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Medium Access Control Using Channel Reservation Scheme in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

해양센서네트워크에서 채널예약방식을 이용한 매체접근제어

  • 장길웅 (한국해양대학교 데이터정보학과 네트워크 연구실)
  • Published : 2009.10.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a medium access control(MAC) protocol for reducing the energy efficiency and for improving the transmission efficiency in underwater acoustic sensor networks. In underwater environment, the transmission delay is longer and bandwidth is smaller than terrestrial environment. Considering these points, we propose a new MAC protocol to enhance throughput and to manage efficiently the energy of nodes. The proposed protocol operates as a channel reservation scheme to decrease data collisions, and uses a mechanism to control the hidden node problem and the exposed node problem occurred in ad hoc networks. The proposed protocol consists of the slotted based transmission frame and reduces data collisions between nodes by putting separately the reservation period in the transmission frame. In addition, it is able to solve the hidden node problem and the exposed node problem by reservation information between nodes. We carry out the simulation to evaluate the proposed protocol in terms of the average energy consumption, the ratio of collision, throughput, and the average transmission delay, and compare the proposed protocol to a traditional MAC protocol in the underwater environment. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperforms the traditional protocol under a various of network parameters.

본 논문에서는 해양센서네트워크에서 에너지 소비를 줄이고 전송효율을 높이기 위한 매체접근제어 프로토콜을 제안한다. 수중환경에서는 지상에 비해 전송지연이 길며 데이터 전송률이 낮은 점을 고려하여 효율적으로 에너지를 관리하며 처리율을 향상시킬 수 있는 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 프로토콜은 데이터충돌을 줄이기 위해 채널예약방식을 사용하며, 애드혹 네트워크에서 발생할 수 있는 숨겨진 노드문제와 노출된 노드문제를 제어할 수 있는 매커니즘을 사용한다. 제안된 프로토콜은 슬롯기반의 전송프레임으로 구성되며, 전송프레임은 전송예약을 위한 예약구간을 별도로 두어 노드 간 충돌을 줄인다. 전송예약과정에서 송수신 노드 간에 예약정보를 이용하여 숨겨진 노드문제와 노출된 노드문제를 해결한다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 평균에너지 소비량, 충돌횟수비율, 처리율, 평균지연시간 관점에서 제안된 프로토콜의 성능을 평가하였으며, 수중환경의 기존 MAC 프로토콜과 비교 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과에서 제안된 방식이 기존의 방식에 비해 성능이 우수함을 볼 수 있었다.

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