• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권10B호
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• pp.955-963
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 해양센서네트워크에서 에너지 소비를 줄이고 전송효율을 높이기 위한 매체접근제어 프로토콜을 제안한다. 수중환경에서는 지상에 비해 전송지연이 길며 데이터 전송률이 낮은 점을 고려하여 효율적으로 에너지를 관리하며 처리율을 향상시킬 수 있는 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 프로토콜은 데이터충돌을 줄이기 위해 채널예약방식을 사용하며, 애드혹 네트워크에서 발생할 수 있는 숨겨진 노드문제와 노출된 노드문제를 제어할 수 있는 매커니즘을 사용한다. 제안된 프로토콜은 슬롯기반의 전송프레임으로 구성되며, 전송프레임은 전송예약을 위한 예약구간을 별도로 두어 노드 간 충돌을 줄인다. 전송예약과정에서 송수신 노드 간에 예약정보를 이용하여 숨겨진 노드문제와 노출된 노드문제를 해결한다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 평균에너지 소비량, 충돌횟수비율, 처리율, 평균지연시간 관점에서 제안된 프로토콜의 성능을 평가하였으며, 수중환경의 기존 MAC 프로토콜과 비교 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과에서 제안된 방식이 기존의 방식에 비해 성능이 우수함을 볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.231-241
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• 2013

Improvements in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology have resulted in a large number of applications. WSNs have been mainly used for monitoring applications, but they are also applicable to target tracking, health care, and monitoring with multimedia data. Nodes are generally deployed in environments where the exhausted batteries of sensor nodes are difficult to charge or replace. The primary goal of communication protocols in WSNs is to maximize energy efficiency in order to prolong network lifetime. In this paper, various medium access control (MAC) protocols for synchronous/asynchronous and single/multi-channel WSNs are investigated. Single-channel MAC protocols are categorized into synchronous and asynchronous approaches, and the advantages and disadvantages of each protocol are presented. The different features required in multi-channel WSNs compared to single-channel WSNs are also investigated, and surveys on multi-channel MAC protocols proposed for WSNs are provided. Then, existing broadcast schemes in such MAC protocols and efficient multi-hop broadcast protocols proposed for WSNs are provided. The limitations and challenges in many communication protocols according to this survey are pointed out, which will help future researches on the design of communication protocols for WSNs.

• 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.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.7-11
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• 2013

Wearable computer systems use the wireless universal serial bus (WUSB), which refers to USB technology that is merged with WiMedia physical layer and medium access control layer (PHY/MAC) technical specifications. WUSB can be applied to wireless personal area network (WPAN) applications as well as wired USB applications such as PAN. WUSB specifications have defined high-speed connections between a WUSB host and WUSB devices for compatibility with USB 2.0 specifications. In this paper, we focus on an integrated system with a WUSB over an IEEE 802.15.6 wireless body area network (WBAN) for wireless wearable computer systems. Due to the portable and wearable nature of wearable computer systems, the WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical medium access control (MAC) protocol has to support power saving operations and integrate WUSB transactions with WBAN traffic efficiently. In this paper, we propose a low-power hibernation technique (LHT) for WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical MAC to improve its energy efficiency. Simulation results show that the LHT also integrates WUSB transactions and WBAN traffic efficiently while it achieves high energy efficiency.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2019년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.304-305
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• 2019

무선센서네트워크는 네트워크 유연함으로 인해 다양한 응용분야에 활용되고 있다. 특히 전력제한문제를 해결하기 위해 에너지 하베스팅 무선센서네트워크(EH-WSN)를 도입하여 센서네트워크의 활용범위가 더욱 넓어지고 있다. 센싱된 데이터를 목적노드까지 전송하기 위해서는 노드들의 전력을 고려한 MAC프로토콜이 중요하게 연구되고 있다. 전력상황과 데이터의 긴급성은 데이터 전송의 중요 요소이며 데이터의 긴급성과 노드들의 전력을 종합적으로 고려한 매체접근제어 프로토콜이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 전력상황과 데이터의 긴급성에 따라 중계노드를 선택할 수 있는 매체접근제어 프로토콜을 제안하였다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2010

The reliable multicast MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol is needed to guarantee the recipients' nonerroneous reception of the multicast data frames, which can be transmitted by the AP (Access Point) in infrastructure mode IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. Enhancing the BMMM (Batch Mode Multicast MAC) protocol, in the literature, the connectivity-based reliable multicast MAC protocol was proposed to reduce the RAK (Request for ACKnowledgement) frame transmissions and enhance the multicast MAC performance. However, the number of necessary RAK frame transmissions increases as the number of multicast recipients increases. To alleviate the problem of the larger number of RAK frame transmissions with the larger number of multicast recipients, we propose the clustering algorithm for partitioning the recipients into a small number of clusters, so that the recipients are connected each other within the same clusters. Numerical examples are presented to show the reliable multicast MAC performance improvement by the clustering algorithm.

• 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.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 통신소사이어티 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.212-215
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11e MAC (Medium Access Control) 프로토콜을 NS-2 등과 같은 유명한 시뮬레이터들보다도 진보적인 NCTUns 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 개발하고자 하면서, 각 MSDU (MAC Service Data Unit)마다 제공되어야 하는 TID (Traffic Identification) 를 결정하는 방안을 모색하고 있다. 따라서 본론에서는 IEEE 802.l1e MAC 프로토콜과 NCTUns 시뮬레이터 에 대해서 기술하며 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법에 대해서 서술한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.331-343
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• 2015

We propose a distributed medium access control protocol for cognitive radio networks to opportunistically utilize multiple channels. Under the proposed protocol, cognitive radio nodes forecast and rank channel availability observing primary users' activities on the channels for a period of time by time series analyzing using smoothing models for seasonal data by Winters' method. The proposed approach protects primary users, mitigates channel access delay, and increases network performance. We analyze the optimal time to sense channels to avoid conflict with the primary users. We simulate and compare the proposed protocol with the existing protocol. The results show that the proposed approach utilizes channels more efficiently.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권3B호
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• pp.456-463
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• 2000

Bidirectional cable TV networks using HFC(Hybrid Fiber Coaxial) networks need MAC (Medium access control) protocols to have efficient access in upstream channels. In this paper, we have studied and evaluated several contention resolution algorithms and mapping of higher layer traffic described in IEEE 802.14 and MCNS (Multimedial Cable Network System) MAC protocols with respect to IP, ABR and CBR traffic types. IEEE 802.14 MAC protocol demonstrates better performance for transmitting ATM cells while the MCNS MAC protocols for the IP traffic.