• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.99-107
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• 2008

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) based on low-power technologies become important portion of ubiquitous systems. In this paper, we introduce a WSN-based welfare management system as one of the WSN applications. Especially, we implement S-MAC (Sensor Medium Access control) protocol on our system that saves both cost and power consumption, and we evaluate system performances using the TOSSIM simulator. Sensors and a small database server are placed in the house of participant, which collects and stores some environment conditions of the house. The small servers are connected to each others by wireless ad-hoc network.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1189-1190
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• 2008

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have attracted much attention in recent years due to their potential use in many applications such as border protection and combat field surveillance. Given the criticality of such applications, maintaining a dependable operation of the network is a fundamental objective. However, the resource constrained nature of sensor nodes and the ad-hoc formation of the network, often coupled with an unattended deployment, pose non-conventional challenges and motivate the need for special techniques for dependable design and management of WSN. In this article, we highlight the potential of careful positioning of the base station (BS), which acts as a sink resources.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.72-78
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• 2011

Localization information of an object can be a very useful element for many application areas. Presently, GPS is typically used for it, but many researches on the wireless localization technology are going on recently actively using mobile communication network, wireless sensor network, and ad hoc network in order to overcome the limitations of the GPS such as indoor, cost, power consumption, and etc. Therefore, this article surveys the most representative wireless localization techniques, which can be deployed in the wireless networks, and their principles and performances are analyzed based on the researched papers. In a conclusion, selection of a localization technique should consider the key design elements to a given application from the design elements such as localization environment, accuracy, time to fix, computation amount, implementation ease, and etc.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.559-561
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• 2004

최근 무선 통신 기술과 초소형화 기술의 진보로 지능형 센서(Smart Sensor)를 이용한 무선 센서 네트워크 구축이 가능해졌고, 이러한 센서 네트워크는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅와 Ad-Hoc 네트워크에서 많이 연구되고 있는 새로운 분야이다. 각 센서 노드는 건전지를 통해 전원을 공급받기 때문에. 제한된 에너지를 어떻게 효율적으로 사용하느냐가 센서 네트워크에서의 중요한 이슈이다. 일반적으로 센서네트워크에서 데이터 송수신에 참여하지 않는 노드는 일정 시간 Sleep함으로써 에너지를 절약한다. sleep 기술과 관계된 기존의 논문(S-MAC [1])에서는 동기화 및 NAV 설정을 위해 컨트롤 패킷(SYNC, RTS, CTS)을 사용하고, 컨트롤 패킷 전송 시간만큼은 최소한 모든 노드들이 깨어서 컨트롤 패킷의 송수신을 확인해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 컨트롤 패킷 전송 시간 동안 불필요하게 모든 노드들이 깨어있는 문제를 해결하기 위해, 새로운 센서 MAC 프로토콜(ESMAC: Efficient Sensor MAC)을 제시한다. ESMAC에서는 컨트롤 패킷 전송 시간동안 꼭 필요한 노드들만 컨트롤 패킷을 송수신하고, 나머지 노드들은 Sleep 함으로써, 모든 노드가 깨어있는 시간을 효율적으로 줄였다. 위와 같은 방법을 사용하여 ESMAC에서는 기존의 MAC(SMAC, TIPS [2]) 프로토콜들보다 컨트롤 패킷 전송 시간을 최대 62.8% 절약시켰다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.7 s.96
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• pp.923-930
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• 2004

Wireless sensor networks is a core technology of ubiquitous computing which enables the network to aware the different kind of context by integrating exiting wired/wireless infranet with various sensor devices and connecting collected environmental data with applications. However it needs an energy-efficient approach in network layer to maintain the dynamic ad hoc network and to maximize the network lifetime by using energy constrained node. Cluster-based data aggregation and routing are energy-efficient solution judging from architecture of sensor networks and characteristics of data. In this paper. we propose a new distributed clustering algorithm in using distance from the sink. This algorithm shows that it can balance energy dissipation among nodes while minimizing the overhead. We verify that our clustering is more en-ergy-efficient and thus prolongs the network lifetime in comparing our proposed clustering to existing probabilistic clustering for sensor network via simulation.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.165-174
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• 2006

Data dissemination using either flooding or legacy ad-hoc routing protocol is not realistic approach in the wireless sensor networks, which are composed of sensor nodes with very weak computing power, small memory and limited battery. In this paper, we propose the ELF(Energy-efficient Localized Flooding) protocol. The ELF is energy-efficient data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks. In the ELF protocol, there are two data delivery phases between fixed source and mobile sink node. The first phase, before the tracking zone, sensing data are forwarded by unicasting. After that, within the tracking zone, sensing data are delivered by localized flooding. Namely, the ELF Properly combines advantages from both unicasting and flooding. According to evaluation results by simulation, the proposed ELF protocol maintains very high data delivery ratio with using a little energy. Also, the property of average delay is better than others. From our research results, the ELF is very effective data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.168-177
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• 2008

An indoor environmental monitoring system using IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless sensor network is proposed to monitor the amount of pollutant entering to the room from outside and also the amount of pollutant that is generated in indoor by the building materials itself or human activities. Small-size, low-power wireless sensor node and low power electrochemical sensor board is designed to measure the condition of indoor environment in buildings such as home, offices, commercial premises and schools. In this paper, two query models, the broadcasting query protocol and flooding query protocol, were designed and programmed as a query-based routing protocol in wireless sensor network for an environment monitoring system. The flooding query routing protocol in environment monitoring is very effective as a power saving routing protocol and reliable data transmission between sensor nodes.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.43-48
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• 2016

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) can be more reliable and easier to program and use with the help of sensor database management systems (SDMS). SDMS establish a user-friendly SQL-based interface to process declarative user-defined queries over sensor readings from WSN. Typical queries in SDMS are ad-hoc snapshot queries and long-running, continuous queries. In SDMSs queries are flooded to all nodes in the sensor net, and query results are sent back from nodes that have qualified results to a base station. For query flooding to all nodes, and result flooding to the base station, a lot of communication energy consuming is required. This paper suggests an efficient in-network index solution, named Distributed Information Gathering (DIG) to process range queries in a sensor net environment that can save energy by reducing query and result flooding.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.54-60
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• 2011

The development of wireless sensor networks (WSN) can be motivated by several types of applications. However, these applications demand an energy-efficient WSN that can prolong the network lifetime and can provide high throughput, low latency and delay. Designing wireless sensor networks with the capability of prolonging network lifetime catch the attention of many researchers in wireless system and network field. Contrasts with Mobile Ad Hoc Network system, Wireless Sensor Networks designs focused more on survivability of each node in the network instead of maximizing data throughput or minimizing end-to-end delay. In this paper, we will study part of data link layer in Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, called medium access control (MAC) layer. Since the MAC development of energy aware MAC Protocol for wireless sensor layer controls the physical radio part, it has a large impact on the overall energy consumption and the lifetime of a node. This paper proposes a analytical approach that tries to reduce idle energy consumption, and shows the increasement of network end-to-end arrival rate due to efficiency in energy consumption from time slot management.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.107-115
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• 2007

In general, wireless sensor networks composed of many nodes which are located in ad. hoc environment and send the gathered data to sink node support only one way traffic. In those cases, it is not possible to send commands to nodes to react for exceptional events because the networks can not deliver downward data and the nodes run in pre-assigned fixed schedule. This paper expands the WSLP to bidirectional WSLP and implements a fire monitoring system on it, and shows the feasibility of bidirectional USN by demonstrating the usability of the process of reaction to a fire in the implemented fire monitoring system.