• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.530-540
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• 2015

Industrial WSNs need great performance and reliable communication. In industrial WSNs, cluster structure reduces the cost to form a network, and the reservation-based MAC is a more powerful and reliable protocol than the contention-based MAC. Depth-based TDMA assigns time slots to each sensor node in a cluster-based network and it works in a distributed manner. DB-TDMA is a type of depth-based TDMA and guarantees scalability and energy efficiency. However, it cannot allocate time slots in parallel and cannot perfectly avoid a collision because each node does not know the total network information. In this paper, we suggest an improved distributed algorithm to reduce the end-to-end delay of DB-TDMA, and the proposed algorithm is compared with DRAND and DB-TDMA.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.1955-1960
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• 2014

Many routing protocols have been proposed for low-power and ad-hoc networks to deliver command or data among nodes and recently, various researches are carried out about networking scheme considering reliability and scalability. In low-power networking technology, the performance of network layer is closely connected with the operation of data link layer and mesh routing mechanisms based on TDMA MAC are considered for reliability and scalability. This paper proposes mesh routing algorithm utilizing the characteristics of TDMA MAC and topological addressing in TDMA based low-power and ad-hoc networks and implementation results are presented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.11
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• pp.1104-1111
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• 2012

Airborne tactical networks is used to air-to-air or air-to-ground operation and have a large propagation delay. All nodes share the data by using TDMA-based broadcasting. In airborne tactical networks, each time slot needs the guard time to ensure the broadcasting because the collisions occur due to the large propagation delay. However, the channel utilization of the networks can be greatly degraded due to the waste of guard time. In this paper, we propose Inter-Transmitter Distance-Based TDMA (ID-TDMA) scheme which ensures the broadcasting while improving the channel utilization by reducing the guard time with the inter-transmitter distance information. The proposed scheme shows the effectiveness through the performance evaluation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.85-93
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• 2012

In this paper, I designed the satellite system, using the MF-TDMA (Multi Frequency-Time Division Multiple Access) DAMA (Demand-Assigned Multiple Access) method, that allocates the satellite resources more effectively to prevent a large quantity data discard when Earth Terminals (ETs) request their satellite network resource to Network Controller (NC) by using their history information, such as traffic pattern or traffic class which have been receiving, and the network controller allocates the satellite network resource and send to earth terminals by using his history information that earth terminals have been requested already. The U.S. Military Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) community has selected the L-3 Linkabit MF-TDMA DAMA Network Centric Waveform (NCW) as the networking standard for full-mesh IP over SHF satellite communications. In the MF-TDMA DAMA satellite network, network controller allocates the satellite network resources and enables maximum 255 earth terminals to communicate each other for periodic satellite network resource requests of earth terminals.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.690-694
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a hybrid MAC architecture for reducing energy consumption and maximizing network lifetime in wireless sensor networks. For this purpose, the hybrid MAC architecture is proposed for energy efficient by combining inter-cell TDMA and intra-cell CSMA scheme. Based on the ns-2 simulation result, we prove that the proposed architecture improves energy efficiency as compared with CSMA and TDMA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8B
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• pp.647-656
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• 2012

TDMA MAC protocol in MANET requires precise network synchronization between nodes though network topology changes continuously due to node mobility and the effect of propagation environment. In this paper we propose in-band cross-layer network synchronization architecture for TDMA-based MANETs. In the proposed architecture TDMA MAC protocol and proactive routing protocol cooperate closely to rapidly detect network partition and merge caused by node mobility and to precisely maintain network synchronization. We also implement the proposed synchronization architecture in OPNET simulator and evaluate the performance of it in various simulation scenarios. Simulation results show that our architecture stably maintains network time synchronization in both network partition and merge situations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.50-60
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• 2015

A Block-Time-Bounded Time Division Multiple Access (BTB-TDMA) medium access control protocol, which estimates the propagation delay of nodes according to their location and moving velocity information, has been proposed for underwater acoustic networks. BTB-TDMA provides nodes with their transmission schedules by a time block that is a time unit, newly designed for BTB-TDMA. In this paper, we investigate how the receiver collision, that is induced by the asymmetry between node's uplink and downlink propagation delay due to its mobility, affects the performance of BTB-TDMA. To do this, we analytically obtain the collision rate, the channel access delay, and the channel utilization by considering the asymmetry of propagation delay. Then, simulations are extensively performed with respect to the length of a time block by varying the number of nodes, the network range, and the node's velocity. Thus, the simulation results can suggest performance criteria to determine the optimal length of a time block which minimizes the collision rate and concurrently maximizes the channel access delay and the channel utilization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.114-115
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• 2011

최근 애드혹 네트워크에서 신뢰성과 확장성을 고려하여 메쉬 라우팅의 지원이 요구되고 있으며 IEEE 802.15.5의 Low-rate WPAN Mesh 와 ZigBee alliance에서 AODV를 기반으로 한 메쉬 라우팅이 대표적이다. IEEE 802.15.5 Low-rate WPAN Mesh의 경우 메쉬 라우팅을 위해 hello command의 주기적인 브로드캐스팅이 필요한데 이는 네트워크를 구성하는 노드의 밀집도가 증가할 경우 그 부하가 기하급수적으로 증가하게 된다. 또한 ZigBee alliance의 AODV 기반 메쉬 라우팅 기법도 RREQ 메시지의 브로드캐스팅에 기반하고 있기 때문에 경로 설정을 위한 제어 트래픽의 부하가 매우 크다는 단점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 TDMA 네트워크에서 TDMA MAC의 특성과 토폴로지 기반으로 할당된 주소를 활용한 메쉬 라우팅 알고리즘의 설계를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.264-267
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• 2014

TDMA(Time Division Multiple Access)는 사용자에게 자신에게 할당된 시간구간에서 모든 대역폭을 이용하여 무선 네트워크에서 통신할 수 있는 다중 접속기술이다. TDMA에서 동기화 방식은 동기화를 이루는 방법이 어렵기 때문에 소규모 네트워크에는 적합하지 않다. 본 논문에서는 DESYNC 알고리즘을 이용하여 소규모 네트워크에 적합한 동기화 방식의 TDMA 기법인 C-DESYNC를 제안하고자 한다. C-DESYNC는 DESYNC의 firing 방식을 이용하고, 주기의 시작 정보를 포함하고 있는 Global Packet을 이용하여 안정화상태까지 걸리는 최대 지연시간을 보장한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.396-399
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• 2013

TDMA(Time-Division Multiple Access)는 한정된 채널을 시간상에서 여러 개의 구간으로 분할하고, 자신에게 할당된 시간 구간에서 정보를 전송하는 기법이다. 본 논문은 TDMA 알고리즘의 한 종류인 DESYNC 알고리즘을 소규모 네트워크에 적용하여 별도의 동기화 작업 없이 간단한 규칙으로 동기화를 유지하는 기법을 소개 한다. 기존의 DESYNC 알고리즘은 모든 노드들이 전송 영역 안에 있어야 하고, 전부 연결되어있어야 한다는 단점이 있다. 이 문제점을 해결하고자 중앙제어장치인 CU(Central Unit)을 네트워크에 배치하여 2-홉 형태의 중앙 집중방식 네트워크가 운영되도록 하였다. 제시하는 알고리즘은 기존의 DESYNC 알고리즘과 마찬가지로 복잡한 동기화 과정 없이 단순한 방식으로 TDMA가 동작할 수 있도록 하면서, 전송 범위는 기존의 DESYNC 알고리즘의 성능에 비해 우수하다.