• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.523-541
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• 2011

In current IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN, every unicast transmission requires an ACK from the receiver for reliability, though it consumes energy and bandwidth. There have been studies to remove or reduce ACK overhead, especially for energy efficiency. However none of them are practically used now. This paper introduces a noble method of selective unacknowledged transmission, where skipping an ACK is dynamically decided frame by frame. Utilizing the fact that a multicast frame is transmitted without accompanying an ACK in 802.11, the basic unacknowledged transmission is achieved simply by transforming the destination address of a frame to a multicast address. Since removing ACK is inherently more efficient but less strict, its practical profit is dependent on traffic characteristics of a frame as well as network error conditions. To figure out the selective conditions, energy and performance implications of unacknowledged transmission have been explored. Extensive experiments show that energy consumption is almost always reduced, but performance may be dropped especially when TCP exchanges long data with a long distance node through a poor wireless link. An experiment with a well-known traffic model shows that selective unacknowledged transmission gives energy saving with comparable performance.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.717-721
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• 2010

일반적으로 무선 MAC에서는 신뢰성을 부여하기 위해 ACK를 이용한다. 한편, 센서 네트워크 응용에서는 데이터가 주기적으로 전송되며, 어느 정도의 중복성을 갖고 있다. 이와 같이 신뢰성에 융통성이 있는 응용에서는 모든 MAC 프레임에 대해 ACK를 이용하는 것이 에너지 낭비로 작용할 수 있다. 에너지 절약을 목적으로 설계된 IEEE 802.15.4에서는 이에 대비하여 ACK 사용 여부를 선택 사항으로 지정해 놓고 있으나, 이를 활용한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 논문에서는 프레임이 잘 전달되는 경우 ACK를 생략하고, 프레임이 잘 전달되지 않을 경우 ACK를 사용하여 사용자가 요구하는 신뢰성(예: 단대단 패킷 도달율)을 만족할 수 있는 선택적 Unacknowledged 전송 기법을 제안하였다. 또한 NS2 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 다양한 성능 평가를 수행하였다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

TCP is considered a major candidate transport protocol even for constrained IoT networks due to its ability to integrate into the existing network infrastructures. Since TCP implementations such as uIP TCP often allow only a single TCP segment per connection to be unacknowledged at any given time due to resource constraints, the congestion control relies only on RTO management. In our previous work, to address the problem that uIP TCP performs poorly particularly when a radio duty cycling mechanism is enabled and the hidden terminal problem is severe, we proposed a RTO scheme for uIP TCP and validated the performance through Cooja simulation. In this study, we investigate the effect of other factors that were not considered in our previous work. More specifically, the effect of traffic intensity, the degree of the hidden terminal problem, and RDC is investigated by varying the offered load and the transmission range, and the RDC channel check rate. Simulation results imply that we need to further investigate how to improve TCP performance when the radio duty cycling mechanism is used.