• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.11-18
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• 2014

Most of the energy efficient MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are based on duty cycling in a single channel and show competitive performances in a small number of traffic flows; however, under concurrent multiple flows, they result in significant performance degradation due to contention and collision. We propose a multi-channel pipelining (MCP) method for convergecast WSN in order to address these problems. In MCP, a staggered dynamic phase shift (SDPS) algorithms devised to minimize end-to-end latency by dynamically staggering wake-up schedule of nodes on a multi-hop path. Also, a phase-locking identification (PLI) algorithm is proposed to optimize energy efficiency. Based on these algorithms, multiple flows can be dynamically pipelined in one of multiple channels and successively handled by sink switched to each channel. We present an analytical model to compute the duty cycle and the latency of MCP and validate the model by simulation. Simulation evaluation shows that our proposal is superior to existing protocols: X-MAC and DPS-MAC in terms of duty cycle, end-to-end latency, delivery ratio, and aggregate throughput.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.1665-1671
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• 2007

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) refer to autonomous networks in which wireless data communications are established between multiple nodes in a given coverage area without a base station or centralized administration. Because of node mobility and limited battery life, the network topology may changes frequently. Selecting the most reliable path during route discovery process is important to improve performance in ad-hoc networks. In this study, we proposed an enhanced routing protocol based on AODV by monitoring variation of receiving signal strength. New metric function that consists of node mobility and hops of path is used for routing decision. From extensive experiments by using NS-2, The performance of the proposed routing scheme has been imp개ved by comparison to AODV protocol.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.124-131
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• 2014

This paper describes a design of an adaptive baseband modem based on TDMA(time division multiple access) with a relay protocol function for wireless personal area networks. The designed baseband modem is controlled by a master synchronization signal and can be configured a relay network up to 14 hops. For efficient data relay communications, the internal buffer design is optimized by implementing a priority memory bus controller to a single port memory. And the priority memory bus controller is also designed to minimize the number of synthesized logic gates. To implement the synchronization function of the narrowband TDMA relay communication, the number of gates has been reduced by dividing the frame synchronization circuits and the network slot synchronization circuits. By using these methods, the number of gates are used about 37%(34,000 gates) on Xilinx FPGA XC6SLX9 which has 90,000 gates. For the 1024-bit frame size with a 32-bit synchronization word, the communication reception rate is 96.4%. The measured maximum transmission delay of the designed baseband modem is 230.4 msec for the 14-hop relay communication.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.182-185
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• 2009

무선 센서 네트워크의 목적은 특정 지역에 뿌려져 있는 센서 노드를 통해서 센서 정보를 수집하는 것이다. 지역 내 센서 노드는 환경 값을 측정, 수집, 처리하여 싱크 노드로 전송된다. 이러한 과정은 센서네트워크를 구성하는 센서 노드의 제한된 능력 때문에 센서 노드의 저전력 동작 기법을 고려해야 한다. 인접한 센서 노드는 유사한 데이터를 가지기 때문에, 로컬 클러스터를 형성하고 클러스터 헤드로 데이터 가공 처리하는 클러스터링 기법이 저전력 동작 기법에 효과적이다. 또한 제한된 전송 범위에 따라 다중 홉 방식의 클러스터 형성 기법요구 된다. 클러스터 형성 시 클러스터 내 멤버 노드의 개수는 균형적인 클러스터 형성에 영향을 주기 때문에 클러스터를 균등하게 분할하는 방법이 필요하다. 이에 본 논문은 클러스터 헤드의 재선정을 통해 불균형하게 형성된 클러스터를 균등한 클러스터로 형성할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.138-144
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• 2007

Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) consists of a lot of light-weight sensor nodes with the capability of wireless communication. Studies have been done to improve stability and fault-tolerancy of WSN because the sensor nodes are basically vulnerable to the harsh environment. Specially, the time synchronization among sensor nodes becomes a challenging issue in WSN. All the local times should always keep the same with each other in the sensor field to perform data aggregation and energy-aware communication in WSN. In this paper, a new time synchronization technique is proposed to operate efficiently irrespective of the number of sensor nodes and the number of hops needed to cover all sensor nodes for synchronization. Simulation results show that the proposed technique has the lowest amount of packet traffic among the several time synchronization techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.760-762
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11b WLAN 종단 간(end to end) 의 DATA 전송에 있어서 효율성 향상을 위한 방법을 충돌 횟수의 감소와 throughput 값의 증가를 나타낼 수 있는 방법을 통해서 제안한다. CW(contention window) 값이 충돌 발생할 시에 증가하는 것이 다음 프레임 전송 시 충돌 발생 확률을 줄이기 위한 것임에 착안하여 CW 값의 변화를 현재 방식에서 변화를 주어 전송 효율성 향상을 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 현재의 CW 값이 증가하는 방식은 유지하고 프레임 전송 성공 시 CW 값이 초기화되는 방식을 수정하고자 한다. 만일 CW 값이 크게 증가하였을 시에는 충돌이 많이 발생하고 있는 것으로 간주한다. 그래서 현재의 값 변화 방식인 CW 값이 최소값으로 초기화하는 것이 아니라 최소값 보다는 큰 CW 값을 유지하여 CW 값이 크게 변화되는 것을 막아 충돌 발생 확률을 줄일 수 있음을 확인한다. 본 논문에서는 3가지 방식의 알고리즘에 대하여 시뮬레이션 하였다. original 방식과 다른 알고리즘의 효율성을 시뮬레이션을 통해 비교하여 CW의 값이 전송 성능에 미치는 영향에 대한 결과를 보여준다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1145-1152
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• 2010

Currently economical communication technologies are needed for high speed data exchange at sea. Wireless environments at sea require some special communication security solutions as well. In this paper, an augmented WiMAX MMR protocol is proposed as a solution of the broadband data communications and security at sea environments fundamentally with no base station.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.17-26
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• 2013

ISO/IEC 29157 originally developed in the Republic of Korea and is based on commercially available PicoCast v1.0. ISO/IEC JTC1 SC6 was registered by the international standard on May 2010. A single platform for a variety of applications and media formats to support development objectives were. ISO/IEC 29157 based wireless networks, ie, Pico-net to master node periodically transmit sync signal is synchronized to the number of slave nodes have the communications structure. Pico-net also supports a variety of network topologies and direct communication between nodes(single-hop communication) and QoS is guaranteed. But Pico-net network structure has the following problems. Loss of communication problems due to mobile nodes, resulting in limitations of node mobility and wireless network operation range of conventional wireless networks operating range less than 1/4 was reduced to the problem. In this paper, a possible solution to the problems mentioned is proposed, using multi-hop communication technology and sync signal transmission technology between nodes.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.1 s.343
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• pp.57-70
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• 2006

This paper descWireless Sensor Network consisting of a number of small sensors with transceiver and data processor is an effective means for gathering data in a variety of environments. The data collected by each sensor is transmitted to a processing center that use all reported data to estimate characteristics of the environment or detect an event. This process must be designed to conserve the limited energy resources of the sensor since neighboring sensors generally have the data of similar information. Therefore, clustering scheme which sends aggregated information to the processing center may save energy. Existing multi-hop cluster energy consumption modeling scheme can not estimate exact energy consumption of an individual sensor. In this paper, we propose a new cluster energy consumption model which modified existing problem. We can estimate more accurate total energy consumption according to the number of clusterheads by using Voronoi tessellation. Thus, we can realize an energy efficient cluster formation. Our modeling has an accuracy over $90\%$ when compared with simulation and has considerably superior than existing modeling scheme about $60\%.$ We also confirmed that energy consumption of the proposed modeling scheme is more accurate when the sensor density is increased.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.12
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• pp.1138-1147
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• 2012

IEEE standard 802.16, often referred to as WiMAX, is considered a "last mile" broadband wireless access alternative to conventional DSL and Cable Internet. One extension that is recently receiving great attention is the IEEE 802.16j Mobile Multihop Relay (MMR) amendment. The focus of this amendment is the development of simple and lower cost relay stations (RSs) that can enhance network coverage and capacity. We use our proposed simple scheduling scheme for serving the SSs in a fair manner and evaluate the performance of WiMAX networks with relays, especially we analyze the impact of interference between RSs on cell throughput Through simulations and numerical analysis, we make several fundamental observations about interference aware cost effective coverage extension in such networks.