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Stochastic MAC-layer Interference Model for Opportunistic Spectrum Access: A Weighted Graphical Game Approach

  • Zhao, Qian;Shen, Liang;Ding, Cheng
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.411-419
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    • 2016
  • This article investigates the problem of distributed channel selection in opportunistic spectrum access networks from a perspective of interference minimization. The traditional physical (PHY)-layer interference model is for information theoretic analysis. When practical multiple access mechanisms are considered, the recently developed binary medium access control (MAC)-layer interference model in the previous work is more useful, in which the experienced interference of a user is defined as the number of competing users. However, the binary model is not accurate in mathematics analysis with poor achievable performance. Therefore, we propose a real-valued one called stochastic MAC-layer interference model, where the utility of a player is defined as a function of the aggregate weight of the stochastic interference of competing neighbors. Then, the distributed channel selection problem in the stochastic MAC-layer interference model is formulated as a weighted stochastic MAC-layer interference minimization game and we proved that the game is an exact potential game which exists one pure strategy Nash equilibrium point at least. By using the proposed stochastic learning-automata based uncoupled algorithm with heterogeneous learning parameter (SLA-H), we can achieve suboptimal convergence averagely and this result can be verified in the simulation. Moreover, the simulated results also prove that the proposed stochastic model can achieve higher throughput performance and faster convergence behavior than the binary one.

The Study of MAC protocol for efficient Wireless Sensor Network (Wireless 센서 네트워크를 위한 MAC 프로토콜에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Chul;Kim, Dong-Il
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.517-520
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    • 2005
  • Wireless sensor network combines sensing and computing technology which can sense light, temperature, vibration, magnetic field and wind etc, as each purpose of using those. Wireless nodes operate signal processing skill which has proceeded sensed information from the sensor, transmission which makes information reached to observer and limited energy managing skill which is needed on account of using battery to operate wireless. To make responsible measuring and sensing out of them, efficient energy management is so important to maintain life time of network. In this paper, after explaining CSMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance) traditional wireless MAC protocol, and ER-MAC(Energy Rate Medium Access Control) which are not managing resource of hardware but MAN(Medium Access Control), data-link layer out of OSI 7 layer. We would like to analyze those efficiency of power saving comparing with each protocol.

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A Study on AI-based MAC Scheduler in Beyond 5G Communication (5G 통신 MAC 스케줄러에 관한 연구)

  • Muhammad Muneeb;Kwang-Man Ko
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2024.05a
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    • pp.891-894
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    • 2024
  • The quest for reliability in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressively urgent, especially in the field of next generation wireless networks. Future Beyond 5G (B5G)/6G networks will connect a huge number of devices and will offer innovative services invested with AI and Machine Learning tools. Wireless communications, in general, and medium access control (MAC) techniques were among the fields that were heavily affected by this improvement. This study presents the applications and services of future communication networks. This study details the Medium Access Control (MAC) scheduler of Beyond-5G/6G from 3rd Generation Partnership (3GPP) and highlights the current open research issues which are yet to be optimized. This study provides an overview of how AI plays an important role in improving next generation communication by solving MAC-layer issues such as resource scheduling and queueing. We will select C-V2X as our use case to implement our proposed MAC scheduling model.

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A MAC Enhancement Technique for Quality of Service Guarantee in Wireless Local Area Networks (무선 네트워크에서 QoS 보장을 위한 MAC 향상 기법)

  • Lee, Dong-Geon;Kim, Byoung-Hoon;Tak, Sung-Woo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.11 no.10
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    • pp.1446-1459
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    • 2008
  • In an infrastructure-based wireless network, an access point is used for all communications among mobile devices. However, when a mobile device moves into a dead Bone, a connectivity disruption between the mobile device and the access point occurs. Such connectivity disruption consequently leads to another connectivity disruption between the mobile device moving toward the dead zone and other wireless-enabled devices located within the area of the infrastructure-based wireless network. To cope with the connectivity disruption in the infrastructure-based wireless network the ad hoc network that dynamically forms a network without any preexisting communication infrastructure needs to be set up to provide seamless connections among mobile devices. In this paper, we propose the DNSQ-MAC (Dynamic Network State aware QoS-Medium Access Control) technique that meets the deadlines of MAC frames forwarded over hop-by-hop multipaths and guarantees the QoS performance of an ad hoc-based wireless network. Mobile devices incorporating the DNSQ-MAC technique are capable of adjusting to the new dynamic network status in order to enhance the QoS performance in the ad hoc-based wireless network. A case study which exploits the Qualnet simulator shows that the proposed DNSQ-MAC technique can guarantee the deadlines of MAC frames forwarded over hop-by-hop multipaths and enhance the QoS performance of various routing protocols and packet schedulers running on the network layer above the MAC layer.

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A Study on the Implementation of Wireless LAN MAC(medium access control) Layer for a Medical Information Transmission (의료 정보(심전도 데이터) 전송을 위한 무선 LAN MAC 계층 구현에 관한 연구)

  • 류점수;고성일;김영길
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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    • v.34S no.12
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    • pp.50-59
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    • 1997
  • A wireless LAN medical information transmission system is useful for patients who need mobility in a local area environment. This paper proposes a method using WLAN(wireless local area network) and implements a stand-alone system with MAC(meidum access control) layer protocol referenced IEEE 802.11 draft standard. The system consists of a 8bit-microprocessor which handles media access control protocol and a WL100(GEC Plessey) chip which takes care of phsical layer specific routines and uses a RF module DE6003(GEC Plessey). The major features of the implemented system are the CSMA/CA protocol used a consecutive DATA-ACK trasmission method which yields more effective bandwidth allocation for asyncronous traffic transmission and the modified PCF protocol for time-bounded traffic transmission, which operates in ad-hoc network topology apart from IEEE 802.11 draft standard confirm PCF mode operate in infrastruture topology.

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Medium Access Control Protocols for Full-Duplex Communications in WLAN Systems: Approaches and Challenges (무선랜 시스템에서 전이중 통신을 위한 MAC 프로토콜 분석)

  • Kim, Wonjung;Song, Taewon;Kim, Taeyoon;Pack, Sangheon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.40 no.7
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    • pp.1276-1285
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    • 2015
  • Full-duplex communications have emerged as a key technology for next-generation wireless local area networks (WLANs). Although the key enabling technology for full-duplex communications is the self-interference cancellation (SIC) technique in the physical layer, the employment of full-duplex communications has huge potentials to substantially increase the throughput at the medium access control (MAC) layer. At the same time, full-duplex communications pose non-trivial challenges to the MAC protocol design. In this article, we first identify salient problems in supporting full-duplex communications in WLAN MAC protocols. After that, we survey the state-of-the art to address those problems and analyze their pros and cons. Finally, we present open research challenges to improve the effectiveness of full-duplex communications in WLANs.

A Study on SR Packet MAC Protocol for Energy Saving in Wireless Sensor Network (무선 센서 네트워크에서의 에너지 절감을 위한 SR패킷 MAC 프로토콜에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jae-Sung;Lee, Jong-Yong;Lee, Sang-Hun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.1646-1652
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    • 2010
  • The communication in wireless sensor network is divided into several layers, because of each of them do their role, the wireless communication is possible, the MAC (Medium Access Control) layer of the one of sensor network communications layer is used to the data errors, control flow, and manage resources. Using MAC Protocol, it ensures the communication between sensor node. In this paper, highlighted the energy efficiency of the S-MAC, T-MAC protocol it emphasized the efficiency of energy by lessening the woken time of all nods effectively, transmitting and receiving the control packet on only necessary nods through use of a method that RTS packet is added to SYNC packet and making other nods sleep. On sending SYNC+RTS packet and receiving the packet, nod noticed that it wasn't necessary to be awaked on this period, would be in Sleep mode, demonstrated mathematically that energy is more effective than existing protocol, and simulated with MATLAB.

APP-MAC-PHY Cross-Layer Video Streaming Technique over Wireless Channels

  • Park, Jaeyoung;Kim, Jaekwon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39A no.7
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    • pp.398-400
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    • 2014
  • In this letter, we propose a cross-layer technique jointly considering modulation coding schemes (MCSs) of medium access control (MAC) layer, source significance information (SSI) and error concealment unit of application (APP) layer, and channel quality information (CQI) of physical (PHY) layer. We demonstrate the improved video quality by the proposed technique when H.264 videos are streamed over Rayleigh fading wireless channels.

A MAC Protocol for Link Maintenance in Multichannel Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

  • Li, Jingye;Luo, Tao;Gao, Jing;Yue, Guangxin
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.172-183
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    • 2015
  • To provide an efficient link maintenance approach, we propose a cross layer medium access control (LM-MAC) protocol for multichannel cognitive radio ad hoc networks. Link establishment and reliable transmission are two key problems for a perfect link maintenance mechanism. Since the cognitive user (CU) pairs have to reestablish their links each frame, in the proposed MAC protocol, three different access modes are designed to guarantee transmission efficiency in continuous frames. To enhance the transmission reliability, each CU will create a father spectrum list (FSL) after joining in the network. FSL is divided into three groups of sub-channels with different functions to compensate the packet loss caused by the primary users' appearance and the deep fading. Meanwhile, since the transmitter and the receiver will share the same FSL, periodical cooperative sensing is adopted to further optimize the former problem. Finally, compared with the existing opportunistic multichannel (OMC)-MAC protocol, the proposed LM-MAC protocol achieves better system performance in terms of saturation throughput, continuity and access delay.

An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Wearable Computer Systems

  • Beh, Jounghoon;Hur, Kyeong;Kim, Wooil;Joo, Yang-Ick
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2013
  • Wearable computer systems use the wireless universal serial bus (WUSB), which refers to USB technology that is merged with WiMedia physical layer and medium access control layer (PHY/MAC) technical specifications. WUSB can be applied to wireless personal area network (WPAN) applications as well as wired USB applications such as PAN. WUSB specifications have defined high-speed connections between a WUSB host and WUSB devices for compatibility with USB 2.0 specifications. In this paper, we focus on an integrated system with a WUSB over an IEEE 802.15.6 wireless body area network (WBAN) for wireless wearable computer systems. Due to the portable and wearable nature of wearable computer systems, the WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical medium access control (MAC) protocol has to support power saving operations and integrate WUSB transactions with WBAN traffic efficiently. In this paper, we propose a low-power hibernation technique (LHT) for WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical MAC to improve its energy efficiency. Simulation results show that the LHT also integrates WUSB transactions and WBAN traffic efficiently while it achieves high energy efficiency.