• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.10
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• pp.29-39
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• 2008

Greedy routing which is easy to apply to geographic wireless sensor networks is frequently used. Greedy routing works well in dense networks whereas in sparse networks it may fail. When greedy routing fails, it needs a recovery algorithm to get out of the communication void. However, additional recovery algorithm causes problems that increase both the amount of packet transmission and energy consumption. Communication void is a condition where all neighbor nodes are further away from the destination than the node currently holding a packet and it therefore cannot forward a packet using greedy forwarding. Therefore we propose a VODUA(Virtually Ordered Distance Upgrade Algorithm) as a novel idea to improve and solve the problem of void. In VODUA, nodes exchange routing graphs that indicate information of connection among the nodes and if there exist a stuck node that cannot forward packets, it is terminated using Distance Cost(DC). In this study, we indicate that packets reach successfully their destination while avoiding void through upgrading of DC. We designed the VODUA algorithm to find valid routes through faster delivery and less energy consumption without requirement for an additional recovery algorithm. Moreover, by using VODUA, a network can be adapted rapidly to node's failure or topological change. This is because the algorithm utilizes information of single hop instead of topological information of entire network. Simulation results show that VODUA can deliver packets from source node to destination with shorter time and less hops than other pre-existing algorithms like GPSR and DUA.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.571-573
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• 2009

Mobile Ad-hoc Network(MANET) needs efficient node management because the wireless network has energy constraints. Mobility of MANET would require the topology change frequently compared with a static network. To improve the routing protocol in MANET, energy efficient routing protocol would be required as well as considering the mobility would be needed. Previously proposed a hybrid routing CACH prolong the network lifetime and decrease latency. However the algorithm has a problem when node density is increase. In this paper, we propose a new method that the CACHE(Context-aware Clustering Hierarchy and Energy efficient) algorithm. The proposed analysis could not only help in defining the optimum depth of hierarchy architecture CACH utilize, but also improve the problem about node density.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.131-137
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• 2007

Recently, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is emerged as a simple yet powerful optimization algorithm for routing and load-balancing of both wired and wireless networks. However, there are few researches trying to adopt ACO to enhance routing performance in WSN owing to difficulties in applying ACO to WSN because of stagnation effect. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient path selection algorithm based on ACO for WSN. The algorithm is not by simply applying ACO to routing algorithm but by introducing a mechanism to alleviate the influence of stagnation. By the simulation result, the proposed algorithm shows better performance in data propagation delay and energy efficiency over Directed Diffusion which is one of the outstanding schemes in multi-hop flat routing protocols for WSN. Moreover, we checked that the proposed algorithm is able to mitigate stagnation effect than simple ACO adoption to WSN.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.496-498
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• 2005

수많은 센서들로 이루어진 센서 네트워크에서는 노드의 제한된 에너지로 인해, 에너지 효율적 사용이 중요한 이슈이다. 따라서 에너지 효율적인 라우팅을 위하여 많은 알고리즘이 연구되고 있다. 이들 알고리즘들 중 클러스터링 기법은 센서 노드가 싱크와 직접 통신하는 방법이 아닌 클러스터 헤드로 선출된 노드와 통신하여 클러스터 헤드가 센싱된 정보를 모아 싱크에 보냄으로써 에너지 소비를 줄이게 된다. 이 기법은 클러스터 헤드 선정이 무엇보다도 중요한 이슈이다. 따라서 이 논문에서는 잔존 에너지의 양과 노드의 상대적 위치에 따라 클러스터 헤드를 선출함으로써 에너지 효율을 최적화 시킬 수 있는 기법을 제안한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.1
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• pp.81-88
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• 2010

Sensors in sensor networks are operated by their embedded batteries and they can not work any more if the batteries run out. The data collected by sensors should be transferred to a sink node through the efficient routes. Many energy efficient routing algorithms were proposed. However, the previous algorithms consume more energy since they did not consider the transmission range and direction. In this paper we propose an algorithm TDRP(Transmission range and Direction Routing Protocol) that considers the transmission range and direction for the efficient data transmission. Since TDRP does not produce clusters or grids but four quadrants and send data to the nodes in one quadrant in the direction of the sink node, it has less network overhead. Furthermore since the proposed algorithm sends data to the smaller number of nodes compared to the previous algorithms, the energy efficiency is better than other algorithms in communication node fields that are located in packet transmit directions.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.17-26
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a basic virtual grid-based routing algorithm in order to devise an efficient routing method in ad hoc networks using the location information of nodes, energy level, etc. A packet is forwarded to the X-axis direction at first based on the location information of a destination node, and then it is forwarded to the Y-axis direction as its location becomes close to the destination from the viewpoint of the X-axis. Due to the selection of next hop nodes to deliver a packet from a certain node to a destination node, we can regard the whole network as a virtual grid network. The proposed routing algorithm determines routing paths using the local information such as the location information of a destination and its neighbor nodes. Thus, the routing path setup is achieved locally, by which we can expect reduction in network traffics and routing delays to a destination. To evaluate the performance of the proposed routing algorithm, we used the network simulator ns2 and compared its network throughput with that of an existing routing algorithm.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.51-58
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• 2011

One of the objectives of research on routing methods in wireless sensor networks is maximizing the energy life of sensor nodes that have limited energy. In this study, we tried to even energy use in a wireless sensor network by giving a weight to the transition probability of ACS(Ant Colony System), which is commonly used to find the optimal path, based on the amount of energy in a sensor and the distance of the sensor from the sink. The proposed method showed improvement by 46.80% on the average in energy utility in comparison with representative routing method GPSR (Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing), and its residual energy after operation for a specific length of time was 6.7% more on the average than that in ACS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.442-444
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 대규모의 센서 네트워크(Large Scale Sensor Networks)에서 가상 싱크 로테이션(Virtual Sink Rotation) 이라 불리는 새로운 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안 한다. VSR은 많은 수의 소스(source) 와 많은 수의 이동성을 가지는 싱크(sink)를 효율적으로 지원한다. VSR의 주 아이디어는 두 가지로 나뉘는데, 첫 번째는 싱크 이동으로 인한 위치 업데이트를 줄일 수 있는 가상 싱크라는 개념으로 소스 의 데이터를 모으고 모아진 데이터를 싱크에 전달 하여 준다. 두 번째는 싱크 주변의 노드들의 급격한 에너지 소모로 인하여 VSR은 가상 싱크 로테이션 알고리즘을 사용한다. 가상 싱크 로테이션은 네트워크의 노드들이 에너지를 균일하게 소모 시키도록 하고, 네트워크 수명을 늘린다. VSR 라우팅 프로토콜 과 기존에 제안된 논문의 비교 실험 결과를 통하여 에너지 소모, 메시지 지연 시간, 전송 효율 등에서 좋은 성능을 가지는 것을 보여줄 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.526-529
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• 2007

무선센서네트워크 환경에서 활용될 수 잇는 대표적인 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜로는 Zigbee(지그비) 계층구조 라우팅과 IETF의 6LoWPAN WG에 드래프트로 제출되었던 HiLow 프로토콜 등이 있다. 이들 계층구조 라우팅 프로토콜은 깊이 우선(Depth-first) 방식과 폭 우선(Width-first) 방식을 각각 사용하여 자동 주소 할당을 수행한 후 이를 이용해 계층적 경로 배정이 되도록 한다. 이에 따라 망상의 노드들이 물리적으로 가까운 위치에 존재하더라도 경로는 계층적으로 제공되어 데이터 전달에 많은 흡 수가 소요된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 경로 배정 시 발생되는 비효율성을 개선하고 싱크(Sink) 주위 노드의 에너지 소모율을 줄일 수 있는 경로 배정 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.103-108
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• 2015

Maintaining efficient energy consumption and elongating network lifetime are the key issues in wireless sensor networks. Existing routing protocols usually select the cluster heads based on the proximity to the sensor nodes. In this case the cluster heads can be placed farther to the base station, than the distance between the sensor nodes and the base station, which yields inefficient energy consumption. In this work we propose a novel algorithm that select the nodes in a cluster and the cluster heads based on the locations of related nodes. We verify that the proposed algorithm gives better performance in terms of network life time than existing solutions.