• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.967-979
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• 2013

Now a day, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being widely used in different areas one of which is healthcare services. A wireless medical sensor network senses patient's vital physiological signs through medical sensor-nodes deployed on patient's body area; and transmits these signals to devices of registered medical professionals. These sensor-nodes have low computational power and limited storage capacity. Moreover, the wireless nature of technology attracts malicious minds. Thus, proper user authentication is a prime concern before granting access to patient's sensitive and private data. Recently, P. Kumar et al. claimed to propose a strong authentication protocol for healthcare using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks (WMSN). However, we find that P. Kumar et al.'s scheme is flawed with a number of security pitfalls. Information stored inside smart card, if extracted, is enough to deceive a valid user. Adversary can not only access patient's physiological data on behalf of a valid user without knowing actual password, can also send fake/irrelevant information about patient by playing role of medical sensor-node. Besides, adversary can guess a user's password and is able to compute the session key shared between user and medical sensor-nodes. Thus, the scheme looses message confidentiality. Additionally, the scheme fails to resist insider attack and lacks user anonymity.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.55-60
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• 2016

센서노드의 이동성 허용은 센서 네트워크의 효율적인 설계 및 시스템 성능 향상에 기여할 수 있다. 하지만, MAC 프로토콜 및 라우팅 프로토콜에 많은 기능적 변화가 필요하다. 특히, 노드 이동성을 고려한 에너지 효율적인 전송 메커니즘에 대한 연구가 매우 중요하다. 본 논문은 모바일 센서 네트워크 환경에서 센서노드가 싱크노드를 향하여 데이터를 전달할 때 인접 노드들의 거리 정보에 따라 다음 노드를 결정하고, 이를 토대로 거리에 따른 전송 출력을 적절히 제어하는 메커니즘을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 방법을 통한 성능분석 결과, 본 논문에서 제안한 메커니즘이 평균 에너지 소모량, 네트워크 수명 등의 성능 지표에 대해 기존 최단 홉 라우팅 방식보다 에너지 효율을 향상시킨 것으로 분석되었다.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.3003-3029
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• 2023

The rapid evolution of the IoT has paved the way for new opportunities in smart city domains, including e-health, smart homes, and precision agriculture. However, this proliferation of services demands effective SLAs between customers and service providers, especially for critical services. Difficulties arise in maintaining the integrity of such agreements, especially in vulnerable wireless environments. This study proposes a novel SLA management model that uses an SDN-Enabled WSN consisting of wireless nodes to interact with smart contracts in a straightforward manner. The proposed model ensures the persistence of network metrics and SLA provisions through smart contracts, eliminating the need for intermediaries to audit payment and compensation procedures. The reliability and verifiability of the data prevents doubts from the contracting parties. To meet the high-performance requirements of the blockchain in the proposed model, low-cost algorithms have been developed for implementing blockchain technology in wireless sensor networks with low-energy and low-capacity nodes. Furthermore, a cryptographic signature control code is generated by wireless nodes using the in-memory private key and the dynamic random key from the smart contract at runtime to prevent tampering with data transmitted over the network. This control code enables the verification of end-to-end data signatures. The efficient generation of dynamic keys at runtime is ensured by the flexible and high-performance infrastructure of the SDN architecture.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.170-175
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• 2020

스마트 기기의 발달과 더불어 무선 센서 네트워크의 대용량 데이터를 효율적으로 전송하기 위한 최적의 채널 선택이 매우 중요한 요인이 된다. 이러한 센서 노드가 사용할 채널이 고정된다면 주파수 부족의 발생과 다양한 환경에서 센서 노드들을 지원하는데 제약이 야기될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 채널 설정 링크들의 간섭으로 인한 성능 저하를 줄이고 네트워크의 사용 가능한 채널을 찾기 위한 효율적인 채널 검색 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험 결과, 제안한 알고리즘은 간섭 링크 수가 증가할수록 효율적인 채널을 설정할 수 있고 간섭으로 인한 비컨 패킷 수신 대기 시간을 줄일 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2015

Powering wireless sensors with energy harvested from the environment is coming of age due to the increasing power densities of both storage and harvesting devices and the electronics performing energy efficient energy conversion. In order to maximize the functionality of the wireless sensor network, minimize missing packets, minimize latency and prevent the waste of energy, problems like congestion and inefficient energy usage must be addressed. Many sleep-awake protocols and efficient message priority techniques have been developed to properly manage the energy of the nodes and to minimize congestion. For a WSN that is operating in a strictly energy constrained environment, an energy-efficient transmission strategy is necessary. In this paper, we present a novel transmission priority decision scheme for a heterogeneous body sensor network composed of normal nodes and an energy harvesting node that acts as a cluster head. The energy harvesting node's decision whether or not to clear a normal node for sending is based on a set of metrics which includes the energy harvesting node's remaining energy, the total harvested energy, the type of message in a normal node's queue and finally, the implementation context of the wireless sensor network.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.96-98
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• 2014

무선 센서 네트워크(WSN)는 컴퓨팅 능력과 무선 통신 능력을 갖추고 있는 센서 노드로부터 획득한 정보를 무선으로 실시간 수집하며, 처리, 활용하는 기술로서 현재 그 응용 분야는 환경 모니터링, 헬스 케어, 보안, 스마트 홈, 스마트 그리드 등 매우 다양하다. 하지만 무선 센서 네트워크는 저가의 센서 노드를 구성하기 위해 저전력과 저용량이라는 제약조건을 갖고 있다. 그러므로 무선 센서 네트워크에서는 제한된 에너지와 용량을 효율적으로 사용하는 알고리즘이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 노드간의 연결 상태와 남아있는 에너지의 양을 비교함으로써 하이브리드 형식의 클러스터 헤드 노드를 선정하고 클러스터링하는 알고리즘을 제안함으로서 무선 센서 네트워크의 효율성과 정확성 증대를 목표로 한다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.24-31
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• 2017

무선 센서 네트워크에서는 원격의 열악한 환경에 센서 노드들이 배치된다. 이러한 네트워크에서 센서 노드의 전원이 모두 소모되면, 사람의 생명을 구할 수도 있는 센서 네트워크의 품질 및 성능 저하와 함께 센서 노드들은 쓸모가 없게 된다. 따라서 에너지 소비 개선 및 센서 네트워크의 수명 연장에 관련된 수 많은 클러스터링 프로토콜들이 제안되었으나 대부분의 기존 연구들의 기법들은 클러스터 헤드의 오버헤드 상당히 크다. 센서 노드의 전력 제한과 클러스터 헤드의 오버헤드 문제 때문에 각 노드의 에너지 소비를 최소화하며 네트워크 수명을 최대화하는 라우팅 프로토콜을 설계하는 것은 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 클러스터 헤드의 부담을 줄여주며 에너지 소비를 최소화하는 라우팅 알고리즘과 네트워크 수명을 최대화할 수 있는 알고리즘을 적용한 효율적인 클러스터링 기법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안한 클러스터링 기법이 에너지 균형을 향상시켰으며, 유사한 역할을 하는 기법들과 비교하였을 때 네트워크 수명이 연장됨을 보여준다.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.207-210
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• 2005

Ubiquitous computing is one of the key technology areas in the "Project on Development of Ubiquitous computing and network technology" promoted by the Ministry of Science and Technology as a frontier business of the $21^{st}$ century in Korea, which is based on the new concept merging physical space and computer-based cyber space. With recent advances in Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology, low cost and low-power consumption wireless micro sensor nodes have been available. Using these smart sensor nodes, there are many activities to monitor real world, for example, habitat monitoring, earthquake monitoring and so on. In this paper, we introduce web-based real environment monitoring system incorporating wireless sensor nodes. It collects sensing data produced by some wireless sensor nodes and stores them into a database system to analyze. Our environment monitoring system is composed of a networked camera and environmental sensor nodes, which are called Mica2 and developed by University of California at Berkeley. We have modified and ported network protocols over TinyOS and developed a monitoring application program using the MTS310 and MTS420 sensors that are able to observe temperature, relative humidity, light and accelerator. The sensed data can be accessed user-friendly because our environment monitoring system supports web-based user interface. Moreover, in this system, we can setup threshold values so the system supports a function to inform some anomalous events to administrators. Especially, the system shows two useful pre-processed data as a kind of practical uses: a discomfort index and a septicity index. To make both index values, the system restores related data from the database system and calculates them according to each equation relatively. We can do enormous works using wireless sensor technologies, but just environment monitoring. In this paper, we show just one of the plentiful applications using sensor technologies.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2017

A WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) is a network that is composed of wireless sensor nodes. There is no restriction on the place where it can be installed because it is composed wirelessly. Instead, sensor nodes have limited energy. Therefore, to use the network for a long time, energy consumption should be minimized. Several protocols have been proposed to minimize energy consumption, and the typical protocol is the LEACH protocol. The LEACH protocol is a cluster-based protocol that minimizes energy consumption by dividing the sensor field into clusters. Depending on how you organize the clusters of sensor field, network lifetimes may increase or decrease. In this paper, we will improve the network lifetime by improving the cluster head selection method in LEACH Protocol.