• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4385-4399
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• 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) eHealth systems composed by Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has emerged recently. Sensor nodes are placed around or in the human body to collect physiological data. WBAN has many different applications, for instance health monitoring. Since the limitation of the size of the battery, besides speed, reliability, and accuracy; design of WBAN protocols should consider the energy efficiency and time delay. To solve these problems, this paper adopt the end-edge-cloud orchestrated network architecture and propose a transmission based on reinforcement algorithm. The priority of sensing data is classified according to certain application. System utility function is modeled according to the channel factors, the energy utility, and successful transmission conditions. The optimization problem is mapped to Q-learning model. Following this online power control protocol, the energy level of both the senor to coordinator, and coordinator to edge server can be modified according to the current channel condition. The network performance is evaluated by simulation. The results show that the proposed power control protocol has higher system energy efficiency, delivery ratio, and throughput.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.67-78
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• 2012

People are willing to spend more for their health. Traditional medical services are hospital-centric and patients obtain their treatments mainly at the clinics or hospitals. As people age, more medical services are needed to exceed the potentials of this hospital-centric service model. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of CardioSentinal, a 24-hour heart care and monitoring system. CardioSentinal is designed for in-home and daily medical services. It mainly focuses on the outpatients and elderly. CardioSentinal is an interdisciplinary system that integrates recent advances in many fields such as bio-sensors, small-range wireless communications, pervasive computing, cellular networks and modern data centers. We conducted numerous clinic trials for CardioSentinal. Experimental results show that the sensitivity and accuracy are quite high. It is not as good as the professional measurements in hospital due to harsh environments but the system provides valuable information for heart diseases with low-cost and extreme convenience. Some early experiences and lessons in the work will also be reported.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38C권3호
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• pp.318-326
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 선박 내 실내에서 개인 정보 전달의 효율성을 높이는 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜 구조와 본 프로토콜에 기초한 실내 위치인식 기술을 제안한다. 이를 위해 전력 소모를 최소화 하면서 정밀한 위치 인식이 가능한 위치인식알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 위치인식알고리즘은 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜 기반 센서 노드에서 GPS 없이 독립적으로 실행되어 측정된 값을 사용하여, 각 센서 노드의 위치를 추정함으로써 전력소모를 최소화한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1052-1070
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• 2016

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have received a lot of attention as a promising technology for medical and healthcare applications. A WBAN should guarantee energy efficiency, data reliability, and low data latency because it uses tiny sensors that have limited energy and deals with medical data that needs to be timely and correctly transferred. To satisfy this requirement, many multi-radio multi-channel MAC protocols have been proposed, but these cannot be implemented on current off-the-shelf sensor nodes because they do not support multi-radio transceivers. Thus, recently single-radio multi-channel MAC protocols have been proposed; however, these methods are energy inefficient due to data duplication. This paper proposes a TDMA-based single-radio, multi-channel MAC protocol that uses the Unbalanced Star+Mesh topology to satisfy the requirements of WBANs. Our analytical analysis together experiments using real sensor nodes show that the proposed protocol outperforms existing methods in terms of energy efficiency, reliability, and low data latency.

• 센서학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.427-432
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• 2020

The most lethal foreign body in meat is a needle, and X-ray images are used to detect it. However, because the difference in thickness and fat content is severe depending on the type of meat and the part of the meat, the shade difference and contrast appear severe. This problem causes difficulty in automatic classification. In this paper, we propose a method for generating training patterns by efficient pre-processing and classifying needles in meat using a convolution neural network. Approximately 24000 training patterns and 4000 test patterns were used to verify the proposed method, and an accuracy of 99.8% was achieved.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2013년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.64-67
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• 2013

바디 센서 네트워크 환경에 존재하는 다양한 종류의 디바이스는 매우 작은 배터리 기반으로 작동을 한다. 특히 기존에 존재하였던 센서 네트워크 환경보다 바디 센서 네트워크 환경이 자원이 매우 제한적이기 때문에 디바이스의 전력 관리가 매우 중요하다고 할 수 있다. 하지만 바디 센서 네트워크는 사람의 움직임 또는 센서의 위치와 같은 고유의 특징을 가지고 있기 때문에 바디 센서 네트워크를 구축하기 위해서 고유의 특징을 고려해야만 한다. 본 논문에서는 바디 센서 네트워크 환경에 존재하는 다양한 제약사항을 분석하며, 대표적인 전송 전력 관리 기법에 따른 에너지 효율적인 측면을 고려한 분석을 한다. 또한 분석된 결과를 통해 바디 센서 네트워크 환경에서 에너지 효율적인 대안을 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2011

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 기술과 헬스케어 기술이 접목되어 시간과 장소에 구애받지 않고, 지속적인 건강관리가 가능한 u-헬스케어 기술이 급부상하고 있으며, 한국의 최첨단 정보 환경을 기반으로 하여 향후 급증할 의료수요에 대처하기 위한 u-헬스케어 기반기술이 절실한 실정이다. 특히, u-헬스케어 분야에서 다루는 정보는 주로 건강이나 생명과 밀접한 관계가 있는 관련 정보로서 극히 개인적인 사항을 주로 포함한다. u-헬스케어 서비스가 보안 및 프라이버시 측면에서 많은 취약점과 위협이 존재한다는 점을 볼 때, 데이터 보호를 위한 기술적 대안이 기본적으로 요구된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 안전한 u-헬스케어 시스템을 위해 u-헬스케어 센서모듈을 설계 및 제작하고, USN의 안전성 및 데이터 보호를 위해 NLM-128 알고리즘을 TinyOS상에서 소프트웨어적으로 구현하여 USN 센서노드에 탑재하였다. 그리고 NLM-128 알고리즘에 고속 병렬형 PS-LFSR을 적용하여 암호화 시간을 단축 시켰다. u-헬스케어 응용을 위한 USN 보안센서노드는 환자의 몸에 부착되어 각종 생체 신호를 계측할 수 있으며, 계측된 생체신호들은 무선메쉬네트워크(Wireless Mesh Network)를 통해 통합서버로 전송되며, 그 결과는 실시간으로 모니터링이 가능하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1547-1568
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• 2013

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is an emerging short-range wireless communication network with sensor nodes located on, in or around the human body for healthcare, entertainment and ubiquitous computing. In WBANs, energy is severely constrained which is the prime consideration in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol named Energy-efficient Relay MAC with dynamic Power Control (ERPC-MAC) to save energy consumption. Without relying on the additional devices, ERPC-MAC employs relaying nodes to provide relay service for nodes which consume energy fast. Accordingly the superframe adjustment is performed and then the network topology can be smoothly switched from single-hop to multi-hop. Moreover, for further energy saving and reliability improvement, the dynamic power control is introduced to adjust the power level whenever a node transmits its packets to the coordinator or the relaying node. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first effort to integrate relay, topology adjustment and power control to improve the network performance in a WBAN. Comprehensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance. The results show that the ERPC-MAC is more superior to the existing standard and significantly prolongs the network lifetime.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.338-344
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• 2021

The recently continuous enhancement and development in the biomedical side for the betterment of human life. The Wireless Body Area Networks is a significant tool for the current researcher to design and transfer data with greater data rates among the sensors and sensor nodes for biomedical applications. The core area for research in WBANs is power efficiency, battery-driven devices for health and medical, the Charging limitation is a major and serious problem for the WBANs.this research work is proposed to find out the optimal solution for battery-friendly technology. In this research we have addressed the solution to increasing the battery lifetime with variable data transmission rates from medical equipment as Wireless Endoscopy Capsules, this device will analyze a patient's inner body gastrointestinal tract by capturing images and visualization at the workstation. The second major issue is that the Wireless Endoscopy Capsule based systems are currently not used for clinical applications due to their low data rate as well as low resolution and limited battery lifetime, in case of these devices are more enhanced in these cases it will be the best solution for the medical applications. The main objective of this research is to power optimization by reducing the power consumption of the battery in the Wireless Endoscopy Capsule to make it battery-friendly. To overcome the problem we have proposed the algorithm for "Battery Friendly Algorithm" and we have compared the different frame rates of buffer sizes for Transmissions. The proposed Battery Friendly Algorithm is to send the images on average frame rate instead of transmitting the images on maximum or minimum frame rates. The proposed algorithm extends the battery lifetime in comparison with the previous baseline proposed algorithm as well as increased the battery lifetime of the capsule.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 RFID와 근거리 무선 통신 기술인 ZigBee를 접목시켜 유비쿼터스 u-Health 시스템을 구현하였다. RFID 태그인식 기술, ZigBee의 데이터 송수신 기술을 이용하는 무선 프로토콜 키트를 만들었고 TinyOS에서 ZigBee의 소프트웨어를 구현하였다. RFID와 접목 가능한 무선 통신 기술들은 Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.11x WLAN 등이 있다. 논문에서 제시한 환경은 무인간병과 같은 u-Health 시스템으로서, 조밀한 sensor 네트워크 환경을 갖게 되는 병원 등의 환경에 적합하도록 ZigBee를 사용한 것이다. RFID와 ZigBee가 부착되는 디바이스들은 앞으로 팔찌, 손목시계, 반지 등의 크기로 소형화 될 것이다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 RFID와 ZigBee 통합 환경은 WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network) 및 WPAN(Wireless Person Area Network)환경에서 상태 정보를 인식하여 원하는 action들로 반응하도록 요구되는 응용에 활용될 수 있다. 태그의 정보와 환자의 상태에 따라 여러 가지 제약사항을 두어 환자의 단말기에 문자정보의 형태로 LCD에 표시하거나, 음성정보로 메시지를 전송하도록 설계하고 구축하였다 RFID는 어플리케이션의 목적에 맞춰 다양한 무선통신 기술과의 결합을 이루어 나갈 것이다.