• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocol, named underwater multi-channel MAC protocol (UMMAC), for underwater acoustic networks (UANs). UMMAC is a split phase and reservation based multi-channel MAC protocol which enables hosts to utilize multiple channels via a channel allocation and power control algorithm (CAPC). In UMMAC, channel information of neighboring nodes is gathered via exchange of control packets. With such information, UMMAC allows for as many parallel transmissions as possible while avoiding using extra time slot for channel negotiation. By running CAPC algorithm, which aims at maximizing the network's capacity, users can allocate their transmission power and channels in a distributed way. The advantages of the proposed protocol are threefold: 1) Only one transceiver is needed for each node; 2) based on CAPC, hosts are coordinated to negotiate the channels and control power in a distributed way; 3) comparing with existing RTS/CTS MAC protocols, UMMAC do not introduce new overhead for channel negotiation. Simulation results show that UMMAC outperforms Slotted floor acquisition multiple access (FAMA) and multi-channel MAC (MMAC) in terms of network goodput (50% and 17% respectively in a certain scenario). Furthermore, UMMAC can lower the end-to-end delay and achieves a lower energy consumption compared to Slotted FAMA and MMAC.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.517-520
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• 2005

무선 센서망은 망의 사용목적에 따라 빛, 온도, 진동, 자기 영역, 바람 등을 감지 할 수 있는 센서와 컴퓨팅 기술로 통합된다. 무선 노드들은 센서에서 감지된 정보를 처리하는 신호 처리 기술과 측정자에게 정보가 도달하게 하는 통신 제어 기술과, 무선으로 구동되고 배터리를 사용하기 때문에 발생하는 제한적 에너지 관리 기술이 구현된다. 그 중 신뢰성 있는 측정 및 감지를 하고자 한다면 망의 지속시간의 비중이 크기 때문에 효율적인 에너지 관리 기술이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 하드웨어에서의 전원관리가 아닌 OSI 7계층 중 데이터 링크 계층에 해당하는 MAC(Medium Access Control)에서 기존의 무선 MAC 프로토콜인 CSMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance)과 무선 센서 MAC 프로토콜인 ER-MAC(Energy Rate Medium Access Control)에 대해 설명후 각각 프로토콜에 따른 망의 지속시간을 비교하여 효율성을 분석한다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제21권A호
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• pp.189-198
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• 2001

In recent years, the predominant part in telecommunications is mobile communications. The next generation network is extending today's voice-only mobile networks to multi-service networks. ATM Network is possible to carry such multi-media traffic and it will be expect to use wireless ATM for the future mobile access network. One of manly important aspects for the performance of wireless ATM is the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. The MAC protocol must be able to satisfyingly handle the different ATM services (CBR, VBR, ABR and UBR) with their radically different performance requirements. Additionally, the MAC protocol must be able to cope with the complex radio environment where fading, multi-path propagation interference and burst-errors further complicate the situation. In this paper, a dynamic slot allocation algorithm in wireless ATM is proposed for an efficient channel sharing/media access at the MAC layer. We use equivalent capacity in the allocation of slots for VBR traffic which is variable along the time. It is simple and effective slot allocation method for VBR service. In particular, we consider the slot allocation of a session consisted of several connections for requirement of multimedia traffic. Simulation shows that the cell loss ratio is reduced by re-allocation of extra slots in Mobile Terminal (MT).

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.31-34
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• 2002

There are two kinds of network architectures in the IEEE 802.11:[1] distributed (ad-hoc) or centralized (infrastructure) wireless network. Centralized networks have an access point (base station) that can control the wireless medium access of stations in these networks. The 802.11 MAC protocol of an access point is the same as those of other stations in the contention period. This paper propose a novel MAC protocol of an access point to solve these problems. This MAC protocol adds a new contention-free period called EPCF (Extended PCF) to resolve accumulated data in the queue of an access point. Simulation results show that the new protocol performs better throughput than the 802.11 standard MAC with the less queue memory site requirement.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.113-118
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• 2002

HFC(Hybrid Fiber Coax)기반으로 한 CATV망에서 양방향을 제공하기 위해서는 매체접근제어(Medium Access Control)프로토콜이 필요하다. 특히, 가입자에서 헤드앤드로 데이터를 전송하는 상향채널은 500가입자 이상이 공유하기 때문에 충돌이 발생하게 된다. 본 논문은 HFC-CATV망에 적합한 충돌해결알고리즘인 이진 스택 알고리즘의 안정성(stability)을 연구하기 위해 분석 모델을 제안하고 기존 모델과의 시스템 처리율(throughput)을 비교ㆍ분석하였다

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2012

The Berkeley-medium access control (B-MAC) is a lightweight, configurable and asynchronous duty cycle medium access control (MAC) protocol in wireless sensor networks. This article presents an analytic modelling of single-hop B-MAC protocol under a Poisson traffic assumption.Our model considers important B-MAC parameters such as the sleep cycle, the two stage backoff mechanism, and the extended preamble. The service delay of an arriving packet and the energy consumption are calculated by an iterative method. The simulation results verify that the proposed analytic model can accurately estimate the performance of single-hop B-MAC with different operating environments.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.212-218
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• 2010

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), both efficient energy management and Quality of Service (QoS) are important issues for some applications. For creating robust networks, real-time services are usually employed to satisfy the QoS requirements. In this paper, we proposed a hierarchical real-time MAC (medium access control) protocol for (m,k)-firm constraint in wireless sensor networks shortly called HRTS-MAC. The proposed HRTS-MAC protocol is based on a dynamic priority assignment by (m,k)-firm constraint. In a tree structure topology, the scheduling algorithm assigns uniform transmitting opportunities to each node. The paper also provides experimental results and comparison of the proposed protocol with E_DBP scheduling algorithm.

• 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.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.460-469
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 UWB 기술 기반 WiMedia Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) 표준 프로토콜에 적용할 수 있는 협력 통신 프로토콜을 제안한다. 이를 위해 무선 채널 상태에 따라 변화하는 UWB 링크 전송 속도에 적응적인 릴레이 노드 선정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 UWB 링크에 적응적인 릴레이 통신 프로토콜은 분산적인 D-MAC 표준 기술 및 무선 USB 기술과 호환성을 갖고, 각 디바이스에서 독립적으로 실행되는 Relay Node Selection (RNS) 기준에 따라 실행된다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 대규모 센서 네트워크를 구성함에 있어서 에너지 소비 효율성이 우수한 Co-MAC (Coexistence MAC) 프로토콜을 제안한다. Co-MAC 프로토콜에서 전체의 네트워크는 시간 축 상에서 상호간에 직교하면서 동작하는 독립적인 subnet들로 나눠진다. Co-MAC 프로토콜의 기본적인 아이디어는 임의의 센서 노드가 이웃 노드로부터 불필요한 데이터를 수신하는 overhearing을 줄이기 위하여 임의의 지역에서 센서 노드들이 고르게 각 subnet으로 할당되도록 설계하는 것이다. 본 논문의 시뮬레이션 결과에서는 제안된 Co-MAC 프로토콜이 기존의 센서 MAC 프로토콜보다 동일한 환경에서 에너지 소모 측면에 관하여 더 효율적임을 보였다.