• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.5B
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• pp.455-462
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a buffer management scheme for decreasing the packet loss due to buffer overflow and improving the packet fairness between nodes in IEEE 802.11 based multi-hop mesh networks. In the proposed scheme, each mesh router that is an intermediate node receives fairly packet sent from neighboring mesh routers and mobile nodes, and it improves the reception ratio of multi-hop traffic of neighboring mesh routers. Therefore, the proposed scheme can reduce transmission delay and energy consumption. In order to improving the packet loss and the packet fairness, the proposed scheme uses the modified RTS/CTS under the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol and reduces the packet loss by recognizing the packet size to send to the destination in advance. By using the simulation, we evaluated the proposed scheme in terms of the packet loss ratio and the number of received packet in each mesh router, and compare it to a traditional scheme.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.3 s.87
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• pp.84-95
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• 2004

홈 네트워크, 기업의 무선 네트워크 그리고 핫스폿 등과 같은 다양한 환경이 가능하면서 무선 LAN 기술 및 무선 LAN 제품에 대한 요구는 더욱더 증가하고 있으며, 기존 제품과의 호환성을 바탕으로 고속으로 무선 데이터 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 차세대 무선 LAN 기술에 대한 관심이 집중되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 표준화가 진행중인 IEEE 802.11n의 차세대 무선 LAN 기술에 있어 주요하게 언급되고 있는 MAC 프로토콜 및 전송방식들에 대하여 소개한다. IEEE 802.11n은 IEEE 802.11e에서 논의중인 EDCA 및 HCCA를 기반으로 QoS를 보장하고 고속의 무선 LAN 서비스를 지원하기 위해 보다 개선된 MAC 프로토콜의 요구사항을 정의하여 물리계층의 관점에서 MIMO, spatial division multiplexing, space-time block coding 등과 같은 다중 안테나 방안을 고려하고 있다. 또한 주파수의 효율을 증가시키는 방식, 대역폭을 증가하는 방식 그리고 적응 변조를 적용하는 방식 등을 차세대 무선 LAN 전송 방식으로 논의하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10c
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• pp.133-135
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 WLAN $^{[1]}$ 에서 QoS를 제공하기 위해 새로운 MAC­layer 구조를 제안한다. 주요 특징으로는 향후 Core Network의 모델로서 제시되고 있는 DiffServ 구조의 특징들을 WLAN에 적용하는 것을 들 수 있으며, 이를 통해 다양한 종류의 멀티미디어 트래픽에 적용될 End­to­end QoS를 보다 효율적 보장하고자 한다. DiffServ에서 제시되고 있는 Expedited. Assured forwarding과 일반적인 Best­effort traffic에 대한 service 차등화 기법을 WLAN에서 적용하기 위해 기존 MAC layer에서의 DCF, PCF 대신 EDWM(Extended DiffServ in WLAN MAC)이라는 새로운 MAC­layer 구조를 제시한다. 이를 통해 시간지연에 민감한 Expedited forwarding과 대역폭의 보장을 필요로 하는 Assured forwarding의 요구 사항(QoS)을 효율적으로 보장할 수 있다. 이에 더하여 기존의 인프라(infrastructure)인 IEEE 802.11b 환경의 DCF와 이를 통하여 service를 제공받는 일반적인 Best­effort traffic을 위한 backward compatibility 보장 방안을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.145-152
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• 2009

IEEE 802.16e standard, a kind of WMAN standard, was established to support data services with cheaper cost to mobile users than traditional mobile communications system and wireless LAN system can do. In this paper, we propose an uplink QoS packet-scheduler for VoIP service which can be installed in IEEE 802.16 system and evaluate its performance with NS-2 network simulator. The proposed QoS packet-scheduler consists of three procedures: determining scheduler interval, determining the amount of resource assignment, and deciding which mobile station the base station should serve first among multiple mobile stations. According to numerical results, the proposed QoS packet-scheduler can provide more increased system capacity by 220% than UGS service scheme does and by 25 % than ertPS service scheme does.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.54-60
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• 2009

2007년 3월부터 WFA에서 시작된 "Wi-Fi $CERTIFIED^{TM}$ 802.11n draft 2.0" 인증을 통해 현재까지 180가지가 넘는 제품이 출시되고 있는 가운데 이러한 시장의 상황을 반영하듯 여러 매체를 통해 IEEE 802.11n이 핫이슈로 등장하였다. 예를 들어 $1820{\times}1080$ pixels, 24 bits/pixel, 초당 60 프레임 정도의 1080p급 비디오를 전송하려면 Gbps 이상의 전송속도를 필요로 한다. 이를 위하여 최근에 Gbps 이상의 차세대 무선랜 서비스를 위한 새로운 국제규격을 정의하려는 움직임이 IEEE 802.11 내에서 활발해지고 있다. 본 고에서는 이러한 IEEE 802.11에서의 표준화 활동을 중심으로 차세대무선랜에 대한 응용분야, 관련기술, 표준화 작업 내용에 대해 살펴보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1013-1017
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• 2005

This paper proposes an effective algorithm, P-DCF(Polling DCF) to satisfy real-time requirements in the industrial environments, based on 802.11 DCF protocols. Theoretical analysis and actual experiments are carried out, which shows that the proposed P-DCF brings several benefits: 1) it reduces the time delay for frame transmission 2)it guarantees bounded upper limit of maximum transmission delay 3) it maintains fairness

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.480-491
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• 2010

Along with the wide acceptance of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN), new applications such as Internet protocol (IP) telephony over WLAN are fast emerging today. For battery-powered IP phone devices, the life time extension is a key concern for the market acceptance while today's 802.11 is not optimized for snch an operation. In this paper, we propose a novel idle mode operation, which comprises paging, idle handoff, and delayed handoff. Under the idle mode operation, a mobile host(MH) without any active session does not need to perform handoff within a predefined paging area (PA). Only when it enters a new PA, an idle handoff is performed. The proposed idle mode allows an MH without traffic to extend its life time. We develop a new analytical model in order to comparatively evaluate our proposed scheme. The numerical resnlts demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing schemes with respect to power consumption.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.455-461
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• 2008

Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) is a channel access scheme adopted by the IEEE 802.11e draft standard for QoS-enabled wireless local area networks. It classifies traffic into separate Access Categories (ACs) and achieves service differentiation by allowing each AC to have its own values of channel access parameters. This paper proposes a scheme to dynamically adapt the EDCA parameters to traffic environment so that they both maximize the throughput of non real-time traffics and meet the delay and throughput constraints of real-time traffics. For this purpose, we develop a design algorithm for efficient exploration of the EDCA parameter space. Using the algorithm, we derive a Pareto curve fur delay-throughput trade-off in each anticipated traffic environment. The Pareto database can then be used to optimally adjust the parameter according to the traffic environment and administrative policies. Simulation results show that compared with the default parameter configuration, the proposed scheme is better for delay, throughput guarantee and can improve the throughput of non real-time traffics by 12% on average.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.11C
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• pp.1023-1029
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• 2006

In this Paper, we present a novel authentication and key exchange(AKE) protocol for inter-NSP(provider) roaming in IEEE 802.16e networks. The proposed protocol allows performing both user and device authentication jointly by using two different authentication credentials and Provides user anonymity and session key establishment. Also, this protocol requires only two round number message exchange between foreign network and home network.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.149-159
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• 2011

In this paper, we study the problem of how to design a medical-grade wireless local area network (WLAN) for healthcare facilities. First, unlike the IEEE 802.11e MAC, which categorizes traffic primarily by their delay constraints, we prioritize medical applications according to their medical urgency. Second, we propose a mechanism that can guarantee absolute priority to each traffic category, which is critical for medical-grade quality of service (QoS), while the conventional 802.11e MAC only provides relative priority to each traffic category. Based on absolute priority, we focus on the performance of real-time patient monitoring applications, and derive the optimal contention window size that can significantly improve the throughput performance. Finally, for proper performance evaluation from a medical viewpoint, we introduce the weighted diagnostic distortion (WDD) as a medical QoS metric to effectively measure the medical diagnosability by extracting the main diagnostic features of medical signal. Our simulation result shows that the proposed mechanism, together with medical categorization using absolute priority, can significantly improve the medical-grade QoS performance over the conventional IEEE 802.11e MAC.