• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2870-2872
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 시각기반 센서 네트워크에 의해 다중물체의 위치를 인식 및 추적하여 목표물들의 위치를 결정할 수 있는 분산형 시각 시스템을 제시한다. 각 시각 센서는 칼라와 동작 정보에 의한 대상물체의 정확한 분할 및 다중물체에 대한 실시간 추적 그리고 간단한 원근법에 의한 포즈 추정을 수행한다. 각 시각 센서를 하나의 에이전트 - 시각 에이전트 -로 정의하고, 전체 시각기반 센서 네트워크를 복수 에이전트 시스템(multiagent system)으로 구성한다. 이로써 대상물체의 핸드오버시 그 대상물체의 신분에 대한 매칭 문제를 Identified Contract Net (ICN) 프로토콜을 제안하여 해결한다. ICN 프로토콜은 시각 에이전트의 개수에 독립적이고 그것을 사용할 경우 시각 에이전트들 간의 캘리브레이션도 필요로 하지 않기 때문에 시각기반 센서 네트워크의 속도, 확장성 및 모듈성을 높여준다. 실험을 통해 구성한 시각기반 센서 네트워크에서 ICN 프로토콜이 적용됨을 성공적으로 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.61-69
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• 2014

Various Time Synchronization protocols considering for the characteristics of WSN(Wireless Sensor Network) have been developed, because a time relationship plays an important role in many WSN applications, as well. Synchronization accuracy as well as constraints of energy should be considered for WSN Time Synchronization protocols, especially. In this paper, I analyze Time Synchronization protocols for WSN after classifying these protocols with a new criteria (i.e. power consumption). So, this method will contribute to evaluating and comparing WSN Time Synchronization protocols in respect of power consumption.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.2563-2567
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• 2011

Advances in smart sensors, embedded systems, low-power design, ad-hoc networks and MEMS have allowed the development of low-cost small sensor nodes with computation and wireless communication capabilities that can form distributed wireless sensor networks. Time information and time synchronization are fundamental building blocks in wireless sensor networks since many sensor network applications need time information for object tracking, consistent state updates, duplicate detection and temporal order delivery. Various time synchronization protocols have been proposed for sensor networks because of the characteristics of sensor networks which have limited computing power and resources. However, none of these protocols have been designed with time representation scheme in mind. Global time format such as UTC TOD (Universal Time Coordinated, Time Of Day) is very useful in sensor network applications. In this paper we propose network time protocol extension for global time presentation in wireless sensor networks.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.4 no.9
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• pp.385-392
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• 2015

In IoT(Internet of Things), it is important for wireless networks to communicate data created among resource-constrained wireless nodes, where time synchronization is needed for meaningful data creation and transmission. Time Synchronization by flooding is one of the mostly used protocols for WSN(Wireless Sensor Networks). Even though this type of scheme has some advantages over other types (i.e. a simple algorithm and independency of topology and so on), too many data transmission is required, leading to large power consumption. So, reducing transmission data is an important issue for energy efficiency in this kind of networks. In this paper, a new Flooding-based time synchronization protocol is proposed to use energy efficiently by reducing a transmitted traffic. The proposed scheme's performance has been evaluated and compared with an representative scheme, FTSP(Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol) by simulation. The results are shown that the proposed scheme is better than FTSP.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.127-134
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• 2016

WBSN (Wireless Body Sensor Network), also called WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks) generally, is a kind of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) applications, which is composed of the various sensor nodes residing in human body embodied or in wearable way. The measured data at each sensor node in WBSN requires being synchronized at sink node for exact analysis for status of human body, which is like WSN. Although many time synchronization protocols for WSN has been already developed, they are not appropriate to WBSN. In this paper, a new time synchronization protocol for WBSN considering the characteristics of WBSN is proposed. The proposed scheme is not only simple, but also consumes less power, leading to increasing network life time. We will show that the proposed scheme is appropriate to WBSN by evaluating its performance by simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.621-624
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a protocol synchronizing to packet trains in a underwater acoustic networks with limitations such as long propagation delay, low data rate, high packet loss. The proposed protocol employs an one-way communication scheme to calculate packet arrival time differences of consecutively transferred packets and minimizes uncertain variation effect of long propagation delay. Simulation results shows the superiority of our protocol, compared with a previously proposed one under the given network conditions.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.1B
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• pp.86-97
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• 2009

RTLS is a system for automatically locating and tracking people and objects. The TDOA-based RTLS determines the location of the tag by calculating the time differences of a signal received from the tag. In TDOA-based RTLS, time synchronization is essential to calculate the time difference between readers. This paper presents a precision time synchronization method for TDOA-based RTLS over IEEE 802.15.4. In order to achieve precision time synchronization in IEEE 802.15.4 radio, we analyzed the error factors of delay and jitter. We also deal with the implementation of hardware assisted time stamping and the Kalman filtering method to minimize the error factors. In addition, this paper described the experiments and performance evaluation of the proposed precision time synchronization method in IEEE 802.15.4 radio. The results show that the nodes in a network can maintain their clocks to within 10 nanoseconds offset from the reference clock.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.274-281
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• 2006

Sensor network applications need synchronized time extremely such as object tracking, consistent state updates, duplicate detection, and temporal order delivery. This paper describes reliable time synchronization protocol (RTSP) for wireless sensor networks. In the proposed method, synchronization error is decreased by creating hierarchical tree with lower depth and reliability is improved by maintaining and updating information of candidate parent nodes. The RTSP reduces recovery time and communication overheads comparing to TPSN when there are topology changes owing to moving of nodes, running out of energy and physical crashes. Simulation results show that RTSP has about 20% better performance than TPSN in synchronization accuracy. And the number of message in the RTSP is $20%{\sim}60%$ lower than that in the TPSN when nodes are failed in the network. In case of different transmission range of nodes, the communication overhead in the RTSP is reduced up to 40% than that in the TPSN at the maximum.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1004-1009
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• 2004

Precise time synchronization is a main technology in high-speed communications, parallel and distributed processing systems, Internet information industry and electronic commerce. Synchronized clocks are useful for many leasers. Often a distributed system is designed to realize some synchronized behavior, especially in real-time processing in factories, aircraft, space vehicles, and military applications. Nowadays, time synchronization has been compulsory thing as distributed processing and network operations are generalized. A network time server obtains, keeps accurate and precise time by synchronizing its local clock to standard reference time source and distributes time information through standard time synchronization protocol. This paper describes design issues and implementation of a network time server for time synchronization especially based on a clock model. The system uses GPS (Global Positioning System) as a standard reference time source and offers UTC (universal Time coordinated) through NTP (Network Time protocol). Implementation result and performance analysis are also presented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.5A
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• pp.561-570
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• 2008

Time synchronization is essential for a number of network applications such as high speed communication and parallel/distribution processing systems. As the era of ubiquitous computing is ushered in, the high precise time synchronization in wireless networks have been required in. This paper presents the design ana the implementation of the high precision time synchronization in wireless networks using ZigBee. To achieve high precision requirements, we have tried to analyze and reduce error factors such as the latency and jitters of a protocol stack on wireless environments. In addition, this paper includes some experiments and performance evaluations of our system. The result is that we established for nodes in a network to maintain their elects to within a 50 nanosecond offset from the reference clock.