• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1006-1022
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• 2010

In this paper, a cross-layer resource allocation mechanism is proposed for wireless multimedia service. In particular, a game theory based on quality of service (QoS) for multimedia users is introduced to deal with the fairness of network resource allocation in wireless networks. Moreover, the channel states of wireless users are additionally regarded under the cross-layer design in WiMAX environment. In details, the bargaining solution is adopted to discover the efficient and fair resource allocation strategy for multimedia service in considering QoS in the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and the channel states in the carrier-to-interface ratio (CINR). The proposed mechanism is illustrated and evaluated by simulation results of transmitting video sequences in WiMAX environment.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.1238-1244
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• 2008

현재의 계층 간 네트워크 구조에서 각 레이어는 서로 독립적으로 작동하도록 설계되어 있다. 하지만 가변하는 통신 환경에 적응하기 위해 서로 다른 레이어 간에 통합 적응하는 크로스레이어를 디자인해야 할 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 크로스레이어 기반의 스케줄링 기법에 대해 다룬다. 기존의 스케줄링 기법들을 살펴보고 향후 무선통신환경에서 적용될 멀티미디어 서비스에 따른 스케줄링 기법을 제시한다. 이 기법은 멀티미디어 서비스의 다양성을 반영하여 좀더 효율적으로 무선자원을 관리한다. 그리고 무선 적응성을 향상시키기 위해 AMC를 적용하여 스케줄링 기법의 성능을 향상시켰다. 이렇게 제시된 기법은 다양한 환경을 적용하여 시뮬레이션을 통해 그 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2006

High-rate wireless personal area network (HR-WPAN) has been standardized by the IEEE 802.15.3 task group (TG). To support multimedia services, the IEEE 802.15.3 TG adopts a time-slotted medium access control (MAC) protocol controlled by a central device. In the time division multiple access (TDMA)-based wireless packet networks, the packet scheduling algorithm plays a key role in quality of service (QoS) provisioning for multimedia services. In this paper, we propose an adaptive cross-layer packet scheduling method for the TDMA-based HR-WPAN. Physical channel conditions, MAC protocol, link layer status, random traffic arrival, and QoS requirement are taken into consideration by the proposed packet scheduling method. Performance evaluations are carried out through extensive simulations and significant performance enhancements are observed. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed scheme remains stable regardless of the variable system parameters such as the number of devices (DEVs) and delay bound.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권11B호
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• pp.1216-1224
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 이동 애드 혹 네트워크상에서 지연에 민감한 멀티미디어 데이터를 효과적으로 전송하기 위한 크로스레이어 기반 패킷 스케줄링 및 라우팅 기법을 제안한다. 우선 패킷 긴급도, 노드 긴급도, 경로 긴급도를 각 패킷의 종단 간 지연 요구사항과 경로 상의 전체 홉 수를 고려하여 정의한다. 제안하는 기법은 긴급도 척도를 기반으로 MAC 계층에서의 패킷 스케줄링 기법과 네트워크 계층에서의 라우팅 기법이 긴밀하게 결합되어 이동 애드 혹 네트워크상에서 지연에 민감한 멀티미디어의 전송 성능을 향상시킨다. 마지막으로, 실험 결과를 통해 제안 하는 전송 기법의 성능을 검증한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.178-202
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• 2012

In this paper, we first survey cross-layer architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). Afterwards, we propose a novel cross-layer architecture for QoS provisioning in clustered and multi-hop based WMSNs. The proposed architecture provides support for multiple network-based applications on a single sensor node. For supporting multiple applications on a single node, an area in memory is reserved where each application can store its network protocols settings. Furthermore, the proposed cross-layer architecture supports heterogeneous flows by classifying WMSN traffic into six traffic classes. The architecture incorporates a service differentiation module for QoS provisioning in WMSNs. The service differentiation module defines the forwarding behavior corresponding to each traffic class. The forwarding behavior is primarily determined by the priority of the traffic class, moreover the service differentiation module allocates bandwidth to each traffic class with goals to maximize network utilization and avoid starvation of low priority flows. The proposal incorporates the congestion detection and control algorithm. Upon detection of congestion, the congested node makes an estimate of the data rate that should be used by the node itself and its one-hop away upstream nodes. While estimating the data rate, the congested node considers the characteristics of different traffic classes along with their total bandwidth usage. The architecture uses a shared database to enable cross-layer interactions. Application's network protocol settings and the interaction with the shared database is done through a cross-layer optimization middleware.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1347-1360
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• 2018

Owing to limited energy in wireless devices power saving is very critical to prolong the lifetime of the networks. In this regard, we designed a cross-layer optimization mechanism based on power control in which source node broadcasts a Route Request Packet (RREQ) containing information such as node id, image size, end to end bit error rate (BER) and residual battery energy to its neighbor nodes to initiate a multimedia session. Each intermediate node appends its remaining battery energy, link gain, node id and average noise power to the RREQ packet. Upon receiving the RREQ packets, the sink node finds node disjoint paths and calculates the optimal power vectors for each disjoint path using cross layer optimization algorithm. Sink based cross-layer maximal minimal residual energy (MMRE) algorithm finds the number of image packets that can be sent on each path and sends the Route Reply Packet (RREP) to the source on each disjoint path which contains the information such as optimal power vector, remaining battery energy vector and number of packets that can be sent on the path by the source. Simulation results indicate that considerable energy saving can be accomplished with the proposed cross layer power control algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5286-5306
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• 2016

Emerging applications in automation, medical imaging, traffic monitoring and surveillance need real-time data transmission over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS) for real-time traffic over WSNs creates new challenges. Rapid penetration of smart devices, standardization of Machine Type Communications (MTC) in next generation 5G wireless networks have added new dimensions in these challenges. In order to satisfy such precise QoS constraints, in this paper, we propose a new cross-layer QoS-provisioning strategy in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). The network layer performs statistical estimation of sensory QoS parameters. Identifying QoS-routing problem with multiple objectives as NP-complete, it discovers near-optimal QoS-routes by using evolutionary genetic algorithms. Subsequently, the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer classifies the packets, automatically adapts the contention window, based on QoS requirements and transmits the data by using routing information obtained by the network layer. Performance analysis is carried out to get an estimate of the overall system. Through the simulation results, it is manifested that the proposed strategy is able to achieve better throughput and significant lower delay, at the expense of negligible energy consumption, in comparison to existing WMSN QoS protocols.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.853-863
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• 2015

In this paper, we proposed cross-layered approach of video codec and communication system for the efficient video streaming service. Conventional video streaming is served by divided system which consist of video codec layer and communication layer. Its disintegration causes the limitation of the performance of video streaming service. With the cross-layered design, each layer could share the information and the service is able to enhance the performance. And we proposed the selective retransmission method in communication system based on the cross-layered system that reflect the information of encoded video data. Selective retransmission method which consider the characteristics of video data improves the performance of video streaming services. We verified the proposed method with raw format full HD test sequence with H.264/AVC codec and MATLAB simulation. The simulation results show that the proposed method improves about 10% PSNR performance.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.15-24
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• 2008

본 논문은 모바일 ad-hoc 무선 센서 네트워크에서 전력 절약 고속의 멀티미디어 서비스를 지원하는 Cross-Layer 전송 구조(CLTA)를 제안한다. 본 논문의 주요한 목적은 모바일 ad-hoc 무선 센서 네트워크에서 경로들의 생존시간(lifetime)을 증가시키기 위해서 노드들의 이동성 기반위에서 경로의 안정성을 결정하는 방법과 전송전력을 절약하는 방법을 제안하고 보여주는 것이다. 이러한 목적을 달성하기 위해서 본 연구에서는 네트워크 계층 기술과 물리계층 기술의 융합과 상호 유기적인 관계로 인해서 시너지 효과를 얻을 수 있는 Cross-Layer 구조 전략을 제안한다. 기존의 연구들은 주로 고정된 노드들로 구성된 센서 필드 환경에서 연구가 진행된 반면에, 본 논문은 센서 필드에서 고정된 노드들뿐만 아니라 이동 센서노드들도 함께 고려한 좀 더 실제적인 환경에서 연구가 진행된다. 제안된 구조(CLTA)의 성능평가는 시뮬레이션과 이론적인 분석을 통하여 이루어진다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.1404-1414
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• 2016

Cross-layer design is a concept, which captures the dependencies and interactions and enables information sharing among layers in order to improve the network performance and security. There are two key challenges in wireless networks, lossy features of links and power assumption of network nodes. Cross-layer design of congestion control and power allocation in wireless lossy networks has been studied in the existing literature; however, there has been no contribution proposed in the literature that exploits the path diversity. In this paper, we are motivated to develop a cross-layer design of congestion control and power allocation, which takes into account lossy features of wireless links and transmission powers of network nodes and can be implemented in a distributed manner. Numerical simulation is conducted to illustrate the performance of our proposed algorithm and the comparison with current alternative approaches.