• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.53-58
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• 2012

The roadside unit (RSU) collects vehicle information from vehicles in the intelligent transportation system (ITS). The vehicle density on the road within the communication range of a RSU is a time varying parameter. The higher the vehicle density, the more vehicle information can be collected. Therefore, the probability of packet collision will be raised. In this paper, an adaptive transmission scheme is proposed to improve the probability of packet reception rate by changing the data rate and transmission period according to the vehicle density. The performance of IEEE 802.11p MAC protocol that is a standard for vehicular communications is evaulated in terms of the vehicle density with the ns-2,33 simulator.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.6
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• pp.485-490
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• 2010

IEEE 802.11n supports two frame aggregation schemes, aggregation for MAC service data unit (A-MSDU) and aggregation for MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU), to improve throughput at the MAC layer. In this paper, we propose a cooperative frame aggregation (CoFA), which can recover erroneous frames in a cooperative manner based on A-MPDU. Specifically, CoFA receive multiple frames from direct and relay paths, and combined multiple frames jointly. Numerical results show that CoFA outperforms direct transmission and relay transmission over diverse channel conditions.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.427-428
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 MAC Layer의 Reception, Transmission 검증을 위해 PLI (Programing Language Interface)를 이용한 방법을 제안한다. PLI를 이용한 검증은 시스템 Level의 검증으로써 설계단계에서 문제점을 확인하고 수정할 수 있다. 그러므로 불필요한 개발비의 낭비를 줄일 수 있고 개발 기간 단축의 효과를 거둘 수 있다. 검증을 위해 Mentor Graphics 사의 HDL (Hardware Description Language) 시뮬레이터인 Modelsim 6.1g Version을 사용하고 PLI를 이용하여 검증 환경을 구축한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.132-138
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• 2012

VANET(Vehicular Ad-hoc Network), standardization of IEEE 802.11p specification is in process. 802.11 MAC protocol grants all nodes equal opportunity to acquire channel without regard to their bit-rates, making it possible for lower bit-rate nodes to occupy communication channel for a fair amount of time thus keeping the higher bit-rate nodes from acquiring connection channel which downward-equalize the overall network performance. Also with the 802.11p MAC protocol, the probability of collision occurring increases as the number of nodes grow. The proposed algorithm is a new MAC protocol that guarantees nodes with acquired channel a firm priority over other nodes for a fixed amount of time with TXOP concept added to 'packet burst' according to the current transmitting speed. This newly designed algorithm allows the construction of wireless network with enhanced network throughput, decreased probability of collisions as well as providing the means to grant each node a fair chance of acquiring connection according to their channel conditions. The algorithm sets the CW's (Contention Window) width wider than the standard's and modulates the continuous transmitting threshold value depending on channel acquired time, thus improving the overall performance of the network.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.67-75
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• 2007

최근 다양한 멀티미디어 응용 및 시나리오가 등장함에 따라 멀티캐스트 전송 기법의 중요성이 더욱 부각되고 있다. 본고에서는 무선랜의 MAC 계층 멀티캐스트 기법에 초점을 맞추어 현재 IEEE 802.11 표준에서 정의하는 멀티캐스트 기법은 어떻게 동작하며 그 한계점은 무엇인지 살펴본다. 그리고 본고에서 명시된 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 활용 가능한 IEEE 802.11 무선랜 MAC 계층의 다양한 멀티캐스트 기법 중 대표적인 관련 연구들과 그 문제점을 함께 알아본다. 마지막으로 효율적인 IEEE 802.11 MAC 계층 멀티캐스트 기법을 설계할 때 고려해야 할 요구 사항을 정리한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.11
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• pp.924-933
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a modeling of the broadcasting in the IEEE 802.11p MAC protocol for the VANET(Vehicular Ad hoc Networks). Due to the fact that the beacon message which is needed for the safety services is shared via broadcasting, the analytical modeling of the broadcasting is crucial for the optimum design of the services. Two characteristics specific to the IEEE 802.11p are reflected in the modeling; the time limited CCH interval caused by the channel switching between the CCH and SCH, and no retransmission of the broadcasted messages. In the proposal, we assumed no restriction on the moment of generation of the beacon messages. We allow the messages to be generated and broadcasted within the whole CCH interval. Simulation results prove the accuracy of the proposed modeling. Noticeable improvements are also observed in terms of the performance indices such as the successful delivery ratio, transmission delay, and the variation of the delay.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.581-585
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• 2006

무선랜 환경에서의 효율적인 비디오 스트리밍을 하기위해서는 불안정한 네트워크 대역폭과 패킷지연, 패킷손실 등의 문제가 해결 되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 서비스 품질의 보장을 위해 기존의 Best-effort에 기반한 IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜을 향상시킨 IEEE 802.11e MAC 프로토콜을 이용하여 Cross-layer 기반의 프레임 우선순위화 기법을 제안 하였다. 멀티미디어 트래픽의 프레임 중요도에 따라 다르게 부여한 Priority를 이용해 IEEE 802.11e MAC 프로토콜의 차별화된 데이터 전송을 하였으며, 네트워크 상태 모니터링을 통해 중요도가 낮은 프레임을 우선적으로 폐기하는 적응적 전송율 조절 기법을 제안하였다. 실험 결과는 제안하는 Cross-layer기반의 프레임 우선순위화 기법이 멀티미디어 스트리밍의 종단간 QoS를 향상 시킬 수 있음을 보여준다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.20-25
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• 2013

본고에서는 1GHz 이하 주파수에서 동작하는 Wireless LAN(WLAN) 표준으로, IEEE 802.11ah PHY/MAC 표준 규격에 대해서 알아 본다. IEEE 802.11ah 표준은, Smart Grid, M2M, IoT 와 같이 실내, 실외에서 많은 수의 단말들을 최소한의 전력소모로 데이터 통신을 하기 위한 목적으로 개발되었다. WLAN의 서비스 범위가 1Km 이상으로 늘어나게 되면, 그 동안 WLAN 에서 심각하게 다루지 않았던 Hidden Node 문제가 단말의 전력 소모, throughput performance 을 결정하는 중요한 요소로 등장하게 된다. 특별히 IEEE 802.11ah 에서는, 많은 수의 단말들간에 Hidden Node 을 고려한 Restricted Access Window 라는 새로운 channel access 기법이 제안되었고, 이에 본 고에서는 IEEE 802.11ah 에 새롭게 지원되는 MAC 기능들에 대해 중점적으로 살펴 보도록 한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.311-321
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• 2014

This paper focuses on contention-based medium access control (MAC) protocols used in wireless local area networks. We propose a novel MAC protocol called adaptive backoff tuning MAC (ABTMAC) based on IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). In our proposed MAC protocol, we utilize a fixed transmission attempt rate and each node dynamically adjusts its backoff window size considering the current network status. We determined the appropriate transmission attempt rate for both cases where the request-to-send/clear-to-send mechanism was and was not employed. Robustness against performance degradation caused by the difference between desired and actual values of the attempt rate parameter is considered when setting it. The performance of the protocol is evaluated analytically and through simulations. These results indicate that a wireless network utilizing ABTMAC performs better than one using IEEE 802.11 DCF.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.719-727
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• 2016

This paper proposes a unified medium access control (MAC) design methodology and presents the implementation of the IEEE 802.11ac down-link multi-user multi-input and multi-output wireless local area network MAC using the proposed design methodology. The proposed methodology employs unified code for both network simulation and system implementation. Because the unified code closely relates these two processes, the performance of the implemented MAC system can be estimated before implementation. The MAC architecture for an access point implemented using the proposed design methodology is verified on an ARM-based platform, and it is applied to a 65 nm CMOS library.