• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.189-197
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• 2009

Top-k queries are important to many wireless sensor applications. Conventional Top-k query processing algorithms install a filter at each sensor node and suppress unnecessary sensor updates. However, they have some drawbacks that the sensor nodes consume energy extremely to probe sensor reading or update filters. Especially, it becomes worse, when the variation ratio of top-k result is higher. In this paper, we propose a novel Top-k query processing algorithm for energy-efficiency. First, each sensor determines its priority as the order of data gathering. Next, sensor nodes that have higher priority transmit their sensor readings to the base station until gathering k sensor readings. In order to show the superiority of our query processing algorithm, we simulate the performance with the existing query processing algorithms. As a result, our experimental results show that the network lifetime of our method is prolonged largely over the existing method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.8
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• pp.688-696
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• 2013

In wireless sensor networks, real-time applications have to ensure the timely delivery of real-time data. Recently, OMLRP (On-demand Multi-hop Look-ahead Routing Protocol) has been proposed to improve the timeliness of wireless sensor networks. The protocol needs initialization time to establish multi-hop information based routing path because it performs incremental look-ahead of the information. Consequently, the protocol deteriorates DDSR (Deadline Delivery Success Ratio) as an event moves because it takes little consideration of event mobility. In this paper, we proposed a Real-time Routing for Events Mobility (RREM) which exploits a data redirection in order to improve the DDSR of moving events. Instead of recollecting muti-hop look-ahead information, the RREM redirects the data to a sensor node holding the information collected in a previous round. We verify the timeliness and energy efficiency of RREM using various MatLab simulations.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.15 no.3 s.47
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• pp.181-187
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• 2006

This paper is proposed to a solar cell power system used in fire emergency equipment. Also it is designed with a high efficiency power converter in order to increase efficiency of power system. The controlling switches used in DC-DC booster chopper and DC-AC inverter are operated with soft switching, which is applied to resonant circuit method to reduce switching loss. The result is that the system gets to high efficiency. In this paper, A detection circuit of maximum power point of solar cell is described in this paper. And the performance evaluations for the photovoltaic power system of high efficiency are examined by the analysis of a new tracking controller with a maximum power $P_{max}$ detection of solar cell.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1273-1287
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• 2009

PEGASIS, a chain-based protocol, forms chains from sensor nodes so that each node transmits and receives from a neighbor. In this way, only one node (known as a HEAD) is selected from that chain to transmit to the sink. Although PEGASIS is able to balance the workload among all of the nodes by selecting the HEAD node in turn, a considerable amount of energy may be wasted when nodes which are far away from sink node act as the HEAD. In this study, DERP (Distance-based Energy-efficient Routing Protocol) is proposed to address this problem. DERP is a chain-based protocol that improves the greedy-algorithm in PEGASIS by taking into account the distance from the HEAD to the sink node. The main idea of DERP is to adopt a pre-HEAD (P-HD) to distribute the energy load evenly among sensor nodes. In addition, to scale DERP to a large network, it can be extended to a multi-hop clustering protocol by selecting a "relay node" according to the distance between the P-HD and SINK. Analysis and simulation studies of DERP show that it consumes up to 80% less energy, and has less of a transmission delay compared to PEGASIS.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1435-1440
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• 2014

Nodes in WSNs must operate under limited energy resource. Controlling access to the channel in WSNs plays a key role in determining channel utilization and energy consumption. This paper introduces a priority-based time slot allocation protocol for hybrid TDMA/CSMA MAC in WSNs. This protocol combines both TDMA and CSMA techniques while introducing prioritization by (m,k)-firm constraint. The performance of this protocol is obtained through simulations for various number of nodes and show significant improvements in delay and packet delivery ratio compared to S-MAC.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.105-113
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• 2008

While the wireless sensor network has a strong point which does not have effect on whole activities of network even though neighboring sensor nods fail activities of some sensor nod or make some functions disappear by the characteristic of similar information detection, it has problems which is slowing down of wireless medium, transfer character with severe error, limited power supply, the impossibility of change by optional arrangement of sensor nods etc. This paper proposes PRML techniques which performs the fittest course searching process to reduce power consumption of entire nods while guarantees the scalability of network organizing sensor nods hierarchically. The proposed technique can scatter the load of cluster head by considering the connectivity with surplus energy of nod and reduce the frequency of communication among the nods. As a result of the analysis in comparison with LEACH-C and HEED technique, PRML technique get efficiency of average 6.4% in energy consuming respect of cluster head, efficiency of average 8% in entire energy consuming respect, and more efficiency of average 7.5% in other energy consuming distribution of network scalability than LEACH-C and HEED technique.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.527-530
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 제한요소가 많은 임베디드 환경에서의 실시간 Motion-JPEG 전송을 초점으로 하고 있으며, 현재에 얻어진 이미지와 이전의 이미지를 비교하여 움직임이 있는 부분의 블록만을 전송하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안한 시스템에서는 처리시간과 처리 데이터 용량에서 이득을 얻기 위해 DCT 영역에서 두 영상을 블록 단위로 비교한다. 영상비교에 필요한 임계값 추출은 물체가 이미 지상에서 여러 픽셀과 블록에 연속적으로 존재하는 현상을 이용하여 계산된다. 비교 시 DCT 연산자체외 특징인 저주파로의 에너지 패킹현상을 이용하며 전체 DCT 계수들을 비교하지 않고 DC 성분을 포함한 일정 개수의 AC 성분만 사용한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.337-344
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• 2008

Underwater acoustic sensor networks exhibit characteristics such as high propagation delay and low data rates, which are different from those of terrestrial wireless networks. Therefore, the conventional protocols used in wireless networks can be restrictive and inefficient when applied to underwater acoustic sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a medium access control protocol (MAC) to enhance the energy efficiency and throughput in underwater acoustic sensor networks. The proposed protocol employs a slot-based competition mechanism that reserves a time slot to send a data packet in advance. In the proposed protocol, collision between nodes can occur due to competition to obtain a slot. However, the proposed protocol minimizes the collisions between nodes because the nodes store the reservation information of the neighboring nodes, this reduces unnecessary energy consumption and increases throughput. We perform a simulation to evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol with regard to the energy consumption, the number of collision, channel utilization, throughput and transmission delay. We compare the proposed protocol with the conventional protocol, and the performance results show that the proposed protocol outperforms the conventional protocol.

• 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 Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.789-790
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• 2009

본 논문은 인-네트워크 병합 질의를 처리하는 다중 기지국 센서 네트워크에서 데이터 변동률을 고려하지 않은 경우의 문제점을 분석한다 또한 데이터 변동률과 기지국과의 거리를 고려한 새로운 인-네트워크 병합 질의 처리 기법을 제안하였다. 성능 평가를 통해 제안하는 기법이 기존 기법 우수한 성능을 보인다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 기법이 불필요한 데이터 전송을 최대 32% 감소시켰다.