• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2011년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.38 No.1(D)
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• pp.267-268
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• 2011

Recent research activities in cooperative communication focus on achieving energy efficiency and reliability. Relay selection strategy for cooperative communication improves the performance significantly. However, due to imbalance consumption of power, network might die earlier and more than 90% energy remains unused. In this paper, we provide a framework of an energy-efficient medium access control protocol that minimizes these problems and improves energy efficiency.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.460-469
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 UWB 기술 기반 WiMedia Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) 표준 프로토콜에 적용할 수 있는 협력 통신 프로토콜을 제안한다. 이를 위해 무선 채널 상태에 따라 변화하는 UWB 링크 전송 속도에 적응적인 릴레이 노드 선정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 UWB 링크에 적응적인 릴레이 통신 프로토콜은 분산적인 D-MAC 표준 기술 및 무선 USB 기술과 호환성을 갖고, 각 디바이스에서 독립적으로 실행되는 Relay Node Selection (RNS) 기준에 따라 실행된다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.463-471
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• 2011

Cooperative communications using relays in wireless networks have similar effects of multiple-input and multiple-output without the need of multiple antennas at each node. To implement cooperation into a system, efficient protocols are desired. In IEEE 802.11 families such as a/b/g, mobile stations can automatically adjust transmission rates according to channel conditions. However throughput performance degradation is observed by low-rate stations in multi-rate circumstances resulting in so-called performance anomaly. In this paper, we propose active relay-based cooperative medium access control (AR-CMAC) protocol, in which active relays desiring to transmit their own data for cooperation participate in relaying, and it is designed to increase throughput as a solution to performance anomaly. We have analyzed the performance of the simplified AR-CMAC using an embedded Markov chain model to demonstrate the gain of AR-CMAC and to verify it with our simulations. Simulations in an infrastructure network with an IEEE 802.11b/g access point show noticeable improvement than the legacy schemes.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.345-355
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 UWB 기술 기반 WiMedia Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) 무선 USB 표준 프로토콜에 적용할 수 있는 Satisfaction of QoS (SoQ) 기반 협력 통신 프로토콜을 제안한다. 이를 위해 UWB 링크 전송 속도와 QoS 척도에 따른 릴레이 노드 선정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 SoQ 기반 협력 통신 프로토콜은 분산적인 D-MAC 무선 USB 표준 기술과 호환성을 갖고, 각 디바이스에서 독립적으로 실행되는 SoQ 기반 Relay Node Selection (RNS) 기준에 따라 실행된다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2014

A new cooperative MAC protocol called the busy tone cooperative medium access control (BT-COMAC) protocol is proposed to overcome the drawbacks and maximize the advantages of existing schemes. This scheme uses a new metric called decibel power to decide an appropriate helper node. Using received power strength is more efficient in selecting an appropriate helper node, especially in a densely populated network, than the effective transmission rates used in conventional schemes. All communication nodes in a communication service area are assumed to move independently. Two performance metrics are used: System throughput and channel access delay. A performance evaluation of the BT-COMAC protocol is conducted using a computer simulation over a slow fading wireless channel, and its performance results are compared with those of four existing schemes. The numerical results show that the BT-COMAC protocol improves the system throughput by approximately 15% as compared to the best existing scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.2636-2656
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• 2013

To improve the cooperative efficiency of node cooperation and multiple access performance for multihop wireless networks, a priority-differentiated cooperative medium access control protocol with contention resolution (CRP-CMAC) is proposed. In the protocol, the helper selection process is divided into the priority differentiation phase and the contention resolution phase for the helpers with the same priority. A higher priority helper can choose an earlier minislot in the priority differentiation phase to send a busy tone. As a result, the protocol promptly selects all the highest priority helpers. The contention resolution phase of the same priority helpers consists of k round contention resolution procedures. The helpers that had sent the first busy tone and are now sending the longest busy tone can continue to the next round, and then the other helpers that sense the busy tone withdraw from the contention. Therefore, it can select the unique best helper from the highest priority helpers with high probability. A packet piggyback mechanism is also adopted to make the high data rate helper with packet to send transmit its data packets to its recipient without reservation. It can significantly decrease the reservation overhead and effectively improve the cooperation efficiency and channel utilization. Simulation results show that the maximum throughput of CRP-CMAC is 74%, 36.1% and 15% higher than those of the 802.11 DCF, CoopMACA and 2rcMAC protocols in a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment, and 82.6%, 37.6% and 46.3% higher in an ad hoc network environment, respectively.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권2호
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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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.3447-3469
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• 2019

It is well-known that the cooperative communication and error control technology can improve the network performance, but most existing cooperative MAC protocols have not focused on how to cope with the contention process caused by cooperation and how to reduce the bad influence of channel packet error rate on the system performance. Inspired by this, this paper first modifies and improves the basic rules of the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol to optimize the contention among the multi-relay in a cooperative ARQ scheme. Secondly, a hybrid ARQ protocol with soft combining is adopted to make full use of the effective information in the error data packet and hence improve the ability of the receiver to decode the data packet correctly. The closed expressions of network performance including throughput and average packet transmission delay in a saturated network are then analyzed and derived by establishing a dedicated two-dimensional Markov model and solving its steady-state distribution. Finally, the performance evaluation and superiority of the proposed protocol are validated in different representative study cases through MATLAB simulations.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.692-700
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 UWB 기술 기반 WiMedia 무선 USB Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) 프로토콜의 공평하고 분산적인 SoQ기반 Distributed Reservation Protocol (DRP) 타임슬롯 자원 할당 방법의 성능을 분석하고, DRP 예약 충돌을 회피하기 위해 릴레이 통신 기술을 적용한 SoQ 릴레이 전송 프로토콜을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 SoQ 릴레이 전송 프로토콜은 Satisfaction of QoS (SoQ) 알고리즘을 각 단말 디바이스에서 분산적으로 실행하고, 충돌대상 디바이스에게 예약된 QoS 자원을 유지할 수 있도록 Direct Link 뿐만 아니라 릴레이 노드를 경유하여 또 다른 Indirect Link 링크를 예약할 수 있는 자원 예약 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39B권3호
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• pp.180-187
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• 2014

본 논문은 도로에 설치된 인프라 시스템 및 타 자율 주행 차량과 협력하여 주행하는 협력형 무인 자율 주행 차량 기술을 위한 멀티케스트 통신 기법을 소개한다. 협력형 자율 주행 차량은 주행 안전성 향상을 위해 인프라 시스템 및 주변 차량과 통신한다. 교환되는 정보는 차량 안전과 관련 된 정보이며 다수의 자율 주행 차량에게 정의된 시간 내에 반드시 전송되어야 한다. 그러나 차량 통신 국제 표준인 WAVE는 협력형 자율 주행을 위해 요구되는 멀티케스팅 통신의 높은 전송 성공을 보장하지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 WiVCL이라는 MAC 계층의 고신뢰 멀티케스트 기법을 제안한다. IEEE 802.11p 및 BMW와 비교한 결과 WiVCL은 높은 전송 성공률과 예측 가능한 전송 지연 시간을 보여줌을 확인할 수 있었다.