• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.2901-2919
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• 2012

Recent research in MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and wireless communication has enabled tracking of continuous objects, including fires, nuclear explosions and bio-chemical material diffusions. This paper proposes an energy-efficient scheme that detects and tracks different dynamic shapes of a continuous object (i.e., the inner and outer boundaries of a continuous object). EBCO (Efficient Boundary detection and tracking of Continuous Objects in WSNs) exploits the sensing capabilities of sensor nodes by automatically adjusting the sensing range to be either a boundary sensor node or not, instead of communicating to its neighboring sensor nodes because radio communication consumes more energy than adjusting the sensing range. The proposed scheme not only increases the tracking accuracy by choosing the bordering boundary sensor nodes on the phenomenon edge, but it also minimizes the power consumption by having little communication among sensor nodes. The simulation result shows that our proposed scheme minimizes the energy consumption and achieves more precise tracking results than existing approaches.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.272-278
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• 2010

A method for damage detection in a plate structure is presented based on strain waves that are generated by impact or damage in the structure. Strain responses from continuous sensors, which are long ribbon-like sensors made from piezoceramic fibers or other materials, were used with a neural network technique to estimate the damage location. The continuous sensor uses only a small number of channels of data acquisition and can cover large areas of the structure. A grid type structural neural system composed of the continuous sensors was developed for effective damage localization in a plate structure. The ratios of maximum strains and arrival times of the maximum strains obtained from the continuous sensors were used as input data to a neural network. Simulated damage localizations on a plate were carried out and the identified damage locations agreed reasonably well with the exact damage locations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1931-1953
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• 2017

The reverse skyline query plays an important role in information searching applications. This paper deals with continuous reverse skyline queries in sensor networks, which retrieves reverse skylines as well as the set of nodes that reported them for continuous sampling epochs. Designing an energy-efficient approach to answer continuous reverse skyline queries is non-trivial because the reverse skyline query is not decomposable and a huge number of unqualified nodes need to report their sensor readings. In this paper, we develop a new algorithm that avoids transmission of updates from nodes that cannot influence the reverse skyline. We propose a data mapping scheme to estimate sensor readings and determine their dominance relationships without having to know the true values. We also theoretically analyze the properties for reverse skyline computation, and propose efficient pruning techniques while guaranteeing the correctness of the answer. An extensive experimental evaluation demonstrates the efficiency of our approach.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2020

Railway tracks are the direct supporting structures of the trains, which are vulnerable to produce large deformation under the temperature stress or subgrade settlement. The health status of track is critical, and the track should be routinely monitored to improve safety, lower the risk of excess deformation and provide reliable maintenance strategy. In this paper, the distributed optical fiber sensor was proposed to monitor the continuous deformation of the track. In order to validate the feasibility of the monitoring method, two deformation monitoring tests on one steel rail model in laboratory and on one real railway tack in outdoor were conducted respectively. In the model test, the working conditions of simply supported beam and continuous beam in the rail model under several concentrated loads were set to simulate different stress conditions of the real rail, respectively. In order to evaluate the monitoring accuracy, one distributed optical fiber sensor and one fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor were installed on the lower surface of the rail model, the strain measured by FBG sensor and the strain calculated from FEA were taken as measurement references. The model test results show that the strain measured by distributed optical fiber sensor has a good agreement with those measured by FBG sensor and FEA. In the outdoor test, the real track suffered from displacement and temperature loads. The distributed optical fiber sensor installed on the rail can monitor the corresponding strain and temperature with a good accuracy.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.923-926
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• 2010

센서 네트워크는 센서 노드에서 수집된 최신의 현장 데이터를 기반으로 사용자 질의를 처리할 수 있는 시스템이다. 센서 네트워크에서 사용자 질의를 처리하기 위하여 먼저 사용자 질의를 데이터가 저장되어 있는 각 센서 노드에 전파하여 수행한 후에 질의 결과를 서버로 전송한다. 그러나 만약 연속 질의를 처리하면 반복적으로 사용자 질의를 센서 노드에 전파해야 하는 문제가 있다. 이 논문에서는 센서 네트워크에서 센서 스트리밍 데이터에 대하여 연속 질의를 처리하기 위한 질의 처리 기법에 대하여 제안한다. 이를 위하여 각 센서 노드는 자신의 노드에 질의 색인을 구축하여 사용자 질의를 처리한다. 그리고 센서 노드에서 발생 가능한 불확실 센서 데이터를 처리하기 위한 기법을 제시한다.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.225-229
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• 2021

Commercially available continuous glucose sensors require the operation stability for more than two weeks. Typically, the sensor comprises a sensing layer and an over-coating layer for the stable operation inside the body. In the sensing layer, enzymes and mediators are cross-linked together for the effective sensing of the glucose. The over-coating layer limits the flux of glucose and works as a biocompatible layer to the body fluids. Here, we report the simple preparation of the flux-limiting layer by the condensation of polyethyleneimine (PEI), tri-epoxide linker, and trimethylolpropane triglycidyl ether (PTGE). The sensor is constructed by a layer-by-layer drop-coating of the sensing layer containing glucose dehydrogenase and the PEI-derived blocking layer. It is stable for more than 14 days, which is enough for the sensor in the continuous monitor glucose monitoring (CGM) system.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.493-501
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• 2016

In-network storage is an effective technique for avoiding network congestion and reducing power consumption in continuous data collection in wireless sensor networks. In recent years, network coding based storage design has been proposed as a means to achieving ubiquitous access that permits any query to be satisfied by a few random (nearby) storage nodes. To maintain data consistency in continuous data collection applications, the readings of a sensor over time must be sent to the same set of storage nodes. In this paper, we present an efficient approach to updating data at storage nodes to maintain data consistency at the storage nodes without decoding out the old data and re-encoding with new data. We studied a transmission strategy that identifies a set of storage nodes for each source sensor that minimizes the transmission cost and achieves ubiquitous access by transmitting sparsely using the sparse matrix theory. We demonstrate that the problem of minimizing the cost of transmission with coding is NP-hard. We present an approximation algorithm based on regarding every storage node with memory size B as B tiny nodes that can store only one packet. We analyzed the approximation ratio of the proposed approximation solution, and compared the performance of the proposed coding approach with other coding schemes presented in the literature. The simulation results confirm that significant performance improvement can be achieved with the proposed transmission strategy.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 C
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• pp.922-924
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• 1998

In this paper, an optical fiber sensor(OF sensor) utilizing the principal of Mach-Zehnder interferometer were proposed to detect the partial discharge signals in insulating oil. At first the AC breakdown signals were detected to check the response of the OF sensor. The detected signals from OF sensor was consistent with that from current probe. After the response checking, simultaneous measurements and continuous recording were made of electrical and the OF sensor signals from partial discharge(PD) produced by IEC(b) electrode system immersed in insulating oil. The continuous recording made it possible to extract basic quantities of PD from the OF sensor signals, such as pulse phase and pulse amplitude distribution. Through the signal analysis, the absolute peaks of the OF sensor PD signal was found to be increased with the amplitude of electrical signals, and these results mean that there is a strong correlation between OF sensor and electrical PD signals. It was demonstrated that the OF sensor in this research had a possibility to detect the PD signals in power apparatus.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.591-595
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• 2009

센서 네트워크에서 개체 검출과 추적에 관한 기존 라우팅 프로토콜들은 사람, 동물, 차량 등과 같은 하나 또는 그 이상의 단일(individual) 개체들에 대한 검출과 추적을 하기 위한 방법에만 관심을 가질 뿐, 독가스, 생화학물질 등과 같은 연속적인 개체들을 검출하고 추적하는 프로토콜들은 많지 않다. 이러한 연속적인 개체들은 어느 지역에 계속적으로 분산되어 있고, 광범위한 지역을 차지한다는 점에서 단일 개체들과 차이가 있다. 따라서 많은 센서 노드들에 의해 검출되고 센싱되는 데이터들은 중복적이고 서로 깊이 관련되어 있다. 그러므로 지역적으로 센싱 데이터를 수집하고 통합하여 데이터를 보고하기 위한 효율적인 방안이 필요하다. 본 논문에서 우리는 연속적인 개체들을 검출, 추적하고 모니터링(monitoring)하기 위한 동적인 직사각형 영역에 기반한 연속적인 개체 추적 방안을 제안한다. 제안된 방안은 하나의 연속된 개체가 차지한 지역이 포함된 동적인 직사각형 영역을 구성하고, 영역에서 하나의 대표 노드가 연속된 개체를 검출하는 센서 노드들로부터 센싱 데이터를 수집하고 통합한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권11B호
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• pp.685-692
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• 2007

최근 무선 통신과 전자 기기의 발전으로 초소형이고 고성능이며 저렴한 센서 노드 개발이 가능해졌다. 무선 센서 네트워크(Wireless Sensor Networks: WSN)는 환경 감지 및 데이터 처리를 할 수 있으며 무선 통신이 가능한 많은 센서 노드들로 구성된다. 본 논문은 WSN에서 사용자의 질의들을 처리하기 위한 복합 질의 처리(Hybrid Query Processing: HQP) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 연속 질의만을 고려한 기존 연구와는 달리, HQP는 연속 질의 (continuous query)와 순간 질의(ad-hoc query)를 모두 지원한다. 구체적으로, HQP는 앞서 실행된 연속 질의의 실행 결과로 각 센서 노드에 캐싱된 데이터를 이용하여 순간 질의의 실행에 사용되는 에너지 소비를 줄일 수 있도록 한다. 뿐만 아니라 질의 결과의 정확도와 소비된 에너지 수준 사이에서 적절한 trade-off를 제공한다. 다양한 WSN 환경에서 모의실험을 수행하여 HQP의 성능을 분석한다.