• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.304-305
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• 2019

Wireless sensor networks are used in various applications due to the flexibility of network. In particular, the energy harvesting wireless sensor network (EH-WSN) has been introduced to solve the power limitation problem, and the application range of the sensor network is further expanded. In order to transmit the sensed data to the destination node, the MAC protocol considering the power of the nodes has been studied. The power situation and the urgency of the data are important elements of data transmission, and a medium access control protocol that comprehensively considers data urgency and power of nodes is required. In this paper, we propose a medium access control protocol which can select relay nodes according to power situation and urgency of data.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.211-217
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a bidirectional full duplex MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol for underwater acoustic networks. An underwater sensor node can set a back-off timer according to the priority of transmission. When the back-off timer expires, the underwater sensor node acquires a transmission opportunity. If a source node wants to send data to a destination node, it broadcasts RTS (Request-To-Send) including ID of the destination node to neighbor nodes. The destination node receiving RTS sends CTS (Clear-To-Send) to the source node to inform the bidirectional full duplex communication. After the source node receives CTS, the source node and the destination node can send the data to each other. In the underwater environment, the existing MAC protocol may take a lot of time for successful transmission of data due to long underwater propagation delay. On the other hand, the proposed bidirectional full duplex MAC protocol improves the throughput by shortening the time for successful transmission of data. In this paper, we analyze the throughput of the proposed bidirectional full duplex MAC protocol. In addition, we show that the proposed bidirectional full duplex MAC protocol has better performance in the presence of the long underwater propagation delay compared with existing MAC protocols for underwater environments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.88-96
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• 2011

Underwater acoustic communication is applicable in various areas, such as ocean data collection, undersea exploration and development, tactical surveillance, etc. Thus, robot control system construction used for underwater-robot like AUV or ROV is essential in these areas. In this paper, we propose the Message Merging MAC($M^2$-MAC) protocol, which is suitable for real time robot control system, considering energy efficiency in important parts of underwater acoustic sensor network constitution. In this proposed MAC protocol, gateway node receives the data from robot nodes according to the time slots that were allotted previously. And messages delivered from base-station are generated to one MAC frame by buffering process. Finally, generated MAC frames are broadcasted to all robot nodes in the cluster. Our suggested MAC protocol can also be hybrid MAC protocol, which is successful blend of contention based and contention-free based protocol through relevant procedure with Maintenance&Sleep (M&S) period, when new nodes join and leave as an orphan. We propose mathematical analysis model concerned about End-to-End delay and energy consumption, which is important factor in constructing real-time robot control system. We also verify the excellence of performance according to comparison of existing MAC protocols with our scheme.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.97-107
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• 2013

Underwater wireless communication systems can be useful for underwater environment observation, catastrophe prevention, ocean resources exploration, ocean organism research, vessel sinking exploration, and so on. However, unlike terrestrial wireless communication, underwater wireless communication should consider factors such as long propagation delay, limited transmission capacity, high bit-error rate due to potential loss in power, ambient noise, man-made noise, multi-path, etc., because of the inherent characteristics of water. Thus, in this paper, we propose a suitable media access control(MAC) protocol that applies a combination of the ALOHA MAC protocol and the CSMA/CA MAC protocol to underwater environment. We further propose a mathematical analysis model to evaluate performance. We also verify performance improvement in the proposed scheme in comparison with existing MAC protocols.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.10B
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• pp.876-884
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an asynchronous MAC protocol to minimize energy usage and to maximize data throughput for a wireless sensor network in multi channel environments. Our proposed SPMC-MAC (Slim Preamble Multi-Channel Media Access Control) adopts the preamble sliming mechanism proposed in [6] that takes advantage of the knowledge about the wakeup time of the receiver node. The preamble contains the receiver's ID and a randomly selected channel ID for data communication, and it is transmitted over a dedicated common channel. The power control has the benefit of keeping an appropriate number of nodes with the communication range, resulting in reduced collision and interference. We compare our SPMC-MAC and X-MAC extensively in terms of energy consumption and throughput using mathematical analysis and simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.101-111
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• 2011

A new MAC protocol, MT-MAC(Multi-Tier Medium Access Control) by name, is proposed for dense sensor networks. Depending on the density of nodes in a virtual cluster, the cluster header performs the splitting to several tiers in nodes of virtual cluster. MT-MAC split the tiers to use modfied-SYNC message after receiving the beacon message from the cluster header. Because only the sensor nodes in the same tier communicate each other, less power is consumed and longer network life time is guaranteed. By a simulation method with NS-2, we evaluated our protocol. In dense nodes environments, MT-MAC protocol shows better results than S-MAC in terms of packet delivery rates throughput and energy consumption.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2007

Ad hoc 네트워크는 기반구조가 없는 무선네트워크이다. Ad hoc 네트워크는 재난지역, 군사지역, 홈 네트워킹 서비스, 텔레매틱스 서비스 같은 곳에서 응용될 수 있다. 최근Ad hoc 네트워크의 처리량을 향상시키기 위해 방향성 안테나를 사용하거나 이중채널을 사용하는MAC프로토콜이 제안되고 있다. DUBMAC프로토콜은 이중채널에 방향성 안테나를 사용하여 처리량 성능을 향상시킨 프로토콜이다. 본 논문에서는 DUDMAC프로토콜에 전력 제어 기법을 적용하여 네트워크의 처리량을 향상시키는 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 MAC 프로토콜은 새로운 블로킹 알고리즘을 사용하여 공간 재사용을 향상시킨다. 제안하는 블로킹 알고리즘은 RTS 또는 CTS 수신 시 블로킹 테이블에 저장된 수신세기를 사용하여 기존의 DUDMAC의 블로킹 영역을 FULL_BLOCKING 영역과 SEMI_BLOCKING 영역으로 구분하여 성능을 개선한다. 제안하는 MAC 프로토콜의 처리량 성능은 퀄넷 시뮬레이터 버전 3.8을 사용하여 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06d
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• pp.155-159
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• 2008

비능률적인 스펙트럼 이용률과 제한적인 스펙트럼 밴드 사용의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여, Cognitive Radio가 중요한 솔루션으로써 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중 채널 무선 네트워크에서의 QoS 보장을 위하여 Cognitive Radio 기반의 동적인 스펙트럼 할당 (Dynamic Spectrum Allocation)을 이용한 새로운 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 사용자의 요청에 따라서, 유동적인 스펙트럼은 DSA 메커니즘을 통한 QoS 보장을 위하여 할당 된다. 그리고 동적인 스펙트럼 할당 (DSA)은 컨트롤 채널의 FRQ/FRP/ACK-hello와 데이터 채널의 DATA/ACK에 의하여 동작한다. 스펙트럼 공유의 성능을 증가시키기 위한 협력 검출 (Cooperative Detection)을 위하여, MAC 프로토콜에서는 Hello 메시지가 주기적으로 교환된다. 추가적으로, 성능 평가를 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 DSA-MAC이 IEEE 802.11 MAC에 비하여 높은 데이터 처리량을 보임을 증명했다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.559-561
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• 2004

최근 무선 통신 기술과 초소형화 기술의 진보로 지능형 센서(Smart Sensor)를 이용한 무선 센서 네트워크 구축이 가능해졌고, 이러한 센서 네트워크는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅와 Ad-Hoc 네트워크에서 많이 연구되고 있는 새로운 분야이다. 각 센서 노드는 건전지를 통해 전원을 공급받기 때문에. 제한된 에너지를 어떻게 효율적으로 사용하느냐가 센서 네트워크에서의 중요한 이슈이다. 일반적으로 센서네트워크에서 데이터 송수신에 참여하지 않는 노드는 일정 시간 Sleep함으로써 에너지를 절약한다. sleep 기술과 관계된 기존의 논문(S-MAC [1])에서는 동기화 및 NAV 설정을 위해 컨트롤 패킷(SYNC, RTS, CTS)을 사용하고, 컨트롤 패킷 전송 시간만큼은 최소한 모든 노드들이 깨어서 컨트롤 패킷의 송수신을 확인해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 컨트롤 패킷 전송 시간 동안 불필요하게 모든 노드들이 깨어있는 문제를 해결하기 위해, 새로운 센서 MAC 프로토콜(ESMAC: Efficient Sensor MAC)을 제시한다. ESMAC에서는 컨트롤 패킷 전송 시간동안 꼭 필요한 노드들만 컨트롤 패킷을 송수신하고, 나머지 노드들은 Sleep 함으로써, 모든 노드가 깨어있는 시간을 효율적으로 줄였다. 위와 같은 방법을 사용하여 ESMAC에서는 기존의 MAC(SMAC, TIPS [2]) 프로토콜들보다 컨트롤 패킷 전송 시간을 최대 62.8% 절약시켰다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8B
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• pp.646-656
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• 2008

In this paper, we design and verify the MAC chip of the two-stage AWG-based WDM-PON which considers 128 ONUs and 32 wavelengths. Each wavelength with the capacity of 1Gbps is allocated to ONU for downstream transmission but each wavelength for upstream transmission can be shared by four ONUs. Therefore, MAC protocol is required to avoid the collision and use the network resource efficiently among ONUs which are sharing the same wavelength. To design a request/permit-based MAC protocol, we define a unit-chip module called sub-MAC. The WDM-PON with 128 ONUs can be implemented by using 32 sub-MAC modules. The sub-MAC consists of one control unit, one receipt unit and four transmission units. The state transition diagram of the module is described by the internal/external control signals among the functional units. The function of the sub-MAC module is verified through logic simulation using ModelSIM.