• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2013

Cognitive radio (CR) has emerged as one of effective methods to enhance the utilization of existing radio spectrum. Main principle of CR is that secondary users (SUs) are allowed to use the spectrum unused by primary users (PUs) without interfering PU's transmissions. In this paper, PUs operate on a slot-by-slot basis and SUs try to exploit the slots unused by PUs. We propose OSA protocols in the single channel and we propose an opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) protocols in the multi-channel cognitive radio networks with one control channel and several licensed channels where a slot is divided into contention phase and transmission phase. A slot is divided into reporting phase, contention phase and transmission phase. The reporting phase plays a role of finding idle channels unused by PUs and the contention phase plays a role of selecting a SU who will send packets in the data transmission phase. One SU is selected by carrier sense multiple access / collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) with request to send / clear to send (RTS/CTS) mechanism on control channel and the SU is allowed to occupy all remaining part of all idle channels during the current slot. For mathematical analysis, first we deal with the single-channel case and we model the proposed OSA media access control (MAC) protocol by three-dimensional discrete time Markov chain (DTMC) whose one-step transition probability matrix has a special structure so as to apply the censored Markov chain method to obtain the steady state distribution.We obtain the throughput and the distribution of access delay. Next we deal with the multi-channel case and obtain the throughput and the distribution of access delay by using results of single-channel case. In numerical results, our mathematical analysis is verified by simulations and we give numerical results on throughput and access delay of the proposed MAC protocol. Finally, we find the maximum allowable number of SUs satisfying the requirements on throughput and access delay.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocol, named underwater multi-channel MAC protocol (UMMAC), for underwater acoustic networks (UANs). UMMAC is a split phase and reservation based multi-channel MAC protocol which enables hosts to utilize multiple channels via a channel allocation and power control algorithm (CAPC). In UMMAC, channel information of neighboring nodes is gathered via exchange of control packets. With such information, UMMAC allows for as many parallel transmissions as possible while avoiding using extra time slot for channel negotiation. By running CAPC algorithm, which aims at maximizing the network's capacity, users can allocate their transmission power and channels in a distributed way. The advantages of the proposed protocol are threefold: 1) Only one transceiver is needed for each node; 2) based on CAPC, hosts are coordinated to negotiate the channels and control power in a distributed way; 3) comparing with existing RTS/CTS MAC protocols, UMMAC do not introduce new overhead for channel negotiation. Simulation results show that UMMAC outperforms Slotted floor acquisition multiple access (FAMA) and multi-channel MAC (MMAC) in terms of network goodput (50% and 17% respectively in a certain scenario). Furthermore, UMMAC can lower the end-to-end delay and achieves a lower energy consumption compared to Slotted FAMA and MMAC.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 채널추정 에러와 다중 전송률 서비스를 고려하여 다중 엑세스포인트 전송전력제어 알고리즘을 제안한다. 실제 통신시스템에서는 1) 채널추정을 위해 사용하는 파일럿심볼의 갯수가 제한적이기 때문에, 수신단에서 채널추정이 완전하지 않으며, 2) 다중 전송률 서비스가 지원된다. 먼저, 제안하는 알고리즘이 다중 전송률 서비스 환경에서도 유일한 최소전력에 수렴함이 보장됨을 이론적으로 증명한다. 제안하는 전송전력제어 알고리즘은 하나의 내부루프와 하나의 외부루프로 구성된다. 실험결과를 통해 1) 내부루프 알고리즘은 전송전력 레벨의 수렴과 다중 전송률 서비스를 보장하고, 2) 외부루프 알고리즘은 채널추정 에러를 보상할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2014

To solve inefficient spectrum usage problem under current static spectrum management policy, various kinds of dynamic spectrum access strategies have appeared. Myopic policy, which maximizes immediate throughput, is a simple and robust strategy with reduced complexity. In this paper, we present a simple mathematical model to evaluate the saturation throughput and medium access delay of a myopic policy in the presence of multiple channels.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2012년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.39 No.1(D)
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• pp.187-189
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• 2012

The medium access control (MAC) protocol is designed only for single channel in the IEEE 802.11 standard. That means the throughput of the network is limited by the bandwidth of the single channel. The multiple channels can be exploited to get more concurrent transmission. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-channel MAC that utilizes the channel more efficiently than other Multi-channel MAC protocols.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.301-306
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• 2010

이 논문은 클러스터 형태의 다중 인터페이스 다중 홉 인지 라디오 환경을 위한 효율적인 제어 채널 접근 방식을 제안한다. 인지 라디오 대역 안에서 전체 네트워크 영역에 걸친 공통 채널을 확보하는 것이 어렵기 때문에, 대부분의 멀티 인터페이스 멀티 홉 인지 라디오 네트워크는 라이센스 사용자의 채널 사용 현황과 같은 제어 정보의 교환을 위해인지 라디오 대역 밖에 제어 채널을 두고 하나의 인터페이스를 제어 채널에 고정시켜 할당한다. 그러나 이러한 방식은 네트워크 인터페이스의 낭비를 초래한다. 이 연구는 인지 라디오 노드들이 다수의 데이터 채널을 통해 이웃 노드들과 연결되는 클러스터 구조 하에서 멀티 채널 상황에서의 숨겨진 노드 문제없이 데이터 채널과 제어 채널을 수시로 번갈아 가며 접근하는 방식에 대하여 고찰한다. 시뮬레이션을 사용하여 제안한 방식의 성능을 측정한다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 제안한 방식이 하나의 네트워크 인터페이스를 제어 채널에 고정적으로 할당하여 데이터 전송을 하지 않는 방법에 비해 더 높은 네트워크 처리량을 보임을 확인한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.273-276
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• 2010

Opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) allows unlicensed users to share licensed spectrum in space and time with no or little interference to primary users, with bring new research challenges in MAC design. We propose a cognitive MAC protocol using statistical channel information and selecting appropriate idle channel for transmission. The protocol based on the CSMA/CA, exploits statistics of spectrum usage for decision making on channel access. Idle channel availability, spectrum hole sufficiency and available channel condition will be included in algorithm statistical information. The model include the control channel and data channel, the transmitter negotiates with receiver on transmission parameters through control channel, statistical decision results (successful rate of transmission) from exchanged transmission parameters of control channel should pass the threshold and decide the data transmission with spectrum hole on data channel. The proposed protocol's simulation will show that proposed protocol does improve the throughput performance via traditional opportunistic spectrum access MAC protocol.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.768-776
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• 2005

We compare the achievable throughput of time division multiple access (TDMA) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) schemes illustrated in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) MIMO technical report, versus the sum-rate capacity of space-time multiple access (STMA). These schemes have been proposed to improve the 3GPP high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) channel by employing multiple antennas at both the base station and mobile stations. Our comparisons are performed in multi-user environments and are conducted using TDMA such as Qualcomm's High Data Rate and HSDPA, which is a simpler technique than STMA. Furthermore, we present the unified optimal power allocation strategy for HSDPA MIMO schemes by exploiting the similarity of multiple antenna systems and multi-user channel problems.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.231-241
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• 2013

Improvements in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology have resulted in a large number of applications. WSNs have been mainly used for monitoring applications, but they are also applicable to target tracking, health care, and monitoring with multimedia data. Nodes are generally deployed in environments where the exhausted batteries of sensor nodes are difficult to charge or replace. The primary goal of communication protocols in WSNs is to maximize energy efficiency in order to prolong network lifetime. In this paper, various medium access control (MAC) protocols for synchronous/asynchronous and single/multi-channel WSNs are investigated. Single-channel MAC protocols are categorized into synchronous and asynchronous approaches, and the advantages and disadvantages of each protocol are presented. The different features required in multi-channel WSNs compared to single-channel WSNs are also investigated, and surveys on multi-channel MAC protocols proposed for WSNs are provided. Then, existing broadcast schemes in such MAC protocols and efficient multi-hop broadcast protocols proposed for WSNs are provided. The limitations and challenges in many communication protocols according to this survey are pointed out, which will help future researches on the design of communication protocols for WSNs.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권10B호
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• pp.876-884
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 다중 채널 환경의 무선 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 소모를 최소화하고 데이터 수율(Throughput)을 증대시키기 위한 비동기 방식의 맥 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 맥 프로토콜인 SPMC-MAC(Slim Preamble Multi Channel Media Access Control)은 [6]에서 제안했던 수신 노드가 깨어날 시간 정보의 이점을 이용하여 프리앰블의 길이를 줄이는 매커니즘을 채택한다. 프리앰블은 수신 노드의 ID와 랜덤하게 선택된 채널을 포함하여 전용의 기본 채널을 통해서 전송된다. 전송 세기 제어는 통신 가능 범위 내에서 적정 노드 수를 유지함으로써 데이터 전송 시 충돌과 간섭을 줄일 수 있다. 수학적 분석과 모의실험을 통해 에너지 소모와 수율에 대해 제안하는 SPMC-MAC과 X-MAC을 비교한다.