• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 2018

This paper explores the reliability issue especially associated with the time-division synchronous communication when a networking stack is implemented using software timers provided by embedded operating systems. Especially, we explore the reliability of beacon synchronization of IEEE 802.15.4. Our experiments based on its practical implementation clearly show that processing delays or losses of hardware timer interrupts used for software timers lead to occasional failures in beacon synchronization. To avoid such failures, we suggest a reception time compensation scheme that turns on the receiver earlier than expected.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.49-58
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• 2010

The wireless sensor network technology becomes one of core technologies to make it possible to implement various e-business applications. Energy efficiency is an important issue in wireless sensor networks. IEEE 802.15.4, a representative international standard for wireless sensor networks, provides the beacon enabled mode for energy-efficient communication. However, the beacons may conflict each other when the network is of multi-hop topology such as mesh or cluster-tree topology with beacon-enabled mode. The beacon conflict causes the failure of synchronization between sensor nodes, and affects other nodes in the network in that unsynchronized nodes cannot participate in communication. In this paper, we suggest an energy-efficient beacon scheduling for the wireless sensor networks. Nodes can save their energy duringperiod and prevent beacon conflict using beacon scheduling. We implement the scheduling using QualNet, and evaluate the performance under mesh topology networks. It turns out that the proposed scheduling may improve the energy efficiency in the networks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.364-370
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed new sensor network architecture with autonomous robots based on beacon mode and implemented real time monitoring system in real test-bed environment. The proposed scheme offers beacon based real-time scheduling for reliable association process with parent nodes and dynamically assigns network address by using NAA (Next Address Assignment) mechanism. For the large scale multi-sensor processing, our real-time monitoring system accomplished the intelligent database processing, which can generate not only the alert messages to the civilians but also process various sensing data such as fire, air, temperature and etc. Moreover, we also developed mobile robot which can support network mobility. Though the performance evaluation by using real test-bed system, we illustrate that our proposed system demonstrates promising performance for emergence monitoring systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.3-4
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• 2018

과거 3-4년 전까지 위성전파항법시스템의 백업 시스템으로 유일하게 논의되고 있었던 현실적 대안은 eLoran이었다. eLoran은 기존에 활용성이 낮아져 서비스가 점차 중단되고 있는 로란-C 시설을 개선하여 보다 높은 PNT 성능을 제공하도록 고안되었다. 기존에 로란-C 시설이 있는 국가나 지역에서는 위성전파항법시스템의 백업 시스템으로 eLoran을 효과적으로 확보할 수 있는 것이다. 그러나 기존 로란-C 시설을 이미 철거하였거나, 로란-C 시설을 가지고 있지 않았던 국가 입장에서는 eLoran을 확보하기 위해 로란-C 시설을 보유한 국가보다 더 많은 시설구축 비용이 필요하게 된다. 반면에 R-Mode는 현재 해상에서 활용되고 있는 전파신호를 이용하므로 신규 전파항법 인프라 구축에 따른 큰 투자 없이 적은 비용으로 위성전파항법시스템의 백업 시스템을 구현할 수 있다는 장점을 갖는다. 대한민국은 세계에서 유일하게 국가안보적 측면에서 GPS 전파간섭의 위협을 받고 있는 국가이다. 대한민국이 직면한 GPS 전파간섭은 해외에서 보고되고 있는 좁은 지역에서의 개인적 소규모 전파간섭과는 차원이 다르다. 특히 지난 2016년 3월 말, 우리나라는 약 엿새간 수도권과 강원지역 등이 동시에 GPS 전파간섭의 영향권 안에 든 바 있다. 이때 GPS 전파간섭은 과거에 발생한 GPS 전파간섭보다 더 넓은 지역에 영향을 주었고, 어선과 같은 소규모 선박의 조업까지 방해하는 피해를 안겼다. 본 논문은 대한민국이 하루 속히 해결해야 할 현안으로 인식되고 있는 위성전파항법시스템의 백업 시스템으로 중파 비컨 R-Mode를 적용할 필요가 있는지 논하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2B
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• pp.215-224
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• 2010

A container security device (CSD) monitors intrusions through the cargo door; it is a reduced function device that uses IEEE 802.15.4 with a beacon mode. However, in the beacon mode, the CSD consumes too much battery power in periodical idle listening and sensing trials. Moreover, the CSD cannot send the message to the CSD reader actively, and it makes big latency problem. Therefore, we propose a low-power CSD to reduce the unnecessary power consumption. The proposed CSD follows the requirements of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and reduces battery consumption through a power-efficient hardware design, a night-watch mechanism for low-power operation and low-power sensing to reduce unnecessary monitoring. And the CSD sends alert message to the CSD reader. Simulation results show that our CSD reduces battery consumption by over 70% through the night-watch mechanism and by approximately 80% through the low-power sensing. And the CSD can send the alert message to the remote CSD reader by over 94%.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.21-30
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a real-time service based on retransmission slot in low rate WPAN. In the proposed scheme, during the communication period of the beacon-enabled mode in LR-WPAN standard, a special GTSs is dynamically assigned for retransmission of the packet that fails during a real-time service such as voice. This provides a time diversity in the severe channel error environments to support the required QoS. Analytical results show that this scheme achieves a much higher throughput and better transmission success rate per GTS slot than conventional schemes such as a common reserved scheme in LR WPAN.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.87-91
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• 2010

The IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.7 standard are the typical of low rate wireless and Visible Light Wireless personal area networks. Its Medium Access Control protocol can support the QoS traffic flows for real-time application through guaranteed time slots (GTS) in beacon mode. However, how to achieve a best allocation scheme is not solved clearly. The current analytical models of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC reported in the literature have been mainly developed under the assumption of saturated traffic or non-bursty unsaturated traffic conditions. These assumptions don't capture the characteristics of bursty multimedia traffic. In this paper, we propose a new analytical model for GTS allocation with burst Markov modulated ON-OFF arrival traffic.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.19-27
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a scheme for real-time data retransmission in LR-WPAN to support the required QoS even in the severe channel error environments. In IEEE 802.15.4a, as the user data rate is supported up to 850Kbps, the real-time streaming data can be transferred more easily. In this research, we study the beacon-enabled mode in IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN standard. In the proposed scheme, special slots are dynamical1y assigned for retransmission of the packet that fails during a real-time data service, and in the severe channel error environments a time diversity is acquired. Analytical results show that the proposed scheme is more robust and achieves a much higher throughput than the previous protocol in LR-WPAN.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.33-41
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a scheme for voice data retransmission in LR-WPAN to support the required QoS even in the severe channel error environments. In IEEE 802.15.4a, as the user data rate is supported up to 850Kbps, the voice streaming data can be transferred more easily. In this research, we study the beacon-enabled mode in IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN standard with 250Kbps data rate. In the proposed scheme, special slots are dynamically assigned for retransmission of the packet that fails during a voice service, and in the severe channel error environments a time diversity is acquired. Analytical results show that the proposed scheme is more robust and achieves a much higher throughput than the previous protocol in LR-WPAN.