• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.411-419
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• 2016

This article investigates the problem of distributed channel selection in opportunistic spectrum access networks from a perspective of interference minimization. The traditional physical (PHY)-layer interference model is for information theoretic analysis. When practical multiple access mechanisms are considered, the recently developed binary medium access control (MAC)-layer interference model in the previous work is more useful, in which the experienced interference of a user is defined as the number of competing users. However, the binary model is not accurate in mathematics analysis with poor achievable performance. Therefore, we propose a real-valued one called stochastic MAC-layer interference model, where the utility of a player is defined as a function of the aggregate weight of the stochastic interference of competing neighbors. Then, the distributed channel selection problem in the stochastic MAC-layer interference model is formulated as a weighted stochastic MAC-layer interference minimization game and we proved that the game is an exact potential game which exists one pure strategy Nash equilibrium point at least. By using the proposed stochastic learning-automata based uncoupled algorithm with heterogeneous learning parameter (SLA-H), we can achieve suboptimal convergence averagely and this result can be verified in the simulation. Moreover, the simulated results also prove that the proposed stochastic model can achieve higher throughput performance and faster convergence behavior than the binary one.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.499-505
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• 2009

수중 통신망의 매체접속제어 (MAC: Medium Access Control) 프로토콜 설계 시 반드시 고려되어야할 사항은 초음파의 느린 속도로 인한 긴 전파 지 연, 동기화의 어려움, 그리고 수중 환경에서 배터리 충전의 어려움으로 인한 전력 소비 문제 등이다. 본 논문에서는 TDMA 기반의 매체접속제어 프로토콜이 가지는 동기화 문제, 채널 효율 문제를 해결하고, 경쟁기반 프로토콜이 가지는 충돌율로 인한 전송 효율 저하 문제를 보완하는 매체접속 제어 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 슬립 모드를 도입하여 효율적인 전력 사용으로 에너지 소비를 줄였고, 채널 효율 증가 및 충돌율 감소를 통해 전송 효율을 증가시켰다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권3A호
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• pp.141-150
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 UWB 기술 기반 WiMedia Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) 표준 프로토콜에 적용할 수 있는 릴레이 자원 예약 프로토콜을 제안한다. 그리고, 무선 채널 상태에 따라 변화하는 UWB 링크 전송속도에 적응적인 릴레이 노드 선정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 UWB 링크에 적응적인 릴레이 통신 프로토콜은 분산적인 D-MAC 표준 기술과 호환성을 갖고, 각 디바이스에서 독립적으로 실행되는 Satisfaction of QoS (SoQ) 기준에 따라 실행된다.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.18-25
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• 2013

본고에서는 차세대 광 가입자를 위한 OFDMA-PON(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Passive Optical Network)을 소개하고, 그 MAC(Medium Access Control) 기술에 대한 전반적 내용과 기 연구된 상향 자원 할당방법들에 대해 알아본다. 또한, OFDMA-PON 연구 동향을 바탕으로, 향후 MAC 기술을 전망한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권9호
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• pp.2302-2322
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• 2012

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are introduced as an enabling technology in tele-health for patient monitoring. Designing an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is the main challenge in WBANs because of their various applications and strict requirements such as low level of energy consumption, low transmission delay, the wide range of data rates and prioritizing emergency data. In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol to provide different requirements of WBANs targeted for medical applications. The proposed MAC provides an efficient emergency response mechanism by considering the correlation between medical signals. It also reduces the power consumption of nodes by minimizing contention access, reducing the probability of the collision and using an efficient synchronization algorithm. In addition, the proposed MAC protocol increases the data rate of the nodes by allocating the resources according to the condition of the network. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed MAC protocol outperforms IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol in terms of power consumption level as well as the average response delay. Also, the comparison results of the proposed MAC with IEEE 802.15.6 MAC protocol show a tradeoff between average response delay and medical data rate.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.311-321
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• 2014

This paper focuses on contention-based medium access control (MAC) protocols used in wireless local area networks. We propose a novel MAC protocol called adaptive backoff tuning MAC (ABTMAC) based on IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). In our proposed MAC protocol, we utilize a fixed transmission attempt rate and each node dynamically adjusts its backoff window size considering the current network status. We determined the appropriate transmission attempt rate for both cases where the request-to-send/clear-to-send mechanism was and was not employed. Robustness against performance degradation caused by the difference between desired and actual values of the attempt rate parameter is considered when setting it. The performance of the protocol is evaluated analytically and through simulations. These results indicate that a wireless network utilizing ABTMAC performs better than one using IEEE 802.11 DCF.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권1A호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

Home Phoneline Networking Alliance(HomePNA) 2.0 기술은 기존의 댁내 전화 선로를 사용하여 홈 네트워크를 구축하는 기술로서, 4-32 Mbps의 고속 데이터 전송 속도를 제공한다. 이러한 HomePNA 2.0의 Medium Access Control(MAC) 프로토콜은 IEEE 802.3 Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection(CSMA/CD) 방식을 사용하면서, Quality of Service(QoS) 알고리즘을 제공하고, 충돌 해결 알고리즘은 Distributed Fair Priority Queuing(DFPQ) 알고리즘을 사용한다. 본 논문은 HomePNA 2.0 MAC 프로토콜의 성능 분석 결과와 HomePNA 2.0 MAC Controller의 요구 사항을 기술하고, 우리가 설계한 HomePNA 2.0 MAC Controller 회로의 구조를 제시하며, HomePNA 2.0 MAC Controller를 구성하는 각 블록의 모의 실험 결과를 제공하고, 우리가 구현한 HomePNA 2.0 Transceiver 칩을 제시한다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.456-469
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• 2009

본 논문에서 ECOT(Estimated Channel Occupancy Time)이라는 새로운 무선 링크 성능 지표를 제시하며, 이를 기반으로 멀티 홉 무선 메쉬 네트워크 환경에서 종간간 높은 수율을 얻고자 한다. ECOT의 핵심적인 특징은 다양한 형태의 IEEE 802.11 MAC(Medium Access Control) 환경에서 적용이 가능하다는 점이다. 우리는 802.11 DCF(Distributed Coordination Function), 802.11e EDCA(Enhanced Distributed Channel Access) with BACK(Block Acknowledgement), 802.11n A-MPDU(Aggregate MAC Protocol Data Unit)와 같은 다양한 형태의 링크 계층 구조를 고려하며, 이와 같은 다양한 환경에서 제안하는 ECOT이 기 제안된 다른 성능 지표 방법론과 비교하여 높은 종단간 수율 성능(이득: $8.5{\sim}354.4%$)을 보여줄 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.209-211
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• 2005

This paper proposes a adaptive medium-access control(MAC) protocol designed for low-power wireless multi-hop sensor networks which is used for connecting physical world and cyber computing space. 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 nodes remaining inactive for long time, but becoming suddenly active when specific event is detected. These characteristics of multi-hop sensor networks and applications motivate a MAC that is different from traditional wireless MACs about power conservation scheme, such as IEEE 802.11. Proposed MAC uses a few techniques to reduce energy consumption. Result show that proposed MAC obtains more energy savings.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 학술회의 논문집 정보 및 제어부문 A
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• pp.279-282
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• 2003

This paper proposes a medium-access control(MAC) protocol designed for wireless multi-hop sensor networks which is used for connecting physical world and cyber computing space. 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 nodes remaining inactive for long time, but becoming suddenly active when specific event is detected. These characteristics of multi-hop sensor networks and applications motivate a MAC that is different from traditional wireless MACs about power conservation scheme, such as IEEE 802.11. Proposed MAC uses a few techniques to reduce energy consumption. Result show that proposed MAC obtains more energy sayings.