• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.55-64
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• 2019

In drone-assisted wireless sensor networks, drones collect data from sensors in an energy-efficient manner and quickly distribute urgent information to sensor nodes. This article introduces recent communication and security schemes for drone-assisted wireless sensor networks. For the communication schemes, we introduce data collection optimization schemes, drone position and movement optimization schemes, and drone flight path optimization schemes. For the security schemes, we introduce authentication and key management schemes, cluster formation schemes, and cluster head election schemes. Then, we present some enhancement methodologies for these communication and security schemes. As a conclusion, we present some interesting future work items.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.6 s.109
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• pp.757-766
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• 2006

Mobile Ad-hoc Network(MANET) is an autonomous network consisted of mobile hosts. A considerable number of studies have been conducted on the MANET with studies of ubiquitous computing. Several studies have been made on the clustering schemes which manage network hierarchically to Improve flat architecture of MANET. But the conventional schemes have the lack of multi-hop clustering and load balancing. This paper proposes a clustering scheme to support multi-hop clustering and to consider load balancing between cluster heads. We define the split of clusters and states of cluster, and propose join, merge, divide, and election of cluster head schemes for load balancing of between cluster heads

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.29-37
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• 2008

Clustering allows hierarchical structures to be built on the nodes and enables more efficient use of scarce resources, such as frequency spectrum, bandwidth, and energy in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This paper proposes a hierarchical clustering algorithm called EEHC which is more energy efficient than existing algorithms for WSNs, It introduces region node selection as well as cluster head election based on the residual battery capacity of nodes to reduce the costs of managing sensor nodes and of the communication among them. The role of cluster heads or region nodes is rotated among nodes to achieve load balancing and extend the lifetime of every individual sensor node. To do this, EEHC clusters periodically to select cluster heads that are richer in residual energy level, compared to the other nodes, according to clustering policies from administrators. To prove the performance improvement of EEHC, the ns-2 simulator was used. The results show that it can reduce the energy and bandwidth consumption for organizing and managing WSNs comparing it with existing algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1187-1208
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• 2022

One of the main goals of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is to utilize the energy of sensor nodes effectively and maximize the network lifetime. Thus, this paper proposed a routing protocol for WSNs based on virtual force disturbing mobile Sink node (VFMSR). According to the number of sensor nodes in the cluster, the average energy and the centroid factor of the cluster, a new cluster head (CH) election fitness function was designed. At the same time, a hexagonal fixed-point moving trajectory model with the best radius was constructed, and the virtual force was introduced to interfere with it, so as to avoid the frequent propagation of sink node position information, and reduce the energy consumption of CH. Combined with the improved ant colony algorithm (ACA), the shortest transmission path to Sink node was constructed to reduce the energy consumption of long-distance data transmission of CHs. The simulation results showed that, compared with LEACH, EIP-LEACH, ANT-LEACH and MECA protocols, VFMSR protocol was superior to the existing routing protocols in terms of network energy consumption and network lifetime, and compared with LEACH protocol, the network lifetime was increased by more than three times.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.11
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• pp.1170-1181
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• 2012

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) are used in diverse applications. In general, sensor nodes that are easily deployed on specific areas have many resource constrains such as battery power, memory sizes, MCUs, RFs and so on. Hence, first of all, the efficient energy consumption is strongly required in WSNs. In terms of event states, event-driven deliverly model (i.e. surveillance and reconnaissance applications) has several characteristics. On the basis of such a model, clustering algorithms can be mostly used to manage sensor nodes' energy efficiently owing to the advantages of data aggregations. Since a specific node collects packets from its child nodes in a network topology and aggregates them into one packet to relay them once, amount of transmitted packets to a sink node can be reduced. However, most clustering algorithms have been designed without considering can be reduced. However, most clustering algorithms have been designed without considering characteristics of event-driven deliverly model, which results in some problems. In this paper, we propose enhanced clustering algorithms regarding with both targets' movement and energy efficiency in order for applications of surveillance and reconnaissance. These algorithms form some clusters to contend locally between nodes, which have already detected certain targets, by using a method which called CHEW (Cluster Head Election Window). Therefore, our proposed algorithms enable to reduce not only the cost of cluster maintenance, but also energy consumption. In conclusion, we analyze traces of the clusters' movements according to targets' locations, evaluate the traces' results and we compare our algorithms with others through simulations. Finally, we verify our algorithms use power energy efficiently.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.500-517
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• 2017

In this paper, an improved zone-based routing protocol for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks is proposed. The proposed protocol has fixed the sized zone according to the distance from the base station and used a dynamic clustering technique for advanced nodes to select a cluster head with maximum residual energy to transmit the data. In addition, we select an optimal route with minimum energy consumption for normal nodes and conserve energy by state transition throughout data transmission. Simulation results indicated that the proposed protocol performed better than the other algorithm by reducing energy consumption and providing a longer network lifetime and better throughput of data packets.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.98-107
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a novel centralized energy-efficient clustering algorithm, called "MCCA : Max k-Cut based Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks." The algorithm does not use location information and constructs clusters via a distributive Max k-Cut based cluster-head election method, where only relative and approximate distance information with neighbor nodes is used and nodes, not having enough energy, are excluded for cluster-heads for a specific period. We show that the energy efficiency performance of MCCA is better than that of LEACH, EECS and similar to BCDCP's by simulation studies.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.233-241
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• 2013

One fundamental issue in ad hoc networks is the alternative node election problem, which reflects how well a sensor network is monitored or tracked by sensors. In this paper, we proposed EEAP(Energy-Efficient Alternative Paths). This is a method of selecting an alternative node for path routing management. When some node disconnection on the path routing, using pre-selected backup node provides immediately recover the path recovery. When selecting an alternative node of Step-Parents head node on the path management, the node's energy level and distance information are cared in context-awareness. This is not only increased the system's capacity cost effectively, but also reduce transmission power entire nodes consume energy. As a result, each node could efficiently management and improves the life time for mobile host and extends system coverage.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2099-2100
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• 2006

제한된 전력의 노드들로 구성된 무선 센서 네트워크에서 효율적인 정보 수집이 이루어지기 위해서는 전체 네트워크의 Life Time을 늘리는 게 중요하다. 각각의 센서 노드들이 멀리 떨어져 있는 BS(Base Station)으로 직접 데이터를 전송하면 전력소비가 매우 크고 비효율 적이다. 그리하여 네트워크의 life time을 늘리기 위한 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 그중에 클러스터링 기법은 가장 널리 연구되는 기법 중에 하나이다. 대표적인 클러스터링 기법 LEACH(Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)[1]는 전체 노드 수의 5%클 클러스터 헤드로 결정하여 나머지 노드들로부터 데이터를 수집하여 BS로 전송함으로써 에너지를 효율적으로 사용하는 알고리즘이다. 그러나 클러스터 헤드를 결정하는데 있어서 잔여 에너지를 고려하지 않고 순환적으로 결정하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 SVM(Supprt Vector Machine)을 이용하여 FND(First Node Dic)가 발생했을 때 각 노드들의 에너지 잔량 정도를 따져서 영역을 나눈 후, 에너지가 더 많은 영역에서 클러스터 헤드를 선정하는 방법을 제안한다. 잔량 에너지가 많은 노드를 클러스터 헤드로 결정함으로써 전체 네트워크의 life time을 늘릴 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.936-940
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• 2007

본 논문은 무선 센서 네트워크의 에너지 효율적인 운영을 위해 무선 센서 네트워크 환경에 적합한 클러스터 헤드 선출 메커니즘을 제안한다. LEACH 와 같은 기존의 확률 모델 기반의 클러스터 헤드 선출 메커니즘들은 각 라운드마다 클러스터 헤드로 선출될 확률과 라운드 횟수 등을 바탕으로 클러스터 헤드를 선출한다. 그러나 이와 같은 방법은 각 노드의 상황을 고려하지 않아 네트워크의 수명을 단축시킬 수 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서는 각 센서 노드의 에너지 및 노드 분포 상황을 고려하여 클러스터 헤드를 선출해야 한다. 하지만 실제 무선 센서 네트워크 환경에서는 클러스터 헤드 선출을 위해 정확한 정보를 수집하고 이를 계산하는데 있어 큰 오버헤드가 발생하는 문제점이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 정보 수집 및 계산에 있어서 오버헤드를 줄이고 네트워크의 수명을 극대화하기 위하여 퍼지 논리를 이용한 퍼지 논리 기반의 클러스터 헤드 선출 메커니즘을 제안한다. Matlab 을 통한 시뮬레이션 결과 LEACH 에 비해 퍼지 논리 기반의 클러스터 헤드 선출 메커니즘을 이용했을 경우 네트워크 수명이 약 16.3% 향상되었다.