• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.149-159
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• 2011

In this paper, we study the problem of how to design a medical-grade wireless local area network (WLAN) for healthcare facilities. First, unlike the IEEE 802.11e MAC, which categorizes traffic primarily by their delay constraints, we prioritize medical applications according to their medical urgency. Second, we propose a mechanism that can guarantee absolute priority to each traffic category, which is critical for medical-grade quality of service (QoS), while the conventional 802.11e MAC only provides relative priority to each traffic category. Based on absolute priority, we focus on the performance of real-time patient monitoring applications, and derive the optimal contention window size that can significantly improve the throughput performance. Finally, for proper performance evaluation from a medical viewpoint, we introduce the weighted diagnostic distortion (WDD) as a medical QoS metric to effectively measure the medical diagnosability by extracting the main diagnostic features of medical signal. Our simulation result shows that the proposed mechanism, together with medical categorization using absolute priority, can significantly improve the medical-grade QoS performance over the conventional IEEE 802.11e MAC.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.702-704
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• 2010

무선 LAN(Local Area Network) 환경에서 QoS를 지원하기 위해 IEEE 802.11 Working Group은 IEEE 802.11e를 표준화하였다. IEEE 802.11e EDCA는 우선순위가 높은 트래픽의 채널 접근 기회를 확률적으로 높임으로써 QoS를 지원한다. 이는 우선순위가 높은 트래픽이 우선순위가 낮은 트래픽에 비해 채널 접근을 반드시 먼저 하는 것이 아니다. 따라서 모든 트래픽이 같은 채널, 같은 routing path를 가진다면, 우선순위가 낮은 트래픽은 우선순위가 높은 트래픽의 성능에 지속적인 영향을 미친다. 결과적으로 EDCA는 음성이나 비디오와 같은 멀티미디어 응용에 QoS를 보장하기에 무리가 따른다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 Multi-Interface를 이용한 Multi-Path Routing Algorithm을 제안한다. 각 Interface 마다 IEEE 802.11e EDCA에서 사용하는 Access Category별로 각각의 Routing Path를 다르게 함으로써 높은 우선순위의 트래픽에 QoS를 보장한다.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제22권1_2호
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• pp.501-515
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• 2006

The IEEE 802.11 protocol is the most mature technology for WLANs(Wireless Local Area Networks). However, as the number of stations increases, the delay and throughput performance of IEEE 802.11 MAC(Medium Access Control) degrades severely. In this paper, we present the comprehensive performance analysis of IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol by investigating the MAC layer packet service time when arrival packet sizes have a general probability distribution. We obtain the discrete probability distribution of the MAC layer service time. By using this, we analyze the system throughput and the MAC layer packet service time of IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol in wireless LAN environment. We take some numerical examples for the system throughput and the mean packet service time for several special distributions of arrival packet sizes.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2002년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.29 No.1 (A)
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• pp.241-243
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• 2002

본 논문은 무선 랜 상에서 전송 지연을 보장하기 위한 백오프 방식을 제안한다. 이 방식은 전송되는 트래픽의 종류에 따라 백오프 시간을 할당하도록 설계되었으며, 기존의 IEEE 802.11 매체접근제어 방식을 그대로 유지하며, 보다 향상된 서비스 품질을 지원한다. 제안된 백오프 방식에서는 모든 트래픽을 실시간 트래픽과 비실시간 트래픽으로 구분하여 처리된다. 실시간 트래픽은 제안된 백오프 방식으로 처리되고, 비실시간 트래픽은 기존의 IEEE 802.11 방식에 의해 처리된다. 본 논문에서는 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 사용하여 제안된 백오프 방식을 성능 평가하였으며, 시뮬레이션 결과는 전송지연 관점에서 기존의 IEEE 802.11e 방식보다 성능이 향상됨을 보여준다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.385-396
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a formal method for modeling and checking an enhanced version of the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance protocol related to the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer, which has been proposed as the standard protocol for wireless local area networks. We deal mainly with the distributed coordination function (DCF) procedure of this protocol throughout a sequence of transformation steps. First, we use the unified modeling language state machines to thoroughly capture the behavior of wireless stations implementing a DCF, and then translate them into the input language of the UPPAAL model checking tool, which is a network of communicating timed automata. Finally, we proceed by checking of some of the safety and liveness properties, such as deadlock-freedom, using this tool.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.463-471
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• 2011

Cooperative communications using relays in wireless networks have similar effects of multiple-input and multiple-output without the need of multiple antennas at each node. To implement cooperation into a system, efficient protocols are desired. In IEEE 802.11 families such as a/b/g, mobile stations can automatically adjust transmission rates according to channel conditions. However throughput performance degradation is observed by low-rate stations in multi-rate circumstances resulting in so-called performance anomaly. In this paper, we propose active relay-based cooperative medium access control (AR-CMAC) protocol, in which active relays desiring to transmit their own data for cooperation participate in relaying, and it is designed to increase throughput as a solution to performance anomaly. We have analyzed the performance of the simplified AR-CMAC using an embedded Markov chain model to demonstrate the gain of AR-CMAC and to verify it with our simulations. Simulations in an infrastructure network with an IEEE 802.11b/g access point show noticeable improvement than the legacy schemes.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.760-766
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• 2008

This paper proposes an efficient location technique to find an indoor location under the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks. The proposed method is based on the range measurements obtained from a simple radio frequency propagation model. Thus, unlike the radio frequency fingerprint correlation method, it does not suffer from the computational burden during the real-time location service period and can quickly reply the location requests of many users at the same time. To increase the location accuracy in spite of the frequent non-line-of-sight error occurrences, the proposed method calibrates the distortion of the non-line-of-sight error by a simple measurement surveying procedure that does not require the surveyor's manual interaction. Experimental results show the capability of the proposed method.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.327-333
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• 2022

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has emerged as a personal entertainment source for home users. Streaming IPTV content over a wireless medium with good Quality of Service (QoS) can be a challenging task as IPTV content requires more bandwidth and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are susceptible to packet loss, delay and jitter. This research presents the capacity of IPTV using User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) over IEEE 802.11ac WLANs in good and bad network conditions. Experimental results show that in good network conditions, UDP and TFRC could accommodate a maximum of 78 and 75 Standard Definition Television (SDTV) users, respectively. In contrast, 15 and 11 High-Definition Television (HDTV) users were supported by UDP and TFRC, respectively. Performance of UDP and TFRC was identical in bad network conditions and same number of SDTV and HDTV users were supported by TFRC and UDP. With background Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic, both UDP and TFRC can support nearly the same number of SDTV users. It was found that TFRC can co-exist fairly with TCP by giving more throughput to TCP unlike UDP.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.225-232
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• 2008

단일 멀티미디어 컨텐츠 소스가 다양한 분산된 무선 디바이스에서 재생될 때, 오디오와 비디오 컨텐츠는 멀티 채널 스테레오 사운드와 립싱크 (lip-sync)를 위한 동시적인 플레이가 요구된다. 특히 차량 내의 멀티미디어 시스템은 기존의 유선 환경에서 최근 무선 환경으로의 이전에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있는 상황이다. 이에 본 논문은 IEEE 802.11 WLANs [1] 환경에서 실시간으로 멀티미디어 트래픽을 전송하기위해 필요한 동기화된 서비스 제공을 목적으로 하는 동기화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이를 위해 기존의 IEEE 1588 [2]을 개선한 새로운 알고리즘을 구현하고 무선 랜 (WLANs) 환경의 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하여 그 성능을 평가, 분석한 후 실제 무선 디바이스 (링크시스 wrt-350n AP 네트워크 디바이스)에 이를 포팅 하여 디바이스 간의 동기화 정확도를 실험, 분석하였다.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.25-35
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• 2024

Wireless communication, including mobile networks and local area networks, has become an essential service in the society. Wireless communication is evolving to include sensing services, as demonstrated by the increasing attention in organizations and standards such as 3GPP and IEEE 802.11. This survey presents technology trends in the integration of sensing and communication. The standardization status along with use cases provided by standards are explained. In addition, core and supporting technologies such as channel modeling, waveform design, and artificial intelligence are analyzed.