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Virtual Topology Control System for Evaluating Semi-infrastructured Wireless Community Networks (준-인프라 기반 무선 커뮤니티 네트워크 시험을 위한 가상 토폴로지 제어 시스템)

  • Kang, Nam-Hi;Kim, Young-Han
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.275-281
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    • 2012
  • Community network is a communication environment where heterogeneous devices can access and communicate with each other at any time and at any space to share information. To do so, mobile devices are required to be self-configured even in absence of communication infrastructures. Semi-infrastructured wireless ad-hoc network is a promising solution to meet with such a requirement. This paper proposes the VTC(virtual topology coordinator) system as an evaluation tool for examining network protocols that are intended to be deployed in the semi-infrastructured ad-hoc networks. VTC emulates multi-hops wireless network topology virtually using a mechanism of selective receiving MAC frame in a small area, where only a single hop communication is available. VTC system cannot consider all properties introduced in real wireless network, but do more wireless properties than verification through simulation.

A Study on the Relationships Among the Social Capital, Community Spirit, and Resident Satisfaction in Urban-Rural Complex Areas (도농복합지역 주민의 사회자본, 공동체의식 및 주민만족 간의 관계에 관한 연구)

  • Yu, Mi Yung;Jo, Dong Hyuk;Cho, Hee Jun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.333-347
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was intended to examine the importance and role of social capital in the local community, and empirically identify the relationships among the social capital, community spirit, resident satisfaction, and community participation of the residents of urban-rural complex areas. Methods: This study conducted a survey was conducted with residents of the urban-rural complex areas to collect data, and the data were statistically and empirically analyzed to verify the hypothesis. Results: As a result of the study, first, networks and trust as local social capital were found to have positive effects on local attachment. Second, networks and trust were found to have positive effects on social ties. Third, local attachment and social ties were found to have positive effects on resident satisfaction. Finally, community participation was found to have moderating effects on the relationship between social ties and resident satisfaction. Conclusion: Through this study, the importance and role of local social capital in urban-rural complex areas, where regional problems are highly likely to occur, were reviewed, and basic data necessary to solve the social problems at hand in urban-rural complex areas and promote continuous development were provided can be said to be the significance of this study.

Global Trade Networks of Agro-Food and the Status and Prospects in Korea (농식품 무역의 글로벌 네트워크와 한국의 위상)

  • Hyun, Kisoon;Lee, Junyeop
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.121-136
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, using trade data of 57 HS 4 digit based agricultural and food(agro-food) products among 47 countries during 2005 to 2014, the international competitiveness and trade structure have been analyzed from the context of global networks employing the methods of social network analysis. Firstly, the differences in the network structure by agricultural products have been revealed. The number of disconnected groups was significantly lager in order of vegetables, fruits and processed foods. Secondly, the differences in the community structure by agricultural and food products have been also revealed. That is to say, for some commodities, the community structure has been changed dynamically, on the other hand, there are some agricultural products that have not changed its community structure despite the increasing trends of trade volume. Thirdly, even though the international competitiveness of Korea's agricultural products was still very limited in the sense that only 26 items have been included in the top3 network of 57 agricultural products, there has been possibilities of the increasing patterns of the competitiveness.

Development of Modeling to Find the Hub Nodes on Growing Scale-free Network based on Stochastic Community Bridge Node Finder (확장하는 Scale-free 네트워크에서의 허브노드 도출을 위한 Stochastic Community Bridge Node Finder 개발)

  • Eun, Sang-Kyu;Kim, Soo-Jin;Bae, Seung-Jong;Kim, Dae-Sik
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2017
  • The community bridge node finder, based on the stochastic method of network analysis, can compute hubs spot, which would enable the use of network structures with limited information. However, applying this node finder to heterogeneity networks, which are efficient to analyze the main farm complex in fields and the spread of infectious disease, is difficult. These problems, The most connected point that is called hub is often a major role in the heterogeneity network. In this study, we therefore improved the community bridge node finder to enable it to be applied to heterogeneity networks. We attempted to calculate the bridge node quantitatively by using the modularity of cohesion analysis method and the community bridge node finder. Application of the improved method to the HPAI(Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) spread in Korea 2008 produced a quarantine coefficient that was 4 - 37% higher than the quarantine coefficient obtained with the centrality method for the first 14 days after the HPAI outbreak. We concluded that the improved method has the ability to successfully calculate the bridge node in heterogeneity networks based on network structures with scant information, such as those describing the spread of infectious disease in domestic animals. And Our method should be capable to find main farm complex in fields.

Analysis of Utilization and Expenses of Medical Care Services in a Designated Rural Areas (일부 농촌지역주민의 의료이용량 및 진료비분석)

  • Kim, Jin-Soon
    • Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.125-133
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    • 1991
  • The medical insurance system has been adopted in rural areas in 1988. Since then, the utilization of medical care services has increased rapidly in rural areas. According to the various study on medical care utilization, the people in rural areas used more curative care services than urban areas. The purpose of this study was to analyze the utilization and expenses of medical care services in designated rural areas : Choonseong Gun, Kangwon Province ; and Soonchang Gun, Cheonbuk province in Korea. Medical care utilization of medical care beneficiaries showed slightly increase, while there was a decrease of 18% and more for the medicaid. Regarding selection of medical care institutions, medical care beneficiaries used more hospitals and clinics than health center networks, but the health center networks was used more by the medicaid. However, the hospitalized Soonchang health center was able to provide more curative care to the people than the other two health centers. More than 50% of the patients treated by hospitalized health center were residents of the place in which health center was located.

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A Privacy Preserving Authentication Mechanism for Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Islam, Shariful;Hamid, Abdul;Hong, Choong-Seon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2007.10d
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    • pp.556-559
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    • 2007
  • Due to its ease of deployment, low cost, self-configuring and self-healing capabilities, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged as a key technology to be used in a wide scale applications in personal, local, campus, and metropolitan areas. Security and more specifically privacy is an important issue in this type of multi-hop WMN which has given a little attention in the research community. We focus on privacy compromise of a mesh client in a community mesh network that may lead an attacker to reveal mesh clients identity. his other profiles and gain information about mobility. In this paper. we have presented an authentication mechanism with the aid of blind signature that ensures a mesh client to anonymously authenticate itself with a nearby mesh router and thereby preserve identity privacy We have also presented the security and performance analysis of the proposed scheme.

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Enhanced MPR Selection Strategy for Multicast OLSR

  • Matter, Safaa S.;Al Shaikhli, Imad F.;Hashim, Aisha H.A.;Ahmed, Abdelmoty M.;Khattab, Mahmoud M.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2022
  • Wireless community networks (WCNs) are considered another form of ownership of internet protocol (IP) networks, where community members manage and own every piece of equipment in a decentralized way, and routing for traffic is done in a cooperative manner. However, the current routing protocols for WCNs suffer from stability and scalability issues. In this paper, an enhanced routing protocol is proposed based on the optimized link state routing (OLSR) protocol to meet the standards of efficiency in terms of stability and scalability. The proposed routing protocol is enhanced through two phases: multicasting expansion and multipoint relay (MPR) selection based on an analytical hierarchical process (AHP). The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed routing protocol outperforms the OLSR protocol in terms of network control overhead and packet delivery ratio by 18% and 1% respectively.

Hybrid FPMS: A New Fairness Protocol Management Scheme for Community Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Widanapathirana, Chathuranga H.;Sekercioglu, Y. Ahmet;Goi, Bok-Min
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.5 no.11
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    • pp.1909-1928
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    • 2011
  • Node cooperation during packet forwarding operations is critically important for fair resource utilization in Community Wireless Mesh Networks (CoWMNs). In a CoWMN, node cooperation is achieved by using fairness protocols specifically designed to detect and isolate malicious nodes, discourage unfair behavior, and encourage node participation in forwarding packets. In general, these protocols can be split into two groups: Incentive-based ones, which are managed centrally, and use credit allocation schemes. In contrast, reputation-based protocols that are decentralized, and rely on information exchange among neighboring nodes. Centrally managed protocols inevitably suffer from scalability problems. The decentralized, reputation-based protocols lacks in detection capability, suffer from false detections and error propagation compared to the centralized, incentive-based protocols. In this study, we present a new fairness protocol management scheme, called Hybrid FPMS that captures the superior detection capability of incentive-based fairness protocols without the scalability problems inherently expected from a centralized management scheme as a network's size and density grows. Simulation results show that Hybrid FPMS is more efficient than the current centralized approach and significantly reduces the network delays and overhead.

Exploratory Research about Maeul Community Media Practice Grounded Theory Based Analysis about Seoul Community Media Practice (마을미디어 실천에 대한 탐색적 연구 서울마을미디어 활동에 대한 근거이론을 통한 분석)

  • Lee, Hee Rang;Kim, Hee Young
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.81
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    • pp.75-121
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    • 2017
  • Maeul Community Media is community media practice that media education combine with community activism based on the region. Maeul Community Media appeared with Seoul city's supporting policy in 2012 and is now enlarging on a national scale beyond Seoul. This study is aimed at understanding and investigating Maeul Community Media activists' practice process by using a grouned theory approach. In-depth interviews were carried out of study participants who worked on as activists based on visual and radio field since 2012. By open coding based on grounded theory, 16 categories and 59 subcategories were discovered. The outcome of axial coding showed the centeral phenomena that can be called 'sustainable desire for Maeul Community Media act'. On the condition of the instability of public support and the absence of a village channel, the strategic practices were discovered, which are diversification of participants recruitment and modes of participation, invention of space-media, seeking multilateral distribution methodologies and the collective action plans of networks to stabilize the management and to empower Maeul Community Media networks. As a result, Maeul Community Media and civil society were networked by discovering and agenda-setting pending issues. And we could find that the desire and expectation for the role as a village's public sphere were enlarging.

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