• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.5A
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• pp.879-888
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 무선 LAN의 MAC 계층 프로토콜을 고속으로 처리하는 MAC 기능 칩을 개발하였다. 개발된 MAC 칩은 CPU와의 인터페이스를 위한 제어 레지스터들과 인터럽트 체계를 가지고 있으며, 프레임 단위로 송수신 데이터를 처리한다. 또한 PFDM 방식 물리계층 모뎀을 위한 직렬전송 인터페이스를 가지고 있다. 개발된 MAC 칩은 크게 프로토콜제어기능 블록, 송신기능 블록 및 수신기능 블록 등으로 구성되었으며, IEEE 802.11 규격에 제시된 대부분의 DCF 기능을 지원한다. 구현된 MAC 칩의 동작을 검증하기 위해 RTS-CTS 절차 기능, IFS(Inter Frame Space) 기능, 액세스 절차, 백오프 절차, 재전송 기능, 분할된(fragmented) 프레임 송수신 기능, 중복수신 프레임 검출 기능, 가상 캐리어 검출기능(NAV 기능), 수신에러 발생 경우 처리 기능, Broadcast 프레임 송수신 기능, Beacon 프레임 송수신 기능, 송수신 FIFO 동작 기능 등을 시뮬레이션을 통해 시험하였으며, 시험 결과 모두 정상적으로 동작함을 확인하였다. 본 논문을 통해 개발된 MAC 기능 칩을 이용할 경우 고속 무선 LAN 시스템의 CPU 부하(load)와 펌웨어의 크기를 크게 줄일 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.21-25
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• 2016

N-screen is a promising technology to improve support for multimedia multicasting, content sharing, content mobility, media scalability, and seamless mobility. In this paper, the WiMedia distributed-MAC (D-MAC) protocol is adopted for development of a seamless N-screen wireless service. Furthermore, to provide a multi-hop, one source multi-use N-screen service through point to point streaming in a seamless D-MAC protocol, a dynamic multi-frame transmission technology is proposed. In this technology, a dynamic time slot allocation scheme and a multi-hop resource reservation scheme are combined. In the proposed dynamic time slot allocation scheme, two thresholds, a hard threshold and a soft threshold, are included to satisfy the power consumption and delay requirements. A multi-frame DRP reservation scheme is proposed to minimize end-to-end delay during the multi-hop transmissions between N-screen devices. The proposed dynamic multi-frame transmission scheme enhances N-screen performance in terms of the multi-hop link establishment success rate and link establishment time compared to the conventional WiMedia D-MAC system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.349-352
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• 2000

In this paper, a SIMD 64bit MAC (Multiply -Accumulate) unit is designed. It is composed of two 32bit MAC unit which supports SIMD 16bit operations. As a result, It can process two 32bit MAC operations or four 16bit operations in one cycle. Proposed MAC unit is described in Verilog HDL. After functional verification is performed, MAC unit is synthesized and optimized with 0.35$\mu\textrm{m}$ standard cell library. The synthesis result shows that this MAC unit can operate at 80㎒ of clock frequency in 85$^{\circ}C$, 3.0V, worst case process and 125㎒ of clock frequency at 25$^{\circ}C$, 3.3V, typical case process. It achieves 320Mops of performance, and is suitable for embedded DSP processors.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.357-360
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• 2000

In this paper, we designed 32-Hit MAC architecture of a RISC Processor for portable terminals such as cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, notebooks, etc. In order to have minimum area with best performance, the MAC performs 32 by 8 multiplication per cycle, with early termination circuit that enables multiply cycles depend on the value of multiplier. It uses the sign bit of a partial product and two extra bits for sign extension, The MAC is modeled and simulated in RTL using VHDL. The MAC is synthesized using IDEC C-631 Cell library based on 0.6$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS 1-Poly 3-metal CMOS technology.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.719-727
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• 2016

This paper proposes a unified medium access control (MAC) design methodology and presents the implementation of the IEEE 802.11ac down-link multi-user multi-input and multi-output wireless local area network MAC using the proposed design methodology. The proposed methodology employs unified code for both network simulation and system implementation. Because the unified code closely relates these two processes, the performance of the implemented MAC system can be estimated before implementation. The MAC architecture for an access point implemented using the proposed design methodology is verified on an ARM-based platform, and it is applied to a 65 nm CMOS library.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.40-43
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• 2006

IEEE 802.15.4 MAC은 센서 네트워크와 같은 저속, 저 전력 통신을 지원하기 위해 설계 되었다. 하지만 현재의 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC은 센서가 촘촘히 분포한 상황과 같이 충돌이 많이 발생하는 경우를 지원하기엔 부족하다. 우리는 현재의 IEEE 802.15.4 표준이 backoff 범위를 너무 좁은 범위로 제한하여 더 많은 충돌을 야기한다는 것을 밝힌다. 또한 본 논문을 통해 단순히 backoff의 범위를 넓혀 주는 것만으로도 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC으로 하여금 충돌에 대한 탄력성을 보강시키고, 더 나아가 추가적인 최적화 알고리즘을 도입하더라도 기존의 표준 MAC보다 효과적으로 반응하게 함을 보인다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.6-10
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• 2011

The directional MAC (DMAC) protocol improves the spatial reuse, but directional packets on the control channel cause the deafness problem. In this paper, we propose a tone dual-channel DMAC protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks. In the proposed MAC protocol, the use of omnidirectional transmissions using an omnidirectional out-of-band tone solves the deafness problem and decrease packet collisions on the control channel. The use of an omnidirectional out-of-band tone also mitigates the hidden terminal problem. We use the negative CTS (NCTS) mechanism to solve the exposed terminal problem. The throughput performance of the proposed MAC protocol is confirmed by simulations using the Qualnet simulator.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.73-81
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• 2014

In this paper, high-speed Hybrid MAC (Medium Access Control layer) implementation suitable for smart grid applications is researched. MB-OFDM (Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is considered for high-speed communication method in smart grid application. In this paper, the MAC adopts the distributed network managing method. Also, the MB-OFDM merit of high-speed transfer rate of up to 480Mbps must be supported. Hence, this paper presents an efficient hardware-software integration (co-design) method in order to realize a high- speed transmission, and a realizing method of distribution network. Finally, MAC performance and reliability based on MB-OFDM PHY (PHYsical layer) are confirmed through simulation and emulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.2663-2665
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 전력선 환경이 CSMA/CA MAC 프로토콜의 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 이를 위해 전력선 환경의 특징이 분석되고, 이를 반영할 수 있는 테스트 베드를 구축한다. 테스트 베드를 통해 전력선 환경의 특성을 나타내는 패킷에러율을 구하고, 이를 이용해 CSMA/CA MAC 프로토콜의 성능을 분석한다. CSMA/CA MAC 프로토콜의 성능 분석을 위해 본 논문에서는, 시스템 모델을 제안하고, 시스템 모델로부터 성능 평가 요소인 패킷전송률과 패킷지연시간을 구한다. 마지막으로 수학적 결과를 통해 CSMA/CA MAC 프로토콜의 성능에 전력선 환경이 미치는 특징을 알아보고, 이를 개선할 수 있는 방법들이 논의된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2007

In spite of the large interest in the 802.15.4 standard, no realistic experimental research of its behaviour exists to date except a few works by simulations and analytical modeling. In this paper, we have established realistic environment of IEEE 802.15.4 network and analyze its behaviour under various conditions as like 1) maximum throughput of 802.15.4 MAC, 2) MAC fairness. and 3) throughput and m rate under co-existence of 802.11 Wi-Fi wireless networks.