• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.275-284
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• 2010

The current multihome-aware protocols (like stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) or parallel TCP for concurrent multipath data transfer (CMT) are not designed for high-capacity and large-latency networks; they often have performance problems transferring large data files over shared long-distance wide area networks. It has been shown that SCTP-CMT is more sensitive to receive buffer (rbuf) constraints, and this rbuf-blocking problem causes considerable throughput loss when multiple paths are used simultaneously. In this research paper, we demonstrate the weakness of SCTP-CMT rbuf constraints, and we then identify that rbuf-blocking problem in SCTP multihoming is mostly due to its loss-based nature for detecting network congestion. We present a simulation-based performance comparison of FAST TCP versus SCTP in high-speed networks for solving a number of throughput issues. This work proposes an end-to-end transport layer protocol (i.e., FAST TCP multihoming as a reliable, delaybased, multihome-aware, and selective ACK-based transport protocol), which can transfer data between a multihomed source and destination hosts through multiple paths simultaneously. Through extensive ns-2 simulations, we show that FAST TCP multihoming achieves the desired goals under a variety of network conditions. The experimental results and survey presented in this research also provide an insight on design decisions for the future high-speed multihomed transport layer protocols.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.619-628
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• 2016

This paper describes a theoretical framework for rate allocation to maximize the power efficiency of overall heterogeneous wireless networks whose users are assumed to have multihoming capabilities. Therefore, the paper first presents a power consumption model considering the circuit power and radio transmission power of each wireless network. Using this model, two novel power efficient rate allocation schemes (PERAS) for multihoming services are proposed. In this paper, the convex optimization problem for maximizing the power efficiency over wireless networks is formulated and solved while guaranteeing the required quality of service (QoS). Here, both constant bit rate and variable bit rate services are considered. Furthermore, we extend our theoretical framework by considering the sleep-operation management of wireless networks. The performance results obtained from numerical analysis reveal that the two proposed schemes offer superior performance over the existing rate allocation schemes for multihoming services and guarantee the required QoS.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12B
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• pp.1039-1049
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• 2008

Multihoming is an attractive feature for mobile nodes (MN) equipped with multiple network interfaces in a converged networking environment. However, the current standard Mobile IP (MIP) lacks support for multihomed MNs. Accordingly, this paper presents an immediate solution to resolve the problems of multihomed MNs in a UMTS and WLAN interworking system. The interworking system is based on a hierarchical architecture according to the UMTS and WLAN coverage characteristics. The MIP is only operated in the WLANs, and not in the UMTS, allowing the MIP to be used for multihomed MNs with minimal modifications. In addition, MIP binding filters are used to realize the advantages of multihoming, enabling different traffic flows to be transmitted simultaneously through different interfaces. The overall design aims to minimize the modification to the MIP and impact on existing UMTS and WLAN systems. We evaluate the performance of proposed scheme using an OPNET simulator.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.1053-1057
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• 2005

현재 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)의 SHIM6 (Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation) 워킹그룹에서는 Network layer Shim (L3shim)이라는 새로운 IPv6 스택을 정의하여IPv6 환경에서 멀티호밍을 지원하는 방법에 대해 표준을 제정하고 있다. 이 Multihoming은 redundancy, load sharing과 같은 멀티호밍 장점을 지원할 수 있다. 본 논문은 이와 같이 새롭게 정의된 L3shim이 단말에 있을 경우, 단말에서 효과적인 Policy 정책을 통한 load sharing 및 balancing 통한 traffic engineering 방법을 제시한다. 현재 SHIM6 워킹그룹에서는 L3shim을 이용한 load balancing 부분은 다루고 있지 않다. 그러나 멀티호밍의 장점 줌 하나는load balancing이며 실제 load balancing이 지원 됐을 경우 응용 차원에서 많은 장점을 가질 것으로 여겨진다. 따라서 이와 관련한 메커니즘이 필요하며, 이를 위한 선행적인 연구가 필요로 되어진다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.33-40
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• 2007

A multihomed enterprise or AS(Autonomous System) improves reliability and performance by acquiring its Internet connectivity from more than two ISP(Internet Service Provider). Multihoming protocol must allow a multihomed site whose connectivity through one of the ISPs fails to keep its Internet connectivity As one of mechanisms to do this, tunneling mechanism through Non-direct EBGP(Exterior Border Gateway Protocol) is defined. This mechanism makes connectivity to the Internet more reliable, but causes the problem that makes the communication route non-optimal. In this paper, we propose the route optimization mechanism using an extension header in the IPv6 multihoming environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.1412-1418
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• 2005

Recently, more and more portable terminals probably have multiple interfaces to be connected to different access technologies. Each technology has its specific characteristics in terms of coverage area, bandwidth, reliability, etc. For example, the mobile node is equipped with three heterogeneous interfaces; IEEE 802.1lb MLAM link, CDMA Cellular link, and 802.16 WiMAX link These mobile nodes may be reachable through different links at the same time or use each interface alternately depending on the network environment. As like this, the portable terminal equipped multiple interfaces can have many benefits; it should be connect to Internet through other interface in case of occurring to failure for currently activate interface, and it should share a mount of traffic efficiently per interface etc. This environment is called end node Multihoming. However, current most Internet protocols are designed originally with single interface in mind. So these potocols do not provide methods for supporting simultaneous diffentiated use of multiple access technologies. In this paper, firstly we have to refer technical consideration items to use multiple interfaces based on IPv6 simultaneously. And we should propose extended registration mechanism for multiple addresses being acquired from interfaces to support reliable accessibility and vertical handover.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.1065-1069
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• 2005

앞으로의 인터넷은 언제 어디서나 어떤 단말이든지 인터넷에 접속할 수 있어야 하기 때문에 Ehernet, WLAN, Bluetooth, 그리고 CDMA와 같은 이동 통신 인터페이스와 같은 다양한 인터페이스를 단말이 지니고 있다. 이와 같이 두 개 이상의 인터페이스를 가지고 있는 단말은 현재 사용 중인 인터페이스의 문제가 발생했을 경우 다른 여분의 인터페이스를 통해 인터넷에 접근하거나, 효과적으로 traffic을 분산시킬 수 있는 등 많은 장점들을 지니고 있다. 이런 환경을 단말의 Multihoming이라고 하는데 현재까지는 인터넷 상의 프로토콜이 이와 같은 Multihoming을 지원하고 있지 않다. 따라서 본 논문은 이와 같은 IPv6 환경에서 이동 단말의 Multihoming 지원 시 필요한 기술적인 고려사항에 대해 알아보고 필요한 기술에 대해서 선행적인 연구를 수행하고 있다.

• Journal of Scientific & Technological Knowledge Infrastructure
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• s.7
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• pp.141-148
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• 2001

This paper describes a mechanisms for IPv6 multihomming with loadsharing broker, focusing on the interdomain scalability and load sharing with redundancy on IPv6 networks. Unlike currently-practiced IPv4 multihoming, this model does not impact the worldwide routing table size, also it provides inbound load sharing at site level based on router renumbering, and multiple-prefix assigning techniques of IPv6. The proposed model has four modules such as building interfaces MIB module, priority list maintaining module, load detection module, and RRP configuration module.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1311-1313
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• 2009

이동성을 가지는 네트워크 환경이 발생하면서 이를 지원하기 위한 이동 네트워크(NEtwork MObility) 프로토콜이 설계되었다. 하지만 표준 이동 네트워크 기술은 라우팅시에 최적화된 경로를 통하여 패킷이 전달되지 못하는 문제점이 있다. 이를 해결하기 위한 이동 네트워크 경로 최적화 기법이 많이 연구되고 있는데 멀티호밍(multihoming) 환경을 고려하여 경로 최적화를 할 경우 더욱 좋은 성능을 향상을 기대할 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 멀티호밍 이동네트워크 환경에서 내부 경로 최적화를 통하여 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 기법을 제시한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.5B
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• pp.509-516
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• 2009

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol(SCTP) is a reliable transport layer protocol that provides several features. Multihoming is the one of the features and allows an association(SCTP's term for a connection) between two endpoints to use multiple paths. One of the paths, called a primary path, is used for initial data transmission and in the case of retransmission an alternate path is used. SCTP's current retransmission policy attempts to improve the chance of success by sending all retransmissions to an alternate destination address. However, SCTP's current retransmission policy has been shown to actually degrade performance in many circumstances. It is because that, due to Karn's algorithm, successful retransmissions on the alternate path cannot be used to update RTT(Round-Trip Time) estimation for the alternate path. In this paper we propose a scheme to avoid such performance degradation. We utilize 2bits which is not used in the flag field of DATA and SACK chunks to disambiguate original transmissions from retransmissions and to keep RTT and RTO(Retransmission Time-Out) values more accurate.