• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.195-200
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• 2009

무선 센서 네트워크에서의 통신은 여러 계층으로 나뉘어 각 계층별 역할을 수행하므로 무선통신이 가능할 수 있다. 센서 네트워크에서의 통신계층 중 하나인 MAC(Medium Access Control)계층은 데이터의 에러, 흐름을 제어하고 자원을 관리하기 위해서 사용되며 MAC Protocol을 사용하여 센서 노드간의 통신을 보장한다. 전통적인 MAC Protocol은 패킷 처리율의 최대화, 지연의 최소화 및 공평성 제공이 주된 목적으로 설계된 된다. 무선 센서 네트워크에서 MAC 프로토콜은 응용에 따라 차이는 있으나 대부분 많은 센서 노드들로 구성된다. 또한 멀티 홉 통신을 하기 때문에 센서 장치의 제한된 배터리 수명으로 인해 소모되는 에너지를 최소화 하여 네트워크 에너지의 효율성을 높이는 것이 가장 큰 목적이다. 본 논문에서는 에너지 효율성 측면을 강조하기 위해서 MAC프로토콜의 문제점을 알아보고 그 중에서 최우선적으로 요구되는 에너지 효율성에 대해서 S-MAC, T-MAC의 비교와 T-MAC의 확률값을 변경에 따른 어느 경우가 가장 효율적인지 active time을 통하여 알아보았다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11B
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• pp.1169-1177
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• 2009

This paper presents an energy efficient MAC protocol for delay-sensitive data transmission over wireless sensor network. In general, energy consumption and delay depend on Channel Monitoring Interval and data sensing period at each sensor node. Based on this fact, we propose a new preamble structure to effectively advertise Channel Monitoring Interval and avoid the overhearing problem. In order to pursue an effective tradeoff between energy consumption and delay, we also develop a Channel Monitoring Interval determining algorithm that searches for a sub-optimal solution with a low computational complexity. Finally, experimental results are provided to compare the proposed MAC protocol with existing sensor MAC protocols.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.927-930
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• 2012

The sensor network technology for core technology of ubiquitous computing is in the spotlight recently, the research on ubiquitous sensor network is proceeding actively which is composed many different sensor node. One of the important condition for design of sensor node is to extend for network life which is to minimize power-consumption under the limited resources of sensor network. This study suggest routing protocol that was used second level cluster structure to reduce power-consumption of sensor node. the first level use the previous routing protocol under the LEACH, second level decide to transmit or not by comparision of data value for Effective Usage, reduce the unnecessary power-consumption.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.31-36
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• 2007

This paper proposes Co-MAC (Coexistence MAC), an energy efficient medium access control protocol designed for large-scale sensor networks. In Co-MAC protocol, an overall network is divided into independent subnets, and each subnet orthogonally operates on time line in a temporal fashion. The basic idea of Co-MAC is to evenly distribute sensor nodes in a certain geographic area based on subnets to minimize overhearing which means the reception of unnecessary data packets from neighboring nodes. In our simulation, it was observed that energy efficiency of Co-MAC outperforms conventional MAC protocols under the given conditions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.187-192
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• 2017

In dense deployments of sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks, the MAC protocol has challenges to solve problems such as reducing delivery delay and reducing energy consumption. To solve these problems lots of protocols are suggested. This paper proposed a sensor nodes' residual energy based wake-up control mechanism, in which each node decides whether it wakes up or stays in sleep mode to save energy consumption by reducing unnecessary idle listening. The main idea of the wake-up control mechanism is to save node's energy consumption. The proposed wake-up control mechanism is based on the RI-MAC protocol, which is one of the receiver-initiated MAC protocols. A receiver node in the proposed mechanism periodically wakes up and broadcasts a beacon signal based on the energy status of the node. A receiver node also adjusts wake-up period based on the traffics. Results have shown that the proposed MAC protocol outperformed RI-MAC protocol in the terms of energy consumption.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.43-54
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• 2007

The effective power consumption is the primary issue in a sensor network which consists of the sensor nodes with limited battery power. So, most of the MAC protocols in sensor networks have been designed with the consideration of energy efficiency. Generally, these protocols make use of the listen and sleep mode periodically. However, this approach inevitably causes a long transmission delay on the data forwarding path, which is mainly resulted from the sleep time of the receiver node. This paper deals with a design of DT-MAC(Data Transmission centric MAC) protocol, with minimizes the data transmission delay while it forces each node to consume its energy efficiently. Thus, a node received a packet converts its remained sleep time to the pseudo_listen time, in which the node is able to transmit a packet. With benefit of the pseudo_listen period, the data transmission delay along with the data forwarding path will be shortened as much as it possible. Therefore, DT-MAC protocol is very suitable to the various applications which require a real time sensing data such as disaster and fire alarm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.635-637
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• 2016

센서 네트워크에서 각 센서 노드의 에너지 소모를 최소화하여 에너지 소모를 줄임으로써 망의 지속시간을 늘이는 것이 중요하다. 기존의 MAC(Medium Access Control) 프로토콜은 채널 폴링 기법을 이용하여 효율적인 에너지 관리에 대한 해결책을 제시 하였으나, 그러한 방식에 따른 각 노드의 Duty Cycle이 길어짐으로써 발생하는 에너지 소모에 대한 해결책은 제시하지 못하였다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 채널 폴링과 함께 스케쥴링 알고리즘을 적용하여 Duty Cycle의 주기를 줄임으로써 에너지 소모를 줄인다. 특히 이 방식을 이용하여 멀티홉과 과다한 트래픽에 대한 성능의 평가를 위해 실험을 통해 제안하는 프로토콜의 우수한 성능을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.519-521
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• 2013

무선 센서 네트워크에서는 에너지가 제한된 배터리로 네트워크를 구성하기 때문에 에너지 효율적 사용에 대한 연구가 주요한 이슈이다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 에너지 사용을 위하여 트래픽 변화 환경을 위한 Wakeup 주기 제어 메커니즘을 제안한다. 제안되는 MAC 프로토콜은 수신자의 제어 신호로 데이터 전송이 시작된다. 송신 노드는 트래픽이 변화를 데이터 패킷 프레임에 플래그(flag)를 추가하여 수신노드에 전달한다. 수신 노드는 이를 통해 수신 노드의 Wakeup 주기를 제어한다. 제안되는 MAC 프로토콜은 트래픽이 적을 경우 수신 노드의 sleep 구간의 증가를 통하여 에너지가 절약된다. 또한 트래픽이 높은 경우 수신 노드의 Wakeup 주기를 줄여 송신 노드의 idle listening으로 발생하는 에너지 소모를 감소시킨다. 제안되는 MAC 프로토콜은 기존의 프로토콜과 비교하여 빠르게 Wakeup 주기를 조절함으로서 에너지 효율적면에서 더 좋은 성능을 보여준다.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.21-28
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• 2019

Recent research on energy harvesting wireless sensor networks focuses on the development of techniques to solve the limited energy resource problem and to extend the whole network life efficiently. Energy harvesting technology can increase the lifetime of a network, but data transmission becomes unavailable when it harvests energy from radio frequency, resulting longer network delay with respect to the increased time in energy harvesting. Therefore, building energy harvesting wireless sensor network should consider the possible network delay as well as the network lifetime problem. In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol that minimizes end-to-end network delay by adjusting the data transmission time for a packet based on estimating the energy for data transmission along with the amount of traffic flowing into the network and harvested energy. For this goal, it engineers an energy management mechanism that adjusts the sleep time of the network by measuring energy harvesting time. In addition, with simulation results it shows that the proposed MAC protocol improves the performance in terms of energy consumption and end-to-end delay, compared to the existing MAC protocols.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.3-9
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• 2017

Due to difficulties of continuous electric power provision to underwater communication nodes, the efficient power usage is highly required in underwater network protocol. In this paper, we studied the energy efficient MAC(Medium Access Control) protocol for underwater network supporting mobile nodes such as UUV(Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) and AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle). The mobile nodes could waste the electric power in vain when the receiver moves out of the radio propagation coverage during the data exchange and thus the transmitted data fails in reaching the receiver. Expecially, such a failure is much more obvious in underwater acoustic channels since the propagation delay is about $10^5$ times slower than in terrestrial radio channels. This proposed mobility-MAC controls the data dropping stochastically in the Dropping Zone by considering the receiver's location and moving velocity. In conclusion, this selective dropping method not only improves latency and throughput by reducing invalid droppings but also boosts power efficiency by valid droppings.