• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권7호
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• pp.1735-1755
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• 2012

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming increasingly attractive for a variety of applications and have become a hot research area. Routing is a key technology in WSNs and can be coarsely divided into two categories: flat routing and hierarchical routing. In a flat topology, all nodes perform the same task and have the same functionality in the network. In contrast, nodes in a hierarchical topology perform different tasks in WSNs and are typically organized into lots of clusters according to specific requirements or metrics. Owing to a variety of advantages, clustering routing protocols are becoming an active branch of routing technology in WSNs. In this paper, we present an overview on clustering routing algorithms for WSNs with focus on differentiating them according to diverse cluster shapes. We outline the main advantages of clustering and discuss the classification of clustering routing protocols in WSNs. In particular, we systematically analyze the typical clustering routing protocols in WSNs and compare the different approaches based on various metrics. Finally, we conclude the paper with some open questions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.1419-1436
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• 2020

For an energy harvesting sensor network, when the network lifetime is not the only primary goal, maximizing the network performance under environmental energy harvesting becomes a more critical issue. However, clustering protocols that aim at providing maximum information throughput have not been thoroughly explored in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH-WSNs). In this paper, clustering protocols are studied for maximizing the data transmission in the whole network. Based on a long short-term memory (LSTM) energy predictor and node energy consumption and supplement models, an uneven clustering protocol is proposed where the cluster head selection and cluster size control are thoroughly designed for this purpose. Simulations and results verify that the proposed scheme can outperform some classic schemes by having more data packets received by the cluster heads (CHs) and the base station (BS) under these energy constraints. The outcomes of this paper also provide some insights for choosing clustering routing protocols in EH-WSNs, by exploiting the factors such as uneven clustering size, number of clusters, multiple CHs, multihop routing strategy, and energy supplementing period.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.122-129
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• 2010

Energy conservation is one of the most important issues for evaluating the performance of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. Generally speaking, hierarchical clustering protocols such as LEACH, LEACH-C, EEEAC, and BCDCP are more efficient in energy conservation than flat routing protocols. However, these typical protocols still have drawbacks of unequal and high energy depletion in cluster heads (CHs) due to the different transmission distance from each CH to the base station (BS). In order to minimize the energy consumption and increase the network lifetime, we propose a new hierarchical routing protocol, distance aware intelligent clustering protocol (DAIC), with the key concept of dividing the network into tiers and selecting the high energy CHs at the nearest distance from the BS. We have observed that a considerable amount of energy can be conserved by selecting CHs at the nearest distance from the BS. Also, the number of CHs is computed dynamically to avoid the selection of unnecessarily large number of CHs in the network. Our simulation results showed that the proposed DAIC outperforms LEACH and LEACH-C by 63.28% and 36.27% in energy conservation respectively. The distance aware CH selection method adopted in the proposed DAIC protocol can also be adapted to other hierarchical clustering protocols for the higher energy efficiency.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 센서 네트워크용 병렬 시뮬레이터인 PASENS(Parallel SEnsor Network Simulator)를 이용하여 센서 네트워크에 이용되는 라우팅 알고리즘 중에서 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜의 대표적인 방식인 LEACH(Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)와 그의 변형인 TL-LEACH(Two Level Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), M-LEACH(Multihop Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), 그리고 LEACH-C(LEACH-Centralized)의 전력 소모량과 데이터의 수신율을 비교하고 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션을 이용한 분석 결과에 따르면, M-LEACH 라우팅 프로토콜의 경우에는 여러 센서 노드들을 통하여 데이터가 전달되기 때문에 일정한 크기 이상의 넓은 공간에서 높은 수신율을 보였으며, LEACH-C 라우팅 프로토콜은 싱크 노드(서버)가 전체 센서 노드의 잔여 에너지와 위치를 고려하여 클러스터 헤드를 결정하기 때문에 좁은 공간에서 보다 오랜 수명을 필요로 하는 센서 네트워크를 구축하는데 가장 효율적이라는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.225-234
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• 2018

E-Health allows you to supersede the central patient wireless healthcare system. Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) is the first phase of the e-Health system. In this paper, we aim to understand e-Health architecture and configuration, and attempt to minimize energy consumption and latency in transmission routing protocols during restrictive latency in data delivery of WBSN phase. The goal is to concentrate on polling protocol to improve and optimize the routing time interval and schedule communication to reduce energy utilization. In this research, two types of network models routing protocols are proposed - elemental and clustering. The elemental model improves efficiency by using a polling protocol, and the clustering model is the extension of the elemental model that Destruct Supervised Decision Tree (DSDT) algorithm has been proposed to solve the time interval conflict transmission. The simulation study verifies that the proposed models deliver better performance than the existing BSN protocol for WBSN.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.911-923
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• 2010

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), cluster based data routing protocols have the advantages of reducing energy consumption and link maintenance cost. Unfortunately, most of clustering protocols have been designed for uniformly distributed sensor networks. However, some urgent situations do not allow thousands of sensor nodes being deployed uniformly. For example, air vehicles or balloons may take the responsibility for deploying sensor nodes hence leading a normally distributed topology. In order to improve energy efficiency in such sensor networks, in this paper, we propose a new cluster formation algorithm named DAEEC (Density Aware Energy-Efficient Clustering). In this algorithm, we define two kinds of clusters: Low Density (LD) clusters and High Density (HD) clusters. They are determined by the number of nodes participated in one cluster. During the data routing period, the HD clusters help the neighbor LD clusters to forward the sensed data to the central base station. Thus, DAEEC can distribute the energy dissipation evenly among all sensor nodes by considering the deployment density to improve network lifetime and average energy savings. Moreover, because the HD clusters are densely deployed they can work in a manner of our former algorithm EEVAR (Energy Efficient Variable Area Routing Protocol) to save energy. According to the performance analysis result, DAEEC outperforms the conventional data routing schemes in terms of energy consumption and network lifetime.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.502-504
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• 2021

MANET(Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork)은 대표적인 이동 센서 네트워크이다. MANET은 기존의 기간망에 의존하지 않는 이동 노드들로 구성된 센서들로 구성되는 특성을 가짐으로 다양한 영역에서 활용되고 있다. 이동 노드 센서 필드에서 정확한 이동 특성은 네트워크의 성능에 중요한 역할을 한다. 특히, 전체 네트워크의 에너지 효율 측면에서 라우팅 기법에 관한 연구가 활발히 전개되고 있다. 또한, 클러스터링 기반 라우팅 프로토콜은 에너지 효율적인 측면에서 우수한 성능을 보인다. 본 논문에서는 동일한 이동 모델이 적용된 MANET에서 라우팅 프로토콜에 따른 에너지 성능을 비교한다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.668-672
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• 2010

무선 센서 네트워크에서의 결함 허용은 센서 노드의 취약성 보완과 신뢰성 높은 정보 제공을 위해 필요하다. 센서 노드들의 자원 제약적인 특성 때문에 오류에 노출되기 쉬우며, 기존의 체크포인팅 기법 들은 센서 네트워크의 특성을 고려하지 않고 설계되었기 때문에 이를 적용하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 클러스터 기반의 라우팅 프로토콜에 체크포인팅 기법을 적용하여 헤드 노드의 결함 시 발생할 수 있는 정보 손실과 높은 복구 비용 문제를 해결하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.29-42
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• 2011

Wireless sensor networks are composed of a large number of sensor nodes with limited energy resources. One critical issue in wireless sensor networks is how to gather sensed information in an energy efficient way, since their energy is limited. The clustering algorithm is a technique used to reduce energy consumption. It can improve the scalability and lifetime of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we introduce a clustering protocol with mode selection (CPMS) for wireless sensor networks. Our scheme improves the performance of BCDCP (Base Station Controlled Dynamic Clustering Protocol) and BIDRP (Base Station Initiated Dynamic Routing Protocol) routing protocol. In CPMS, the base station constructs clusters and makes the head node with the highest residual energy send data to the base station. Furthermore, we can save the energy of head nodes by using the modes selection method. The simulation results show that CPMS achieves longer lifetime and more data message transmissions than current important clustering protocols in wireless sensor networks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.1586-1605
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• 2012

With the prevalence of multimedia applications and the potential commercial usage of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) in group communications, Quality of Service (QoS) support became a key requirement. Recently, some researchers studied QoS multicast issues in MANETs. Most of the existing QoS multicast routing protocols are designed with flat topology and small networks in mind. In this paper, we investigate the scalability problem of these routing protocols. In particular, a Position-Based QoS Multicast Routing Protocol (PBQMRP) has been developed. PBQMRP builds a source multicast tree guided by the geographic information of the mobile nodes, which helps in achieving more efficient multicast delivery. This protocol depends on the location information of the multicast members which is obtained using a location service algorithm. A virtual backbone structure has been proposed to perform this location service with minimum overhead and this structure is utilized to provide efficient packet transmissions in a dynamic mobile Ad hoc network environment. The performance of PBQMRP is evaluated by performing both quantitative analysis and extensive simulations. The results show that the used virtual clustering is very useful in improving scalability and outperforms other clustering schemes. Compared to On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP), PBQMRP achieves competing packet delivery ratio and significantly lower control overhead.