• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 2017

There are two kinds of wireless network access to a certain place by using smart devices - 1) open (anonymous) - access and 2) user-authorized access. The open-access is a non-authorization connection method which does not need to require Smart device's user authorized information. It means open-access use only user's SSID (Service Set Identifier) information to access the wireless AP devices following public wireless network standard. This access mechanism is not suitable to use all of public wireless networks because users have to get all wireless network information around them. As a result, huge data for smart devices should be one of the most critical overload problems for them. Secondly, the user-authorized access method uses wireless network information (SSID and password) chosen by the users. So, the users have to remember and use the network access information data manually whenever accessing the network. Like open-access, this access method also has the operational and inconvenient problem for the users - manually inputting access information whenever connecting to the network. To overcome this problem in both schemes, we propose two improved wireless network access methods: 1) the implementation of automatic AP connection mechanism using user-authorization and iBeacon messages, and 2) SSID registration form for public wireless networks.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.15C no.2
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• pp.111-118
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• 2008

A wireless router is a device which allows several wireless clients to share an internet line using NAT (Network Address Translation). In a school or a small office environment where many clients use multiple wireless routers, a client may select any one of wireless routers so that most clients can be clustered to a small set of the wireless routers. In such a case, there exists load unbalancing problem between clients and wireless routers. One of its result is that clients using the busiest router get poor service. The other is that the resource utilization of the whole wireless routers becomes very low. In order to resolve the problems, we propose a load sharing scheme to maximize network bandwidth utilization based on SSID(Service Set IDentifier) hiding. The proposed scheme keeps checking the available bandwidth of all the possible wireless routers in a time interval and select the most available one. If a new client appears, the most available router is visible to him or her whereas the others are not visible. This is handled by SSID hiding in the proposed scheme. We implemented the proposed scheme with ASUS WL 500G wireless router and performed experiments. Experimental results show the bandwidth utilization improvement compared to the existing method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.154-155
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• 2007

무선 공유기란 NAT(Network Address Translation) 기능을 사용하여 여러 무선 사용자가 인터넷회선 하나를 공유할 수 있게 해주는 장치이다. 여러 개의 무선 공유기를 여러 사용자가 공유하여 사용하는 학교 또는 소규모 사무실 환경에서 사용자들은 무선 공유기들을 임의대로 선택하여 사용할 수 있어서 특정 무선 공유기에 사용자들이 몰리는 현상이 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 경우 무선공유기와 사용자들 사이에 부하 불균형의 문제가 발생한다. 그로 인하여 생기는 문제점중 하나는 사용자가 몰리는 무선 공유기에 속하는 사용자들의 경우 서비스가 원활하지 않다는 점이다. 또 다른 문제점은 무선 공유기 전체 자원 이용률이 낮다는 점이다. 이 문제들을 해결하는 방법으로 본 논문에서는 Multiple SSID를 이용하여 무선 공유기의 대역폭 이용률을 극대화하는 부하 공유 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 주기적으로 각 무선 공유기들의 사용 가능한 대역폭 정보를 Multiple SSID를 이용하여 사용자에게 보여준다. 새로운 사용자는 최대 사용가능한 대역폭을 가진 무선 공유기를 선택한다. 이 방법은 사용자와 라우터들 사이에서 대역폭 활용관점에서 좋은 부하 분산을 가능하게 해준다. 제안한 방법을 ASUS WL 500G 무선 공유기를 이용하여 구현하였으며 실험을 수행하였다. 실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 기존 방법에 비해 대역폭 이용률이 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.384-394
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• 2008

A wireless router is a device which allows several wireless clients to share an internet line using NAT (Network Address Translation). In a school or a small office environment where many clients use multiple wireless routers, a client may select anyone of wireless routers so that most clients can be clustered to a small set of the wireless routers. In such a case, there exists load unbalancing problem between clients and wireless routers. One of its result is that clients using the busiest router get poor service. The other is that the resource utilization of the whole wireless routers becomes very low. In order to resolve the problems, we propose a load sharing scheme to maximize network bandwidth utilization based on multiple SSID. In a time internal, the proposed scheme keeps to show the available bandwidth information of all the possible wireless routers to clients through multiple SSID. A new client can select the most available band with router. This scheme allows to achieve a good load balancing between clients and routers in terms of bandwidth utilization. We implemented the proposed scheme with ASUS WL 500G wireless router and performed experiments. Experimental results show the bandwidth utilization improvement compared to the existing method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.497-505
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• 2015

Existing Wi-Fi networks require users to follow network settings of the AP (Access Point), resulting in inconveniences for users, and the password of the AP is shared by all users connected to the AP, causing security information leaks as time goes by. We propose, in this work, a personalized secure Wi-Fi network, in which each user is assigned her own virtual Wi-Fi network. One virtual Wi-Fi per user makes the user-centric network configuration possible. A user sets a pair of her own SSID and password on her device a priori, and the AP publishes its public key in a suitable way. The AP also maintains an open Wi-Fi channel, to which users can connect anytime. On user's request, the user device sends a connection request message containing a pair of SSID and password encrypted with the AP's public key. Receiving the connection request message, the AP instantiates a new virtual AP secured with the pair of SSID and password, which is dedicated to that single user device. This virtual network is securer because the password is not shared among users. It is more convenient because the network adapts itself to the user device. Experiments show that these advantages are obtained with negligible degradation in the throughput performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.177-182
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• 2007

무선 공유기란 사설 IP 여러 개를 생성하는 NAT(Network Address Translation) 기능을 사용하여 회선 하나를 여러 사용자가 무선을 통해 공유할 수 있는 장치이다. 사용자가 무선 공유기를 사용할 때 2가지 문제점을 가진다. 첫째는 사용자가 무선 공유기를 사용하려는 시점에 여러 개의 무선 공유기가 존재한다면, 어떤 공유기를 사용하여야 하는 가에 문제이다. 두 번째는 첫 번째 과정을 통해 선택된 무선 공유기가 무선 공유기 중에서 최대의 대역폭을 보장해주는가에 대한 문제이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 SSID Hiding을 이용한 무선 공유기의 성능 향상 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 여러 개의 무선 공유기가 존재하면 이중에 가장 좋은 성능을 가지는 공유기만을 사용자에게 보이게 함으로써 기존 무선 공유기가 가지는 2개의 문제를 해결한다. 실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 기존 방법에 비해 성능이 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.269-271
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• 2012

무선 네트워크의 급속한 성장과 더불어 스마트폰(Smart Phone) 사용자들이 급증함에 따라 카페나 지하철역 등 곳곳에서 무선LAN을 이용할 수 있게 되었다. 그러나, 무선LAN 이용자의 증가는 심각한 보안 문제를 야기시킨다. 공격자 AP(Access Point)의 SSID를 합법적인 무선 AP의 SSID와 동일하게 설정한 후, 클라이언트의 접속을 유도하여 공격할 수 있는데, 이러한 공격을 에빌 트윈(evil twin)공격이라고도 한다. 에빌 트윈 공격을 함으로써 공격자의 무선 AP를 이용하는 사용자들의 비밀번호를 스니핑 하거나, 피싱등의 공격을 할 수 있게 된다. 특히, 모바일 AP기능이 가능한 스마트폰 사용자들이 급증하고 있는 가운데, 스마트폰을 이용하면 이러한 공격을 더욱 은밀하고 간편하게 수행할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 IP주소를 이용하여, 스마트폰을 이용한 에빌 트윈 공격 탐지 방법을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.431-444
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• 2013

Widespread use of smartphones and wireless LAN accompany a threat called rogue AP. When a user connects to a rogue AP, the rogue AP can mount the man-in-the-middle attack against the user, so it can easily acquire user's private information. Many researches have been conducted on how to detect a various kinds of rogue APs, and in this paper, we are going to propose an algorithm to identify and detect a rogue AP that impersonates a regular AP by showing a regular AP's SSID and connecting to a regular AP. User is deceived easily because the rogue AP's SSID looks the same as that of a regular AP. To detect this type of rogue APs, we use a machine learning algorithm called SVM(Support Vector Machine). Our algorithm detects rogue APs with more than 90% accuracy, and also adjusts automatically detection criteria. We show the performance of our algorithm by experiments.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.92-95
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• 2012

Superconducting detectors are promising as ion detectors for time-of-flight mass spectrometers (TOF MS). They can achieve mass-independent detection efficiency even for macromolecular bombardments, because output signals are produced through the deposited kinetic energy at ion impact instead of secondary electron emission that is the ion detection mechanism of conventional microchannel plate (MCP) detectors or secondary electron multipliers (SEM). Among the superconducting detectors, the superconducting strip ion detectors (SSIDs), which consist of several hundreds of superconducting lines with a width of a few hundreds nm and a thickness of a few tens of nm, have a fast response time of less than 1 ns. Inherently, the response time of SSIDs is determined by kinetic inductance, so that it was difficult to realize a fast SSID with a large detection area. However, we succeeded in realizing the detector size up to $5{\times}5mm^2$ without response time degradation by using a parallel configuration.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.21-30
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• 2010

Wireless network is one of the 2010's most important security issues. As smartphone is popularize, the number of Wireless Internet users is really growing and wireless AP spring up everywhere. But most wireless AP haven't being managed properly in terms of security, Wireless Internet users also don't recognize important of security. This situation causes grave security threats. This paper design and analyze a new cyber attack whose it circulates malware via QR code and activates Mobile AP to induce service charge. The new vulnerability we suggest forces to activate Mobile AP of smartphone based on Android and responds to all Probe Request are generated around, and brings induction of service charge and communication problems in its train.