• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.324-330
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• 2011

To avoid collisions, IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) uses predetermined inter-frame spaces and the random back-off process. However, the retransmission strategy of IEEE 802.11 MAC results in considerable time wastage. The hidden node problem is well known in wireless networks; it aggravates the consequences of time wastage for retransmission. Many collision prevention and recovery approaches have been proposed to solve the hidden node problem, but all of them have complex control overhead. In this paper, we propose a fast retransmission scheme as a recovery approach. The proposed scheme identifies collisions caused by hidden nodes and then allows retransmission without collision. Analysis and simulations show that the proposed scheme has greater throughput than request-to-send and clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) and a shorter average waiting time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.706-708
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• 2004

일반적인 무선 통신망은 데이터 전송 고속화에 중심을 두고 발전해 왔으나, 최근 무선 센서 네트워크와 같은 응용 분야에서 소량의 데이터와 낮은 처리 속도를 지원하면서 저비용, 경량, 저전력을 요구하는 무선 통신 기술이 필요하게 됨에 따라 IEEE에서 LR-WPAN(Low Rate-Wireless Personal Area Network)을 위한 새로운 IEEE 802.15.4 표준이 제시되었다. 현재 무선 센서 네트워크에 관한 연구는 소형 경량의 MAC(Medium Access Control ) 프로토콜 개발이 핵심 기술로 인식되면서, 저전력 소모를 위한 라우팅 기법, MAC 프로토콜의 패킷처리 기술 등이 우선적으로 진행 중이다. 그러나 무선 센서 네트워크와 같은 응용분야에 사용 가능한 표준인 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC 프로토콜의 실질적인 상용화를 위해서는 표준안 분석 및 검증 과정이 기본적으로 선행되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.15.4 표준안의 핵심인 MAC 프로토콜을 정형화된 명세 언어인 SDL(Specification and Description Language)를 이용하며 상세 설계 및 분석 후, 자동화 도구를 이용한 모의수행을 통하여 검증하였으며 표준안과의 비교 및 오류 수정을 거친 연구결과를 기술한다.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.73-81
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• 2014

In this paper, high-speed Hybrid MAC (Medium Access Control layer) implementation suitable for smart grid applications is researched. MB-OFDM (Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is considered for high-speed communication method in smart grid application. In this paper, the MAC adopts the distributed network managing method. Also, the MB-OFDM merit of high-speed transfer rate of up to 480Mbps must be supported. Hence, this paper presents an efficient hardware-software integration (co-design) method in order to realize a high- speed transmission, and a realizing method of distribution network. Finally, MAC performance and reliability based on MB-OFDM PHY (PHYsical layer) are confirmed through simulation and emulation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.4B
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• pp.360-367
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a design methodology of IEEE 802.11n MAC which aims to achieve the higher throughput of more than 100Mbps in downlink as measured at the MAC-SAP and present the implementation results of MAC using the proposed design methodology. With our proposed methodology, different from the conventional design flow which has the separate codes for the protocol validation, for the network simulation, and for the system implementation, the unified code can be used for the network simulation and the implementation of software and hardware. Our MAC architecture is partitioned into two parts, Upper-layer MAC and Lower-layer MAC, in order to achieve the high efficiency for the new features of IEEE 802.11n standard. They are implemented in software and hardware respectively. The implemented MAC is tested on ARM based FPGA board.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.223-225
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 광대역 통신망의 표준인 ATM 서비스를 무선 환경에서 지원하기 위한 무선 ATM MAC 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 유선 환경에 비하여 조건이 좋지 않은 무선환경에서는 값비싼 무선 자원을 효육적으로 이용하여 ATM 서비스 클래스의 QoS를 만족시키지는 것이 중요하다. 따라서 대역폭이 가변적인 VBR서비스의 대역 할당 요구 채널과 VBR 이외의 트래픽의 대역 할당 요구 체널을 분리함으로써 무선 자원의 효율적 이용와 ATM서비스의 모든 클래스 QoS를 동시에 지원할 수 있는 MAC프로토콜을 제안하였고 모의 실험을 통하여 성능을 평가하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.7
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• pp.398-400
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• 2014

In this letter, we propose a cross-layer technique jointly considering modulation coding schemes (MCSs) of medium access control (MAC) layer, source significance information (SSI) and error concealment unit of application (APP) layer, and channel quality information (CQI) of physical (PHY) layer. We demonstrate the improved video quality by the proposed technique when H.264 videos are streamed over Rayleigh fading wireless channels.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.4367-4386
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• 2015

The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has shed new light on WSN technologies. MAC protocol issues improving the network performance are important in WSNs because of the increase in demand for various applications to secure spectrum resources. Cognitive radio (CR) technology is regarded as a solution to the problems in this future wireless network. In recent years, energy efficiency has become an issue in CR networks. However, few relevant studies have been conducted. In this paper, an energy-efficient non-overlapping channel MAC (ENC-MAC) for CR-enabled sensor networks (CRSNs) is proposed. Applying the dedicated control channel approach, ENC-MAC allows the SUs to utilize channels in a non-overlapping manner, and thus spectrum efficiency is improved. Moreover, the cooperative spectrum sensing that allows an SU to use only two minislots in the sensing phase is addressed to en-hance energy efficiency. In addition, an analytical model for evaluating the performance, such as saturation throughput, average packet delay, and network lifetime, is developed. It is shown in our results that ENC-MAC remarkably outperforms existing MAC protocols.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.4760-4765
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• 2010

Time out-medium access control (T-MAC) protocol is one of the well-known MAC protocols designed for wireless sensor networks (WSN), and is proposed to enhance the poor performance of the S-MAC protocol. In this paper, we are reviewed about security vulnerability in T-MAC, and analyzed the power which is consumed at each stage of T-MAC protocol according to vulnerability of denial of service (DoS) and replay problem. From our analytical results, it can be considered the need of power efficient authentication scheme which provides the reliability, efficiency, and security for a general T-MAC communication. This is the case study of possible DoS vulnerability and its power consumption in T-MAC.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.191-194
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• 2003

In IEEE 802.11b, Medium Access Control Sublayer consists of DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) and PCF (Point Coordination Function). DCF provides contention based services and PCF provides contention free services for QoS satisfaction. DCF uses CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance) as an access protocol. And PCF uses Polling Scheme. In this paper, a modified New-PCF, which gives weights to channels with heavier traffic load, was suggested. NS-2 simulations were conducted to compare the service performances with original DCF, PCF and the modified New-PCF respectively. Simulation results has shown the increased overall throughput with the proposed New-PCF compared with other cases.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.107-116
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• 2011

In this paper, a traffic adaptive sleep based medium access control (TAS-MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is proposed. The protocol aims for WSNs which consist of clustered sensor nodes and is based on TDMA-like schema. It is a typical schedule based mechanism which is adopted in previous protocols such as LEACH and Bit-Map Assisted MAC. The proposed MAC, however, considers unexpected long silent period in which sensor nodes have no data input and events do not happen in monitoring environment. With the simple traffic measurement, the TAS-MAC eliminates scheduling phases consuming energy in previous centralized approaches. A frame structure of the protocol includes three periods, investigation (I), transmission (T), and sleep-period (S). Through the I-period, TAS-MAC aggregates current traffic information from each end node and dynamically decide the length of sleep period to avoid energy waste in long silent period. In spite of the energy efficiency of this approach, the delay of data might increase. Thus, we propose an advanced version of TAS-MAC as well, each node in cluster sends one or more data packets to cluster head during the T-period of a frame. Through simulation, the performance in terms of energy consumption and transmission delay is evaluated. By comparing to BMA-MAC, the results indicate the proposed protocol is more energy efficient with tolerable expense in latency, especially in variable traffic situation.