• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.996-1002
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• 2009

The EDCA scheme in IEEE 802.11 MAC protocols was adopted to support QoS of each traffic. The impact of legacy DCF stations on EDCA voice service is studied using extensive simulations. The maximum number of voice sessions are obtained in cases that IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11a physical layers are used.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.12
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• pp.984-986
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• 2013

DCF(Distributed Coordination Function) defined in IEEE 802.11 provides two different modes, namely, a 2-way handshake and a 4-way handshake according to the transmission procedure. If secondary transmission would not cause a collision with primary transmission, there is no need to postpone transmission unnecessarily. We study a feasible condition which can transmit data concurrently and propose a concurrent transmission scheme.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2012

최근 와이파이를 채용한 스마트폰에 대한 수요가 폭발적으로 증가함에 따라 무선랜에 기반한 새로운 신규 기술들이 활발히 연구되고 있다. Gbps 이상의 전송을 가능하게 하는 IEEE 802.11ac는 차세대 스마트폰을 위한 핵심 기술로서 기존의 IEEE 802.11n에서는 수용할 수 없었던 초고화질의 비디오 전송을 가능하게 한다. 또한 최근에는 무선랜을 사용하여 최대 수 km까지 광역으로 서비스를 지원하기 위한 광역 무선랜이 IEEE 802.11af 및 802.11ah에서 연구되고 있으며, 초기 링크 셋업 시간을 획기적으로 절감하기 위한 IEEE 802.11ai 기술도 활발히 논의되고 있다. 본고에서는 이러한 IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11af, IEEE 802.11ah, IEEE 802.11ai 무선랜 기술에 대한 표준화 추진 현황 및 주요 이슈들에 대해 기술하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.34-39
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• 2006

IEEE 802.11e 무선LAN 매체접근제어(MAC) 통신규약의 분산조정함수(DCF)의 성능은 경쟁노드수가 증가할수록 급격히 떨어진다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 채널의 유휴슬롯시간(Idle Time)을 측정해서 최소 경쟁윈도($CW_{min}$)를 조절하는 방식이 제시되었다. 이러한 방식을 각 부류별로 서비스 품질이 보장되는 IEEE 802.11e 네트워크로 확장하여 성능을 최대화하는 기법을 이 논문에서 다루겠다. 각 부류별로 서비스품질은 유지하면서 네트워크 전체의 성능을 높일 수 있는 최적의 경쟁윈도 크기를 찾아내는 기법을 보이도록 하겠다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.390-392
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• 2015

IEEE 802.11 DCF(Distributed Coordination Function) 프로토콜은 이진 지수 백오프 방식을 사용한다. 단말은 데이터 전송 전에 충돌을 피하기 위해 일정한 시간동안 채널 휴지(Idle)를 기다린다. 데이터 전송이 성공하면 경쟁 윈도우 값을 두 배로 증가시키고 실패하면 최소 값으로 초기화 한다. 이를 통해 DCF는 충돌을 회피하지만 단말의 수가 증가함에 따라 충돌율은 증가하고 전체 네트워크 성능은 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 예약 방식을 통한 데이터 전송 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서 채널 시간을 예약 구간과 경쟁 구간으로 나눈다. 기본적으로 경쟁 구간에서 단말들은 DCF와 마찬가지로 경쟁 방식을 통해 데이터를 전송할 때 예약 구간에 대한 채널 예약을 AP에게 요청한다. 또한 예약 구간에서 데이터를 전송한 단말은 다음 예약 구간에서의 예약을 요청한다. AP는 채널 예약을 수행한다. 채널 예약에 성공한 단말은 예약 구간에서 비경쟁 방법으로 데이터 패킷을 전송한다. 따라서 DCF의 충돌율을 낮추고 전체적인 네트워크 성능을 향상시킨다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.3 no.11
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• pp.393-402
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• 2014

We have experienced an explosive increase of the IoT(Internet of Things) technology based devices including smart phones and the wireless communications. Also the growing power consumption in IEEE 802.11 WLANs(Wireless LANs) driven by these dramatic increases in not only mobile users and but also wireless APs(Access Points). To reduce the power consumption, this paper proposes a wireless AP power saving algorithm, which minimizes the transmission power without decrease the transmission and carrier sense ranges. A wireless AP which is use in our algorithm checks its own original coverage periodically for whether there is a new STA(Station) or not when its transmission power is decreased. Moreover, if there are no signaling message to connect the wireless AP, it changes its operation mode Wake-up to sleep. A Result shows that the proposed AP algorithm can reduce the total power consumption of the wireless AP approximated 18% and 35% compared to the conventional wireless AP with and without the existing power saving algorithm, respectively.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.374-383
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• 2008

IEEE 802.11 WLANs support various data rates in order to adapt to wireless channel condition. It is known that when some WLAN stations use a lower data rate than the others, total throughput is considerably degraded. The concept of temporal fairness which provides equal time to all stations has been introduced to alleviate this performance anomaly problem. However, most previous mechanisms assume that stations have infinite backlogs in the MAC layer and do not consider transport layer. In this paper, we first examine and analyze the performance of previous methods considering transport layer protocols. We then propose two new temporal fairness guarantee methods: AP priority and dynamic CWmin adjustment. We carried out extensive performance study via ns-2 computer simulations. The results show that the proposed methods provide temporal fairness and improve the throughput of WLANs in various environments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.2401-2409
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• 2015

This paper proposes the improved handoff mechanism for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. When a wireless mobile node moves out of the coverage of its currently associated AP(Access Point) and needs to be re-associated with a new AP, a handoff procedure is initiated. Channel scanning process during a handoff procedure occupies over 90% of total handoff latency. Long latency leads to many packet losses and service discontinuity, which degrades wireless network performance. This paper describes about the new mechanism to improve handoff performance by skipping channel scanning during a handoff procedure. In oerder for that, acquires neighboring AP information such as its address, location, channel number in use, the number of associated nodes before handoff, and delivers the information to its associated mobile nodes. The mobile nodes can reduce handoff latency and perform more exact handoff using the delivered AP information. We have conducted simulations to analyze our proposal's performance and confirmed that handoff latency and the number of handoff occurrences are decreased.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.578-585
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• 2011

Nowadays, wireless local area networks are widely deployed so that stations can potentially associate with an access point. The AP selection strategy is one of the significant research areas for wireless local area networks. The selection strategy solves the relevant problem is which AP can be selected and associated with a station so that the efficient resource utilization can be obtained. Rather than merely choosing the AP with the strongest received signal strength, however, we calculate effective throughput for each neighboring AP and use it as a basis for AP selection. Referencing the throughput is better than referencing the signal strength only because the network may contain a severe load imbalance. We have performed computer simulations using OPNET modeler in order to verify the performance of the proposed scheme. The results show us that the proposed selection method outperforms that of the conventional one in terms of throughput and delay.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.11B
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• pp.965-971
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• 2003

This paper suggests a low-complexity frame timing synchronization system for IEEE802.11a wireless LAN systems. The proposed timing synchronization scheme has been implemented by correlating the received OFDM preamble with quantized coefficients composed of ｛0, ${\pm}$2$^{0}$ , ${\pm}$2$^1$‥‥‥ ${\pm}$2$^{i}$ ), where i is an integer number. The 2$^{i}$ -valued coefficients enable the multipliers in the correlation system to be simplified to i-bit shifters. So we can design the correlation system using shifters instead of multipliers. We estimate the performance of the proposed scheme in comparison with conventional systems under the AWGN and Rayleigh fading channels. In this paper we show that the complexity can be reduced by 90% while still maintaining a performance comparable to that of the conventional system.