• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.228-232
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• 2008

In recent years, wireless ad hoc networks have become increasingly popular in both military and civilian applications due to their capability of building networks without the need for a pre-existing infrastructure. Recently, IEEE 802.11 Task Group e has been working on a new mechanism, the Enhanced Distributed Coordination Function (EDCF), to enhance the performance of 802.11 DCF. However, EDCF only reduces the internal collisions within a station, and external collisions between stations remain high in ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we propose to adopt an adaptive backoff window control technique, based on a dynamic value of the initial value of the range in which the backoff is chosen, so the backoff timer is randomly chosen in the range (InitRng, CW-1). We use ns-2 simulation to evaluate the throughput of our scheme. Results show that the throughput is improved for our scheme compared to the original DCF due to the reduced the number of collisions.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권2A호
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• pp.152-161
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• 2007

IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)는 광대역 무선 인터넷 접속기술로 널리 이용되고 있으며 WLAN을 기반으로 하는 음성 서비스(VoWLAN)와 같은 새로운 응용들이 등장하고 있다. VoWLAN서비스들은 휴대형 장치를 통해 서비스가 되며 베터리 전력을 이용해서 동작하는 휴대형 장치들을 위해 사용 전력을 최소화하여 대기시간을 최대화하는 기술이 필수적이다. 그러나 IEEE 802.11 WLAN 규격은 VoWLAN 서비스와 관련하여 사용 전력을 최적으로 이용하는 동작을 지원하지 않는다. 본 논문에서 페이징, idle 핸드오프 및 지연 핸드오프로 구성되는 새로운 Idle Mode operation을 제안한다. Idle mode operation를 기반으로 동작하는 모바일 호스트는 미리 정의되어 있는 페이징 영역내에서는 핸드오프를 하지 않는다. 모바일 호스트가 새로운 페이징 영역으로 진입할 때에만 최소한의 호처리 신호를 발생시키는 idle 핸드오프를 수행한다. 기존의 IEEE 802.11 WLAN은 idle mode를 지원하지 않기 때문에 Power Saving Mode (PSM)과 IP paging 기법을 동시에 이용해 왔으나 전력소비 효율이 좋지 못하였다. 본 논문은 구현을 통하여 새롭게 제안한 방식인 idle mode operation이 실현가능 함을 증명하고 기존의 방식과 비교하여 전력소비 효율이 더 뛰어남을 보인다.

• 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.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.653-660
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• 2013

This paper deals with the problem of unfairness among uplink TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) flows associated with frame aggregation employed in IEEE 802.11n WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks). When multiple stations have uplink TCP flows and transmit TCP data packets to an AP (Access Point), the AP has to compete for channel access with stations for the transmission of TCP ACK (acknowledgement) packets to the stations. Due to this contention-based channel access, TCP ACKs tend to be accumulated in the AP's downlink buffer. We show that the frame aggregation in the MAC (Medium Access Control) layer increases TCP ACK losses in the AP and leads to the serious unfair operation of TCP congestion control. To resolve this problem, we propose the TAC (TCP ACK Compression) mechanism operating at the top of the AP's interface queue. By exploiting the properties of cumulative TCP ACK and frame aggregation, TAC serves only the representative TCP ACK without serving redundant TCP ACKs. Therefore, TAC reduces queue occupancy and prevents ACK losses due to buffer overflow, which significantly contributes to fairness among uplink TCP flows. Also, TAC enhances the channel efficiency by not transmitting unnecessary TCP ACKs. The simulation results show that TAC tightly assures fairness under various network conditions while increasing the aggregate throughput, compared to the existing schemes.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2010

무선랜의 가상화를 통해 한정된 무선 자원을 여러 연구자들이 효율적으로 공유할 수 있게 한다. 기본적으로 가상화된 공간에서의 실험이 가상화되지 않은 곳에서의 실험과 일관되어야 하며 두 실험의 결과가 유사할수록 일관성이 좋다고 본다. 본 논문에서는 기존 IEEE 802.11 무선랜의 수정 없이 독립된 실험의 프로토콜 간에 상호작용을 방지하여 일관성이 좋은 가상화 기법을 제안한다. 성능 평가를 통해 일관성은 무선 채널의 특성(도플러 주파수， Ricean 계수 등)과 실험망의 수에 따라 달라짐을 확인하였다 제 안된 기법은 무선 채널의 특성에 따라 최적화되어 신뢰할 수 있는 결과를 얻을 수 있다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 2006년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.307-311
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• 2006

Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) in IEEE 802.11 and Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) in IEEE 802.11e are contention-based access mechanism in Wireless LAN. Both DCF and EDCA reduce collisions based on inter-frame space (IFS) and backoff mechanisms. However, collisions are unavoidable even with the two mechanisms. Especially, in the EDCA model, the collision can be classified into interclass and intraclass collision. To eliminate interclass collision in Wireless LAN, we propose an interclass collision protection (ICP) scheme by employing contention protection period (CPP) after backoff, Analysis is performed for one dimensional EDCA model and for the proposed ICP based EDCA model.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.150-157
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• 2010

Understanding and optimizing the energy consumption of wireless devices is critical to maximize the network lifetime and to provide guidelines for the design of new protocols and interfaces. In this work, we first provide an accurate analysis of the energy performance of an IEEE 802.11 WLAN, and then we derive the configuration to optimize it. We further analyze the impact of the energy configuration of the stations on the throughput performance, and we discuss under which circumstances throughput and energy efficiency can be both jointly maximized and where they constitute different challenges. Our findings are that, although an energy-optimized configuration typically yields gains in terms of throughput as compared against the default configuration, it comes with a reduction in performance as compared against the maximum-bandwidth configuration, a reduction that depends on the energy parameters of the wireless interface.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2010

In order to provide electricity to users economically and safely, distribution automation systems (DASs) monitor and operate components of distribution systems remotely through communication networks. The fiber optic communication network has been mainly installed for the DAS of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) because of its huge bandwidth and dielectric noise immunity. However, the fiber optic communication network has some shortcomings that its installation cost and communication fee are expensive. This paper proposes a complex network where WLANs are combined with conventional fiber optic communication networks in order to expand DAS easily and inexpensively. A fixed wireless bridge communication unit (FWB-CU) for the proposed complex network is implemented using IEEE 802.11a WLAN technology. The proposed complex network is built actually to verify its feasibility experimentally as a DAS communication network.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.425-445
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• 2013

The IEEE 802.11 compliant stations can transmit at multiple transmission rates. Selection of an appropriate transmission rate plays a significant role in determining the overall efficiency of a communication system. The technique which determines the channel state information and accordingly selects an appropriate transmission rate is called rate-adaptation protocol. The IEEE 802.11 standard does not provide standard specification for implementing a rate-adaptation protocol for its multi-rate capable wireless stations. Due to the lack of standard specification, there is a myriad of rate-adaptation protocols, proposed by industry and various research institutes. This paper surveys the existing rate-adaptation schemes, discusses various features which contribute significantly in the process of rate-adaptation, the timing constraints on such schemes, and the performance gains in terms of throughput, delay and energy efficiency; which can be gained by the use of rate-adaptation. The paper also discusses the implication of rate-adaptation schemes on the performance of overall communication and identifies existing research challenges in the design of rate-adaptation schemes.