• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2011

In this paper, a new medium access control (MAC) protocol entitled three-phase multiple access with continual contention resolution (TPMA-CCR) is proposed for wireless multi-hop ad hoc networks. This work is motivated by the previously known three-phase multiple access (TPMA) scheme of Hou and Tsai [2] which is the suitable MAC protocol for clustering multi-hop ad hoc networks owing to its beneficial attributes such as easy collision detectible, anonymous acknowledgment (ACK), and simple signaling format for the broadcast-natured networks. The new TPMA-CCR is designed to let all contending nodes participate in contentions for a medium access more aggressively than the original TPMA and with continual resolving procedures as well. Through the systematical performance analysis of the suggested protocol, it is also shown that the maximum throughput of the new protocol is not only superior to the original TPMA, but also improves on the conventional slotted carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) under certain circumstances. Thus, in terms of performance, TPMA-CCR can provide an attractive alternative to other contention-based MAC protocols for multi-hop ad hoc networks.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an adaptive time division multiple access based medium access control (MAC) protocol, called bitmap-assisted shortest job first based MAC (BS-MAC), for hierarchical wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The main contribution of BS-MAC is that: (a) It uses small size time slots. (b) The number of those time slots is more than the number of member nodes. (c) Shortest job first (SJF) algorithm to schedule time slots. (d) Short node address (1 byte) to identify members nodes. First two contributions of BS-MAC handle adaptive traffic loads of all members in an efficient manner. The SJF algorithm reduces node's job completion time and to minimize the average packet delay of nodes. The short node address reduces the control overhead and makes the proposed scheme an energy efficient. The simulation results verify that the proposed BS-MAC transmits more data with less delay and energy consumption compared to the existing MAC protocols.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.371-374
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• 2007

센서 네트워크에서 효율적인 채널의 사용은 짧은 시간 안에 많은 양의 패킷을 전달하기 위해 중요하며, 채널 활용성을 향상시킨다. 채널 활용성은 MAC 프로토콜의 효율성을 설명하기 위한 좋은 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 채널 사용을 위해 B-MAC(Berkeley-MAC)에서 사용한 기법들과 TDMA(Time Division Multiple Access)를 결합시킨 MAC(Media Access Control) 프로토콜을 제안한다. 기본적으로는 backoff, CCA(Clear Channel assessment), LPL(Low Power Listen) 기법 등을 사용하여 충돌과 에너지 소모를 줄이며, 동시에 경쟁 상태에 따라 전송 방식을 다르게 함으로써 채널 활용성을 높이고자 한다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 기존의 MAC 프로토콜과 비교하여 성능이 향상됨을 보여준다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권10A호
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• pp.877-885
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• 2005

Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) 2.0 기술은 기존의 댁내 전화 선로를 이용하여 홈 네트워크를 구축하는 기술로서, 4-32 Mbps의 고속 데이터 전송 속도를 제공한다. 이러한 HomePNA 2.0의 Medium Access Control(MAC) 프로토콜은 IEEE 802.3 Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) 방식을 사용하면서, Quality of Service(QoS) 알고리즘을 제공하구 충돌 해결 알고리즘은 Distributed Fair Priority Queuing(DFPQ) 알고리즘을 사용한다. 본 논문은 HomePNA 2.0 MAC 프로토콜 성능의 중요 요소인 포화 처리율(Saturation Throughput), 패킷 지연(Packet Delay) 및 패킷 지터(Packet Jitter)에 대한 수학적인 모델을 제안하고, 이에 대한 모의 실험(Simulation) 결과를 제공하며, 각각의 모의 실험 결과를 분석함으로써, HomePNA 2.0 MAC 프로토콜의 성능을 종합적으로 분석한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 춘계종합학술대회 A
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• pp.51-54
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• 2008

TPS(Triple Play Service)의 적용을 위한 유망기술로 PON(Passive Optical Network)기술이 있다. PON 기술의 가장 중요한 요소는 패킷의 처리량을 효율적으로 높일 수 있는 MAC(Multiple Access Control)기술이다. MAC 기술의 핵심은 DBA(Dynamic Bandwidth Algorithm)로 내부 환경을 고려하는 SR-DBA(Status Report DBA), 환경을 고려하지 않는 NSR-DBA(Non Status Report DBA)방식이 존재한다. 하지만 GPON의 DBA 알고리즘은 BPON의 알고리즘을 사용하여 성능이 떨어진다. 본 연구에서는 네트워크의 효율적이고 신속한 처리를 위한 BR(Borrow-Refund)-DBA 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 알고리즘의 성능평가를 위하여 처리량(Throughput), 공정성(Fairness), 큐 지연(Queue Delay) 항목에 대해 SR-DBA, NSR-DBA의 환경에 맞추어 평가하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.28-36
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• 2017

The medium access control (MAC) protocol based on dynamic time division multiple access/time division duplex (TDMA/TDD) is responsible for random access control and radio resource allocation in dynamic traffic environments. These functions of random access and resource allocation are very important to prevent wastage of resources and improve MAC performance according to various network conditions. In this paper, we propose new random access and resource allocation schemes to guarantee quality of service (QoS) and provide priority services in a dynamic TDMA/TDD system. First, for the QoS guarantee, we propose an adaptive random access and resource allocation scheme by introducing an access probability. Second, for providing priority service, we propose a priority-based random access and resource allocation scheme by extending the first adaptive scheme in both a centralized and a distributed manner. The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed MAC protocol outperforms the legacy MAC protocol using a simple binary exponential backoff algorithm, and provides good differential performance according to priorities with respect to the throughput and delay.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.517-520
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• 2005

무선 센서망은 망의 사용목적에 따라 빛, 온도, 진동, 자기 영역, 바람 등을 감지 할 수 있는 센서와 컴퓨팅 기술로 통합된다. 무선 노드들은 센서에서 감지된 정보를 처리하는 신호 처리 기술과 측정자에게 정보가 도달하게 하는 통신 제어 기술과, 무선으로 구동되고 배터리를 사용하기 때문에 발생하는 제한적 에너지 관리 기술이 구현된다. 그 중 신뢰성 있는 측정 및 감지를 하고자 한다면 망의 지속시간의 비중이 크기 때문에 효율적인 에너지 관리 기술이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 하드웨어에서의 전원관리가 아닌 OSI 7계층 중 데이터 링크 계층에 해당하는 MAC(Medium Access Control)에서 기존의 무선 MAC 프로토콜인 CSMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance)과 무선 센서 MAC 프로토콜인 ER-MAC(Energy Rate Medium Access Control)에 대해 설명후 각각 프로토콜에 따른 망의 지속시간을 비교하여 효율성을 분석한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권1호
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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.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocol, named underwater multi-channel MAC protocol (UMMAC), for underwater acoustic networks (UANs). UMMAC is a split phase and reservation based multi-channel MAC protocol which enables hosts to utilize multiple channels via a channel allocation and power control algorithm (CAPC). In UMMAC, channel information of neighboring nodes is gathered via exchange of control packets. With such information, UMMAC allows for as many parallel transmissions as possible while avoiding using extra time slot for channel negotiation. By running CAPC algorithm, which aims at maximizing the network's capacity, users can allocate their transmission power and channels in a distributed way. The advantages of the proposed protocol are threefold: 1) Only one transceiver is needed for each node; 2) based on CAPC, hosts are coordinated to negotiate the channels and control power in a distributed way; 3) comparing with existing RTS/CTS MAC protocols, UMMAC do not introduce new overhead for channel negotiation. Simulation results show that UMMAC outperforms Slotted floor acquisition multiple access (FAMA) and multi-channel MAC (MMAC) in terms of network goodput (50% and 17% respectively in a certain scenario). Furthermore, UMMAC can lower the end-to-end delay and achieves a lower energy consumption compared to Slotted FAMA and MMAC.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.18-25
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• 2013

본고에서는 차세대 광 가입자를 위한 OFDMA-PON(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Passive Optical Network)을 소개하고, 그 MAC(Medium Access Control) 기술에 대한 전반적 내용과 기 연구된 상향 자원 할당방법들에 대해 알아본다. 또한, OFDMA-PON 연구 동향을 바탕으로, 향후 MAC 기술을 전망한다.