• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.885-896
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• 2013

MTC(Machine Type Communications), providing a variety of services anytime and anywhere by connecting the cellular network to the machine and things without human intervention, is being considered as a major challenge of the next-generation communications. Currently, When a massive MTC devices simultaneously connect to the network, each MTC device needs an independent access authentication process. Because of this process, authentication signaling congestion and overload problems will cause in LTE-Advanced. In this paper, we propose a group-based authentication protocol and a key management protocol. For managing the MTC devices as group units, the proposed protocol elects a group leader and authentications only once with the core network. After the authentication is completed, a group leader manages the rest members and MME(Mobility Management Entity) by constructing a binary tree. Finally, the propose protocol analysis show that the proposed protocol not only can reduces the authentication signaling which generated in between the MTC devices and the core network but also can manages the MTC devices, efficiently.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.143-152
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• 2012

본고에서는 Machine Type Communications(MTC) 표준화 동향을 소개한다. MTC는 사람이 개입하지 않는 상태에서 기기 및 사물 간에 일어나는 통신이라고 정의하고 있고, 사물의 이동성, 도서, 산간, 해양 등을 포함하는 광범위한 서비스 지역, 네트워크의 운영 및 유지보수의 용이성, 신뢰도 높은 데이터 전송을 위한 보안, 그리고 서비스 품질 보장 등을 고려하여, 이동통신 네트워크를 기반으로 하는 사물통신을 수용하기 위한 것이다. 우선 M2M(Machine to Machine) 개념 및 3GPP(3rd Generation Partnership Project)에서 도출한 응용 분야를 기술하고, 이어서 3GPP MTC 표준화 일정을 살펴보고, 현재까지의 주요 표준 문서의 작성 내용 중 MTC 요구사항의 정의와 구조 모델의 정의, 과부하 제어를 위한 표준화가 주된 내용으로 2011년 9월에 완성된 Release 10 NIMTC(Network Improvements for MTC) 내용을 살펴보고, 마지막으로 현재 3GPP RAN(Radio Access Network)1에서 활발하게 논의되고, 작성하고 있는 저가의 MTC 단말을 지원하기 위한 방안에 대한 기술보고서의 내용에 대해서 살펴보았다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.59-69
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• 2012

모든 사물들을 네트워크를 통해 연결하므로 언제 어디서나 다양한 서비스를 손쉽게 이용할 수 있게 하는 M2M(Machine to Machine)/IoT(Internet of Things)가 차세대 통신을 위한 주요 이슈로 고려되고 있으며, 여러 네트워크 중 이동통신 네트워크를 기반으로 하는 M2M에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. UMTS(Universal Mobile Telecom. System), LTE(Long Term Evolution) 등 대표적인 이동통신 시스템을 위한 표준화 단체인 3GPP(3rd Generation Partnership Project)에서는 2005년 M2M을 위한 타당성 연구를 시작으로, 2008년부터 Machine Type Communications(MTC)를 위한 본격적인 표준화 작업이 진행되었으며, 현재 Release 10을 위한 규격 작업을 마무리하고 Release 11 및 12를 위한 표준규격을 작성하고 있다. 본고에서는 3GPP에서 진행하고 있는 MTC의 표준화 현황을 간략히 기술한다.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.287-295
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• 2017

Recently, MTC (Machine Type Communication) is known as an important part to support IoT (Internet of Things) applications. MTC provides network connectivities between MTC devices without human intervention. In MTC, a large number of devices try to access over communication resource with a short period of time. Due to the limited communication resource, resource contention becomes severe and it brings about access failures of devices. To solve the problem, it needs to regulate device accesses. In this paper, we present an efficient access management scheme. We measure the number of devices which try to access in a certain time period and predict the change of the number of devices in the next time period. Using the predicted change, we control the number of devices which try to access. To verify our scheme, we conduct experiments in terms of success probability, failure probability, collision probability and access delay.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.11
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• pp.487-494
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• 2014

This paper focuses on an advanced congestion control scheme for M2M(Machine-to-Machine) communications in 3GPP LTE-A standard. A large number of MTC(Machine-type-Communication) devices try to access to LTE-A networks and send data to the networks all at once. In this characteristics, M2M communications will bring the serious network congestion problems into LTE-A cellular networks. To solve this critical problem, a congestion control mechanism will be required and it has been studied since Rel-10 LTE-A systems based on backoff mechanism for mobility management and session management. In this paper, we briefly introduce the main concept and operation about the congestion control scheme in 3GPP LTE-A standard. Also, simulation results for the basic congestion control and advanced congestion control scheme in MTC communication environment are provided and the improvement direction is considered in future 3GPP LTE-A standard.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.157-165
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• 2017

Intelligent transportation systems are currently being developed for elemental technology development of cooperative intelligent transport systems, which enable vehicles to communicate with each other or reduce the risk of traffic accidents, We have been defining and standardizing services according to the purpose of solving traffic safety problems depending on countries. Therefore, in this study, the developed countries of V2X(vehicle-to-everything) based on USA, Europe, Japan, etc., analyzed the service cases selected in the field demonstration stage after completion of the element technology devanalyzed the service cases selected in the field demonstration stage after completion of the element technology development, and to suggest the direction of futureelopment, and to suggest the direction of future policy direction.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.12
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• pp.1113-1118
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• 2012

Smart grid and intelligent transportation system draw significant interest since they are considered as one of the green technologies. These systems require a large number of sensors, actuators, and controllers. Also, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is important because of the automatic control. The LTE-Advanced networks is preparing a set of functions that facilitate the M2M communications, and particularly the development of an efficient call admission control mechanism is critical. A method that groups MTC devices according to QoS constraints and determines the admission depending on the QoS satisfaction is limitedly applied only if the data transmission period and the maximum delay are identical. This paper proposed a call admission control that is free from such limitation and also optimizes the admission process under the certain condition of the transmission period and maximum delay. The theorems regarding the proposed method are presented with the proofs. The simulations confirms its validity and shows it is better in call admission probability than existing works.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.498-514
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• 2012

Machine to machine (M2M) communications is the hottest issue in the standardization and industry area, it is also defined as machine-type communication (MTC) in release 10 of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Recently, most research have focused on congestion control, sensing, computing, and controlling technologies and resource management etc., but there are few studies on security aspects. In this paper, we first introduce the threats that exist in M2M system and corresponding solutions according to 3GPP. In addition, we present several new security issues including group access authentication, multiparty authentication and data authentication, and propose corresponding solutions through modifying existing authentication protocols and cryptographic algorithms, such as group authentication and key agreement protocol used to solve group access authentication of M2M, proxy signature for M2M system to tackle authentication issue among multiple entities and aggregate signature used to resolve security of small data transmission in M2M communications.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.245-251
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• 2016

Despite the exponential throughput improvement in mobile communications systems, their ability to satisfy requirements of state-of-the-art and future applications of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is still under investigation. Challenges are mainly due to the inadequacy of third generation partnership project (3GPP) networks to support large amounts of devices simultaneously, while the number of AMI end-devices and the frequency of their data transmission increase with new AMI-based applications. In this introductory survey, innovative and future AMI applications and their communication requirements are first reviewed. Then, we identify challenges of 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) in enabling future AMI applications. More importantly, the latest improvements to LTE-A standard release 12 and 13 are reviewed and analyzed with regards to their potential to improve the quality of LTE-enabled AMI. It is found that 3GPP enhancements on machine type communications (MTC) standards will significantly enhance AMI communications. Beyond MTC specifications, non-MTC-specific enhancements such as carrier aggregation and multi-connectivity for user equipment will also contribute greatly to improving reliability and availability of AMI devices. The paper's focus is towards improved backhaul support for innovative and future AMI applications, beyond traditional automatic meter reading.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.541-543
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• 2013

사람이 개입할 필요 없이 기기 및 사물들을 셀룰러 망으로 연결하여 언제 어디서나 다양한 서비스를 제공하는 MTC(Machine Type Communications)는 차세대 통신의 주요 이슈로 고려되고 있다. 하지만 MTC 환경은 다수의 단말들이 존재하기 때문에 LTE-Advanced 네트워크에 상당한 혼잡과 부하 문제를 줄 수 있다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 단말 간 직접 통신 기술이 등장하였다. 본 논문에서는 단말 간 직접 통신에서 eNB와의 통신을 줄이고, 그룹 간의 안전한 통신이 가능한 그룹 키 관리 기법을 제안하고, 이에 따른 연산 및 통신 오버헤드를 분석한다.