• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1191-1194
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• 2007

이동 애드혹 네트워크 (MANET)는 기지국과 같은 인프라 없이 구성된 무선 네트워크로 멀티 홉 무선통신을 수행할 수 있다. MANET에서 경로 끊김이 발생하는 이유는 일반적으로 경로를 설정하고 있는 노드들의 이동이나 hidden terminal 과 같은 무선 채널 충돌 때문이다. 무선 채널 충돌처럼 노드들의 위상과 상관없이 패킷들의 충돌 때문에 경로 끊김이 발생하는 현상은 불필요한 경로 재설정이 유발된다. 그리고 이에 따른 제어 메시지의 과도한 생성은 전체 네트워크의 오버헤드를 증가시켜 성능 감소로 이어진다. 특히 일반적으로 MANET에서 사용하는 reactive 방식의 라우팅 프로토콜을 사용하는 네트워크에서는 더 많은 성능 감소가 일어나게 된다. 본 논문에서는 MANET의 이러한 불필요한 경로 재설정을 방지하여 자원을 보다 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 노드 이동 감지 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 HELLO 메시지와 이웃 노드 테이블을 이용하여 무선 채널 충돌과 같은 현상을 예측하고 효율적으로 대처할 수 있게 한다. 성능 분석 결과, 본 논문에서 제안한 노드 이동 감지 기법이 기존 방법들에 비해 패킷 전송률과 라우팅 오버헤드 측면에서 우수한 성능 결과를 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.1465-1470
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol, namely DM-MMAC (Doze Mode Multi-Channel MAC) for ad hoe wireless networks which can utilize multiple channels effectively, thereby enhancing the network throughput considerably. Basically, the IEEE 802.11 specification allows for the use of multiple channels available at the physical layer, but its MAC protocol is designed only for a single channel with the fatal drawback, so called multi-channel hidden terminal problem in multi-channel environments. In this vein, several multi-channel MAC protocols have been proposed, but most of them demonstrate the performance problem that its throughput drastically decreases as the number of mobile hosts residing in a given network increases with small number of available channels. In this work, we tried to improve the performance of multi-channel MAC protocols in terms of network throughput as well as power saving effects by simplifying the channel assignment and channel capturing procedures and reducing the possibility of collisions between mobile hosts.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.2A
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• pp.132-138
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• 2009

Cognitive radio is considered as a promising solution to scarce spectrum problem. The primary object of cognitive radio is to increase spectral efficiency, while causing limited interference to primary users who are using the spectrum. Hence, an essential part of cognitive radio systems is spectrum sensing which determines whether a particular spectrum is occupied or not by a primary user at a particular time. However, sensing decision of each individual secondary user alone may not be reliable enough due to shadowing and multipath fading of wireless channels. The so called hidden terminal problem makes the problem even worse, possibly yielding undesired interference to the primary users. Recently, cooperative spectrum sensing is emerging as a remedy to these problems of individual sensing. Cooperative sensing allows a group of secondary users to share local sensing information to extract a global decision with high fidelity. In this paper, we investigate a cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm based on hard decisions of local sensing outcomes. Specifically, we propose an effective scheme for combining local decisions by introducing weighting factors that reflect reliability of the corresponding secondary user. Through computer simulations, the performance of the proposed combining scheme is compared with that of the conventional scheme without weighting factors in various environments.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.16-27
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• 2006

The wireless transmission medium inherently broadcasts a signal to all neighbor nodes in the transmission range. Existing asynchronous MAC protocols do not provide a concrete solution for reliable broadcast in link layer. This mainly comes from that an omni-directional broadcasting causes to reduce the network performance due to the explosive collisions and contentions. This paper proposes a reliable broadcast protocol in link taller based on directional antennas, named MDB(MAC protocol for Directional Broadcasting). This protocol makes use of DAST(Directional Antennas Statement Table) information and D-MACA(Directional Multiple Access and Collision Avoidance) scheme through 4-way handshake to resolve the many collision problem wit]1 omni-directional antenna. To analyze its performance, MDB protocol is compared with IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol [9] and the protocol 2 of reference [3], in terms of the success rate of broadcast and the collision rate. As a result of performance analysis through simulation, it was confirmed that the collision rate of the MDB protocol is lower than those of IEEE 802.11 and the protocol 2 of reference [3], and that the completion rate of broadcast of MDB protocol is higher than those of IEEE 802.11 and the protocol 2 of reference [3].