• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.9
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• pp.100-106
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• 2013

AMI enables bi-directional exchange of information between utilities and consumers in order to maximize energy efficiency. To enable the AMI, it is essentially required to construct stable communication networks. This paper shows the AMI system based on IEEE 802.11s as one of the communication methods. Experimental results show that the wireless mesh network technology achieves a stable communication performance over a wide coverage.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.112-120
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• 2009

Both security enhancement in wireless and fast access for mobility are required to employ wireless LAN in ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). However, for the case of employing IEEE 802.11i security standard, it is known that the user authentication procedure of IEEE 802.1x and 4-way handshake procedure for stronger security enforcement may not be suitable for ITS due to its large delay. In this paper, we propose fast authentication method to resolve the above authentication delay problem, and verify its performance via simulation analysis.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.4 s.106
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• pp.156-168
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• 2007

1997년에 IEEE 802.11 WG에서 1~2Mbps급의 전송속도를 가지는 근거리 무선 LAN에 대한 규격을 시작으로, 최근 100Mbps 이상 고속의 데이터 전송속도를 지원하는 규격에 이르기까지 무선 LAN에 대한 기술이 지속적으로 발전되고 있다. 최근 무선통신 분야에서는 다양한 멀티미디어 데이터를 고속으로 전송하는 응용서비스가 증가하고 있으며, 이러한 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 무선 QoS MAC 기술이 IEEE 802.11e에서 표준화되었다. 본 고에서는 무선 LAN 관련 국제 표준화기구인 IEEE 802.11 WG에서 진행되고 있는 표준화 내용 중에서 802.11e에서 표준화한 QoS MAC 기술을 중심으로 MAC 기술 및 관련 표준화 동향에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10e
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• pp.103-105
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• 2002

802.11과 같은 무선 네트워크에서는 전송오류에 의한 패킷손실이 많이 발생한다. 802.11 MAC 프로토콜에서는 에러 복구를 위해 ARQ방식을 통한 재전송을 통하여 에러를 정정하나 채널 에러 율이 증가하면 재전송 방식의 효율은 급격히 저하된다. 또한 재전송을하는데 있어서 다시 RTS와 CTS를 전송하여 데이터를 보낼 수 있는 채널을 확보해야 하므로 상당한 전송부하가 발생한다. 이에 재전송 없이 효율적인 에러 복구를 위해서는 FEC방식이 필요하다. 그러나 정적인 FEC방식은 연속적으로 변화하는 무선 채널의 전송 오류율에알맞은 정정 코드를 채택하지 못해 과도한 대역폭 낭비로 인하여 효율이 떨어지는 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제를 개선하기 위해서는 채널의 상태에 따라 정정 코드를 동적으로 변경하는 것이 필요하다. 본 논문은 FEC방식을 802.11 MAC 프로토콜에 적용할 수 있는 방안에 대해서 기술하고 채널 에러 변화에 따라 능동적으로 정정 코드 양을 조절하여 재 전송하는적응적 FEC 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 적응적 FEC 알고리즘을 802.11 MAC 프로토콜에 적용하여 성능을 측정한 결과 최대 80%정도 성능이 향상된 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2012

Wireless Mesh Network expanded the capability of the conventional wireless networking by allowing the nodes to operate in proactive mode, reactive mode or the combination of both, the hybrid mode in the multi-hopping nature. By doing so, the links between the nodes become much more robust and reliable because of the number of paths to reach a destination node from a source node can be more than 1 and do not need to rely on the access point (AP) alone to relay the messages. As there may be many possible ways to form an end-to-end link between 2 nodes, the routing security becomes another main concern of the 802.11s protocol. Besides its reliance on the 802.11i for the security measures, 802.11s also includes some new features such as the Mesh Temporal Key (MTK) and the Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE). The authentication and key management (AKM) process of 802.11s were observed in this paper.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.317-327
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• 2014

To improve the efficiency of wireless channel, IEEE 802.11ac uses the DL MU-MIMO MAC scheme through which an AP transmits multiple frames to different mobile nodes simultaneously. IEEE 802.11ac DL MU-MIMO MAC needs a new step, called as TXOP sharing, between legacy IEEE 802.11n DL SU-MIMO's two operations, the obtaining an EDCA TXOP and the transmitting multiple frames for EDCA TXOP. In the TXOP sharing operation, both wireless channel destinations and frames transmitted for its TXOP period should are determined. So this paper deals with the TXOP sharing for improving IEEE 802.11ac MAC performance. However, the EDCA priority based method mentioned by IEEE 802.11ac standard document not fair among the buffers and the frames of buffers, and occurs in high_loss rate and high_delay about specific buffers. In this paper, we propose a new scheme of the TXOP sharing with sequencing p-AC, s-AC in similar properties, and all S-AC. This method provides a differentiated service without damage of EDCA characteristics.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.4 s.107
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• pp.455-460
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• 2006

Currently, the IETF group is working on service differentiation in the Internet. However, in wireless environments such as Ad-hoc networks, where channel conditions are variable and bandwidth is scarce, the Internet differentiated services are suboptimal without lower layers' support. The IEEE 802.11 standard for Wireless LANs is the most widely used WLAN standard today. 1t has a mode of operation that can be used to provide service differentiation, but it has been shown to perform badly. In this paper, we present a new service differentiation scheme for support QoS in the wireless IEEE 802.11, which is based on a multiple queuing system to provide priority of user's flow. We simulate and analyze the performance of our algorithm and compare its performance with the original IEEE 802.11b protocol. Simulation results show that our approach increases overall throughput in the MAC layer.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.31-41
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• 2009

IEEE 802.11e proposed by IEEE 802.11 working group to guarantee QoS has contention based EDCA and contention free based HCCA. HCCA, a centralized polling based mechanism of 802.11e, needs a scheduling algorithm to allocate the network resource efficiently. The existing standard scheduler, however, is inefficient to support for QoS guarantee for real-time service having VBR traffic. To improve these limit, in this paper, we First, we propose priority polling algorithm which additionally considers the size of MSI and TXOP based on EDD algorithm to increase number of QSTAs. We also propose a dual token bucket TXOP allocation algorithm to reduce congestion caused by stations which enters network with considerable delay variance. TSPEC parameters, Maximum Burst Size (MBS) and Peak Data Rate (PR), are applied to design depth and token generation rate of two buckets. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has much higher performance compared with reference and SETT-EDD scheduler in terms of throughput and delay.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.6A
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• pp.640-647
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• 2006

This paper describes a design of AES-based CCMP(Counter mode with CBC-MAC Protocol) core for IEEE 802.11i wireless LAN security. To maximize the performance of CCMP core, two AES cores are used, one is the counter mode for data confidentiality and the other is the CBC node for authentication and data integrity. The S-box that requires the largest hardware in ARS core is implemented using composite field arithmetic, and the gate count is reduced by about 27% compared with conventional LUT(Lookup Table)-based design. The CCMP core was verified using Excalibur SoC kit, and a MPW chip is fabricated using a 0.35-um CMOS standard cell technology. The test results show that all the function of the fabricated chip works correctly. The CCMP processor has 17,000 gates, and the estimated throughput is about 353-Mbps at 116-MHz@3.3V, satisfying 54-Mbps data rate of the IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g specifications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8A
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• pp.640-647
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• 2009

IEEE 802.11i is an amendment to the original IEEE 802.11/b,a,g standard specifying security mechanism by stipulating RSNA for tighter security. The RSNA uses TKIP(Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) and CCMP(Counter with CBC-MAC Protocol) instead of old-fashioned WEP(Wired Equivalent Privacy) for data encryption. This paper describes a design of a communication security engine for IEEE 802.11i MAC layer. The design includes WEP and TKIP modules based on the RC4 encryption algorithm, and CCMP module based on the AES encryption algorism. The WEP module suffices for compatibility with the IEEE 802.11 b,a,g MAC layer. The CCMP module has about 816.7Mbps throughput at 134MHz, hence it satisfies maximum 600Mbps data rate described in the IEEE 802.11n specifications. We propose a pipelined AES-CCMP cipher core architecture, which has lower hardware cost than existing AES cores, because CBC mode and CTR mode operate at the same time.