• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.21
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• pp.219-219
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• 2008

Energy harvesting from the environment has been of great interest as a standalone power source of wireless sensor nodes for ubiquitous sensor networks (USN). There are several power generating methods such as thermal gradients, solar cell, energy produced by human action, mechanical vibration energy, and so on. Most of all, mechanical vibration is easily accessible and has no limitation of weather and environment of outdoor or indoor. In particular, the piezoelectric energy harvesting from ambient vibration sources has attracted attention because it has a relative high power density comparing with other energy scavenging methods. Through recent advances in low power consumption RF transmitters and sensors, it is possible to adopt a micro-power energy harvesting system realized by MEMS technology for the system-on-chip. However, the MEMS energy harvesting system hassome drawbacks such as a high natural frequency over 300 Hz and a small power generation due to a small dimension. To overcome these limitations, we devised a novel power generator with a spiral spring structure. In this case, the energy harvester has a lower natural frequency under 200 Hz than a normal cantilever structure. Moreover, it has higher an energy conversion efficient because shear mode ($d_{15}$) is much larger than 33 mode ($d_{33}$) and the energy conversion efficiency is proportional to the piezoelectric constant (d). We expect the spiral type MEMS power generator would be a good candidate as a standalone power generator for USN.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1357-1372
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• 2017

Energy harvesting techniques, particularly radio frequency energy harvesting (RF-EH) techniques, which are known to provide feasible solutions to enhance the performance of energy constrained wireless communication systems, have gained increasing attention. In this paper, we consider a wireless-powered cooperative communication network (WPCCN) for transferring energy in the downlink and forwarding signals in the uplink. The objective is to maximize the average transmission rate of the system, subject to the total network power constraint. We formulate such a problem as a form of wireless energy transmission based on resource allocation that searches for the joint subcarrier pairing and the time and power allocation, and this can be solved by using a dual approach. Simulation results show that the proposed joint optimal scheme can efficiently improve system performance with an increase in the number of subcarriers and relays.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권10호
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• pp.1912-1921
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 IoT 환경에서의 RF 무선 에너지 전송을 실험할 수 있는 테스트베드 구현 방안에 대해 설명하고 이를 이용한 실험 결과를 소개한다. 본 논문에서 고려하는 IoT 환경은 마이크로파를 통해 무선으로 에너지를 전송할 수 있는 전력 비콘(power beacon)과 이로부터 에너지를 수신 받아 동작하는 다수의 센서 노드로 구성되어 있다. 이러한 IoT 환경에서 RF 에너지 전송을 실험하기 위한 테스트베드를 구현하였으며 주로 상용 제품으로 테스트베드를 구성하고 소프트웨어를 통한 제어를 가능하게 함으로써 다양한 에너지 및 데이터 전송 프로토콜 실험을 수행할 수 있는 환경을 쉽게 구축할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 테스트베드를 통한 실험 결과를 소개하고 향후 테스트베드 활용 방안에 대해 논의한다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2010년도 춘계학술회의 초록집
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• pp.7-7
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• 2010

Energy harvesting from the environment has been of great interest as a standalone power source of wireless sensor nodes for Ubiquitous Sensor Networks(USN). In particular, the piezoelectric energy harvesting from ambient vibration sources has intensively researched because it has a relatively high power density comparing with other energy scavenging methods. Through recent advances in low power consumption RF transmitters and sensors, it is possible to adopt a micro-power energy harvesting system realized by MEMS technology for the system-on-chip. However, the MEMS energy harvesting system has some drawbacks such as a high natural frequency over 300 Hz and a small power generation due to a small dimension. To overcome these limitations, we devised a novel power generator with a spiral spring structure as shown in the figure. The natural frequency of a cantilever could be decreased to the usable frequency region (under 300 Hz) because the natural frequency depends on the length of a cantilever. In this study, the natural frequency of the energy harvester was a lower than a normal cantilever structure and sufficiently controllable in 50 - 200 Hz frequency region as adjusting weight of a proof mass. Moreover, the MEMS energy harvester had a high energy conversion efficiency using a shear mode ($d_{15}$) is much larger than a 33 mode ($d_{33}$) and the energy conversion efficiency is proportional to the piezoelectric constant (d). We expect the spiral type MEMS power generator would be a good candidate for a standalone power generator for USN.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.917-922
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• 2016

RF신호로부터 전력을 수집하는 에너지 하베스팅 기술은 센서의 전원 공급 문제를 해결함으로써 네트워크의 수명을 향상시킬 수 있는 방안으로 최근 큰 관심을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선 정보 및 전력 동시 전송을 위한 효율적인 알고리즘을 제안하고자 한다. 먼저, 에너지 하베스팅 네트워크에서 채널의 probability density function을 이용하여 water-level의 하계값을 찾은 후, 이를 기반으로 파워 할당 해를 도출한다. 또한, 최소 필요 획득 에너지 조건을 효율적으로 만족시켜줄 수 있는 파워 분할 방안을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안 방안은 기존 방안에 비해 최소 필요 획득 에너지 조건을 보장하면서 평균 데이터 전송률을 향상시키고, 최적해에 비해서는 10% 미만의 미미한 성능 저하가 있었지만 계산 복잡도를 현저히 줄일 수 있음을 보인다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.1277-1282
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• 2016

차세대 무선 통신 시스템에서는 RF 에너지 하베스팅 기술을 이용하여 센서의 전원 부족 문제를 해결하고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 채널 추정 오차가 존재하는 에너지 하베스팅 네트워크에서 무선 정보 및 전력 동시 전송을 위한 효율적인 알고리즘을 제안하고자 한다. 먼저, 1차원의 완전 검색을 통해 최적의 채널 추정 주기를 찾은 후, MMSE 채널 추정기를 이용하여 채널을 추정한다. 추정된 채널 값을 기반으로, 최소 필요 획득 에너지 조건을 만족시켜주면서 데이터 전송률을 최대화할 수 있는 파워 할당 및 분할 방안을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안 방안은 완벽한 채널 추정을 가정한 최적 방안에 비해 10% 미만의 성능 저하가 있었지만, 기존 방안과 비교할 시에는 데이터 전송률을 20% 이상 향상시킴을 확인 하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.171-176
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• 2016

In this study, we investigate the physical layer secrecy performance of RF energy harvesting (EH) networks over Rayleigh fading channels. The RF-EH system considered here consists of one power transfer station, one source, one destination, and multiple passive eavesdroppers. The source harvests energy from the power transfer station and transmits the information to the destination by using a time switching-based relaying protocol. The eavesdroppers try to extract the transmitted information without an active attack. By using the statistical characteristics of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the exact closed-form expressions of the existence probability of the secrecy capacity and the secrecy outage probability are derived. Further, we analyze the secrecy performance of the system with respect to various system parameters, such as the location of the system elements and the number of eavesdroppers. Finally, the equivalent Monte Carlo simulation results are provided to confirm the correctness of our calculations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.545-563
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• 2015

Energy harvesting (EH) and network coding (NC) have emerged as two promising technologies for future wireless networks. In this paper, we combine them together in a single system and then present a time switching-based network coding relaying (TSNCR) protocol for the two-way relay system, where an energy constrained relay harvests energy from the transmitted radio frequency (RF) signals from two sources, and then helps the two-way relay information exchange between the two sources with the consumption of the harvested energy. To evaluate the system performance, we derive an explicit expression of the outage probability for the proposed TSNCR protocol. In order to explore the system performance limit, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the system outage probability. Since the problem is non-convex and cannot be directly solved, we design a genetic algorithm (GA)-based optimization algorithm for it. Numerical results validate our theoretical analysis and show that in such an EH two-way relay system, if NC is applied, the system outage probability can be greatly decreased. Moreover, it is shown that the relay position greatly affects the system performance of TSNCR, where relatively worse outage performance is achieved when the relay is placed in the middle of the two sources. This is the first time to observe such a phenomena in EH two-way relay systems.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.297-303
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 다중대역 렉테나가 장착된 RF 에너지 수집 시스템의 성능 확인에 사용되는 광대역 이중리지 혼 안테나를 다중모드 회로망 분석을 이용하여 효율적으로 설계하는 방법을 제안하고 있다. 다중모드 회로망 분석을 이용하여 천이장치와 혼에 대한 각각의 고차모드 산란 파라미터를 얻어 설계에 적용하였다. 그 결과 기존 방법에 비해 계산시간이 많이 단축되었으며 안테나의 정재파비를 계산한 결과 전자기장 해석을 적용한 것과 거의 유사하였으며, 측정치와 높은 일치도를 보였다. 설계된 광대역 혼 안테나는 660~6360 MHz 대역폭과 6~13.7 dBi의 최대 방사 이득을 가진다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4223-4239
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• 2016

In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) full-duplex relay network (FDRN) using simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, where a battery-free relay node harvests energy from the received radio frequency (RF) signals from a source node and uses the harvested energy to forward the source information to destination node. The time-switching relaying (TSR) protocol is studied, with the assumption that the channel state information (CSI) at the relay node is imperfect. We deliver a rigorous analysis of the outage probability of the proposed system. Based on the outage probability expressions, the optimal time switching factor are obtained via the numerical search method. The simulation and numerical results provide practical insights into the effect of various system parameters, such as the time switching factor, the noise power, the energy harvesting efficiency, and the channel estimation error on the performance of this network. It is also observed that for the imperfect CSI case, the proposed scheme still can provide acceptable outage performance given that the channel estimation error is bounded in a permissible interval.