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TDM based MAC protocol for throughput enhancement in dense wireless LANs area

무선 랜 밀집 지역의 전송률 향상을 위한 시분할 매체 접근 제어 프로토콜

  • Kwon, Hyeok-Jin (Department of Computer Engineering, Hanbat National University) ;
  • Hwang, Gyung-Ho (Department of Computer Engineering, Hanbat National University)
  • Received : 2018.01.22
  • Accepted : 2018.01.30
  • Published : 2018.03.28

Abstract

The number of stations existing in the same wireless channel is increasing due to the spread of the wireless LAN devices. CSMA/CA, a conventional wireless LAN protocol, uses a random backoff method. In the random backoff scheme, collision between stations is frequent in a dense region where the number of stations existing in the same channel is several tens or more, and the performance of the performance degradation of such a protocol, the IEEE 802.11ah standard proposed a Restricted Access Window(RAW) wireless access method. RAW improves performance by limiting the number of concurrent access stations by dividing the stations into several groups. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the performance of channel connection by using new group creation, group removal and group relocation algorithm according to traffic change by improving existing RAW method.

무선 랜 기기의 보급에 따라 같은 무선 채널에 존재하는 단말의 수가 증가하고 있다. 기존의 무선 랜 프로토콜인 CSMA/CA는 랜덤 백오프 방식을 사용한다. 랜덤 백오프 방식은 같은 채널에 존재하는 단말의 개수가 수십 개 이상되는 밀집 지역에서 단말간의 충돌이 잦아 표준 CSMA/CA 프로토콜의 성능 저하가 심각하게 발생한다. 이와 같은 프로토콜의 성능 저하를 막기 위해 IEEE 802.11ah 표준에서는 Restricted Access Window(RAW) 무선 접속 방식을 제안하였다. RAW는 단말을 여러 그룹으로 나눠 동시 접속 단말의 수를 제한하여 성능을 개선하였다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 RAW방식을 개선하여 트래픽 변화에 따른 새로운 그룹생성, 그룹 제거와 그룹 재배치 알고리즘을 사용하여 채널 접속에 관한 성능을 높일 수 있는 방안을 제시한다.

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