• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.17-36
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• 2006

본 고에서는 U-City를 구현할 때 가장 핵심적인 부가 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 서비스의 종류를 소개하고 이 서비스들이 필요로 하는 공통적인 요구사항을 정리한 후 이 서비스 구현에 적용 가능한 근거리 무선 통신 기술로서 최적의 프로토콜인 WiBEEM (Wireless Beacon-enabled Energy Efficient Mesh Network) 기술에 대해 소개하였다. WiBEEM 기술은 정보통신부가 추진한 IT 839 정책 중에서 핵심 인프라기술로 인정받고 있는 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network)을 위한 최적의 아키텍처로, Mesh Network를 구현 시 Bluetooth나 ZigBee 기술이 해결하지 못하는 다양한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 여러 개의 Beacon을 수용하는 새로운 Superframe 구조를 제안하였으며 여러 개의 비컨들이 충돌없이 네트워크 정보를 전송할 수 있는 최적의 Beacon Scheduling 기법을 채택하였다. 또한 WiBEEM 기술은 기기의 이동성을 제공해 주기 위해 LAA (Last Address Assigned) 기법을 이용한 새로운 Short Address 할당 기법을 채택함으로써 16-bit 주소 공간을 낭비 없이 사용할 수 있게 하였으며 이동하는 기기와의 정보 전송을 위해 고속의 Routing 기법을 제공하는 USN 최적의 아키텍처이다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.612-615
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• 2005

메쉬 센서 네트워크 기술은 새로운 컴퓨팅 패러다임인 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 진입 기술로 중요한 의미를 갖는다. 이런 새로운 컴퓨팅 패러다임의 기술이 성공적으로 발전하기 위해서는 기반이 되는 진입기술의 확산이 중요하다. 본문에서는 현재까지 진행된 메쉬 센서 네트워크 기술 동향과 실제로 구현된 응용 서비스들을 분석한다. 그리고 메쉬 센서 네트워크에대한 개년 정립과 실제 구현을 동시에 진행하고 있는 TinyOS 프로젝트에서 공개된 메쉬 센서 네트워크 구조 등, 주요 기술 부분과 응용 서비스 기술을 분석하여 지금까지의 메쉬 센서 네트워크 기술개발 상황과 향후 산업화 가능성을 파악한다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.116-122
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• 2007

System management application system is one of the most interesting fields in Ubiquitous Sensor Networks. It conforms to the property of Ubiquitous Sensor Networks very well, and it is the closest application for commercial use. We have two kinds of system management technology, such as the one which is accessed by web browser at anytime, anywhere and another one which is for local accessed system. In this paper, our purpose is implementation of system management application system which provides Mesh Sensor Networks topology with IP based agent platform and system management server. Furthermore we introduce the functions used for our recent implementation and propose several future issues about system management application system.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.15C no.5
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• pp.375-382
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• 2008

As the use of Internet and information communication technology is being generalized, the SSL protocol is essential in Internet because the important data should be transferred securely. While the SSL protocol is designed to defend from active attack such as message forgery and message alteration, the cipher suite setting can be easily modified. If the attacker draw on a malfunction of the client system and modify the cipher suite setting to the symmetric key algorithm which has short key length, he should eavesdrop and cryptanalysis the encrypt data. In this paper, we examine the domestic web site whether they generate the security session in the symmetric key algorithm which has short key length and propose the solution of the cipher suite setting problem.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.3A
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• pp.230-236
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• 2007

This paper presents a resource management mechanism for the mesh networking in IEEE 802.15.3 High-rate WPAN. IEEE 802.15 TGS is standardizing the MAC and PHY for mese networking. This task group researches the mechanism that are extension of network coverage without increasing transmit power of receive sensitivity, and studies the enhanced reliability via route redundancy. In this paper we propose the distributed resource management scheme that is fairly using the channel resource in the piconet without centralized piconet coordinator. Each DEV reserves the channel time and broadcasts its information. This scheme has unfairness for later associated DEV because of preoccupation of earlier associated DEVs. This paper presents the method that fairly allocates the channel time in MAC layer. And we evaluate the performance enhancement using simple simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.453-456
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• 2007

In this paper, we describes a design of Wireless Mesh Network based middleware that applied into USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Networks). WMN based middleware is a technique which links data between widely distributed sensor devices and WMN for context-awareness. The use of WMN base middleware in this paper makes possible communication on insufficiently network constructed area by use of WMN. WMN based middleware also anaylze events comprehensively that originated from specific sensor device. Based on the result from analyzed data with predetermined value WMN based middleware will given an order to designated actuator devices. Middleware operate each function of sensor network management and application service separately.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.11
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• pp.1011-1019
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• 2012

This paper presents a novel hybrid authentication scheme in the next-generation Tactical Mobile Communication Systems(TMCS) with wireless MSAP mesh networks. The existing centralized and distributed authentication methods for security between MSAPs may have their pros and cons. The centralized authentication method induces overhead from frequent MSAP association which leads to long authentication delay. On the other hand, the distributed authentication method requires initial sharing of the authentication information. Therefore, a more efficient authentication scheme is needed to protect the network from malicious MSAPs and also maximize efficiency of the network security. The proposed scheme provides a hybrid method of efficiently managing the authentication keys in the wireless MSAP mesh network to reduce the induced authentication message exchange overhead. Also, as the authentication method between MSAP and TMFT is different, a method of utilizing the ACR for handling the EAP packets is proposed. In overall, the proposed scheme provides efficient mutual authentication between MSAPs especially for tactical environments and is analyzed through performance evaluation to prove its superiority.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11B
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• pp.1272-1282
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• 2009

This paper consists of two parts: the protocol for tag-to-tag mesh network and the implementation of dual-radio RFID system. Recently, RFID has been adopted in ports or warehouse, being attached to containers and palettes for loading/unloading automation. However, the RFID system has encountered one problem - some tags cannot receive any command from reader intermittently due to signal interference by containers or field equipments (e. g. cranes and yard tractors). This area where reader signal cannot reach is called dead-zone. The proposed method for solving the dead-zone problem is as follows. A zone which can be communicated directly between readers and tags communicates in 433MHz frequency band in compliance with ISO/IEC 18000-7 standard. On the other hand, dead-zone communicates in 2.4GHz frequency band by using tag-to-tag mesh network in compliance with IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The proposed method can not only save much cost to install additional readers but also help resolve the dead-zone problem. Furthermore, it can provide the easier, faster, and more economical network infrastructure.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.12A
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• pp.1152-1159
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• 2010

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) provides Internet accesses to users by forming backbone networks via wireless links. A key problem of WMN is network capacity. For this, multi-channel and multi-rate functions of IEEE 802.11 can be utilized. Depending on channel assignments, multi-channel determines node connectivity and channel diversity. Also, in IEEE 802.11 multi-rate networks, the rate anomaly problem occurs, the phenomenon that low-rate links degrades the performance of high-rate links. In this paper, we propose rate separating multi-channel (RSMC) protocols that improves the node connectivity and channel diversity, and mitigates the rate anomaly problem. RSMC increases the channel diversity by forming tree-based WMNs and decreases the rate anomaly by separating different rate links on the tree via channels. In addition, it uses network connectivity (NC) algorithm to increase the node connectivity. Through simulations, we demonstrate that the RSMC shows improved performance than existing multi-channel protocols in terms of aggregate throughput, node connectivity, channel diversity.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.1B
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• pp.16-23
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• 2009

This paper investigates how many optimal routes can be established in terms of a given wireless mesh routing metric. Although many of routing metrics have been devised to precisely derive the wireless link quality in mesh, most (if not all) metrics have not been evaluated their optimality along with routing protocols. We consider stateof-the-art routing metrics and a widely accepted routing protocol in order to observe the optimality of established routes varying the number of source nodes. Also, we propose a unidirectional routing to deal with possible link asymmetry feature in wireless links. Through comparative simulation evaluations, we show that the portion of optimally established routes becomes less as the network traffic load increases, regardless of employed metrics, network topologies, and routing protocols.