) is a representative break-through communication technology for wireless personal area networks on nowaday. In this environment, most of significant performance should be aiming to energy efficiency due to the policy for manufacturing light-weighted communication devices derived from requirement of world IoT market, and many researches have been developed to satisfy this requirement. While Bluetooth LE has been leading the low power communication technology required from the current market by employing duty cycle and frequency hopping approaches, it couldn't address the problem of reliability on broadcast transmissions. The main goal of this paper is aiming to addressing this problem by suggesting a new method. Furthermore analytic evaluations would also be proceeded to find objective results in the view point of broadcast transmission efficiency from Master device.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 2010

IEEE 802.15.4[1] has been standardized for the physical layer and MAC layer of LR-PANs(Low Rate-Wireless Personal Area Networks) as a technology for operations with low power on sensor networks. The standardization is applied to the variety of applications in the shortrange wireless communication with limited output and performance, for example wireless sensor or virtual wire, but it includes vulnerabilities for various attacks because of the lack of security researches. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerabilities against the denial of sleep attacks on the MAC layer of IEEE 802.15.4, and propose a detection mechanism against it. In results, we analyzed the possibilities of denial of sleep attacks by the modification of superframe, the modification of CW(Contention Window), the process of channel scan or PAN association, and so on. Moreover, we comprehended that some of these attacks can mount even though the standardized security services such as encryption or authentication are performed. In addition to, we model for denial of sleep attacks by Beacon/Association Request messages, and propose a detection mechanism against them. This detection mechanism utilizes the management table consisting of the interval and node ID of request messages, and signal strength. In simulation results, we can show the effect of attacks, the detection possibility and performance superiorities of proposed mechanism.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.4C
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• pp.441-450
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• 2006

WiBro(Portable Internet Service) is service being capable to provide a high data rate wireless internet access with Personal Subscriber Station under the stationary or mobile environment, anytime and any where. It will fill the gap between very high data rate wireless local area networks and very high mobility cellular systems. The security is an important point of WiBro providing high data and mobile wireless services. This paper proposes user authentication mechanism of WiBro wireless networks applied EAP-AKA authentication protocol. As a result of Wireless authentication based on EAP-AKA, this mechanism is capable to be used in WiBro-WLAN-3GPP interworking scenario as well as the WiBro authentication mechanism.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.101-108
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• 2005

IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) are expected to provide ubiquitous networking between small personal/home devices and sensors with low power consumption and low cost features. The technology employs special CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/collision Avoidance) to save power consumption for small or portable WPAN-enabled devices. In this paper, we simulation the slotted CSMA/CA of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and evaluate its performance limit in order to grasp the characteristics of Medium Access Control (MAC) of IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.10-14
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• 2005

IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks(WPAN) are expected to provide ubiquitous networking between small personal/home devices and sensors with low power consumption and low cost features. The technology employs special CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/collision Avoidance) to save power consumption for small or portable WPAN-enabled devices. In this paper, we simulation the slotted CSMA/CA of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and evaluate its performance limit in order to grasp the characteristics of Medium Access Control (MAC) of IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2004

A high data rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) system is a hot issue in wireless communication communities and being standardized. Multi-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) is one of the candidates for WPAN standard. In this paper, we discuss the PLCP (Physical Layer Convergence Protocol) structure for MB-OFDM. Also we evaluate the performance of two signal detection algorithms, which are the method of cross-correlation with the original preamble and the signed preamble. The latter has a low complexity with a little degradation.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.374-384
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• 2014

To achieve high-speed (giga-bit) connectivity for short-range wireless multimedia applications, the millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless personal area networks with directional antennas are gaining increased interest. Due to the use of directional antennas and mmWave communications, the probability of non-interfering transmissions increases in a localized region. Network throughput can be increased immensely by the concurrent time allocation of non-interfering transmissions. The problem of finding optimum time allocation for concurrent transmissions is an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we propose two enhanced versions of previously proposed multi-hop concurrent transmission (MHCT) schemes. To increase network capacity, the proposed schemes efficiently make use of the free holes in the time-allocation map of the MHCT scheme; thus, making it more compact.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.245-248
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• 2008

최근 무선 센서 네트워크(Wireless Sensor Networks : WSN)는 환경 감시(environment tracking), 개인 건강 상태 감지(personal health status monitoring) 등 실생활의 다양한 분야에서 활용되며, 우리의 일상생활에 많은 변화를 주고 있다. 이에 따라 무선 센서 네트워크 상에서 다양한 응용의 개발을 지원하기 위해, WSN 미들웨어의 연구가 활성화되었다. 그러나 개발된 미들웨어들은 각기 다른 개발 목표를 지니고 있기 때문에, 상호간의 비교가 난해하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 WSN 미들웨어를 응용 관점에서 분류하고 분석한다. 이를 위해 첫째, 센서 노드 미들웨어들의 개발 목표에 기반한 특성들을 살펴본다. 둘째, 각 응용 분야에 따른 미들웨어의 분류를 제시한다. 마지막으로 각 미들웨어의 강점 및 약점에 대하여 분석한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.4
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• pp.555-562
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• 2004

We consider differentiated bandwidth allocation for a piconet in short-range wireless personal network systems : Bluetooth. Since bandwidth requirements nay vary among applications/services, and/or it may change over time, it is important to decide how to allocate limited resources to various service classes to meet their service requirements. We propose a simple and efficient bandwidth allocation mechanism which meets bandwidth requirements of various service types while saving power consumption by a Power saying mode, i.e., sniff node. We compare our proposed mechanism with a conventional (weighted) round-robin polling scheme and show that it achieves significant improvement of hroughput, delay, and power consumption.