• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1B
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• pp.95-105
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• 2010

IEEE 802.15.4 is the one of the protocols for radio communication in a personal area network. Since it aims to provide low cost and low power communication for ubiquitous communication, it requires high level of optimization in implementation. Recently, there have been many studies on the performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol. According to the results of the studies, it is tendency that the transceiver is implemented to SoC type. On the implementation, the specific functions of MAC like CSMA-CA and MAC frame handling is designed to hardwired functions. In this paper, we implemented the protocol with hardwired low MAC (HL-MAC) and its state machine for the optimization from the physical layer and MAC layer. it has the characteristics of the small code size and the enhanced power consumption.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2007

In spite of the large interest in the 802.15.4 standard, no realistic experimental research of its behaviour exists to date except a few works by simulations and analytical modeling. In this paper, we have established realistic environment of IEEE 802.15.4 network and analyze its behaviour under various conditions as like 1) maximum throughput of 802.15.4 MAC, 2) MAC fairness. and 3) throughput and m rate under co-existence of 802.11 Wi-Fi wireless networks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.40-43
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• 2006

IEEE 802.15.4 MAC은 센서 네트워크와 같은 저속, 저 전력 통신을 지원하기 위해 설계 되었다. 하지만 현재의 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC은 센서가 촘촘히 분포한 상황과 같이 충돌이 많이 발생하는 경우를 지원하기엔 부족하다. 우리는 현재의 IEEE 802.15.4 표준이 backoff 범위를 너무 좁은 범위로 제한하여 더 많은 충돌을 야기한다는 것을 밝힌다. 또한 본 논문을 통해 단순히 backoff의 범위를 넓혀 주는 것만으로도 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC으로 하여금 충돌에 대한 탄력성을 보강시키고, 더 나아가 추가적인 최적화 알고리즘을 도입하더라도 기존의 표준 MAC보다 효과적으로 반응하게 함을 보인다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2014

IEEE 802.15.4 is one of the most widely adopted physical layer standards in the area of LR-WPAN(Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network). Numerous previous researches have contributed to deep insights on energy efficiency, transmission throughput, and reliability that IEEE 802.15.4 delivers to the LR-WPAN. As a research that is orthogonal and complementary to previous researches, we explore the implementation and practical performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC software. We implement the MAC software from the perspective of the networking stack, exploring the issues raised when the MAC software serves as a functional component in a complete networking stack consisting of MAC, network as well as well as application support layers. The performance is evaluated on a realistic experimental software environment integrated with operating system, networking stack, and applications.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.101-108
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• 2005

IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) are expected to provide ubiquitous networking between small personal/home devices and sensors with low power consumption and low cost features. The technology employs special CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/collision Avoidance) to save power consumption for small or portable WPAN-enabled devices. In this paper, we simulation the slotted CSMA/CA of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and evaluate its performance limit in order to grasp the characteristics of Medium Access Control (MAC) of IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.10-14
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• 2005

IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks(WPAN) are expected to provide ubiquitous networking between small personal/home devices and sensors with low power consumption and low cost features. The technology employs special CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/collision Avoidance) to save power consumption for small or portable WPAN-enabled devices. In this paper, we simulation the slotted CSMA/CA of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and evaluate its performance limit in order to grasp the characteristics of Medium Access Control (MAC) of IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.706-708
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• 2004

일반적인 무선 통신망은 데이터 전송 고속화에 중심을 두고 발전해 왔으나, 최근 무선 센서 네트워크와 같은 응용 분야에서 소량의 데이터와 낮은 처리 속도를 지원하면서 저비용, 경량, 저전력을 요구하는 무선 통신 기술이 필요하게 됨에 따라 IEEE에서 LR-WPAN(Low Rate-Wireless Personal Area Network)을 위한 새로운 IEEE 802.15.4 표준이 제시되었다. 현재 무선 센서 네트워크에 관한 연구는 소형 경량의 MAC(Medium Access Control ) 프로토콜 개발이 핵심 기술로 인식되면서, 저전력 소모를 위한 라우팅 기법, MAC 프로토콜의 패킷처리 기술 등이 우선적으로 진행 중이다. 그러나 무선 센서 네트워크와 같은 응용분야에 사용 가능한 표준인 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC 프로토콜의 실질적인 상용화를 위해서는 표준안 분석 및 검증 과정이 기본적으로 선행되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.15.4 표준안의 핵심인 MAC 프로토콜을 정형화된 명세 언어인 SDL(Specification and Description Language)를 이용하며 상세 설계 및 분석 후, 자동화 도구를 이용한 모의수행을 통하여 검증하였으며 표준안과의 비교 및 오류 수정을 거친 연구결과를 기술한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.26-33
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• 2012

Please WBAN(Wireless Body Area Networks) is wireless communication of within 3 m radius from inside and outside of the body. WBAN is many uses IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol for WBAN MAC protocol requirements. IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol applies GTS(Guaranteed Time Slot) allocation scheme for guarantee packet delivery of application which requests QoS(Quality of Service). However, GTS allocation scheme of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol uses FIFS(First In First Service) queueing. So it reduces data transmission reliability and has many problems. Therefore, IEEE 802.15.4 applies not WBAN MAC protocol for emergency data transmission. In this paper, we proposes a priority based MAC protocol for emergency data transmission in wireless body area networks. the proposal MAC protocol sets priority the data. So GTS reqeuest throughput of emergency data increasing and GTS allocation delay of emergency data decreasing.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.18-28
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• 2007

IEEE Std 802.15.4 표준기술은 저속 데이터 전송속도의 무선 통신 능력을 위한 표준을 정의한다. 본고에서는 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC 기능을 요약해서 기술한다. 또한 보안기술 부분은 IEEE 802.15.4-2006 규격을 기준으로 해서 간략히 설명하고, 2003 버전과의 차이점에 대해서도 비교 설명한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.175-185
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• 2007

In IEEE 802.15.4 (Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network) specification, a successful reception and validation of a data or MAC command frame can be confirmed with an acknowledgment. However, the specification does not support security for acknowledgment frame; the lack of a MAC covering acknowledgments allows an adversary to forge an acknowledgment for any frame. This paper proposes an identity authentication mechanism at the link layer for acknowledgment frame in IEEE 802.15.4 network. With the proposed mechanism there is only three bits for authentication, which can greatly reduce overhead of device. The encrypted bit stream for identity authentication will be transmitted to device by coordinator within association process. Statistical method and simulation results prove that our mechanism is successful in handling MAC layer attack.