• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.513-522
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• 2016

We propose a mechanism for monitoring load in quality of service (QoS)-enabled wireless networks and show how it can be used for network management as well as for dynamic pricing. Mobile network traffic, especially video, has grown exponentially over the last few years and it is anticipated that this trend will continue into the future. Driving factors include the availability of new affordable, smart devices, such as smart-phones and tablets, together with the expectation of high quality user experience for video as one would obtain at home. Although new technologies such as long term evolution (LTE) are expected to help satisfy this demand, the fact is that several other mechanisms will be needed to manage overload and congestion in the network. Therefore, the efficient management of the expected huge data traffic demands is critical if operators are to maintain acceptable service quality while making a profit. In the current work, we address this issue by first investigating how the network load can be accurately monitored and then we show how this load metric can then be used to provide creative pricing plans. In addition, we describe its applications to features like traffic offloading and user satisfaction tracking.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 소형셀 환경에서 사용자의 context를 반영한 local caching 알고리즘을 제안한다. 소형셀 내부에 캐시를 이용하면 코어망으로 전달되는 트래픽을 감소시킬 뿐만 아니라 네트워크 비용을 절감시키고 통신의 성능을 증가시킬 수 있다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 소형셀 특성을 활용해 각 소형셀 사용자에 맞는 적절한 데이터를 캐시에 저장한다. 이를 통해 제한된 캐시저장 공간을 효율적으로 사용하고 고전적인 웹 캐시 방식에 비해 캐시 적중률을 높였다. 성능분석을 위해 코어망 트래픽 감소량을 나타내는 cache efficiency를 정의하고 제안한 알고리즘의 성능을 검증한 결과 기존 웹 캐시 방식에 비해 200%의 성능향상이 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3916-3936
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• 2014

Smartphone applications like games, image processing, e-commerce and social networking are gaining exponential growth, with the ubiquity of cellular services. This demands increased computational power and storage from mobile devices with a sufficiently high bandwidth for mobile internet service. But mobile nodes are highly constrained in the processing and storage, along with the battery power, which further restrains their dependability. Adopting the unlimited storage and computing power offered by cloud servers, it is possible to overcome and turn these issues into a favorable opportunity for the growth of mobile cloud computing. As the mobile internet data traffic is predicted to grow at the rate of around 65 percent yearly, even advanced services like 3G and 4G for mobile communication will fail to accommodate such exponential growth of data. On the other hand, developers extend popular applications with high end graphics leading to smart phones, manufactured with multicore processors and graphics processing units making them unaffordable. Therefore, to address the need of resource constrained mobile nodes and bandwidth constrained cellular networks, the computations can be migrated to resourceful servers connected to cloud. The server now acts as a bridge that should enable the participating mobile nodes to offload their computations through Wi-Fi directly to the virtualized server. Our proposed model enables an on-demand service offloading with a decision support system that identifies the capabilities of the client's hardware and software resources in judging the requirements for offloading. Further, the node's location, context and security capabilities are estimated to facilitate adaptive migration.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2012

Next generation cellular applications and smart phone usage generate very heavy wireless data traffic. It becomes ineluctable for mobile network operators to have multiple core network entities such as Serving Gateway and Packet Data Network Gateway in 4G-LTE to share this high traffic generated. A typical configuration consists of multiple serving gateways behind a load-balancer which would determine which serving gateway would service a end-users'request. Such hardware is expensive, has a rigid policy set, and is a single point of failure. Another perspective of today's increasingly high data traffic is that besides it is being widely accepted that the high bandwidth L TE provides is creating bottlenecks for service providers by the increasing user bandwidth demands without creating any corresponding revenue improvements, a hidden problem that is also passively advancing on the newly emerging 4G-LTE that may need more immediate attention is the network signaling traffic, also known as the control-plane traffic that is generated by the applications developed for smartphones and tablets. With this as starting point, in this paper, we propose a solution, by a new approach considering OpenFlow switch connected to a controller, which gains flexibility in policy, costs less, and has the potential to be more robust to failure with future generations of switches. This also solves the problem of scaling the control-plane traffic that is imperative to preserve revenue and ensure customer satisfaction. Thus, with the proposed architecture with OpenFlow, mobile network operators could manipulate the traffic generated by the control-plane signaling separated from the data-plane, besides also reducing the cost in installing multiple core-network entities.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38C권3호
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• pp.327-333
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 멀티 네트워크 인터페이스를 지원하는 해양 통신망의 information server에서 QoS 정보를 수집 및 저장하고 근해 영역을 운항하는 선박이 항구로 입항하는 상황에서 선박 내의 이동 단말이 핸드오버를 수행할 때 predictive QoS 파라미터 정보를 이용하여 트래픽 경로 선택 기법을 제안하였다. 네트워크 상태와 응용서비스 대역폭 조건에 따라 기존 방안과 제안한 방안의 수신 패킷 량을 비교하고 end-to-end 지연시간에 대한 관점에서 성능을 측정하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.556-560
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• 2013

고성능 스마트폰이 본격 보급되면서 폭발적으로 증가하고 있는 데이터 트래픽을 효과적으로 수용하기 위한 해법들에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 이동통신용으로 활용할 수 있는 주파수에 제한이 있기 때문에, 최근에는 동일주파수를 사용하면서 추가적으로 용량을 확보할 수 있는 펨토셀에 대한 연구 및 개발이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 매크로 신호가 존재하는 환경에서 데이터 오프로딩을 위하여 펨토셀을 구축할 경우를 가정하여, 펨토셀의 커버리지를 수학적으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 펨토셀의 출력이 증가할수록 그리고 파일럿 채널에 할당하는 전력의 비율이 높아질수록 펨토셀의 커버리지가 증가하지만, 매크로 기지국 신호가 강한 트래픽 밀집 지역에서는 펨토셀의 커버리지가 매우 제한적임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.603-606
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• 2013

스마트 폰, 태블릿 PC와 같은 이동이동단말기와 다양한 무선통신 기술의 발전으로 차세대 이동통신망은 다양한 액세스 네트워크들이 공존한다. 다양한 네트워크에서의 서비스 연속성 및 네트워크 상황에 따른 서비스 품질 저하, 그리고 EPC 망의 트래픽 과부하 현상은 여전히 문제로 남아있다. 본 논문에서는 EPC 망에서 과부화 되는 트래픽을 클라우드 서버로 분산하여 선택하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방안을 통해 효율적인 네트워크 활용 방안과 최상의 핸드오버 방안을 제공할 수 있으며 사용자에게는 네트워크 상황에 따른 최적의 서비스를 제공할 수 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.75-90
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• 2012

Thin client computing trades local processing for network bandwidth consumption by offloading application logic to remote servers. User input and display updates are exchanged between client and server through a thin client protocol. On wireless devices, the thin client protocol traffic can lead to a significantly higher power consumption of the radio interface. In this article, a cross-layer framework is presented that transitions the wireless network interface card (WNIC) to the energy-conserving sleep mode when no traffic from the server is expected. The approach is validated for different wireless channel conditions, such as path loss and available bandwidth, as well as for different network roundtrip time values. Using this cross-layer algorithm for sample scenario with a remote text editor, and through experiments based on actual user traces, a reduction of the WNIC energy consumption of up to 36.82% is obtained, without degrading the application's reactivity.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.900-908
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• 2012

최근 스마트폰의 등장에 따른 무선 트래픽 증가에 효율적으로 대처하기 위해서는 능동적인 주파수 정책이 필요하다. 이에 이동통신 주파수 소요량 예측과 함께 미래에 요구되는 무선 LAN 주파수 소요량을 예측할 필요가 있다. 미래에 요구되는 무선 LAN의 주파수 소요량은 미래의 무선 LAN 트래픽을 예측하고, 이를 무선 LAN의 시스템 효율로 나눔으로써 계산된다. 본 논문에서는 기존에 전통적인 무선 LAN 트래픽 예측법과 함께 이동통신으로부터 offloading하는 스마트폰 트래픽을 고려한 새로운 무선 LAN 트래픽 예측법을 제안하였다. 또한, AP의 증가에 따른 주파수 간섭 효과를 통계적으로 모델링하여 무선 LAN의 시스템 효율 계산 시 적용함으로써 실제 환경에 근접한 무선 LAN 주파수 소요량을 예측할 수 있도록 하였다. 예측된 주파수 소요량을 바탕으로 미래의 무선 LAN 활성화에 대비하여 AP간 간섭을 최소화할 수 있는 정책 방향을 제안하였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.310-328
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• 2022

Internet of things (IoT) has emerged as the most popular technique that facilitates enhancing humans' quality of life. However, most time sensitive IoT applications require quick response time. So, processing these IoT applications in cloud servers may not be effective. Therefore, fog computing has emerged as a promising solution that addresses the problem of managing large data bandwidth requirements of devices and quick response time. This technology has resulted in processing a large amount of data near the data source compared to the cloud. However, efficient management of computing resources involving balancing workload, allocating resources, provisioning resources, and scheduling tasks is one primary consideration for effective computing-based solutions, specifically for time-sensitive applications. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the source management strategies considering resource limitations, heterogeneity, unpredicted traffic in the fog computing environment. It presents recent developments in the resource management field of the fog computing environment. It also presents significant management issues such as resource allocation, resource provisioning, resource scheduling, task offloading, etc. Related studies are compared indifferent mentions to provide promising directions of future research by fellow researchers in the field.