• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.13-24
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• 2005

The sensor network is a key component of the ubiquitous computing system which is expected to be widely utilized in logistics control, environment/disaster control, medical/health-care services, digital home and other applications. Nodes in the sensor network are small-sized and exposed to adverse environments. They are demanded to perform their missions with very limited power supply only. Also the sensor network is composed of much more nodes than the wireless ad hoc networks are. In case that some nodes consume up their power capacity, the network topology should change, and rerouting/retransmission is necessitated. Communication protocols studied for conventional wireless networks or ad hoc networks are not suited for the sensor network resultantly. Schemes should be devised to control the efficient usage of node power in the sensor network. This paper proposes a medium access protocol to enhance the efficiency of energy consumption in the sensor network node. Its performance is analyzed by simulation.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.857-869
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• 2016

This paper proposes an X-MAC/BEB protocol that runs a binary exponential backoff (BEB) algorithm on top of an X-MAC protocol to save more energy by reducing collision, especially in densely populated wireless sensor networks (WSNs). X-MAC, a lightweight asynchronous duty cycle medium access control (MAC) protocol, was introduced for spending less energy than its predecessor, B-MAC. One of X-MAC 's conspicuous technique is a mechanism to allow senders to promptly send their data when their receivers wake up. X-MAC, however, has no mechanism to deal with sudden traffic fluctuations that often occur whenever closely located nodes simultaneously diffuse their sense data. To precisely evaluate the impact of the BEB algorithm on X-MAC, this paper builds an analytical model of X-MAC/BEB that integrates the BEB model with the X-MAC model. The analytical and simulation results confirmed that X-MAC/BEB outperformed X-MAC in terms of throughput, delay, and energy consumption, especially in congested WSNs.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.81-92
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• 2006

전세계적으로 RFID 기술에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 RFID 기술 및 서비스에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으며 다양한 응용분야에 적용되고 있다. 특히, 국내에서는 휴대폰과 RFID를 결합한 모바일 RFID 시스템을 도입하고 있으므로 가까운 미래에 RFID의 도입이 크게 확대될 것으로 기대되고 있다. 하지만국내의 경우 미국에 비해 RFID 주파수 채널 수가 작고 한 채널의 점유 대역폭도 좁으므로 향후 RFID 도입이 확산됨에 따라 주파수 간섭 및 채널 용량의 제한 등의 문제가 대두될 것으로 예상된다. 본 고에서는 국내외 RFID 규격의 최신 동향을 살펴보고, RFID에서 발생하는 주파수 간섭 및 이를 해결하기 위한 Medium Access 기술의 최신 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.209-211
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• 2005

This paper proposes a adaptive medium-access control(MAC) protocol designed for low-power wireless multi-hop sensor networks which is used for connecting physical world and cyber computing space. Wireless multi-hop sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing device. We expect sensor networks to be deployed in an ad hoc fashion, with nodes remaining inactive for long time, but becoming suddenly active when specific event is detected. These characteristics of multi-hop sensor networks and applications motivate a MAC that is different from traditional wireless MACs about power conservation scheme, such as IEEE 802.11. Proposed MAC uses a few techniques to reduce energy consumption. Result show that proposed MAC obtains more energy savings.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.1253-1256
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• 2003

HFC(Hybrid Fiber Coax)망은 광케이블 구간과 동축케이블 구간으로 나뉘어져 있으며 광케이블 구간은 성형(Star)구조를 가지며 동축케이블 전송구간은 수지분기형(Tree and Branch)구조로 되어있다. HFC망의 상향채널은 가입자에서 헤드앤드로 데이터 전송 시 500가입자 이상이 공유하기 때문에 이를 제어하기 위한 매체접근제어(Medium Access Control)프로토콜이 필요하다. 특히, 음성, 비디오 그리고 데이터와 같은 트래픽의 QoS(Quality of Service)를 만족시키기 위해서는 서비스별로 우선 순위를 고려한 충돌해결알고리즘이 요구되어진다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 기존 알고리즘의 문제점을 분석하여 트래픽 특성에 따라 우선순위를 제공하는 충돌해결알고리즘을 제안하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.311-321
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• 2014

This paper focuses on contention-based medium access control (MAC) protocols used in wireless local area networks. We propose a novel MAC protocol called adaptive backoff tuning MAC (ABTMAC) based on IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). In our proposed MAC protocol, we utilize a fixed transmission attempt rate and each node dynamically adjusts its backoff window size considering the current network status. We determined the appropriate transmission attempt rate for both cases where the request-to-send/clear-to-send mechanism was and was not employed. Robustness against performance degradation caused by the difference between desired and actual values of the attempt rate parameter is considered when setting it. The performance of the protocol is evaluated analytically and through simulations. These results indicate that a wireless network utilizing ABTMAC performs better than one using IEEE 802.11 DCF.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.32A no.5
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• pp.42-53
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• 1995

Token bus protocols have been sidely accepted for Medium Access Control (MAC) in real-time networks such as those used in factory automation, distributed process control, nuclear power plant, aircraft and spacecraft. Token bus protocols provide timer-controlled priority mechanism, which offers multiple level of privilege of medium access to different type of traffic. This paper presents and approximate analytical model for the evaluation of variance of waiting time in the time-controlled proiority scheme of token bus protocols. Token bus system is assumed to be operated with singe-service discipline which is the practical case of real-time networks such as those used in distributed process control and factory automations. The approximate analytical model is validated by comparison with the simulation resuls.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.460-469
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• 2012

The WiMedia Alliance has specified a Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) protocol based on UWB for high speed wireless home networks and WPANs. In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative communication protocol adaptive to current UWB link transmission rate. The proposed cooperative communication protocol has compatibility with current WiMedia D-MAC and Wireless USB standard and is executed at each device according to a Relay Node Selection (RNS) criterion.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.279-282
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• 2003

This paper proposes a medium-access control(MAC) protocol designed for wireless multi-hop sensor networks which is used for connecting physical world and cyber computing space. Wireless multi-hop sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing device. We expect sensor networks to be deployed in an ad hoc fashion, with nodes remaining inactive for long time, but becoming suddenly active when specific event is detected. These characteristics of multi-hop sensor networks and applications motivate a MAC that is different from traditional wireless MACs about power conservation scheme, such as IEEE 802.11. Proposed MAC uses a few techniques to reduce energy consumption. Result show that proposed MAC obtains more energy sayings.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.76-81
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• 2000

In this Paper, an improved L-Expressnet Protocol is proposed by supplementing slot-extension function. This protocol is Proposed to complement the shortcomings of the conventional protocol which is used for the medium access control (MAC) in LAN. We analyzed the protocol in channel utilization viewpoint and compared the result with that of the conventional L-Expressnet medium access control (MAC) protocol. From this result. we showed that the channel utilization of the improved L-Expressnet protocol added slot-extension function is superior to that of the conventional Protocol.