• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권2B호
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• pp.334-344
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• 2010

최근 들어 다양한 휴대 단말과 광대역 무선네트워크의 보급으로 인해 인터넷을 통한 다양한 멀티미디어 스트리밍 서비스에 상당한 관심과 수요가 증가하고 있다. 하지만, 단말 이동시 연속적인 멀티미디어 스트리밍 데이터 전송이 어려운 문제를 가지고 있다. 그래서, 광대역 무선네트워크내 Mobile IPTV 서비스 보급에 있어, 효율적인 무선 자원 활용 및 사용자에게 원활한 QoE (Quality of Experience)를 제공하는 것은 중요한 이슈이다. 본 논문에서는 무선 채널 상태를 인지하여 비디오의 전송률과 품질을 조절하는 네트워크 기반의 품질 적응 스트리밍 기법인 Mobile Adaptive Rate Control (MARC) 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 스트리밍 서비스의 품질 향상 이외에도 단말의 이동환경에서 끊김 없는 비디오 재생을 보장 할 수 있도록 무선 채널 상태를 인지하여 현재 무선 채널 및 단말 위치에 적합한 스트리밍 비디오를 전송한다. 제안한 MARC 기법은 광대역 무선 네트워크에서 비디오 재생의 불연속성을 제거하고 안정된 버퍼 할당을 보였다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 제안한 방법의 유효성을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4044-4062
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• 2016

We investigate the optimization of energy consumption in Mobile Cloud environment in this paper. In order to optimize the energy consumed by the CPUs in mobile devices, we put forward using the asymptotic time complexity (ATC) method to distinguish the computational complexities of the applications when they are executed in mobile devices. We propose a multi-scale scheme to quantize the channel gain and provide an improved dynamic transmission scheduling algorithm when offloading the applications to the cloud center, which has been proved to be helpful for reducing the mobile devices energy consumption. We give the energy estimation methods in both mobile execution model and cloud execution model. The numerical results suggest that energy consumed by the mobile devices can be remarkably saved with our proposed multi-scale scheme. Moreover, the results can be used as a guideline for the mobile devices to choose whether executing the application locally or offloading it to the cloud center.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권11A호
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• pp.1101-1112
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• 2006

무선 환경에서의 이동 중 고속의 멀티미디어 서비스 제공에 대한 수요가 증가하면서 (Wireless Broadband internet) 시스템과 같은 MBWA (Mobile Broadband Wireless Access) 기술에 대한 관심이 점차 증가하고 있다. 이러한 WiBro 시스템은 기존의 셀룰라(Cellular) 시스템 기반의 이동 통신망과는 달리 기본적으로 IP 기반의 백본 네트워크로 구성될 것이며 ALL-lP로의 망 진화의 흐름에 따라서 궁극적으로는 IPv6 (IP version six) 기반의 백본 네트워크로 도입될 것이다. 이와 같은 무선 이동 환경에서는 WiBro 시스템의 물리 계층이나 매체 접근 제어 계층에서의 이동성 지원 방안뿐만 아니라 네트워크 계층에서의 이동성 지원 프로토콜 지원이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 IPv6 기반의 WiBro 시스템에서 단말의 서브넷 (Subnet) 간 핸드오버 성능을 향상시키기 위한 고속 핸드오버 방안을 제안하고 모의실험을 통해서 제안한 메카니즘 (Mechanism)이 서브넷 간 핸드오버 시 발생할 수 있는 데이터 유실 문제와 핸드오버 지연 발생 문제 등을 개선할 수 있다는 것을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1984-2002
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• 2020

With the appearance of wireless spectrum crisis in traditional cellular network, device-to-device (D2D) communication has been regarded as a promising solution to ease heavy traffic burden by enabling precise content delivery among mobile users. However, due to the channel sharing, the interference between D2D and cellular users can affect the transmission rate and narrow the throughput in the network. In this paper, we firstly present a weighted interference minimization cluster formation model involving both social attribute and physical closeness. The weighted-interference, which is evaluated under the susceptible-infected(SI) model, is utilized to gather user in social and physical proximity. Then, we address the cluster formation problem via spectrum clustering with iterative operation. Finally, we propose the stable matching theory algorithm in order to maximize rate oriented to accomplish the one-to-one resource allocation. Numerical results show that our proposed scheme acquires quite well clustering effect and increases the accumulative transmission rate compared with the other two advanced schemes.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.224-234
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• 2019

This paper proposes a new spectrum forecasting (SF) model to estimate the spectrum demands for future mobile broadband (MBB) services. The model requires five main input metrics, that is, the current available spectrum, site number growth, mobile data traffic growth, average network utilization, and spectrum efficiency growth. Using the proposed SF model, the future MBB spectrum demand for Malaysia in 2020 is forecasted based on the input market data of four major mobile telecommunication operators represented by A-D, which account for approximately 95% of the local mobile market share. Statistical data to generate the five input metrics were obtained from prominent agencies, such as the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, OpenSignal, Analysys Mason, GSMA, and Huawei. Our forecasting results indicate that by 2020, Malaysia would require approximately 307 MHz of additional spectrum to fulfill the enormous increase in mobile broadband data demands.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2013

Our research brings managerial insights for developing new digital convergence of devices and services. To explain the phenomenon of device and service convergence, we combine two different approaches from separate research fields: a perceptual mapping technique generally used for segmentation in marketing and associative network analysis mobilized to understanding network structure of core and peripheral as well as the information mediating role of nodes in network science. By combining these two approaches, we provide an in-depth analysis of the associations among devices and services by assessing the centrality of device and service nodes in an associative network. This is done by examining the connections between these services and devices as well as investigating the role of mediation in the combined device-service associative network. Our results based on bi-partite network analysis of survey responses from 250 Internet Protocol (IP) television viewers show which device and which service will play the major role in future device and service convergence as well as which characteristics and functionalities have to be incorporated into future convergence. Among the devices, the mobile handset with the betweenness centrality of 0.26 appears to be the device that would lead future device convergence. Among the services, wireless broadband with the betweenness centrality of 0.276 appears to be the service on which future service convergence needs to be developed. This result is quite unexpected, since wireless broadband has a lower penetration rate than other services, such as fixed broadband and cable TV. In addition, we indicate the possibility of converging devices, such as personal digital assistant (PDA) and mobile handset, and services, such as IPTV and mobile Internet, into wireless broadband services in the future.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.151-159
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• 2008

기술의 발전과 유선망에서와 동일한 성능을 요구하는 사용자의 기대치 증대로 인해 광대역 무선 이동망은 중요한 연구 분야로 떠오르고 있다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.16e 기반시스템의 매체 접속제어 계층에서 핸드오버 성능 증가를 위한 기법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 셀 재설정 과정이라 불리는 스캔 시작과정의 문제점을 식별하고 이를 해결하기 위한 수신 신호 강도 기반 동적 스캔 시작 기법을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안 기법은 필요한 스캔 지속 시간을 고려한 수신 신호 강도 예측을 통해 적시에 스캔 과정을 시작하여 불필요한 자원의 낭비와 늦은 핸드오버를 야기시키지 않는다는 것을 보였다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.47-52
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• 2006

In this paper, we suggested new network architecture to provide seamless service between the cellular system and new wireless broadband network such as IEEE 802.16e, called WiBro. The interworking technologies are very important issue because mobile operator should provide service connectivity between various wireless networks based on different access technologies. Moreover a change and modification on legacy network should be minimized for providing interworking with new wireless broad-band network. We implemented proposed interworking architecture between 3G cellular network and 802.16e network to provide seamless service including interworking unit in real test environment. Also, we performed performance evaluation in hybrid network environments.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1832-1853
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• 2018

The personal health record (PHR) system is a promising application that provides precise information and customized services for health care. To flexibly protect sensitive data, attribute-based encryption has been widely applied for PHR access control. However, escrow, exposure and abuse of private keys still hinder its practical application in the PHR system. In this paper, we propose a coordinated ciphertext policy attribute-based access control with user accountability (CCP-ABAC-UA) for the PHR system. Its coordinated mechanism not only effectively prevents the escrow and exposure of private keys but also accurately detects whether key abuse is taking place and identifies the traitor. We claim that CCP-ABAC-UA is a user-side lightweight scheme. Especially for PHR receivers, no bilinear pairing computation is needed to access health records, so the practical mobile PHR system can be realized. By introducing a novel provably secure construction, we prove that it is secure against selectively chosen plaintext attacks. The analysis indicates that CCP-ABAC-UA achieves better performance in terms of security and user-side computational efficiency for a PHR system.