• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.18-23
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• 2008

This paper describes development of real-time condition monitoring system to observe state of a container crane in a port. To analyze the state of a crane, the strength and the direction of wind are measured with sensors along with the load resulted a crane at the moment. The measured signals are processed by especially developed conditioning board and converted into digital data. Measured data are analyzed to define the state of the crane at an indicator. For transmission of these data to the indicator, we implemented wireless sensor network based on IEEE 802.15.4 MAC(Media Access Control) protocol and Bluetooth network protocol. To extend the networking distance between the indicator and sensor nodes, the shortest path routing algorithm was applied for WSN(Wireless Sensor Network) networks. The indicator sends the state information of the crane to monitoring server through IEEE 802.11 b wireless LAN(Local Area Network). Monitoring server decides whether alarm should be issued or not. The performance of developed WSN and Bluetooth network were evaluated and analyzed in terms of communication delay and throughput.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.547-548
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• 2009

The development of USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) technology is creating numerous application areas. Although a network configuration with fixed sensors was the norm in the past, the coexistence of mobile and fixed sensor nodes is a new trend. Fixed sensor networks focused on the energy efficiency of nodes, but the latest studies consider guaranteeing the mobility of nodes and maintaining their connectivity, while remaining energy efficient at the same time. This paper proposes a routing protocol for a mobile ad-hoc sensor network that improves the mobility, connectivity and energy efficiency of nodes while allowing for the management and maintenance of a large number of nodes even in a complex communication environment where mobile and fixed nodes coexist. An algorithm for multi-hop multi-paths, a technique for topology reconfiguration by node movement prediction and vibration sensors, path setting for a large number of nodes, and efficient data transfer technology have been introduced to implement the modified LEAHC-AOMDV protocol. Furthermore, the excellence of this protocol was verified through a comparative experiment with the conventional LEACH protocol.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.721-724
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• 2008

무선 센서 네트워크(WSN)를 구성하는 각 센서 노드들의 에너지 관리는 네트워크 전체의 생명주기에 영향을 미치는 요소 중 가장 중요한 요소이다. 센서 노드들은 한번 설치된 이후 짧게는 수개월에서 길게는 몇 년에 걸쳐 동작해야 하기 때문에 배터리에 의존하고 있는 센서 노드들의 에너지를 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는 기술들이 필요하다. Directed Diffusion은 센서 노드에서 수집한 데이터를 네트워크 전체에 브로드캐스팅 하지 않고, 소스(Source)노드로부터 싱크(Sink)노드까지 강화(Reinforce)된 경로를 통해서만 데이터를 전송하여 경로 이외의 노드들의 불필요한 에너지 소모를 줄일 수 있는 라우팅 프로토콜이다. 그러나 기존의 Directed Diffusion에서는 전송 경로 상에 장애가 발생했을 경우 싱크에서 전송한 익스플로러터리 패킷을 기다려야 하며, 장애가 발견되고 재전송되기 전까지 전송된 데이터는 무의미한 데이터가 된다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 언급된 Directed Diffusion의 장애 경로 복구의 문제점을 보완하기 위해 Fast Repair(FR)를 제안한다. FR은 데이터 전송 경로 상에 장애 발생 시 데이터를 재전송 하고 경로를 재설정하는데 효율적이며, 성능평가 결과에서도 기존의 Directed Diffusion에 비하여 향상된 성능을 나타내고 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.313-320
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• 2008

The dynamic clustering technique has some problems regarding energy consumption. In the cluster configuration aspect the cluster structure must be modified every time the head nodes are re-selected resulting in high energy consumption. Also, there is excessive energy consumption when a cluster head node receives identical data from adjacent cluster sources nodes. This paper proposes a solution to the problems described above from the energy efficiency perspective. The round-robin cluster header(RRCH) technique, which fixes the initially structured cluster and sequentially selects duster head nodes, is suggested for solving the energy consumption problem regarding repetitive cluster construction. Furthermore, the issue of redundant data occurring at the cluster head node is dealt with by broadcasting metadata of the initially received data to prevent reception by a sensor node with identical data. A simulation experiment was performed to verify the validity of the proposed approach. The results of the simulation experiments were compared with the performances of two of the must widely used conventional techniques, the LEACH(Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) and HEED(Hybrid, Energy Efficient Distributed Clustering) algorithms, based on energy consumption, remaining energy for each node and uniform distribution. The evaluation confirmed that in terms of energy consumption, the technique proposed in this paper was 29.3% and 21.2% more efficient than LEACH and HEED, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.437-438
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• 2009

다양한 환경에서 쓰이고 있는 무선 센서 네트워크 기술은 센서 노드들을 이용하여 정보 수집을 하고 있다. 하지만, 무선 센서 네트워크에서의 센서 노드들은 전력을 유선으로 공급받는 것이 아니라, 제한적인 배터리 용량을 사용하기 때문에 효율적인 배터리 관리가 필요하다. 무선 센서네트워크에서는 이러한 센서 노드들의 에너지 효율을 향상시키기 위해서 현재까지 수많은 라우팅 기법들이 제안되어 왔다[1]. 그중에서 보다 에너지 효율적인 기법인 PEGASIS 기법을 이용하여, PEGASIS기법이 가지고 있는 단점과 그 내용을 보완한 방법을 제시하려한다. 제안된 기법은 기존의 클러스터 기반에서 PEGASIS 기법을 이용하는 방법으로 구성하였다. 이로 인해 기존에 제안되었던, LEACH, LEACH-C, PEGASIS와 비교하였을 때, 센서 노드들의 수명이 전체적으로 증가할 것으로 보고 있다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.205-212
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• 2007

The ubiquitous sensor network consists of micro sensors with wireless communication capabilities. Compared to wired communication, wireless communication is more subject to eavesdropping as well as data variation and manipulation. Accordingly, there must be efforts to secure the information delivered over the sensor network. Providing security to the sensor network, however, requires additional energy consumption, which is an important issue since energy transformation is difficult to implement in a sensor network. This paper proposes a routing mechanism based on the energy-efficient cluster that features security functions capable of safely processing the data acquired from the sensor network. The proposed algorithm reduces energy consumption by fixing the clusters formed at the initial stage and using the pre-distribution scheme so that the cluster and node keys generated and exchanged at the initial stage are not re-generated or re-exchanged. Simulation experiments confirmed that the proposed approach reduces energy consumption compared to implementing security measures to the conventional cluster-based routing mechanism.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.27-36
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• 2010

In wireless networks environment, there are attempts for constructing systems through which we can monitor and control various electronic devices used in large buildings at remoteness by using Zigbee protocol. Since address assignment method of DAA in Zigbee has a depth restriction, we cannot construct a network in large buildings. And also communication failures are frequent in a large network since broadcast storm can be occurred due to frequent broadcasts among a lot of nodes at AODV routing used in Zigbee. In order to solve these problems, in this paper, we propose a novel protocol which has improved the restriction of depth by using a fixed address assignment method, and has enhanced the broadcast occurrence by devising a static routing method to a packet movement between floors. Regardless of entire network, additionally, this was to enable internal communication reliably by composing an independent PAN. Specially, in this paper, we implemented the proposed wireless protocol and proved stability and practicality through experiment appliances of control of devices established in a large building.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.362-364
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• 2011

To build ubiquitous agriculture environment successfully, development of core technology for agriculture, such as sensor node H/W, sensor node middleware platform, routing protocol and agricultural environment application service is essential. With the application of u-IT technologies to traditional agriculture area, fusion complex technologies become a source to raise value-added agriculture product and its productivity. However, it is imperative to expand horticulture industry area and improve infrastructure for utility-based horticulture. This paper proposes an agriculture product growth environment management system that utilizes environmental factor monitoring sensors and biological information sensors in greenhouse to specifically manage botany growth environment management.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.637-650
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• 2014

Geospatial research on emergency response in multi-level micro-spatial environments (e.g., multi-story buildings) that aims at understanding and analyzing human movements at the micro level has increased considerably since 9/11. Past research has shown that reducing the time rescuers needed to reach a disaster site within a building (e.g., a particular room) can have a significant impact on evacuation and rescue outcomes in this kind of disaster situations. With the purpose developing emergency response systems that are capable of using complex real-time geospatial information to generate fast-changing scenarios, this study develops a Spatiotemporal Optimal Route Algorithm (SORA) for guiding rescuers to move quickly from various entrances of a building to the disaster site (room) within the building. It identifies the optimal route and building evacuation bottlenecks within the network in real-time emergency situations. It is integrated with a Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) based tracking system in order to monitor dynamic geospatial entities, including the dynamic capacities and flow rates of hallways per time period. Because of the limited scope of this study, the simulated data were used to implement the SORA and evaluate its effectiveness for performing 3D topological analysis. The study shows that capabilities to take into account detailed dynamic geospatial data about emergency situations, including changes in evacuation status over time, are essential for emergency response systems.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.1C
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• pp.97-108
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• 2012

This paper introduces a health monitoring system based on a wireless sensor network for weapon asset. This system can estimate the remaining lifetime and decide what should be done and when should it be done using the environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity and shock for weapon assets by sensor tag. And we describes its operating scenario and routing method for this system. Finally we introduce the developments of the sensor tag, portable reader, gateway and monitoring server.