• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.1521-1529
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• 2009

There is a serious unfairness problem between upstream and downstream flows of AP in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN. This problem is because Wireless LAN's DCF MAC protocol provides AP with equal channel access priority to mobile noded. Also, it makes this problem worse that the TCP's Data segment loss is more effective on throughput than the TCP's ACK segment. In this paper, we first make several simulations to analysis the unfairness in the various point of view and to find reasons of the unfairness. Also, this paper presents AP's scheduling scheme to alleviate the unfairness problem and evaluate the scheme through ns2 simulator.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.141-155
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• 2002

A medium access control protocol is proposed for integrated voice and data services in the packet CDMA network with a small coverage. Uplink channels are composed of time slots and multiple spreading codes for each slot. This protocol gives higher access priority to the delay-sensitive voice traffic than to the data traffic. During a talkspurt, voice terminals reserve a spreading code to transmit multiple voice packets. On the other hand, whenever generating a data packet, data terminals transmit a packet based on the status information of spreading codes in the current slot, which is received from base station. In this protocol, voice packet does not come into collision with data packet. Therefore, this protocol can increase the maximum number of voice terminals.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.30-35
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• 2009

본고에서는 무선 가시광 통신을 위한 Medium Access Control (MAC) 프로토콜의 설계에 관해 기술한다. 조명등을 이용한 가시광 무선랜 네트워크는 고정된 상태의 Access Point (AP)에 의한 인프라를 Mobile Node (MN)를 상대로 구성하고 인터넷과 같은 기존의 인프라와 연결되는 구조적 특징을 가진다. 이러한 네트워크에 사용되는 무선 가시광 통신 채널의 특성을 이해하고 MAC프로토콜의 기능에 대한 요구조건을 도출하였다. 주어진 가시광 통신 채널을 효율적으로 사용할 수 있도록 시 분할다중 접속 방식과Full duplex를 도입하는 Frame 구조를 구성하였고 가시성을 이용한 접속 절차를 제안하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.776-796
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• 2010

Integrated RFID-WSNs (wireless sensor networks) have recently been researched to provide object identities, sensing information, mobile service, and network functionalities. In integrated RFID-WSNs, the reader collision is one of the critical problems. Above all, due to the absence of universally applicable anti-collision protocols and the channel capture phenomenon, the medium access control protocols in integrated RFID-WSNs suffer from reader collision and starvation problems. In this paper, we propose an efficient MAC protocol, called EMP, to avoid the above problems in integrated RFID-WSNs. EMP is a CSMA-based MAC protocol which is compatible with sensor networks operating on integrated nodes which consist of an RFID reader and a senor node. EMP resolves not only the reader collision problem, but also the starvation problem using a power control mechanism. To verify the performance of EMP, we compared it with other anti-reader collision MAC protocols using simulations. As a result, the performance of EMP showed improvements in throughput, system efficiency, and energy consumption compared to the single data channel protocols (CSMA/CA, Pulse, and DiCa) in dense deployment environments.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.3809-3822
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• 2017

Wireless Sensor Networks hold the limelight because of significant potential for distributed sensing of large geographical areas. The radio duty cycling mechanism that turns off the radio periodically is necessary for the energy conservation, but it deteriorates the network congestion when the traffic load is high, which increases the packet loss and the delay too. Although many papers for WSNs have tried to mitigate network congestion, none of them has mentioned the congestion problem caused by the radio duty cycling of MAC protocols. In this paper, we present a simple and efficient congestion control technique that operates on the radio duty cycling MAC protocol. It detects the congestion by checking the current queue size. If it detects the congestion, it extends the network capacity by adding supplementary wakeup times. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme highly reduces the packet loss and the delay.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.706-708
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• 2004

일반적인 무선 통신망은 데이터 전송 고속화에 중심을 두고 발전해 왔으나, 최근 무선 센서 네트워크와 같은 응용 분야에서 소량의 데이터와 낮은 처리 속도를 지원하면서 저비용, 경량, 저전력을 요구하는 무선 통신 기술이 필요하게 됨에 따라 IEEE에서 LR-WPAN(Low Rate-Wireless Personal Area Network)을 위한 새로운 IEEE 802.15.4 표준이 제시되었다. 현재 무선 센서 네트워크에 관한 연구는 소형 경량의 MAC(Medium Access Control ) 프로토콜 개발이 핵심 기술로 인식되면서, 저전력 소모를 위한 라우팅 기법, MAC 프로토콜의 패킷처리 기술 등이 우선적으로 진행 중이다. 그러나 무선 센서 네트워크와 같은 응용분야에 사용 가능한 표준인 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC 프로토콜의 실질적인 상용화를 위해서는 표준안 분석 및 검증 과정이 기본적으로 선행되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.15.4 표준안의 핵심인 MAC 프로토콜을 정형화된 명세 언어인 SDL(Specification and Description Language)를 이용하며 상세 설계 및 분석 후, 자동화 도구를 이용한 모의수행을 통하여 검증하였으며 표준안과의 비교 및 오류 수정을 거친 연구결과를 기술한다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.59-62
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• 2007

In this paper, we introduce a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective switchless wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network based on a quality-of-service supporting reservation-based medium access control (MAC) protocol. The protocol not only provides both packet and circuit switching but also supports multicasting. The network efficiency is significantly increased by spatially reusing wavelengths and exploiting multiple free spectral ranges (FSRs) of arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) employed in the architecture. We have demonstrated the feasibility of this architecture by simulating in $Optsim^{TM}$.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.2940-2947
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• 2000

In the wireless ATM networks, a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is required to support an integrated mix of multimedia traffic services. The MAC protocol should be designed in a way that the limited wireless bandwidth can be efficiently utilized maximizing the Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for various traffic service classes. In this paper, a Dynamic Resource Allocation-based MAC protocol, which satisfies QoS of each traffic service class in the wireless ATM environment, is proposed. The proposed MAC protocol adopts the dynamic channel allocation schemes for a mix of different traffic service classes. The suggested MAC protocol is designed to provide the QoS guarantees for Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or real-time Variable Bit Rate (VBR) traffic through fixed or dynamic reservation. For Available Bit Rate (ABH) traffic, which has the lowest priority among the traffic classes, large improvement in delay by reserving the minimum bandwidth is shown. And for real-time VBR traffic, increase in throughput of transmission is demonstrated because of bandwidth, which is allocated through contention at the initial phase and without contention thereafter.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.1547-1568
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• 2013

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is an emerging short-range wireless communication network with sensor nodes located on, in or around the human body for healthcare, entertainment and ubiquitous computing. In WBANs, energy is severely constrained which is the prime consideration in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol named Energy-efficient Relay MAC with dynamic Power Control (ERPC-MAC) to save energy consumption. Without relying on the additional devices, ERPC-MAC employs relaying nodes to provide relay service for nodes which consume energy fast. Accordingly the superframe adjustment is performed and then the network topology can be smoothly switched from single-hop to multi-hop. Moreover, for further energy saving and reliability improvement, the dynamic power control is introduced to adjust the power level whenever a node transmits its packets to the coordinator or the relaying node. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first effort to integrate relay, topology adjustment and power control to improve the network performance in a WBAN. Comprehensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance. The results show that the ERPC-MAC is more superior to the existing standard and significantly prolongs the network lifetime.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.191-194
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• 2003

In IEEE 802.11b, Medium Access Control Sublayer consists of DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) and PCF (Point Coordination Function). DCF provides contention based services and PCF provides contention free services for QoS satisfaction. DCF uses CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance) as an access protocol. And PCF uses Polling Scheme. In this paper, a modified New-PCF, which gives weights to channels with heavier traffic load, was suggested. NS-2 simulations were conducted to compare the service performances with original DCF, PCF and the modified New-PCF respectively. Simulation results has shown the increased overall throughput with the proposed New-PCF compared with other cases.