• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.21-25
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• 2016

N-screen is a promising technology to improve support for multimedia multicasting, content sharing, content mobility, media scalability, and seamless mobility. In this paper, the WiMedia distributed-MAC (D-MAC) protocol is adopted for development of a seamless N-screen wireless service. Furthermore, to provide a multi-hop, one source multi-use N-screen service through point to point streaming in a seamless D-MAC protocol, a dynamic multi-frame transmission technology is proposed. In this technology, a dynamic time slot allocation scheme and a multi-hop resource reservation scheme are combined. In the proposed dynamic time slot allocation scheme, two thresholds, a hard threshold and a soft threshold, are included to satisfy the power consumption and delay requirements. A multi-frame DRP reservation scheme is proposed to minimize end-to-end delay during the multi-hop transmissions between N-screen devices. The proposed dynamic multi-frame transmission scheme enhances N-screen performance in terms of the multi-hop link establishment success rate and link establishment time compared to the conventional WiMedia D-MAC system.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.713-724
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• 2016

Energy consumption has become a main problem of sustainable development in communication networks and how to communicate with high energy efficiency is a significant topic that researchers and network operators commonly concern. In this paper, an energy-efficient multicast algorithm in multi-hop wireless networks is proposed aiming at new generation wireless communications. Traditional multi-hop wireless network design only considers either network efficiency or minimum energy consumption of networks, but rarely the maximum energy efficiency of networks. Different from previous methods, the paper targets maximizing energy efficiency of networks. In order to get optimal energy efficiency to build network multicast, our proposed method tries to maximize network throughput and minimize networks' energy consumption by exploiting network coding and sleeping scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better energy efficiency and performance improvements compared with existing methods.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.177-185
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• 2008

응용분야를 계속 확장해가고 있는 무선 센서네트워크에서 매체접근제어 (MAC)에 관한 연구는 주로 에너지 효율을 높이는데 집중되어왔으며 전송지연(Latency)에 관한 연구는 상대적으로 적다. 그러나 센서 네트워크의 특성상 다중 홉(multi-hop) 전송이 빈번하게 일어나는 환경에서 종단 간 전송지연은 특히 시간 종속적인 응용분야에서는 중요한 성능상 제약이 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 분산적인 전송전력제어방식을 이용하여 다중 링크를 동시에 개설할 수 있도록 함으로써 센서네트워크의 전송 전력을 줄임과 동시에 네트워크의 공간 활용도를 향상시키고 전송지연시간을 개선 할 수 있는 매체접근제어(MAC) 방식을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능 검증 결과 제안하는 방식인 TPCS-MAC은 센서노드의 전력소모를 줄임과 동시에 특히 다중 홉(multi-hop) 센서네트워크에서 발생하는 종단 간 지연 (end-to-end latency) 문제를 개선하는 것으로 판명되었다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.65-69
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• 2016

Wireless communication chipsets have fixed transmission rate and communication distance. Although there are many kinds of chipsets with throughput and distance purpose, they cannot support various types of wireless applications. This paper provides theoretic research results in order to support various wireless applications requiring different throughput, delayed quality-of-service (QoS), and different communication distances by using a wireless communication chipset with fixed rate and transmission power. As a performance metric, the probability for a data frame that successfully receives at a desired receiver is adopted. Based on this probability, the average number of transmission in order to make a successful frame transmission is derived. Equations are utilized to analyze the performance of a single-hop with channel coding and a dual-hop without error correction matter transmission system. Our results revealed that single-hop transmission assisted by channel coding could extend its communication distance. However, communication range extending effect of the single-hop system was limited. Accordingly, dual-hop transmission is needed to overcome the communication distance limit of a chipset.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.477-493
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• 2011

The IEEE 802.16 mobile multi-hop relay (MMR) task group 'j' (TGj) has introduced the multi-hop relaying concept in the IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN, wherein a relay station (RS) is employed to improve network coverage and capacity. Several RSs can be deployed between a base station and mobile stations, and configured to form a tree-like multi-hop topology. In such architecture, we consider the problem of a path selection through which the mobile station in and outside the coverage can communicate with the base station. In this paper, we propose a new path selection algorithm that ensures more efficient distribution of resources such as bandwidth among the relaying nodes for improving the overall performance of the network. Performance of our proposed scheme is compared with the path selection algorithms based on loss rate and the shortest path algorithm. Based on the simulation results using ns-2, we show our proposal significantly improves the performance on throughput, latency and bandwidth consumption.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.177-179
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• 2006

This paper presents an analysis architecture of embedded operating systems for wireless sensor network. Wireless multi-hop sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing device. We expect sensor networks to be deployed in an ad hoc fashion, with very high energy constraints. These characteristics of multi-hop wireless sensor networks and applications motivate an operating system that is different from traditional embedded operating system. These days new wireless sensor network embedded operating system come out with some advances compared with previous ones. The analysis is focusing on understanding differences of dominant wireless sensor network OS, such as TinyOS 2.0 with TinyOS 1.x.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제48권10호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 멀티 홉 무선 네트워크의 처리율을 향상시킬 수 있는 멀티라디오/멀티채널에서의 네트워크 코딩 방법을 제시한다. 무선 네트워크의 처리율은 노드간 동일 채널 간섭과 무선 링크의 전송손실에 의해 제한을 받는다. 무선 네트워크에서 멀티라디오/멀티채널 환경은 무선노드의 채널 간섭 및 채널 경쟁을 줄여 주며, 네트워크 코딩은 스케줄링의 복잡성을 줄이고 링크의 사용을 늘려 처리율 증가를 가져올 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 멀티 홉 네트워크상에서 효율적인 처리율 향상을 위해 네트워크의 수학적 모델링과 선형계획법을 이용하여 인트라세션 네트워크 코딩에서의 채널 할당 및 전송 스케줄링 방법을 제안한다. 또한 AMPL과 CPLEX를 이용하여 인트라세션 네트워크 코딩 방법의 성능을 시험한다. 시험결과 멀티 홉 무선 네트워크의 인트라세션 네트워크 코딩이 일반적인 라우팅보다 처리율의 향상을 가져온다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.69-81
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• 2013

Maintaining connectivity is essential in multi-hop wireless networks since the network topology cannot be pre-determined due to mobility and environmental effects. To maintain the connectivity, a critical point in the network topology should be identified where the critical point is the link or node that partitions the network when it fails. In this paper, we propose a new critical point identification algorithm and also present numerical results that compare the critical points of the network and H-hop sub-network illustrating how effectively sub-network information can detect the network-wide critical points. Then, we propose two localized topological control resilient schemes that can be applied to both global and local H-hop sub-network critical points to improve the network connectivity and the network resilience. Numerical studies to evaluate the proposed schemes under node and link failure network conditions show that our proposed resilient schemes increase the probability of the network being connected in variety of link and node failure conditions.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.471-482
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• 2012

For disaster exploration and surveillance application, this paper aims to present a novel application of a multi-robot agent based on WSN and to evaluate a multi-hop communication caused by the robotics correspondingly, which are used in the uncertain and unknown subterranean tunnel. A Primary-Scout Multi-Robot System (PS-MRS) was proposed. A chain topology in a subterranean environment was implemented using a trimmed ZigBee2006 protocol stack to build the multi-hop communication network. The ZigBee IC-CC2530 modular circuit was adapted by mounting it on the PS-MRS. A physical experiment based on the strategy of PS-MRS was used in this paper to evaluate the efficiency of multi-hop communication and to realize the delivery of data packets in an unknown and uncertain underground laboratory environment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권10호
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• pp.2548-2566
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• 2012

This paper derives two main end-to-end performance metrics, namely the spatial capacity density and the average end-to-end delay of the multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks with multi-antenna communications. Based on the closed-form expressions of these performance metrics, three hopping strategies, i.e., the closest neighbor, the furthest neighbor and the randomly selected neighbor hopping strategies have been investigated. This formulation provides insights into the relations among node density, diversity gains, number of hops and some other network design parameters which jointly determine network performances, and a method of choosing the best hopping strategy which can be formulated from a network design perspective.