• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2302-2322
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• 2012

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are introduced as an enabling technology in tele-health for patient monitoring. Designing an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is the main challenge in WBANs because of their various applications and strict requirements such as low level of energy consumption, low transmission delay, the wide range of data rates and prioritizing emergency data. In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol to provide different requirements of WBANs targeted for medical applications. The proposed MAC provides an efficient emergency response mechanism by considering the correlation between medical signals. It also reduces the power consumption of nodes by minimizing contention access, reducing the probability of the collision and using an efficient synchronization algorithm. In addition, the proposed MAC protocol increases the data rate of the nodes by allocating the resources according to the condition of the network. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed MAC protocol outperforms IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol in terms of power consumption level as well as the average response delay. Also, the comparison results of the proposed MAC with IEEE 802.15.6 MAC protocol show a tradeoff between average response delay and medical data rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.181-183
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• 2012

WBAN(Wireless body area network)에서 사용되는 저 출력 센서 디바이스는 상당한 패킷 손실률을 발생시키며 데이터의 신뢰성을 떨어뜨리는 원인이 된다. 기존의 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC 프로토콜은 데이터 오류 발생 시 수신한 전체 데이터를 재전송하기 때문에 불필요한 에너지 소모와 오버헤드가 발생된다. 특히 WBAN 환경에서 인체 내부에 이식되는 디바이스의 경우 배터리 교체의 어려움과 초 저전력을 요구하기 때문에 노드의 수명 유지를 위해 사용되는 전력 소모량도 중대한 문제가 되고 있으며, 전체 데이터를 재전송하는 기존의 방식에서 발생하는 에너지 소모는 노드의 수명을 단축시키는 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 저전력과 신뢰성을 요구하는 WBAN 환경에서 수신 오류율 변화에 따른 데이터 동적 블록화 기법을 사용하여 재전송 데이터의 크기를 줄인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.14-17
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• 2006

본 논문은 센서 네트워크에서 일반적으로 사용되고 있는 B-MAC의 저전력 기법인 LPL(low power listening)이 갖고 있는 하드웨어 의존성을 지적하고 이러한 의존성이 없는 LPL 구현 기법을 제안한다. preamble과 listening interval 간의 관계를 만족하기 위해 요구되는 기존 LPL의 조건들을 가상 프리앰블 패킷과 크로스 첵킹 방식을 이용하여 해결하였다. 본 논문이 제안하는 기법은 IEEE 802.15.4 기반의 CC2420 RF칩에서의 실험을 통하여 기존의 LPL과 유사한 성능을 보여주었으며, idle listening을 최소화하여 RF칩의 duty cycle이 최대 10.6%까지 감소하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.130-138
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• 2009

6LoWPAN is IPv6 packets transmission technology at Sensor network over the IEEE 802.15.4 Standard MAC and Physical layer. Adaptation layer between IP layer and MAC layer performs fragmentation and reassembly of packet for transmit IPv6 packets. RFC4944, IETF 6LoWPAN WG standard document define packet fragmentation and reassembly. In this paper, we propose the IRM(Immediate Retransmission Method) and SRM(Selective Retransmission Method) to manage packet fragmentation and reassembly at 6LoWPAN. Each time destination receives a fragmented packet, it sends Ack message to the source node on IRM. However, on SRM, the destination node receives all fragmented packet, it sends Ack message or Nak message to the source node. In this case, Nak message include the dropped packet number. To compare the performance of the proposed schemes, we develop a simulator using C++. The result of simulation shows the proposed schemes provider better performance than RFC4944 standard scheme.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.15-19
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a optimal CW(Conention Window) synchronization scheme in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. IEEE 802.11 WLANs support DCF(Distributed Coordination Function) mode for the MAC(Medium Access Control) operation. In DCF, the CW increases exponentially according to the collisions and becomes minimum CW according to the success of data transmissions. However, since the base minimum CW value is hardware or standard specific, the number of active stations and network status are not considered to determine the CW value. Even though the researches on optimal CW have beend conducted, they do not consider the optimal CW synchronization among mobile stations which occur network performance degradation. Therefore, this paper calculates the optimal CW value and shares it with mobile stations in the network.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.177-182
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient sink node based MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The proposed sink node-based MAC (SB-MAC) protocol uses a RB(rapid beacon) frame to save sender's energy consumption and to reduce transmission delay. The RB frame is a modified IEEE 802.15.4 beacon frame. The RB frame contains the length of the sender nodes data. Using this information other nodes except sender and receiver nodes can be stay sleep mode long time to reduce energy consumption. Results have shown that the SB-MAC protocol outperformed other protocols like X-MAC and RI-MAC in terms of packet delivery delay and energy consumption. The SB-MAC protocol is especially energy efficient for the networks with one sink node and many senders.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.8A
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• pp.712-722
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• 2011

Wireless body area network(WBAN) provide communication service in the vicinity of the body. Since WBANs utilize both MICS frequency band for implant medical applications and ISM frequency band for medical and consumer electronics(CE) applications. Therefore, MAC protocols in WBAN should be designed considering flexibility between medical and CE applications. In this paper, we identify the requirements of WBAN MAC protocols and propose a WBAN MAC protocol which satisfies the requirements. In other to provide transmission flexibility for various applications. we present the dynamic CFP allocation and opportunity period. Extensive simulation result show that the proposed protocol achieves improved throughput and latency in WEAN environment cimpared with IEEE 802.15.4.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1363-1365
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• 2009

현대 사회에서 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크 환경을 제공하기 위해 활발한 활동이 이루어지고 있다. LR-WPAN 기술인 IEEE802.15.4가 표준화 되면서 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크의 중심 기술로 자리 매김하게 되었다. IEEE802.15 표준은 WPAN(Wireless Personal Area Network) 즉, 비교적 짧은 거리에서 휴대하여 이동할 수 있는 장치들이 근처의 다른 장치들과 통신이 가능하도록 만든 무선 네트워크 통신 표준이다. 이러한 IEEE802.15 표준들은 PHY와 MAC에 대해서만 표준을 정의 하고 있다. 센서 네트워크에서 가장 중요한 이슈중의 하나는 제한된 자원 즉, 센서 노드에 주어진 에너지를 활용하여 네트워크의 수명을 최대로 연장 하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 NS-2 시뮬레이션을 통해 WPAN에서 노드의 전송거리에 따른 에너지 효율을 분석한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.9B
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• pp.811-820
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• 2006

In this paper, The correlation of the power consumption of sensor node is analyzed according to the analyze parameter in IEEE 802.15.4 star sensor network. And It is studied the influence on analysis parameter. The power consumption of sensor network in transmission process and average transmission power consumption drives to numerical formula. And CSEM WiseNET system measurement value is used. As a simulation result, The power consumption of sensor node in star network consist of 10 sensor nodes is more than 20 % that in single network in average. When beacon signal interval is 0.1 second in all frequency bands, the power consumption of sensor node in up-link is more than 2.5 times that in down-link in average. When beacon signal interval is 1 second and the number of sensor nodes increases to 100 and sensing data increases to 100 byte, the power consumption of sensor node increases to 2.3 times. And The superior performance of 2.4 GHz frequency band has than 868/915 MHz frequency band up to $6{\sim}12$ times.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.87-91
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• 2006

With the growth of the internet, the number of wireless internet users has increased continuously up to date. However, mobile communications could not support high speed transmission rate with cheap communication fee and wireless LAN has problems in providing terminal mobility and wide area connectivity, respectively. So the WMAN standard has been newly designed to make up for these limits. The initial 802.16 specification effectively offers a solution for providing fixed users with high speed wireless communication but it does not offer terminal mobility. So the 802.16d and 802.16e have been developed as the next generation solution that can support various PHY layer (SC, SCa, OFDM, OFDMA) and offer the terminal mobility. In this paper, we propose an effective uplink scheduling algorithm for VoIP with using UGS, and we show that our proposed algorithm is superior in view of average delay and management of uplink bandwidth to conventional rtPS algorithm and the scheme in reference, with using NS-2 network simulator.