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Design of Variable Timeslot for Hybrid MAC

하이브리드 MAC을 위한 가변 타임슬롯 설계

  • Received : 2020.11.23
  • Accepted : 2020.12.26
  • Published : 2020.12.30
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Abstract

Hybrid media access control (MAC) is used in internet of things (IoT) network, because of communication feature concern with data capacity and communication interval between gateway and sensor nodes and the cost efficiency. Hybrid MAC consists of TDMA and CSMA generally. The distance between gateway and sensor node is openly changed in marine IoT network. Therefore, it is needed to control the period of timeslot of hybrid MAC used in marine IoT network. In this paper, the design rule of TDMA timeslot with the variable period depending on communication distance was proposed. It was confirmed from the analysis that 72 times communication between gateway and sensor nodes is possible in LoRa network by using the proposed TDMA variable timeslot scheme.

사물 인터넷 (IoT; internet of things) 네트워크는 게이트웨이와 센서 노드 사이의 데이터 양, 통신 주기 등의 특성과 경제성 등을 고려하여 하이브리드 매체 접근 제어 (MAC; media access control) 방식을 사용한다. 하이브리드 MAC 방식은 일반적으로 TDMA와 CSMA 방식을 결합한 형태를 이용한다. 해양 IoT 네트워크에서 센서 노드와 게이트웨이 사이의 거리는 수시로 바뀔 수 있다. 따라서 해양 IoT 네트워크에 적용되는 하이브리드 MAC 설계에 있어 통신 거리에 따라 타임슬롯의 주기는 가변되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 해양 IoT 네트워크에 적용될 수 있는 하이브리드 MAC 중 TDMA에서 통신 거리에 따른 가변 주기의 타임슬롯 설계 방안을 제안하였다. 분석 결과 제안된 TDMA MAC을 이용해 LoRa의 최대 통신 거리에서 하루에 72회까지 센서 노드와 게이트웨이 간 통신이 가능하다는 것을 확인하였다.

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