• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.1559-1571
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• 2011

In wireless ad hoc networks, nodes communicate with each other using multihop routed transmission in which hop-by-hop cooperative diversity can be effectively employed. This paper proposes (i) two cooperation models for per-link cooperation (PLC) and per-node cooperation (PNC) for exploiting cooperative diversity in wireless ad hoc networks and (ii) a cooperative routing algorithm for the above models in which best relays are selected for cooperative transmission. First, two cooperation models for PLC and PNC are introduced and represented as an edge-weighted graph with effective link quality. Then, the proposed models are transformed into a simplified graph and a cooperative routing algorithm with O(n2) time is developed, where n is the number of nodes in the network. The effectiveness of the algorithm is confirmed for the two cooperation models using simulation.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.65-74
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• 2016

Ship ad-hoc network (SANET) extends the coverage of the maritime communication among ships with the reduced cost. To fulfill the growing demands of real-time services, the SANET requires an efficient clock time synchronization algorithm which has not been carefully investigated under the ad-hoc maritime environment. This is mainly because the conventional algorithms only suggest to decrease the beacon collision probability that diminishes the clock drift among the units. However, the SANET is a very large-scale network in terms of geographic scope, e.g., with 100 km coverage. The key factor to affect the synchronization performance is the signal propagation delay, which has not being carefully considered in the existing algorithms. Therefore, it requires a robust multi-hop synchronization algorithm to support the communication among hundreds of the ships under the maritime environment. The proposed algorithm has to face and overcome several challenges, i.e., physical clock, e.g., coordinated universal time (UTC)/global positioning system (GPS) unavailable due to the atrocious weather, network link stability, and large propagation delay in the SANET. In this paper, we propose a logical clock synchronization algorithm with multi-hop function for the SANET, namely multi-hop clock synchronization for SANET (MCSS). It works in an ad-hoc manner in case of no UTC/GPS being available, and the multi-hop function makes sure the link stability of the network. For the proposed MCSS, the synchronization time reference nodes (STRNs) are efficiently selected by considering the propagation delay, and the beacon collision can be decreased by the combination of adaptive timing synchronization procedure (ATSP) with the proposed STRN selection procedure. Based on the simulation results, we finalize the multi-hop frame structure of the SANET by considering the clock synchronization, where the physical layer parameters are contrived to meet the requirements of target applications.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.101-110
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• 2014

The purpose of this research is to extend Ad-hoc network system lifetime with the proposed routing protocol which has considered hop lifetimes of the nodes while guaranteeing QoS in the establishment process of Ad-hoc network communication paths. Based on another power aware routing system that proposed in the advanced research [1], we are proposing an alternative power aware routing system in which nodes' hop lifetimes are compared in order to extend the lifetime of an Ad-hoc network system and delay factors have been considered for the assurance of QoS. The research of the routing protocol in this paper, which aims to maximize the system survival time considering power consumption status during the path searching in MANET and pursues the mechanism that controls hop delays for the same reason, can be applied to the study of WSN. The study concerning such phenomena is essential so that the proposed protocol has been simulated and verified with NS-2 in Linux system focusing on the lifetimes of the hops of the nodes. Commercialization of smart devices and arrival of the ubiquitous age has brought about the world where all the people and things are connected with networks. Since the proposed power aware method and the hop delay control mechanism used to find the adequate communication paths in MANET which mainly uses batteries or in WSN, they can largely contribute to the lifetime extension of the network system by reducing power consumptions when utilized for the communications attempts among soldiers during military operation, disaster areas, temporary events or exhibitions, mobile phone shadow areas, home networks, in-between vehicle communications and sense networks, etc. This paper presents the definitions and some advantages regarding the proposed outing protocol that sustain and extend the lifetime of the networks.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.41-52
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• 2008

In this paper, we discuss a novel reservation-based, asynchronous MAC protocol called 'Multi-rate Multi-hop MAC Protocol' (MMMP) for multi-hop ad hoc networks that provides QoS guarantees for multimedia traffic. MMMP achieves this by providing service differentiation for multirate real-time traffic (both constant and variable bit rate traffic) and guaranteeing a bounded end-to-end delay for the same while still catering to the throughput requirements of non real time traffic. In addition, it administers bandwidth preservation via a feature called 'Smart Drop' and implements efficient bandwidth usage through a mechanism called 'Release Bandwidth'. Simulation results on the QualNet simulator indicate that MMMP outperforms IEEE 802.11 on all performance metrics and can efficiently handle a large range of traffic intensity. It also outperforms other similar state-of-the-art MAC protocols.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.15-24
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• 2008

The data delivery confirmation method of MIL-STD-188-220C, which is a tactical wireless mobile Ad-Hoc communication protocol, is that a source node requires the end-to-end ack from all destination nodes and the data-link ack from 1-hop neighboring destination nodes and relaying nodes, regardless of the hop distance from a source node to destination nodes. This method has the problem to degrade the whole communication network performance because of excessive data traffic due to the duplicate use of end-to-end ack and data-link ack, and the collision among end-to-end acks on the wireless network in the case of confirming a data delivery within an 1-hop distance. In order to solve this problem, this paper has proposed the method to perform the data delivery confirmation with the improvement of communication network performance through the data traffic reduction by achieving the reliable data delivery confirmation requiring the only data-link ack within an 1-hop distance. The effects of the proposed method are analyzed in the two aspects of the data delivery confirmation delay time and the data delivery confirmation success ratio.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.43-48
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• 2009

Wireless mesh networks, unlike Ad-hoc network, has low mobility and multi-path communication between terminals and other networks because it has the backbone structures. Most studies are advanced on finding the optimal routing path in multi-hop wireless mesh network environment. Various routing metric, minimum number of hops(Hop_count) and ETX, ETT metric, are proposed to wireless mesh networks. However, most metrics cannot identify the high throughput routing paths because this metric uses a different measurement parameters in each direction. So actual delivery rate does not provide to this metric. This paper describes the metric and implementation of IETC as a metric. This paper shows the improvement in performance.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.43-52
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• 2008

The AODV routing algorithm in a mobile ad-hoc networks broadcasts RREQ packet to find a route from a source to a destination. An attacker node may intercept a RREQ packet and attack by falsifying a field in that packet. In this paper, we propose a simply modified method which can protect a routing table from an attack to falsify the hop count field in the RREQ packet. When establishing a connection between a source and a destination, we update routing table of each node on the connection based on minimum delay instead of minimum hop count. By doing this, we can protect routing table from an attack to falsify a hop count Our simulation is implemented in Network Simulator(NS-2). We analyze how an attacker affects the mobile ad-hoc networks. The result of the simulation shows that the proposed mechanism transfers a data securely.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1347-1350
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• 2005

거의 모든 종류의 이동기기에서 에너지를 절감하는 것은 중요한 연구주제들중의 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 낮은 전원을 소모하는 슬립 모드로의 전환이 가능한 노드들로 구성된 MANET(mobile ad hoc networks)에서 에너지를 절감하는 새로운 프로토콜을 설계한다. 본 논문에서 고려하고 있는 MANET는 예측할 수 없는 호스트의 이동성, 멀티홉에서의 호스트들 간의 통신 그리고 비동기적인 메커니즘을 사용하는 특징을 가지고 있다. 특히 우리는 노드의 동기화가 에너지 절감 프로토콜의 복잡성에 어떤 영향을 미치는지에 대하여 연구한다. 또한 IEEE 802.11기반 multi-hop ad hoc network에 적용할 수 있고 동기적으로 전원을 관리하는 SPFAI(Synchoronous PFAI), ESPFAI(Efficient SPFAI), NSPFAI(Non-MTIM SPFAI)의 세가지 에너지 절감 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.1229-1232
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• 2003

Ad Hoc 네트워크에서 on demand 라우팅 프로토콜로 대표적인 AODV(Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector Routing)는 table driven 기반의 라우팅 프로토콜과 비교해 active route만을 라우팅 테이블에 저장하기 때문에 오버헤드가 작고 경로단절시 경로복구를 통해 경로 재설정할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있으나 경로복구시 대역폭 낭비가 심하고 복구시간이 길다는 drawback을 가지고 있다. 이러한 단점은 많은 라우팅 패킷의 발생으로 기인하는 점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 Expanding Ring Search 알고리즘에서 time out은 timestamp를 이용하여 네트워크 상황에 맞게 가변적으로 적용하는 알고리즘을 개선하여 hop 수에 따라 node traversal time을 설정하도록 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증하였으며 라우팅 패킷의 발생을 줄이고 throughput에서 향상을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.9
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• pp.741-749
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• 2012

Ad Hoc Self-Organizing TDMA (ASO-TDMA) has been proposed as a specification to support the multi-hop data communication service for ships over VHF band. It allows for organizing a multi-hop ad-hoc network in a distributed manner by sharing the radio resources among the ships navigating along the route. In this paper, Markov chain analysis is given to provide the average throughput performance for ASO-TDMA protocol Furthermore, the analytical results are verified with computer simulation, which shows that there exists the optimal transmission rate to maximize the average throughput as the subframe size and the number of ships are varying in each hop region.