• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.5
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• pp.425-432
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• 2014

The Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) function of IEEE 802.11e standard defines contention window (CW) for different Access Category (AC) limits to support Quality-of-Service (QoS). However, it have been remained the problem that the collision probability of transmission is increasing in congested network. Several different solutions have been proposed but the collision occurs among same priority queue within the same station to compete the channel access. This paper presents an APCA (Advanced Priority Collision Avoidance) algorithm for EDCA that increases the throughput in saturated situation. The proposed algorithm use reserved field's bits of FC(Frame Control) using IEEE 802.11e standard's RTS/CTS (Request to Send / Clear to Send) mechanism to avoid data collision. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the performance of EDCA in packet loss. Using Jain's fairness index formula, we also prove that the proposed APCA algorithm achieves the better fairness than EDCA method under network congested condition.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.3131-3149
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• 2016

In-band Full-duplex (IBFD) wireless communication allows improved throughput for wireless networks. The current Half-duplex (HD) medium access mechanism Request to Send/Clear to Send (RTS/CTS) has been directly applied to IBFD wireless networks. However, this is only able to support a symmetric dual link, and does not provide the full advantages of IBFD. To increase network throughput in a superior way to the HD mechanism, a novel three-way handshaking access mechanism RTS/SRTS (Second Request to Send)/CTS is proposed for point to multipoint (PMP) IBFD wireless networks, which can support both symmetric dual link and asymmetric dual link communication. In this approach, IBFD wireless communication only requires one channel access for two-way simultaneous packet transmissions. We first describe the RTS/SRTS/CTS mechanism and the symmetric/asymmetric dual link transmission procedure and then provide a theoretical analysis of network throughput and delay using a Markov model. Using simulations, we demonstrate that the RTS/SRTS/CTS access mechanism shows improved performance relative to that of the RTS/CTS HD access mechanism.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.304-310
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• 2006

This paper evaluates the performance of three types of data delivery mechanisms in clustered sensor networks, as a basic research to develop an energy efficient topology management scheme. In the first mechanism, one node per cluster(clusterhead) turns on its radio(or wakes up) to transmit and receive RTS/CTS/DATA/ACK messages, but in the second one, k nodes per cluster wake up and participate in the message exchange. In the last mechanism, clusterheads turn on the radio to exchange RTS/CTS messages, and if a clusterhead receives RTS containing its cluster m as a destination, it makes k nodes in the cluster hun on the radio to receive DATA and transmit ACK. Through simulation, we show the energy consumption of the three types of data delivery mechanisms as functions of the number of active nodes per cluster, offered load, and packet loss probability.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.507-510
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• 2011

데이터에 차별화된 우선순위를 부여하는 IEEE 802.11e EDCA는 데이터 프레임 전송 이전 스테이션 간에 발생할 수 있는 충돌을 방지할 수 없고 네트워크 환경이 혼잡할 경우에는 오히려 충돌 발생 확률을 높이는 한계가 있었다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 무선 다중 애드 혹 네트워크 환경에서 채널 확보를 위한 RTS/CTS 프레임 전송 시 우선순위를 부여하여 채널을 점유할 단말을 결정하고, 또한 채널형성 후 한 노드 내에서 여러 데이터 전송 시 충돌확률을 줄이는 방법을 제안하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 2013

This paper proposes a distributed MAC protocol called Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Resolution (CSMA/CR) considering fully-connected single hop network environments for next-generation wireless LAN with high density of stations. The proposed CSMA/CR is compatible with the conventional MAC protocols by observing the operation of CSMA/CA and is able to detect a collision promptly without RTS/CTS exchange by applying the technique of CSMA/CD to wireless environments. Moreover, once a collision is detected, the dedicated resource is allocated to the next transmission and so the collision that may occur again is resolved. We investigate some implementation issues for the practicality of CSMA/CR and compare it with the typical distributed MAC protocols. The simulation results show that the proposed CSMA/CR has a low overhead as detecting a collision without the RTS/CTS exploitation and achieves always the best throughput regardless of the number of access stations, by using the reservation-based collision resolution technique.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.76-89
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a MAC(Media Access Control) protocol based on flexible RWT(RTS Waiting Time) for underwater mobile ad-hoc networks with a three-way handshaking mechanism. This protocol can solve a problem of collision between RTS(Request-To-Send) and CTS(Clear-To-Send) packets in existing MACA(Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) protocol. This proposed MAC protocol is also an effective protocol which can apply to underwater mobile ad-hoc networks in a real field by using implementable technologies. We set flexible RTS Waiting Time called RWT, considering various characteristics of underwater environment. It is possible to support variable network size according to node mobility. Finally, we conduct a performance evaluation between proposed MAC protocol and existing MACA based MAC protocol through practical implementation and experiment. As a result, we verify the superiority of our proposed MAC protocol in terms of throughput, packet drop rate, average transmission time, energy consumption and channel utilization.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1633-1637
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• 2008

A protocol is proposed to control the rate of each subcarrier in OFDM-based wireless network systems. The proposed protocol adds an OFDM symbol in CTS frame defined in IEEE 802.11 standard. A receiver determines the rate of its subcarrier after it receives the RTS frame. The determined rate is added to OFDM symbol in CTS frame. In order to synchronize the rate information between the sender and the receiver, error recovery process is proposed. The performance improvement of the proposed method is shown by numerical results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.394-396
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• 2005

IEEE 802.11 MAC은 정지상태 또는 저속 이동중의 사용을 목적으로 개발되었기 때문에 고속의 이동성을 갖는 차량간 통신 환경에서는 성능 개선이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 차량간 통신에서 802.11 MAC의 성능 분석 및 개선점 도출을 위하여 ns-2 기반 IEEE 802.11g 시뮬레이터를 개발하였으며 차량간 통신 환경에서 RTS/CTS의 효용성을 측정 및 분석하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.480-489
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• 2016

Hidden station problem can occur in power-line communication (PLC) networks. A simple solution to the problem has been proposed to use request-to-send (RTS)/clear-to-send (CTS) exchange, but this approach cannot solve the hidden station problem perfectly. This paper revisits the problem for PLC networks and designs a protocol to solve it. We first analyze the throughput performance degradation when the hidden station problem occurs in PLC networks. Then, we propose an interferer aware multiple access (IAMA) protocol to enhance throughput and fairness performances, which uses unique characteristics of PLC networks. Using the RTS/CTS exchange adaptively, the IAMA protocol protects receiving stations from being interfered with neighboring networks. Through extensive simulations, we show that our proposed protocol outperforms conventional random access protocols in terms of throughput and fairness.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.1050-1053
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• 2007

여러 이동노드들이 한 지역에서 동시에 위치인식 작업을 수행하는 경우에 비콘 노드들이 발생시키는 비콘이나 초음파 등이 충돌을 일으킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이동 노드들이 위치확인 작업을 수행하고자 하는 경우에 RTS메시지와 CTS메시지를 이용하여 충돌을 회피하도록 하는 MNC기법을 제안한다. MNC에서는 다른 노드가 위치확인 작업을 수행하는 경우에는 NTS를 전송하여 노드 간에 작업이 충돌되지 않도록 한다. 이동노드가 비콘노드들에 작업순서를 결정하여 STS메시지로 통보하여 비콘노드간에 충돌을 방지한다.