• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.4740-4744
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper was to make a LED light control module using Zigbee. The module was made so that brightness of the LED light changes according to the ambient brightness. A 8-bit microcontroller was used to implement the module to enable LED dimming and wireless light intensity measurement. Using the proposed method, power consumption can be improved by up to 48% on average, with 3.4-0.4W changes in power. The measured ambient light intensity values are converted from analog to digital and outputted as a PWM waveform. According to the output waveform and changes in the current outputted from the LED driver, the brightness of the LED light is controlled. Also, Zigbee with close-range wireless communication capabilities was used to enable wireless transmission of light intensity measurements.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.33-42
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• 2004

Controlling household devices using an infra-ray (IR) has a limitation since the IR signal cannot only be extended, but also cannot be transmitted over the physical barrier. Using a radio frequency (RF) may overcome these shortcomings. Bluetooth is one of the emerging RF_based standard protocols for short-range wireless communications among various control devices. In this paper, we describe a control system for household appliances using Bluetooth under embedded Linux environment. The control system consists of a centralized main controller and geographically scattered wallplates. Some of the challenges and lessons learned will be outlined in the presentation. As a result of this research, we found that the Bluetooth is a promising technology for realizing wireless control systems for household appliances.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.516-521
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• 2005

The application of UWB not only complies with the requirements of remote sensors system(ECG), it also contributes to the effectiveness of the implementations through its unique qualities such as ultra low transmission power - an important factor when dealing with biomedical equipment. In this paper, the aim is to replace the wired ECG sensors with a wireless link and design wireless UWB communication system. The various pulse shapes are presented that satisfies the FCC spectral mask and FCC part 15 rule. It is shown that UWB can be a high rate transmission over short ranges using Rake receiver, with the capability for reliably transmitting 100Mbps over distance at about 10 meters.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.107-117
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• 2006

Wireless Sensor Network consists of sensor nodes and sink. A sink receives and processes signals created from sensor nodes. Many studies have been performed, since sensor network allows multiple nodes to run using a limited amount of energy, Most researches have focused on using fixed sink. However, in many cases, the sink has mobility effected by man, cars, and etc. This research proposes three methods for reducing the node's energy consumption which is applied the Grid method based on mobile sink. Most routing processes handled by the mobile sink and wireless sensor area is separated and operated respectively. So, this research allows decreasing the power costs. In addition, it also proposes methods using simulation to test the quality of the performance.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.327-331
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• 2010

The 21.4-22.0GHz frequency band is used to broadcast satellite services in Region 1 and Region 3 in frequency distribution area. The use of this frequency band is according to the provision of the resolution 525 of WRC-03, this frequency band broadcasting service system transmits broadband radio-frequency signals. The trend of the Satellite launching plans for an using this frequency band is growing in worldwide. This frequency band requires fairly more transmit power than the Ku-band because of the rain attenuation of this frequency band is very extreme. An appropriable sharing criteria is required for this broadcast service to be operational.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.1277-1282
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• 2016

In the next generation wireless communication systems, an energy harvesting from radio frequency signals is considered as a method to solve the lack of power supply problem for sensors. In this paper, we try to propose an efficient algorithm for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer in energy harvesting networks with channel estimation error. At first, we find an optimal channel training interval using one-dimensional exhaustive search, and estimate a channel using MMSE channel estimator. Based on the estimated channel, we propose a power allocation and splitting algorithm for maximizing the data rate while guaranteeing the minimum required harvested energy constraint, The simulation results confirm that the proposed algorithm has an insignificant performance degradation less than 10%, compared with the optimal scheme which assumes a perfect channel estimation, but it can improve the data rate by more than 20%, compared to the conventional scheme.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.4
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• pp.505-510
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• 2009

Sensor networks are composed of a great number of sensor nodes. Since all sensor nodes are energy-restricted and hard to recharge, it is very important.However, the energy consumption may significantly increase if mobile sources or sinks exist in sensor networks. The reason is that the routing information for mobile sources and sinks needs to be update frequently for efficientdata delivery. The routing algorithm supporting mobile sinks should consider not only continuous data delivery but also the energy consumption of sensor nodes. However, most of the existing research focuses on even energy consumption while the mobility of sinks and sources is rarely consider. In this paper, we propose an efficient routing protocol with multiple virtual grids to reduce energy consumption and improve packets delivery efficiency. Then this paper considers the mobility. Simulation results show that our algorithm can guarantee high data delivery ratio and lower average delivery delay, while consuming lower energy than existing routing protocols in sensor networks.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.36C no.2
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• pp.54-61
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• 1999

This paper describes the design of a 4-Mbps wireless infrared data transceiver chip. The receiver consits of the analog front-end, clock recovery and frame generator, and demodulator. The transmitter consists of the demodulator and LED driver. The versatile analog front- end consisting of multiple amplifiers makes it possible for the chip to be applied to various infrared environments by compensating DC and offset signal components. A 4PPM (pulse position modulation) scheme is used for data transfer in order to meet the IrDA standards. The chip was fabricated in a $0.8-{\mu}m$ 2-poly, 2-metal CMOS technology and dissipates 122mW for ${\pm}2.5V$ supply.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.8
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• pp.746-755
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose the structure of a dual polarized system for a wireless communication. The proposed dual polarized antenna is formed by one vertical antenna and two horizontal antennas that are orthogonal to each other. Vertical and horizontal polarized antennas transmit different signals, but two orthogonal horizontal polarized antennas transmit the same data signals. So, the signals of the proposed dual polarized system construct two dual-polarization planes. And, only one dual-polarization plane with a large signal power is selected at the side of a receiver. The simulation results show that the proposed dual polarized system could obtain a higher capacity compared to an ordinary $2{\times}2$ MIMO (Multi-input Multi-output) system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.2256-2262
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• 2015

Recently, device-to-device (D2D) communication has been considered as key technology for future cellular system, because it can solve the problem of excessive data traffic increment and can also provide new communication services. Herein, we propose new neighbor discovery for D2D communication and examine its performance. Our proposed scheme is proximity beacon based discovery in which wireless resource for pilot transmission is assigned based on the spatial correlation of wireless channel and sensing period is adjusted according to target accuracy such that power consumption can be reduced. The performance of our propose scheme is analyzed mathematically and verified through computer simulations.