• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.311-319
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• 2006

This paper presents a terminal-assisted frame-based packet reservation multiple access (TAF-PRMA) protocol, which optimizes random access control between heterogeneous traffic aiming at more efficient voice/data integrated services in dynamic reservation TDMA-based broadband access networks. In order to achieve a differentiated quality-of-service (QoS) guarantee for individual service plus maximal system resource utilization, TAF-PRMA independently controls the random access parameters such as the lengths of the access regions dedicated to respective service traffic and the corresponding permission probabilities, on a frame-by-frame basis. In addition, we have adopted a terminal-assisted random access mechanism where the voice terminal readjusts a global permission probability from the central controller in order to handle the 'fair access' issue resulting from distributed queuing problems inherent in the access network. Our extensive simulation results indicate that TAF-PRMA achieves significant improvements in terms of voice capacity, delay, and fairness over most of the existing medium access control (MAC) schemes for integrated services.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 다수의 수중 센서 노드들이 존재하는 수중 음향 네트워크에서 전이중 특성을 활용한 양방향 전이중 매체 접속 제어(Medium Access Control, MAC) 프로토콜을 제안한다. 수중 센서 노드들은 정보를 센싱하고 송신의 우선순위에 따라 백오프 타이머를 설정한다. 백오프 타이머가 만료된 수중 센서 노드는 송신 기회를 획득한다. 송신 기회를 획득한 소스 노드는 목적 노드에게 정보를 송신하기 위해 목적 노드의 ID를 포함한 RTS(Request-To-Send)를 주변 노드들에게 방송한다. RTS를 수신한 목적 노드는 CTS(Clear-To-Send)를 소스 노드로 송신하여 양방향 전이 중 통신 수행을 알린다. 소스 노드가 CTS를 수신한 후 소스 노드와 목적 노드는 센싱한 정보를 서로 상대 노드로 송신한다. 수중 환경에서의 기존 MAC 프로토콜은 긴 수중 전파 지연으로 인해 전송 성공에 많은 시간이 소요된다. 반면 제안하는 양방향 전이중 MAC 프로토콜은 소스 노드와 목적 노드 간 양방향 송수신이 가능하기 때문에 전송 성공에 소요되는 시간을 단축하여 네트워크의 처리량을 향상시킨다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 양방향 전이중 MAC 프로토콜의 네트워크 처리량을 수학적으로 분석한다. 그리고 수중 환경에서의 기존 MAC 프로토콜과 비교 분석을 통해 긴 수중 전파 지연이 존재하는 상황에서 제안하는 양방향 전이중 MAC 프로토콜의 성능이 더 뛰어남을 보인다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.1276-1285
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• 2015

최근 들어, 자기 간섭 제어 기술의 발달로 인하여 PHY 계층에서는 full-duplex 통신이 가능한 수준에 도달하였다. 이러한 full-duplex 통신을 지원하기 위한 다양한 MAC 계층의 기술들이 활발히 연구 중이다. 본 논문에서는 무선랜 (WLAN) 시스템에서 full-duplex 통신의 특징과 이로 인하여 발생하는 문제점들을 알아보고, 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 제안된 다양한 MAC 프로토콜을 살펴본다. 그리고 현재 초기 단계에 있는 무선랜 시스템에서의 full-duplex 통신과 관련된 MAC 계층의 향후 연구 과제를 논의한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권9B호
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• pp.589-597
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• 2007

In this paper, a WDM metro ring consisting of access nodes with $FT-FR^n$ (Fixed Transmitter - n Fixed Receivers) is considered. A trade-off exists between node throughput and transmission fairness because the access nodes share wavelength channels. In order to eliminate the transmission unfairness and to increase throughput, the p-persistent medium access control (MAC) protocol is proposed: each node uses an empty optical slot to transmit a packet and make it available with the extraction of a transferred packet at the source access node, called source-stripping. The local empty slot can be used to transfer a head-of-line packet in the local buffer with probability p or it is used for the next downstream nodes with 1-p. The proposed MAC protocol provides better node throughput than the non-persistent protocol and exhibits better fairness index than the 1-persistent protocol in WDM ring networks. In addition, numerical analysis shows that the proposed MAC protocol maximizes the node throughput under uniform traffic conditions. For more detailed results, we use the network simulation under Poisson and self-similar traffic. Furthermore, unpredictable traffic constructed by the combination of the former and the latter is also considered. The reasonable probability of the p-persistent protocol for a given architecture can be determined through simulation.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 무선 MAC 프로토콜상에서 실시간 응용의 QoS를 보장할 수 있는 지연 민감도를 고려한 차별적인 충돌해결 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 충돌해결을 위해 접근 요구 메시지들을 지연에 따라 서로 다르게 다루며, 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 지연 민감도가 높은 트래픽의 충돌해결을 보다 빠르게 해결하기 위해 CRP (Collision Resolution Period) 구간을 사용한다. 성능분석과 시뮬레이션 결과 제안된 프로토콜이 접근지연과 충돌의 정도를 줄임으로서 실시간 응용의 지연요구조건을 성공적으로 보장함을 보여준다

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.31-34
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• 2002

There are two kinds of network architectures in the IEEE 802.11:[1] distributed (ad-hoc) or centralized (infrastructure) wireless network. Centralized networks have an access point (base station) that can control the wireless medium access of stations in these networks. The 802.11 MAC protocol of an access point is the same as those of other stations in the contention period. This paper propose a novel MAC protocol of an access point to solve these problems. This MAC protocol adds a new contention-free period called EPCF (Extended PCF) to resolve accumulated data in the queue of an access point. Simulation results show that the new protocol performs better throughput than the 802.11 standard MAC with the less queue memory site requirement.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1805-1824
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• 2013

Recently, the use of wireless body area networks (WBAN) has been increasing rapidly in medical healthcare applications. WBANs consist of smart nodes that can be used to sense and transmit vital data such as heart rate, temperature and ECG from a human body to a medical centre. WBANs depend on limited resources such as energy and bandwidth. In order to utilise these resources efficiently, a very well organized medium access control (MAC) protocol must be considered. In this paper, a new, adaptive and energy-efficient MAC protocol, entitled isMAC, is proposed for WBANs. The proposed MAC is based on multi-channel communication and aims to prolong the network lifetime by effectively employing (i) a collision prevention mechanism, (ii) a coordinator node (WCN) selection algorithm and (iii) a transmission power adjustment approach. The isMAC protocol has been developed and modelled, by using OPNET Modeler simulation software. It is based on a networking scenario that requires especially high data rates such as ECG, for performance evaluation purposes. Packet delay, network throughput and energy consumption have been chosen as performance metrics. The comparison between the simulation results of isMAC and classical IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) protocol shows that isMAC significantly outperforms IEEE 802.15.4 in terms of packet delay, throughput and energy consumption.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.212-218
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• 2010

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), both efficient energy management and Quality of Service (QoS) are important issues for some applications. For creating robust networks, real-time services are usually employed to satisfy the QoS requirements. In this paper, we proposed a hierarchical real-time MAC (medium access control) protocol for (m,k)-firm constraint in wireless sensor networks shortly called HRTS-MAC. The proposed HRTS-MAC protocol is based on a dynamic priority assignment by (m,k)-firm constraint. In a tree structure topology, the scheduling algorithm assigns uniform transmitting opportunities to each node. The paper also provides experimental results and comparison of the proposed protocol with E_DBP scheduling algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.2691-2707
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• 2014

Medium access control is critical in wireless networks for efficient spectrum utilization. In this paper, we introduce a novel collision resolution method based on the technique of known interference cancellation, and propose a new MAC protocol named as CR-MAC, in which AP tries to decode all the collided data packets by combining partial retransmissions and known interference cancellation. As the collided transmissions are fully utilized, less retransmission is required, especially in a crowded network. The NS-2simulation and MATLAB numerical results show that, under various network settings, CR-MAC performs much better than the IEEE 802.11 DCF in terms of the aggregation throughput and the expected packet delay.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.804-812
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• 2015

Energy harvesting (EH) technology in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is gaining increasing popularity through removing the burden of having to replace/recharge depleted energy sources by energy harvester devices. EH provides an alternative source of energy from the surrounding environment; therefore, by exploiting the EH process, WSNs can achieve a perpetual lifetime. In view of this, emphasis is being placed on the design of new medium access control (MAC) protocols that aim to maximize the lifetime of WSNs by using the maximum possible amount of harvested energy instead of saving any residual energy, given that the rate of energy harvested is greater than that which is consumed. Various MAC protocols with the objective of exploiting ambient energy have been proposed for energy-harvesting WSNs (EH-WSNs). In this paper, first, the fundamental properties of EH-WSN architecture are outlined. Then, several MAC protocols proposed for EH-WSNs are presented, describing their operating principles and underlying features. To give an insight into future research directions, open research issues (key ideas) with respect to design trade-offs are discussed at the end of this paper.