• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.141-145
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• 2017

Spectrum sensing is a critical functionality of Cognitive Radio(CR) systems and the CR systems can be applied to RF energy harvesting systems to improve an energy harvesting rate. There are number of spectrum sensing techniques. One of techniques is energy detection. Energy detection is the simplest detection method and is the most commonly used. But, energy detection has a hidden terminal problem in real wireless communication, because of secondary user (SU) can be affected by frequency fading and shadowing. Cooperative spectrum sensing can solve this problem using spatial diversity of SUs. But it has a problem of increasing data by processing multiple secondary. So, we propose the system model using adaptive spectrum sensing algorithm and system model is simulated. This algorithm chooses sensing method between single energy sensing and cooperative energy according to the received signal's Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) from Primary User (PU). The simulation result shows that adaptive spectrum sensing has an efficiency and improvement in CR systems.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.93-100
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• 2014

IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Medium Access Control(MAC) supports two transmission methods, a DCF basic and a RTS/CTS in contention-based access. Even though the RTS/CTS method has been optionally introduced to solve the hidden terminal problem, it is able to produce better performance in some network environments than the basic transmission method. In this paper, the collision probability of wireless channel is mathematically analyzed and applied to measure network throughput using real transmission parameters so that a reference value between throughputs of two methods is obtained. We also confirmed that control signal rates affect overall network throughput and evaluated network throughputs considering collision probability, number of stations, and contention window size of Backoff between two methods respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.189-197
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• 2008

ENS-2 simulator is the most widely-used simulator in the research of wired/wireless communication. Since an IEEE 802.11 module has been implemented in NS-2. much research using this module has been done for various MAC layer functions. The most important problem in terms of performance is the hidden terminal problem. To solve this problem, the solutions using a busy-tone such as BTMA, DBTMA, etc. have been proposed. In order to be able to use a busy-tone, channels using the frequency bandwidth except the frequency bandwidth of the data channel is required for the collision prevention, and a MAC layer has to be able to menage such multiple channels. In this research, we implement a module that can use a busy-tone in NS-2, implement a modified RI-BTMA by applying the implemented module, and verify its performance.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.30-35
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• 2012

In this paper, we proposed spectrum sensing using cooperative relay to solve problem of sensing performance degradation due to CPE (Customer-Primise equipments) which causes low SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) problem. This system model is expected that cooperative relay scheme guarantees the high sensing performance by its diversity gain. Based on these backgrounds, in this paper, we apply to cooperative relay scheme to the CR (cognitive radio) system, and simulation results show comparison of the sensing performance combining method EGC and MRC.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.193-203
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• 2014

This paper implements a weather monitoring system based on wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor network protocol proposed in this paper adopts a TDMA styled MAC. The protocol is designed to balance the energy consumption among sensor nodes. Other purposes of the protocol are to avoid the hidden terminal problem in 2-hop star topology, and to allow a CSMA styled communication in a given time slot to support emergent messages. Also, this paper develops the hardware of sensor node, gateway and electric generator based on solar and windy energy. The test results on the implemented system show that the time slot of each node is shifted in circular manner to balance the waiting time for transmission, and the reliability of wireless communication is over 99%.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 2024

TCP is considered as one of the major candidate transport protocols even for constrained IoT networks..In our previous work, we investigated the congestion control mechanism of the uIP TCP. Since the uIP TCP sets the window size to one segment by default, managing the retransmission timer is the primary approach to congestion control. However, the original uIP TCP sets the retransmission timer based on the fixed RTO, it performs poorly when a radio duty cycling mechanism is enabled and the hidden terminal problem is severe. In our previous work, we proposed a TCP retransmission timer adjustment scheme for uIP TCP which adopts the notion of weak RTT estimation of CoCoA, exponential backoffs with variable limits, and dithering. Although our previous work showed that the proposed retransmission timer adjustment scheme can improve performance, we observe that the scheme often causes a node to set the retransmission timer for an excessively too long time period. In this work, we show that slightly modifying the dithering mechanism of the previous scheme is effective for improving TCP fairness.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05b
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• pp.481-485
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• 2012

차량 통신 네트워크(VANET, Vehicular Ad Hoc Network)는 운전자 안전 정보 및 ITS(Intelligent Transp ortation System) 서비스를 지원하기 위해 IEEE 1609.4와 IEEE 802.11p를 활용한다. 그러나 차량 노드들의 숫자가 증가할 경우에는 트래픽 경합 문제(Traffic Contention Problem), 숨은 터미널 문제(Hidden Terminal Problem), 전송 지연 문제, 경합으로 인한 패킷 손실 문제, 처리량 감소 문제, MAC의 동적 채널 할당 방법 등 많은 문제점이 발생한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 IEEE 1609.4와 IEEE 802.11p 기반 차량 통신 네트워크의 특징을 살펴봄으로써 기존 제안되었던 차량 통신 네트워크를 위한 MAC 및 멀티채널 기술의 특징의 장단점을 분석한다. 또한 분석된 문제점을 해결하기 위한 연구 방향을 제시한다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.9-17
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• 2014

Since vehicles' trajectories are so complex and dense traffic changes in nature frequently, the VANET (Vehicles Ad-hoc Network), using Omni-directional Antenna, has many channel collisions (or overlapping) on Data Link phrases (MAC layers). It is not easy to keep a good seamless communication status for VANET because of its unpredictable network environment. Among VANET research, Directional Antenna have been proposed as one of the most common systematical solutions to reduce (or to mitigate) this miss-communication problems by narrowing communicational ranges and making use of its customized error-detection process. However, even though Directional Antennas help VANET keep good seamless communication, many VANET researchers have reported that Directional VANET still has miss-communicational problems - this has lead to problems like 'Directional Hidden Terminal Problem', 'Deafness', 'Un-accuracy Lobe Scopes' and 'High Deployment Cost' being reported in various papers. To establish well-organized design assessments for a good Directional VANET MAC protocol to overcome these problems, we rearranged and grouped current Directional VANET' qualitative criteria from several current survey papers using these categories- 'Directional Discovery', 'Directional Forwarding' and 'Directional Handover'. In addition, based on the results of the following analysis, we show the essential design concerns that need to be looked at in order to develop a well-designed Directional-VANET MAC protocol.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.917-920
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• 2007

무선 Ad-hoc 네트워크에서는 주로 IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜을 이용한다. IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜은 제어 메시지인 RTS-CTS를 통해서 채널 예약을 하고 데이터를 전송하는 방식으로 모든 통신에 Omni-directional 안테나를 이용하여 전송한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜보다 성능을 향상시키기 위해서 directional 안테나를 이용한 MAC 프로토콜을 사용한다. Directional 안테나를 사용한 MAC 프로토콜은 IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜에 비해서 Spatial Reuse를 증가함으로서 채널 자원을 더욱 효율적으로 사용하는 것이 가능하다. 또한 Directional 안테나의 사용은 안테나의 지향성에 따른 안테나 이득 및 전송 범위의 증가 그리고 전송 범위를 Omni-directional 안테나와 동일하게 적용할 경우에는 저 전력 통신이 가능하다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 그러나 Directional 안테나의 사용은 IEEE 802.11 MAC보다 좋은 성능을 갖기는 하지만 새로운 문제들이 발생한다. 이러한 문제들로는 New Hidden Terminal, Deafness, Capture, 그리고 위치 인식에 관련된 문제들이 발생한다. 본 논문에서서 위에서 언급한 Directional 안테나의 이점과 그리고 문제점에 대해서 설명하고, 이러한 문제들 중에 Deafness 문제를 완화시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 QualNet 4.0을 이용한 시뮬레이션을 통해서 제안된 프로토콜의 성능을 평가한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.2A
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• pp.132-138
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• 2009

Cognitive radio is considered as a promising solution to scarce spectrum problem. The primary object of cognitive radio is to increase spectral efficiency, while causing limited interference to primary users who are using the spectrum. Hence, an essential part of cognitive radio systems is spectrum sensing which determines whether a particular spectrum is occupied or not by a primary user at a particular time. However, sensing decision of each individual secondary user alone may not be reliable enough due to shadowing and multipath fading of wireless channels. The so called hidden terminal problem makes the problem even worse, possibly yielding undesired interference to the primary users. Recently, cooperative spectrum sensing is emerging as a remedy to these problems of individual sensing. Cooperative sensing allows a group of secondary users to share local sensing information to extract a global decision with high fidelity. In this paper, we investigate a cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm based on hard decisions of local sensing outcomes. Specifically, we propose an effective scheme for combining local decisions by introducing weighting factors that reflect reliability of the corresponding secondary user. Through computer simulations, the performance of the proposed combining scheme is compared with that of the conventional scheme without weighting factors in various environments.