• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.3 s.105
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• pp.20-28
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• 2007

본 고에서는 텔레매틱스/LBS용 실내외 연속측위를 위해 무선통신 기반 실내측위 및실외측위 기술에 대하여 동향을 분석한다. 위치기반서비스에서 측위기술은 핵심.기반기술로 오늘날 GPS가 그 중심을 차지하고 있지만 실내와 같은 음영지역에서는 새로운방식의 측위기술을 필요로 하고 있으며, 무선통신 인프라 기반의 측위 기술이 연구되어 오고 있다. 실외에서는 CDMA 기반 무선측위 기술, 실내에서는 WLAN, UWB, 적외선, 초음파, RFID 등의 인프라를 이용한 무선측위 기술이 연구되고 부분적으로 상용화되고 있다. 그러나 아직 실내외 연속측위를 위한 기술은 개념적으로 설계만 되고 있으며 상용화를 위한 기반기술이 연구중에 있다. 본 고에서는 실내외 연속측위를 위해 실내측위와 실외측위로 나누어 각각의 기술 동향을 분석하고 이 기술을 구현하기 위한 무선측위 기술을 분류, 설명한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.72-78
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• 2011

Localization information of an object can be a very useful element for many application areas. Presently, GPS is typically used for it, but many researches on the wireless localization technology are going on recently actively using mobile communication network, wireless sensor network, and ad hoc network in order to overcome the limitations of the GPS such as indoor, cost, power consumption, and etc. Therefore, this article surveys the most representative wireless localization techniques, which can be deployed in the wireless networks, and their principles and performances are analyzed based on the researched papers. In a conclusion, selection of a localization technique should consider the key design elements to a given application from the design elements such as localization environment, accuracy, time to fix, computation amount, implementation ease, and etc.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.68-74
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• 2011

이동단말기의 위치기반서비스가 핵심 무선인터넷서비스로 부상하고 있다 위치기반서비스는 정확하고 신뢰성 있는 단말기의 위치추정을 기반으로 한다. 이를 위하여 현재 GPS가 광범위하게 사용되고 있지만 기술적인 한계점으로 인하여 최근 RF 무선신호를 이용하는 RF 무선측위기술이 대체기술로 대두되고 있다. 이에 따라 최근 타 RF 기술에 비해 측위기술과 네트워크 인프라의 경쟁력을 보유한 WiFi 기반 무선측위기술이 부각되고 있다. 국내 또한 WiFi 기반 무선측위에 대한 연구를 활발히 수행 중이지만 시스템 개발에 따른 해외특허의 회피전략 또한 중요 관심사이다. 따라서 본고는 국내 위치기반서비스에 대한 국가 정책 및 사업화 방향의 전략결정에 유용하게 할용 될 수 있도록 WiFi 기반 무선측위기술의 기반기술 및 요소기술들을 정의하고 출원특허들의 선행조사와 분석을 통하여 이들 기술들에 대한 출원특허들의 기술계통도를 작성한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.9A
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• pp.852-858
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• 2010

In this paper, the compensation algorithm for radiodetermination error using a concept of determination coordinator value of equivalent distance rate (CADE) is proposed, and the performance of the proposed algorithm is analyzed. As a result of the experiments, CADE improves the performance of the algorithm accuracy about 37.5% and 69.8% each in the inside and outside of 4 beacon nodes. Furthermore, the CADE is 76.3% excellent enough to compensate 2m or more of the radiodetermination error. It also confirms that CADE can be adapted to the wide range by installing only 4 beacon nodes according to the excellence of compensation performance besides the ranges of 4 beacon nodes. From the results, it is strongly considered that the proposed algorithm CADE can be used to the performance enhancement of radiodetermination systems using SDS-TWR.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.6B
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• pp.888-894
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• 2010

For the indoor positioning, wireless fingerprinting is most favorable because fingerprinting is most accurate among the technique for wireless network based indoor positioning which does not require any special equipments dedicated for positioning. The deployment of a fingerprinting method consists of off-line phase and on-line phase and more efficient and accurate methods have been studied. This paper proposes a bayesian algorithm for wireless fingerprinting and indoor location determination using fuzzy clustering with bayesian learning as a statistical learning theory.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.1-9
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• 2006

For the indoor positioning, wireless fingerprinting is most favorable because fingerprinting is most accurate among the techniques for wireless network based indoor positioning which does not require any special equipments dedicated for positioning. The deployment of a fingerprinting method consists of off-line phase and on-line phase. Off-line phase is not a time critical procedure, but on-line phase is indeed a time-critical procedure. If it is too slow then the user's location can be changed while it is calculating and the positioning method would never be accurate. Even so there is no research of improving efficiency of on-line phase of wireless fingerprinting. This paper proposes a decision-tree method for wireless fingerprinting and performs comparative analysis of the fingerprinting techniques including K-NN, Bayesian and our decision-tree.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.9
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• pp.787-794
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• 2012

The visible light communication is considered as a next generation communication technology, when utilizes LED and PD for communication. Since it is easy to provide LOS communication environment along with cheap deployment cost, the positioning system based on VLC has been actively studied. However, the existing positioning system using VLC requires a complex computation and an additional deployment cost due to sensors for example. In this paper, we propose a new positioning system based on VLC which does not require additional complexity and the cost. In addition, the procedure for operating LED panels for positioning and the recognition schemes of pilot signal are proposed. The performance of recognition schemes of pilot signal is analyzed through the computer simulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.640-651
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• 2016

We propose an effective ToA-based localization method considering accuracy in indoor environments. The purpose of the localization system is to estimate the coordinates of the geographic location of target device. In indoor environments, accurately estimating the location of a target device is not easy due to various errors. The accuracy of wireless localization is influenced by NLOS errors. ToA-based localization measures the location of a target device using the distances between a mobile device and three or more base stations. However, each of the NLOS errors along a distance estimated from a target device to a base station is different because of dissimilar obstacles. To accurately estimate the target's location, an optimized localization process is needed in indoor environments. In this paper, effective ToA-based localization method process is proposed for improving accuracy in wireless sensor networks. Performance evaluations are presented, and the experimental localization system results are proved through comparisons of various localization methods with the proposed methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.9C
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• pp.573-580
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• 2011

WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks) are becoming more widely used in various fields, and improving localization performance is a crucial and essential issue for sensor network applications. In this paper, we propose a low-complexity localization mechanism for WSNs that operates in 3D (Three-Dimensional) space. The basic idea is to use aerial vehicles or flying objects that are deliberately equipped with the anchor nodes. These anchor nodes periodically broadcast beacon signals containing their current locations, and the unknown nodes receive these signals as soon as they enter the communication range of the anchors. We estimate the locations of the unknown nodes based on the proposed scheme that transforms the 3D problem into 2D computations to reduce the complexity of 3D localization. Simulated results show that our approach is an effective scheme for 3D self-positioning in WSNs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11C
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• pp.1098-1105
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an asynchronous UWB (Ultra Wide Band) Positioning scheme that can provide precise positioning performance with low complexity and low power consumption. We also present the residual test to improve the positioning performance in multipath channels having heavy NLoS (Non-Line of Sight) components. As compared to conventional ToA (Time of Arrival) positioning scheme that requires round-trip transmissions as many as the number of beacons, the proposed UWB positioning scheme effectively decrease power consumption and processing delay since a single round-trip transmission is only required. Also, as compared to conventional TDoA (Time Difference of Arrival) positioning scheme requiring precise synchronization among the beacons, asynchronous nature of the proposed scheme achieves very low system complexity. Through simulations in LoS (Line of Sight) channel models, we observe that the proposed scheme requires low system complexity, low power consumption, while providing positioning performance of almost the same accuracy as the conventional ToA and TDoA positioning schemes. In addition, the proposed scheme by employing the residual test achieves accurate positioning performance even in multipath channels having heavy NLoS components.