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Improving the Reliability of Beacon Synchronization of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Protocol using a Reception Time Compensation Scheme

수신 대기시간 보정을 통한 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC 프로토콜의 비컨 동기화 신뢰성 개선

  • 김희철 (대구대학교 정보통신공학부)
  • Received : 2018.04.27
  • Accepted : 2018.06.15
  • Published : 2018.06.30
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Abstract

This paper explores the reliability issue especially associated with the time-division synchronous communication when a networking stack is implemented using software timers provided by embedded operating systems. Especially, we explore the reliability of beacon synchronization of IEEE 802.15.4. Our experiments based on its practical implementation clearly show that processing delays or losses of hardware timer interrupts used for software timers lead to occasional failures in beacon synchronization. To avoid such failures, we suggest a reception time compensation scheme that turns on the receiver earlier than expected.

이 논문은 OS가 제공하는 소프트웨어 타이머를 사용한 네트워킹 스택의 구현 상황에서 고도의 정확성이 요구되는 시분할 동기적 통신의 신뢰성 문제를 다룬다. IEEE 802.15.4를 목표 프로토콜로 선정해 비컨 동기화의 신뢰성 향상 이슈를 상세히 탐구한다. 먼저, IEEE 802.15.4 비컨 모드의 구현에 소프트웨어 타이머를 사용할 때, 소프트웨어 타이머에 사용되는 하위 하드웨어 타이머 인터럽트의 처리 지연 및 유실과 소프트웨어 타이머 관리 오버헤드 등이 실제로 비컨 동기화의 저해 요인으로 작용한다는 점을 실험을 통해 확인한다. 이러한 상황을 개선하기 위한 제안한 비컨 대기시간 보정기법은 비컨 동기화의 신뢰성을 향상시킨다는 점을 입증한다.

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