• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.3 s.106
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• pp.345-352
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• 2006

In the integrated wired/wireless network which consists of the Internet and moving networks, multiple wireless links are used to connect a fixed host(FH) in the Internet to a mobile host(MH) in the moving network. For use in such an environment, we propose a scheme to overcome the TCP performance degradation due to the packet losses over the wireless links without losing the end-to-end TCP semantics. The proposed scheme in each mobile router(MR) allows to obtain the information regarding packet losses over the upstream wireless links based on the received packet sequence number and the ACK number. This information is delivered to the upstream router, which enables the upstream access router(AR) or MR to quickly retransmit the lost packets. The proposed scheme has the feature to quickly recover the packet losses incurred over the upstream wireless links and the performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated through simulation. It is shown that the significant performance gain can be obtained using the proposed scheme compared with the snoop mechanism which maintains end-to-end TCP semantics and does not require any additional features at the source and/or destination nodes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.45-57
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• 2005

In this paper, we extend the performance of bidirectional TCP connection over end-to-end network that uses transfer rate-based flow and congestion control. The sharing of a common buffer by TCP packets and acknowledgement has been known to result in an effect called ack compression, where acks of a connection arrive at the source bunched together, resulting in unfairness and degraded throughput. The degradation in throughput due to bidirectional traffic can be significant. Even in the simple case of symmetrical connections with adequate window size, the connection efficiency is improved about 20% for three levels of background traffic 2.5Mbps, 5.0Mbps and 7.5Mbps. Otherwise, the throughput of jitter is reduced about 50% because round trip delay time is smaller between source node and destination node. Also, we show that throughput curve is improved with connection rate algorithm which is proposed for TCP congetion avoidance as a function of aggressiveness threshold for three levels of background traffic 2.5Mbps, 5Mbps and 7.5Mbps. By analyzing the periodic bursty behavior of the source IP queue, we derive estimated for the maximum queue size and arrive at a simple predictor for the degraded throughput, applicable for relatively general situations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.264-270
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• 2006

In this paper we verified that the window based TCP performance of throughput can be improved by the traffic connection efficiency. and have studied the performance of traffic congestion control that is controlling transmission rate. In wireless network, the bidirectional node is run by estimating the usage rate of link of error control idle and the throughput is shown by transmitting segments. The throughput rate shows almost no delay due to the bidirectional traffic connection efficiency up to the allowable point as increasing the transport rate by the critical value, depending on the size of end-to-end node queue of the increase of transport rate. This paper reports the performance improvement as the number of feedback connection traffic congestion control increases because of the increase of the number of asynchronous transport TCP connections.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.633-636
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• 2011

The paper deals with the performance of contention-based medium access control (MAC) protocols for underwater sensor networks. We extensively analyze the number of received-packets and the end-to-end delay of ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA-RTS-CTS and CSMA-RTS-CTS-ACK protocols using a Qualnet underwater network simulator which accommodates diverse underwater acoustic channel environments. Using simulation results, we support an engineering table to determine an adequate contention-based MAC protocol for underwater sensor networks.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.247-255
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• 2000

최근 이동통신 서비스의 보급이 날로 증가됨에 따라 무선 접속 인터넷 서비스이 사용에 대한 요구가 급증하고 있다. 그러나 인터넷에서 사용되는 TCP 프로토콜은 에러 발생율이 낮은 유선망을 고려하여 설계되었기 때문에 망에서 발생되는 패킷 손실을 망내의 폭주로 인한 것으로 가정하고 폭죽제어 알고리즘을 동작시켜 윈도우 크기를 줄인다. 그러나 무선통신망과 같이 에러 발생율이 높은 환경에서는 패킷 손실이 주로 엘 발생에 기인하는데, 이 경우 기존의 TCP 프로토콜을 사용하면 폭주제어 알고리즘이 동작되어 TCP의 성능을 저하시키는 문제점이 발생된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 유무선 복합망에서 TCP 프로토콜의 성능을 개선하기 위한 Split ACKs 기법을 제안하였다. 이 기법은 기지국에서 무선링크의 패킷 손실 이후에 수신된 ACK 패킷을 여러 개로 쪼개서 TCP 송신측으로 전달한다. 따라서 여러 개의 ACK 패킷을 수신한 TCP 송신측은 폭죽제어 알고리즘이 동작되어 감소시킨 윈도우 크기를 빠르게 복귀시켜 주기 때문에, 저하된 TCP 프로토콜의 성능을 신속히 향상시킬 수 있다. 아울러 제안된 기법은 기존 TCP 프로토콜을 그대로 사용할 수 있으며, TCP의 End-to-end Semantics가 유지되는 장점이 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능분석 결과 이 기법은 기존의 TCP 프로토콜에 비해 약 20%의 성능향상을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.2433-2452
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• 2017

Recently, the pipeline-forwarding has been proposed as a new technique to resolve the end-to-end latency problem of the duty-cycle MAC protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Some protocols based on this technique such as PMAC and PRI-MAC have shown an improvement not only in terms of reducing end-to-end latency but also in terms of reducing power consumption. In these protocols, however, the sensor nodes still waste a significant amount of energy for unnecessary idle listening during contention period of upstream nodes to check the channel activity. This paper proposes a new pipeline-forwarding duty-cycle MAC protocol, named RP-MAC (Reduced Pipelined duty-cycle MAC), which tries to reduce the waste of energy. By taking advantage of ACK mechanism and shortening the handshaking procedure, RP-MAC minimizes the time for checking the channel and therefore reduces the energy consumption due to unnecessary idle listening. When comparing RP-MAC with the existing solution PRI-MAC and RMAC, our QualNet-based simulation results show a significant improvement in term of energy consumption.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.233-243
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• 2003

With the original Transmission Control Protocol(TCP) design, which is particularly targeted at the wired networks, a packet loss is assumed to be caused by the network congestion. In the wireless environment where the chances to lose packets due to transmission bit errors are not negligible, though, this assumption may result in unnecessary TCP performance degradation. In this paper, we propose three schemes that improve the ability to conceal the packet losses in the wireless network while limiting the degree of violating TCP end-to-end semantics to a temporary incidents. If there happens a packet loss at the wireless link and there is a chance that the loss is noticed by the sending TCP, the proposed schemes send an indirect acknowledgement. Each of the proposed schemes uses different criteria to decide whether there is a chance that the packet loss occurred in the wireless part is noticed by the sender. In order to limit the buffer overhead in the base, the indirect acknowledgements are issued only when the length of buffer is less than a certain threshold. We use simulation to compare the overhead and the performance of the proposed schemes, and to show that the proposed schemes improve the TCP performance compared to Snoop with a limited amount of buffer at the base station.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.897-906
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol based on the harmonic transmission of ACK, called HAT-LoRa, for improving the reliability and the utilization in multiple gateway LoRa Networks. LoRa is basically vulnerable to collision due to the primitive pure ALOHA-like MAC. Whereas data frame delivery can be guaranteed by the transparent bridge of multiple receiving gateways, ACK is still transmitted by a single gateway in LoRa Network. HAT-LoRa provides the augmented reception opportunity of ACK via the simultaneous transmissions of identical ACK in multiple spreading factors. The proposed method reduces the expected transmission times of ACK double gateway environment as well as single gateway environment, by 55 and 60% in maximum, by 35% and 40% in average, in a single- and double-gateway environment, respectively. Especially, it outperforms under the environment where the distance between end device and gateways are similar to each other.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.1380-1385
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• 2006

A Pipelined Tone Wakeup(PTW) scheme(1) was proposed to support energy saving and end-to-end delay for sensor networks by providing an asynchronous wakeup pipeline to overlap the wakeup procedures with the packet transmission. But the scheme uses two radios and assumes error-free environments. In this paper, we propose a modified PTW scheme for wireless sensor networks. The proposed scheme is based on the PTW. The difference is that next hop information will be included in the ack packet from receiver node to sender node, So all the other neighbor nodes can stay in sleep mode long enough to save energy. Also ore get enhanced delay performance.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2004

A congestion control algorithm to prevent buffer overflow in MSR(Mobility Support Router) for I-TCP is proposed. Due to high bit error rate and frequent hand-offs over wireless environment, the current congestion control scheme in TCP Reno over mixed(wired and wireless) network exhibits lower throughput than the throughput achieved over wired only network. I-TCP has been proposed to address this by splitting a TCP connection into two TCP connections over wired section and wireless section, respectively. However, buffer overflow in MSR may occur whenever there are excessive bit errors or frequent hand-offs. This may lead to the loss of packets acked by MSR(resident in buffer) to the sender, but not received by the receiver, breaking TCP end-to-end semantics. In this Paper, a new scheme is proposed to prevent the MSR buffer from overflow by introducing “flow control” between the sender and the MSR. Advertised window for the TCP connection between the sender and the MSR is tied to the remaining MSR buffer space, controlling the flow of packets to the MSR buffer before overflow occurs.