• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.771-789
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• 2018

In heterogeneous wireless networks supporting multi-access services, selecting the best network from among the possible heterogeneous connections and providing seamless service during handover for a higher Quality of Services (QoSs) is a big challenge. Thus, we need an intelligent vertical handover (VHO) decision using suitable network parameters. In the conventional VHOs, various network parameters (i.e., signal strength, bandwidth, dropping probability, monetary cost of service, and power consumption) have been used to measure network status and select the preferred network. Because of various parameter features defined in each wireless/mobile network, the parameter conversion between different networks is required for a handover decision. Therefore, the handover process is highly complex and the selection of parameters is always an issue. In this paper, we present how to maximize network utilization as more than one target network exists during VHO. Also, we show how network parameters can be imbedded into IEEE 802.21-based signaling procedures to provide seamless connectivity during a handover. The network simulation showed that QoS-effective target network selection could be achieved by choosing the suitable parameters from Layers 1 and 2 in each candidate network.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.245-257
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• 2004

Driven by the growing number of the mobile subscribers, efficient channel resource management plays a key role for provisioning multimedia service in the next generation personal communication systems. To reuse limited channel resources, diminishing the coverage areas of cells seems to be the ultimate solution. Thus, however, causes more handover events. To provide seamless connection environment for mobile terminals and applications, this article presents a novel handover scheme called the intelligent channel reservation (ICR) scheme, which exploits the location prediction technologies to accurately reserve channel resources for handover connections. Considering the fact that each mobile terminal has its individual mobility characteristic, the ICR scheme utilizes a channel reserving notification procedure (CRNP) to collect adequate parameters for predicting the future location of individual mobile terminals. These parameters will be utilized by the handover prediction function to estimate the expected handover blocking rate and the expected number of idle channels. Based on the handover prediction estimations, a cost function for calculating the damages from blocking the handover connections and idling channel resources, and a corresponding algorithm for minimizing the cost function are proposed. In addition, a guard channel decision maker (GCDM) determines the appropriate number of guard channels. The experimental results show that the ICR scheme does reduce the handover-blocking rate while keeping the number of idle channels small.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권7B호
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• pp.1009-1017
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• 2010

Offering of different attractive opportunities by different wireless technologies trends the convergence of heterogeneous networks for the future wireless communication system. To make a seamless handover among the heterogeneous networks, the optimization of the power consumption, and optimal selection of interface are the challenging issues. The access of multi interfaces simultaneously reduces the handover latency and data loss in heterogeneous handover. The mobile node (MN) maintains one interface connection while other interface is used for handover process. However, it causes much battery power consumption. In this paper we propose an efficient interface selection scheme including interface selection algorithms, interface selection procedures considering battery power consumption and user mobility with other existing parameters for overlaying networks. We also propose a priority based network selection scheme according to the service types. MN‘s battery power level, provision of QoS/QoE and our proposed priority parameters are considered as more important parameters for our interface selection algorithm. The performances of the proposed scheme are verified using numerical analysis.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.266-284
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• 2009

The challenges of rapidly growing numbers of mobile nodes in IPv6-based networks are being faced by mobile computing researchers worldwide. Recently, IETF has standardized Mobile IPv6 and Fast Handover for Mobile IPv6(FMIPv6) for supporting IPv6 mobility. Even though existing literatures have asserted that FMIPv6 generally improves MIPv6 in terms of handover speed, they did not carefully consider the details of the whole handover procedures. Therefore, in conventional protocols, the handover process reveals numerous problems manifested by a time-consuming network layer based movement detection and latency in configuring a new care of address with confirmation. In this article, we study the impact of the address configuration and confirmation procedure on the IP handover latency. To mitigate such effects, we propose a new scheme which can reduce the latency taken by the movement detection, address configuration and confirmation from the whole handover latency. Furthermore, a mathematical analysis is provided to show the benefits of our scheme. In the analysis, various parameters are used to compare our scheme with the current procedures, while our approach is focused on the reduction of handover latency. Finally, we demonstrate total handover scenarios for the proposed techniques and discussed the major factors which contribute to the handover latency.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.578-587
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• 2012

One of the key elements in the emerging, packet-based long term evolution (LTE) cellular systems is the deployment of multiple femtocells for the improvement of coverage and data rate. However, arbitrary overlaps in the coverage of these femtocells make the handover operation more complex and challenging. As the existing handover strategy of LTE systems considers only carrier to interference plus noise ratio (CINR), it often suffers from resource constraints in the target femtocell, thereby leading to handover failure. In this paper, we propose a new efficient, multi-objective handover solution for LTE cellular systems. The proposed solution considers multiple parameters like signal strength and available bandwidth in the selection of the optimal target cell. This results in a significant increase in the handover success rate, thereby reducing the blocking of handover and new sessions. The overall handover process is modeled and analyzed by a three-dimensional Markov chain. The analytical results for the major performance metrics closely resemble the simulation results. The simulation results show that the proposed multi-objective handover offers considerable improvement in the session blocking rates, session queuing delay, handover latency, and goodput during handover.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.824-834
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• 1993

주파수 이용 효율을 극대화하기 위한 셀룰러 이동 통신 시스템에서는 셀의 반경이 작아지면 이동국이 한 셀내에 잔류하는 시간이 짧아지고, 많은 핸드오버가 발생할 수 있게 된다. 또한 핸드오버 결정에 사용되는 수신 신호 전계 강도와 비트 에러율, 기지국과 이동국과의 거리 등의 파라미터는 부정확하게 측정되고 단일 파라메터에 의해 핸드오버 결정은 불충분하기 때문에, 측정치들을 함께 고려하여 핸드오버 결정을 강인하고 유연하게 할 수 있는 알고리즘을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서는 퍼지 이론을 이용한 다기준(multi-criteria) 의사 결정 문제로 부정확한 다수의 파라미터를 이용하는 핸드오버 알고리즘을 제안하였는데 모의 실험 결과에 따르면 이 알고리즘을 쓸 경우 전체적인 의사 결정이 신뢰성이 있으며 유연하게 되었다. 제안된 알고리즘은 호 중단율, 핸드오버 요청율등의 평가 파라미터를 이용하여 전계 강도만을 이용하는 방법들과 비교되었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.2389-2413
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• 2015

High data rates in long-term evolution (LTE) networks can affect the mobility of networks and their performance. The speed and motion of user equipment (UE) can compromise seamless connectivity. However, a proper handover (HO) decision can maintain quality of service (QoS) and increase system throughput. While this may lead to an increase in complexity and operational costs, self-optimization can enhance network performance by improving resource utilization and user experience and by reducing operational and capital expenditure. In this study, we propose the self-optimization of HO parameters based on fuzzy logic control (FLC) and multiple preparation (MP), which we name FuzAMP. Fuzzy logic control can be used to control self-optimized HO parameters, such as the HO margin and time-to-trigger (TTT) based on multiple criteria, viz HO ping pong (HOPP), HO failure (HOF) and UE speeds. A MP approach is adopted to overcome the hard HO (HHO) drawbacks, such as the large delay and unreliable procedures caused by the break-before-make process. The results of this study show that the proposed method significantly reduces HOF, HOPP, and packet loss ratio (PLR) at various UE speeds compared to the HHO and the enhanced weighted performance HO parameter optimization (EWPHPO) algorithms.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권5A호
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• pp.495-501
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• 2011

Mobile IPv6(MIPv6)은 IETF에서 IP망의 이동성지원을 지원하기 위해 제안되었다. 기존의 MIPv6에서는 이동노드가 핸드오버 메시지 교환에 관여하여 핸드오버 지연이 발생하여 패킷을 손실하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이동노드의 핸드오버 메시지 교환과정을 제거하여 핸드오버 지연성능을 향상시키는 Proxy Mobile IPv6(PMIPv6)을 연구하였고, IETF MIPSHOP WG는 PMIPv6망에서 fast handover(PFMIPv6)를 제안하여 패킷의 손실을 최소화 하고자 하였다. 본 논문에서는 PFMIPv6에서 발생하는 핸드오버 과정 동안의 패킷손실을 줄이기 위해 이중 인터페이스 이동단말에 초점을 두고 패킷 bicasting을 적용하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법의 성능을 수치적으로 분석하고, 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안된 가법이 PFMIPv6에서의 핸드오버보다 패킷 손실과 신호비용의 관점에서 성능이 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 추계종합학술대회 B
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• pp.57-60
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• 2008

오늘날 인터넷과 무선기기가 증가함에 있어 장소에 제한을 받지 않고 이동하면서 인터넷을 사용하려는 사용자들이 증가하고 있다. IETF에서는 Mobile IP를 제안하여 이런 요구를 충족 하고자 하였으며 Mobile IP 사용자의 통신 단절은 핸드오버 프로세스 동안 일어날 수 있다. 핸드오버 과정 동안의 높은 대기시간은 통신의 서비스 질을 저하시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 테스트 베드를 이용하여 이런 Mobile IPv6의 핸드오버 과정과 그 시간동안 지연에 영향을 주는 다양한 파라미터에 관해 연구하였으며 대기시간을 줄일 수 있는 파라미터에 관해 평가 하고자 한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.1961-1965
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• 2008

오늘날 인터넷과 무선기기가 증가함에 있어 장소에 제한을 받지 않고 이동하면서 인터넷을사용하려는 사용자들이 증가하고 있다. IETF에서는 Mobile IP를 제안하여 이런 요구를 충족 하고자 하였으며 Mobile IP 사용자의 통신 단절은 핸드오버 프로세스 동안 일어 날 수 있다. 핸드오버 과정 동안의 높은 대기 시간은 통신의 서비스 질을 저하시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에 서 는 테스트 베드를 이용하여 이런 Mobile IPv6의 핸드오버 과정과 그 시간동안 지연에 영향을 주는 다양한 파라미터에 관해 연구하였으며 대기 시간을 줄일 수 있는 파라미터에 관해 평가 하고자 한다.