• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.227-229
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• 2012

무선 센서 네트워크에서 노드는 배터리로 동작하지만 충전이나 교체가 어렵기 때문에 에너지를 효율적으로 사용하는 것이 중요하다. 따라서 에너지 효율적인 통신 프로토콜 방법으로 클러스터링 기반 통신 구조를 사용한다. 그리고 에너지 소비 패턴을 균일하게 하기 위해 클러스터를 재구축한다. 대표적인 클러스터링 기반 통신 프로토콜로 LEACH 프로토콜이 있다. 그러나 CH 노드가 랜덤으로 선택되기 때문에, CH 노드들의 분포가 균일하지 못하거나 한곳에 몰려 있을 수 있고, CH 노드에서 싱크노드까지의 거리가 멀다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 LEACH 프로토콜의 단점을 해결하기 위한 알고리즘으로 CH 노드를 네트워크 전체에 균일하게 분포시키고 CH 노드에서 싱크노드까지 계층적으로 데이터를 전송하는 클러스터링 기법을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.1041-1047
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• 2010

One of the weaknesses of ad hoc network is that a route used between a source and a destination is to break during communication. To solve this problem, one approach consists of selecting routes whose nodes have the most stable link cost. In this paper proposes a new method for improving the low power distributed MAC. The method is rule-based on the context awareness of the each nodes energy in clustering. The proposed networks scheme could get better improve the awareness for data to achieve and performance on their clustering establishment and messages transmission.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.4
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• pp.495-504
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• 2009

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consisting of a largenumber of sensors aims to gather data in a variety of environments and is beingused and applied in many different fields. The sensor nodes composing a sensornetwork operate on battery of limited power and as a result, high energyefficiency and long network lifetime are major goals of research in the WSN. Inthis paper we propose a novel cluster-based local multi-hop routing protocolthat enhances the overall energy efficiency and guarantees reliability in thesystem. The proposed protocol minimizes energy consumption for datatransmission among sensor nodes by forming a multi-hop in the cluster.Moreover, through local cluster head rotation scheme, it efficiently manageswaste of energy caused by frequent formation of clusters which was an issue inthe existing methods. Simulation results show that our scheme enhances energyefficiency and ensure longer network time in the sensor network as comparedwith existing schemes such as LEACH, LEACH-C and PEACH.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.155-161
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• 2015

Efficient energy consumption is a one of the key issues in wireless sensor networks. Clustering-based routing algorithms have been popular solutions for such an issue. Re-clustering is necessary for avoiding early energy drain of cluster head nodes in such routing strategies. The re-clustering process itself, however, is another source of energy consumption. It is suggested in this work to adaptively set the frequency of re-clustering by comparing the energy levels of cluster heads and a threshold value. The algorithm keeps the clusters if all the cluster heads' energy levels are greater than the threshold value. We confirm through simulations that the suggested algorithm shows better energy efficiency than the existing solutions.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.199-202
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• 2013

In the cluster mechanism of the wireless sensor network, the network lifetime is affected by how cluster heads are selected. One of the representative clustering mechanisms, the low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH), selects cluster heads periodically, resulting in high energy consumption in cluster reconstruction. On the other hand, the adaptive clustering algorithm via waiting timer (ACAWT) proposes a non-periodic re-clustering mechanism that reconstructs clusters if the remaining energy level of a cluster head reaches a given threshold. In this paper, we propose a re-clustering mechanism that uses multiple remaining node energy levels and does re-clustering when the remaining energy level of a cluster head reaches one level lower. Also, in determining cluster heads, both of the number of neighbor nodes and the remaining energy level are considered so that cluster heads can be more evenly placed. From the simulations based on the Qualnet simulator, we validate that our proposed mechanism outperforms ACAWT in terms of the network lifetime.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.2
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• pp.165-172
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• 2010

Sensor network can be applied in many areas in our life, and security is very important in applying sensor network. For secure sensor communication, pairwise key establishment between sensor nodes is essential. In this paper, we cluster the network field in hexagonal shapes and preassign three different kinds of key information for each sensor according to its expected location. We adopt overlapped key string pool concept for our clustered network architecture and every node uses the part of sub-strings for setting up pairwise keys with all neighboring nodes in its own cluster and from different clusters according to respective position with small amount of information. Our proposal decreases the memory requirement and increases security level efficiently.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.2
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• pp.185-190
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• 2007

The efficient node energy utilization is one of important performance factors in wireless sensor networks because sensor nodes operate with limited battery power. To extend the lifetime of the wireless sensor networks, maintaining balanced power consumption between sensor nodes is more important than reducing each energy consumption of the sensor node in the network. In this paper, we proposed a cluster formation algorithm to extend the lifetime of the networks and to maintain a balanced energy consumption of nodes. To obtain it, we add a tiny slot in a round frame, which enables to exchange the residual energy messages between the base station (BS). cluster heads, and nodes. The performance of the proposed protocol has been examined and evaluated with the NS 2 simulator. As a result of simulation, we have confirmed that our proposed algorithm show the better performance in terms of lifetime than LEACH. Consequently, our proposed protocol can effectively extend the network lifetime without other critical overhead and performance degradation.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.25-30
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• 2010

Wireless sensor networks is composed of many similar sensor nodes with limited resources. They are randomly scattered over a specific area and self-organize the network. For guarantee of network life time, load balancing and scalability in sensor networks, sensor networks needs the clustering algorithm which distribute the networks to a local cluster. In existing clustering algorithms, the cluster head selection method has two problems. One is additional communication cost for finding location and energy of nodes. Another is unequal clustering. To solve them, this paper proposes a novel cluster head selection algorithm revised previous clustering algorithm, LEACH. The simulation results show that the energy compared with the previous clustering method is reduced.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.925-928
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• 2010

Wireless sensor networks are composed of a large number of sensor nodes with limited energy resources. One critical issue in wireless sensor networks is how to gather sensed information in an energy efficient way since the energy is limited. The clustering algorithm is a technique used to reduce energy consumption. It can improve the scalability and lifetime of wireless sensor network. In this paper, we introduce a clustering protocol with mode selection (CPMS) for wireless sensor networks. Our scheme improves the performance of BCDCP (Base Station Controlled Dynamic Clustering Protocol) and BIDRP (Base Station Initiated Dynamic Routing Protocol) routing protocol. In CPMS, the base station constructs clusters and makes the head node with highest residual energy send data to base station. Furthermore, we can save the energy of head nodes using modes selection method. The simulation results show that CPMS achieves longer lifetime and more data messages transmissions than current important clustering protocol in wireless sensor networks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.108-112
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• 2006

센서 네트워크는 제한된 에너지를 가지는 작은 노드들로 구성이 된다. 이 센서 네트워크에서 가장 큰 에너지 손실을 가져오는 부분은 RF통신 부분이라 할 수 있다. 해양 센서 네트워크는 통신 매체로 음파를 사용하기 때문에 RF를 사용하는 센서 네트워크보다 통신하는데 더 많은 에너지를 소모한다. 센서 네트워크에서 통신 횟수를 줄여 에너지 효율을 높이는 방법으로 네트워크 내 집계 연산이나 필터링 등이다. 해양환경에서 데이터 값들이 유사한 층을 가지고 있다. 이 유사층에서 네트워크 내 집계 연산과 필터링의 의미를 살펴보겠다. 해양 센서 네트워크는 기존의 토플로지와 다른 구조를 가지고 있다. 새로 제안하는 구조에 어떠한 개념과 기능이 있는지를 살펴본 후 센서 노드들 임계값을 사용하여 센싱된 데이터 값이 유사한 구간을 클러스터로 묶고 묶여진 클러스터 내에서 어떻게 데이터를 전송할 방법을 제안한다.