• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.2B
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• pp.133-142
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• 2007

WPANs are formed in relatively small area and a PNC that serves as a central control device plays an important role in the operation and organization of a piconet. Typical applications of WPANs are security system and health monitoring system. In these type of systems, guaranteeing realtime service is very important, and communications cannot take place when the PNC malfunctions. Thus, in this situation, it is necessary to elect a new PNC as soon as possible. For this reason, we propose distributed PNC election scheme that considers not only QoS support but also network connectivity to avoid possible network partition. Simulation results show proposed mechanism can select PNC with guaranteeing QoS and connectivity for a limited period.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.1
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• pp.135-140
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• 2004

WLAH and WPAN technique are proposed as a home networking protocol in order to solve the problem of wireless communications and the bandwith extension. but, it is difficult to embed those technique to the home appliance devices because of economical efficiency and difficulty of standardization like a Bluetooth technique. In this paper, we suggEest a low-speed wireless protocol for wireless MODEM to control multiple devices. And we assure that this protocol not only maintain a accuracy and a characteristic of control information, but it is also suitable to a processor having low-processing ability and a processor embedded In the home appliance device through implementation of robot system and stable performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.179-183
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• 2006

현재 WPAN(Wireless Personal Area Network) 전송기술의 하나인 IEEE 802.15.4a의 저속형 UWB(Ultra Wide Band) 기술이 활발하게 연구되어지고 있다. 하지만 IEEE 802.15.4a에서 제시된 WPAN 전송채널의 경우에는 심각한 멀티패스 간섭성분이 존재하여 이에 대한 해결방안이 절실히 요구되어지고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는, WPAN환경에서 전송채널의 심각한 멀티패스 성분을 물리계층(Physical layer) 레벨에서 근원적으로 해결하여 높은 QoS(Quality of Service)를 확보하게 해줄 수 있는 단극형 ZCD(are Correlation Duration)확산코드 기반의 Chaotic-OOK (On-Off Keying) 무선통신기술을 제안하고 IEEE 802.15.4a 채널 환경하에서의 모의실험을 통한 성능평가를 통해 제안한 무선통신기술의 유용성을 입증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.11A
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• pp.1027-1034
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• 2005

IEEE802.15.4a, which is started to realize the PHY layer including high precision ranging/positioning and low data rate communication functions, requires a simple and low power consumable transceiver architecture. To satisfy this requirements, the simple noncoherent on-off keying (OOK) UWB transceiver with the parallel energy window banks (PEWB) giving high precision signal processing interface is proposed. The flexibility of the proposed system in multipath fading channel environments is acquired with the pulse and bit repetition method. To analyze the bit error rate (BER) performance of this proposed system, a noise model in receiver is derived with commonly used random variable distribution, chi-square. BER of $10^{-5}$ under the line-of-sight (LOS) residential channel is achieved with the integration time of 32 ns and signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 15.3 dB. For the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) outdoor channel, the integration time of 72 ns and SNR of 16.2 dB are needed. The integrated energy to total received energy (IRR) for the best BER performance is about $86\%$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.11
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

In this paper, we proposed channel estimation scheme for LR-UWB system which has low data rate for WPAN in IEEE 802.15.4a. At the transmitter, we proposed dynamic power level allocation depends on channel condition in specific period when we modulate signal. We use two orthogonal code to estimate channel at once. It can estimate channel more accurately by using two code which shows good correlation characteristic then it can estimate more accurately by spreading gain. Using estimated channel condition, we synchronize symbol timing of transmitted signal. Then determined power allocation scheme and channel information is transmitted to transmiter side. Finally, using these information, transmiter side change the power level of repeated pulse to adopt to channel condition. Simulation is performed under S-V channel for LR-WPAN in IEEE 802.15.4a and we compare the performance with a different type of receiver type. We use coherent and non-coherent method at the receiver. Simulation result shows us at the NLOS channal performance evaluation is greater than that of LOS channel and the result is independent of receiver type. In the NLOS channel, as the signal delay spreading is big, performance evaluation is also increased.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1B
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• pp.95-105
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• 2010

IEEE 802.15.4 is the one of the protocols for radio communication in a personal area network. Since it aims to provide low cost and low power communication for ubiquitous communication, it requires high level of optimization in implementation. Recently, there have been many studies on the performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol. According to the results of the studies, it is tendency that the transceiver is implemented to SoC type. On the implementation, the specific functions of MAC like CSMA-CA and MAC frame handling is designed to hardwired functions. In this paper, we implemented the protocol with hardwired low MAC (HL-MAC) and its state machine for the optimization from the physical layer and MAC layer. it has the characteristics of the small code size and the enhanced power consumption.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2014

IEEE 802.15.4 is one of the most widely adopted physical layer standards in the area of LR-WPAN(Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network). Numerous previous researches have contributed to deep insights on energy efficiency, transmission throughput, and reliability that IEEE 802.15.4 delivers to the LR-WPAN. As a research that is orthogonal and complementary to previous researches, we explore the implementation and practical performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC software. We implement the MAC software from the perspective of the networking stack, exploring the issues raised when the MAC software serves as a functional component in a complete networking stack consisting of MAC, network as well as well as application support layers. The performance is evaluated on a realistic experimental software environment integrated with operating system, networking stack, and applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.5C
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• pp.519-533
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• 2006

The number of channels specified in IEEE 802.15.4 Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks(LRWPANs) is too few to operate many applications of WPANs in the same area. To overcome this limit, we introduce Virtual Channel, a novel concept to increase the number of available channels when various WPAN applications coexist. Basically, a virtual channel is a newly-created channel via superframe scheduling within the inactive period of a logical channel preoccupied by other WPANs. To maximize the coexistence capability of WPANs using virtual channels, we propose Least Collision superframe scheduler(LC-scheduler), its less complex heuristics both for a given single channel, and Virtual Channel Selector(VCS) to efficiently manage multiple available logical channels. In addition, a simple but practical synchronization method is developed to compensate different time drifts among coexisting WPANs. The simulation results demonstrate that a remarkable improvement on the coexistence capability of the 802.15.4 can be achieved through the proposed schemes.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.9A
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• pp.837-843
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• 2006

IEEE802.15.3 and IEEE802.15.4 have defined the hybrid MAC protocols based on TDMA and CSMA where a multi-frame TDMA structure is employed so that multiple data frames can be transmitted within one timeslot to guarantee minimum delay bounds of isochroous traffic. However, TDMA has an intrinsic problem that cannot dynamically allocate optimal length of timeslot to each station. Therefore the idle timeslot can be produced by stations when each transmission queue is instantaneously empty during its timeslot, which would waste lots of timeslots especially in the multi-frame TDMA systems. In this paper, we propose a more flexible multiple-access scheme for the multi-frame TDMA system based on the concept of virtual slot which is accessible by every station with the highest priority for slot owner and lower priority for other stations. Finally, our simulation results from various environments show that proposed scheme can achieve magnitude improvement of total system throughput and average message delay by maximizing channel utilization.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.148-158
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• 2007

Recently, IEEE 802.15.4a(low-rate UWB) technique has been paid much attention to the LR-UWB communication system for WPAN. However, there are various interferences such as MPI(Multi Path Interference) or IPI(Inter Piconet Interference) in IEEE 802.15.4a wireless channel. In order to cancel various interferences occurred to WPAN environment, in this paper, we propose a UWB wireless communication system with high QoS(Quality of Service) which is a chaotic-OOK(On-Off Keying) system using unipolar ZCD(Zero Correlation Duration) spreading code in physical layer level. Furthermore, we analyze its performance via simulations and verify the availability of proposed system with prototype implementation.