• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.881-884
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• 2008

수중 음향 센서 네트워크는 무선 센서 네트워크의 한 분야로서 활발하게 연구되고 있다. 하지만 무선 센서 네트워크에서의 지상이라는 환경은 수중 음향 센서 네트워크에서의 수중이라는 환경과 많은 차이가 있다. 예를 들어 수중에서는 지상에서 보다 더 많은 통신 에너지를 필요로 하며 현재 단일채널 밖에 사용할 수 없다. 그러므로 수중 음향 센서 네트워크에서 무선 센서 네트워크의 메커니즘을 그대로 사용하기에는 적합하지 않다. 본 논문에서는 수중 음향 센서 네트워크에서의 에너지 효율적 클러스터링 메커니즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 클러스터링 메커니즘은 단일채널의 수중환경을 대상으로 클러스터 내 통신에서 발생하는 충돌문제를 최소화하여 에너지 효율을 증가시키기 위해 하향식방법을 이용하여 클러스터 헤드 노드를 선정하고 선정된 클러스터 헤드 노드를 중심으로 클러스터 범위를 결정하는 방법을 제시한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.8
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• pp.71-81
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 수중 통신을 위한 매체 접속 제어(Medium Access Control: MAC) 프로토콜에 대한 연구 동향을 소개한다. 먼저 수중 음향 센서 네트워크(Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network: UWASN)와 수중 음향 채널의 특성을 소개하고 이로 인한 수중 MAC 프로토콜 설계 시 고려 사항에 대해 정리한다. 본 논문에서는 수중 MAC 프로토콜을 크게 비경쟁(contention-free) 기반과 경쟁 기반(contention-based) 프로토콜로 나누어 각각의 대표적인 프로토콜들에 대한 핵심 동작 원리에 대해 설명한다. 마지막으로 MAC 프로토콜을 실제 해양 환경에 구현하기 위한 고려 사항에 대해 정리한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.341-350
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• 2014

In this paper, an energy efficient clustering scheme using self organization method is proposed. The proposed scheme selects a cluster head considering not only the number of neighbor nodes but also the residual battery amount. In addition, the network life time is extended by re-selecting the cluster heads only in case the current cluster head's residual energy falls down below a certain threshold level. Accordingly, the energy consumption is evenly distributed over the entire network nodes. The cluster head delivers the collected data from member nodes to a Sink node in a way of multi-hop relaying. In order to evaluate the proposed scheme, we run computer simulation in terms of the total residual amount of battery, the number of alive nodes after a certain amount of time, the accumulated energy cost for network configuration, and the deviation of energy consumption of all nodes, comparing with LEACH which is one of the most popular network clustering schemes. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme has twice network life-time of LEACH scheme and has much more evenly distributed energy consumption over the entire network.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.12
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• pp.1328-1336
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• 2012

Compared to terrestrial RF communications, underwater acoustic communications have several limitations such as limited bandwidth, high level of fading effects, and a large underwater propagation delay. In this paper, in order to tackle those limitations of underwater communications and to make it possible to form a large underwater monitoring systems, we propose a hierarchical underwater network architecture, which consists of underwater sensors, clusterheads, underwater/surface sink nodes, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). In the proposed architecture, for the maximization of packet delivery ratio and the minimization of underwater sensor's energy consumption, a hybrid routing protocol is used. More specifically, cluster members use Tree based routing to transmit sensing data to clusterheads. AUVs on optimal trajectory movements collect the aggregated data from clusterhead and finally forward the data to the sink node. Also, in order to minimize the maximum travel distance of AUVs, an Integer Linear Programming based algorithm is employed. Performance analysis through simulations shows that the proposed architecture can achieve a higher data delivery ratio and lower energy consumption than existing routing schemes such as gradient based routing and geographical forwarding. Start after striking space key 2 times.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.97-103
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• 2008

T-Lohi, a MAC protocol for underwater acoustic sensor networks, has been designed to support dense networks consisting of short-range acoustic modems. However when T-Lohi is applied to large networks in which multi-hop routing is necessary, it suffers a lot of packet collisions due to the hidden terminal problem. To combat this problem, we propose a new MAC protocol which employs RTS/CTS handshaking. To our knowledge, this protocol is the first to adopt both a tone-based approach and RTS/CTS handshaking for dense underwater acoustic sensor networks. Simulation results show that this new protocol drastically reduces packet collisions while achieving good network utilization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.4
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• pp.351-361
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• 2014

Compared to a terrestrial communication, the high BER(Bit Error Ratio) and low channel bandwidth are the major factor of throughput degradation due to characteristics of underwater channel. Therefore, a MAC protocol must be designed to solve this problem in UWASNs(Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks). MAC protocols for UWASNs can be classified into two major types according to the contention scheme(Contention-free scheme and Contention-based scheme). In large scale of sensor networks, a Contention-based scheme is commonly used due to time-synchronize problem of Contention-free scheme. In the contention-based scheme, Each node contends with neighbor nodes to access network channel by using Back-off algorithm. But a Slot-Time of Back-off algorithm has long delay times which are cause of decrease network throughput. In this paper, we propose a new scheme to solve this problem. The proposed scheme uses variable Slot-Time instead of fixed Slot-Time. Each node measures propagation delay from neighbors which are used by Slot-time. Therefore, Slot-Times of each node are optimized by considering node deployment. Consequently, the wasted-time for Back-off is reduced and network throughput is improved. A new mac protocol performance in throughput and delay is assessed through NS3 and compared with existing MAC protocol(MACA-U). Finally, it was proved that the MAC protocol using the proposed scheme has better performance than existing MAC protocol as a result of comparison.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.12
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• pp.32-40
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• 2015

Code division multiple access (CDMA) is one of the promising medium access control scheme for underwater acoustic sensor networks due to its beneficial features such as robustness against frequency-selective fading and high frequency-reuse efficiency. In this paper, we design a closed-loop power control scheme for the underwater CDMA, to adapt time-varying acoustic channel. In the proposed scheme, sink node sends to sensor nodes the associated path loss which is acquired by uplink-channel analysis based on received packets from the sensor nodes. Then, sensor nodes adjust their transmission power in an adaptive manner to time-varying underwater acoustic channel, according to the informations sent by the sink node.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.379-380
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• 2012

수중 음향 센서 네트워크(Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network, UW-ASN) 환경에서 센서노드간 데이터를 안전하게 전송하기 위해 우선적으로 암호화 알고리즘을 사용하지만, 암호화 알고리즘만으로는 충분한 안전성을 제공하지 못한다. 암호화 알고리즘은 기밀성을 제공하지만 무결성은 제공하지 못하기 때문이다. 그렇기 때문에 수중 통신 환경에서도 암호화 기술 이외에, 전송된 데이터가 변경되지 않고 안전하게 전송되었다는 무결성을 보장할 수 있는 암호화 기술이 적용되어야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 무결성 보장을 위한 메시지 인증 기술에 대한 연구를 진행하며, 수중 환경에 가장 적합한 메시지 인증코드(MAC)의 도출을 위한 분석 절차를 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.542-550
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• 2012

In this paper, an adaptive scheme for network topology configuration is proposed to save the overall energy consumption in underwater acoustic sensor network. The proposed scheme employs a self-organized networking methodology where network topology is locally optimized by exchanging the energy-related information between neighboring nodes such as the remaining energy of each node, in a way that the network life time can be augmented without any centralized control function. Computer simulation is used to evaluate the proposed scheme comparing with LEACH in terms of the number of alive nodes after a given time, the deviation of individual nodes' residual energy and the energy consumption at the initialization and coordination stages.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.211-217
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a bidirectional full duplex MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol for underwater acoustic networks. An underwater sensor node can set a back-off timer according to the priority of transmission. When the back-off timer expires, the underwater sensor node acquires a transmission opportunity. If a source node wants to send data to a destination node, it broadcasts RTS (Request-To-Send) including ID of the destination node to neighbor nodes. The destination node receiving RTS sends CTS (Clear-To-Send) to the source node to inform the bidirectional full duplex communication. After the source node receives CTS, the source node and the destination node can send the data to each other. In the underwater environment, the existing MAC protocol may take a lot of time for successful transmission of data due to long underwater propagation delay. On the other hand, the proposed bidirectional full duplex MAC protocol improves the throughput by shortening the time for successful transmission of data. In this paper, we analyze the throughput of the proposed bidirectional full duplex MAC protocol. In addition, we show that the proposed bidirectional full duplex MAC protocol has better performance in the presence of the long underwater propagation delay compared with existing MAC protocols for underwater environments.