• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.515-527
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• 2009

IEEE 802.11n is an ongoing next-generation WLAN(Wireless Local Area Network) standard that supports a very high-speed connection with more than 100Mb/s data throughput measured at the MAC(Medium Access Control) layer. Study trends of IEEE 802.11n show two aspects, enhanced data throughput using aggregation among packets in MAC layer, and better data rates adapting MIMO(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) in PHY(Physical) layer. But, the former doesn't consider wireless channel and the latter doesn't consider aggregation among packets for reality. Therefore, this paper analyzes data throughput for IEEE 802.11n considering MAC and PHY connection. A-MPDU(Aggregation-MAC Protocol Data Unit) and A-MSDU(Aggregation-MAC Service Unit) is adapted considering multi-service in MAC layer, WLAN MIMO TGn channel using SVD(Singular Value Decomposition) is adapted considering MIMO and wireless channel in PHY layer. Consequently, Simulation results shows throughput between A-MPDU and A-MSDU. Also, We use Ns-2(Network simulator-2) for reality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.4B
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• pp.360-367
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a design methodology of IEEE 802.11n MAC which aims to achieve the higher throughput of more than 100Mbps in downlink as measured at the MAC-SAP and present the implementation results of MAC using the proposed design methodology. With our proposed methodology, different from the conventional design flow which has the separate codes for the protocol validation, for the network simulation, and for the system implementation, the unified code can be used for the network simulation and the implementation of software and hardware. Our MAC architecture is partitioned into two parts, Upper-layer MAC and Lower-layer MAC, in order to achieve the high efficiency for the new features of IEEE 802.11n standard. They are implemented in software and hardware respectively. The implemented MAC is tested on ARM based FPGA board.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2007

In spite of the large interest in the 802.15.4 standard, no realistic experimental research of its behaviour exists to date except a few works by simulations and analytical modeling. In this paper, we have established realistic environment of IEEE 802.15.4 network and analyze its behaviour under various conditions as like 1) maximum throughput of 802.15.4 MAC, 2) MAC fairness. and 3) throughput and m rate under co-existence of 802.11 Wi-Fi wireless networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.1A
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• pp.62-69
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• 2005

Efforts for standardization of medium access control (MAC) protocol in IEEE802.11e have been made to support quality of service (QoS) in IEEE802.11e MAC protocol. Enhanced disoibuted coordination function (EDCF) of 802.11e MAC protocol is modified to support QoS for packets that have differentiated priority. However, EDCF still has the problem of throughput optimization and priority support. Therefore, we have proposed a scheme called adaptive EDCF for both supporting priority of packets and throughput optimization. We have derived the relation between the number of nodes and contention window size for throughput optimization. Based on the analytic results, we have evaluated the performance of the proposed scheme using OPNET simulations. The simulation results show that using the proposed scheme can improve the overall throughput regardless of the number of nodes and the decrement of the throughput with increasing the number of nodes can be alleviated. Additionally, we have shown that the adaptive EDCF can support priority of packets more effectively than existing EDCF.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.996-1002
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• 2009

The EDCA scheme in IEEE 802.11 MAC protocols was adopted to support QoS of each traffic. The impact of legacy DCF stations on EDCA voice service is studied using extensive simulations. The maximum number of voice sessions are obtained in cases that IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11a physical layers are used.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10d
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• pp.339-342
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• 2007

무선 인터넷 사용자와 멀티미디어 서비스의 급증으로 IEEE 802.11 WG에서는 사용자에게 QoS를 지원하기 위해 기존의 MAC 프로토콜을 향상시키고 기존의 IEEE 802.11과 호환성을 가지는 IEEE 802.11e 표준을 제정하였다. 따라서 기존의 MAC 네트워크 카드를 가진 사용자도 새로운 QoS Basic Service Set(QBSS)에 문제없이 접속할 수 있다. 하지만 IEEE 802.11e가 지원되는 무선 AP가 있는 QBSS 네트워크 내에 기존의 802.11 station은 요구하는 QoS를 지원받지 못할 뿐더러 전체적인 네트워크 성능의 저하도 가져올 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 MAC을 가지고 있는 station도 Virtual Queue Middleware 통해 QoS를 보장받고 전체적인 네트워크 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제시하고자한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.12A
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• pp.1367-1374
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• 2004

Efforts for standardization of medium access control (MAC) protocol in IEEE802.11e have been made to support quality of service (QoS) in IEEE802.11 MAC protocol. Enhanced distributed coordination function (EDCF) of 802.11e MAC protocol is modified to support QoS for packets that have differentiated priority. However, EDCF still has e problem of throughput optimization and priority support. Therefore, we have proposed a scheme called adaptive EDCF for both supporting priority of packets and throughput optimization. We have derived the relation between the number of nodes and contention window size for throughput optimization. Based on the analytic results, we have evaluated the performance of the proposed scheme using OPNET simulations. The simulation results show that using the proposed scheme can Improve the overall throughput regardless of the number of nodes and the decrement of the throughput with increasing the number of nodes can be alleviated. Additionally, we have shown that the adaptive EDCF can support priority of packets more effectively than existing EDCF.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.528-532
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• 2005

As the current IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard provides the unified channel access procedure for each traffic service without considering its own traffic characteristics, it is difficult to get its differentiated service qualities at IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN system. To solve this limit, IEEE 802.11e standard that can provide differentiated service to each traffic is under preparation. In this study, we implemented IEEE 802.11e EDCA channel access scheme with NS-2 simulator, and showed its numerical results in various system environments with using average delay and throughput as performance measures.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.150-153
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• 2008

현재 무선 랜 기반의 WMN은 도심지와 같은 통화량이 많은 지역('핫존')에서 서비스 되고 있다. 다수 핫존을 서비스하는 엑세스 포인트(AP)별로 인터넷 망에 유선 접속할 경우, 망 접속 비용이 높지만, WMN 기술을 이용하면 핫존별로 산재한 트래픽의 집중을 통해 자원을 대폭 줄일 수 있다. 또한, IEEE 802.11 표준은 가용한 채널이 다양한 직교주파수로 되어있어 IEEE 802.11b에서는 2.4GHz에서 간섭 없는 3개의 채널을 제공하고 IEEE 802.11a는 5GHz에서 간섭 없는 12개의 채널을 제공한다. 근접한 access point (AP)주변에는 다른 채널을 할당함으로써 근접한 AP사이에서의 간섭을 막을 수 있다. IEEE 802.11 표준은 동시 사용에 1개의 채널만 사용하게 되어있어 가용한 채널을 동시에 간섭 없이 사용함으로써 전체적인 throuput을 증대 시킬 수 있어 IEEE 802.11 표준 기반의 MAC 프로토콜의 수정만으로 상, 하 레이어의 수정 없이 향상된 멀티채널을 위한 MAC 프로토콜을 제시한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.4 s.106
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• pp.156-168
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• 2007

1997년에 IEEE 802.11 WG에서 1~2Mbps급의 전송속도를 가지는 근거리 무선 LAN에 대한 규격을 시작으로, 최근 100Mbps 이상 고속의 데이터 전송속도를 지원하는 규격에 이르기까지 무선 LAN에 대한 기술이 지속적으로 발전되고 있다. 최근 무선통신 분야에서는 다양한 멀티미디어 데이터를 고속으로 전송하는 응용서비스가 증가하고 있으며, 이러한 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 무선 QoS MAC 기술이 IEEE 802.11e에서 표준화되었다. 본 고에서는 무선 LAN 관련 국제 표준화기구인 IEEE 802.11 WG에서 진행되고 있는 표준화 내용 중에서 802.11e에서 표준화한 QoS MAC 기술을 중심으로 MAC 기술 및 관련 표준화 동향에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.