• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.681-685
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• 2004

Design of efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols with both high throughput performances is a major focus in distributed contention-based MAC protocol research. In this paper, we propose an efficient contention-based MAC protocol for wireless Local Area Networks, namely, the Developed Collision Resolution (DCR) algorithm. This algorithm is developed based on the following innovative ideas: to speed up the collision resolution, we actively redistribute the backoff timers for all active nodes; to reduce the average number of idle slots, we use smaller contention window sizes for nodes with successful packet transmissions and reduce the backoff timers exponentially fast when a fixed number of consecutive idle slots are detected. We show that the proposed DCR algorithm provides high throughput performance and low latency in wireless LANs.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.41-52
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• 2008

In this paper, we discuss a novel reservation-based, asynchronous MAC protocol called 'Multi-rate Multi-hop MAC Protocol' (MMMP) for multi-hop ad hoc networks that provides QoS guarantees for multimedia traffic. MMMP achieves this by providing service differentiation for multirate real-time traffic (both constant and variable bit rate traffic) and guaranteeing a bounded end-to-end delay for the same while still catering to the throughput requirements of non real time traffic. In addition, it administers bandwidth preservation via a feature called 'Smart Drop' and implements efficient bandwidth usage through a mechanism called 'Release Bandwidth'. Simulation results on the QualNet simulator indicate that MMMP outperforms IEEE 802.11 on all performance metrics and can efficiently handle a large range of traffic intensity. It also outperforms other similar state-of-the-art MAC protocols.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.209-211
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• 2005

This paper proposes a adaptive medium-access control(MAC) protocol designed for low-power wireless multi-hop sensor networks which is used for connecting physical world and cyber computing space. Wireless multi-hop sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing device. We expect sensor networks to be deployed in an ad hoc fashion, with nodes remaining inactive for long time, but becoming suddenly active when specific event is detected. These characteristics of multi-hop sensor networks and applications motivate a MAC that is different from traditional wireless MACs about power conservation scheme, such as IEEE 802.11. Proposed MAC uses a few techniques to reduce energy consumption. Result show that proposed MAC obtains more energy savings.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06d
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• pp.311-314
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• 2011

Wi-Fi 메쉬 네트워크는 IEEE 802.11 표준을 기반으로 노트북, 스마트폰 등의 무선 단말에 인터넷 연결을 제공하기 위한 무선 다중 홉 네트워크이다. Wi-Fi 메쉬 네트워크에서는 무선 채널의 방송 특징으로 인해 발생하는 간섭(Interference) 때문에 프레임 충돌 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 프레임 간섭을 미연에 방지하는 스케줄링 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 각각의 무선 채널에서 간섭 조건을 만족하는 링크 조합을 결정하고, 이를 통하여 Wi-Fi 메쉬 네트워크의 프레임 전달 수율(Throughput)을 극대화함을 목표로 한다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 본 논문에서 제시하는 스케줄링 MAC 프로토콜이 기존에 알려진 CSMA/CA 기반의 MAC 프로토콜에 비해 수율을 50 % 이상 향상함을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.279-282
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• 2003

This paper proposes a medium-access control(MAC) protocol designed for wireless multi-hop sensor networks which is used for connecting physical world and cyber computing space. Wireless multi-hop sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing device. We expect sensor networks to be deployed in an ad hoc fashion, with nodes remaining inactive for long time, but becoming suddenly active when specific event is detected. These characteristics of multi-hop sensor networks and applications motivate a MAC that is different from traditional wireless MACs about power conservation scheme, such as IEEE 802.11. Proposed MAC uses a few techniques to reduce energy consumption. Result show that proposed MAC obtains more energy sayings.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.63-74
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• 2012

Multicast data communication is an efficient communication scheme, especially inmulti-hop ad hoc networks where the media access control (MAC) layer is based on one-hop broadcast from one source to multiple receivers. Compared to unicast, multicast over a wireless channel should be able to deal with varying channel conditions of multiple users and user mobility to provide good quality to all users. IEEE 802.11 does not support reliable multicast owing to its inability to exchange request-to-send/clear-to-send and acknowledgement packets with multiple recipients. Thus, several MAC layer protocols have been proposed to provide reliable multicast. However, additional overhead is introduced, as a result, which degrades the system performance. In this paper, we propose an efficient wireless multicast MAC protocol with small control overhead required for reliable multicast in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks. We present analytical formulations of the system throughput and delay associated with the overhead.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.289-291
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• 2005

무선 애드혹 네트워크에서 주로 사용되는 IEEE 802.11은 모든 노드가 하나의 채널을 공유하기 때문에 높은 throughput을 기대하기 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 여러 채널을 동시에 사용하는 멀티채널 기반의 MAC 프로토콜이 제안되었다. 그러나 기존의 멀티 채널 기반 MAC 프로토콜은 멀티채널을 사용함에도 불구하고 각 노드들이 서로간의 경쟁을 통해 데이터를 전승하기 때문에, 데이터 트래픽이 증가하는 경우 throughput이 급격하게 감소한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 데이터의 전송시간을 일정한 시간으로 나누어 노드들간의 경쟁을 방지함으로써 throughput을 향상시키는 슬롯 기반의 멀티채널 MAC 프로토콜 (Slotted MMAC)을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.502-504
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• 2005

S-MAC은 IEEE 802.11과 같이 경쟁 기반 MAC 프로토콜로써 무선 센서 네트워크에서 전력 소비를 줄이기 위해 제안된 프로토콜이다. 이 프로토콜은 idle listening으로 인한 전력 소모를 줄이기 위해 주기적으로 listen/sleep 상태를 반복하고 sleep 기간 동안 전력 소비를 절약하는 기법을 이용한다. 그러나 S-MAC은 데이터가 발생한 소스 노드에서 목적지 노드까지 데이터가 전달될 때 sleep 모드에 의해 데이터 전달 지연이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 데이터 전달시 Sleep 모드에 의해 발생되는 데이터 전달 지연을 줄이기 위해 데이터 전달과 연관된 sleep 기간 중 어느 일정 기간을 데이터 송수신이 가능한 pseudo-listen 기간으로 전환하여 실시간 개념의 데이터 전달을 제공하는 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.4A
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• pp.421-430
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a practical implementation of network-adaptive HD(high definition) MPEG-2 video streaming with a cross-layered channel monitoring(CLM) over the IEEE 802.11a WLAN(wireless local area network). For wireless channel monitoring, AP(access point) periodically measures the MAC(medium access control) layer transmission information and sends the monitoring information to a streaming server. This makes that the streaming server reacts more quickly as well as efficiently to the fluctuated wireless channel than that of the end-to-end monitoring(E2EM) scheme for the video adaptation. The streaming sewer dynamically performs the priority-based frame dropping to adjust the video sending rate according to the measured wireless channel condition. For this purpose, our streaming system nicely provides frame-based prioritized packetization by using a real-time stream parsing module. Various evaluation results over an IEEE 802.11a WLAM testbed are provided to verify the intended QoS adaptation capability The experimental results show that the proposed system can effectively mitigate the quality degradation of video streaming caused by the fluctuations of time-varying wireless channel condition.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1410-1418
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• 2007

This paper analyzes the throughput of DCF protocol at the MAC layer in the 802.11a wireless LAN. The throughput of DCF protocol is related on probability of backoff, depends on retransmission of each terminal. This paper applied to nonmarcov discrete model for each terminal BER in the base station versus the packet throughput is progressing with the data rate of 6,12,24,54 Mbps, We find the fact that the less the data rate be the higher the throughput. We also find from the throughput calculation by means of traffic intensity in OFDM wireless LAN.