• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.101-112
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• 2022

In this paper, we analyze 5G network slicing and propose an efficient network slice configuration method in 5G mobile networks. Network slicing can be identified and performed based on the network slice instance information in 5G mobile networks. In case of discordance between the UE's network slice instance information and the network's one, the unnecessary signalling overhead occurs, when the UE's PDU Session Establishment request to the network fails. To solve this problem, this paper proposes two efficient network slice configuration methods, the UE-based ENSC(Efficient Network Slice Configuration) method and the Network-based ENSC method. The proposed schemes perform the prompt the configuration and provision of the updated network slice instance information between the UE and network and improve battery and resource efficiency and minimize unnecessary signalling overhead compared to existing methods in 5G mobile networks.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.98-99
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• 2016

네트워크 슬라이싱 기술은 5G 네트워크에서의 필수 기술 중 하나이다. 네트워크 망에서는 네트워크 슬라이싱을 통해 서로 다른 요구사항이 존재하는 다수의 서비스를 유연하게 처리 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 전망되는 5G 네트워크 구조와 기반 기술에 대해 소개하고, 네트워크 슬라이싱 적용하기 위한 이슈를 정리한다. 끝으로 네트워크 슬라이스 선택 기능 설계 시 고려사항을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.549-550
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• 2020

최근 등장한 자율주행, 스마트팩토리 및 IoT 등 다양한 기술은 기존 4G 네트워크를 활용하기에 부적합한 사항이 많았다. 따라서 5G 네트워크가 등장하였으며 네트워크 슬라이싱 기술을 통해 다양한 서비스에 각각의 네트워크 환경을 구성하여 제공하였다. 그러나 같은 네트워크 환경인 슬라이스 내에서도 특징이 다른 트래픽이 발생할 수 있으며 서비스의 종류로 고정된 슬라이스의 네트워크 환경은 트래픽 처리시간 증가 및 응답시간 증가를 유발할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 트래픽의 특성을 고려하여 클러스터링을 시행하여 자동으로 네트워크 슬라이스를 관리하는 시스템을 제안한다.

• KNOM Review
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.35-45
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• 2018

As Network Slicing functionality gets applied to mobile networking, a mechanism that enables the selection of network slices becomes indispensable. Following the 3GPP Technical Specification for the 5G Architecture, the inclusion of the Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF) in order to leverage the process of slice selection is apparent. However, actual implementation of this network function needs to deal with the dynamic changes of network instances, due to this, a platform that supports the orchestration of Virtual Network Functions (VNF) is required. Our proposed solution include the use of the Central Office Rearchitected as a Data Center (CORD) platform, with the specified profile for mobile networks (M-CORD) that integrates a service orchestrator (XOS) alongside solutions oriented to Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (VNF) and virtual machine management through OpenStack, in order to provide the right ecosystem where our implementation of NSSF can obtain slice information dynamically by relying on synchronization between back-end services and network function instances.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.553-554
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 미래인터넷의 핵심 자원 중 하나인, 네트워크 가상화 지원 프로그래머블 플랫폼 또는 라우터의 제어프레임워크 구조를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 제어프레임워크는 네트워크 프로세서 기반의 프로그래머블 플랫폼 상에서 사용자의 요청에 따라 실시간으로 네트워크 프로세서에 동적으로 슬리버를 생성하고, 생성된 슬리버를 슬라이스로 확장할 수 있는 기능을 제공할 수 있다. 이를 통해 생성된 슬라이스 위에서 사용자의 요구사항 별 다양한 미래인터넷 서비스를 동시에 서로 간섭 없이 실행할 수 있다.

• KNOM Review
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.29-41
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• 2020

Networks are growing faster than ever before causing a multi-domain complexity. The diversity, variety and dynamic nature of network traffic and services require enhanced orchestration and management approaches. While many standard orchestrators and network operators are resulting in an increase of complexity for handling E2E slice orchestration. Besides, there are multiple domains involved in E2E slice orchestration including access, edge, transport and core network each having their specific challenges. Hence, handling of multi-domain, multi-platform and multi-operator based networking environments manually requires specified experts and using this approach it is impossible to handle the dynamic changes in the network at runtime. Also, the manual approaches towards handling such complexity is always error-prone and tedious. Hence, this work proposes an automated and abstracted solution for handling E2E slice orchestration using an intent-based approach. It abstracts the domains from the operators and enable them to provide their orchestration intention in the form of high-level intents. Besides, it actively monitors the orchestrated resources and based on current monitoring stats using the machine learning it predicts future utilization of resources for updating the system states. Resulting in a closed-loop automated E2E network orchestration and management system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.8
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• pp.42-50
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• 2011

Recently, research activities on the future internet are being actively performed in foreign and domestic. In domestic, ETRI and 4 universities are focused on implementation of a testbed for research on the future internet named as 'FiRST(Future Internet Research for Sustainable Testbed)'. In the 'FiRST' project, 4 universities are performing a project in collaboration named as 'FiRST@PC' project that is for an implementation of the testbed using the programmable platform-based openflow switches. Currently, the research on the virtualization of the testbed is being performed that has a purpose for supporting an isolated network to individual researcher. In this paper, we implemented a traffic scheduler for providing QoS by using the programmable platform that performs a hardware-based packet processing and we are implemented a testbed using that traffic scheduler. We perform a performance evaluation of the traffic scheduler on the testbed. As a result, we show that the hardware-based NetFPGA scheduler can provide reliable and stable QoS to virtualized networks of the Future Internet Testbed.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.484-495
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• 2017

The development of display devices and the increase of network transmission bandwidth bring demands for over 2K high resolution video such as panorama video, 4K ultra-high definition commercial broadcasting, and ultra-wide viewing video. To compress these image sequences with significant amount of data, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard with the highest coding efficiency is a promising solution. HEVC, the latest video coding standard, provides high encoding efficiency using various advanced encoding tools, but it also requires significant amounts of computation complexity compared to previous coding standards. In particular, the complexity of HEVC decoding process is a imposing challenges on real-time playback of ultra-high resolution video. To accelerate the HEVC decoding process for ultra high resolution video, this paper introduces a data-level parallel video decoding method using slice and/or tile supported by HEVC. Moreover, deblocking filter process is further parallelized. The proposed method distributes independent decoding operations of each tile and/or each slice to multiple threads as well as deblocking filter operations. The experimental results show that the proposed method facilitates executions up to 2.0 times faster than the HEVC reference software for 4K videos.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.6
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• pp.87-95
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• 1999

We propose a simulation model of 3-dimensional MPEG data over Asynchronous transfer Mode(ATM) networks. The model is based on a slice level and is named to Projected Vector Autoregressive(PVAR) model. The PVAR model is modeled using the Autoregressive(AR) model in order to meet the autocorrelation condition and fit the histogram, and maps real data by a projection function. For the projection function, we use the Cumulative Distribution Probability Function (CDPF), and the procedure is performed at each slice level. Our proposed model shows good performance in meeting the autocorrelation condition and fitting the histogram, and is found important in analyzing the performance of networks. In addiotion, we apply a smoothing method by which a periodic mean value. In general. the Quality of Service(QoS) depends on the Cell Loss Rate(CLR), which is related to the cell loss and a maximum delay in a buffer. Hence the proposed smoothing method can be used to improve the QoS.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.05a
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• pp.56-59
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• 2020

최근 초저지연, 초고속, 초연결 네트워크를 요구하는 기술들이 급속하게 발전하고 있다. 기존 4G 네트워크는 위 요구사항을 만족할 수 없었기 때문에 5G 네트워크가 등장했다. 5G 네트워크는 네트워크 가상화 기반 네트워크 슬라이싱을 통해 각각의 서비스 마다 독립적인 네트워크 환경을 제공한다. 그러나 네트워크에 참여하는 서비스가 다양해질수록 트래픽 부하가 폭발적으로 증가할 것으로 예상되며 트래픽 부하에 따른 병목현상이 발생할 가능성이 여전히 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 인공 신경망 알고리즘 RNN을 활용하여 트래픽을 예측하고 예측 결과를 기반으로 네트워크 슬라이스의 자원을 선제적으로 조절하는 기계학습 기반 네트워크 슬라이싱 자원 예약 기법을 제안한다.