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Developing a new MAC Protocol for Multi-hop Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (다중 홉 수중 음향 센서네트워크를 위한 MAC 프로토콜 설계)

  • Lim, Chansook
    • 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.

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Performance Evaluation of Network Coding in MANETs for Bidirectional Traffic (MANETs에서 양방향 트래픽에 대한 네트워크 코딩기법의 성능 평가)

  • Kim, Kwan-Woong;Kim, Yong-Kab;Bae, Sung-Hwan;Kim, Dae-Ik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.491-497
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    • 2012
  • Network coding is that the nodes can combine and mix the packets rather than merely forward them. Therefore, network coding is expected to improve throughput and channel efficiency in the wireless network. Relevant researches have been carried out to adapt network coding to wireless multi-hop network. In this paper, we designed the network coding for bidirectional traffic service in routing layer and IP layer of Ad-hoc network. From the simulation result, the traffic load and the end to end distance effect the performance of the network coding. As end to end distance and the traffic load become larger, the gain of network coding become more increased.

Performance Comparison of Mobile Ad Hoc Multicast Routing Protocols (모바일 애드 혹 멀티캐스트 라우팅 프로토콜 성능분석)

  • Lee, Joo-Han;Cho, Jin-Woong;Lee, Jang-Yeon;Lee, Hyeon-Seok;Park, Sung-Kwon
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.173-179
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    • 2008
  • An ad hoc network is multi-hop wireledss formed by mobile node without infrastructure. Due to the mobility of nodes in mobile ad hoc networks, the topology of network changes frequently. In this environments, multicast protocols are faced with the challenge of producing multi-hop routes and limitation of bandwidth. We compare the performance of two multicast routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks - Serial Multiple Disjoint Tree Multicast Routing Protocol (Serial MDTMR) and Adaptive Core Multicast Routing Protocol (ACMRP). The simulator is implemented with GloMoSim.

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A Robust Wearable u-Healthcare Platform in Wireless Sensor Network

  • Lee, Seung-Chul;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.465-474
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    • 2014
  • Wireless sensor network (WSN) is considered to be one of the most important research fields for ubiquitous healthcare (u-healthcare) applications. Healthcare systems combined with WSNs have only been introduced by several pioneering researchers. However, most researchers collect physiological data from medical nodes located at static locations and transmit them within a limited communication range between a base station and the medical nodes. In these healthcare systems, the network link can be easily broken owing to the movement of the object nodes. To overcome this issue, in this study, the fast link exchange minimum cost forwarding (FLE-MCF) routing protocol is proposed. This protocol allows real-time multi-hop communication in a healthcare system based on WSN. The protocol is designed for a multi-hop sensor network to rapidly restore the network link when it is broken. The performance of the proposed FLE-MCF protocol is compared with that of a modified minimum cost forwarding (MMCF) protocol. The FLE-MCF protocol shows a good packet delivery rate from/to a fast moving object in a WSN. The designed wearable platform utilizes an adaptive linear prediction filter to reduce the motion artifacts in the original electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Two filter algorithms used for baseline drift removal are evaluated to check whether real-time execution is possible on our wearable platform. The experiment results shows that the ECG signal filtered by adaptive linear prediction filter recovers from the distorted ECG signal efficiently.

Channel Allocation in Multi-radio Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks: A Categorized Survey

  • Iqbal, Saleem;Abdullah, Abdul Hanan;Hussain, Khalid;Ahsan, Faraz
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.1642-1661
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    • 2015
  • Wireless mesh networks are a special type of broadcast networks which cover the qualifications of both ad-hoc as well as infrastructure mode networks. These networks offer connectivity to the last mile through hop to hop communication and by comparatively reducing the cost of infrastructure in terms of wire and hardware. Channel assignment has always been the focused area for such networks specifically when using non-overlapping channels and sharing radio frequency spectrum while using multiple radios. It has always been a challenge for mesh network on impartial utilization of the resources (channels), with the increase in users. The rational utilization of multiple channels and multiple radios, not only increases the overall throughput, capacity and scalability, but also creates significant complexities for channel assignment methods. For a better understanding of research challenges, this paper discusses heuristic methods, measurements and channel utilization applications and also examines various researches that yield to overcome this problem. Finally, we highlight prospective directions of research.

QoS Routing for WiMedia-Based Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMedia 기반 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서 QoS를 고려한 경로 설정)

  • Park, Sung-Woo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.317-324
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    • 2016
  • WiMedia provides the data rate of up to 1Gbps, but the transmission range is restricted to approximately 10 meters. When constructing a multi-hop WiMedia network to extend its coverage, conventional hop-based routing may not guarantee satisfactorily the required QoS. We propose two QoS routing techniques for the WiMedia-based wireless mesh network. The proopsed QoS routing reflects the characteristics of TDMA-based WiMedia MAC and develops QoS extensions separately for on-demand routing and table-driven routing. Through simulations, we identify that the QoS routing shows better performance than the hop-based routing. It also turns out that the QoS on-demand routing and the QoS table-driven routing show conflicting performance results depending on the transmission power.

Design and Application of LoRa-based Network Protocol in IoT Networks (사물 네트워크에서 LoRa 기반 네트워크 프로토콜 설계 및 적용)

  • Lee, Sung-Keun
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1089-1096
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    • 2019
  • Recently, small-scale IoT services using a small amount of information through low-performance computing have been spread. It requires low cost, low-power, and long-distance communication technologies with wide communication radius, relatively low power consumption. This paper proposes a MAC layer and routing protocol that supports multi-hop transmission in small-scale IoT environment distributed over a large area based on LoRa communication and delivering a small amount of sensing data. The terminal node is mobile and the communication type provides bidirectional transmission between the terminal node and the network application server. By applying the proposed protocol, a production line monitoring system for smart factory was implemented. It was confirmed that the basic monitoring functions are normally performed.