• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.467-469
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• 2006

In wireless network environments, as users' demands on high-speed data communications due to increase of multi-media services, the necessity of new high-speed WLAN technologies has appeared. Nowaday, IEEE is standardizing a new WLAN protocol caned as IEEE 802.11n. To effectively use wireless resources, IEEE 802.11n introduces MAC aggregation function which is similar to that in IEEE 802.11e. In case of transmitting several frames without MAC aggregation, the frames include individual frame header and trailer, and their corresponding acknowledgement frames can appear on wireless link. However, if they are aggregated into single MAC frame, we can reduce the number of used bits due to frame headers/trailers and also remove redundant acknowledgement frames. In this paper, we explain two different MAC frame aggregation methods for IEEE 802.11e and IEEE 802.11n and evaluate their throughput by simulations.

• 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.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.1109-1119
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• 2009

최근 무선 인터넷 수요의 증가와 더불어 WLAN의 표준화 작업도 활발히 진행 중이다. IEEE 802.11e에서 통신 품질 보장과 함께 데이터 전송속도가 54Mbps 이상의 성능을 보이고 있지만 아직까지 사용자들의 요구에 부응하지 못하고 있는 것이 현실이다. IEEE802.11e다음 버전인 IEEE 802.11n의 연구 동향은 크게 두 가지로 MAC 계층에서 패킷 간의 Aggregation을 통하여 시스템 처리량을 높인 결과와 PHY 계층에서 MIMO 시스템을 적용하여 데이터 전송속도를 높인 결과로 정리될 수 있다. 그러나 아직까지 MAC 계층과 PHY 계층의 연동을 고려하여 IEEE 802.11n의 성능 분석을 보인 결과는 발표되지 않았다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11n 시스템에서 MAC계층과 PHY 계층의 연동을 고려하여 성능을 분석한다. MAC 계층에서의 A-MPDU 기반 하에 PHY 계층에서 MIMO 방식을 적용한다. MIMO 방식은 실내용 WLAN MIMO TGn 채널 모델의 사용과 함께 SVD 기법을 적용하여 분석하였고, 결과적으로 기존의 방식에 비해 데이터 전송속도의 증가와 처리량이 향상되었음을 보인다. 또한, MAC과 PHY의 연동을 고려하여 현실성 있는 시뮬레이터인 Ns-2를 사용하기로 한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.518-528
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• 2009

IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) has become the prevailing solution for wireless Internet access while transport control protocol (TCP) is the dominant transport-layer protocol in the Internet. It is known that, in an infrastructure-based WLAN with multiple stations carrying long-lived TCP flows, the number of TCP stations that are actively contending to access the wireless channel remains very small. Hence, the aggregate TCP throughput is basically independent of the total number of TCP stations. This phenomenon is due to the closed-loop nature of TCP flow control and the bottleneck downlink (i.e., access point-to-station) transmissions in infrastructure-based WLANs. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive analytical model to study TCP dynamics in infrastructure-based 802.11 WLANs. We calculate the average number of active TCP stations and the aggregate TCP throughput using our model for given total number of TCP stations and the maximum TCP receive window size. We find out that the default minimum contention window sizes specified in the standards (i.e., 31 and 15 for 802.11b and 802.11a, respectively) are not optimal in terms of TCP throughput maximization. Via ns-2 simulation, we verify the correctness of our analytical model and study the effects of some of the simplifying assumptions employed in the model. Simulation results show that our model is reasonably accurate, particularly when the wireline delay is small and/or the packet loss rate is low.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1492-1512
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• 2011

Due to multiple hops, mobility and time-varying channel, supporting delay sensitive real-time traffic in wireless local area network-based (WLAN) mesh networks is a challenging task. In particular for real-time traffic subject to medium access control (MAC) layer control overhead, such as preamble, carrier sense waiting time and the random backoff period, the performance of real-time flows will be degraded greatly. In order to support real-time traffic, an efficient adaptive packet scheduling (APS) scheme is proposed, which aims to improve the system performance by guaranteeing inter-class, intra-class service differentiation and adaptively adjusting the packet length. APS classifies incoming packets by the IEEE 802.11e access class and then queued into a suitable buffer queue. APS employs strict priority service discipline for resource allocation among different service classes to achieve inter-class fairness. By estimating the received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) per bit and current link condition, APS is able to calculate the optimized packet length with bi-dimensional markov MAC model to improve system performance. To achieve the fairness of intra-class, APS also takes maximum tolerable packet delay, transmission requests, and average allocation transmission into consideration to allocate transmission opportunity to the corresponding traffic. Detailed simulation results and comparison with IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) scheme show that the proposed APS scheme is able to effectively provide inter-class and intra-class differentiate services and improve QoS for real-time traffic in terms of throughput, end-to-end delay, packet loss rate and fairness.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권4A호
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• pp.421-430
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11a 무선랜(WLAN) 환경에서 Cross Layer 기반의 채널 모니터링(Cross-Layered Monitoring: CLM)을 이용한 네트워크 적응형 고선명(high definition: HD) MPEG-2 TS 비디오 스트리밍 시스템을 제안한다. 무선 채널 모니터링을 위해 AE(access point)는 MAC(medium access control) 계층의 전송 상태를 주기적으로 측정하고 응용 계층의 스트리밍 서버로 전달한다. 이것은 비디오 스트리밍 응용 프로그램이 피드백 기반의 종단간 모니터링(End-to-End Monitoring: E2EM) 기법을 적용할 때보다 가변적인 무선 채널 상태에 좀 더 빠르고 효과적으로 적응할 수 있게 한다. 스트리밍 서버는 네트워크에 적응적인 전송을 위해 측정된 무선 채널 상태에 따라 우선순위 기반의 프레임 폐기(priority-based frame dropping)를 수행한다. 이를 위해 스트리밍 서버는 실시간 파싱(real-time parsing)과 프레임 기반의 패킷 우선순위화(frame-based prioritized packetization) 기능을 제공한다. 성능 평가를 위해 IEEE 802.11a 무선랜 환경에서의 다양한 스트리밍 실험을 수행한다. 실험 결과는 제안 시스템이 시간에 따라 가변하는 무선 채널 상태에서 기존 기법에 비해 종단간 비디오 스트리밍의 품질을 향상시킬 수 있음을 보여준다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.172-178
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• 2023

When the mobile device moves from the coverage of one access point to the radio coverage of another access point it needs to maintain its connection with the current access point before it successfully discovers the new access point, this process is known as handoff. During handoff the acceptable delay a voice over IP application can bear is of 50ms whereas the delay on medium access control layer is high enough that goes up to 350-500ms. This research provides a suitable methodology on medium access control layer of the IEEE 802.11 network. The medium access control layer comprises of three phases, namely discovery, reauthentication and re-association. The discovery phase on medium access control layer takes up to 90% of the total handoff latency. The objective is to effectively reduce the delay for discovery phase to ensure a seamless handoff. The research proposes a scheme that reduces the handoff latency effectively by scanning channels prior to the actual handoff process starts and scans only the neighboring access points. Further, the proposed scheme enables the mobile device to scan first the channel on which it is currently operating so that the mobile device has to perform minimum number of channel switches. The results show that the mobile device finds out the new potential access point prior to the handoff execution hence the delay during discovery of a new access point is minimized effectively.