• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.179-190
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• 2013

Given the bandwidth assignment for dedicated short range communications for use in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) and the expected introduction of equipment in the next few years, we elaborate on how VANET can support infotainment services. We define an architectural model for the integration of VANETs and cellular networks, according to a push mode paradigm where VANETs are used primarily to disseminate service announcements and general interest messages. Cooperation with cellular network is addressed by comparing architecture alternatives. A set of information dissemination protocols for VANETs is compared via simulations on a real urban map. Some results from a lab testbed based on IEEE 802.11p boards are presented along with an application developed for Android operating system to demonstrate the concept of the paper.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1016-1021
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• 2008

A number of wireless technologies have been implemented, but each technology has its limitation in terms of coverage and bandwidth. WLAN and 3G cellular network has emerged to be a complementary platform for wireless data communications. However, the mobility of roaming terminals in heterogeneous networks poses several risks. To maintain secure communications in universal roaming, the effective authentication must be implemented. The focus of this paper is on analysis of authentication architecture involved in integrated WLAN/3G networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.3 s.118
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• pp.265-272
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• 2007

In this paper, a frequency changeable antenna using dual half wavelength loaded line structure is proposed for multiband mobile handset applications. The proposed antenna has a capability of independent frequency shift by controlling two added inductance values in two different bands. Experimental results indicate that the proposed antenna provides enough effective bandwidth to cover $CELLULAR(824\sim894\;MHz)$, $EGSM(880\sim960\;MHz)$, $DCS1800(1,710\sim1,880\;MHz)$, $PCS1900(1,850\sim1,990\;MHz)$ and $WCDMA(1,920\sim2,170\;MHz)$ bands and peak gain variation is only 0.54 dB.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.877-887
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• 2015

This paper is a first-hand summary on our comprehensive live trial of cellular-assisted device-to-device (D2D) communications currently being ratified by the standards community for next-generation mobile broadband networks. In our test implementation, we employ a full-featured 3GPP LTE network deployment and augment it with all necessary support to provide realtime D2D connectivity over emerging Wi-Fi-Direct (WFD) technology. As a result, our LTE-assisted WFD D2D system enjoys the required flexibility while meeting the existing standards in every feasible detail. Further, this paper provides an account on the extensive measurement campaign conducted with our implementation. The resulting real-world measurements from this campaign quantify the numerical effects of D2D functionality on the resultant system performance. Consequently, they shed light on the general applicability of LTE-assisted WFD solutions and associated operational ranges.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.19-29
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• 2011

Cellular network is comprised of several base stations which serve cellular shaped service area and each base station (BS) is connected to the mobile switching center (MSC). In this paper, the configuration modeling and algorithm of a cellular mobile network with the aim of minimizing the overall cost of operation (handover) and network installation cost (cabling cost and installing cost of mobile switching center) are considered. Handover and cabling cost is one of the key considerations in designing cellular telecommunication networks. For real-world applications, this configuration study covers in an integrated framework for two major decisions: locating MSC and assigning BS to MSC. The problem is expressed in an integer programming model and a heuristic algorithm based on Lagrangian relaxation is proposed to resolve the problem. Searching for the optimum solution through exact algorithm to this problem appears to be unrealistic considering the large scale nature and NP-Completeness of the problem. The suggested algorithm computes both the bound for the objective value of the problem and the feasible solution for the problem. A Lagrangian heuristics is developed to find the feasible solution. Numerical tests are performed for the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed heuristic algorithm. Computational experiments show that the performance of the proposed heuristics is satisfactory in the quality of the generated solution.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.6A
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• pp.351-360
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• 2003

To provide good-quality services of multimedia in wireless mobile networks, QoS for multimedia traffic should be guaranteed. However, since the existing QoS guaranteed schemes are designed for fixed networks, they are inadequate in the wireless network environments. Recently, as the size of cells like micro cell or pico cell becomes smaller. Mobile hosts on micro cellular networks, change their location frequently. It causes many drawbacks such as delayed delivery, packet losses and signaling overheads. Because the existing schemes supporting interoperability between RSVP and Mobile If are designed for macro cell environments. Their uses in micro cellular networks can be restricted. In this paper, we propose the CRSVP(Cellular RSVP Protocol) which supports QoS in micro cellular network environments.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.43-54
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• 2003

Due to insufficient available bandwidth resources and the continuously growing demand for cellular communication services, the channel assignment problem has become increasingly important. To trace the optimal assignment, several heuristic strategies have been proposed. So far, most of them focus on the small-scale systems containing no more than 25 cells and they use an anachronistic cost model, which does not satisfy the requirements ity. Solving the small-scale channel assignment problems could not be applied into existing large scale cellular networks' practice. This article proposes a decomposition approach to solve the fixed channel assignment problem (FCAP) for large-scale cellular networks through partitioning the whole cellular network into several smaller sub-networks and then designing a sequential branch-and-bound algorithm that is made to solve the FCAP for them sequentially. The key issue of partition is to minimize the dependences of the sub-networks so that the proposed heuristics for solving smaller problems will suffer fewer constraints in searching for better assignments. The proposed algorithms perform well based on experimental results and they were applied to the Taiwan Cellular Cooperation (TCC) in ChungLi city to find better assignments for its network.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.35C no.5
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• pp.59-68
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• 1998

This paper proposes a neural network algorithm for a channel assignment in cellular mobile communications. The proposed algorithm is developed base on hopfield neural network in order to minimize the number of channel without a confliction between cells. To compare the performance of the proposed algorithm, we used seven benchmark problems selected from kunz's and funabiki's papers. Experimental results show that the convergence times are reduced form 27% to 66% compared with Kunz's and funabiki's algorithm and vonvergence rates are improved to 100%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10A
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• pp.1695-1705
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• 2001

기존의 셀룰러 IP (CIP : Cellular IP) 프로토콜을 개선하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 각 노드에 통합된 페이징 및 루트 정보관리 캐시(PRC)를 구성하고, 그리고 각 노드 및 이동호스트가 핸드오프-상태모드를 갖는 개선된 셀룰러 IP(ECIP : Enahnced CIP) 프로토콜을 제안하였다. ECIP 프로토콜에 대하여 패킷 유실, 핸드오프 지연 및 네트워크 내 트래픽 부하 특성 등을 고찰한 결과, ECIP는 액세스 네트워크 내 노드와 이동호스트의 수, 노드 내 다운링크의 수, 그리고 네트워크 내 페이징 캐시의 분포비율이 증가할수록 CIP와 비교하여 크게 개선되었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2002

Maintaining a proper level of cell lead, system throughput can be maximized by a transmission rate control over the uplink in DS/CDMA cellular system to support integrated services of real-time and delay-tolerant traffic. We find that the cell load-based rate control scheme can be further enhanced by taking the varying channel condition into account In conjunction with some fair scheduling algorithm. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the original cell load-based rate control with the round-robin sharing scheduling scheme.