• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.67-74
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• 2009

Incorrect deployment of RFID readers occurs reader-to-reader interferences in many applications using RFID technologies. Reader-to-reader interference occurs when a reader transmits a signal that interferes with the operation of another reader, thus preventing the second reader from communicating with tags in its interrogation zone. Interference detected by one reader and caused by another reader is referred to as a reader collision. In RFID systems, the reader collision problem is considered to be the bottleneck for the system throughput and reading efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel RFID reader anti-collision algorithm based on evolutionary algorithm(EA). First, we analyze characteristics of RFID antennas and build database. Also, we propose EA encoding algorithm, fitness algorithm and genetic operators to deploy antennas efficiently. To show superiority of our proposed algorithm, we simulated our proposed algorithm. In the result, our proposed algorithm obtains 95.45% coverage rate and 10.29% interference rate after about 100 generations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1431-1439
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a new location service and location-based routing for data dissemination from a source to a mobile group sink in less energy consumption of the sensor node. Unlike the existing protocols, the proposed protocol uses a leader sink instead of a group area as the location information to represent a mobile sink group. The proposed protocol also uses grid leaders on virtual grid structure to support sink mobility in location service. By using a leader sink as a representative and grid leaders for mobility supporting, the proposed protocol can exploit an efficient hierarchical location service and data dissemination method without using flooding. Accordingly, the proposed protocol carries out upper layer location services and data dissemination between a leader sink and a source and lower layer location services and data dissemination between the leader sink and member sinks. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed protocol achieves energy-efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.135-141
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• 2008

We propose a new method for recognizing the activities of daily living(ADL) based on the state-dependent motion analysis using 3-axial accelerometers and a glove type RFID reader. Two accelerometers are used for the classification of 5 body states based on the decision tree. Classification of the instrumental activities is performed based on the hand interaction with an object ID using an accelerometer and a RFID reader. Object-dependent hand movements are classified into 5 categories in advance and final decision combines the body state and the instrumental activities. Experiment shows that the suggested hierarchical motion analysis provides accuracy rate of over 90% for all 20 ADLs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.913-916
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• 2010

Wireless sensor networks consist of small battery powered devices with limited energy resources. Once deployed, the small sensor nodes are usually inaccessible to the user, and thus replacement of the energy source is not feasible. Hence, energy efficiency is a key design issue that needs to be enhanced in order to improve the life span of the network. In BCDCP, all sensors send data from CH (Cluster Head) and then to BS (Base Station). BCDCP works well in small-scale network but in large scale network it is not appropriated since it uses much energy for long distance wireless communication. We propose a routing protocol - Triangular Clustering Routing Protocol (TCRP) - to prolong network life time through the balanced energy consumption. TCRP selects cluster head of triangular shape. The sensor field is divided into energy level and in every level we choose one node as a gate node. This gate node collects data and sends it to the leader node. Finally the leader node sends the aggregated data to the BS. We show TCRP outperforms BCDCP with several experiments.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Communications for mobile sink groups such as rescue teams or platoons bring about a new challenging issue for handling mobility in wireless sensor networks. To do this, many studies have been proposed to support mobile sink groups. When closely looking at mobile sink groups, they can be divided into (multiple) small groups according to the property of applications. For example, a platoon can be divided into multiple squads to carry out its mission in the battle field. However, the previous studies cannot efficiently support the division of mobile sink groups because they do not address three challenging issues engendered by the mobile sink group division. The first issue is to select a leader sink for a new small mobile sink group. The efficient data delivery from a source to small mobile sink groups is the second issue. Last, the third issue is to share data between leader sinks of small mobile sink groups. Thus, this paper proposes a routing protocol to efficiently support the division of mobile sink groups by solving the three challenging issues. For the first issue, the proposed protocol selects a leader sink of a new small mobile sink group which provide a minimum summation of the distance between the new leader sink and the previous leader sink and the distance from the new leader sink to all of its member sinks. For the efficient data delivery from a source to small mobile sink groups in the second issue, the proposed protocol determines the path to minimize the data dissemination distance from source to small mobile sink group by calculating with the location information of both the source and the leader sinks. With regard to the third issue, the proposed protocol exploits member sinks located among leader sinks to provide efficient data sharing among leaders sinks by considering the location information of member sinks. Simulation results verified that the proposed protocol is superior to the previous protocol in terms of the energy consumption.

• TTA Journal
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• s.95
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• pp.37-47
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• 2004

RFID 시스템은 물품 등 관리할 사물에 태그를 부착하고 전파를 이용하여 사물의 정보(Identification) 및 주변 환경정보를 인식하여 각 사물의 정보를 수집, 저장, 가공 및 추적함으로써 사물에 대한 측위, 원격처리$\cdot$관리 및 사물간 정보교환 등 다양한 서비스를 제공하며, 칩, 태그, 리더, 미들웨어 및 응용서비스 플랫폼으로 구성된다. 이러한 RFID 기술은 반도체 기술의 지속적인 발전에 의한 컴퓨팅 능력의 급성장과 통신망 인프라의 융합화를 기반으로 이제까지의 사람 중심(anyone) 정보화에서 사물을 중심(anything)으로 정보화의 지평을 확대시킬 수 있는 핵심기술로서 부각되고 있으며, 10m 이내의 사물 정보화를 위한 u-센서(유비쿼터스 센서) 네트워크로 발전될 전망이다. 또한 현재 완료단계인 ISO/IEC 국제 표준제정이 완성되면 초기의 물류$\cdot$유통 분야에서 전 산업분야로 확대되어 사용될 것이다.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.21-31
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• 2004

RFID 시스템은 물품 등 관리할 사물에 태그를 부착하고 전파를 이용하여 사물의 정보(Identification) 및 주변 환경정보를 인식하여 각 사물의 정보를 수집, 저장, 가공 및 추적함으로써 사물에 대한 측위, 원격처리ㆍ관리 및 사물간 정보교환 등 다양한 서비스를 제공하며, 칩, 태그, 리더, 미들웨어 및 응용 서비스 플랫폼으로 구성된다. 이러한 RFID 기술은 반도체 기술의 지속적인 발전에 의한 컴퓨팅 능력의 급성장과 통신망 인프라의 융합화를 기반으로 이제까지의 사람 중심(anyone) 정보화에서 사물을 중심(anything)으로 정보화의 지평을 확대시킬 수 있는 핵심기술로서 부각되고 있으며, 10 m 이내의 사물 정보화를 위한 u-센서(유비쿼터스 센서) 네트워크로 발전될 전망이다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.10
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• pp.1319-1324
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• 2020

A smart tag complements various problems caused by the expansion of the use of existing magnet cards. This emerged as a result of the need for alternative means to perform safer and more diverse functions. RFID tags are becoming increasingly ubiquitous sensor networks and Internet of Things technologies as they give everything an ID, enabling automatic recognition of objects and forming a communication network between them. In this paper, a contactless RFID smart tag reader composed of RFID tags and readers using AVR processor was developed. The system has a low frequency band of 13.56MHz and is designed by PWM method of communication velocity 26.48kbps. The developed RFID smart tag board showed a faster response rate than the typical RFID system as a result of the simulation, and the actual experiment also showed an improvement in response rate.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.421-424
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• 2012

본 논문은 실내 공간에서 RFID와 센서를 이용하여 이동로봇이 자기 위치를 파악하고 목표물체를 인식할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. RFID를 지면과 목표물체에 설치하고 로봇은 리더기와 다양한 센서를 갖춤으로써 이동시 자기 위치를 파악하고 물체로부터도 고유정보를 얻을 수 있게 구성하였다. 초음파 센서 신호의 귀환시간을 활용하여 전방 물체의 거리를 추출하며 바닥의 RFID로부터 이미 획득한 자기 위치를 활용하여 물체의 절대 위치를 구한다. 이는 로봇을 중심으로한 경로지도를 실시간으로 작성하는 것이 가능하며, 실내의 구조 및 목표 물체의 위치등을 포함한 전체적인 지도를 작성할 수 있다. 최종적으로는 최적의 경로계획을 세워 로봇이 목표 위치로 이동하거나 자율적 탐색이 가능하도록 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.249-252
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• 2011

본 논문은 실내 공간에서 RFID와 센서를 이용하여 이동로봇이 자기 위치를 파악하고 목표 물체를 인식할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. RFID를 지면과 목표물체에 설치하고 로봇은 리더기와 다양한 센서를 갖춤으로써 이동시 자기 위치를 파악하고 물체로부터도 고유정보를 얻을 수 있게 구성하였다. 초음파 센서 신호의 귀환시간을 활용하여 전방 물체의 거리를 추출하며 바닥의 RFID로부터 이미 획득한 자기 위치를 활용하여 물체의 절대 위치를 구한다. 이는 로봇을 중심으로한 경로지도를 실시간으로 작성하는 것이 가능하며, 실내의 구조 및 목표 물체의 위치등을 포함한 전체적인 지도를 작성할 수 있다. 최종적으로는 최적의 경로 계획을 세워 로봇이 목표 위치로 이동하거나 자율적 탐색이 가능하도록 한다.