• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1642-1661
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• 2015

Wireless mesh networks are a special type of broadcast networks which cover the qualifications of both ad-hoc as well as infrastructure mode networks. These networks offer connectivity to the last mile through hop to hop communication and by comparatively reducing the cost of infrastructure in terms of wire and hardware. Channel assignment has always been the focused area for such networks specifically when using non-overlapping channels and sharing radio frequency spectrum while using multiple radios. It has always been a challenge for mesh network on impartial utilization of the resources (channels), with the increase in users. The rational utilization of multiple channels and multiple radios, not only increases the overall throughput, capacity and scalability, but also creates significant complexities for channel assignment methods. For a better understanding of research challenges, this paper discusses heuristic methods, measurements and channel utilization applications and also examines various researches that yield to overcome this problem. Finally, we highlight prospective directions of research.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.269-286
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• 2011

In this paper, we study a problem that is concerning how to construct a delay-constrained multicast tree on a wireless mesh network (WMN) such that the number of serviced clients is maximized. In order to support high-quality and concurrent interference-free transmission streams, multiple radios are implemented in each mesh node in the WMNs. Instead of only orthogonal channels used for the multicast in the previous works, both orthogonal and partially overlapping channels are considered in this study. As a result, the number of links successfully allocated channels can be expected to be much larger than that of the approaches in which only orthogonal channels are considered. The number of serviced subscribers is then increased dramatically. Hence, the goal of this study is to find interference-free and delay-constrained multicast trees that can lead to the maximal number of serviced subscribers. This problem is referred as the MRDCM problem. Two heuristics, load-based greedy algorithm and load-based MCM algorithm, are developed for constructing multicast trees. Furthermore, two load-based channel assignment procedures are provided to allocate interference-free channels to the multicast trees. A set of experiments is designed to do performance, delay and efficiency comparisons for the multicast trees generated by all the approximation algorithms proposed in this study.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.844-847
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• 2011

Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a type of mobile ad-hoc network consists of wireless router, mobile clients and gateway which connects the network with the Internet. To provide security in the network it is required to encrypt the message sent among the communicating nodes in such way so that only legitimate user can retrieve the original data. Several security mechanisms have been proposed so far to enhance the security of WMN. However, there still exists a need for a comprehensive mechanism to prevent attacks in data communication. Considering the characteristic of mesh network, in this paper we proposed a public key cryptography based security architecture to establish a secure key agreement among communicating nodes in mesh network. The proposed security architecture consists of two major sections: client data protection and network data protection. Client data protection deals with the mutual authentication between the client and the access router and provide client to access router encryption for data confidentiality using standard IEEE 802.11i protocol. On the other hand, network data protection ensures encrypted routing and data transfer in the multi hop backbone network. For the network data protection, we used the pre-distributed public key to form a secure backbone infrastructure.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.406-413
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• 2013

In this paper, an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based minimum end-to-end delay (MED) distributed routing scheme for mobile backhaul wireless mesh networks is proposed. The proposed scheme selects routing paths based on OFDMA subcarrier synchronization control, subcarrier availability, and delay. In the proposed scheme, OFDMA is used to transmit frames between mesh routers using type-I hybrid automatic repeat request over multipath Rayleigh fading channels. Compared with other distributed routing algorithms, such as most forward within radius R, farthest neighbor routing, nearest neighbor routing, and nearest with forwarding progress, simulation results show that the proposed MED routing can reduce end-to-end delay and support highly reliable routing using only local information of neighbor nodes.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2009년도 춘계학술발표논문집
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• pp.57-59
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• 2009

무선 메쉬 네트워크(Wireless Mesh Networks, WMNs)는 유비쿼터스 환경 및 무선 브로드밴드 액세스를 제공하기 위한 핵심적인 미래 기술로 대두되고 있다. WMN에서의 전체적인 성능은 채널의 간섭을 최소화함으로써 개선될 수 있다. 효율적인 채널 할당을 위해서는 채널 스캐닝 지연과 채널 의존성 문제를 고려해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 멀티채널 WMN에서의 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 클러스터 기반의 채널 할당(Cluster-Based Channel Assignment, CB-CA)을 제안한다. CB-CA에서는 클러스터 헤드 메쉬 라우터(Cluster Head Mesh Router, CHMR)들 간에는 동일 채널을 사용함으로써 채널 스캐닝과 채널 스위칭을 수행하지 않는다. 해당 클러스터 멤버 라우터(Cluster Member Mesh Router, CMMR)들과의 통신에는 CHMR들 간의 통신 채널에 영향을 미치지 않는 채널을 할당함으로써 멀티채널에서 발생할 수 있는 간섭을 최소화 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2012

The most important criterion for achieving the maximum performance in a wireless mesh network (WMN) is to limit the interference within the network. For this purpose, especially in a multi-radio network, the best option is to use non-overlapping channels among different radios within the same interference range. Previous works that have considered non-overlapping channels in IEEE 802.11a as the basis for performance optimization, have considered the link quality across all channels to be uniform. In this paper, we present a measurement-based study of link quality across all channels in an IEEE 802.11a-based indoor WMN test bed. Our results show that the generalized assumption of uniform performance across all channels does not hold good in practice for an indoor environment and signal quality depends on the geometry around the mesh routers.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.855-857
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• 2007

In recent years, Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a compelling topic to many network researchers due to its low cost in deployment, ease and simplicity in installation and scalability and robustness in operation. In WMN, Gateway nodes (Access Point-AP) are in charge of steering the traffic from the external network (e.g. Internet...) to client devices or mesh clients. The limited bandwidth of wireless links between Gateways and intermediate mesh routers makes the Gateways becomes the bottleneck of the mesh network in both uplink stream and downlink stream. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to permit Gateways collaboratively work to manipulate the traffic to fit our network. They will move the traffic from congested links to the unused capacity on other links.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.421-426
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• 2010

무선 메쉬 네트워크는 쉬운 설치와 향상된 커버리지로 인해 많은 관심과 연구가 진행되고 있다. 예를 들면 메쉬 네트워크에서 throughput을 향상시키는 라우팅 프로토콜에 관한 연구나, 메쉬 링크의 품질을 측정하는 방법 등 다양하다. 하지만 이러한 연구들 중 대부분은 메쉬 라우터의 위치가 고정되어 있다고 가정한다. 하지만 실내 메쉬 네트워크의 경우 관리자가 메쉬 네트워크를 독점적으로 관리하기 때문에 설치 시에 메쉬 라우터를 설치할 위치를 마음대로 결정할 수 있다. 따라서 처음부터 메쉬 네트워크의 성능을 고려하여 메쉬 라우터를 설치하는 것은 성능향상에 필수적이다. 이 논문에서는 유전자 기반 최적화 알고리즘을 바탕으로 메쉬 네트워크의 특성 (간섭, 패킷 전달 토폴로지 등)을 고려한 메쉬 라우터 위치선정 기법을 제시한다. 기존에 메쉬 네트워크는 아니지만 다양한 무선 내트워크에서 기지국이나 AP등을 설치하는 문제가 연구되었고, 메쉬 네트워크의 고정된 메쉬 라우터 집합에서 게이트웨이를 선택하는 문제등이 연구되었지만, 메쉬 라우터의 위치를 선택하는데 있어서, 메쉬 라우터들의 위치나 메쉬 라우터 상에서의 패킷 전송 토폴로지에 의한 간섭을 고려한 연구는 없었다. 다양한 시뮬레이션을 통해 이 논문에서 제시된 기법이 랜덤 선택 기법에 비해 30-40%의 향상을 달성하였음을 보였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.776-781
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• 2008

In this study, ubiquitous health care system attaching in chair to monitor ECG for health care was developed at the unconsciousness state. The system conveniently and simple measured ECG at non-consciousness. We measured the contact impedance to skin-electrode of metal mesh electrodes of the system. Contact impedance enable the electrode to use for ECG measurement. The results are that the impedance of the metal mesh electrodes according to sizes is low when the size is 4$cm^2$. As the result, when the size of the metal mesh electrode is 4$cm^2$, the electrode is fit for ECG measurement. We can acquired by positing the arm on the metal mesh electrode. The ECG signal was detected using a high-input-impedance bio-amplifier, and then passed filter circuitry. The measured signal transmitted to a PC through the bluetooth wireless communication and monitored. Data of the non-constrained ECG system attaching in chair is noise-data when comparing metal mesh electrode with the Ag/Agcl electrode but the data is significant to monitor ECG for check the body state.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권9호
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• pp.976-985
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• 2017

낮은 비용으로 무선 네트워킹 인프라를 구축할 수 있는 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서는 제한된 무선 자원을 효율적으로 이용하기 위해 패킷 전송(특히, 불필요하게 중복되는 패킷 전송)을 신중하게 처리해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 컨트롤러를 통한 중앙 집중식의 관리가 가능한 소프트웨어 정의 네트워킹 기반의 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서 불필요하게 중복 전송되는 데이터의 양을 감소시키기 위해 경량화된 중복 제거기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 중복 제거 기법은 감소되는 트래픽 양을 극대화하기 위해 컨트롤러가 1) 기계학습 기반의 정보 요청, 2) ID기반의 소스 라우팅, 3) 인기도 기반의 캐쉬 업데이트를 통해 중복 제거 효과를 극대화시킬 수 있는 최적의 경로를 결정한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안하는 기법을 통해 전체 트래픽 부하를 18.34%-48.89% 만큼 감소시킬 수 있음을 보여준다.