• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.773-777
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• 2006

센서 네트워크 상의 센서 노드들은 싱크 노드의 ADV 메시지를 통한 질의에 해당하는 정보를 싱크 노드에게로 전송하며 싱크 노드는 수신한 정보를 사용자에게 제공한다. 그러나, 센서 네트워크을 위한 각종 라우팅 알고리즘들은 싱크 노드가 요청하는 해당 질의에 맞는 정보를 가지고 있는 센서 노드의 위치를 알기 위하여 매번 전체 네트워크로 ADV 메시지를 퍼뜨리는 방법을 사용하기 때문에 전체 네트워크의 수명과 직접적인 관련성이 있는 센서 노드들의 에너지 소비량을 극심하게 증가시킨다. 본 논문에서는 싱크 노드의 질의에 해당하는 목적지 노드를 찾기 위한 초기 경로 설정 시, 방향성 정보를 가진 ADV 메시지를 제한된 방향으로만 전파함으로써 관련없는 노드들의 메시지 송수신으로 인한 불필요한 에너지 소비를 줄이도록 하는 새로운 메시징 기법을 제안하고 이의 효율성을 모의실험을 통하여 나타내 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1031-1034
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• 2008

최근 원하는 정보를 수집하기 위한 무선 센서 네트워크(WSN) 사용이 증가하고 있으며, 이때 여러개의 작은 센서들이 배터리의 용량에 한정되어 있기 때문에 가장 우선적으로 고려해야 할 부분은 에너지 효율성이다. Directed Diffusion(DD)은 데이터 중심 기반 라우팅 알고리즘으로 싱크는 모든 센서 노드에게 인터레스트(Interest)를 전송(Flooding)하면 Interest를 받은 노드들은 경사(Gradient)를 만들어서 그 경로들 중 최적화 경로를 강화(Reinforce)한다. 이 경로는 센서 네트워크 전체적으로 볼 때는 에너지를 최소화 하지만, 매 Flooding시 에너지 고갈과 시간 낭비의 문제점이 나타난다. 본 논문에서는 DD의 문제점을 개선하여 싱크가 Interest를 Flooding할 때 마다 여러 번의 Flooding으로 노드의 에너지 고갈과 시간 낭비가 심각해지는 것을 방지하기 위해 중간노드가 Interest를 기억하도록 Middle-Interest Node(MIN)를 두어 데이터를 전달하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 본 기법의 성능은 DD와 제안기법인 MIN에 대한 수학적 분석에 기반 하여 측정하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.2340-2349
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• 2009

In this paper we proposed a hopping routing scheme to resolve the hot spot problem for periodic monitoring services in wireless sensor networks. Our hopping routing scheme constructs load balanced routing path, where an amount of energy consumption of all nodes in the sensor networks is predictable. Load balanced routing paths can be obtained from horizontal hopping transmission scheme which balances the load of the sensor nodes in the same area, and also from vertical hopping transmission scheme which balances the load of the sensor nodes in the other area. The direct transmission count numbers as load balancing parameter for vertical hopping transmission are derived using the energy consumption model of the sensor nodes. The experimental results show that the proposed hopping scheme resolves the hot spot problem effectively. The efficiency of hopping routing scheme is also shown by comparison with other routing scheme such as multi-hop, direct transmission and clustering.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10B
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• pp.1043-1049
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• 2009

Broadcast of sink node is used for network management, data collection by query and synchronization in wireless sensor networks. Simple flooding scheme induces the broadcast storm problem. The MPR based broadcast schemes reduce redundant retransmission of broadcast packets. MPR is a set of one hop neighbor nodes which have to relay broadcast message to cover all two hop neighbors. Though MPR can reduce redundant retransmission remarkably, it still suffers from energy waste problem caused by collision and duplicate packets reception. This paper proposes a new MPR based sink broadcast scheme using 3-channel. The proposed scheme reduces energy consumption by avoiding duplicate packet reception, while increases reliability by reducing collision probability remarkably. The results of analysis and simulation show that the proposed scheme is more efficient in energy consumption compared to the MPR based scheme. The result also shows that the proposed scheme reduces delivery latency by evading a contention with other relay nodes and improves reliability of broadcast message delivery by reducing collision probability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.578-585
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• 2011

Nowadays, wireless local area networks are widely deployed so that stations can potentially associate with an access point. The AP selection strategy is one of the significant research areas for wireless local area networks. The selection strategy solves the relevant problem is which AP can be selected and associated with a station so that the efficient resource utilization can be obtained. Rather than merely choosing the AP with the strongest received signal strength, however, we calculate effective throughput for each neighboring AP and use it as a basis for AP selection. Referencing the throughput is better than referencing the signal strength only because the network may contain a severe load imbalance. We have performed computer simulations using OPNET modeler in order to verify the performance of the proposed scheme. The results show us that the proposed selection method outperforms that of the conventional one in terms of throughput and delay.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.953-956
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• 2009

무선 센서 네트워크에서 이동하는 표적의 위치를 추정하기 위한 연구는 센서 노드의 에너지가 제한 되어 있어 센서 노드 상호간의 협력적인 신호처리 기법이 필수적이다. 기존의 무선 센서 네트워크에서 이동 표적의 위치를 추정하는 방법은 각 센서 노드에서 이동 표적으로부터 수신된 신호를 이용해 수신신호강도, 잡음제거, 압축 등의 신호처리를 수행하고 기지국으로 전송하는 형태이다. 이런 기존의 기법은 애드 호크 방법의 무선 센서 네트워크에는 적용이 어렵고, 각 센서 노드에서 신호처리 및 통신에 의한 에너지 소모가 크기 때문에 무선 센서 네트워크의 생존 시간이 짧아지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 기반의 무선 센서 네트워크의 협력적 신호 처리 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 웨이블릿 변환을 이용한 센서노드에서의 에너지 효율적 특징추출을 수행하고 각 센서 노드간의 특징 전송을 통해 표적의 위치를 추정한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8B
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• pp.712-721
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an Enhanced cross-layer Geographic Forwarding (EGF) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). EGF uses an optimal back-off time to make the packet forwarding decisions using only source and destination's location information and energy cost without information about neighbor nodes' location or the number of one hop neighbor nodes. EGF is also a cross-layer protocol by combining efficient asynchronous MAC and geographic routing protocol. The proposed protocol can find optimal next hop location quickly without broadcasting node's location update and with minimizing overhead. In our performance evaluation, EGF has better performance in terms of packet success ratio, energy efficiency and end-to-end delay in wireless sensor networks.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1297-1308
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• 2009

The life time of a wireless sensor network composed of numerous sensor nodes depend on ones of its sensor nodes. The energy efficiency operation of nodes, therefore, is one of the crucial factors to design the network. Researches based on the hierarchical network topology have been proposed and evolved in terms of energy efficiency. However, in existing researches, application layer data obtained from sensor nodes are not considered properly to compose cluster, including issue that nodes communicate with their cluster heads in TDMA scheduling. In this paper, we suggest an energy-efficient topology control scheme based on application layer data in wireless sensor networks. By using application layer data, sensor nodes form a section which is defined as the area of adjacent nodes that retain similar characteristics of application environments. These sections are further organized into clusters. We suggest an algorithm for selecting a cluster head as well as a way of scheduling to reduce the number of unnecessary transmissions from each node to its cluster head, which based on the degree and the duration of similarity between the node's data and its head's data in each cluster without seriously damaging the integrity of application data. The results show that the suggested scheme can save the energy of nodes and increase the life time of the entire network.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.5
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• pp.629-636
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• 2009

Since all sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks work by their own embedded batteries, if a node runs out of its battery, the sensor network can not operate normally. In this situation we should employ the routing protocols which can consume the energy of nodes efficiently. Many protocols for energy efficient routing in sensor networks have been suggested but LEACH and PEGASIS are most well known protocols. However LEACH consumes energy heavily in the head nodes and the head nodes tend to die early and PEGASIS - which is known as a better energy efficient protocol - has a long transfer time from a source node to sink node and the nodes close to the sink node expend energy sharply since it makes a long hop of data forwarding. We proposed a new hybrid protocol of LEACH and PEGASIS, which uses the clustering mechanism of LEACH and the chaining mechanism of PEGASIS and it makes the life time of sensor networks longer than other protocols and we improved the performance 33% and 18% higher than LEACH-C and PEGASIS respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2017

Recently, the active research into wireless sensor networks has led to the development of sensor nodes with improved performance, including their mobility and location awareness. One of the most important goals of such sensor networks is to transmit the data generated by mobile sensors nodes. Since these sensor nodes move in the mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs), the energy consumption required for them to transmit the sensed data to the fixed sink is increased. In order to solve this problem, the use of mobile sinks to collect the data while moving inside the network is studied herein. The important issues are the mobility and energy consumption in MWSNs. Because of the sensor nodes' limited energy, their energy consumption for data transmission affects the lifetime of the network. In this paper, a mobile-sink based energy-efficient clustering scheme is proposed for use in mobile wireless sensor networks (MECMs). The proposed scheme improves the energy efficiency when selecting a new cluster head according to the mobility of the mobile sensor nodes. In order to take into consideration the mobility problem, this method divides the entire network into several cluster groups based on mobile sinks, thereby decreasing the overall energy consumption. Through both analysis and simulation, it was shown that the proposed MECM is better than previous clustering methods in mobile sensor networks from the viewpoint of the network energy efficiency.