• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.94-105
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• 2008

Numerous platforms have been developed for ZigBee-based network embedded systems. Also, operating systems like TinyOS have been installed to facilitate efficient implementation of wireless sensor network applications which collect data, and/or execute commands. First of all, porting an operating system on a new platform may need invention of a substitute for a required but unsupported hardware component. This paper presents a multiplexed virtual system timer for a platform without a counter comparator which we have contrived to emulate by using an extra counter. Such porting also injects unexpected faults which cause a variety of painful failures. Unfortunately, TinyOS requires to handle a lot of asynchronous hardware interrupts which are hard to trace during debugging. Besides, simulators are not available for a new platform since the models of hardware on the platform are not usually developed, yet. We propose novel instrumentation techniques which can be used to effectively trace the bugs in such lack of debugging environment. These techniques are used to identify and fix a great deal of nasty issues in porting TinyOS 2.0 on MG2400 and MG2455 platforms made by RadioPulse Inc.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.67-71
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• 2009

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.2127-2133
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed an architecture for supporting sensor transparency in sensor node operating systems, design the standard APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and sensor device abstraction to provide the sensor transparency and implemented the sensor transparency in the TinyOS, the most well known sensor node operating system. With the proposed sensor node operating system which can support the sensor transparency, application developers can develop the target applications independent to each sensor device by using the standard APIs provided by the sensor node operating system and the sensor device manufacturers also can develop sensor device drivers by using the standard hardware interfaces and HAL (Hardware Adaptation Layer) interfaces independent to the specific hardware platform of sensor nodes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.343-345
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• 2006

본 연구는 센서 네트워크용 운영체제인 TinyOS의 메시지 길이를 효율적으로 관리하여 저전 손실을 줄인 센서 네트워크의 연구이다. 센서 네트워크에서 가장 큰 전력 손실을 가져오는 부분은 RF통신 부분이라 할 수 있다. 메시지의 길이에 따라 길이가 길면 더욱더 통신 시간이 길어지므로 전력 손실은 커질 것이다. 이와 같은 토픽에 따라 메시지의 길이를 줄여 줌으로써 RF통신에 이용되는 전력을 줄여 보고자 하는 것이다. 사용된 시뮬레이터는 TinyOS에서 자체 제공 되는 TOSSIM을 이용 하였으며 MCU가 데이터를 처리하는데 소모되는 전력과 RF 통신에 따라 소모되는 전력을 나타내었다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 메시지의 길이가 줄어들면 전력 소모가 줄어드는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 더 나아가 거리간의 차이에 의한 전력 소모량도 연구 되어야 할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.386-389
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• 2008

낮은 처리속도와 기억용량을 가진 임베디드 센서 네트워크의 소프트웨어를 개발할 때 Tiny OS는 컴포넌트방식의 nesC 언어를 이용하여 효율적인 설계를 돕는다. 컴포넌트 방식을 이용하기 때문에 여러가지 소프트웨어의 개발에 자주 사용되는 자산을 분리하여 관리한다면 개발시간과 비용을 절감할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 Tiny OS 기반에서 임베디드 센서 네트워크 소프트웨어 개발 시 프로덕트라인 방법을 적용하여 공통적인 자산과 가변적인 자산을 구별하고 재사용성을 높이며 개발 효율을 증대하는 방안을 제시한다. 이러한 연구는 이종의 임베디드 소프트웨어 개발에도 적용되어 늘어나는 임베디드 소프트웨어의 양적, 질적 수요를 충족시켜주는데 도움이 될 것이다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.136-146
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• 2006

In Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) a sensor node transfers sensing data to the base-node through multi-hop because of the limited transmission range. Also because of the limited energy of the sensor node, the sensor nodes are required to consume their energy evenly to prolong the lifetime of the network. LMPR is a routing protocol for WSN, LMPR configures the network autonomously based on level which is the depth from the base-node, and distributes the transmission and computation load of the network to each sensor node. This paper implements LMPR on TinyOS and experiments on the performance of LMPR in WSN. As the result, the average of the received rate of LMPR is 91.39% and LMPR distributes the load of the transmission and computation about 4.6 times compare to the shortest cost routing protocol. We expect LMPR evenly distributes the transmission and computation load of the network to each node, and the lifetime of the network will be longer than it used to be.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2011

In this paper, we implemented the Android NDK porting application with Eclipse(JDK) ADT and TinyOS 2.0. TinyOS and Cygwin are component based embedded system and an Open-source basis for interfacing with sensor application from H-mote. Cygwin is a collection of tools for using the Linux environment for commercially released with x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows. TinyOS-2. x is a component based embedded OS by UC Berkeley and is an Open-source OS designed for interfacing the sensor application with specific C-language. The results of Android porting experiment are described to show the improvement of sensor interfacing functionality under the PXA320 embedded RTOS platform. We will further more develop the software programming of Android porting under Embedded platform and enhance the functionality of the Android SDK with mobile gaming and kernel programming under sensor interfacing activity.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.1955-1961
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• 2009

As a core technology realizing ubiquitous world, recent researches are being concentrated to wireless sensor network. However, most research results were focused to the sensor network technology itself, even though interworking between the sensor network and Internet is also one of primitive requirements for ubiquitous world. In this paper, we design the tiny TCP/IPv6 profile which makes it possible to inter-connect the sensor network device to IPv6 based Internet. To confirm operation of the designed profile, we experimentally implemented and evaluated minimum TCP/IPv6 based on TinyOS. The evaluation result shows that throughput of our tiny TCP/IPv6 is almost same as that of TinyOS component.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.5
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• pp.653-660
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• 2009

A research for middleware of WSN can provide sensor applications with avoiding tight coupling of hardware, ease of development, and abstract data access. However, previous works have some limitations which should install their own middleware onto the all sensor nodes resulting in computational and communication overhead. In order to address it, we proposed a virtual sensor overlay network, called TinyONet-Lite which introduced virtual sensors to model a virtual counterpart of physical sensors. These virtual sensors dynamically grouped into an overlay network, Slice, which provides middleware services. We implemented TinyONet-Lite on mote class hardware with TinyOS. In accordance with experiments and comparison with existing researches, TinyONet-Lite was proved to show advantages of extensibility, dynamic service composition and reducing overhead.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.387-390
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• 2006

TinyOS 기반 무선 센서 노드를 사용한 실시간 계측 데이터 측정 및 제어 기술은 특히 홈 네트워크 분야에 널리 적용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 ATMegal128L을 장착한 최소 8대 이상의 Micaz Mote 센서 노드 모듈을 사용하여 각 방의 노도 값을 실시간 측정하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 특히 TinyOS에서 제공되는 OscilloscopeRF의 메시지 구조를 분석하여, 각 노드의 ID 및 계측 데이터를 추출하였다. 또한 이렇게 추출된 계측 데이터를 센서 네트워크의 싱크 노드로부터 데이터 통제 센터(Doc)로 효율적으로 전송하기 위한 TCP 기반 네트워크 프로그래밍을 구현하였다. 실험 결과 센서 노드 수 및 샘플링 주기에 상관없이 안정적으로 계측 데이터 수신이 이루어짐을 확인하였다. 한편, IEEE802.11a/g 기반 무선 네트워크를 통해 실시간 계측 상황을 휴대용 단말기인 PDA에서 확인할 수 있도록 이를 구현하였다.