• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.319-321
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• 2006

위치기반서비스는 기본적으로 사용자의 위치를 파악해야 한다. 측위방법은 옥외용과 옥내용으로 구분되며, 옥외용에는 GPS 방법, 이동통신망을 이용한 방법, GPS와 이동통신망을 복합적으로 활용한 방법이 있고 옥내용에는 RF 신호를 이용한 RADAR가 있다. GPS 방법은 미 국방성의 선택적 제공 때문에 큰 오차가 불가피하다. 한편 RADAR 방식은 오차가 작으나 옥내에서만 적용이 가능하다. 근래에는 대학 캠퍼스마다 무선LAN을 서비스하지 않는 곳이 없다. 본 논문은 무선LAN용 AP의 신호의 세기(RSSI)를 이용하여 정확도를 제고하는 옥외 측위방법을 제안한다. GPS를 이용한 측위와 제안하는 RSSI를 이용한 방법의 정확도를 실험적으로 비교한 결과를 소개하고, GPS 데이터와 RSSI를 함께 고려한 측위 방법과의 비교 결과도 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1647-1650
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• 2010

다양한 옥내 측위 방법이 연구 발표되었다. 그 중에서 무선근거리통신망을 이용하는 방법은 측위를 위한 별도의 특수 장비를 요구하지 않기 때문에 실용적이다. 무선근거리통신망 기반 옥내 측위에서는 지문방식과 신호세기를 거리로 환산하여 사용하는 방법이 가장 흔히 사용되는 두 가지 방법이다. 지문방식은 시간과 노력이 많이 소요되는 준비단계가 필요하지만 신호세기를 거리로 환산하여 사용하는 방법보다 정확한 반면, 신호세기를 거리로 환산하여 사용하는 방법은 구현하기가 용이하지만 오차가 심하다. 때때로 지문방식 조차도 실제 응용에 적용되기에 부적절할 만큼 오차가 커, [1]은 일종의 지문방식인 K-NN (K nearest neighbors) 방법의 오차를 개선하기 위한 파티클 필터를 소개하였다. 칼만 필터도 역시 K-NN 옥내 측위의 정확도 개선을 위하여 사용된 바 있다. 본 논문은 K-NN 방법의 정확도 개선에 있어 칼만 필터와 파티클 필터의 성능을 비교하는 실험 결과를 소개한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.9
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• pp.774-783
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• 2012

A simple, accurate, secure, long-lasting, and portable hybrid positioning system is proposed and designed in this paper. It consists of a lighting LED that generates visible light data corresponding to position information of a target and a Zigbee wireless network communication module with low power, security, and service area expansion characteristics. Under an indoor environment where there is 23.62m distance between an observer and the target, the presented hybrid positioning system is tested and is verified with the functions of Zigbee three hop wireless networking and visible light communication (VLC) scheme. The test results are analyzed and discussed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1882-1883
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• 2007

본 논문은 근거리무선통신을 포함한 위치서비스를 위한 무선통신응용분야에 적용될 수 있는 고신뢰 고정밀 무선위치인식기술 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 위치인식방법은 양방향통신을 통해 추정된 무선태그의 신호세기 및 시간차를 측정된 거리정보를 바탕으로 상대적 위치에 대한 확률적 계산을 수행하게 되며, 측정데이터의 부정확성으로 인한 위치측정의 오차를 줄일 수 있다. 또한 제안된 고신뢰 무선측위 코아 스택을 근거리무선네트워크 형성이 가능한 2.4 GHz ISM 협대역 밴드의 ZigBee 무선비콘 및 무선태그 디바이스들에 탑재하고 실증시험을 위하여 스마트 홈 실내 환경 아래에서 $1m\;{\times}\;1m$ 의 위치인지를 가능케 하는 위치인식시스템을 구현한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.239-241
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• 2011

Recently, studies on the indoor positioning system in application of wireless AP have been actively going on. The indoor wireless positioning system can be classified into several types according to the positioning techniques. Among them, the fingerprint technique is a technique that establishes the radio map by collecting MAC information of AP and RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) before executing positioning and then determines the position in comparison with the information of AP collected during the course of positioning. In the traditional fingerprint techniques, they control and manage by installing APs that are utilized for positioning. However, in case of specific indoors, the management can be done by installing a small number of APs but, in case of wide outdoors, it's practically impossible to install and manage equipments for positioning. In order to solve such problem, there is an improved fingerprint technique that utilizes the APs that are already scattered around. This technique will allow positioning without additional cost, but even the improved fingerprint positioning technique may incur dropped accuracy as well due to wide fluctuation of the AP information. In this paper, the traditional fingerprint technique and the improved fingerprint technique are explained in comparison, and we will compares difference in performance with the proposed WPS_WS (Wi-Fi Positioning System_Weak Signal) technique.

• ICROS
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.23-26
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• 2003

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.55-66
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• 2012

In wireless sensor networks, a positioning scheme is one of core technologies for sensor applications such as disaster monitoring and environment monitoring. The One of the most positioning scheme, called DV-HOP does not consider non-uniform sensor networks that are actual distributed environments. Therefore, the accuracy of the existing positioning scheme is low in non-uniform network environments. Moreover, because it requires many anchor nodes for high accuracy in non-uniform network environments, it is expensive to construct the network. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel sensor positioning scheme using density probability models in non-uniform wireless sensor networks. The proposed scheme consists of the density probability model using the deployment characteristics of sensor nodes and the distance refinement algorithm for high accuracy. By doing so, the proposed scheme ensures the high accuracy of sensor positioning in non-uniform networks. To show the superiority of our proposed scheme, we compare it with the existing scheme. Our experimental results show that our proposed scheme improves about 44% accuracy of sensor positioning over the existing scheme on average even in non-uniform sensor networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.6C
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• pp.561-570
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• 2009

Ultra-wideband communication systems based on impulse radio have merits that are possible for the high data rate transmission, high resolution ranging are positioning system. Conventionally, in order to accomplish these features, the high-speed ADC (Analog to Digital Convertor) is necessary to apply radio determination system operating in time domain. However, considering low rate - wireless personal area network (LR-WPAN) aims to low-cost hardware implementation, the expensive ADC converting GHz sampling per second is not appropriate. So, this paper introduces a low complex AR (Auto Regressive) model based non-coherent ranging scheme operating in frequency domain with using low-speed ADC utilizing analog Voltage Control Oscillator (VCO) mode for the frequency domain transformation. To verify the superiority of the proposed ranging and location algorithm working in frequency domain, the suggested IEEE 802.15.4a TG channel model is used to exploit affirmative features of the proposed algorithm with conducting the simulation results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.2C
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• pp.145-152
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• 2009

Ultra-wideband communication systems for impulse radio have merits that are possible for either high resolution ranging system or radio determination. Conventionally, in order to accomplish these functions, the rapid analog to digital convertor (ADC) is necessary to apply radio determination system operating in time domain. However, considering that low rate - wireless personal area network (LR-WPAN) aims to low-cost hardware implementation, the expensive ADC converting GHz sampling per second is not appropriate. So, this paper introduces the high resolution ranging system operating in frequency domain with using low sampling rate ADC, and a new non-coherent ranging scheme utilizing analog Frequency Modulation (FM) mode for the frequency domain transformation. To verify the superiority of the proposed ranging algorithm working in frequency domain, the suggested IEEE 802.15.4a TG channel model is used to exploit affirmative features of the proposed algorithm with conducting the simulation results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10A
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• pp.727-735
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• 2009

To alleviate positioning error using wireless ultra-wideband (UWB) is primary concern, and it has been studied how to reduce the positioning error effectively. Thanks to many repeated transmissions of UWB signals, we can have a variety of selections to point out the most precise positioning result. Towards this, scanning method has been preferred to be used due to its simplicity. This exhaustive method firstly fixes the candidate position, and calculates the sum of distances from observed positions. However, it has tremendous number of computations, and the complexity is more serious if the size of two-dimensional range is the larger. To mitigate the large number of computations, this paper proposes the technique employing genetic algorithm and block windowing. To exploit its superiority, simulations will be conducted to show the reduction of complexity, and the efficiency on positioning capability.