• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.295-309
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• 2015

Beacon scheduling is considered to be one of the most significant challenges for energy-efficient Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network (LR-WPAN) multi-hop networks. The emerging new standard, IEEE802.15.4e, contains a distributed beacon scheduling functionality that utilizes a specific bitmap and multi-superframe structure. However, this new standard does not provide a critical recipe for superframe duration (SD) allocation in beacon scheduling. Therefore, in this paper, we first introduce three different SD allocation approaches, LSB first, MSB first, and random. Via experiments we show that IEEE802.15.4e DSME beacon scheduling performs differently for different SD allocation schemes. Based on our experimental results we propose an adaptive SD allocation (ASDA) algorithm. It utilizes a single indicator, a distributed neighboring slot incrementer (DNSI). The experimental results demonstrate that the ASDA has a superior performance over other methods from the viewpoint of resource efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2005

The High Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) is mainly targeted to consumer electronics and portable communication devices which need high rates and QoS. To achieve these goals, the WPAN provides data rates up to 1Gbps and adopts a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) MAC protocol. Since IEEE 802.15.3 MAC is based on TDMA scheme, it has good performance in dealing with real traffics. But it does not give better results for dynamic traffic. For dynamic traffic, IEEE 802.15.3 MAC needs a kind of request and response policy that brings about the degradation of performance in order to adapt to network changes. To overcome this problem and enhance the data throughput, this paper proposes a superframe structure which uses the Enhanced Contention Access Period (ECAP) to transmit data during sleep-CTA in PM mode.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 2007

Wimedia UWB(Ultra-Wideband) platform provides data rates up to 480Mbps in WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network). Wimedia conformant devices access to the channels through superframe concept for communications. As the channel resource is limited, the optimal channel time required for each device needs to be estimated to share the resource efficiently among the devices. In this paper, we propose a scheme to estimate the required channel time in a super frame to satisfy the QoS of the application on a device. The channel time is estimated from the service rate which is computed from the TSPEC of the application. In the process of the estimation, we take the frame overhead for data transmission as well as the overhead due to the acknowledgement scheme, preamble, and MDSU size into consideration. We also analyze and compare the throughputs for different acknowledgement scheme, preamble, and MDSU size situations. The estimated channel time required for a given service rate is allocated in the unit of MAS(Medium Access Slot).

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.109-115
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• 2014

This paper presents a concurrent channel time allocation scheme used in the reservation period for concurrent transmissions in 60-GHz wireless personal area networks (WPANs). To this end, the proposed resource allocation scheme includes an efficient method for creating a concurrent transmission group by using a table that indicates whether individual streams experience interference from other streams or not. The coordinator device calculates the number of streams that can be concurrently transmitted with each stream and groups them together on the basis of the calculation result. Then, the coordinator device allocates resources to each group such that the streams belonging to the same group can transmit data concurrently. Therefore, when the piconet coordinator (PNC) allocates the channel time to the individual groups, it should allow for maximizing the overall capacity. The performance evaluation result demonstrates that the proposed scheme outperforms the random grouping scheme in terms of the overall capacity when the beamwidth is $30^{\circ}C$ and the radiation efficiency is 0.9.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.421-429
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• 2007

This paper presents a direct-conversion CMOS transceiver for fully digital DS-UWB systems. The transceiver includes all of the radio building blocks, such as a T/R switch, a low noise amplifier, an I/Q demodulator, a low pass filter, a variable gain amplifier as a receiver, the same receiver blocks as a transmitter including a phase-locked loop (PLL), and a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). A single-ended-to-differential converter is implemented in the down-conversion mixer and a differential-to-single-ended converter is implemented in the driver amplifier stage. The chip is fabricated on a 9.0 $mm^2$ die using standard 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology and a 64-pin MicroLead Frame package. Experimental results show the total current consumption is 143 mA including the PLL and VCO. The chip has a 3.5 dB receiver gain flatness at the 660 MHz bandwidth. These results indicate that the architecture and circuits are adaptable to the implementation of a wideband, low-power, and high-speed wireless personal area network.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.25-34
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• 2012

This paper presents a universal architecture for variable-length eight-parallel Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder for high-rate WPAN systems. The proposed architecture can support not only RS(255,239) code but various shortened RS codes. Moreover, variable-length architecture provides variable low latency for various shortened RS codes and the eight-parallel design also provides high data processing rate. Using 90-$nm$ CMOS standard cell technology, the proposed RS decoder has been synthesized and measured for performance. The proposed RS decoder can provide a maximum 19-$Gbps$ data rate at clock frequency 300 $MHz$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.179-183
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• 2006

현재 WPAN(Wireless Personal Area Network) 전송기술의 하나인 IEEE 802.15.4a의 저속형 UWB(Ultra Wide Band) 기술이 활발하게 연구되어지고 있다. 하지만 IEEE 802.15.4a에서 제시된 WPAN 전송채널의 경우에는 심각한 멀티패스 간섭성분이 존재하여 이에 대한 해결방안이 절실히 요구되어지고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는, WPAN환경에서 전송채널의 심각한 멀티패스 성분을 물리계층(Physical layer) 레벨에서 근원적으로 해결하여 높은 QoS(Quality of Service)를 확보하게 해줄 수 있는 단극형 ZCD(are Correlation Duration)확산코드 기반의 Chaotic-OOK (On-Off Keying) 무선통신기술을 제안하고 IEEE 802.15.4a 채널 환경하에서의 모의실험을 통한 성능평가를 통해 제안한 무선통신기술의 유용성을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.203-206
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• 2005

차량 진단 기능이 탑재된 원격 서버, 제어 신호 중계 기능을 가진 휴대폰용 어플리케이션, 그리고 신호 변환을 위한 converting 보드를 사용하여 기존의 차량진단기(scanner)와 동일한 기능을 가지는 원격차량진단 시스템을 제안한다. 원격 서버에서 직접 차량 진단 기능을 수행함으로써 진단 이력에 대한 자동 관리가 가능하며 다양한 부가 서비스를 연계하여 제공할 수 있다. 또한 신규 차종에 대하여 원격 서버 프로그램의 변경으로 대응이 가능하므로 기존 방식처럼 신규 차종에 대한 개별 upgrade가 필요 없다. 제안한 방식은 저가의 진단 시스템 구축이 가능하므로 영업소에서만 사용되던 차량 진단기를 개별 사용자가 사용할 수 있게 해준다. 또한 bluetooth의 Serial Port Profile을 기반으로 휴대전화기와 converting 보드간의 선을 제거함으로써 사용자가 간단하게 진단 어플리케이션이 탑재된 bluetooth handset에서 진단을 할 수 있다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 방식의 실제 환경에서 잘 동작함을 검증하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.1242-1250
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• 2015

It is very important to provide a parameterized quality of service (QoS) using traffic specification (TSPEC), such as mean data rate, maximum burst size, and peak data rate, when packets from the application layer need to be transmitted with guaranteed services in a high-rate wireless personal area network (HR-WPAN). As medium resources are limited, the optimal medium time required for each device needs to be estimated to share the resources efficiently among devices. This paper proposes a variable-service interval-based resource allocation algorithm to efficiently make a reservation of medium resources based on a parameterized QoS. In other words, the proposed algorithm calculates the number of medium access slots (MASs) based on TSPEC, local resources, and local conditions and determines suitable locations for the MASs within a superframe to accommodate more devices. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can accommodate more devices and has greater than 10% resource allocation efficiency in an HR-WPAN compared to existing schemes.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.568-581
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• 2015

Predicting locations of users with portable devices such as IP phones, smart-phones, iPads and iPods in public wireless local area networks (WLANs) plays a crucial role in location management and network resource allocation. Many techniques in machine learning and data mining, such as sequential pattern mining and clustering, have been widely used. However, these approaches have two deficiencies. First, because they are based on profiles of individual mobility behaviors, a sequential pattern technique may fail to predict new users or users with movement on novel paths. Second, using similar mobility behaviors in a cluster for predicting the movement of users may cause significant degradation in accuracy owing to indistinguishable regular movement and random movement. In this paper, we propose a novel fusion technique that utilizes mobility rules discovered from multiple similar users by combining clustering and sequential pattern mining. The proposed technique with two algorithms, named the clustering-based-sequential-pattern-mining (CSPM) and sequential-pattern-mining-based-clustering (SPMC), can deal with the lack of information in a personal profile and avoid some noise due to random movements by users. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms existing approaches in terms of efficiency and prediction accuracy.