• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1735-1754
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• 2022

The reliability and performance of WiFi need optimization because of the rising number of WiFi users day by day. A highlighted point is saving power while transmitting and receiving packets using WiFi devices. Wake-on-Wlan (WoW) is also implemented to improve energy consumption, but it also needs betterment. This paper will introduce universal ideas to transmit and receive packets using low-power technology like Bluetooth or BLE (Bluetooth low energy). While looking for power-saving ways in this research, WiFi connection and maintenance also take care using lesser power-consuming technology. Identifying different use-cases where low power technology can help save energy and maintain 802.11 connection is part of the research. In addition, the proposed method discuss energy saving with unicast and broadcast/multicast data. Calculation of power-saving and comparison with standalone WiFi usage clearly shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1339-1355
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• 2023

Localization is a hot research spot for many areas, especially in the mobile robot field. Due to the weak signal of the global positioning system (GPS), the alternative schemes in an indoor environment include wireless signal transmitting and receiving solutions, laser rangefinder to build a map followed by a re-localization stage and visual positioning methods, etc. Among all wireless signal positioning techniques, Wi-Fi is the most common one. Wi-Fi access points are installed in most indoor areas of human activities, and smart devices equipped with Wi-Fi modules can be seen everywhere. However, the localization of a mobile robot using a Wi-Fi scheme usually lacks orientation information. Besides, the distance error is large because of indoor signal interference. Another research direction that mainly refers to laser sensors is to actively detect the environment and achieve positioning. An occupancy grid map is built by using the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method when the mobile robot enters the indoor environment for the first time. When the robot enters the environment again, it can localize itself according to the known map. Nevertheless, this scheme only works effectively based on the prerequisite that those areas have salient geometrical features. If the areas have similar scanning structures, such as a long corridor or similar rooms, the traditional methods always fail. To address the weakness of the above two methods, this work proposes a coarse-to-fine paradigm and an improved localization algorithm that utilizes Wi-Fi to assist the robot localization in a geometrically similar environment. Firstly, a grid map is built by using laser SLAM. Secondly, a fingerprint database is built in the offline phase. Then, the RSSI values are achieved in the localization stage to get a coarse localization. Finally, an improved particle filter method based on the Wi-Fi signal values is proposed to realize a fine localization. Experimental results show that our approach is effective and robust for both global localization and the kidnapped robot problem. The localization success rate reaches 97.33%, while the traditional method always fails.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.45-54
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• 2023

Recently, with the development of the Internet of Things, research on protocols that can easily connect devices without a UI to the network has been steadily conducted. To this end, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced Wi-Fi Easy Connect, which can connect to a network using a QR code. However, since Wi-Fi Easy Connect requires a large amount of computation for safety, it is difficult to apply to low-power and miniaturized IoT devices. In addition, Wi-Fi Easy Connect considering scalability is designed to operate in a wired environment, but problems such as duplicate encryption occur because it does not consider a security environment like TLS. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the Wi-Fi Easy Connect protocol and propose a protocol that can operate efficiently in the TLS environment. It was confirmed that the proposed protocol satisfies the existing security requirements and at the same time reduces about 67% of ECC scalar multiplication operations with a large amount of computation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.280-282
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• 2012

Wi-Fi P2P는 Wi-Fi Alliance에 의해 제정된 표준 규격으로 근접 거리에 위치한 장치들간의 효율적이고 빠른 데이터 송수신을 위해 IEEE 802.11n을 이용하고 있다. 근접거리 통신을 위한 기존 블루투스 등의 규격이 갖는 단점을 보완했다는 점에 있어 높은 평가를 받고 있으며, 모바일 디바이스용 플랫폼인 Android ICS 버전부터 공식적으로 지원됨에 따라 널리 사용될 것으로 전망된다. 한편, 한국전자통신연구원(ETRI)에서는 오랫동안 PAN 수준의 네트워킹을 연구해왔으며 그 일환으로 PAN 및 M2M에 적합한 통신 수단으로 여겨지는 Wi-Fi P2P에 대한 연구도 진행 중에 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 ETRI가 과제를 수행하면서 부수적으로 연구한 Wi-Fi P2P를 위한 Linux용 플랫폼 구조를 공유하고자 한다. 특히 Linux Wireless 프로젝트인 hostap에 속한 wpa_supplicant를 이용해 실제로 동작하는 Wi-Fi P2P 커넥션 매니저를 설계하고 구현하는 방법을 설명함으로써 Android 플랫폼이 아닌 일반적인 Linux 장치에서 Wi-Fi P2P를 사용할 수 있는 방법에 대해 논한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.1890-1897
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• 2021

People counting is an important technology to provide application services such as smart home, smart building, smart car, etc. Due to the social distancing of COVID-19, the people counting technology attracted public attention. People counting system can be implemented in various ways such as camera, sensor, wireless, etc. according to service requirements. People counting system using WiFi AP uses WiFi CSI data that reflects multipath information. This technology is an effective solution implementing indoor with low cost. The conventional WiFi CSI-based people counting technologies have low accuracy that obstructs the high quality service. This paper proposes a deep learning people counting system based on WiFi CSI data. Data preprocessing using auto-encoder, data augmentation that transform WiFi CSI data, and a proposed deep learning model improve the accuracy of people counting. In the experimental result, the proposed approach shows 89.29% accuracy in 6 subjects.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.17-23
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• 2012

Products of Wi-Fi devices in recent years offer higher throughput and have longer signal coverage which also bring unnecessary signal interference to neighboring wireless networks, and result in decrease of network throughput. Signal interference is an inevitable problem because of the broadcast nature of wireless transmissions. However it could be optimized by reducing signal coverage of wireless devices. On the other hand, smaller signal coverage also means lower transmission power and lower data throughput. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the relationship among signal strength, coverage, interference and network throughput by simulation on various network topology.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.127-134
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• 2017

In this paper, we try to solve the frequency shortage due to the increase of LTE terminals and the traffic jam caused by the inefficient WiFi connection method. The proposed LTE-WIFI Vertical Handover method uses a pre-authentication method of the AP through LTE and a method of controlling the access AP of the terminal using the RADIUS server. Through the simulation, the proposed method shows that the access speed of the AP is improved by about 95% compared to the conventional connection method, and the connection speed is improved by about 18% compared to the conventional method. Providing seamless AP through pre-authentication system and improving wireless network speed through AP access distribution can solve LTE frequency shortage problem and improve wireless network usage satisfaction.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.12
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• pp.1792-1798
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• 2017

Event Data Recorder(Car Black-Box) with WiFi dongle have been released, and the platform of the majority is the Linux platform. This is because the platform development is possible in little investment cost by reducing the source licensing costs by taking advantage of the open source. But utilizing Linux platform has the limitations of boot-up time and consuming processing power due to the limitation of battery capacity, to be cost-competitive to minimize the use of memory. In this paper, the real-time operating system(RTOS) is utilized to optimize these portions. MP4 encoder and Muxer are developed to be about ten seconds boot up and minimized memory. It has the advantages of operating at lower power consumption than the Linux utilizing WiFi dongle. Utilizing a WiFi dongle is to provide a progressive download feature on smart phones to lower product prices. But RTOS has the weakness in WiFi. Porting TCP /IP, Web and DHCP server and combination with the USB OTG Host interface by implementing the protocol stack are developed for WiFi. And also SPI NOR flash memory is utilized for faster boot time and cost reductions, low processing power to be consume. As the results, the developed proved the 10 seconds booting time, 24 frame rate/sec. and 10% lower power consumption.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.369-377
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• 2006

Recently, the metropolitan area network (MAN) has attracted much attention in telecommunication research and has emerged as one of the most important research topics in the community. Several standards representing the first step for developing metropolitan networks have been published; IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) has taken a relevant role in reaching the goal of realizing a full-service network all over a urban and suburban area. At the same time, the wireless local area networks (WLAN) have been widely used for in-home or short range communications, mainly basing on the IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) standard. A consequence is the increasing interest in interworking technology, that allows an interconnection between different standards by maintaining certain properties, mainly in terms of quality of service (QoS). One of the major issues is to design bridging devices capable of transparently interconnect different wireless technologies. In this paper, we propose two interconnection bridging solutions between WiMAX and WiFi links; the first is more based on the concept of maintaining a certain end-to-end QoS level independently from the wireless technologies used. The second method is more devoted to the reduction of the implementation complexity at the cost of no QoS assurance. The performance of the two methods are compared by resorting to computer simulations showing the advantages of each one technique.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.272-278
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• 2015

This paper analyzed interference impact between wireless headset and Wireless Fidelity which get a high possibility of simultaneously operating in the Industry Science Medical(ISM) bands. Analysis methods of Minimum Coupling Loss(MCL) and Monte Carlo(MC) were applied by using the characters and parameters referenced to Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE) 802.11b. The protection distance between interferer (WiFi transmitter) and victim (Wireless headset receiver) was calculated through the MCL. The protection distance was obtained for the case of single interferer, and the maximum allowable number of multiple interferers was computed according to the cell radius of a victim system to meet 5 % below of interference probability by using a statistical analysis based on the MC method. The analysis results are expected to be used as a guideline to coexist the wireless headset and low power devices in the ISM band.