• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.81-90
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• 2007

In the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System), which is one of 3G mobile communication standards, the protocol called UMTS AKA (Authentication and Key Agreement) is used to authenticate mobile stations. However, the UMTS AKA protocol has some weakness, including network bandwidth consumption between a SN (Serving Network) and a HN (Home Network) and SQN (SeQuence Number) synchronization. In this paper, we propose a new improved protocol for UMTS that overcomes UMTS AKA weakness. Our protocol solves the privacy problem caused by IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity)'s disclosure and provides perfect forward secrecy using ECDH (Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman).

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10c
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• pp.133-135
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• 2001

UMTS QoS는 [1]에 정의되어 있는 바와 같이 계층적 구조를 가지고 있다. 즉, 단-대-단 QoS를 위해서는 UMTS QoS의 보장 뿐만 아니라 여러 계층에서의 QoS가 동시에 보장되어야 한다. 즉. UMTS 단일 입장에서 QoS를 보장하기 위해서는 인터넷 서비스 보장 기법과 UMTS QoS 보장 기법간의 변환 기법이 필수적이라 할 수 있다. 현재 winsock2에서는 QoS 보장을 위한 다양한 API가 새롭게 정의되어 있다. 이러한 API는 이동 단말기에 탑재될 것이므로 이 API에서 정의하는 QoS 파라미터와 UMTS망에서 사용되는 QoS 파라미터와의 변환 기법이 필요하게 된다. 본 논문은 UMTS QoS의 계어 측면에서 요구되는 변환기를 구성하는데 필요한 변환 메커니즘을 제안한다. 본 메커니즘은 외부 망과 독립적으로 구성된 UMTS QoS 모델과 Internet QoS 모델로으 변환을 통하여 단-대-단 QoS를 보장하는데 그 목적이 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.282-291
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• 2002

3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) is defining UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) releases which span the transition from GSM/UMTS coexistence to All-IP UMTS networks. The deployment of an UMTS network depends, in the first place, on the intended service offerings and the release an operator chooses to start service with. Other key decisions in-fluencing UMTS deployment relate to the timing of the functional enhancements and capacity increases along the economic life of the network. This paper gives an overview on the architectural and technical options for UMTS deployment. It also outlines the methodology underlying the business plan aimed at estimating the returns from investments in the UMTS infrastructure, thus helping to tune operators’ strategies for UMTS deployment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.103-105
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• 2002

제 3세대 이동통신 시스템인 UMTS/GPRS는 현재 IPv4를 기반으로 MS(Mobile Station)에게 패킷 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 그러나 3GPP의 Release 2000 IM CN(IP Multimedia Core Network) 서브 시스템에서는 멀티미디어 서비스 지원을 위해 인터넷에 연결되어 있는 모든 MS에게 IP를 할당할 수 있도록 IPv6 지원을 필수로 정의하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 UMTS/GPRS에서 IPv4 패킷 서비브 뿐만 아니라 IPv6 패킷 서비스를 지원할 수 있도록 UMTS/GPRS에 다양한 IPv6 변환 메커니즘(dual-stack, funneling, transition)을 적용하여 비교한 후 적합한 UMTS/GPRS 네트워크 모델을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10c
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• pp.205-207
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• 2001

3세대 이동 통신망인 UMTS/GPRS에서 IP 기반의 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 이동단말이 IP 주소를 할당 받고 이 주소를 통하여 데이터 패킷이 전송된다. 하지만 IPv4에서 인터넷 가입자의 폭발적인 증가로 인해 IP 주소 부족 문제를 예견하고 있다. UMTS/GPRS에 IP 주소가 획기적으로 증가하는 IPv6(Internet Protocol version 6) 적용이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 UMTS/GPRS 망에서의 stateless autoconfiguration 절차를 설명하고 이동단말이 DHCPv6 서버와 연동하여 IP 주소를 할당하기 위한 stateful autoconfiguration 방법을 제안한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.22-28
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• 1997

ETSI SMG plays a key role at the development of standards for the UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, a set of standards aimed at the global market. It will be a real Third Generation Global System for Mobile CommunlcaUons adding new features and Introducing relevant technological InnovaUons while evolving from both GSM and ISDN networks. UMTS Is based on the carefully selected market requirements and belongs to the IMT-2000 family. UMTS standardlsaUon Is a market driven process being developed In a close co-operatlon with the UMTS Forum and GSM MoU.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.7
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• pp.943-954
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• 2003

The mobile telecommunication system has been growing exponentially after 1990s due to the high population in a city and the growth of mobile user. In this time, the current mobile system mainly concentrates on the voice communication. However, in the next generation, mobile users want to get very diverse services via mobile terminal such as the Internet access, web access, multimedia communication, and etc. For this reason, the next generation system, such as the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication Services) system, has to support the packet data service and it will play the major role in the system. By the way, since the Web service is based on TCP, most of the Internet traffic TCP traffic. Therefore, efficient transmission of TCP traffic will take very important role in the performance of packet data service. There are many researches about improving TCP performance over wireless network. In those schemes, the UMTS system adapts the link layer retransmission scheme. However, there are rarely studies about the exact performance of the link layer retransmission scheme in the face of dynamic changes of wireless environment over the UMTS system. The dynamic changes of wireless environment, such as wireless bandwidth, can degrade TCP performance directly. So, in this paper, we simulate and analyze the TCP performance in the UMTS system with dynamic wireless environments. Then, we propose a simple scheme for minimizing TCP performance degradation. As a result of simulation, we can find that when wireless environment is changed dynamically, the probability of TCP timeout is increased, and the TCP performance is degraded very much. In this situation, the proposed simple scheme shows good performance. It saves wireless resources and reduces the degradation of TCP performance without large overhead of the base station.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.8B
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• pp.492-501
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• 2007

UMTS-WLAN interworking approach can make the best use of the advantages of both networks by eliminating the stand-alone defects of the two services. For the interworking mechanisms of WLANs and UMTS networks, two major solutions have been proposed, namely loose coupling and tight coupling. The loose coupling approach provides separate data paths for WLAN and UMTS. On the other hand, the tight coupling provides a full integration of the WLAN network and the UMTS core network. The loose coupling has been preferred due to the simplicity and less reconfiguration requirement. However, loose coupling is worse in seamless mobility, QoS provision, and network security. In order to lessen the problems involved in the UMTS-WLAN interworking approaches, we propose a new interworking network architecture and a fast vertical handover scheme by employing Mobility Anchor(MA) for interworking between the two different networks. MA can enable authentication and session initialization before L2 handover of the mobile terminal, so that the seamless and fast vertical handover become possible. Thru analysis and numerical experiments, we proved that the proposed scheme has been validated.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.25-34
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• 2004

UMTS network, evolved from GSM, includes packet core network that consists of SGSNS and GGSNs. Service providers should consider subscriber mobility, location registration, and subscriber distribution when designing packet core networks and network elements. Since one of the major traffic sources for IMT-2000 will be data which has bursty characteristics, new design guidelines for dimensioning of SGSN and GGSN should be proposed under various constraints of system parameters. In this paper, we first evaluate the performance of signaling traffic for packet call subscribers. After that, we also obtain the impact of bursty data traffic on the SGSN and GGSN by simulation, and suggest new dimensioning guidelines for packet core network of UMTS under various environments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.1289-1292
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• 2002

최근 기술 개발의 초점이 전통적인 유선 환경의 데이터 전송 방식에서 무선 환경에서의 고속 패킷 데이터 전송 서비스로 급속하게 변화하고 있다. 현재 ETSI BRAN 의 HIPERLAN/2 나 IEEE 802.11a 등이 무선 광대역 무선 멀티미디어 통신을 위하여 제안되고 있으며, 이에 앞서 3 세대 이동통신에서도 고속의 데이터 서비스를 위하여 2Mbps 급의 WCDMA(UMTS)와 CDMA2000 을 제안한 바 있다. 본 논문에서는 UMTS 의 네트워크 구조를 기술하고 유선환경에서 UMTS 단말기의 물리계층을 제외한 상위 계층을 검증할 수 있는 디버깅 네트워크 구조와 간단한 시뮬레이터를 제안한다. 그리고 Gratuitous ARP 메커니즘을 이용하여 효과적으로 UMTS 단말기의 패킷 영역의 데이터 처리기능을 검증할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.