• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.227-237
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• 2019

Ultra-low latency control is one of the characteristics of 5G cellular network services, which means that the control loop is handled in milliseconds. To achieve this, it is necessary to identify time delay factors that occur in all components related to CPS control loop, including new 5G cellular network elements such as MEC, and to optimize CPS control loop in real time. In this paper, a novel CPS architecture for ultra-low latency control of CPS is designed. We first define the ultra-low latency characteristics of CPS and the CPS concept model, and then propose the design of the control loop performance monitor (CLPM) to manage the timing information of CPS control loop. Finally, a case study of MEC-based implementation of ultra-low latency CPS reviews the feasibility of future applications.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.721-733
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• 2020

Recently, there is an increasing demand for ultra-low-latency (ULL) services such as factory automation, autonomous driving, and telesurgery that must meet an end-to-end latency of less than 10 ms. Fifth-generation (5G) New Radio guarantees 0.5 ms one-way latency, so the feasibility of ULL services is higher than in previous mobile communications. However, this feasibility ensures performance at the radio access network level and requires an innovative 5G network architecture for end-to-end ULL across the entire 5G system. Hence, we survey in detailed two the 3rd Generation Partnership Party (3GPP) standardization activities to ensure low latency at network level. 3GPP standardizes mobile edge computing (MEC), a low-latency solution at the edge network, in Release 15/16 and is standardizing time-sensitive communication in Release 16/17 for interworking 5G systems and IEEE 802.1 time-sensitive networking (TSN), a next-generation industry technology for ensuring low/deterministic latency. We developed a 5G system based on 3GPP Release 15 to support MEC with a potential sub-10 ms end-to-end latency in the edge network. In the near future, to provide ULL services in the external network of a 5G system, we suggest a 5G-IEEE TSN interworking system based on 3GPP Release 16/17 that meets an end-to-end latency of 2 ms.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.43-56
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• 2020

The 5G system standardization body has been developing standard functions to provide ultra-high speed, ultra-high reliability, ultra-low latency, and ultra-connected services. In 3GPP Rel-16, which was recently completed, this system has begun to develop ultra-high reliability and ultra-low latency communication functions to support the vertical industry. It is expected that the trend in the adoption of mobile communication by the vertical industry will continue with the introduction of 5G. In this paper, we present the industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) service scenarios and requirements for the adoption of 5G systems by the vertical industry and the related standardization trend at present. In particular, we introduce the 5G time-sensitive networking standard technology, a core technology for realizing 5G-based smart factories, for IIoT services.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.13-24
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• 2021

Industrial networks has been developing various technologies from fieldbus technology to industrial Ethernet and time-sensitive networking. The industry expects that the 5G mobile network will solve the diverse and highly specific industrial site requirements. Accordingly, 3GPP has been developing standard functions to provide ultra-high reliability, ultra-high speed, ultra-connection, and ultra-low latency services, and 3GPP Rel-16 began developing ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability communication functions for 5G mobile networks to support vertical industries. In this paper, we show the related standardization trends and requirements to apply industrial IoT service scenarios to 5G mobile networks, and in particular, we introduce 5G system features and extended 5G system architecture to provide time sensitive communication and time synchronization services.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2019

최근 상용화된 5G 이동통신의 주요한 특징은 High Data Rate와 Connection Density 그리고 Low Latency로 대표할 수 있는데, 이중 기존 4G와 가장 차별되는 특징은 Low Latency로 다양한 새로운 서비스 제공의 기반이 될 것이다. 이러한 특징을 활용한 서비스로는 AR, 자율주행 등이 검토되고 있으며 관련표준에서도 5G Network Latency 논의를 진행하고 있다. 그러나 서비스 관점의 E2E Latency 논의는 많이 부족한 것이 사실이다. 5G에서 Low Latency를 달성을 위한 최종목표는 RTD 기준 Air Interface 1ms 달성으로 이는 '20년 초 Rel-16을 통한 URLLC(Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communications)를 통해 가능하며, 추가적으로 MEC(Moble Edge Computing)를 통한 Network latency 감소도 연구 중이다. 전체 5G E2E Latency는 5G Network 관련 외에도 다양한 요인이 존재하는데, 주요 요인으로는 5G Network과 서비스 제공을 위한 IDC Server 사이의 경로에 놓인 선로/장비 Latency, 단말 App과 Server 내 서비스 처리를 위한 Processing Latency 등이 존재한다. 한편, 서비스 초기 Setup을 위한 Latency와 서비스가 지속 중인 경우의 Latency를 구분하여 세부 서비스 요구사항에 대하여 연구하는것도 필요한데, 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 서비스 초기 Setup과 관련하여 다음과 같은 세가지 요인에 대하여 검토를 진행하였다. 첫째로 (1) Data호 Setup시에 발생 가능한 Latency, 둘째 전력 효율화를 위한 (2) CRDX On/Off에 따른 영향, 마지막으로 (3) H/O가 발생되는 경우에 Latency에 대하여 Latency에 미치는 영향을 실험과 분석을 제시했다. 이를 통해 우리는 Low Latency가 필요한 서비스의 초기 Setup시에 Latency와 관련된 서비스 요구사항 및 기획에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.57-68
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• 2020

This paper reviews the recent trends in optical access technologies and their future directions. As the number of hyper-connected, ultra-low-latency, and hyper-realistic services increases, the wireless path has become shorter and the optical access network has become deeply penetrated into the end user. The optical access network continues to evolve through endless innovation via high-speed, ultra-low-latency, and abstraction/virtualization technologies.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.74-84
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• 2017

In wireless access networks, it is extremely important to provide high quality of real time and interactive services, including voice and video traffic. Furthermore, low latency communication is shifting toward new paradigm which enhances user's high quality of experience, meeting the requirements for specific applications such as tactile internet, remote-control robot and machines, and mission critical application. In this paper, we introduce the approaches to achieve the extremely low latency service. The approaches include the core requirements and the key technologies providing low latency communication maintaining high reliability in wireless access networks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.3309-3328
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• 2017

The application of Internet of Things (IoT) in the next generation cellular networks imposes a new characteristic on the data traffic, where a massive number of small packets need to be transmitted. In addition, some emerging IoT-based emergency services require a real-time data delivery within a few milliseconds, referring to as ultra-low latency transmission. However, current techniques cannot provide such a low latency in combination with a mice-flow traffic. In this paper, we propose a dynamic resource reservation schema based on an air-interface slicing scheme in the context of a massive number of sensors with emergency flows. The proposed schema can achieve an air-interface latency of a few milliseconds by means of allowing emergency flows to be transported through a dedicated radio connection with guaranteed network resources. In order to schedule the delay-sensitive flows immediately, dynamic resource updating, silence-probability based collision avoidance, and window-based re-transmission are introduced to combine with the frame-slotted Aloha protocol. To evaluate performance of the proposed schema, a probabilistic model is provided to derive the analytical results, which are compared with the numerical results from Monte-Carlo simulations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5174-5190
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• 2016

Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth of mobile devices, mobile cloud computing services offered by these devices and the remote clouds behind them. In this paper, we noticed ultra-low latency service, as a type of mobile cloud computing service, requires extremely short delay constraints. Hence, such delay-sensitive applications should be satisfied with strong QoS guarantee. Existing solutions regarding this problem have poor performance in terms of throughput. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end bandwidth resource reservation via software defined scheduling inspired by the famous SDN framework. The main contribution of this paper is the end-to-end resource reservation and flow scheduling algorithm, which always gives priority to delay sensitive flows. Simulation results confirm the advantage of the proposed solution, which improves the average throughput of ultra-low latency flows.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.77-87
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• 2017

현재 사용되고 있는 LTE/LTE-A 이동통신망의 성능은 일반적인 무선 통신 서비스를 제공하는데 충분히 높은 대역폭과 낮은 지연시간을 제공하고 있지만, 차세대 이동통신망의 주요 서비스가 될 가상현실, 원격 제어 등의 초저지연 서비스를 지원하기 위해서는 수 ms 수준의 낮은 지연시간이 필요하다. 그러나 LTE/LTE-A 시스템에서의 상향링크 전송은 단말이 전송에 필요한 무선자원을 획득하기 위해 기지국으로부터 자원을 할당받는 스케줄링 승인 과정이 선행되어야 한다. 이 과정은 고정적인 지연시간을 가져오고, 상향링크 전송에서 낮은 지연시간을 달성하는데 걸림돌이 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 스케줄링 승인 과정으로 인해 발생하는 지연시간을 줄이기 위해 새로운 상향링크 전송 방법인 Cut-in 상향링크 전송방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 상향링크 전송방법의 검증을 위해 모의실험을 수행하였으며, 이 결과를 통하여 제안하는 상향링크 전송방법이 기존 LTE/LTE-A 상향링크 전송 방법보다 낮은 지연시간을 발생시킴을 보인다.