• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.12
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• pp.1824-1833
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose networked airborne relay-based positioning scheme (N-ARPS) based on time division multiple access (TDMA) networks to improve the performance of relative navigation (RelNav). To integrate the ARPS into TDMA, there are three problems such as slot allocation, selection of airborne relays, and method for signal loss to be solved. A subframe of N-ARPS is designed to assign the slots for broadcast and relay of navigation signals consecutively to minimize the effect of mobility. The selection algorithm determines the optimum set of airborne relays by selecting evenly distributed nodes depending on their distances to the master station. Finally, we uses precise position location information (PPLI) messages, which are received in data transmission period, to estimate a user position when the navigation signals are missing. The simulation results indicate that N-ARPS significantly improves user accuracy over RelNav.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1003-1010
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• 2018

The geomagnetic sensor nodes are usually designed with wireless communication and battery for easy installation on the road without cable connection and wiring. To minimize operation cost of a system, it is important to prolong the battery lifetime of the geomagnetic sensors installed on the road. In this paper, we propose a low-power TDMA MAC protocol that reduces energy consumption while guaranteeing the real-time vehicle detection information in the vehicle detection system. The performance evaluations are conducted through a real testbed of a vehicle detection system, and it proves that the proposed low-power protocols provides 5 year lifetime by improving energy efficiency up to about 62%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.538-540
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• 2005

본 논문의 목표는 TDMA기반의 이동 애드혹 네트워크에서 AODV 라우팅 프로토콜을 이용해서 QoS를 제공하는 것이다. 우리가 제공하려는 QoS는 종단간에 있어서 각 Flow에 대해 연속적이고도 충분한 대역폭을 보장하는 것이다. TDMA에서 대역폭은 time slot으로 다루어지며 각 노드는 전체 N개의 time slot으로 이루어진 frame단위로 전송을 한다. 본 논문에서는 Hello message와 수정된 AODV 프로토콜을 이용해서 이러한 time slot을 관리함으로써 최대한의 QoS를 보장할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.169-179
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 현재 연구 개발되고 있는 Fiber-to-the-curb / Very high-rate digital subscriber line(FTTC/VDSL) 시스템의 DAVIC 표준 가입자 전송 기술인 51.84 Mb/s 16-CAP (Carrierless AM/PM) 전송시스템 (downstream)과 1.62 Mb/s QPSK burst-mode TDMA 전송시스템 (upstream)및, 타이밍 복원회로 등의 동작 원리 및 구조를 간략하게 기술하였다. 본 논문은 FTTC/VDSL 전송시스템 개발을 위하여 전체시스템이 운영될 환경, 즉 채널에 대하여 기술한 후, 주어진 채널에 적합한 down-stream전송시스템 알고리즘 및 구조를 설명하였으며, 타이밍 복원 시스템을 기술하였다. FTTC/VDSL시스템은 네트워크의 한 개의 송수신부가 가입자 댁내의 여러 개의 set-top box와 데이터를 주고받는 점 대 다점 (point-to-multipoint) 구조로 이루어져 있으며, 따라서 역 방향 (upstream) 채널 데이터 전송을 위한 QPSK 전송시스템은 네트워크쪽의 QPSK 수신부가 가입자 댁내의 여러개의 QPSK 송신부를 서비스할 수 있게끔 시분할 다중접속 방식인 burst-mode TDMA전송방식으로 구현되었다. FTTC/VDSL 전송시스템은 DAVIC의 시스템 성능 요구조건을 만족하게 설계되었으며, 모든 기능은 디지털로 구현되었고 칩 구현을 위하여 각 기능의 VLSI 시스템 파라메타 들을 추출하고 성능 시험을 실시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.102-105
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• 2014

일반적으로 무선 센서네트워크에서 각 센서 노드들에서 생성된 데이터는 목적지 노드 즉, 싱크(sink) 노드로 전송되어진다. 본 논문에서는 이처럼 데이터 전송이 몰리게 되는 sink 노드 근처에서 노드들 사이에 전송된 데이터 패킷의 충돌을 줄임으로 에너지 효율과 지연의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 TDMA 기반의 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 전송할 데이터를 가지는 노드들은 먼저 싱크 노드에게 자신이 전송할 데이터의 양을 포함하는 RTS 패킷을 전송한다. 이 RTS 패킷을 받은 싱크 노드는 각 노드들에게 전송할 수 있는 전송 스케줄을 노드들에게 보내고, 이 스케줄을 받은 각 노드들은 전송 스케줄에 맞추어 자신들에게 할당된 슬롯에 데이터 패킷을 전송함으로 충돌 없이 bursty데이터를 전송한다. 이 방법을 통하여 각 노드들은 동시에 멀티 슬롯을 할당 받아 여러 패킷을 전송할 수 있다. 따라서 버스티한 트래픽 전송에서 지연(Delay)을 줄이는 동시에 충돌을 없애 데이터 전송 효율을 높일 수 있다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.867-875
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• 2009

A wireless sensor network inherently comprises a plurality of sensor nodes widely deployed for sensing environmental information. To add new functions or to correct some faulty functions of an existing wireless sensor network, the firmware for each sensor node needs to be updated. Firmware update would be quite troublesome if it requires the gathering, reprogramming, and redeploy of all of already deployed sensor nodes. Over-the-air programming (OTA) facilitates the firmware update process, thereby allowing convenient maintenance of an already-deployed sensor network. This paper proposes and implements a remote firmware update mechanism for a TDMA-based wireless sensor network, in which the firmware for sensor nodes constituting the TDMA-based sensor network can be easily updated and the update process can be conveniently monitored from a remote site. We verify the validity of the proposed firmware update method via experiments and introduce three wireless sensor networks installed in outdoor sites in which the proposed firmware update mechanism has been exploited.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.51-58
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• 2010

In data collection using a mobile sink, the time that sensor nodes are included in its communication radius is not uniform. The data collection schedule in non-uniform time is needed between a mobile sink and sensor nodes for efficient data collection. The existing data collection schemes using a mobile sink considered staying time in its communication range and data collected by the mobile sink. However, they did not consider the characteristics of data collected in sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a TDMA based schedule scheme that consists of the data collection period by each sensor nodes and the data collection period between a mobile sink and sensor nodes. Moreover, we propose a data collection scheme considering the variability of data in sensor networks. The proposed data collection scheme collects only data that changed larger than the threshold set by the user. In order to show the superiority of the proposed scheme, we compare it with DWEDF that aims to collect data uniformly. As a result, our experimental results show that the proposed scheme reduces about 23% energy consumption and the data collection failure of sensor nodes over the DWEDF.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.73-74
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• 2013

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.2035-2046
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• 2015

Recently, researches on resource allocation algorithms operating in a distributed way are widely conducted because of the increasing number of network nodes and the rapidly changing the network environment. In this paper, we propose Multi-Hop DESYNC(MH DESYNC), that is bio-inspired TDMA-based resource allocation scheme operating in a distributed manner in multi-hop networks. In this paper, we define a frame structure for the proposed MH DESYNC algorithm and firing message structure which is a reference for resource allocation and propose the related operating procedures. We show that MH DSYNC can resolve the hidden-node problem effectively and verify that each node shares resources fairly among its neighboring nodes. Through simulation evaluations, it is shown that MH DESYNC algorithm works well in a multi-hop networks. Furthermore, results show that MH DESYNC algorithm achieves better performance than CSMA/CA algorithm in terms of throughput.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2B
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• pp.76-81
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• 2008

LEACH (Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) has been proposed as a routing protocol with a hierarchical structure, in order to achieve the energy efficiency that is of primary importance in the wireless sensor networks. A wireless sensor network adopting LEACH is composed of a few clusters, each of which consists of member nodes that sense the data, and head nodes that deliver the collected data from member nodes to a sink node that is connected to a backbone network. A head node in a cluster allocates TDMA slots to its member nodes without taking into account whether they have data to transmit or not, thus resulting in inefficiency of energy usage of head node that remains in active mode during the entire round time. This motivates us to propose a scheme to improve the energy efficiency of LEACH, by assigning TDMA slots only to those member nodes who have data to send. As a result, the head node can remain sleep during the period of no data transmission from member nodes, leading to the substantial energy saving. By using the ns-2 simulator, we evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme in comparison with the original LEACH. Experimental results validate our scheme, showing a better performance than original LEACH in terms of the number of outliving nodes and the quantity of energy consumption as time evolves.