• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.107-114
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• 2017

In beacon-enabled mode, beacon collision is a significant problem for the scalability of cluster-tree wireless sensor networks. In this paper, multi-channel time division scheduling (MCTS) is proposed to prevent beacon collisions and provide scalability. A coordinator broadcasts a beacon frame, including information on allocated channels and time-slots, and a new node determines its own channel and time-slot. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by comparing the proposed approach with a typical ZigBee. MCTS prevents beacon collisions in cluster-tree wireless sensor networks. It enables large-scale wireless sensor networks based on a cluster tree to be scalable and effectively constructed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.427-428
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• 2009

무선 네트워크 환경에서 합법적인 AP(Access Point)의 MAC 주소, SSID(Service Set Identifier), 채널등의 정보를 이용하여 복제된 AP(Cloned Access Point)를 만들 수 있다. 복제된 AP는 합법적인 AP와 연결되어 있는 무선 스테이션들의 연결 설정을 끊고 자신과 연결 설정을 하게 한다. 무선 스테이션들이 복제된 AP와 통신을 하게 되면서 많은 공격으로부터 노출되게 된다. 본 연구에서는 복제된 AP가 설치되었을 때 무선 스테이션들이 합법적이 AP의 비콘 프레임과 복제된 AP 비콘 프레임의 시퀀스 번호를 이용하여 복제된 AP을 판별하였다. 시뮬레이터 NS-2를 이용하여 실험한 결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 메커니즘을 통해 무선 스테이션들이 복제된 AP의 등장을 판별할 수 있게 되어 보다 안전한 무선랜 환경을 구축할 수 있게 되었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.4A
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• pp.365-372
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• 2007

In IEEE 802.11b wireless network, stations synchronize themselves to the beacons periodically sent by the access point(AP) when they are running in low power mode. In case of missing beacon due to noise or traffic from neighboring wireless network stations must be awake until they get the next beacon, which causes energy consumption in stations. In this paper, we propose a scheme searching next beacon consuming little energy. The problems of missing beacon in low power mode of IEEE 802.11b wireless interface are described and a new method to reduce energy consumption is proposed. The proposed method is simulated with the network simulator, ns2, and compared with the low power mode of the IEEE 802.11b. The result measured in terms of station's wakeup time shows some enhancement in energy consumption when some errors occur in receiving frames.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.55-60
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• 2016

In the traditional wireless LAN model, scan procedure to search a new AP starts when the predefined number of Rx failure of beacon frames are occurred. In this case, lots of data packet loss occur during MN's handover because loss of the relatively longer data packet starts before the small-sized beacon loss. Newly developed scanning mechanism in this paper has the beacon counter that increases when the Rx power level of beacon frame is less than the threshold and the previous rx power level. New scan procedure starts when the counter exceeds the predefined number. Beacon Rx power threshold is verified and performance of the new WLAN model is evaluated under UDP and TCP traffic environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.755-761
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• 2013

Medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless sensor networks make sensor nodes on state for energy-efficiency only when necessary. In this paper we present an energy efficient priority-based MAC protocol for energy-harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). For support priority-based packet transmission the proposed EEPB-MAC protocol uses the modified IEEE 802.15.4 beacon frames including priority bit, sender node address, and NAV value fields. A receiver node periodically wakes up, receives sender beacon frames, selects data sending sender, and broadcasts a beacon frame containing the selected sender's address. A receiver node selects sender node according to sender's data priority. A receiver nodes also adjust wake up period based on their energy states. Hence, the energy consumption of receiver node can be minimized. Through simulations and analytical analysis, we evaluate the performance of our proposed the EEPB-MAC protocol and compare it against the previous MACs. Results have shown that our protocol outperforms other MAC in terms of energy consumption, higher priority packet delivery delay.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.11B
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• pp.1373-1382
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• 2011

Zigbee is communication technology most ideal because Zigbee support low power communication and wide expansion in wireless home network. However, Zigbee is not popular, because of Zigbee always has Hidden Node Problem and Transit Delay Problem. We propose new Beacon Frame structure to solve the two problem in Zigbee. New Beacon Frame structure reduces a Super Frame Duration and add a same space of a Control Frame Duration. We expect to solved method of Hidden Node Problem that exchange terminal information to using RTS/CTS. Also, We expect to solved method of Transit Delay Problem that put Beacon between Control Frame Duration and Super Frame Duration for synchronization. We confirm new Beacon Frame to solved two problem in OPNET simulation at Zigbee QoS Parameters. We measure Delay(sec) for solution degree of Transit Delay Problem, and measure Throughput(bits/sec) and Load (bits/sec) for solution degree of Hidden Node Problem.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.855-860
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• 2017

One of the most important issues in Wireless Sensor Networks is to save energy of the sensor node. But transmission latency is also the problem to solve for some applications such as military surveillance, object tracking. In these applications sensor node needs to send lots of data in limited time when an even such as object appearance occurs. So a delay efficient data transmission method is required. In this paper we propose a MAC protocol adequate for those applications. This paper proposed a low delay data transmission mechanism for military surveillance in wireless sensor networks. In the MAC protocol, a receiver node sends another beacon frame to sender node after receiving data packet. Using this second beacon frame, fast hop-to-hop transmission can be performed. Results have shown that the proposed MAC control mechanism outperformed RI-MAC protocol in the terms of latency.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.98-100
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• 2008

최근 무선통신 기술의 발달과 편리성으로 무선 랜의 활용 증가하고 있다. 이와 더불어 무선 랜의 보안 위협과 취약성에 대하여 이슈화 되고 있다. 따라서 IEEE에서는 802.11 표준안을 제정하고 무선 랜의 보안 취약점을 보완하기 위해 802.11i등 새로운 표준들을 제정하고 있지만, 아직까지 해결되지 않은 보안 위협들이 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 액세스 포인트의 비콘 프레임을 이용하여 건물 내 액세스 포인트의 보안 상태 와 비인가 액세스 포인트를 탐지하는 시스템과 RSSI, 삼각측량범 및 칼만필터 알고리즘을 사용한 위치탐지 알고리즘을 제안하고, 기존 탐지 알고리즘과 제안 알고리즘의 결과 비교로 성능을 평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.1-5
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• 2006

초소형 저전력 기기간의 무선 통신을 위한 표준인 IEEE 802.15.4는 하나의 PAN 내부에서의 데이터 교환을 위한 메커니즘만을 제공한다. 따라서 다수의 PAN이 인접해 있을 경우 비콘 프레임 및 데이터 프레임의 충돌이 발생할 수 있으며 이러한 문제는 PAN의 이동성이 증가됨에 따라 더욱 심각해진다. 또한 ISM 주파수 대역을 사용하는 다른 무선 통신 장치들과의 충돌이 발생할 수 있다. 그러나 현재 IEEE 802.15.4 에서는 이러한 혼잡한 채널을 회피할 수 있는 메커니즘이 없다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해소하기 위하여 PAN을 구성하는 코디네이터와 종단장치들의 채널 변경을 통한 신뢰성 있는 혼잡 채널 회피 기능을 제공하는 채널 스위칭 프로토콜(Channel Switching Protocol, CSP)을 제안하며, 제안한 프로토콜 모듈을 상용 임베디드 장치인 옥타컴의 Nano-24에 구현하여 동작을 검증 하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.452-458
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• 2014

In Wireless Sensor Networks the Medium access control (MAC) protocol has many challenges to solve such as reducing energy consumption, supporting QoS(quality of service) fairness, and reducing delivery delay. This paper proposed a low-delay supporting MAC protocol in multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks. The proposed protocol uses the RB(rapid beacon) frame for reducing delivery delay. The RB frame is a modified IEEE 802.15.4 beacon frame. For sender adaptive-wakeup, the RB frame includes a seed number for determining of a receiver wakeup time. And for next hop receiver adaptive-wakeup, the RB frame includes the length of remaining data packet information. Results showed that our LD-MAC protocol outperformed other protocol in terms of data packet delivery delay.