• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.241-269
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• 2012

Wireless networks composed of multimedia-enabled resource-constrained sensor nodes have enriched a large set of monitoring sensing applications. In such communication scenario, however, new challenges in data transmission and energy-efficiency have arisen due to the stringent requirements of those sensor networks. Generally, congested nodes may deplete the energy of the active congested paths toward the sink and incur in undesired communication delay and packet dropping, while bit errors during transmission may negatively impact the end-to-end quality of the received data. Many approaches have been proposed to face congestion and provide reliable communications in wireless sensor networks, usually employing some transport protocol that address one or both of these issues. Nevertheless, due to the unique characteristics of multimedia-based wireless sensor networks, notably minimum bandwidth demand, bounded delay and reduced energy consumption requirement, communication protocols from traditional scalar wireless sensor networks are not suitable for multimedia sensor networks. In the last decade, such requirements have fostered research in adapting existing protocols or proposing new protocols from scratch. We survey the state of the art of transport protocols for wireless multimedia sensor networks, addressing the recent developments and proposed strategies for congestion control and loss recovery. Future research directions are also discussed, outlining the remaining challenges and promising investigation areas.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.365-378
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• 2011

Piezo-based active structural health monitoring (SHM) requires amplifiers specifically designed for capacitive loads. Moreover, with the increase in number of applications of wireless SHM systems, energy efficiency and cost reduction for this type of amplifiers is becoming a requirement. General lab grade amplifiers are big and costly, and not built for outdoor environments. Although some piezoceramic power amplifiers are available in the market, none of them are specifically targeting the wireless constraints and low power requirements. In this paper, a piezoceramic transducer amplifier for wireless active SHM systems has been designed. Power requirements are met by two digital On/Off switches that set the amplifier in a standby state when not in use. It provides a stable ${\pm}180$ Volts output with a bandwidth of 7k Hz using a single 12 V battery. Additionally, both voltage and current outputs are provided for feedback control, impedance check, or actuator damage verification. Vibration control tests of an aluminum beam were conducted in the University of Houston lab, while wireless active SHM tests of a wind turbine blade were performed in the Harbin Institute of Technology wind tunnel. The results showed that the developed amplifier provided equivalent results to commercial solutions in suppressing structural vibrations, and that it allows researchers to perform active wireless SHM on moving objects with no power wires from the grid.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권7호
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• pp.1770-1780
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• 1997

ATM 망에서의 폭주로 인한 셀 손실은 피할 수 없기 때문에 영상 데이터 전송시 화질의개선 여지가 문제점으로 남아있다. ATM망에서 MPEG 비디오 전송시에 무차별적인 셀들의 손실은 서비스 품질의 심각한 저하를 가져올 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 두 가지 방법을 제안한다. 첫째, MPEG 부호화기의 데이터 스트림의 트래픽 특성을 분석하여 높은 우선 순위의 데이터 스트림을 생성한다. 그리고 망의 폭주시에 가능한 한 낮은 우선 순위의 셀들을 폐기시키고 높은 우선 순위의 셀들을 전송하게 함으로써 사용자의 QOS를 보장한다. 이 때 부호화기의 데이터 스트림에 대한 우선 순위는 파라미터 ${\beta}$값의 증감에 따라 우선 순위 단계를 조절한다. 둘째, ${\beta}$값이 클수록 우선 순위가 높은 셀들의 수가 증가하게 된다. 이것은 망의 폭주시 우선 순위가 높은 셀의 손실을 초래한다. 이를 예방하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 사용량 감시 제어기를 설치하여 버퍼의 상태에 따라 전송률을 재 조절하는 방법을 취한다. 즉, 부호화기의 대역폭은 부호화기와 네트워크 사이의 재협상을 통하여 얻는다. 본 논문에서는 부호화기의 대역폭 요구사항을 최대 셀 전송률, 버스트 길이, 지속율을 다루는 사용 파라미터 제어(UPC)에 의하여 얻는다. 네트워크 인터페이스 카드(NIC : Network Interface Card)에 있는 적용 부호화기의 비트율 제어 알고리즘은 사용자의 QOS를 유지하기 위해 필요한 UPC 파라미터를 계산한다. 시뮬레이션시에는 동적인 UPC를 지원하는 ATM 네트워크 인터페이스 환경을 통하여 MPEG 부호화기의 비트율을 조절함으로써 측정하였다. 우선 순위가 주어진 데이터 스트림의 대역폭 재협상을 통한 실험의 결과는 대역폭의 이득과 우선 순위가 높은 데이터 스트림의 손실을 방지함으로써 영상의 화질이 개선됨을 보여준다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2003

The controlled load service defined within the IETF's Integrated Services architecture for quality-of-service (QoS) in the Internet requires source nodes to regulate their traffic while the network, in combination with an admission control strategy, provides a guarantee of performance equivalent to that achieved in a lightly loaded network. Packets sent in violation of the traffic contract are marked so that the network may assign them a lower priority in the use of bandwidth and buffer resources. In this paper, we define the requirements of a scheduler serving packets belonging to the controlled load service and present a novel scheduler that exactly achieves these requirements. In this set of requirements, besides efficiency and throughput, we include an additional important requirement to bound the additional delay of unmarked packets caused due to the transmission of marked packets while dropping as few marked packets as possible. Without such a bound, unmarked packets that are in compliance with the traffic contract are not likely to experience delays consistent with that in al lightly loaded network. For any given desired bound ${\alpha}$ on this additional delay, we present the CL(${\alpha}$) scheduler which achieves the bound while also achieving a per-packet work complexity of O(1) with respect to the number of flows. We provide an analytical proof of these properties of the CL(${\alpha}$) scheduler, and we also verify this with simulation using real traces of video traffic. The scheduler presented here may be readily adapted for use in scheduling flows with multi-level priorities such as in some real-time video streams, as well as in other emerging service models of the Internet that mark packets to identify drop precedences.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2011년도 정기총회 및 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.2795-2803
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• 2011

Due to speed acceleration, higher requirements have been put forward to high speed railway communication and signaling system. The railway applications, including intra-train, train to ground and trackside networks, demand larger bandwidth, higher reliability and shorter response time from railway communication networks to ensure security operation and passenger communication. However, the current railway communication and signaling system has lagged behind the railway development, so advanced communication technologies are needed to improve the current situation. This paper presents high speed railway communication and signaling system based on 4G LTE technology, introduces its network architecture, key technology and analyzes its technical advantages compared with GSM-R system. According to analysis, LTE based high-speed railway communication network is more effective and reliable.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.299-310
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• 2002

This paper describes an integrated network management framework for providing point-to-multipoint reservation service (PMRS) in an ATM network. There are two major issues confronting the network service provider in relation to this service: one is to rapidly confirm the acceptability of the subscriber's reservation at subscription time, and the other is to punctually activate the reserved point-to-multipoint service. To meet these requirements, we developed a service provision model (SPM) and a network resource model of a bandwidth allocation timetable (BATT). We propose a point-to-multipoint routing algorithm composed of ordering and backtracking procedures, which can find the best branch point under the complex network topology and can add more destinations to the existing point-to-multipoint route. We demonstrate the feasibility of the SPM, the BATT, and the point-to-multipoint routing algorithm by implementing our schemes and analyzing their performance under the operational ATM network of KT(Korea Telecom).

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(3)
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• pp.125-128
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• 2001

Nowadays, Internet users are widespread internationally. Fallowing the users requirements, server has to transfer real-time multimedia data to many clients. Multicast can significantly reduce the system overhead and the network resource waste, so it supports efficient mechanism when server has to transfer same data to many clients. We can deliver multimedia data transfer in real-time using Patching Algorithm which has no delay for service request. And multicast algorithm can support different network bandwidth using Receiver driven Layered Multicast under heterogeneous environment network. The purpose of this paper is to suggest an algorithm that can create new multicast group adequately and transfer real-time multimedia data efficiently under heterogeneous environment.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.469-472
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• 2000

Security-related issues in mobile communications are increasing. The security requirements of mobile communications for the mobile users include authentication of the mobile user, the data confidentiality, the data confidentiality and the location privacy of mobile user. These services require security features compatible with the wireline networks. However, wireless networks have many restrictions compare to wireline networks such as the limited computational capability of mobile equipment and limited resource(bandwidth) between a mobile user and a fixed network. So, security features for IMT-2000 are designed to meet the limited capacity. In this paper, we analyze the required security features and mechanism, and design network access security feature effective for IMT-2000 Systems. The design includes security functions allocation to each system. Finally, discuss the computational power of each system based on at]coated functions to it

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.37-44
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• 1996

네트워크 가상현실 시스템은 먼 거리에 떨어진 사용자들 사이에 일관성 있는 가상 세계를 제공하며, 군사, 오락, 건축 등 여러 부분에 응용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 그 동안 고성능 그래픽 워크스테이션 환경에서 중심적으로 연구되어 왔던 네트워크 가상현실 시스템을 가장 보편적인 플랫폼인 PC 환경에서 구현할 때 생기는 3차원 그래픽 처리 성능의 문제, 네트워크 대역폭과 전송 지연의 문제 등 여러 문제점들과 이에 대한 해결책들을 제시하고 건축 시뮬레이션을 응용으로 삼아 복수 사용자 가상현실을 구현하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제6권8호
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• pp.629-637
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• 2000

Unbalance between user requirements and insufficient network resources makes a congestion. In the future since the communication networks will have very heavy traffic congestion will be more serious. The ATM networks was recommended to support the B-ISDN service for the future multimedia communication. In thie sense of congestion avoidance and recovery the ABR service category in ATM networks allows the feedback flow control mechanism to dynamically allocate the idle bandwidth of the network to users fairly and to control the network congestion rapidly In this paper we introduce a congestion control scheme using systematical approach to confirm robust stability with respect to unknown round trip delay for the network which has both unicast and multicast connections.