• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.529-546
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• 2012

To address the need for autonomous control of remote and distributed mobile systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications are rapidly gaining attention from both academia and industry. M2M communications have recently been deployed in smart grid, home networking, health care, and vehicular networking environments. This paper focuses on M2M communications in the vehicular networking context and investigates areas where M2M principles can improve vehicular networking. Since connected vehicles are essentially a network of machines that are communicating, preferably autonomously, vehicular networks can benefit a lot from M2M communications support. The M2M paradigm enhances vehicular networking by supporting large-scale deployment of devices, cross-platform networking, autonomous monitoring and control, visualization of the system and measurements, and security. We also present some of the challenges that still need to be addressed to fully enable M2M support in the vehicular networking environment. Of these, component standardization and data security management are considered to be the most significant challenges.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.147-161
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• 2012

In recent years, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications are under rapid development to meet the fast-increasing requirements of multi-type wireless services and applications. In order to satisfy M2M communications requirements, heterogeneous networks convergence appears in many areas, i.e., mobile cellular networks (MCNs) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are evolving from heterogeneous to converged. In this paper, we introduce the system architecture and application requirement for converged MCN and WSN, where mobile terminals in MCN are acting as both sensor nodes and gateways for WSN. And then, we discuss the joint optimization of converged networks for M2M communications. Finally, we discuss the technical challenges in the converged process of MCN and WSN.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.20-26
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• 2013

We propose PHY Frame Structure for M2M direct communications in licensed frequency band. Especially, the proposed PHY Frame Structure coexists in the same licensed frequency band as currently operating cellular systems. Recently, Machine to Machine (M2M) service markets, including SmartGrid, Mobile Health, and Smart Car, are being rapidly expanded. Supporting M2M services in a specific case can waste Radio Resource in cellular systems. For example, when two M2M terminals communicating to each other are closely located, direct communication is radio resource efficient. In this paper, we set the requirement of maintaining the existing PHY frame structure in cellular systems to meet the backward compatibility. Based on this backward compatibility requirement, PHY frame structure for M2M direct communications is developed while satisfying coexistence with current operating cellular system. The proposed PHY frame structure meets backward compatibility. Accordingly, it is expected that the proposed M2M frame structure is useful for its frequency resource efficiency.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.468-479
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• 2012

Recent advances in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. This communication paradigm has been expected as an automated control and report solution for smart grid. The smart grid enables customers and operators to utilize the collected usage information from a large number of meters with transceivers for efficiency and safety. In this paper, we introduce architecture, requirements and challenges of M2M communications for smart grid. We extract technical issues that should be resolved in M2M communications to support the smart grid via third-generation partnership project (3GPP) cellular networks. We then present the current state of the art of research results to deal with such issues. Finally, we outline the open research issues.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.3789-3809
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• 2015

In this paper, we deal with the problem of M2M gateways' network selection for different types of M2M traffic in heterogeneous wireless networks. Based on the difference in traffic's quality of service (QoS) requirements, the M2M traffic produced by various applications is mainly classified as two categories: flexible traffic and rigid traffic. Then, game theory is adopted to solve the problem of network-channel selection with the coexistence of flexible and rigid traffic, named as flexible network access (FNA). We prove the formulated discrete game is a potential game. The existence and feasibility of the Nash equilibrium (NE) of the proposed game are also analyzed. Then, an iterative algorithm based on optimal reaction criterion and a distributed algorithm with limited feedback based on learning automata are presented to obtain the NE of the proposed game. In simulations, the proposed iterative algorithm can achieve a near optimal sum utility of whole network with low complexity compared to the exhaustive search. In addition, the simulation results show that our proposed algorithms outperform existing methods in terms of sum utility and load balance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.1
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• pp.106-113
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• 2014

This work proposes an analytic framework to estimate the capacity of the link in an M2M gateway that multiplexes a massive number of machine type communication devices. First, we specify the network architecture for M2M communications. Next, we summarize the characteristics of M2M traffic, from which we extract an area about the problem that has to be resolved in the dimensioning of the link capacity. After that we propose a new method to determine the capacity of the link in an M2M gateway. Via numerical experiment reflecting the realistic environment of M2M traffic, we illustrate the validity of the proposed model.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.669-672
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• 2011

최근 IT(Information Technology)와 타(他)산업 간의 융 복합이 촉진되면서 새로운 융합서비스로 사물지능 통신(M2M, Machine to Machine)이 차세대 지능형 인프라 기반의 핵심 서비스로 부각되고 있다. 사물지능 통신은 기존의 통신 인프라를 활용하여 사물정보의 수집, 가공, 처리를 통해 최종 서비스를 제공하는 기술 분야로 PHY, MAC, 라우팅에 대한 기술 이슈보다는 서비스 관점에서의 네트워크 아키텍처 정의와 기능, 서비스 플랫폼 간의 연동, M2M 단말과 네트워크 간의 인터페이스에 대한 연구가 진행 중이다. 본 논문에서는 사물지능통신 융합서비스를 사용자에게 보다 편리하게 제공하기 위한 기존 플랫폼 간의 연동을 위한 요구사항과 방안을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.12
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• pp.1119-1127
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• 2012

The one of features of M2M communications, which are recently attracted attention as a future business of mobile communications, is that there is a large number of devices compared with traditional communication services. Hence, the control signal that are generated by the M2M devices may cause a significant congestion in the network and in order to solve this problem, a standardization is progressing for reducing the redundant signaling by managing M2M devices as a group in 3GPP standardization. In this paper, we propose a method of group based mobility management by managing M2M devices that have the same mobility as a group. In the proposed method, M2M devices that have the same mobility are grouped by the Mobility Management Entity (MME) and the MME elects a group header among the M2M devices in the group. Then, the group header performs the Tracking Area Update (TAU) on behalf of the group members to reduce the signaling overhead of mobility management. With the proposed method, we can achieve 80% decrease of the signaling overhead of mobility management compared with the case where each M2M device individually performs its TAU procedure.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.740-746
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• 2013

Machine to machine (M2M) communication is a converged ICT(Information and Communications Technology) platform which can utilize communications services among people and things anytime, any place in realtime. The M2M platform consists of three components; M2M area networks sensing and generating data of things by various sensors and devices; public networks transporting those data; and M2M applications utilizing the aggregated data. There exist however two practical obstacles to realize the M2M communications in terms of interoperability between the WCDMA-based public network and the local networks based on W-Fi or ZigBee; one is the cost problem required to access the public network, and the other is the lack of a cost-effective modem or gateway to connect two different networks. In this paper, we proposed and implemented a novel M2M platform based on PWW (Person Area Network) which can resolve those two issues by using a proposed gateway connecting the local network and smartphones as application devices without access the WCDMA-based public network. We have shown that the proposed platform is very practical to adopt to the real environment by actual testing with the own developed smartphone applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.332-335
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• 2011

미래 산업으로서 주목받고 있는 M2M(사물지능통신)은 IT 기술, 이동통신, 무선기술 그리고 기기의 발전을 통해 많은 기술 연구가 진행되고 있다. 사람의 개입 없이 이루어지는 M2M 통신환경은 데이터 노출, 도용, 프라이버시 문제 등 여러 가지 보안 위협에 쉽게 노출될 수 있는 가능성이 존재하기 때문에 보안 표준과 안전한 통신 프로토콜 기술개발이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 디바이스의 정보를 서버에 저장하지 않아 공격자가 서버의 공격을 통해 저장된 값을 알아내더라도 디바이스의 정보가 노출되지 않고 디바이스와 서버간의 안전한 통신을 할 수 있는 M2M 보안프로토콜을 제안하고 정형검증 도구를 이용하여 안전성을 분석하였다.