• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.177-182
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient sink node based MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The proposed sink node-based MAC (SB-MAC) protocol uses a RB(rapid beacon) frame to save sender's energy consumption and to reduce transmission delay. The RB frame is a modified IEEE 802.15.4 beacon frame. The RB frame contains the length of the sender nodes data. Using this information other nodes except sender and receiver nodes can be stay sleep mode long time to reduce energy consumption. Results have shown that the SB-MAC protocol outperformed other protocols like X-MAC and RI-MAC in terms of packet delivery delay and energy consumption. The SB-MAC protocol is especially energy efficient for the networks with one sink node and many senders.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.917-920
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• 2007

무선 Ad-hoc 네트워크에서는 주로 IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜을 이용한다. IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜은 제어 메시지인 RTS-CTS를 통해서 채널 예약을 하고 데이터를 전송하는 방식으로 모든 통신에 Omni-directional 안테나를 이용하여 전송한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜보다 성능을 향상시키기 위해서 directional 안테나를 이용한 MAC 프로토콜을 사용한다. Directional 안테나를 사용한 MAC 프로토콜은 IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜에 비해서 Spatial Reuse를 증가함으로서 채널 자원을 더욱 효율적으로 사용하는 것이 가능하다. 또한 Directional 안테나의 사용은 안테나의 지향성에 따른 안테나 이득 및 전송 범위의 증가 그리고 전송 범위를 Omni-directional 안테나와 동일하게 적용할 경우에는 저 전력 통신이 가능하다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 그러나 Directional 안테나의 사용은 IEEE 802.11 MAC보다 좋은 성능을 갖기는 하지만 새로운 문제들이 발생한다. 이러한 문제들로는 New Hidden Terminal, Deafness, Capture, 그리고 위치 인식에 관련된 문제들이 발생한다. 본 논문에서서 위에서 언급한 Directional 안테나의 이점과 그리고 문제점에 대해서 설명하고, 이러한 문제들 중에 Deafness 문제를 완화시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 QualNet 4.0을 이용한 시뮬레이션을 통해서 제안된 프로토콜의 성능을 평가한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.439-444
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• 2017

Wireless sensor network technology is a rapidly growing technology of ubiquitous computing environment and application and research are being carried out in various fields. The sensor nodes constituting the wireless sensor network maintain the life cycle by using the battery in the distributed network environment, so energy efficiency is more important than QoS requirement. In MAC protocol of IEEE802.15.4, MAC protocol study adaptive to traffic and standardization work emphasizing reliability and efficiency in wireless sensor network environment are underway. but, Wireless sensor networks have the problem that the response speed of the sensor node drops as the energy efficiency decreases. In this paper, we designed the MAC protocol with improved energy efficiency of the whole network by analyzing the MAC protocol of the synchronous method and the hybrid method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.361-364
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• 2014

무선 센서 네트워크를 구성하는 각 센서 노드들은 한정된 전력의 배터리로 동작하므로, 센서 네트워크에서의 에너지 효율성은 중요한 이슈이다. 따라서, 센서 노드의 에너지 소모를 줄여서 전체 네트워크 수명을 최대화하기 위해 MAC 계층에서의 다양한 프로토콜이 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 센서 네트워크의 에너지 효율성을 향상시키기 위한 에너지 효율적인 CA-MAC(Context Adaptive MAC) 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 CA-MAC 프로토콜은 데이터의 전송 여부를 결정하는 각 버퍼 임계값을 싱크와 노드의 거리에 따라 차등적으로 설정함으로써 노드의 에너지 소비를 감소시켜 전체 네트워크의 에너지 효율성을 크게 향상 시킨다. 또한, 전송 지연 시간을 감소시키기 위하여 센싱된 데이터의 긴급 여부에 따른 전송을 수행한다. 본 논문의 성능 평가는 OMNeT++을 이용한 모의실험을 통해 진행하였으며, 그 결과 기존에 제안되었던 S-MAC 및 T-MAC 프로토콜과 비교하여 제안된 기법이 데이터 전송 시간과 에너지 효율성을 향상시키고 네트워크 수명을 연장하였음을 확인하였다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.8
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• pp.71-81
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 수중 통신을 위한 매체 접속 제어(Medium Access Control: MAC) 프로토콜에 대한 연구 동향을 소개한다. 먼저 수중 음향 센서 네트워크(Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network: UWASN)와 수중 음향 채널의 특성을 소개하고 이로 인한 수중 MAC 프로토콜 설계 시 고려 사항에 대해 정리한다. 본 논문에서는 수중 MAC 프로토콜을 크게 비경쟁(contention-free) 기반과 경쟁 기반(contention-based) 프로토콜로 나누어 각각의 대표적인 프로토콜들에 대한 핵심 동작 원리에 대해 설명한다. 마지막으로 MAC 프로토콜을 실제 해양 환경에 구현하기 위한 고려 사항에 대해 정리한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.26-33
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• 2012

Please WBAN(Wireless Body Area Networks) is wireless communication of within 3 m radius from inside and outside of the body. WBAN is many uses IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol for WBAN MAC protocol requirements. IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol applies GTS(Guaranteed Time Slot) allocation scheme for guarantee packet delivery of application which requests QoS(Quality of Service). However, GTS allocation scheme of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol uses FIFS(First In First Service) queueing. So it reduces data transmission reliability and has many problems. Therefore, IEEE 802.15.4 applies not WBAN MAC protocol for emergency data transmission. In this paper, we proposes a priority based MAC protocol for emergency data transmission in wireless body area networks. the proposal MAC protocol sets priority the data. So GTS reqeuest throughput of emergency data increasing and GTS allocation delay of emergency data decreasing.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.97-103
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• 2008

T-Lohi, a MAC protocol for underwater acoustic sensor networks, has been designed to support dense networks consisting of short-range acoustic modems. However when T-Lohi is applied to large networks in which multi-hop routing is necessary, it suffers a lot of packet collisions due to the hidden terminal problem. To combat this problem, we propose a new MAC protocol which employs RTS/CTS handshaking. To our knowledge, this protocol is the first to adopt both a tone-based approach and RTS/CTS handshaking for dense underwater acoustic sensor networks. Simulation results show that this new protocol drastically reduces packet collisions while achieving good network utilization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1423-1430
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• 2016

The MAC protocols, which are classified into synchronous and asynchronous MAC protocol in the wireless sensor network, have actively studied. Especially, the asynchronous MAC protocol needs to research on the algorithm synchronizing between nodes, since each node independently operates in its own duty cycle. Typically, Receiver-Initiated MAC protocol is the algorithm synchronizing particular nodes by using beacon immediately transmitted by each node when it wakes up. However, the sender consumes unnecessary energy because it blankly waits until receiving the receiver's beacon, even if it does not know when the receiver's beacon is transmitted. In this paper, we propose the MAC protocol which can improve the performance by selecting an optimal node between a sender and a receiver to overcome the disadvantages. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves energy efficiency and decreases average delay time than the conventional algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.2088-2096
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• 2009

This paper deals with hybrid MAC protocol design for underwater acoustic networks. The proposed MAC protocol has the cluster structure with a master node and slave nodes, and the hybrid network structure that combines a contention free period based on TDMA(Time Division Multiple Access) with a contention period. The suggested MAC protocol has a beacon packet for supervising network, a guard period between time slots for packet collision, time tag for estimation of propagation delay with a master node, the time synchronization of nodes, entering and leaving of network, and the communication method among nodes. In this paper, we adapt the proposed hybrid MAC protocol to AUV network, that is the representative mobile device of underwater acoustic network, and verify this protocol is applicable in real underwater acoustic network environment.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.19-24
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• 2007

In this paper, we deal with suggestion of energy efficient MAC protocol. The scheme(I-MAC) makes the active duty-cycle duration based on by utilizing data frequency. Data frequency is made by checking a check bit of Link layer. By being studies on NS-2 simulation environments, the proposed scheme was proved to be improved in terms of energy efficiency of 50 % and to be similar to throughput of S-MAC on every time interval.