• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.355-366
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• 2008

This paper proposes a mobile SCTP (mSCTP) handover scheme for vertical handover between 3G wireless and WiBro networks. To evaluate the proposed mSCTP vertical handover scheme, we implement the mSCTP handover supporting system over Linux platform in which the movement of a mobile node is automatically detected and the mSCTP vertical handover is performed by the mobile node. We analyze and compare the performance of mSCTP handover and Mobile IP handover over the preconfigured testbed. From the numerical results, we can see that the handover latency of mSCTP could be much more reduced, compared to the Mobile IP handover, if the mobile node would sojourn long enough in the overlapping region between the two heterogeneous networks.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.4 s.107
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• pp.461-470
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• 2006

Recently mobile Stream Control Transmission Protocol (mSCTP) has been proposed as a transport layer approach for supporting mobility. When a mobile terminal (MT) is not located in the home network. a terminal that wishes to communicate with the MT is not able to establish mSCTP association to the MT, since mSCTP does not include the location management mechanism. In order to solve this problem. an interworking approach using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE method has been proposed. However, this approach has shown subsequent delay in acquiring the current location information of the MT when initiating mSCTP association establishment. In this paper, we propose new SIP methods and an approach that minimizes the address acquisition delay (AAD) by utilizing those SIP methods. Mathematical analysis and simulation results show that the proposed approach is more efficient than the previous approach in terms of AAD in all kinds of SIP environments.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.393-404
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• 2004

Recently, mSCTP (Mobile SCTP) has been proposed as a transport layer approach for supporting mobility. mSCTP is based on the ‘multi-homing’ feature of Stream Control Transmission Protocol(SCTP), and utilize the functions to dynamically add or delete IP addresses of end points to or from the existing connectionin order to support mobility. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to determine when to add or delete an W address, utilizing the link layer radio signal strength information in order to enhance the performance of mSCTP We also propose a mechanism for a mobile node to initiate the change of data delivery path based on link layer radio signal strength information. In addition, if it takes long time to acquire new data path, we propose an approach for reducing handover latency. The simulation results show that the performance of proposed transport layer mobility support mechanism is competitive compared to the traditional network layer mobility supporting approach. Especially, when the moving speed of mobile node is fast, it shows better performance than the traditional network layer approaches.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.227-230
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• 2003

Mobile SCTP (mSCTP) is a new scheme which can be used to provide seamless handover for the mobile node. The reason that is possible is because of the SCTP extension which provides a method to reconfigure IP address on an existing SCTP association (ADDIP). While mSCTP focuses on an association originated ken mobile node (MN) toward fixed correspondent node (CN), mSCTP with Mobile IP support an association originated from CN toward MN by using the Home Agent in Mobile IP and location management. However, there are still some problems related to communication interruption. In this paper, we present a new scheme to solve these problems. The main idea of this scheme is using the home address of MN as a backup path of an SCTP association.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.156-164
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• 2006

The SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) implementation with the DAR (Dynamic Address Reconfiguration) extension is called the mSCTP (Mobile SCTP) that is proposed recently for mobility support in transport layer. The mSCTP does not satisfy short handover latency for real-time applications and it has no specific handover decision mechanisms. In this paper, we propose fast handover schemes for mobile nodes that are moving into different subnet using pre-acquisition RA (Router Advertisement) and L3 trigger for improving handover performance. Furthermore, we introduce three specific methods which are RA cache, FMIPv6 (Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6) and dual interface and how proposed scheme can be interoperated with handover process respectively. Finally, we show two experimental results which are the mSCTP and the mSCTP using FMIPv6 on Linux platforms. Experimental results show that handover performance is improved with reducing the time of receiving RA which takes most of total handover latency.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.6 s.102
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• pp.917-926
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a transport layer mobility support protocol for multimedia streaming services in mobile/wireless environments by extending PR-SCTP to support mobility. We named the proposed scheme to be uPR-mSCTP. The rules related to provide unordered and unreliable data transfer, as well as an approach to minimize handover latency we proposed. Through the simulation results, it is shown that, since uPR-mSCTP reduces transmission rates during handover, not only it reduces the waste of network resources, but it also has the packet loss rate similar to FMIPv6, which is a lot smaller than UDP over MIPv6 or HMIPv6 It also incurs smaller control packet overhead compared to the network layer mobility support approaches.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.87-96
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• 2008

This paper analyzes the handover latency of Mobile IP and mobile SCTP over IPv6 networks. The analytical results are compared with the performance by experiment over Linux testbed. For analysis, we consider the two handover scenarios: horizontal handover and vertical handover. From the results, we see that mSCTP can provide smaller handover latency than Mobile IP. Moreover, mSCTP can give much smaller handover latency for vertical handover, compared to horizontal handover.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1041-1044
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• 2006

This paper proposes a dynamic IP address configuration (DAC) scheme for mSCTP handover, which exploits the information from the link layer to support SCTP handover between heterogeneous access networks. The proposed DAC scheme enables a mobile terminal to automatically add a new IP address in the newly visited region, change the primary path, and delete the old IP address so as to support the mSCTP handover. For experimental analysis of mSCTP handover, we consider the handover scenarios for 3G-BWA and 3G-WLAN over Linux platforms. From experimental results, it is shown that the throughput and handover latency of the mSCTP handover would be affected by the timing of primary-change and the overlapping period.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1225-1228
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• 2007

무선 네트워크와 모바일 기술의 발달로 무선상에서의 통신뿐만 아니라, 모바일 기기의 이동성에 대한 요구가 점점 더 커지고 있다. 모바일 기기의 이동성을 지원하기 위해Fast Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6), Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6)와 같은IPv6기반의 네트워크 계층 프로토콜이 제안되어 왔으며, 최근에는 트랜스포트 계층에서 동작하는 mobile Stream Control Transport Protocol (mSCTP) 가 제안 되었다. 네트워크 계층에서의 이동성을 지원하기 위한 방안 중 하나인 FMIPv6 의 핸드오프 과정은 엑세스 라우터간 양방향 터널링을 설정 함으로서 엑세스 라우터의 버퍼링 오버헤드가 발생하고, 터널링 과정을 위한 메시지 교환으로 인해 핸드오프 지연이 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 FMIPv6 의 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위해 트랜스포트 계층의 이동성 지원 방안인 mSCTP 를 이용한 통합 핸드오프 기법을 제안한다. 양단의 세션을 유지한 채 새로운 IP 주소를 등록 할 수 있는 mSCTP 를 사용 함으로서 FMIPv6 의 터널링으로 인해서 발생하는 엑세스 라우터의 오버헤드와 핸드오프 지연 시간을 줄이고 전체적인 핸드오프 성능을 향상 시킨다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.340-342
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• 2005

차세대 통신망이 AII-IP 기반으로 진화함에 따라 IP 기반의 이동성 프로토콜의 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 특히 차세대 통신망의 주요 서비스로 등장한 VoIP와 같은 실시간성이 요구되는 서비스를 지원하기 위한 심리스(Seamless) 이동성 지원 프로토콜에 대한 연구는 중요하다. 최근, 네트워크 계층에서의 이동성 지원 프로토콜과는 전철 다른 접근 방식인 트랜스포트 계층에서의 이동성 지원 방안으로 mSCTP가 제안되었으며 이에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 우선/이동 네트워크 환경에서 실시간 응용 서비스를 지원하기 위하여 mSCTP를 확장하는 방안을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안하는 방안의 성능을 네트워크 계층에서의 이동성 지원 방안들과 비교한 결과, 핸드오버에 의해 발생되는 패킷 손실률 측면에서는 제안하는 방안이 대부분의 IPv6 이동성 지원 프로토콜들보다 향상된 성능을 보이나 처리율 면에서는 IPv6 이동성 지원 프로토콜보다 조금 낮은 성능을 보임을 알 수 있었다.