• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2019

A wireless sensor network is emerging technology and intelligent wireless communication paradigm that is dynamically aware of its surrounding environment. It is also able to respond to it in order to achieve reliable and efficient communication. The dynamical cognition capability and environmental adaptability rely on organizing dynamical networks effectively. However, optimally clustering the cognitive wireless sensor networks is an NP-complete problem. The objective of this paper is to develop an optimal sensor network design for maximizing the performance. This proposed Ranking Artificial Bee Colony (RABC) is developed based on Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) with ranking strategy. The ranking strategy can make the much better solutions by combining the best solutions so far and add these solutions in the solution population when applying ABC. RABC is designed to adapt to topological changes to any network graph in a time. We can minimize the total energy dissipation of sensors to prolong the lifetime of a network to balance the energy consumption of all nodes with robust optimal solution. Simulation results show that the performance of our proposed RABC is better than those of previous methods (LEACH, LEACH-C, and etc.) in wireless sensor networks. Our proposed method is the best for the 100 node-network example when the Sink node is centrally located.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.1778-1786
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• 2009

Many sensor network applications have been developed for smart home, disaster management, and a wide range of other applications. These applications, however, generally assume a fixed base station as well as fixed sensor nodes. Previous research on sensor networks mainly focused on efficient transmission of data from sensors to fixed sink nodes. Recently there has been active research on mobile sink nodes, sink mobility is one of the most comprehensive trends for information gathering in sensor networks, but the research of an environment where both fixed sink nodes and mobile sinks are present at the same time is rather scarce. This paper proposes a scheme for context-aware by ubiquitous devices with the sink functionality added through fixed sinks under a previously-built, cluster-based multi-hop sensor network environment. To this end, clustering of mobile devices were done based on the fixed sinks of a previously-built sensor network, and by using appropriate fixed sinks, context gathering was made possible. By mathematical comparison with TTDD routing protocol, which was proposed for mobile sinks, it was confirmed that performance increases by average 50% in energy with the number of mobile sinks, and with the number of movements by mobile devices.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.43-54
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• 2009

This study introduces a novel approach for locating damage in a structure using wireless sensor system with local level computational capability to alleviate data traffic load on the centralized computation. Smart wireless sensor systems, capable of iterative damage-searching, mimic an optimization process in a decentralized way. The proposed algorithm tries to detect damage in a structure by monitoring abnormal increases in strain measurements from a group of wireless sensors. Initially, this clustering technique provides a reasonably effective sensor placement within a structure. Sensor clustering also assigns a certain number of master sensors in each cluster so that they can constantly monitor the structural health of a structure. By adopting a voting system, a group of wireless sensors iteratively forages for a damage location as they can be activated as needed. Since all of the damage searching process occurs within a small group of wireless sensors, no global control or data traffic to a central system is required. Numerical simulation demonstrates that the newly developed searching algorithm implemented on wireless sensors successfully localizes stiffness damage in a plate through the local level reconfigurable function of smart sensors.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.1082-1092
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• 2008

무선 센서 네트워크에서 LEACH와 같은 클러스터링 프로토콜은 전체 네트워크의 수명을 연장시키는 효율적인 방법이지만 클러스터 헤드 노드에 높은 부하를 주게 되어 급격한 에너지 소모를 유발하는 문제가 있다. 따라서 클러스터의 구성과 클러스터 헤드 노드의 역할을 주기적으로 교체하여 네트워크의 수명을 연장시켰다. 그러나 이 방법은 클러스터를 구성하는 과정에서 상당한 량의 에너지 소모를 보인다. 따라서 본 논문은 소모되는 에너지의 효율성 증대를 위해 클러스터링 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 이 알고리즘에서 서로 인접한 노드들은 intra cluster를 이루며 이 클러스터를 구성하는 노드들은 라운드 로빈 형태로 데이터를 수집하고 전송한다. 전체 네트워크의 관점에서 볼 때 이 intra cluster는 한개의 노드로 취급된다. 한 라운드의 setup단계에서 intra cluster들은 클러스터 헤드(intra cluster)에 의해 다시 클러스터를 형성(network cluster)하게 된다. 클러스터 헤드가 된 intra cluster의 모든 멤버노드는 라운드 로빈 방식으로 클러스터 헤드 역할을 수행한다. 따라서 intra cluster의 크기에 의해 라운드의 주기를 연장할 수 있다. 또한 steady-state에서 각 intra cluster의 노드는 라운드 로빈 방식으로 데이터를 수집하며 network cluster의 클러스터 헤드에 전송한다. 성능분석 결과 제안하는 방법은 제안된 클러스터링 방법에 비해 노드들의 에너지 소모가 줄어들었으며 전송 효율이 증가하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.4883-4901
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• 2016

Energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is very appealing research area due to serious constrains on resources like storage, processing, and communication power of the sensor nodes. Due to limited capabilities of sensing nodes, such networks are composed of a large number of nodes. The higher number of nodes increases the overall performance in data collection from environment and transmission of packets among nodes. In such networks the nodes sense data and ultimately forward the information to a Base Station (BS). The main issues in WSNs revolve around energy consumption and delay in relaying of data. A lot of research work has been published in this area of achieving energy efficiency in the network. Various techniques have been proposed to divide such networks; like grid division of network, group based division, clustering, making logical layers of network, variable size clusters or groups and so on. In this paper a new technique of group based WSNs is proposed by using some features from recent published protocols i.e. "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEMDC)" and "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEUC)". The proposed work is not only energy-efficient but also minimizes the delay in relaying of data from the sensor nodes to BS. Simulation results show, that it outperforms LEACH protocol by 38%, EEMDC by 10% and EEUC by 13%.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.1873-1893
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• 2023

The development of lightweight, low energy and small-sized sensors incorporated with the wireless networks has brought about a phenomenal growth of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in its different fields of applications. Moreover, the routing of data is crucial in a wide number of critical applications that includes ecosystem monitoring, military and disaster management. However, the time-delay, energy imbalance and minimized network lifetime are considered as the key problems faced during the process of data transmission. Furthermore, only when the functionality of cluster head selection is available in WSNs, it is possible to improve energy and network lifetime. Besides that, the task of cluster head selection is regarded as an NP-hard optimization problem that can be effectively modelled using hybrid metaheuristic approaches. Due to this reason, an Improved Coyote Optimization Algorithm-based Clustering Technique (ICOACT) is proposed for extending the lifetime for making efficient choices for cluster heads while maintaining a consistent balance between exploitation and exploration. The issue of premature convergence and its tendency of being trapped into the local optima in the Improved Coyote Optimization Algorithm (ICOA) through the selection of center solution is used for replacing the best solution in the search space during the clustering functionality. The simulation results of the proposed ICOACT confirmed its efficiency by increasing the number of alive nodes, the total number of clusters formed with the least amount of end-to-end delay and mean packet loss rate.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.252-258
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• 2013

WSN (Wireless sensor network)은 에너지 제한적인 네트워크이기에 노드의 에너지 효율성이 중요한 문제이다. 라운드 단위로 동작하는 클러스터링은 노드의 먼 거리 통신을 피할 수 있기에 네트워크 수명을 증가시키는 효율적인 방법이며 그 성능은 라운드 시간에 좌우된다. 짧은 라운드 시간은 잦은 클러스터 재구성을 발생시키고 반면 긴 라운드 시간은 클러스터 헤드의 에너지 소비를 증가시킨다. 그래서 현존하는 클러스터링 기법들은 네트워크 초기 변수들을 기반으로 적절한 라운드 시간을 결정한다. 하지만 무선 센서 네트워크는 운용 특성 상 노드가 추가될 수도 혹은 사라질 수도 있는 동적인 네트워크이기에 네트워크 전체 수명에 대해 네트워크 구성 초기 파라미터를 계속 적용하는 것은 적절치 못하다. 본 논문에서는 현재 필드에 살아있는 노드의 수를 기반으로 라운드 시간을 계산하는 방법을 제안하여 노드 수가 변화할 수 있는 동적인 네트워크에 적응하도록 하였다. 성능 분석 결과 기존에 비해 노드의 에너지 소비량이 감소하였으며 수신되는 데이터 손실도 감소함을 확인하였다.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제15권3_1호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2015

최근 무선 센서 네트워크(WSN : Wireless Sensor Network)에서 센서노드의 에너지 소모 균등성과 효율성을 향상시켜 전제 네트워크의 수명을 최대화하기 위한 다양한 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜들이 제안되고 있다. 특히, 멀티홉기법이 향상된 에너지 효율성과 실제 적용 가능한 모델로 큰 각광받고 있다. 멀티-홉 기법에서는 센서 노드사이 거리에 따라 발송 에너지 능동조절 가능하다고 가정한다. 그러나 무선센서의 물리적 특성을 고려해보면 멀티-홉 기법의 이 가정은 현재 기술로 실제 실현하기 어렵다. 이 논문에서는 센서노드의 전파범위를 기반으로 에너지 효율성을 향상시킨 저 전력 클러스터링 기법을 제안한다. 제안기법은 에너지 효율적이고 기존기법보다 실제 무선센서네트워크에 적용하기 용이하다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.346-350
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• 2010

현재, Zigbee환경에서 센서 노드는 자원 제약적인 특성 때문에 효율성을 높이기 위한 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다.[1] 계층적 구조를 가지는 클러스터링 기법은 정보의 중복 전달 방지와 네트워크 확장 용이성을 제공한다.[2] 그러나 클러스터 헤더 선출 시 오버헤드 발생하며 잘못된 클러스터 헤더 선출은 자원을 효율적으로 사용할 수 없다는 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 계층적 클러스터링 기법에서 노드의 위치나 에너지 정보를 싱크노드에서 알고 있는 중앙 처리식을 활용하여 거리와 노드의 밀도를 기반으로 하는 클러스터 헤더의 선출기법을 제안하고자 한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2469-2490
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• 2019

A low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) protocol is a low-power adaptive cluster routing protocol which was proposed by MIT's Chandrakasan for sensor networks. In the LEACH protocol, the selection mode of cluster-head nodes is a random selection of cycles, which may result in uneven distribution of nodal energy and reduce the lifetime of the entire network. Hence, we propose a new selection method to enhance the lifetime of network, in this selection function, the energy consumed between nodes in the clusters and the power consumed by the transfer between the cluster head and the base station are considered at the same time. Meanwhile, the improved FTBA algorithm integrating the curve strategy is proposed to enhance local and global search capabilities. Then we combine the improved BA with LEACH, and use the intelligent algorithm to select the cluster head. Experiment results show that the improved BA has stronger optimization ability than other optimization algorithms, which the method we proposed (FTBA-TC-LEACH) is superior than the LEACH and LEACH with standard BA (SBA-LEACH). The FTBA-TC-LEACH can obviously reduce network energy consumption and enhance the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs).