• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.212-218
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• 2010

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), both efficient energy management and Quality of Service (QoS) are important issues for some applications. For creating robust networks, real-time services are usually employed to satisfy the QoS requirements. In this paper, we proposed a hierarchical real-time MAC (medium access control) protocol for (m,k)-firm constraint in wireless sensor networks shortly called HRTS-MAC. The proposed HRTS-MAC protocol is based on a dynamic priority assignment by (m,k)-firm constraint. In a tree structure topology, the scheduling algorithm assigns uniform transmitting opportunities to each node. The paper also provides experimental results and comparison of the proposed protocol with E_DBP scheduling algorithm.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.1148-1159
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• 1997

In the broadband integrated service digital networks (B-ISDN), ATM switches hould be abld to accommodate diverse types of applications ith different traffic characteristics and quality ddo services (QOS). Thus, in order to increase the utilization of switches and satisfy the QOS's of each traffic type, some types of priority control schemes are needed in ATM switches. In this paper, a nonblocking input and output queueing ATm switch with capacity C is considered in which two classes of traffics with different loss probability constraints are admitted. 'Partial push-out' algorithm is suggested as a loss priority control schemes, and the performance of this algorithm is analyzed when this is adopted in input buffers of the switch. The quque length distribution of input buffers and loss probabilities of each traffic are obtained using a matrix-geometric solution method. Numerical analysis and simulation indicate that the utilization of the switch with partial push-out algorithm satisfying the QOS's of each traffic is much higher than that of the switch without control. Also, the required buffer size is reduced while satisfying the same QOS's.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.313-324
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• 2005

The success of the IEEE 802.11 standard has prompted research into efficiency of the different medium access methods and their support for different traffic types. A modified version of the point coordination function (PCF) called modified PCF has been introduced as a way to improve the efficiency over the standard method. It has been shown through a simulation study and a mathematical analysis that channel utilization can be much improved compared to the standard, in case there is no so-called hidden station problem. However, under the hidden station problem, the efficiency of the modified PCF would obviously decrease. In this paper, some enhancements of the modified PCF are introduced. Firstly, we propose a retransmission process to allow frames involved in collisions to be retransmitted. Then, we propose a collision resolution mechanism to reduce the frame collision probability due to the hidden station problem. In addition, we propose a priority scheme to support prioritization for different traffic types such as interactive voice and video, and real-time data traffic in the modified PCF. To prevent the starvation of one low priority traffic, minimum transmission period is also guaranteed to each traffic type via an admission control algorithm. We study the performance of the modified PCF under the hidden station problem and the performance of the modified PCF with priority scheme through simulations. To illustrate the efficiency of the priority scheme, we therefore compare its simulation results with those of some standardized protocols: The distributed coordination function (DCF), the enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA), the PCF, and our previously proposed protocol: The modified PCF without priority scheme. The simulation results show that the increment of delay in the network due to the hidden station problem can be reduced using the proposed collision resolution mechanism. In addition, in a given scenario the modified PCF with priority scheme can provide better quality of service (QoS) support to different traffic types and also support a higher number of data stations than the previous proposals.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.303-310
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• 2016

인터넷의 경직성으로 인하여 다양한 서비스를 제공하기 어려운 문제를 해결하기 위한 가장 효과적인 방법이 네트워크 가상화 방안이다. 공통의 물리 네트워크 자원을 공유하는 가상 네트워크를 효율적으로 생성하기 위해서는 자원을 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 방안이 필요하다. 이러한 한정된 물리 자원을 효율적으로 사용하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 사용중인 자원이라도 더 높은 서비스 우선순위를 갖는 가상 네트워크에 할당하는 방법을 제안한다. 높은 우선순위의 네트워크 생성 요청을 위하여 운용중인 낮은 우선순위의 가상 네트워크에서 효율적으로 대역폭을 회수하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 대역폭 할당 알고리즘은 낮은 우선순위를 갖는 가상 네트워크에서 서비스 지속성을 유지하면서 할당된 대역폭을 회수할 수 있다. 제안한 알고리즘의 실험을 통하여 약 8%정도의 가상 네트워크 생성 수락률의 향상을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2007

IEEE 802.11e의 EDCA (Enhanced Distributed Channel Access)는 무선 랜에서의 QoS(Quality of Service)를 지원하기 위해 표준화되었다. EDCA는 낮은 우선순위 트래픽의 채널 접근 확률을 낮춤으로써 높은 우선순위 트래픽에 QoS를 제공한다. 이는 높은 우선순위 트래픽에 대한 확정된(Deterministic) 우선순위를 제공하는 것이 아니라 통계적인(Statistical) 우선순위를 제공한다. 그러므로 낮은 우선 순위트래픽은 높은 우선순위 트래픽의 성능에 계속 영향을 미친다. 결과적으로 높은 채널 트래픽 환경에서 EDCA는 음성이나 비디오와 같은 멀티미디어 응용에 QoS를 보장하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 EDCA 메커니즘의 QoS 성능을 향상시키기 위해 DPCA(Deterministic Priority Channel Access) 방법을 제안한다. 멀티미디어 응용에 보장된 우선순위 채널 접근을 제공하기 위해 제안된 방법은 높은 우선순위 트래픽이 전송할 패킷을 가지고 있을 때 낮은 우선순위 트래픽의 전송을 제한하기 위해 비지톤(Busy Tone)을 사용한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 수학적 분석과 시뮬레이션을 통해 EDCA와 비교 분석한다. 성능 비교 분석 결과, 제안된 방법이 다양한 경쟁 수준 환경에서 EDCA보다 더 좋은 효율과 지연, 폐기율 등을 가짐을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제24권7B호
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• pp.1252-1260
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• 1999

HFC(Hybrid Fiber Coaxial) 망의 구조는 광케이블 구간과 동축케이블 구간으로 구분되는데 핸드엔드에서 광 노드까지의 주요 트렁크 부분은 광케이블로 설치되고 광 노드에서 가입자까지의 부분은 동출케이블로 구성된다. HFC 망의 형태는 광케이블 전송구간은 성형(Star)구조를 갖으며 동축 전송구간의 수지분기형(Tree and Branch)구조로 되어 있다. HFC 망의 상향 채널에는 구조적인 특성에 따라, 유입잡음, 공통모드 왜곡, 임펄스 노이즈, 백색잡음 등 여러 가지 노이즈가 존재한다. 다양한 서비스의 QoS(Quality of Service)를 만족시키기 위해서는 서비스 특성에 따른 우선순위를 제공할 필요가 있다. 예를들면 화상전화나 VOD와 같은 지연시간에 민감한 서비스에는 높은 우선순위를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 다수의 가입자가 HFC 망의 상향채널을 공유하기 위한 MAC 프로토콜의 구성 요소들 중 여러 주거형 가입자들이 상향채널을 액세스하고 가입자간에 충돌이 발생하였을 경우 이를 해경하기 위한 서비스별 우선 순위를 고려한 충돌 해소 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 충돌 해소 알고리즘은 데이터 슬롯 할당 요구 메시지의 특성에 따른 우선순위를 고려한 江磁\ulcorner遲막關\ulcorner구현이 용이하고 채널 사용이 효율적이며 기존 알고리즘의 문제점으로 제기된 HFC 전송망의 상향 채널에 존재하는 유입잡음, 공통모드 왜곡, 임펄스 노이즈 등 여러 가지 잡음으로 발생하는 헤드엔드의 충돌 검출 오류로 인한 상향 채널의 낭비를 줄이며 다중 충돌을 억제하는데 최적화된 알고리즘이다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.583-600
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• 2015

Generally, the wireless network provides priority to handover calls instead of new calls to maintain its quality of service (QoS). Because of this QoS provisioning, a call admission control (CAC) scheme is essential for the suitable management of limited radio resources of wireless networks to uphold different factors, such as new call blocking probability, handover call dropping probability, channel utilization, etc. Designing an optimal CAC scheme is still a challenging task due to having a number of considerable factors, such as new call blocking probability, handover call dropping probability, channel utilization, traffic rate, etc. Among existing CAC schemes such as, fixed guard band (FGB), fractional guard channel (FGC), limited fractional channel (LFC), and Uniform Fractional Channel (UFC), the LFC scheme is optimal considering the new call blocking and handover call dropping probability. However, this scheme does not consider channel utilization. In this paper, a CAC scheme, which is termed by a uniform fractional band (UFB) to overcome the limitations of existing schemes, is proposed. This scheme is oriented by priority and non-priority guard channels with a set of fractional channels instead of fractionizing the total channels like FGC and UFC schemes. These fractional channels in the UFB scheme accept new calls with a predefined uniform acceptance factor and assist the network in utilizing more channels. The mathematical models, operational benefits, and the limitations of existing CAC schemes are also discussed. Subsequently, we prepared a comparative study between the existing and proposed scheme in terms of the aforementioned QoS related factors. The numerical results we have obtained so far show that the proposed UFB scheme is an optimal CAC scheme in terms of QoS and resource utilization as compared to the existing schemes.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.775-779
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• 2011

As the technology of multimedia sensor networks is desired in large numbers of applications nowadays, real-time service becomes one of the most important research challenges. Even though lots of related works have been conducted to meet this requirement in several ways, the specific traffic model for real-time has not been taken yet. Thus, it causes lack of adaptability of those approaches in real deployment. To solve this problem, in this paper, we model the application via (m,k)-firm streams which have weakly hard real-time property. And then, a novel forwarding scheme based on modified DBP (Distance-Based Priority) is proposed by considering local-DBP and stream DBP together. Local-DBP can contribute to identify the detailed causes of unsatisfied quality, that is, network congestion or wireless link failure. Simulation results reveal that (m,k)-firm is a good traffic model for multimedia sensor networks and the proposed scheme can contribute to guarantee real-time requirement well.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.341-346
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• 2011

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are formed by a great quantity of sensor nodes, which are consisted of battery-powered and some tiny devices. In WSN, both efficient energy management and Quality of Service (QoS) are important issues for some applications. Real-time services are usually employed to satisfy QoS requirements in critical environment. This paper proposes a real-time MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol with extended backoff scheme for wireless sensor networks. The basic idea of the proposed protocol employs (m,k)-firm constraint scheduling which is to adjust the contention window (CW) around the optimal value for decreasing the dynamic failure and reducing collisions DBP (Distant Based Priority). In the proposed protocol, the scheduling algorithm dynamically assigns uniform transmitting opportunities to each node. Numerical results reveal the effect of the proposed backoff mechanism.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.286-297
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• 2011

A novel converged optical network unit (ONU)-base station (BS) architecture has been contemplated for next-generation optical-wireless networks. It has been demonstrated through high quality studies that data traffic carried by both wired and wireless networks exhibit self-similar and long range dependent characteristics; attributes that classical teletraffic theory based on simplistic Poisson models fail to capture. Therefore, in order to apprehend the proposed converged architecture and to reinforce the provisioning of tightly bound quality of service (QoS) parameters to end-users, we substantiate the analysis of the QoS behavior of the ONU-BS under self-similar and long range dependent traffic conditions using custom queuing which is a common queuing discipline. This paper extends our previous work on priority queuing and brings novelty in terms of presenting performance analysis of the converged ONU-BS under realistic traffic load conditions. Further, the presented analysis can be used as a network planning and optimization tool to select the most robust and appropriate queuing discipline for the ONU-BS relevant to the QoS requirements of different applications.