• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.150-157
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• 2010

Understanding and optimizing the energy consumption of wireless devices is critical to maximize the network lifetime and to provide guidelines for the design of new protocols and interfaces. In this work, we first provide an accurate analysis of the energy performance of an IEEE 802.11 WLAN, and then we derive the configuration to optimize it. We further analyze the impact of the energy configuration of the stations on the throughput performance, and we discuss under which circumstances throughput and energy efficiency can be both jointly maximized and where they constitute different challenges. Our findings are that, although an energy-optimized configuration typically yields gains in terms of throughput as compared against the default configuration, it comes with a reduction in performance as compared against the maximum-bandwidth configuration, a reduction that depends on the energy parameters of the wireless interface.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2005

In this paper, we developed a mobile fingerprint identification system using wireless LAN based on IEEE 802.11 or mobile networks based on CDMA. The proposed system contains a server system to register fingerprints and ID data, clients system which is PDA with WLAN or CDMA module and fingerprint identification module.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.429-432
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 WLAN(Wireless LAN)에서 기본 액세스 방식인 DCF(Distributed Coordination Function)의 성능을 높이기 위하여 개선된 알고리즘을 제안한다. CDMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance)기반인 DCF는 스테이션의 적은 상황에서는 비교적 우수한 성능을 나타내지만 스테이션이 많은 혼잡상황에서는 처리율, 지연율, 충돌률 관점에서 성능이 큰 폭으로 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 패킷 전송 후 충돌이 발생하면 CW(Contention Window)를 4배 증가 시켜주고 패킷의 전송이 성공 시에는 CW를 서서히 줄여주어 연쇄적인 충돌과 잠재적인 충돌을 미연에 방지함으로써 패킷 충돌의 확률을 낮추어 주는 알고리즘을 제안하고 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 성능을 입증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.540-544
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 IEEE802.11a의 규격에 따라 OFDM 무선 LAN 모뎀과 프레임 포맷을 구성하여 시뮬레이션에 의해 BER 성능을 분석하고 수정된 채널 예측 알고리즘을 적용하여 채널예측성능이 개선됨을 보인다. 실내 무선채널로서는 AWGN과 TDL 모델을 적용한 지연확산채널을 고려한다. 우선 AWGN 환경에서 규격에 제시된 전송속도 및 부호율에 따른 OFDM 무선 LAN 시스템의 성능을 분석하고, 다음으로 실내무선채널 환경에서 채널추정이 불완전한 경우에 대한 성능을 분석한다. 기존의 채널추정방식으로서 프리앰블내의 2개의 Long 훈련심볼을 이용하여 채널을 추정하는 경우에 대한 성능을 분석하고, 이를 수정하여 Long 훈련심볼 뿐만 아니라 전체 10개의 Short 훈련심볼 중 8개의 훈련심볼들을 채널추정에 부가적으로 사용하는 방식을 채용한 경우의 성능을 분석하여 기존의 방식과 비교한다. 시뮬레이션 결과에 대한 분석으로부터 수정된 채널추정방식을 적용하는 경우, 잡음을 억제하는 효과가 높아지므로 채널추정오차를 감소시켜서 성능이 개선됨을 확인하였다.

• 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.13 no.5
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• pp.463-471
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• 2011

Cooperative communications using relays in wireless networks have similar effects of multiple-input and multiple-output without the need of multiple antennas at each node. To implement cooperation into a system, efficient protocols are desired. In IEEE 802.11 families such as a/b/g, mobile stations can automatically adjust transmission rates according to channel conditions. However throughput performance degradation is observed by low-rate stations in multi-rate circumstances resulting in so-called performance anomaly. In this paper, we propose active relay-based cooperative medium access control (AR-CMAC) protocol, in which active relays desiring to transmit their own data for cooperation participate in relaying, and it is designed to increase throughput as a solution to performance anomaly. We have analyzed the performance of the simplified AR-CMAC using an embedded Markov chain model to demonstrate the gain of AR-CMAC and to verify it with our simulations. Simulations in an infrastructure network with an IEEE 802.11b/g access point show noticeable improvement than the legacy schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.683-684
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• 2009

최근 IEEE 802.11n 표준의 상용화와 함께 무선랜 환경에서 실시간 멀티미디어 서비스를 이용하려는 수요가 증가하고 있다. 그러나 IEEE 802.11i 보안표준에서 정의한 IEEE 802.1x 인증과정은 끊김 없는 실시간 멀티미디어 서비스를 제공하기에는 핸드오프 지연시간이 너무 길다. 본 논문은 Ticket이라는 새로운 인증 기법을 도입하여 고속의 로밍을 지원하는 핸드오프 메커니즘을 소개한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.9A
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• pp.803-813
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• 2005

This paper explores the throughput performance of CSMA/CA-based DCF protocol over frequency-selective, slow Ricean fading channels with both the $E_{b}/N_{o}$ and BER at the MAC layer in the 802.1 la wireless LAN. By exploring the throughput of DCF protocol with the data rate of 6Mbps, 12 Mbps, 24 Mbps and 54 Mbps, we find the fact that the higher the $E_{b}/N_{o}$ be and the less the BER be, the higher the throughput be.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.53-56
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• 2015

In this paper, we want provide improved services with faster transmission, IEEE 802.11n was standardized. A-MPDU (Aggregation MAC Protocol Data UNIT) is a vital function of the IEEE 802.11n standard, which was proposed to improve transmission rate by reducing frame transmission overhead. In this paper, we show the problems of TCP retransmission with A-MPDU and propose a solution utilizing the property of TCP cumulative ACK. If the transmission of an MPDU subframe fails, A-MPDU mechanism allows selective re-transmission of failed MPDU subframe in the MAC layer. In TCP traffic transmission, however, a failed MPDU transmission causes TCP Duplicate ACK, which causes unnecessary TCP re-transmission. Furthermore, congestion control of TCP causes reduction in throughput. By supressing unnecessary duplicate ACKs the proposed mechanism reduces the overhead in transmitting redundant TCP ACKs, and transmitting only a HS-ACK with the highest sequence number. By using the RACK mechanism, through the simulation results, it was conrmed that the RACK mechanism increases up to 20% compared the conventional A-MPDU, at the same time, it tightly assures the fairness among TCP flows.