• 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.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.18-25
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• 2008

지능형 센서, 마이크로전자공학 및 집적회로, SoC (system-on-chip) 설계와 저전력 무선통신의 급속한 발달로 소형 지능형 센서노드의 개발을 촉진하여 왔다. 이러한 센서 노드는 인체센서네트워크(Body Sensor Network;BSN)의 개발에 초석이 되며, 향후 이 분야의 급속한 발전을 기대하게 된다. 초 저전력 RF 기술의 발전은 침투식 및 비침투식 장치들이 원격 단말과 데이터 전송을가능케 하며, 환자를 장기간 모니터링하여 의료 전문가에게 실시간으로 피드백 함으로써 건강관리 시스템의 일대 혁신을 일으키고 있다. 본 기고에서는 이식형 의료 장치들간의 무선통신 방법과 BSN 분야에서의 최근 기술적 발전동향에 주안점을 두어, 인체 내장형 및 인체 부착형 통신 네트워크 구조를 파악한 후, 이들 분야에서 미해결 쟁점과 난제에 관하여 분석하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.10A
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• pp.823-829
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• 2011

Recently, wireless body area network (WBAN) has received much attention as an application for the ubiquitous healthcare system. In WBAN, each sensor nodes and a personal base station such as PDA have an energy constraint and computation overhead should be minimized due to node's limited computing power and memory constraint. The reliable data transmission also must be guaranteed because it handles vital signals. In this paper, we propose a systematic network coding scheme for WBAN to reduce the network coding overhead as well as total energy consumption for completion the transmission. We model the proposed scheme using Markov chain. To minimize the total energy consumption for completing the data transmission, we made the problem as a minimization problem and find an optimal solution. Our simulation result shows that large amount of energy reduction is achieved by proposed systematic network coding. Also, the proposed scheme reduces the computational overhead of network coding imposed on each node by simplify the decoding process.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2014

In wireless body sensor system(WB-SNSs), unlike existing sensor network system, the size of device is small and amount of battery is considerably limited. And various channel environments can be made by link channel characteristic, human movements, sensor placements, transmission power control(TPC) algorithms and so on. In this paper, therefore we take diverse experiments with totally considerated environments to overcome these restrictions and to manage the energy efficiently and find the value of target received signal strength indicator(RSSI) based on diverse factors such as human movements, sensor placements, and TPC algorithms. And we conduct analysis in terms of energy consumption and packet delivery rate(PDR) based on the experimental results. Through these analysis, we compare and evaluate the efficiency according to setup values of Target RSSI and Target RSSI range suitable for wireless body sensor network system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12B
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• pp.1329-1335
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a new medium access control protocol referred to as DCTW (Dual Channel Transmission Scheme for wireless body area networks). Wireless body area networks (WBANs) requires prioritization mechanism for life-critical data to transmit the data as early as possible. The proposed DCTW exploits a narrow band for transmitting life-critical data while it uses a broadband channel to transmit normal data. Since the narrow band is dedicated to life-critical data, the DCTW can effectively reduce the delay of life-critical data transmission. Through extensive simulation, we show the DCTW outperforms other existing schemes.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.70-76
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• 2013

인체통신 기술은 유선통신 기술에서와 같이 기기들 간의 연결을 위한 다양한 형태의 케이블이 필요하지 않으므로 기존 유선통신 기술에 비해 편리한 우월성을 가진다. 그렇지만 보안성과 신뢰성은 유선통신의 장점을 넘을 수는 없을 것이다. 무선통신 기술은 초기 네트워크를 구성하기 위하여 서로 복잡하게 주고 받는 절차단계가 필요한 반면, 인체통신 기술은 사용자의 간단한 접촉만으로 통신이 서로 이루어지기 때문에 보다 더 간편하게 연결되며, 사용자 중심의 서비스를 용이하게 제공할 수 있다. 본고는 최근의 인체통신 기술의 기술 동향과 시장 전망 및 표준화 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.9-18
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• 2014

The sensors attached on/in a person are moved since human body frequency changes their activity, therefore in wireless body area networks, nodal mobility and non-line-of-sight condition will impact on performance of networks such as energy efficiency and reliable communication. We then proposed schemes which study on forwarding decisions against frequent change of topology and channel conditions to increase reliable connections and improve energy efficiency. In this work, we control the size of packets, forwarding rate based on ratio of input links and output links at each node. We also robust the network topology by extending the peer to peer IEEE 802.15.4-based. The adaptive topology from chain-based to grid-based can optimal our schemes. The simulation shows that these approaches are not only extending network lifetime to 48.2 percent but also increase around 6.08 percent the packet delivery ratio. The "hot spots" problem is also resolved with this approach.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.139-146
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• 2008

Wireless sensor network-related application system can perform functions such as environmental pollution monitoring, building control, home automation in future. In this paper, we present wireless sensor network based system for subway station in order to reduce the damage of the people and the subway station due to fire. Sensor nodes in this system can sense temperature, illumination, smoke, and human body in real time and detect the accident in the subway station. These real-time sensing and wireless networking minimize casualties and damage to property.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.4C
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• pp.290-296
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a practical authentication system based on Wireless Body Area Networks(WBAN) for U-healthcare medical information environments. The proposed authentication system is based on symmetric cryptosystem such as AES and is designed to not only provide security such as data secrecy, data authentication, data integrity, but also prevent replay attack by adopting timestamp technique and perform secure authentication between sensor node, master node, base-station, and medical server.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.40-46
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• 2013

본고에서는 무선인체센서내트워크의 개념을 정립하고, WBAN (Wireless Body Network)의 표준화 동향, 문제점 그리고 향후 지속 가능한 연구 방향에 대하여 고찰하였다. 클라우드 컴퓨팅 환경은 인체센서 노드에서 고성능 슈퍼 컴퓨터에 이르는 다양한 범위의 서로 다른 장치를 연결하여 컨텐트 중심의 서비스를 제공하게 될 것이며 이에 대한 이슈와 연구방향을 진단하였다. 나노기술로 인하여 나노미터 수준의 장치를 개발할 수 있을 것으로 예상되며, 이러한 나노장치 간 정보교환은 의료, 환경 및 군사 분야에서 떠오르는 나노 응용기술로 발전하게 되었다. 나노장치 사이의 정보전송을 전기자기학적(EM) 나노통신 및 분자레벨 나노통신으로 구분할 수 있으며 이들의 연구 방향을 통신 이론적 관점에서 고찰하고 분석하였다.