• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.83-85
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• 2009

Compared with unicast, multicast over wireless ad-hoc networks do not support reliability due to their inability to exchange request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) and ACK packets with multiple recipients. Although several media access control (MAC) layer protocols have been proposed to provide reliable multicast, these introduce additional overhead, which degrades system performance. A novel MAC protocol for reliable wireless multicast is proposed in this paper. By adapting orthogonal frequency division multiple access characteristics in CTS and ACK packets, the protocol achieves reliability over wireless multicast with minimized overhead.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.613-619
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• 2014

Multicast routing algorithms designed for wireline networks are not suitable for wireless environments since they cannot efficiently exploit the inherent characteristics of wireless networks such as the broadcast advantage. There are many routing protocols trying to use these advantages to decrease the number of required transmissions or increase the reception probability of data (e.g., opportunistic routing).Reducing the number of transmissions in a multicast tree directly decreases the bandwidth consumption and interference and increases the overall throughput of the network. In this paper, we introduce a distributed multicast routing protocol for wireless mesh networks called NCast which take into account the data delivery delay and path length when constructing the tree. Furthermore, it effectively uses wireless broadcast advantage to decrease the number of forwarding nodes dynamically when a new receiver joins the tree.Our simulation results show that NCast improves network throughput, data delivery ratio and data delivery delay in comparison with on demand multicast routing protocol. It is also comparable with multichannel multicast even though it does not use channeling technique which eliminates the interference inherently.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.313-322
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 멀티캐스트 패킷 재전송을 담당하는 기능을 기지국에 탑재하여 신뢰성있는 멀티캐스트 전송 프로토콜인 Scalable Multicast Protocol 성능을 개선하고자 한다. 유무선 통합망에서 Scalable Multicast Protocol 동작시, 무선 네트워크에서의 비트 에러나 단말의 이동성으로 패킷 재전송이 많이 발생한다. 이런 재전송 때문에 Scalable Multicast Protocol의 그룹에 제어 메시지 및 재전송 메시지가 증가하게 되며, 이는 또한 Scalable Multicast Protocol 세션 전체 성능을 저하시킨다. 본 논문은 기지국에 무선 환경에 있는 단말의 복구 요구 메시지에 대한 복구 메시지 전송을 담당하는 기능을 추가하여 전체 세션의 성능을 높이고자 한다. ARENA를 이용하여 제안한 방법이 멀티캐스트 세션에의 복구 요구 및 복구 메시지의 수를 줄일 수 있고 멀티캐스트 그룹 세션 전체의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.63-74
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• 2012

Multicast data communication is an efficient communication scheme, especially inmulti-hop ad hoc networks where the media access control (MAC) layer is based on one-hop broadcast from one source to multiple receivers. Compared to unicast, multicast over a wireless channel should be able to deal with varying channel conditions of multiple users and user mobility to provide good quality to all users. IEEE 802.11 does not support reliable multicast owing to its inability to exchange request-to-send/clear-to-send and acknowledgement packets with multiple recipients. Thus, several MAC layer protocols have been proposed to provide reliable multicast. However, additional overhead is introduced, as a result, which degrades the system performance. In this paper, we propose an efficient wireless multicast MAC protocol with small control overhead required for reliable multicast in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks. We present analytical formulations of the system throughput and delay associated with the overhead.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2012년도 제45차 동계학술발표논문집 20권1호
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• pp.101-103
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• 2012

This paper gives an introduction to multicast in wireless mesh networks. The factors to be addressed when designing a multicast protocol for wireless mesh network are presented. Emphases are paid on selection of multicast routing metrics in wireless mesh networks. Also details of adapting these metrics to gain high-throughput multicast in wireless mesh network are described in the paper.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 통신소사이어티 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.345-348
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• 2003

Overlay multicast is proposed as an alternative approach for providing muticast services. A logical infrastructure is built to form an overlay network on top of the physical layer. In this paper, we propose an efficient overlay multicast in wireless ad hoc networks. The overlay multicast tree adapts to the changes in underlying networks. The multicast tree adjusted according to the local member information.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.2267-2273
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 OSMU (One Source Multi Use) N-스크린 멀티캐스트 서비스를 위한 무선 통신 MAC 구조로서, WiMedia Distributed-MAC 프로토콜을 적용하였다. 그러나, 채널 에러율이 가변적인 무선 통신환경을 고려하면, N-스크린 고속 데이터가 손실될 가능성이 높다고 할 수 있다. 이러한 문제에 대해, WiMedia Distributed-MAC 프로토콜을 분석하여, 멀티캐스트 릴레이 기술을 제안하였다. 제안하는 멀티캐스트 릴레이 기술은 Multicast-free DRP Availability IE 기술과 결합되어, 멀티캐스트 통신에 대해 릴레이노드를 선정하고 에러율이 높은 채널을 회피하여 통신할 수 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 멀티캐스트 릴레이 기술과 기존 WiMedia Distributed-MAC 멀티캐스트 기술을 멀티캐스트 노드 수에 따라 수율과 에너지 소모량을 비교 하였고, 다양한 BER (Bit Error Rate) 채널 환경에서 수율 성능을 비교하였다. 이를 통해, OSMU N-스크린 멀티캐스트 서비스에서 멀티캐스트 릴레이 기술이 적용되어야 함을 설명하였다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2010

The reliable multicast MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol is needed to guarantee the recipients' nonerroneous reception of the multicast data frames, which can be transmitted by the AP (Access Point) in infrastructure mode IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. Enhancing the BMMM (Batch Mode Multicast MAC) protocol, in the literature, the connectivity-based reliable multicast MAC protocol was proposed to reduce the RAK (Request for ACKnowledgement) frame transmissions and enhance the multicast MAC performance. However, the number of necessary RAK frame transmissions increases as the number of multicast recipients increases. To alleviate the problem of the larger number of RAK frame transmissions with the larger number of multicast recipients, we propose the clustering algorithm for partitioning the recipients into a small number of clusters, so that the recipients are connected each other within the same clusters. Numerical examples are presented to show the reliable multicast MAC performance improvement by the clustering algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1533-1546
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• 2013

Wireless multicast is considered as an effective transmission mode for the future mobile social contact services supported by Long Time Evolution (LTE). Though wireless multicast has an excellent resource efficiency, its performance suffers deterioration from the channel condition and wireless resource availability. Cognitive Radio (CR) and Device to Device (D2D) are two solutions to provide potential resource. However, resource allocation for cognitive wireless multicast based on D2D is still a great challenge for LTE social networks. In this paper, a joint sub-carriers and power allocation model based on D2D for general cognitive radio multicast (CR-D2D-MC) is proposed for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) LTE systems. By opportunistically accessing the licensed spectrum, the maximized capacity for multiple cognitive multicast groups is achieved with the condition of the general scenario of imperfect spectrum sensing, the constrains of interference to primary users (PUs) and an upper-bound power of secondary users (SUs) acting as multicast source nodes. Furthermore, the fairness for multicast groups or unicast terminals is guaranteed by setting a lower-bound number of the subcarriers allocated to cognitive multicast groups. Lagrange duality algorithm is adopted to obtain the optimal solution to the proposed CR-D2D-MC model. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the performance of cognitive multicast groups and achieves a good balance between capacity and fairness.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2010

Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) is an efficient tool to measure the performance of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems and cooperative systems. Recently, cooperative multicast system with wireless network coding stretched tremendous interesting due to that it can drastically enhance the throughput of the wireless networks. It is desirable to apply DMT to the performance analysis on the multicast system with wireless network coding. In this paper, DMT is performed at the three proposed wireless network coding protocols, i.e., non-regenerative network coding (NRNC), regenerative complex field network coding (RCNC) and regenerative Galois field network coding (RGNC). The DMT analysis shows that under the same system performance, i.e., the same diversity gain, all the three network coding protocols outperform the traditional transmission scheme without network coding in terms of multiplexing gain. Our DMT analysis also exhibits the trends of the three network coding protocols' performance when multiplexing gain is changing from the lower region to the higher region. Monte-Carlo simulations verify the prediction of DMT.