• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.194-196
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• 2011

일반적으로 센서 네트워크에서는 라우팅 트리를 구축한 후에 시간 동기화 작업을 따로 진행하였다. 그 때문에 패킷교환의 횟수가 늘어나고 전력의 소모를 유발한다. 본 논문에서는 라우팅 트리 구축과정에서 교환하는 정방향과 역방향의 패킷에 LTS(Lightweight Time Synchronization) 알고리즘 연산에 필요한 시간정보를 추가하여 플러딩 라우팅 트리 구축 알고리즘과 시간 동기화 과정을 결합한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 일정한 라운드 시간을 사용하여 클럭 휨으로 인한 시간 오류를 보정하였다. 제안하는 알고리즘이 TPSN(Timing-sync Protocol for Sensor Networks) 방식보다 적은 에너지를 사용하고 센서 노드들 간의 시간을 더욱 정교하게 동기화한다는 것을 NS2 시뮬레이터를 통해서 증명하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.177-178
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• 2009

일반적으로 센서 네트워크는 라우팅 트리를 구축한 후에 시간 동기화를 수행한다. 이로 인하여 시간 동기화가 늦어지고 교환하는 패킷이 증가하여 에너지를 많이 소모하는 문제를 유발한다. 본 논문에서는 한 번의 플러딩 과정으로 라우팅 트리를 구축하고 시간 동기화를 이와 동시에 수행하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션에 의하여 제안하는 알고리즘은 기존의 동기화 알고리즘인 TPSN과 동등한 수준의 정확도를 보이면서 동기화 속도 및 에너지 소모 면에서 우수하다는 것을 입증하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.127-134
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• 2016

WBSN (Wireless Body Sensor Network), also called WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks) generally, is a kind of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) applications, which is composed of the various sensor nodes residing in human body embodied or in wearable way. The measured data at each sensor node in WBSN requires being synchronized at sink node for exact analysis for status of human body, which is like WSN. Although many time synchronization protocols for WSN has been already developed, they are not appropriate to WBSN. In this paper, a new time synchronization protocol for WBSN considering the characteristics of WBSN is proposed. The proposed scheme is not only simple, but also consumes less power, leading to increasing network life time. We will show that the proposed scheme is appropriate to WBSN by evaluating its performance by simulation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.5B
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• pp.762-770
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• 2010

The researches about energy efficieny of wireless sensor MAC protocol is an issue in present days. Therefore, MAC and routing protocols for reducing energy consumption at sensor nodes is needed. In this study, a low-power MAC protocol for sensor network is proposed, which in based on X-MAC by exploiting virtual synchronization. The virtual synchronization technique lets senders postpone packet transmission until receivers' wake-up time, so that senders transmit only one or two short preambles. Using NS-2, a proposed MAC protocol improve the energy efficiency by 10% compared with the X-MAC protocol.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1011-1016
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• 2018

Ubiquitous services for the convenience and safety of human beings along with the development of society are being realized through RFID technology and sensor network, and its application range of fields is also broaden. However, since the USN contains all the information of individuals and things, all of its private spaces can be attacked by external attacks; so, that the problem of security continues to arise. We designed a one-way chaotic feedback synchronization method as a secure communication method to fit the USN composed of one sync node and n number of sensor nodes. We designed the method by which the sensor node is synchronized in one direction of the sync node. This method solves the problem that all sensor nodes need to be resynchronized when the sync node is changed, which is shown in bidirectional synchronization. This is a security method that can be effectively applied to 1:n communication such as USN.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.98-106
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• 2013

The duty-cycle synchronization among mobile sensor nodes with energy-harvesting is very important. The nodes should keep their duty-cycle same to others as much as possible because they have to cooperate each other and to consume energy efficiently. The distribution of node position in network affects not only node connectivity but also the active time of synchronized nodes, and it relates to network life-time finally. In this paper, we introduce a network topology change algorithm (TCA) for energy-harvesting mobile sensor networks based on self-synchronized duty-cycling. The algorithm tries to change a network topology into a balanced topology where the mobile sensor nodes are unified according to the density of the number of nodes. For TCA, both fluid flow algorithm and flock dispersion algorithm are proposed and they are evaluated through the simulation in agent based modeling language. TCA is applied to the energy-harvesting mobile sensor networks to improve the synchronization of duty-cycle and to reduce the variation of energy consumption among nodes.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.18C no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2011

Usually time synchronization is performed after routing tree is constructed. This thesis proposes a time synchronization algorithm combined with single-flooding routing tree construction algorithm in a single path. TSRA (Time Synchronization Routing Algorithm) uses routing packets to construct a routing tree. Two types of time information are added to the routing packet: one is the packet receiving time, and the other is the packet sending time. Time offset and transmission time-delay between parent node and child node could be retrieved from the added time information using LTS (Lightweight Time Synchronization) algorithm. Then parent node sends the time offset and transmission time to children nodes and children nodes can synchronize their time to the parent node time along the routing tree. The performance of proposed algorithm is compared to the TPSN (Timing-sync Protocol for Sensor Networks) which is known to have high accuracy using NS2 simulation tool. The simulation result shows that the accuracy of time synchronization is comparable to TPSN, the synchronization time of all sensor nodes is faster than TPSN, and the energy consumption is less than TPSN.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.86-94
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• 2012

Synchronization MAC Protocol such as S-MAC and T-MAC utilize duty cycling technique which peroidically operate wake-up and sleep state for reducing energy consumption. But synchronization MAC showed low energy efficiency because of additional control packets. For better energy consumption, Asychronization MAC protocols are suggested. For example, B-MAC, and X-MAC protocol adopt Low Power Listening (LPL) technique with CSMA algorithm. All nodes in these protocols joining a network with independent duty cycle schedules without additional synchronization control packets. For this reason, asynchronous MAC protocol improve energy efficiency. In this study, a low-power MAC protocol which is based on X-MAC protocol for wireless sensor network is proposed for better energy efficiency. For this protocol, we suggest preamble numbering, and virtual-synchronization technique between sender and receive node. Using TelosB mote for evaluate energy efficiency.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1137-1140
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• 2005

유비쿼터스 미디어 공간에서의 상황인지 정보와 사용자 미디어 프로파일에 기반한 미디어 서비스를 위한 디바이스간 연동에 필요한 Sync. Agent 는 사용자 정보, 기호 정보등 디바이스간에 필요한 정보를 사용자의 개입 없이 자동으로 전송 및 수신되어 통신 환경이 이루어질 수 있도록 하는 센서 네트워크 기반의 양방향 소형 통신 모듈을 의미한다. Sync. Agent 프로토콜을 통해 유비쿼터스 미디어 단말과 미디어 서버간 상황인지 정보 융합형 미디어 프로파일 연동을 수행하고, 미디어 단말의 미디어 관련 정보를 미디어 서버에 전송하는 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 미디어 서비스를 위해 단말 간 자동생성 미디어 정보를 동기화 역할을 수행하는 저전력 무선 Ad-hoc 센서 네트워크 연동 양방향 동기화 프로토콜 설계 및 구현에 관해 논한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.199-208
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• 2008

Lately, since Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor(CMOS) image sensor system has low power, low cost and been miniaturized, hardware and applied software studies using these strengths are being carrying on actively. However, the products equipped with CMOS image sensor based polling method yet has several problems in degree of completeness of applied software and firmware, compared with hardware’s. CMOS image sensor system has an ineffective synchronous problem due to superfluous message exchange. Also when a sending of data is delayed continually, overhead of re-sending is large. So because of these, it has a problem in structural stability according to Polling Method. In this study, polling cycle was subdivided in high-speed synchronization method of firmware -based through MCU and synchronization method of Stepwise was proposed. Also, re-connection and data sending were advanced more efficiently by using interrupt way. In conclusion, the proposed method showed more than 20 times better performance in synchronization time and error connection. Also, a board was created by using C328R board of CMOS image sensor-based and ATmega128L which has low power, MCU and camera modules of proposed firmware were compared with provided software and analyzed in synchronization time and error connection.