• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.901-920
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• 2015

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely used in geographically isolated applications like military border area monitoring, battle field surveillance, forest fire detection systems, etc. Uninterrupted power supply is not possible in isolated locations and hence sensor nodes live on their own battery power. Localization of sensor nodes in isolated locations is important to identify the location of event for further actions. Existing localization algorithms consume more energy at sensor nodes for computation and communication thereby reduce the lifetime of entire WSNs. Existing approaches also suffer with less localization coverage and localization accuracy. The objective of the proposed work is to increase the lifetime of WSNs while increasing the localization coverage and localization accuracy. A novel intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle anchor node (IUAN) is proposed to reduce the communication cost at sensor nodes during localization. Further, the localization computation cost is reduced at each sensor node by the proposed intelligent arc selection (IAS) algorithm. IUANs construct the location-distance messages (LDMs) for sensor nodes deployed in isolated locations and reach the Control Station (CS). Further, the CS aggregates the LDMs from different IUANs and computes the position of sensor nodes using IAS algorithm. The life time of WSN is analyzed in this paper to prove the efficiency of the proposed localization approach. The proposed localization approach considerably extends the lifetime of WSNs, localization coverage and localization accuracy in isolated environments.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose the algorithms which determine 1) the efficient anchor-node visiting route of mobile sink in terms of energy supply and 2) the efficient energy amount to be charged to each anchor node, by using the information of each anchor node and the mobile sink. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) using mobile sinks can be deployed in more challenging environments such as those that are isolated or dangerous, and can also achieve a balanced energy consumption among sensors which leads to prolong the network lifetime. Most mobile sinks visit only some anchor nodes which store the data collected by the nearby sensor nodes because of their limited energy. The problem of these schemes is that the lifetime of the anchor nodes can be shorten due to the increased energy consumption, which rapidly reduces the overall lifetime of WSN. This study utilizes a mobile sink capable of wireless power transmission to solve this problem, so a mobile sink can gather data from anchor nodes while charging energy to them. Through the performance verification, it is confirmed that the number of blackout nodes and the amount of collected data are greatly improved regardless of the size of the network.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.14-24
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• 2010

무선 센서 네트워크에서는 센서 노드의 제한된 자원으로 동작하기 때문에 클러스터 기반의 라우팅 방법을 통해 네트워크의 수명을 향상시키고 있다. 본 논문에서는 클러스터 기반의 라우팅 기법이 가진 에너지 효율을 최대화하기 위해 방향, 거리, 밀도, 그리고 잔여 에너지량을 사용하고자 한다. 상위 클러스터 헤드의 방향 정보를 이용하여 새로운 클러스터 헤드를 자율적으로 선출할 때 고립 노드의 발생 빈도를 최소화하고, 거리 정보를 이용하여 셋업 단계에서 새로운 클러스터와 이전의 클러스터 모두에 포함되어 정보를 갱신할 필요가 없는 센서 노드들을 슬립 모드로 전환하여 에너지 소모를 줄이며, 단지 새로 가입되는 센서노드만 정보 교환함으로써 불필요한 에너지 소비를 줄이고자 한다. 뿐만 아니라, 클러스터 기반의 라우팅 기법에서 내부나 외부의 공격에 강한 키 관리 기법을 통해 안전하고 에너지 효율적인 통신이 가능하도록하여 전체적인 네트워크 효율을 높이고자 한다. 따라서 전체 네트워크내의 멤버들에게 클러스터 헤드가 될 수 있는 안전하고 균등한 기회를 주고자 하는 클러스터 헤드 선출 기법을 제안한다.