• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11B
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• pp.1272-1282
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• 2009

This paper consists of two parts: the protocol for tag-to-tag mesh network and the implementation of dual-radio RFID system. Recently, RFID has been adopted in ports or warehouse, being attached to containers and palettes for loading/unloading automation. However, the RFID system has encountered one problem - some tags cannot receive any command from reader intermittently due to signal interference by containers or field equipments (e. g. cranes and yard tractors). This area where reader signal cannot reach is called dead-zone. The proposed method for solving the dead-zone problem is as follows. A zone which can be communicated directly between readers and tags communicates in 433MHz frequency band in compliance with ISO/IEC 18000-7 standard. On the other hand, dead-zone communicates in 2.4GHz frequency band by using tag-to-tag mesh network in compliance with IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The proposed method can not only save much cost to install additional readers but also help resolve the dead-zone problem. Furthermore, it can provide the easier, faster, and more economical network infrastructure.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.73-83
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• 2010

This paper investigates protocol architecture of a Web-ZigBee gateway for interconnecting TCP/IP-based networks and ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4-based wireless sensor networks. The Web-ZigBee gateway delivers data between the TCP/IP network and the ZigBee network. Since those two networks have different communication protocols, a protocol translation mechanism is needed. Herein, we propose a method to deliver query messages from the Internet to the sensor network and receive data from sensors. The protocol translation is performed in the translation layer that is placed above the two application layers, i.e., the Internet application layer and ZigBee application layer. Among various interfaces, we use CGI programming to take care of translation functions efficiently. The CGI manages query information from a client on the Internet and data from the ZigBee sensor network. Whereas the TCP/IP enabled sensor network overlays two heterogeneous communication protocols, overlaying layers increase the complexity and cost of implementing the sensor network. On the contrary, the sensors in our gateway-based system are not only light (because each communication protocol works independently without overlaying), but also efficient because the translation layer mostly alleviates header overloading.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.3571-3577
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• 2010

The estimated location coordinator exploration scheme and the E&E(Equivalent distance rate & Estimated location coordinator exploration) compensation algorithm for localization is proposed, and the performance of the E&E is analyzed in this paper. The proposed scheme is adapted to the AEDR(Algorithm for localization using the concept of Equivalent Distance Rate). From several experiments, it is confirmed that the performance of the localization compensation in SDS-TWR is improved from 0.60m to 0.34m in four experimental scenarios, and the performance of the localization compensation ratio of the E&E is also better than that of the AEDR as a level of maximum 15%. It can be thought that the proposed localization compensation algorithm E&E can be sufficiently applicable to various localization applications because the performance of the localization error rate of the E&E is measured as less than 1m in 99% of the total performance experiments.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.27-37
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• 2010

최근 들어 무선 센서네트워크는 온/습도 관리와 같은 단순한 기능의 저전력 모니터링 서비스에서 시의성과 무선 전송의 신뢰성을 요구하는 산업 자동화 서비스 및 스마트 그리드와 같이 통신 거리를 확장한 옥외 서비스를 위한 기술로 서비스 영역을 넓혀가고 있다. 무선 센서네트워크 기술은 자원의 제약에 기인한 고유의 특성을 갖는다. 특히 전송 계층 기술은 이러한 제약 사항을 고려하여 설계되어야 하며, 상위 계층 기술의 성능은 전송기술에 대한 성능적 의존성을 가질 수 밖에 없다. 본 고에서는 최근 무선센서 네트워크 서비스 확대를 위한 시장의 요구사항을 반영하여 표준화가 진행되고 있는 시의성/신뢰성 향상을 위한 IEEE 802 WG15의 TG4e MAC 기술과 스마트 유틸리티 네트워크를 위한 TG4g SUN PHY 기술에 대한 표준화 활동을 중심으로 표준 기술 동향을 소개하고 이에 대한 표준 전략을 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.114-116
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• 2006

XCP (eXtensive Control Protocol) is an information oriented protocol which delivers information with high reliability according to the predefined rule. XCP network system can be implemented on top of several physical layer such as power line, IEEE 802.15.4 and so on. In this paper. a monitoring software that evaluates the reliability and performance of the XCP network is designed and implemented. This paper presents the structure and method of the packet monitoring in the network through several interfaces such as RS-232, ethernet.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.594-598
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• 2003

In this paper, we analyze the performance of UWB(Ultra-WideBand) communication system employing Bi-phase modulation and RAKE Receiver under the MAI(Multiple Access Interference) and the OSI(Other System Interference) environment. Using the multi-path channel model recommended by IEEE P802.15.TG3a, the performance degradation Is described with the number of users, the number of RAKE fingers and training sequences. To meet BER 10e-4 for 20 users at the same time, the number of RAKE fingers are proposed from 3 to 32. And the number of training sequences are limited less than 8 to keep the channel estimation error within 3dB

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.24-32
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• 2007

지금까지 센서노드에 TCP/IP를 운용하는 것은 과도한 시스템 자원을 요구하기 때문에 부적절한 선택이라고 생각해 왔다. 그러나, 최소한의 기능만을 가진 TCP/IP를 센서 노드에 적용하여도 센서노드가 동작할 수 있으므로 센서 네트워크에 IP 기술을 접목시키려는 연구가 진행되고 있고, 이에 대한 표준 기술의 필요성이 대두되게 되었다. IETF 6LoWPAN WG는 L2 Layer에 IEEE 802.15.4를 기반으로 하는 센서 네트워크에 IPv6를 지원하기 위한 이슈를 다루는 그룹으로서 저전력, $20{\sim}250kbps$의 데이터 전송률, $900{\sim}2400MHz$의 주파수 대역에서 최소형 메모리와 최소형 프로세서만을 장착한 센서 응용을 대상으로 하고 있다. 이 그룹은 국제 표준화 기구 중 대표적으로 IP 기반의 센서 네트워크에 대한 표준 기술을 다루고 있는 그룹으로서, 우리나라에서 6LoWPAN 기술은 USN 기술에 IP를 도입한 IP-USN이라는 개념으로 소개되어 연구개발되고 있다. 본 고에서는 6LoWPAN WG에서 개발한 표준 기술을 소개하고, 향후 WG의 표준화 방향에 대하여 살펴본다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.4429-4445
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• 2019

As low-power and low-rate WSNs are being widely used for industrial applications, the scheduling of such applications becomes a critical issue to guarantee meeting the stringent requirements of determinism and tight latencies. This paper studies the link scheduling problem for real-time industrial applications in time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) networks. We propose a heuristic algorithm for centralized link scheduling referred to as path-collision aware least laxity first (PC-LLF) algorithm, which dynamically prioritizes the packets based on the laxity time to the end-to-end deadlines and the amount of collisions that messages might deal with along their designated paths to the destination device. We propose schedulability analysis of real-time applications scheduled under our prioritization approach over TSCH networks, based on the literature on real-time schedulability analysis of multiprocessors and distributed systems. We show that our methodology provides an improved schedulability condition with respect to the existing approaches. Performance evaluation studies quantify to quantify the performance of our proposed approach under a variety of scenarios.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.73-82
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• 2016

In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), the performance of the transmission control protocol (TCP) at the secondary user (SU) severely drops due to the mistrigger of congestion control. A long disruption is caused by the transmission of primary user, leading to the mistrigger. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer approach, called a CR-aware scheme that enhances TCP performance at the SU. The scheme is a sender side addition to the standard TCP (i.e., TCP-NewReno), and utilizes an explicit cross-layer signal delivered from a physical (or link) layer and the signal gives an indication of detecting the primary transmission (i.e., transmission of the primary user). We evaluated our scheme by implementing it onto a software radio platform, the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), where many parts of lower layer operations (i.e., operations in a link or physical layer) run as user processes. In our implementation, we ran our CR-aware scheme over IEEE 802.15.4. Furthermore, for the purpose of comparison, we implemented a selective ACK-based local recovery scheme that helps TCP isolate congestive loss from a random loss in a wireless section.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.1528-1543
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• 2011

With increasing the using of wireless technologies in essential fields such as the medical application, this paper proposes different scenarios for the transmission of images over wireless networks. The paper uses the IEEE ZigBee 802.15.4 for applying the proposed schemes. It is a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). This paper presents a novel chaotic interleaving scheme against error bursts. Also, the paper studies the proposed interleaver with the convolutional code with different constraint lengths (K). A comparison study between the standard scheme and proposed schemes for image transmission over a correlated fading channel is presented. The simulation results show the superiority of the proposed chaotic interleaving scheme over the traditional schemes. Also, the chaotic interleaver packet-by-packet basis gives a high quality image with (K=3) and reduces the need for the complex encoder with K=7.