• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.23-51
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• 2010

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have proved to be useful in applications that involve monitoring of real-time data. There is a wide variety of monitoring applications that can employ Wireless Sensor Network. Characteristics of a WSN, such as topology and scale, depend upon the application, for which it is employed. Security requirements in WSN vary according to the application dependent network characteristics and the characteristics of an application itself. Key management is the most important aspect of security as some other security modules depend on it. We discuss application dependent variations in WSN, corresponding changes in the security requirements of WSN and the applicability of existing key management solutions in each scenario.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.483-485
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• 2008

A micro-sensor network is comprised of a large number of small sensors with limited memory capacity. Current key-establishment schemes for symmetric encryption require too much memory for micro-sensor networks on a large scale. In this paper, we propose a memory-efficient hypercube key establishment scheme that only requires logarithmic memory overhead.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.322-330
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• 2007

Recent advances in wireless networks and low-cost, low-power design have led to active research in large-scale networks of small, wireless, low power sensors and actuators, In large-scale networks, lots of timing-synchronization protocols already exist (such as NTP, GPS), In ad-hoc networks, especially wireless sensor networks, it is hard to synchronize all nodes in networks because it has no infrastructure. In addition, sensor nodes have low-power CPU (it cannot perform the complex computation), low batteries, and even they have to have active and inactive section by periods. Therefore, new approach to time synchronization is needed for wireless sensor networks, In this paper, I propose Energy-Efficient Time Synchronization (EETS) protocol providing network-wide time synchronization in wireless sensor networks, The algorithm is organized two phase, In first phase, I make a hierarchical tree with sensor nodes by broadcasting "Level Discovery" packet. In second phase, I synchronize them by exchanging time stamp packets, And I also consider send time, access time and propagation time. I have shown the performance of EETS comparing Timing-sync Protocol for Sensor Networks (TPSN) and Reference Broadcast Synchronization (RBS) about energy efficiency and time synchronization accuracy using NESLsim.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제18권6B호
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• pp.233-248
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• 2008

Advances in electronics and wireless communication technologies have enabled the development of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). There are numerous applications for wireless sensor networks, and security is vital for many of them. However, WSNs suffer from many constraints, including low computation capability, small memory, limited energy resources, susceptibility to physical capture, and the lack of infrastructure, all of which impose unique security challenges and make innovative approaches desirable. In this paper, we present a survey on security issues in wireless sensor networks. We address several network models for security protocols in WSNs, and explore the state of the art in research on the key distribution and management schemes, typical attacks and corresponding countermeasures, entity and message authentication protocols, security data aggregation, and privacy. In addition, we discuss some directions of future work.

• Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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• 제73권12호
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• pp.1889-1894
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• 2018

An innovative small-scale piezoelectric energy harvester has been proposed to gather wind energy. A conventional horizontal-axis wind power generation has a low generating efficiency at low wind speed. To overcome this weakness, we designed a piezoelectric windmill optimized at low-speed wind. A piezoelectric device having high energy conversion efficiency is used in a small windmill. The maximum output power of the windmill was about 3.14 mW when wind speed was 1.94 m/s. Finally, the output power and the efficiency of the system were compared with a conventional wind power system. This work will be beneficial for the piezoelectric energy harvesting technology to be applied to the real world such as wireless sensor networks (WSN).

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.901-923
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• 2017

Efficient key distribution and management mechanisms as well as lightweight ciphers are the main pillar for establishing secure wireless sensor networks (WSN). Several symmetric based key distribution protocols are already proposed, but most of them are not scalable, yet vulnerable to a small number of compromised nodes. In this paper, we propose an efficient and scalable key management and distribution framework, named KMMR, for large scale WSNs. The KMMR contributions are three fold. First, it performs lightweight local processes orchestrated into upward and downward tiers. Second, it limits the impact of compromised nodes to only local links. Third, KMMR performs efficient secure node addition and revocation. The security analysis shows that KMMR withstands several known attacks. We implemented KMMR using the NesC language and experimented on Telosb motes. Performance evaluation using the TOSSIM simulator shows that KMMR is scalable, provides an excellent key connectivity and allows a good resilience, yet it ensures both forward and backward secrecy. For a WSN comprising 961 sensor nodes monitoring a 60 hectares agriculture field, KMMR requires around 2.5 seconds to distribute all necessary keys, and attains a key connectivity above 96% and a resilience approaching 100%. Quantitative comparisons to earlier work show that KMMR is more efficient in terms of computational complexity, required storage space and communication overhead.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.3213-3230
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• 2016

Sensor node (SN) is a crucial part in any remote monitoring system. It is a device designed to monitor the particular changes taking place in its environs. Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a system formed by the set of wirelessly connected SNs placed at different geographical locations within a target region. Precise placement of SNs is appreciated, as it affects the efficiency and effectiveness of any WSN. The manual placement of SNs is only feasible for small scale regions. The task of SN placement becomes tedious, when the size of a target region is extremely large and manually unreachable. In this research article, an automated mechanism for fast and precise deployment of SNs in a large scale target region has been proposed. It uses an assembly of rotating cannons to launch the SNs from a moving carrier helicopter. The entire system is synchronized such that the launched SNs accurately land on the pre-computed desired locations (DLs). Simulation results show that the proposed model offers a simple, time efficient and effective technique to place SNs in a large scale target region.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2012

사람들이 신체를 다친 경우 의료기관에서 치료를 것이 보통이다. 하지만 몇몇 환부에 따라서 추가적인 재활이 필요한 경우도 존재한다. 이러한 의료기관은 규모에 따른 재활프로그램에 큰 차이가 있으며, 규모가 작은 대개의 의료기관의 재활프로그램은 의사와 환자의 구두로 진행이 되는 것이 문제점이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 소규모 의료기관에서의 재활치료에 정확도와 신뢰성을 보조하기 위해서 신체의 접촉과 힘을 계측할 수 있는 센서들을 대체 및 조합하여 촉각 센서와 유사한 기능을 가지는 대체 촉각 센서를 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 퍼셉트론 신경망을 적용시켜 접촉 평가를 패턴에 따라 확인하는 알고리즘을 적용하였다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.151-157
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• 2010

MEMS(Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) 분야의 급격한 발전은 저비용의 정보 처리 센싱 능력을 갖춘 센서의 발전에 박차를 가했다. 이러한 기술의 흐름은 강력하고 높은 확장성을 가지는 WSNs(Wireless Sensor Networks)을 위하여 더 많은 센서 간 연결을 위한 연구가 진행되고 있는 실정이다. WSNs의 자원부족, Ad-hoc 배치방법, 보다 광대해지는 규모는 센서 간 통신에서 안전성을 보다 중요한 문제로 인식하게 하고 있다. 센서 네트워크의 주요 고려사항은 에너지 효율이기 때문에, 보안 기술은 통신에서의 보안 특징과 그것을 수행하기 위해 계산해야하는 오버헤드 간 균형을 맞춰야한다. 본 논문에서는 새로운 보안 인식 다중경로 위치기반 라우팅 프로토콜을 개발하기 위하여 위치정보와 전송확률을 결합한다. 네트워크 시뮬레이터(ns-2)를 실행한 결과 보다 나은 성능을 얻을 수 있음을 알 수 있다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2008년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.35 No.1 (A)
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• pp.261-262
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• 2008

Due to technological advances, the manufacturing of small and low cost of sensors becomes technically and economically feasible. In recent years, an increasing interest in using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in various applications, including large scale environment monitoring, battle field surveillance, security management and location tracking. In these applications, hundreds of sensor nodes are left to be unattended to report monitored data to users. Since sensor nodes are placed randomly and sometimes are deployed in underwater. It is impossible to replace batteries often when batteries run out. Therefore, reducing energy consumption is the most important design consideration for sensor networks.