• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2013

Wireless Sensor Networks consist of small, inexpensive, low-powered sensor nodes that communicate with each other. To achieve a low communication cost in a resource constrained network, a novel concept of signcryption has been applied for secure communication. Signcryption enables a user to perform a digital signature for providing authenticity and public key encryption for providing message confidentiality simultaneously in a single logical step with a lower cost than that of the sign-then-encrypt approach. Ring signcryption maintains the signer's privacy, which is lacking in normal signcryption schemes. Signcryption can provide confidentiality and authenticity without revealing the user's identity of the ring. This paper presents the security notions and an evaluation of an ID-based ring signcryption scheme for wireless sensor networks. The scheme has been proven to be better than the existing schemes. The proposed scheme was found to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext ring attacks (IND-IDRSC-CCA2) and secure against an existential forgery for adaptive chosen message attacks (EF-IDRSC-ACMA). The proposed scheme was found to be more efficient than scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks reported by Qi. et al. based on the running time and energy consumption.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.50-56
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• 2017

Wireless sensor nodes have limited energy, so it is important to optimize energy consumption to preserve network lifetime. Various protocols have been proposed for this purpose. LEACH protocol and SEP are the representative protocols. These protocols become less effective as the Sensor Field becomes wider. To improve this, MR-SEP and L-SEP were proposed. These protocols increase the energy efficiency by dividing the Sensor Field into layers and reducing the transmission distance. However, when dividing a layer, there are cases where it is divided inefficiently, and a node within a certain range from a Base Station has a better transmission efficiency than a direct transmission method using a cluster method. In this paper, we propose a Single-hop layer for L-SEP to improve inefficient layer division and near node transmission efficiency. When the larger the Sensor Field, the better the performance of the proposed method by up to 87%. The larger the sensor field, the more efficient the proposed method is over the conventional method. That is, the proposed method is suitable for the wide Sensor Field.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2014

In this work, we address the so-called sensor reachback problem for Wireless Sensor Networks, which consists in collecting the measurements acquired by a large number of sensor nodes into a sink node which has major computational and power capabilities. Focused on applications such as Structural Health Monitoring, we propose a cooperative communication protocol that exploits the spatio-temporal correlations of the sensor measurements in order to save energy when transmitting the information to the sink node in a non-stationary environment. In addition to cooperative communications, the protocol is based on two well-studied adaptive filtering techniques, Least Mean Squares and Recursive Least Squares, which trade off computational complexity and reduction in the number of transmissions to the sink node. Finally, experiments with real acceleration measurements, obtained from the Canton Tower in China, are included to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.533-553
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• 2013

In this paper, system identification of a cable-stayed bridge in Korea, the Hwamyung Bridge, is performed using vibration responses measured by a wireless sensor system. First, an acceleration based-wireless sensor system is employed for the structural health monitoring of the bridge, and wireless sensor nodes are deployed on a deck, a pylon and several selected cables. Second, modal parameters of the bridge are obtained both from measured vibration responses and finite element (FE) analysis. Frequency domain decomposition and stochastic subspace identification methods are used to obtain the modal parameters from the measured vibration responses. The FE model of the bridge is established using commercial FE software package. Third, structural properties of the bridge are updated using a modal sensitivity-based method. The updating work improves the accuracy of the FE model so that structural behaviors of the bridge can be represented better using the updated FE model. Finally, cable forces of the selected cables are also identified and compared with both design and lift-off test values.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for ocean observation buoys. The proposed system consists of various sensor modules, a gateway, and a remote monitoring site. In order to integrate sensor modules with various communications interfaces, we propose a controller area network (CAN)-based sensor data packet and a protocol for the gateway. The proposed scheme supports the registration and management of sensor modules so as to make it easier for the buoy system to manage various sensor modules. Also, in order to extend communication coverage between ocean observation buoys and the monitoring site, we implement a multi-hop relay network based on a mesh network that can provide greater communication coverage than conventional buoy systems. In addition, we verify the operation of the implemented multi-hop relay network by measuring the received signal strength indication between buoy nodes and by observing the collected data from the deployed buoy systems via our monitoring site.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.561-578
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• 2010

This study proposes a multi-level damage localization strategy to achieve an effective damage detection system for civil infrastructure systems based on wireless sensors. The proposed system is designed for use of distributed computation in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Modal identification is achieved using the frequency-domain decomposition (FDD) method and the peak-picking technique. The ASH (angle-between-string-and-horizon) and AS (axial strain) flexibility-based methods are employed for identifying and localizing damage. Fundamentally, the multi-level damage localization strategy does not activate all of the sensor nodes in the network at once. Instead, relatively few sensors are used to perform coarse-grained damage localization; if damage is detected, only those sensors in the potentially damaged regions are incrementally added to the network to perform finer-grained damage localization. In this way, many nodes are able to remain asleep for part or all of the multi-level interrogations, and thus the total energy cost is reduced considerably. In addition, a novel distributed computing strategy is also proposed to reduce the energy consumed in a sensor node, which distributes modal identification and damage detection tasks across a WSN and only allows small amount of useful intermediate results to be transmitted wirelessly. Computations are first performed on each leaf node independently, and the aggregated information is transmitted to one cluster head in each cluster. A second stage of computations are performed on each cluster head, and the identified operational deflection shapes and natural frequencies are transmitted to the base station of the WSN. The damage indicators are extracted at the base station. The proposed strategy yields a WSN-based SHM system which can effectively and automatically identify and localize damage, and is efficient in energy usage. The proposed strategy is validated using two illustrative numerical simulations and experimental validation is performed using a cantilevered beam.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2022

오늘날 기술과 산업의 발전으로 특수건물이 늘어남에 따라 특수건물 내 화재 사고가 증가하고 있다. 그러나 정보통신기술의 빠른 발전에도 불구하고 낙후되고 실효성을 갖추지 못한 실내 화재 경보 시스템을 사용함으로 인해 인명 피해가 꾸준히 발생하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 음향경보를 이용하는 기존 실내 화재 경보 시스템이 건물 내 인원들에게 충분한 경보를 전달하지 못하는 '경보의 사각지대 문제'를 개선하고자 에지 컴퓨팅과 비콘을 활용한 화재 경보 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 제안하는 개선된 화재 경보 시스템은 말단 센서 노드와 에지 노드, 사용자 애플리케이션, 서버로 구성된다. 말단 센서 노드는 실내 환경 데이터를 수집하여 에지 노드로 전송하고, 에지 노드는 전송받은 정보를 기반으로 화재 발생 여부를 모니터링 한다. 또한 에지 노드는 비콘 신호를 지속적으로 발생시켜 신호 범위 내의 사용자 애플리케이션이 설치된 스마트기기의 정보를 수집하여 서버 데이터베이스에 저장하고, 화재 발생 시 수집한 기기들의 정보를 바탕으로 모든 재실 인원에게 애플리케이션 푸시 형태로 화재 경보를 전송한다. 구현한 화재 경보 시스템의 적용 가능성을 검증하기 위해 강의실이 밀집한 대학교의 한 건물에서 신호 유효 범위 측정 실험을 진행한 결과, 에지 노드의 비콘 신호 범위 내에서 정상적으로 기기 정보를 수집하고, 수집한 정보를 바탕으로 특정 사용자들에게 신속하게 화재 경보를 전송함을 확인하였다. 이를 통해 수시로 변하는 출입자들의 정보를 유동적으로 수집하고, 이를 바탕으로 사용자와 매우 인접한 스마트기기로 경보를 전송함으로써 '경보의 사각지대 문제'를 해결하는데 적용할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 실험 결과 분석을 통해 제안하는 화재 경보 시스템을 실내 공간의 특징에 따라 효과적으로 적용하는 방안을 제시하였다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2012

IT 기술의 발전은, 우리사회의 다양한 산업 분야에 적용 되어 우리의 삶을 보다 효율적이고 생산적으로 바꾸고 있다. 농업IT는 이러한 IT기술을 농업에 적용하여 작물의 생산량과 품질을 향상시키며, 소비자로 하여금 믿을 수 있는 생산, 유통 정보를 제공하는 기술이다. 오늘날 RFID/USN의 등장은 농산물과 연관된 생장, 환경 정보의 수집을 가능하게 하고 각종 환경센서 등을 통해 수집된 디지털 정보는 누적, 분석 등을 통해 이상기후 예측, 병해충 예찰, 작물의 생산성 향상 및 균일 생산 보장 등을 위해 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 RFID/USN 기술을 기반으로 저전력 센서네트워크와 미들웨어, 생장관리 플랫폼을 통해 모바일 환경에서 재배 환경 정보의 지속적 모니터링 및 각종 생장 데이터의 수집 및 전송, 각종 작업정보의 교환이 가능하게 함으로써 재배자에게 보다 효율적으로 생장환경을 관리할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1849-1876
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• 2022

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is considered as an integral part of the Internet of Things (IoT) for collecting real-time data from the site having many applications in industry 4.0 and smart cities. The task of nodes is to sense the environment and send the relevant information over the internet. Though this task seems very straightforward but it is vulnerable to certain issues like energy consumption, delay, throughput, etc. To efficiently address these issues, this work develops a cross-layer model for the optimization between MAC and the Network layer of the OSI model for WSN. A high value of duty cycle for nodes is selected to control the delay and further enhances data transmission reliability. A node measurement prediction system based on the Kalman filter has been introduced, which uses the constraint based on covariance value to decide the scheduling scheme of the nodes. The concept of duty cycle for node scheduling is employed with a greedy data forwarding scheme. The proposed Duty Cycle-based Greedy Routing (DCGR) scheme aims to minimize the hop count, thereby mitigating the energy consumption rate. The proposed algorithm is tested using a real-world wastewater treatment dataset. The proposed method marks an 87.5% increase in the energy efficiency and reduction in the network latency by 61% when validated with other similar pre-existing schemes.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.556-563
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• 2009

A side channel analysis is a very efficient attack against small devices such as smart cards and wireless sensor nodes. In this paper, we propose an efficient key detection method using a peak selection algorithm in order to find the advanced encryption standard secret key from electromagnetic signals. The proposed method is applied to a correlation electromagnetic analysis (CEMA) attack against a wireless sensor node. Our approach results in increase in the correlation coefficient in comparison with the general CEMA. The experimental results show that the proposed method can efficiently and reliably uncover the entire 128-bit key with a small number of traces, whereas some extant methods can reveal only partial subkeys by using a large number of traces in the same conditions.