• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.499-505
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 웨어러블 컴퓨터 시스템을 위한 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜에서 요구되는 신체 영역 위치인식기술을 제안한다. 제안하는 위치인식기술은 웨어러블 컴퓨터의 주변 장치를 구성하는 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜 기반 센서노드에서 실행된다. 웨어러블 컴퓨터 시스템에서 다양한 신체 모션을 통한 입력 정보의 정확성을 높이기위해서는, 높은 정밀도를 갖는 새로운 위치인식기술이 반드시 개발되어야 한다. 이러한 목적을 달성하기 위해, 본 논문은 신체에 부착된 WUSB over WBAN 디바이스들의 개수를 4개 이상으로 하는 TDoA/FDoA/AoA 복합 방식을 제안한다. 실험 결과에서는 제안하는 TDoA/FDoA/AoA의 복합 방식 알고리즘이 TDoA/FDoA 복합 알고리즘 보다 위치 추정 오차를 10mm 감소시킨다. 이 값은 다른 통신 시스템에서는 무시할 수 있는 작은 값이나, 신체 영역 내 통신에서는 위치 추정 성능을 향상시키는 결과를 나타낸다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.494-502
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• 2007

Ubiquitous location based services (u-LBS) will be interested to an important services. They can easily recognize object position at anytime, anywhere. At present, many researchers are making a study of the position recognition and tracking. This paper consists of postion recognition and user identification system. The position recognition is based on location under services (LBS) using a signal strength map, a database is previously made use of empirical measured received signal strength indicator (RSSI). The user identification system automatically controls instruments which is located in home. Moreover users are able to measures body signal freely. We implemented the multi-hop routing method using the Star-Mesh networks. Also, we use the sensor devices which are satisfied with the IEEE 802.15.4 specification. The used devices are the Nano-24 modules in Octacomm Co. Ltd. A RSSI is very important factor in position recognition analysis. It makes use of the way that decides position recognition and user identification in narrow indoor space. In experiments, we can analyze properties of the RSSI, draw the parameter about position recognition. The experimental result is that RSSI value is attenuated according to increasing distances. It also derives property of the radio frequency (RF) signal. Moreover, we express the monitoring program using the Microsoft C#. Finally, the proposed methods are expected to protect a sudden death and an accident in home.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.452-464
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• 2019

The use of wireless body area networks (WBANs) in healthcare applications has made it convenient to monitor both health personnel and patient status continuously in real time through wearable wireless sensor nodes. However, the heterogeneous and complex network structure of WBANs has some disadvantages in terms of control and management. The software-defined network (SDN) approach is a promising technology that defines a new design and management approach for network communications. In order to create more flexible and dynamic network structures in WBANs, this study uses the SDN approach. For this, a WBAN architecture based on the SDN approach with a new energy-aware routing algorithm for healthcare architecture is proposed. To develop a more flexible architecture, a controller that manages all HUBs is designed. The proposed architecture is modeled using the Riverbed Modeler software for performance analysis. The simulation results show that the SDN-based structure meets the service quality requirements and shows superior performance in terms of energy consumption, throughput, successful transmission rate, and delay parameters according to the traditional routing approach.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.1215-1221
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 무선 센서네트워크 환경에서 요구하는 데이터 전달의 신뢰성 향상을 위해 기능성 노드를 제안한다. 생체신호 모니터링을 위해 기존의 지속적인 생체신호 전송시 발생하는 데이터 손실을 줄이기 위해 비정상적인 QRS-complex 검출이 가능한 센서노드를 이용하고, Ad-hoc 네트워크 환경에서 비정상적인 QRS-comoplex 발생시에만 데이터를 전송함으로써 무선 센서네트워크 내에 발생되는 데이터량을 줄일 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 Ad-hoc 환경에서의 기능성 노드를 사용함으로써 그 결과 의료 목적을 위한 무선 센서네트워크에서 전체 패킷발생을 줄여 센서노드의 전력소모를 크게 줄이고 시스템의 신뢰도를 크게 높이는 것으로 확인되었다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2012

사람들이 신체를 다친 경우 의료기관에서 치료를 것이 보통이다. 하지만 몇몇 환부에 따라서 추가적인 재활이 필요한 경우도 존재한다. 이러한 의료기관은 규모에 따른 재활프로그램에 큰 차이가 있으며, 규모가 작은 대개의 의료기관의 재활프로그램은 의사와 환자의 구두로 진행이 되는 것이 문제점이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 소규모 의료기관에서의 재활치료에 정확도와 신뢰성을 보조하기 위해서 신체의 접촉과 힘을 계측할 수 있는 센서들을 대체 및 조합하여 촉각 센서와 유사한 기능을 가지는 대체 촉각 센서를 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 퍼셉트론 신경망을 적용시켜 접촉 평가를 패턴에 따라 확인하는 알고리즘을 적용하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.281-286
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• 2009

The proposed technique uses cyclic frame structure, where three periods such as beacon period (BP), mesh contention access period (MCAP) and slotted period (SP) are in a data frame. This paper studies on a mechanism to allow communication nodes (6lowpan) in a PAN with different logical channel for global healthcare applications monitoring technology. The proposed super framework structure system has installed 6lowpan sensor nodes to communicate with each other. The basic idea is to time share logical channels to perform 6lowpan sensor node. The concept of 6lowpan sensor node and various biomedical sensors fixed on the patient BAN (Body Area Network) for monitoring health condition. In PAN (hospital area), has fixed gateways that received biomedical data from 6lowpan (patient). Each 6lowpan sensor node (patient) has IP-addresses that would be directly connected to the internet. With the help of IP-address service provider can recognize or analyze patient data from all over the globe by the internet service provider, with specific equipments i.e. cell phone, PDA, note book. The NS-2.33 result shows the performance of data transmission delay and data delivery ratio in the case of hop count in a PAN (Personal Area Networks).

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.1228-1235
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 웨어러블 컴퓨터 시스템을 위한 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜에서 요구되는 저전력 소모 위치인식기술로서, 거리 정보를 필요로 하지 않는 위치인식알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 위치 인식알고리즘은 웨어러블 컴퓨터의 주변 장치를 구성하는 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜 기반 센서노드에서 독립적으로 실행되어, range-free 한 방법을 사용하여, 각 센서노드의 위치를 신속하게 추정함으로써 전력소모를 최소화한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.1036-1057
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• 2013

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is a promising candidate for future health monitoring system. Nevertheless, the path to mature solutions is still facing a lot of challenges that need to be overcome. Energy efficient scheduling is one of these challenges given the scarcity of available energy of biosensors and the lack of portability. Therefore, researchers from academia, industry and health sectors are working together to realize practical solutions for these challenges. The main difficulty in WBAN is the uncertainty in the state of the monitored system. Intelligent learning approaches such as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) were proposed to tackle this issue. A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a form of Markov Chain in which the transition matrix depends on the action taken by the decision maker (agent) at each time step. The agent receives a reward, which depends on the action and the state. The goal is to find a function, called a policy, which specifies which action to take in each state, so as to maximize some utility functions (e.g., the mean or expected discounted sum) of the sequence of rewards. A partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) is a generalization of Markov decision processes that allows for the incomplete information regarding the state of the system. In this case, the state is not visible to the agent. This has many applications in operations research and artificial intelligence. Due to incomplete knowledge of the system, this uncertainty makes formulating and solving POMDP models mathematically complex and computationally expensive. Limited progress has been made in terms of applying POMPD to real applications. In this paper, we surveyed the existing methods and algorithms for solving POMDP in the general domain and in particular in Wireless body area network (WBAN). In addition, the papers discussed recent real implementation of POMDP on practical problems of WBAN. We believe that this work will provide valuable insights for the newcomers who would like to pursue related research in the domain of WBAN.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2022

무선 인체 영역 네트워크(WBAN)와 바이오센서를 활용하는 IoT기술은 자원을 최소화 하고 환자를 모니터링 하는 보건산업에서 중요한 분야이다. IoT와 WBAN을 보다 효율적으로 통합하기 위해서는 WBAN의 제한된 자원 센서노드와 효율적인 데이터 전송을 위한 신속 정확한 라우팅을 구성하는 협력 프로토콜이 필요하다. 본 논문은 중복 데이터 전송감지, 제한된 네트워크 센서의 수명연장 문제를 해결하기 위해 에너지 효율적이고 협력이 가능한 링크 에너지 효율적인 라우팅 전략(LEERS)을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 잔류에너지 싱크쪽으로 가는 홉수 노드 혼잡 수준 및 대역폭과 효율적인 매개변수를 고려한다. 또한 노드의 경로비용함수를 결정하고 효과적인 멀티홉 라우팅을 제공함으로서 잔류에너지와 처리량 측면에서 효율성이 향상됨을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4643-4660
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• 2014

Integrity authentication of biometric data in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a critical issue because the sensitive data transmitted over broadcast wireless channels could be attacked easily. However, traditional cryptograph-based integrity authentication schemes are not suitable for WBAN as they consume much computational resource on the sensor nodes with limited memory, computational capability and power. To address this problem, a novel lightweight integrity authentication scheme based on reversible watermark is proposed for WBAN and implemented on a TinyOS-based WBAN test bed in this paper. In the proposed scheme, the data is divided into groups with a fixed size to improve grouping efficiency; the histogram shifting technique is adopted to avoid possible underflow or overflow; local maps are generated to restore the shifted data; and the watermarks are generated and embedded in a chaining way for integrity authentication. Our analytic and experimental results demonstrate that the integrity of biometric data can be reliably authenticated with low cost, and the data can be entirely recovered for healthcare applications by using our proposed scheme.