• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.187-197
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• 2013

Security has long been a challenging problem in wireless networks, mainly due to its broadcast nature of communication. This opens up simple yet effective measures to thwart useful communications between legitimate radios. Spread spectrum technologies, such as direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS), have been developed as effective countermeasures against, for example, jamming attacks. This paper surveys previous research on securing a DSSS channel even further, using physical layer attributes-keyless DSSS mechanisms, and watermarked DSSS (WDSSS) schemes. The former has been motivated by the fact that it is still an open question to establish and share the secret spread sequence between the transmitter and the receiver without being noticed by adversaries. The basic idea of the latter is to exploit the redundancy inherent in DSSS's spreading process to embed watermark information. It can be considered a counter measure (authentication) for an intelligent attacker who obtains the spread sequence to generate fake messages. This paper also presents and evaluates an adaptive DSSS scheme that takes both jam resistance and communication efficiency into account.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8A
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• pp.625-632
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• 2009

This paper presents the mobile IPTV system for the transmission of FGS-encoded video stream over WiMAX network. The proposed system is implemented to provide more subscribers with an improved mobile IPTV service considering the scarce resource constraint. The proposed system pursues an efficient tradeoff between the number of subscribers that receive the enhancement layer stream and their IPTV service quality. In the proposed system, some parts of the enhancement layer are transmitted with the modulation scheme and the coding rate adaptive to wireless link states of subscribers. Finally, experimental results are provided to show the performance of proposed mobile IPTV system.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.154-158
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• 2008

Autonomous business card exchange system using ZigBee with low power and short range was configured In the autonomous business card exchange system characterized as full mesh network in which every node exchanges each information one by one, it is necessary to reduce the time taken for information to be exchanged. In this paper, the novel method where the node ID is exchanged based on CSMA/CA and then the information of each node is broadcast to other nodes according to the ID list based on FIFO. The time required for exchanging information using the proposed method was analyzed and compared with the direct exchange method based on CSMA/CA. The results show that it takes less time in the proposed method than the direct exchange time.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.1354-1372
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• 2012

Route establishment in Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is the key mechanism to a successful connection between a pair of source and destination nodes. An efficient routing protocol constructs routing path with minimal time, less routing overhead and capable of utilizing all possible link connectivity. In general, most on-demand MANET routing protocols operates over symmetrical and bidirectional routing path, which is infeasible due to the inherent heterogeneous properties of wireless devices. Simulation results show that the presence of unidirectional links on a network severely affect the performance of a routing protocol. In this paper, a robust protocol independent scheme is proposed, which enable immediate rediscovery of alternative route for a path blocked by a unidirectional link. The proposed scheme is efficient; route rediscovery is locally computed, which results in significant minimization of multiple route packets flooding. Nodes may exploit route information of immediate neighbors using the local reply broadcast technique, which then redirect the control packets around the unidirectional links, therefore maintaining the end-to-end bidirectional connection. The proposed scheme along with Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and AODV-Blacklist routing protocol is investigated over three types of mobility models. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is extremely reliable under poor network conditions and the route connectivity can be improved by as much as 75%.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.919-940
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• 2012

Video on Demand (VOD) is a multimedia service which allows a remote user to select and then view video at his convenience at any time he wants, which makes the VOD become an important technology for many applications. Numerous periodic VOD broadcasting protocols have been proposed to support a large number of receivers. Broadcasting is an efficient transmission scheme to provide on-demand service for very popular movies. This paper proposes a new broadcasting scheme called Popularity Cushion Staggered Broadcasting (PCSB). The proposed scheme improves the Periodic Broadcasting (PB) protocols in the latest mobile VOD system, which is called MobiVoD system. It also, reduces the maximum waiting time of the mobile node, by partitioning the $1^{st}$ segment of the whole video and storing it in the Local Media Forwarder (LMF) exactly in the Pool of RAM (PoR), and then transmitting them when the mobile nodes miss the $1^{st}$ broadcasted segment. The results show that the PCSB is more efficient and better than the all types of broadcasting and caching techniques in the MobiVoD system. Furthermore, these results exhibits that system performance is stable under high dynamics of the system and the viewer's waiting time are less than the previous system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.202-204
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• 2005

브로드캐스트 기법은 서버에서 사용자로의 하향 대역폭을 최대한 활용하고 사용자의 수와 무관하게 데이터를 배포할 수 있기 때문에 이동 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 주요한 방식으로 쓰이고 있다. 브로드캐스트 기법에서도 기존 컴퓨팅 환경처럼 여러 트랜잭션이 같은 데이터 항목을 동시에 사용하는 경우가 발생할 수 있다. 하지만 브로드캐스트 환경에서는 모바일 클라이언트의 제한된 자원과 제한된 상향 대역폭 등의 이유로 기존의 동시성 제어 기법을 그대로 사용할 수 없다. 이러한 이유로 무선 브로드캐스트 환경을 위한 동시성 제어 기법들이 많이 연구되어 왔다. 이 논문에서는 트랜잭션들의 접근 패턴이 편향될 경우 발생하게 되는 반복적인 재실행을 문제점으로 인식하고, 동시성 제어 기법에 기반을 둔 기법을 제안한다. 동일한 데이터 항목에 대한 갱신을 수행하는 트랜잭션이 많을수록 트랜잭션이 재실행될 확률은 높아지고 성능은 저하되는데, 이는 검증을 요청하는 트랜잭션들 중 가장 먼저 서버에 도착한 트랜잭션만이 경쟁에서 살아남고 나머지는 재실행되며 경쟁을 다시하기 때문이다. 제안하는 기법에서는 브로드캐스트 사이클이 끝날 때까지 완료 여부의 결정을 유보하면서 검증을 요청한 트랜잭션들의 조합을 구성해 후보 해 리스트를 유지한다. 마지막으로 갱신되는 데이터 항목의 수와 데이터 항목의 갱신 선호도를 기준으로 최적의 해를 선택해 트랜잭션들을 완료하고 데이터베이스에 값을 반영함으로써 트랜잭션의 철회율을 최소화하고 트랜잭션의 완료율을 높일 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.4028-4049
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• 2014

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a promising cryptographic primitive for implementing fine-grained data sharing in cloud computing. However, before ABE can be widely deployed in practical cloud storage systems, a challenging issue with regard to attributes and user revocation has to be addressed. To our knowledge, most of the existing ABE schemes fail to support flexible and direct revocation owing to the burdensome update of attribute secret keys and all the ciphertexts. Aiming at tackling the challenge above, we formalize the notion of ciphertext-policy ABE supporting flexible and direct revocation (FDR-CP-ABE), and present a concrete construction. The proposed scheme supports direct attribute and user revocation. To achieve this goal, we introduce an auxiliary function to determine the ciphertexts involved in revocation events, and then only update these involved ciphertexts by adopting the technique of broadcast encryption. Furthermore, our construction is proven secure in the standard model. Theoretical analysis and experimental results indicate that FDR-CP-ABE outperforms the previous revocation-related methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.7A
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• pp.973-986
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose MAC protocol that consists of channel access mechanism and transmission mechanism to support effective wireless packet data service. In channel access mechanism, broadcast channel announces status information of random access channel, and mobile station tries random access based on status information. Also, mobile station has access probability to prevent collision increase due to transmission of short message. For effective transmission, mobile station changes transmission rate based on transmission queue status to adapt burst traffic characteristics. In restricted environments of transmission code and bandwidth, proposed protocol shows better performance than cdma2000 system.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.133-144
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• 2015

In this paper, we introduce a system and a set of algorithms for disseminating popular content to a large group of wireless clients spread over a wide area. This area is partitioned into multiple cells and there is a base station in each cell which is able to broadcast to the clients within its radio coverage. Dissemination of information in the proposed system is hybrid in nature: Each base station broadcasts a fraction of information in the form of random linear combinations of data blocks. Then the clients cooperate by exchanging packets to obtain their desired messages while they are moving arbitrarily over the area. In this paper, fundamental trade-offs between the average information delivery completion time at the clients and different parameters of the system such as bandwidth usage by the base stations, average energy consumption by the clients and the popularity of the spread information are studied. Moreover different heuristic algorithms are proposed to control and maintain a balance over these trade-offs. Also, the more complicated case of multiple sessions where each client is interested in an arbitrary subset of sessions is considered and two variants of the basic dissemination algorithm are proposed. The performance of all the proposed algorithms is evaluated via extensive numerical experiments.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.33-43
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• 2012

Smart phones can be used in parking management to receive important notifications. An infrastructure based from such approach should consider message persistence which is currently supported through push notification systems. However, the broadcast method produces high overhead when sending notifications throughout the clients. This paper uses a filtering method to prevent unnecessary message overheads. The heuristic approach selects the mobile clients with corresponding preference values based on the notification tag values. The simulation result showed that the proposed filtering method was faster in re-establishing connections and had lower message overhead compared to conventional messaging frameworks.