• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.1676-1682
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• 2005

PCF(Point Coordination Function) of IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol is an access method oat generally has better performance under high offered load conditions. And it is also appropriate for sending data of time-limited applications. In this paper we consider the QoS(Quality of Service) enhancement method according to the change of nodes in the IEEE 802.11 WLAN. We assume that the un consists or QoS nodes and non-QoS nodes. The QoS nodes has a mechanism to support QoS. we can find the appropriate network parameters by many simulations. And the changes of network status are considered according to the number of nodes.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.140-150
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• 2008

Point Coordination Function (PCF) of the IEEE 802.11 protocol providing a centrally-controlled polling-based multiple access to a wireless channel is very efficient in high load conditions. However, its performance degrades with increasing the number of terminals and decreasing the load, because of wastes related to unsuccessful polling attempts. To solve the problem, we propose and study analytically the generic dynamic polling policy using backoff concept. For this aim, we develop Markov models describing the network queues changes, what allows us to estimate such performance measures as the average MAC service time and the average MAC sojourn time, to show the dynamic polling efficiency and to tune optimally the backoff rule.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.2A
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• pp.80-89
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• 2005

In IEEE 802.11 and 802.11e for ad hoc networks, DCF and EDCA use a contention-based protocol called CSMA/CA, which is simple to implement efficient when the system is light loaded. But the performance of CSMA/CA decreases dramatically when the system load is heavy because of increasing collisions. In PCF and HCF modes, stations are controlled by a base station by polling, no collision ever occurs. However, when the system load is light, the performance is poor because few stations have data to transfer. More important, PCF and HCF can not be used in the ad hoc networks. In this paper, we address a priority-based distributed polling mechanism (PDPM) that implements polling scheme into DCF or EDCA modes for ad hoc networks by adding a polling approach before every contention-based procedure. PDPM takes the advantages of polling mechanism that avoids most of collisions in a high load condition. At the same time, it also keeps the contention-based mechanism for a light loaded condition. PDPM provides quality of service (QoS) with fewer collisions and higher throughput compared with IEEE 802.11e.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2002

본 논문은 현재 무선 LAN 환경에서 적용되고 있는 매체접근제어 프로토콜인 IEEE 802.11 CSMA/CA를 이용함으로써, 음성 위주의 항공이동통신에서 음성과 데이터 채널을 통합하여 사용하도록 하고 있다. 또한, 표준으로 제정되어 있는 기존의 CSMA/CA 매체접근제어 프로토콜에 대한 이해를 바탕으로 성능 개선 방안을 제안하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 채널 효율을 향상시켰다. IEEE 802.11 매체접근제어(MAC, Medium Access Control) 프로토콜은 데이터 유형에 따라 채널을 두 개의 구간(PCF와 DCF 구간)으로 나누어 전송하도록 하고 있다. 본 논문에서는, 데이터 유형별로 적용되는 구간 중, DCF 구간에서의 패킷간의 충돌 가능성을 줄임으로써 데이터 전송 효율을 높이는데 주안점을 두고 있다. 제안 방안으로는 경쟁 구간에서의 전송에서 충돌에 따른 손실을 보완할 수 있도록 Wireless Window Protocol(이하, WWP)을 적용한 후 전송 과정을 제어하였다. Hidden 터미널의 영향이 적으므로 가시권내 통신에 적합한 기존의 2-Way CSMA/CA 프로토콜을 항공통신에 적용하여 상태 천이 과정을 5개에서 6개로 세분화하였고, 주어진 확률에 의하여 나누어진 두 개의 그룹별로 상태 천이 과정을 다르게 적용하였다. 따라서, 채널이 한 항공기에 의해 점유되는 PCF를 제외한, DCF 구간에서의 데이터 전송 효율을 높일 수 있었다. 시뮬레이션은 채널 대역폭과 패킷 크기 등을 파라미터 값으로 하여 수행하였으며, 시뮬레이션 결과 CSMA/CA에 비해 새로 제안한 알고리즘이 데이터 전송 과정에서 발생하는 충돌 가능성을 감소시킴으로써 성능이 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.150-156
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• 2003

The IEEE 802.11 MAC (Media Access Control) Protocol supports two modes of operation, a random access mode for nonreal-time data applications processed by Distributed Coordinated Function (DCF), and a polling mode for real-time applications served by Point Coordinated Function (PCF). It is known that the standard IEEE 802.11 is insufficient to serve real-time traffic. To provide Quality of Service (QoS) of real-time traffic, we propose the Downlink-first scheduling with Earliest Due Date (EDD) in Contention Free Period (CFP) with suitable admission control. The capacity and deadline violation probability of the proposed system is analyzed and compared to the standard pair system of downlink and uplink. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed scheme is remarkably efficient in view of the deadline violation probability.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.249-252
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• 2002

IEEE 802.11의 매체 접근 제어 MAC 프로토콜은 두가지 운영 방법을 제공한다. 하나는 실시간 응용 서비스가 아닌 데이터를 지원하기 위한 임의 접근 (random access)모드이고 다른 하나는 실시간 응용 서비스를 지원하기 위한 폴링 (polling) 모드이다. 폴링 모드는 PCF (Point Coordination Function) 라 불리우는 비경쟁 (non contention) 방식의 MAC 프로토콜이다. PCF 는 노드의 지연 (delay)의 증가와 처리율(throughput) 의 감소가 가장 큰 문제가 된다. 처리율 향상을 위해 ERR (Embedded Round Robin) 방식이 제안되었다. 그러나 ERR은 노드의 지연이 여전히 문제로 남아있다. 본 논문에서는 노드의 지연과 처리율을 동시에 향상시킬 수 있는 QRR (Request Round Robin)을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션에 의하여 제안한 QRR 이 ERR보다 성능향상이 됨을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.383-386
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• 2015

Ad Hoc 네트워크는 단말간 채널 경쟁을 통해 데이터 패킷을 전송하는 DCF(Distributed Coordination Function)에 기반을 둔다. DCF는 단말의 수가 많아질수록 충돌 확률이 증가하여 성능이 급격하게 감소한다. 성능 향상을 위해 DPCF(Distributed Point Coordination Function) 방법이 제안되었다. 이 방법에서 단말은 기본적으로 DCF로 동작하고 채널 접근 권한을 얻었을 때 이웃 단말들에게 PCF(Point Coordination Function)를 이용하여 채널 경쟁 없이 데이터 패킷을 전송하도록 한다. 그러나 이 방법은 히든 노드 문제를 더 가중시키고 데이터 패킷이 없는 단말도 폴링을 하기 때문에 채널 낭비를 초래한다. 본 논문에서는 이 문제점을 해결하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 PCF로 동작할 때 전송 범위 내 모든 단말이 아닌 제한된 영역에 있는 단말을 대상으로만 동작한다. 또한 데이터 패킷이 있는 단말에 대해서만 폴링을 수행한다. 이를 통해 제안된 방법은 Ad Hoc 네트워크에서 충돌 확률을 낮추고 성능을 향상시킨다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.1594-1597
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed the IEEE 802.11 CSMA/CA protocol with the priority scheme. The IEEE 802.11 CSMA/CA protocol is the standard in wireless LAN We applied the proposed method to the aeronautical mobile telecommunication environment. The CSMA/CA protocol has two frames : one is PCF frame for real time service like voice and image and the other DCF frame for contention services like data transmission. Now we proposed the priority scheme that has the different CW region according to the transmitted data. The simmulation results shows the proposed method's performance is improved, Because the collision probability is reduced by allowing the different CW between stations. And the time dalay results show the priority scheme is very appropriated.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.181-185
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• 2009

Recently, much attention to a self-organizing mobile ad-hoc network is escalating along with progressive deployment of wireless networks in our everyday life. Being readily deployable, the MANET (mobile ad hoc network) can find its applications to emergency medical service, customized calling service, group-based communications, and military purposes. In this paper we investigate a time slot exchange problem found in the time slot based MAC, that is designed for IEEE 802.11b interfaces composing a MANET. The paper provides a method to maintain the quality of voice call by providing a new time slot when the channel assigned for that time slot gets noisy with interferences induced from other nodes, which belong to the same and/or other subgroups. In order to assess the performance of the proposed algorithm, a set of simulations using the OPNET modeler has been performed assuming that the IEEE 802.11b interfaces are operating under a modified MAC, which is a time slot based reservation MAC implemented in the PCF part of the superframe. In a real-time voice call service over a MANET of a size 500 ${\times}$ 500 meter squares with the number of nodes up to 100, the simulation results are collected and analyzed with respect to the packet loss rate and packet delay. The results show us that the proposed time slot exchange protocol improves the quality of voice call over that of plain DCF.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.171-177
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• 2007

Although the Distributed Coordination Function is the fundamental access protocol of IEEE 802.11, it cannot meet the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements in general. So, the Point Coordinate Function is provided to support QoS related services. However, it has inherent problems. Access point (AP) has no knowledge of the queue status and instantaneous channel condition of stations in the system. In this paper we propose an efficient and versatile polling scheduler that shows excellent throughput and fairness performance. Comparison with well known polling schemes is provided through computer simulation under various channel situations including error prone environments.