• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.77-84
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• 2011

In this paper we implement a 6LoWPAN protocol on the MICAz sensor platform, which could minimize packet re-transmission, and support security primitives for packet integrity and confidentiality. And we also present a performance evaluation of the implemented protocol calculated according to the cryptographic algorithms. In the re-transmission method, time stamp, nonce, and checksum are considered to protect replay attacks. As cryptographic algorithms, AES, 3DES, SHA2, and SHA1 are implemented. If transmission errors (thus, packet losses) and the number of hops are increase then, packet re-transmissions are increase exponentially from the experimental results. Also, the result shows that cryptographic operations take more time than packet re-transmission time.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.95-106
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• 2010

Many researches have been performed to increase energy-efficiency in wireless sensor networks. One of primary research topics is about clustering protocols, which are adopted to configure sensor networks in the form of hierarchical structures by grouping sensor nodes into a cluster. However, legacy clustering protocols do not propose detailed methods from the perspective of implementation to determine a cluster's boundary and configure a cluster, and to communicate among clusters. Moreover, many of them involve assumptions inappropriate to apply those to a sensor field. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a new T-Clustering (Top-down Clustering) protocol, which takes into considerations a node's density, a distance between cluster heads, and remained energy of a node all together. Our proposal is a sink-node oriented top-down clustering protocol, and can form uniform clusters throughout the network. Further, it provides re-clustering functions according to the state of a network. In order to verify our protocol's feasibility, we have implemented and experimented T-Clustering protocol on Crossbow's MICAz nodes which are executed on TinyOS 2.0.2.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1065-1068
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• 2009

유비쿼터스(Ubiquitous) 시대의 도래와 함께 무선 센서 네트워크기반 연구가 다방면에서 활발히 진행되고 있다. 또한 센서 네트워크를 이용한 산업이 활발하다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 시대에 걸맞게 센서 네트워크 기술을 이용한 침입 탐지 시스템을 제안하고, 이를 구현하였다. 이에 MICAz모트를 이용하여 설계하였으며 조도, 가속도센서와 RF신호를 이용하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.307-312
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• 2007

Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) is considered as a core technology necessary for Ubiquitous computing, with its numerous possible applications in many practical areas, is being researched and studied actively by many around the world. WSN utilizes wireless sensors spatially placed to gather information regarding temperature, light condition, motion and change in speed of the objects within their surrounding environment. This paper implements an environmental information monitoring and indexing system based on spatial indexing technique by constructing a WSN system. This Multi-Query Indexing Technique coupled with wireless sensors provides an output based on the pre-defined built-in data index and new input from the sensors. If environment data is occured, system have to perform a proper action after collecting and analyzing this data. This is the purpose of implementing environment data monitoring system. We constructed environmental application using TinyOS and built tested with MICAz sensor bords. We designed and implemented a monitoring system which detects and multi-indexing process environmental data from distributed sensors.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.2966-2975
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• 2013

Everything has been simplified and abbreviated. The stream of times can be found through the smart phones since the ubiquitous world has be mentioned by Mark Webber. Judging by the flow of times, it's easy to predict that it will be more developed in the future. There are several ways of the development and one of them is to click a button in everything. For this study, the MaKey of MIT MELIALAB shows the possibility. As applying the study of clicking a button in everything, this paper proposes the Smart Lighting Control System using the u-Button. For the actual implementation, u-Button Module with MICAz and various sensors, Actuator Node composed of ZigBeX and LED Module are produced.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.9-21
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• 2008

In this paper, we revisit a generally accepted opinion: implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC) over GF$(2^m)$ on sensor motes using small word size is not appropriate because partial XOR multiplication over GF$(2^m)$ is not efficiently supported by current low-powered microprocessors. Although there are some implementations over GF$(2^m)$ on sensor motes, their performances are not satisfactory enough due to the redundant memory accesses that result in inefficient field multiplication and reduction. Therefore, we propose some techniques for reducing unnecessary memory access instructions. With the proposed strategies, the running time of field multiplication and reduction over GF$(2^{163})$ can be decreased by 21.1% and 24.7%, respectively. These savings noticeably decrease execution times spent in Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) operations (Signing and verification) by around $15{\sim}19%$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.595-599
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• 2006

센서 네트워크는 주로 물리적인 공간의 모니터링이나 위치 추적과 같은 주변의 정보를 얻고자 하는 환경에 사용되며, 이러한 정보는 비대칭적이고 비신뢰적인 무선 링크로 인해 불필요한 재전송을 요구하고 많은 손실이 발생한다. 이 때문에 신뢰적이고 에너지 효율적인 링크를 선택하기 위해 RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator), LQI(Link Quality Indicator)를 이용하여 무선 링크에 대한 품질을 추정하는 기법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 그 일차적인 단계로써 단일 홉 무선 센서 네트워크에서 MICAZ에 구현된 RSSI, LQI 값을 이용하여 노드간 무선 링크 품질을 모니터링하는 응용을 구현하였다. 구현 시나리오는 무선 링크의 비대칭성을 고려하기 위해, 순방향 링크 품질의 경우 센서 플랫폼이 BS로부터 수신한 요구 메시지의 RSSI, LQI 값을 응답 메시지에 캡슐화하여 BS로 전송하도록 하였고, 역방향 링크 품질의 경우 BS가 센서 플랫폼으로부터 수신한 응답 메시지의 RSSI, LQI 값을 기반으로 하였다. 또한 BS로 취합된 이러한 두 링크 품질을 PC상에 시각적으로 표시하기 위해 자바 기반의 링크 품질을 모니터링하는 응용을 구현하였다. 간단한 실험을 통해 RSSI, LQI로 얻은 무선 링크의 품질과 특성을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.323-326
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• 2008

This paper describes some field multiplication algorithm over GF($2^m$) on 8-bit processor. Through performance comparisons among algorithm, we show that our proposal is faster than existing algorithms. The proposed algorithm save 26.38% of running time compared with naive comb multiplication algorithm which is a kind of lookup-table (LUT) based algorithm. With the proposed algorithm, a scalar multiplication over GF($2^{163}$) can be computed within 1.04 secs on 8-bit MICAz sensor mote.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.6 no.5_6
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• pp.525-543
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• 2010

Testing and validation processes are critical tasks in developing a new hardware platform based on a new technology. This paper describes a series of experiments to evaluate the performance of a newly developed MEMS-based wireless sensor node as part of a wireless sensor network (WSN). The sensor node consists of a sensor board with four accelerometers, a thermometer and filtering and digitization units, and a MICAz mote for control, local computation and communication. The experiments include calibration and linearity tests for all sensor channels on the sensor boards, dynamic range tests to evaluate their performance when subjected to varying excitation, noise characteristic tests to quantify the noise floor of the sensor board, and temperature tests to study the behavior of the sensors under changing temperature profiles. The paper also describes a large-scale deployment of the WSN on a long-span suspension bridge, which lasted over three months and continuously collected ambient vibration and temperature data on the bridge. Statistical modal properties of a bridge tower are presented and compared with similar estimates from a previous deployment of sensors on the bridge and finite element models.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.514-527
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• 2009

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used in various applications for military or environmental purpose. Recently, there are lots of on-going researches for detecting and tracking the spread of continuous objects or phenomena such as poisonous gas, wildfires, earthquakes, and so on. Some previous work has proposed techniques to detect edge nodes of such a continuous object based on the information of all the 1-hop neighbor nodes. In those techniques, however, a number of nodes are redundantly selected as edge nodes, and thus, the boundary of the continuous object cannot be presented accurately. In this paper, we propose a new edge detection method in which edge nodes of the continuous object are detected based on the information of the neighbor nodes obtained via the Localized Delaunay Triangulation so that a minimum number of nodes are selected as edge nodes. We also define the sensor behavior rule for tracking continuous objects energy-efficiently. Our simulation results show that the proposed edge detection method provides enhanced performance compared with previous 1-hop neighbor node based methods. On the average, the accuracy is improved by 29.95% while the number of edge nodes, the amount of communication messages and energy consumption are reduced by 54.43%, 79.36% and 72.34%, respectively. Moreover, the number of edge nodes decreases by 48.38% on the average in our field test with MICAz motes.