• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.334-349
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• 2022

The effectiveness of Wi-Fi networks is greatly influenced by the optimization of contention window (CW) parameters. Unfortunately, the conventional approach employed by IEEE 802.11 wireless networks is not scalable enough to sustain consistent performance for the increasing number of stations. Yet, it is still the default when accessing channels for single-users of 802.11 transmissions. Recently, there has been a spike in attempts to enhance network performance using a machine learning (ML) technique known as reinforcement learning (RL). Its advantage is interacting with the surrounding environment and making decisions based on its own experience. Deep RL (DRL) uses deep neural networks (DNN) to deal with more complex environments (such as continuous state spaces or actions spaces) and to get optimum rewards. As a result, we present a new approach of CW control mechanism, which is termed as contention window threshold (CW_Threshold). It uses the DRL principle to define the threshold value and learn optimal settings under various network scenarios. We demonstrate our proposed method, known as a smart exponential-threshold-linear backoff algorithm with a deep Q-learning network (SETL-DQN). The simulation results show that our proposed SETL-DQN algorithm can effectively improve the throughput and reduce the collision rates.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.199-205
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• 2003

본 논문에선 플래그를 이용한 전송시의 충돌 완화 및 재전송 슬롯 선택 방식의 변형을 통하여 CSMA/CA(Carrier Sensing Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance) 프로토콜을 항공용 VHF통신에 적합하게 변형시켰다. 일반적으로 CSMA/CA 프로세스는 경쟁 서비스에서 충돌이 일어났을 때 재전송 지연시간만큼 기다리게 되고 경쟁윈도우의 크기가 2배로 커진다. 이로 인해 부하가 증가하면 지연시간이 커지고 처리량이 감소한다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 충돌 플래그를 이용하여 본래의 경쟁 윈도우의 크기 변화과정을 변형시켰으며 CSMA/CA 전체 상태 천이 과정에서 충돌시의 과정을 단축시켰다. 또한 패킷이 생성된 상태에서 충돌이 일어나면 플래그를 이용하여 초기에 증가된 경쟁윈도우를 갖고 Backoff 모드에 진입함으로써 재충돌 확률을 줄였다. 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과 부하가 증가하여도 처리량 및 지연 시간에 대해 좋은 특성을 나타냈으며 제안된 프로토콜은 항공용 VHF 통신에 적합함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.376-386
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• 2004

In ad hoc networks, loss-based congestion window progression by the traditional means of duplicate ACKs and timeouts causes high network buffer utilization due to large bursts of data, thereby degrading network bandwidth utilization. Moreover, network-oriented feedbacks to handle route disconnection events may impair packet forwarding capability by adding to MAC layer congestion and also dissipate considerable network resources at reluctant intermediate nodes. Here, we propose a new TCP scheme that does not require the participation of intermediate nodes. It is a purely end-to-end scheme using TCP timestamps to deduce link conditions. It also eliminates spurious reductions of the transmission window in cases of timeouts and fast retransmits. The scheme incorporates a receiver-oriented rate controller (rater), and a congestion window delimiter for the 802.11 MAC protocol. In addition, the transient nature of medium availability due to medium contention during the connection time is addressed by a freezing timer (freezer) at the receiver, which freezes the sender whenever heavy contention is perceived. Finally, the sender-end is modified to comply with the receiver-end enhancements, as an optional deployment. Simulation studies show that our modification of TCP for ad hoc networks offers outstanding performance in terms of goodput, as well as throughput.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2014

IEEE 802.11 무선 LAN MAC 계층의 경쟁 기반 데이터 전송 방식에는 DCF 기본 전송 방식과 RTS/CTS 전송 방식이 있다. RTS/CTS 전송은 Hidden Terminal 문제를 해결하기 위한 방식이지만 네트워크 환경에 따라 정상 상태에서 기본 전송 방식보다 향상된 성능을 보이기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 무선 채널의 전송 충돌 확률을 수치적으로 해석하고 이를 실제 전송 파라미터에 적용하여 두 전송 방식의 성능에 차이를 보이는 기준 충돌 확률 값을 구하였다. 또한 전송 패킷의 컨트롤 신호 속도가 전체 네트워크 성능에 커다란 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하고 이를 충돌 확률, 스테이션의 수, 그리고 Backoff 동작 시 Contention Window Size를 고려하여 두 전송 방식의 성능을 분석하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2008년도 추계학술발표논문집
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• pp.301-303
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• 2008

CSMA/CA를 기반으로 하는 IEEE 802.11 무선랜의 MAC에서는 데이터 전송을 제어하기 위한 방법으로 DCF와 PCF를 사용한다. IEEE 802.11 무선랜의 기본적인 액세스 방법으로 사용하는 DCF에서는 스테이션간의 충돌을 줄이기 위해서 임의의 백오프 시간을 각 스테이션의 경쟁윈도우(Contention Window) 범위에서 결정한다. 스테이션은 패킷 전송 후 충돌이 발생하면, 윈도우 크기를 두 배로 증가시키며, 패킷을 성공적으로 전송하면 윈도우 크기를 최소 경쟁 윈도우(Minimum Contention Window)로 감소한다. DCF는 경쟁 스테이션이 적은 상황에서는 비교적 우수한 성능을 보이나 경쟁 스테이션의 수가 많은 경우 처리율, 패킷지연 관점에서 성능이 저하되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 MAC 계층 DCF 방식에서의 평균폐기시간에 여러 연구결과들을 비교분석한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2010

IEEE 802.11 defines distributed coordination function (DCF), which is characterized by CSMA/CA and binary exponential backoff (BEB) algorithm. Most modifications on DCF so far have focused on updating of the contention window (CW) size depending on the outcome of own frame transmission without considering freezing periods experienced in the backoff interval. We propose two simple but novel schemes which effectively utilize the number of freezing periods sensed during the current backoff interval. The proposed schemes can be applied to DCF and its family, such as double increment double decrement (DIDD). Saturation throughput of the proposed schemes is analyzed by means of Bianchi's Markovian model. Computer simulation validates the accuracy of the analysis. Numerical results based on IEEE 802.11b show that up to about 20% improvement of saturation throughput can be achieved by combining the proposed scheme with conventional schemes when applied to the basic access procedure.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.205-208
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• 2007

The IEEE 802.11 is a MAC protocol which has been standardized by IEEE for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). In the IEEE 802.11 WLANs, network nodes experiencing collisions on the shared channel need to backoff for a random period of time, which is uniformly selected from the Contention Window (CW). This contention window is dynamically controlled by the Binary Exponential Backoff (BEB) algorithm. However, the BEB scheme suffers from a fairness problem; some nodes can achieve significantly larger throughput than others. This paper proposes a new backoff algorithm for the IEEE 802.11 DCF scheme. This algorithm uses the hop count for considering fairness. It causes flows with high hop count to generate short backoff interval than those with low hop count, thus getting high priority. Therefore, when a collision occurs, the modified IEEE 802.11 DCF assigns higher priority to flow to be close to a destination.

• 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보컨버전스학회 2008년도 International conference on information convergence
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• pp.199-204
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• 2008

Sensor nodes have various energy and computational constraints because of their inexpensive nature and ad-hoc method of deployment. Considerable research has been focused at overcoming these deficiencies through faster media accessing, more energy efficient routing, localization algorithms and system design. Our research attempts to provide a method of improvement MAC performance in these issues. We show that traditional carrier-sense multiple access(CSMA) protocols like IEEE 802.11 do not handle the first constraint adequately, and do not take advantage of the second property, leading to degraded latency and throughput as the network scales in size, We present more efficient method of a medium access for real-time wireless sensor networks. Proposed MAC protocol is a randomized CSMA protocol, but unlike previous legacy protocols, does not use a time-varying contention window from which a node randomly picks a transmission slot. To reduce the latency for the delivery of event reports, it carefully decides a fixed-size contention window, non-uniform probability distribution of transmitting in each slot within the window. We show that it can offer up to several times latency reduction compared to legacy of IEEE 802.11 as the size of the sensor network scales up to 256 nodes using widely used simulator ns-2. We, finally show that proposed MAC scheme comes close to meeting bounds on the best latency achievable by a decentralized CSMA-based MAC protocol for real-time wireless sensor networks which is sensitive to latency.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.322-331
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• 2013

Wireless Mesh Networks(WMNs) is generally composed of radio nodes in the mesh topology. WMNs consists of mesh client, mesh router and gateway connected to a wired network. Each client and router relay messages to the gateway for communication. WMNs is widely used recently in many areas can provide extended coverage based on multi-hop communication and ubiquitous communication at any time and any location. However the competition and collision between each node to transmit data is inevitable when the same channel is used for transmission. The transmission opportunities and the throughput of nodes located far from gateway decrease more if the communication channel is accessed based on competitive CSMA/CA scheme using DCF(Distributed Coordination Function) provided by IEEE 802.11 MAC. In this paper, we improve the performance of the TCP fairness and throughput of the nodes with more than 2 hops by applying various algorithms for controlling contention window values. Also, we evaluate the performance using ns-2 simulator, According to the results, proposed scheme can enhance the fairness characteristic of each node irrespective of data to the gateway.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.423-434
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• 2007

차량 애드혹 네트워크는 이동 애드혹 네트워크의 한 종류로서 ITS를 위한 핵심 기술이다. 차량 애드혹 네트워크는 기반시설의 도움 없이 차량 간의 무선통신을 통해 임시적으로 구성되며 메시지 중계 노드로 선정된 차량들을 통해 메시지가 전파된다. 그러나 차량 애드혹 네트워크는 기존의 이동 애드혹 네트워크 보다 네트워크 토폴로지와 노드밀도의 변화가 아주 심하다. 따라서, 멀티-홉 브로드캐스트를 통해 메시지를 신속히 전파하기 위해서는 효과적인 릴레이 노드 선정기법이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 차량 애드혹 네트워크에서 효율적으로 메시지를 전파하기 위한 경쟁윈도우 기반 멀티-홉 브로드캐스트 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 기법은 각 노드가 최적화된 경쟁윈도우를 계산하고 노드들 간의 경쟁을 통해 최적의 릴레이 노드가 선정되도록 한다. 실험결과, 제안한 기법은 기존의 거리기반 결정적 멀티-홉 브로드캐스트 기법에 비하여 종단간 메시지 전파 지연시간과 네트워크 부하 면에서 우수한 성능을 보였다.