• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1496-1501
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• 2013

IEEE 802.11 has become the main technology in wireless network. However, performance anomalies, especially in terms of fairness, arise in its use in ad hoc networks. Two independent emitters nodes can easily monopolize the medium, preventing other nodes to send packets. This paper proposes the modified (m,k)-firm scheme which is based on T-MAC to improve fairness. The basic idea is to assign higher priorities to nodes that are closer to a dynamic failure so as to improve their chances of meeting their deadlines. The simulation result shows that the proposed scheduling scheme helps improve the fairness of the DCF.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.3
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• pp.180-187
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• 2014

This paper introduces reliable multicast MAC protocol for cooperative unmanned vehicles. cooperative unmanned vehicles communicate with infrastructure and other unmanned vehicles in order to increase driving safety. They exchange information related to driving and thus it requires real-time and reliable multicast. However, the international vehicular communication standard, IEEE 802.11p WAVE, does not provide a reliable multicast scheme on the MAC layer. To address the problems of reliability, we propose a reliable multicast protocol called WiVCL, which avoids contention and collision. Our evaluation shows that the WiVCL achieves a high degree of reliability and real-time features.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.63-69
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• 2006

Recently there are increasing needs for Internet and various kinds of contents. These traffics for various contents need more amount of data to provide high-quality information and require various QoS depending on the characteristics of contents. However, current Internet service supports BE (Best Effort) service only, therefore IntServ (Integrated Service) scheme and DiffServ (Differentiated Service) scheme are represented to support QoS in IP layer. Moreover, while wireless Internet is getting popular, MAC(Medium Access Control) is also becoming important. This is due to the fact that wireless access, resource allocation and packet scheduling, which are done in another layers before, are performed in MAC layer in many new wireless systems. This paper describes new scheme that provides QoS taking into account the traffic characteristics over Mobile IPv6 network based on IEEE 802.11e EDCF and evaluates the performance through computer simulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.9-18
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• 2004

The IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function(DCF) protocol provides a contention-based distribution channel access mechanism for stations to share the wireless medium. However, the performance of the DCF drops dramatically in terms of throughput, delay and delay jitter as the number of active stations becomes large. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective scheme, called DCF/VG(Distributed Coordination Function with Virtual Group), for improving the performance of the IEEE 802.11 DCF mechanism. In this scheme, each station independently decides the virtual group cycle using the information provided by the carrier sensing mechanism. The virtual group cycle consists of one or more virtual groups and a virtual group includes an idle period and a busy period. Each station operates in only one out of several virtual groups of the virtual group cycle and does not operate in the others. In other words, each station decreases its backoff counter and tries to transmit a packet only in its virtual group like the IEEE 802.11 DCF. Performance of the proposed scheme is investigated by numerical analysis and simulation. Numerical and simulation results show that the proposed scheme is very effective and has high throughput and low delay and jitter under a wide range of contention level.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.11B
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• pp.698-706
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• 2005

In this paper, we investigate the parameters of the IEEE 802.11e MAC protocol, CWmin and AIFS, in terms of their capability of QoS control. The delay and the bandwidth performances are selected as the QoS medics to examine the characteristics of those parameters. A policy on MAC parameters usage, thereby, is proposed. We regard the MAC-level traffic classification as the differentiation in the channel accessibility, and thus the delay differentiation is referred to a main issue of the class-level QoS control. Realizing the tight relationship between the delay performance and the parameter AIFS, we derive an analytical expression of their relationship through an analysis of the MAC mechanism. Various simulations are examined which show the validity of our assertions, and a policy on the parameters usage is proposed based on those observations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.390-393
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• 2006

IEEE 802.11e 과 IEEE 802.11n에서 data의 높은 전송률을 구현하기 위해 Block Ack와 frame agegation 과 같은 새로운 mechanism이 논의 되고 있다. 이러한 mechanism은 각각의 MPDU processing 마다 짧은 응답시간을 요구한다. 본 논문에서는 위의 새로운 MAC을 지원하는 IEEE 802.11i를 위한 효율적인 CCMP 설계를 제안한다. 제안된 설계에서는 한 AES-CCM core에서 MIC calculation 과 정보 암호화가 128bit씩 순차적으로 수행되어지는 mode toggling 접근을 채택했다. 본 설계에서는 응답시간이 44 clock cycle의 짧은 짧은 시간으로 줄었다. 또한 하나의 AES-CCM core를 사용하고 낮은 주파수에서 수용할만한 data throughput과 응답시간을 얻었기 때문에 하드웨어적인 복잡성과 전력 소모를 줄일수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10c
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• pp.475-477
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 을 기반으로 하는 무선 Ad Hoc 망에서 데이터의 송신자 노드와 목적지 노드의 중간 노드들의 전송을 방해하고 채널을 경쟁하는 경쟁노드들이 Shortest­path 라우팅 경로 설정에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 데이터를 전송하는 중간 노드들이 다수의 경쟁노드를 가지고 있을 경우 MAC delay 가 큰 변수로 작용하며 multi­hop 환경이기 때문에 hidden terminal 문제가 발생한다. 또한 AODV 와 같은 on­demand 라우팅 알고리즘은 경로를 찾기 위해서 Route Request 패킷을 브로드캐스트 하는데 이때 브로드캐스트 패킷의 성공적인 전송이 보장되지 않기 때문에 경쟁노드의 방해가 심한 경우 경로를 찾는데 실패할 가능성이 높아진다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 특성들을 근거로 경쟁노드의 수와 분포가 라우팅 경로 선택에 영향을 미친다는 것을 지적한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.12
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• pp.2262-2269
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• 2016

In IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, when a source node with low data rate occupies the channel resource for a long time, network performance degrades. In order to improve performance, the cooperative communication has been proposed. In the previous cooperative communication protocols, relay nodes deliver data packets only for a source node. In this paper, we propose an additional transmission scheme in which relay nodes select an additional source node based on several information and deliver data packets for the original source node and the selected additional source node. The proposed scheme improves performance and provides fairness among source nodes. Performance of the proposed scheme is investigated by simulation. Our results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the previous protocol in terms of fairness index and throughput.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.385-396
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a formal method for modeling and checking an enhanced version of the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance protocol related to the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer, which has been proposed as the standard protocol for wireless local area networks. We deal mainly with the distributed coordination function (DCF) procedure of this protocol throughout a sequence of transformation steps. First, we use the unified modeling language state machines to thoroughly capture the behavior of wireless stations implementing a DCF, and then translate them into the input language of the UPPAAL model checking tool, which is a network of communicating timed automata. Finally, we proceed by checking of some of the safety and liveness properties, such as deadlock-freedom, using this tool.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.6
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• pp.475-480
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• 2007

Recently, wireless networking devices that depend on the limited Battery and power-saving of wireless hosts became important issue. Batteries can provide a finite amount of energy, therefore, to increase battery lifetime, it is important to design techniques to reduce energy consumption by wireless hosts. This paper improved power saying mechanism in Distributed Coordination Function(DCF) of IEEE 802.11. In the IEEE 802.11 power saving mechanism specified for DCF, time is divided into so-called beacon intervals. At the start of each beacon interval, each node in the power saving mode periodically wakes up during duration called the ATIM Window. The nodes are required to be synchronized to ensure that all nodes wake up at the same time. During the ATIM window, the nodes exchange control packets to determine whether they need to stay awake for the rest of the beacon interval. The size of the ATIM window has considerably affected power-saving. This paper can provide more power-saving than IEEE 802.11 power saving mode because ATIM window size is efficiently increased or decreased.