• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.375-378
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• 2007

2002년 이후 한국에서 유무선 통합(fixed-mobile convergence)을 주도하고 새로운 성장동력의 혁신적 유망서비스로 각광을 받아온 공중 무선랜(Public Wireless LAN) 서비스는 일종의 캐즘(chasm)이라 할 수 있는 수요확산이 정체상태에 처해있다. 즉, 공중 무선랜 서비스 초기에는 전국의 도심지역에 무선랜이용가능 지역인 hotspot 지역을 설치하고 가입자 확보를 위한 집중적인 마케팅 활동을 펼쳐왔다. 그러나 초기에 급증하던 가입자 규모는 증가추세가 둔화되어 최근에는 오히려 감소하는 상황이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 지각된 서비스 특성과 지각된 개인특성, 지각된 서비스 비효용성을 중심으로 일반인이 공중무선랜을 채택하지 않는 요인들을 구조방정식을 통하여 실증적으로 규명하였으며, 공중 무선랜의 새로운 성장을 위한 시사점을 제시하고자 한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.2 s.86
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• pp.47-54
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• 2004

최근 통신서비스 시장에서는 그 동안 이동전화서비스와 초고속인터넷서비스를 중심으로 한 급격한 가입자의 증가 추세가 둔화되고 있으며, 향후에 통신서비스 시장의 성장을 이끌어갈 서비스의 출현을 고대하고 있다. 새로운 통신서비스 패러다임을 맞이해서 통신서비스 사업자의 입장에서는 그 동안의 양적 팽창 위주의 시장 접근에서 질적인 성장을 도모할 수 있는 방향을 모색해야 할 필요성이 제기되며, 근본적인 해결책은 기존에 제공하고 있는 서비스가 제공하지 못했던 다양한 장점을 가진 서비스를 제공함으로써 소기의 성과를 달성할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다. 이에 대한 대안으로 최근 이슈로 떠오른 것이 유무선 서비스 통합, 음성. 데이터 서비스 통합 그리고 방송.통신 서비스 융합을 근간으로 하는 컨버전스 서비스의 제공이다. 컨버전스 서비스의 제공은 기존에 제공해 오고 있는 서비스에 비해 ‘이동성’의 보완, ‘요금 부담’의 완화, ‘속도’ 측면의 강화라는 특성으로 요약될 수 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 최근 일어나고 있는 통신서비스 시장의 환경 변화에 대해 주로 유무선 서비스 통합에 대한 현황을 분석하고 통신사업자 입장에서 바람직한 대응 방안에 대해서 고찰하고자 한다. 또한, 구체적인 유무선 통합 서비스별로 향후 시장 예측과 새로운 통신서비스 환경에서 사업자와 정부의 역할에 대해서도 제시한다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.43-46
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• 2006

IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN aiming to broadband wireless access (BWA) is evolving to 4G mobile communication system through the standardization of IEEE 802.16e supporting mobility on existing fixed WirelessMAN system. It is necessary for hand-over to provide seamless data service while MS (Mobile Station) moves to another BS (Base Station). Because the performance of handover affects packet loss or delay of any communications, it must consider low latency handover mechanism in packet based network. In this paper, we describes handover scheme of IEEE 802.16e with the cell edge interference problem and shows the way to solve the problem in frequency reuse one deployment. Our scheme reduces the handover latency and packet loss probability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.365-368
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• 2008

This paper presents a new concept of IP-based wireless sensor networks and also introduces a routing protocol that is based on clustering for global healthcare information system. Low-power wireless personal area networks (LoWPANs) conform the standard by IEEE 802.15.4-2003 to IPv6 that makes 6lowpan. It characterized by low bit rate, low power, and low cost as well as protocol for wireless connections. The 6lowpan node with biomedical sensor devices fixed on the patient body area network that should be connected to the gateway in personal area network. Each 6lowpan nodes have IP-addresses that would be directly connected to the internet. With the help of IP-address service provider can recognize or analysis patient biomedical data from anywhere on globe by internet service provider equipments such as cell phone, PDA, note book. The system has been evaluated by technical verification, clinical test, user survey and current status of patient. We used NS-2.33 simulator for our prototype and also simulate the routing protocols. The result shows the performance of biomedical data packets in multi-hope routing as well as represents the topology of the networks.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.1506-1514
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• 1996

This paper proposes enhanced features for the Universal Telecommunications (UPT), voice authentication and voice synthesis, using the specialized resources functions in the Intelligent peripheral(IP). The proposed voice authentication is able ti provide simple and user-friendly security mechanism and to prevent unauthorized users from fraudulently using the UPT number. Also, traditional UPT service deliveries only fixed message to the UPT user, but the proposed UPT service can support flexible message transfer by use of the voice synthesis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.663-666
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• 2009

The usage of fixed call services and public payphones decreased due to the mobile services became general communications tools and the new VoIP services are emerging. Public phone services are included in the scope of universal services and the prices of services is low and the services are easy to access anywhere. However the telecommunication markets are changed then the loss of public payphone services gets worse and the importance of public payphone have decreased. This paper reviewed the universal services regulations of public payphones in overseas countries and proposed the implications of improving the universal service regulations for public payphones.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.627-653
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• 2006

The purpose of this study lies in understanding how the spectrum assigned for each mobile operator affects the consumers of mobile service. For this purpose, we have observed the change of path coefficient in the structural equation, using control variables. However, the structure of the mobile service market in Korea has become fixed. Considering this tendency and the conclusion of this study, the 'lock-in effect' occurs seriously in the mobile service market in Korea. It can be explained by the fact that CS(Customer Satisfaction) of the cellular subscribers little affects customer loyalty but the market dominance of the cellular service in the actual market has continued for a long time. In this study, we figured out a strong prejudice about call quality, which is caused by spectrum difference among competitors. Cellular subscribers tends to believe that call quality of their cellular service is better than that of PCS. In addition, we found that PCS operators can catch customer's retention by investment into network in order to increase call quality.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.88-107
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• 2011

This paper proposes a prepaid system promotion policy for the 3G(WCDMA) MVNO with regard to the newly included paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Article 32 (User Protection) and Article 38 (Provision of Wholesale Telecommunications Services) of the Telecommunication Business Act, which was revised on March 22, 2010. As of June 2011, there are only a few prepaid system subscribers to the mobile communications service due to various limitations, including prepay, interconnection, carrier selection, the MVNO policy, and number portability. However, overseas communications service regulatory agencies and service providers are increasingly presenting policies and strategies for mobile prepaid plans, in order to accommodate the various customer demands that are increasing the use of smart phones and data. This paper advances various proposals concerning promotion of the prepaid system by the 3G MVNO under the current Telecommunication Business Act, including separation of the prepaid data system and the mobile network; introduction of a monthly fixed-rate hybrid prepaid system, a top-up system and USIM system; introduction of mobile network carrier selection; differentiated retail discounts between prepaid and post-paid prices; revision of the retail discount policy for wholesale provision; increase in the number of mandatory service providers; and in-depth consideration of the introduction of a number portability policy for the prepaid and post-paid systems.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.99-103
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• 2009

Recently, as wired and wireless communication services have rapidly developed and multimodal mobile devices which have various characteristics have widely spread, the need for new convergence services increases. The growing population of VoIP technologies and the high communication expense yield that the market of IP based telephony such as WiFi phone and IP phone is substituted for one of the conventional PSTN telephony. With the help of this trend, the wireline network operators desire to find a market in mobile networks. Therefore, they focus on Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) service as one of the key factors to accomplish this goal. FMC services are able to provide the mobility of voice services between circuit switched and packet switched networks. IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based Voice Call Continuity (VCC) is one of the schemes to embody FMC services. As Application Server (AS) which has this VCC function provides seamless handover of services between heterogeneous networks, FMC subscribers can communicate seamlessly with others m WiFi domain and COMA domain using WiFi-COMA dual phone. Most of enterprises have already introduced IP network infrastructure and IP-PBX (Private Branch eXchange) for telephony. However, the problems of high communication cost and work inefficiency due to frequent outside jobs or business trips have remained. In order to solve these problems, demands for enterprise FMC services increase. In this paper, we introduce a new IP-PBX based VCC model that can provide seamless handover of voice services between WiFi and COMA networks for enterprise users and we investigate some interworking and security issues between Soft Switch (SSW) and IMS, or between IMSs. In addition, we introduce a new service that can provide the continuity of voice sessions as well as video sessions using Multimedia Session Continuity (MMSC) technology which has evolved from VCC. This service is expected to be one of the next-generation personalized services based on user's context.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.360-363
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• 2008

현재 통신 시장의 상황은 유무선 통신서비스 시장의 포화, 이동통신 시장의 기존 유선전화 규모 초과, 그리고 유선통신의 서비스 사업자의 영역 확대 도모 등을 특징으로 한다. 유무선 통합 (Fixed Mobile Convergence, FMC) 서비스는 유선통신 사업자를 중심으로 한 비즈니스 모델로 사용자에게 유무선 통신망 종류에 상관없이 일관되고 끊김없는 서비스를 제공하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이동통신망까지 확대하여 고객 기반을 유지하고자 하는 유선사업자들은 FMC 서비스 중 하나의 방안으로 IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems) 기반의 VCC(Voice Call Continuity) 기능에 주목하고 있다. VCC AS(Application Server)는 이종망 (WiFi-CDMA)간 Seamless 핸드오버기능을 수행하므로, WiFi 와 CDMA를 지원할 수 있는 듀얼단말을 이용하여 사용자가 WiFi 서비스 지역과 CDMA 서비스 지역간 이동시에도 Seamless 한 음성서비스를 제공한다. 이에 본 논문은 IMS/VCC 기반으로 음성 seamless 핸드오버 적용 사례(시범서비스)를 중심으로 유무선 통신사업자 상호 Win-Win을 추구할 수 있는 LG데이콤 특화 VCC 모델을 제시한다. 그리고 LG데이콤이 추구하는 차세대 서비스인 사용자 context 기반의 개인화된 서비스 제공을 위한 IMS 기반 통합 프로파일/인증/과금 연구 동향에 대해 간략히 소개한다.