• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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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.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.175-186
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• 2009

A new medium access control (MAC) scheme embedding physical channels into multiband carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) networks is proposed to provide strict quality of service (QoS) guarantee to high priority users. In the proposed scheme, two priority classes of users, primary and secondary users, are supported. For primary users physical channels are provided to ensure strict QoS, whereas secondary users are provided with best-effort service using CSMA/CA modified for multiband operation. The performance of the proposed MAC scheme is investigated using a new multiband CSMA/CA Markov chain model capturing the primary user activity and the operation of secondary users in multiple bands. The throughput of secondary users is obtained as a function of the primary user activity and other CSMA/CA parameters. It is shown that the new MAC scheme yields larger throughput than the conventional single-band CSMA/CA when both schemes use the same bandwidth.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.411-419
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• 2016

This article investigates the problem of distributed channel selection in opportunistic spectrum access networks from a perspective of interference minimization. The traditional physical (PHY)-layer interference model is for information theoretic analysis. When practical multiple access mechanisms are considered, the recently developed binary medium access control (MAC)-layer interference model in the previous work is more useful, in which the experienced interference of a user is defined as the number of competing users. However, the binary model is not accurate in mathematics analysis with poor achievable performance. Therefore, we propose a real-valued one called stochastic MAC-layer interference model, where the utility of a player is defined as a function of the aggregate weight of the stochastic interference of competing neighbors. Then, the distributed channel selection problem in the stochastic MAC-layer interference model is formulated as a weighted stochastic MAC-layer interference minimization game and we proved that the game is an exact potential game which exists one pure strategy Nash equilibrium point at least. By using the proposed stochastic learning-automata based uncoupled algorithm with heterogeneous learning parameter (SLA-H), we can achieve suboptimal convergence averagely and this result can be verified in the simulation. Moreover, the simulated results also prove that the proposed stochastic model can achieve higher throughput performance and faster convergence behavior than the binary one.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.421-427
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• 2011

Problems encountered in IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) design are interferences from neighboring or hidden nodes and collision from simultaneous transmissions within the same contention floors. This paper presents the selective decoding schemes in MAC protocol for multiple input multiple output ad-hoc networks. It is able to mitigate interferences by using a developed minimum mean-squared error technique. This interference mitigation combined with the maximum likelihood decoding schemes for the Alamouti coding enables the receiver to decode and differentiate the desired data streams from co-channel data streams. As a result, it allows a pair of simultaneous transmissions to the same or different nodes which yields the network utilization increase. Moreover, the presented three decoding schemes and time line operations are optimally selected corresponding to the transmission demand of neighboring nodes to avoid collision. The selection is determined by the number of request to send (RTS) packets and the type of clear to send packets. Both theoretical channel capacity and simulation results show that the proposed selective decoding scheme MAC protocol outperforms the mitigation interference using multiple antennas and the parallel RTS processing protocols for the cases of (1) single data stream and (2) two independent data streams which are simultaneously transmitted by two independent transmitters.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.123-140
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an Energy Efficient Media Access Control (EE-MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks. The proposed scheme is designed to save power consumption and guarantee quality-of-service for real-time traffic. EE-MAC uses the superframe structure which is bounded by the transmission of a beacon frame and can have an active and an inactive portion. The active period is divided into the contention free period (CFP) for real-time traffic transmission and the contention access period (CAP) for non-real-time traffic transmission. We propose the exclusively allocated backoff scheme which assigns a unique backoff time value to each real-time node based on bandwidth allocation and admission control. This scheme can avoid collision between real-time nodes by controlling distributed fashion and take effect a statistical time division multiple access. We also propose the algorithm to change the duty cycle adaptively according to channel utilization of media depending on network traffic load. This algorithm can prolong network lifetime by reducing the amount of energy wasted on idle listening.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.179-182
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• 2005

The Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) 2.0 technology can establish a home network using existing in-home phone lines, which provides a channel rate of 4 - 32 Mbps. HomePNA 2.0 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol adopts an IEEE 802.3 Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) access method, a Quality of Service (QoS) algorithm, and a Distributed Fair Priority Queuing (DFPQ) collision resolution algorithm. In this paper, we analyze the HomePNA 2.0 MAC protocol and propose the architecture of HomePNA 2.0 MAC controller circuit. Then, we present the simulation result of each block included in the HomePNA 2.0 MAC controller.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.2811-2817
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• 2010

논문에서는 다중의 sink 노드를 가지는 무선 센서 네트워크에서 서비스의 질(Quality of Service: QoS)을 지원하면서 에너지 소모를 줄이는 MAC 프로토콜(QAC-MAC)을 제안한다. 일반적으로 데이터 수집 네트워크에서 sink 노드근처의 노드들은 많은 양의 데이터를 처리해야 하므로 sink 노드 부근에서 혼잡이 발생하게 되어 지연에 민감한 데이터에 치명적일 수가 있다. QAC-MAC은 센서 노드들의 에너지 자원을 절약하면서 전체 네트워크 수명을 높이기 위하여 매체 접근 및 스케줄링을 위하여 경쟁기반 프로토콜과 충돌없이 데이터를 전송하기 위한 TDMA 기반의 데이터 전송 구조를 가지는 하이브리드 메커니즘을 사용한다. 일반적으로 우선순위가 높은 실시간 트래픽은 버스티하고 동일한 목적지를 가지는 특성을 가진다. QAC-MAC은 cross-layer 개념을 도입하여 각 센서 노드에서 동일한 목적지로 향하는 데이터를 재정돈하여 가능한 적은 노드들만이 데이터 전송에 참여함으로 에너지를 절약함으로 전체 네트워크 수명을 연장한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.153-166
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• 2013

A hierarchical time division multiple access (HTDMA) medium access control (MAC) protocol is proposed for clustered mobile underwater acoustic networks. HTDMA consists of two TDMA scheduling protocols (i.e., TDMA1 and TDMA2) in order to accommodate mobile underwater nodes (UNs). TDMA1 is executed among surface stations (e.g., buoys) using terrestrial wireless communication in order to share mobility information obtained from UNs which move cluster to cluster. TDMA2 is executed among UNs, which send data to their surface station as a cluster head in one cluster. By sharing mobility information, a surface station can instantaneously determine the number of time slots in a TDMA2 frame up to as many as the number of UNs which is currently residing in its cluster. This can enhance delay and channel utilization performance by avoiding the occurrence of idle time slots. We analytically investigate the delay of HTDMA, and compare it with that of wellknown contention-free and contention-based MAC protocols, which are TDMA and Slotted-ALOHA, respectively. It is shown that HTDMA remarkably decreases delay, compared with TDMA and Slotted-ALOHA.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제10C권1호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 비밀번호 인증만을 사용하는 시스템의 취약점을 보완한 다단계 사용자 인증 시스템을 구현하였다. 제안된 다단계 사용자 인증 시스템은 사용자의 아이디/비밀번호, 스마트카드 그리고 접근제어 정보 등의 4단계 인증이 사용된다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 사용자 인증 시스템은 FreeBSD 커널에 접근제어 기능을 추가한 SecuROS/FreeBSD를 바탕으로 개발되었다. 사용자에 따라 시스템에 접근할 수 있는 범위를 제한하는 기능과 중요 정보를 입력할 때 그 요정이 시스템에서 요청한 것임을 확인할 수 있는 기능을 기공하여 신뢰성을 높였다. SecuROS/FreeB 시스템에는 강제적인. 접근제어와 역할기반 접근제어가 사용되고 있어서 시스템에 접근하는 사용자는 접근하고자 하는 접근제어 정책에 대한 정보도 인증에 사용된다. 이때, 사용자가 요청한 접근제어 정보가 시스템에 정의된 접근제어 규칙에 모두 만족하는 경우에만 시스템 접근이 허가된다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2012년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.39 No.1(D)
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• pp.187-189
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• 2012

The medium access control (MAC) protocol is designed only for single channel in the IEEE 802.11 standard. That means the throughput of the network is limited by the bandwidth of the single channel. The multiple channels can be exploited to get more concurrent transmission. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-channel MAC that utilizes the channel more efficiently than other Multi-channel MAC protocols.