• ETRI Journal
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.648-657
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• 2019

A cluster topology was proposed with the assumption of zero noise to improve the performance of wireless body area networks (WBANs). However, in WBANs, the transmission power should be reduced as low as possible to avoid the effect of electromagnetic waves on the human body and to extend the lifetime of a battery. Therefore, in this work, we consider a bit error rate for a cluster-based WBAN and analyze the performance of the system while the transmission of sensors and cluster headers (CHs) is controlled. Moreover, a hierarchical topology is proposed for the cluster-based WBAN to further improve the throughput of the system; this proposed system is called as the hierarchical cluster WBAN. The hierarchical cluster WBAN is combined with a transmission control scheme, that is, complete control, spatial reuse superframe, to increase the throughput. The proposed system is analyzed and evaluated based on several factors of the system model, such as signal-to-noise ratio, number of clusters, and number of sensors. The calculation result indicates that the proposed hierarchical cluster WBAN outperforms the cluster-based WBAN in all analyzed scenarios.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.106-114
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• 2015

Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN) is a network standard around a human body which connects various medical sensor and devices It has to satisfy various demands such as data transmission rate, priority, and delay time. In this paper, considering a data priority and transmission delay time, is proposed to improve efficiency of WBAN service depending on congestion status of network. The proposed algorithm operates with adapted data removal probability according to data priority when the hub buffer is congested than before. And in the case of lower congestion within the hub buffer data is served considering data delay time. Through the comparison with other existing scheduling algorithms, it is confirmed that quality of WBAN service is improved due to lower data loss rate of medical data and less delay time in the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1313-1319
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• 2017

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of multi-hop transmissions in IEEE 802.15.6 ultra wide band (UWB) wireless body area network (WBAN). The packet structure in the physical layer, and encoding and decoding are considered for multi-hop transmissions in IEEE 802.15.6 UWB WBAN. We analyze the data success rate and energy efficiency of multi-hop transmissions with considering the length of data payload, transmission power, and distances between the nodes in IEEE 802.15.6 UWB WBAN. Through simulations, we evaluate the data success rate and energy efficiency of multi-hop transmissions with varying the length of data payload, transmission power, and distances between the nodes in IEEE 802.15.6 UWB WBAN. Finally, we can select an energy-efficient multi-hop transmission in IEEE 802.15.6 UWB WBAN depending on the length of data payload, transmission power, and distances between the nodes.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.10C
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• pp.597-604
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose group Manchester code (GM) modulation scheme for medical in-body wireless body area network (WBAN) systems. In IEEE, the WBAN system is assigned as 802.15. Task Group 6 (TG 6), and the related standardization is being progressed, Recently, in this Group, group pulse position modulation (GPPM), which can obtain data rate increase by grouping pulse position modulation (PPM) symbols, is proposed as a new modulation scheme for low-power operation of WBAN system. However, the conventional method suffers from BER performance degradation due to the absence of gray coding and its demodulation characteristics. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a modified GM scheme which groups Manchester code instead of PPM. In the proposed GM scheme, a low-complexity maximum likelihood (ML) demodulation method is employed in order to maximize the BER performances, Also, log likelihood ratio (LLR) decision method is proposed to employ the Turbo code as forward error correction (FEC), Finally, we verified that the proposed method has a good performance and is an appropriate scheme for in-body WBAN system through extensive performance evaluation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.45-56
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• 2011

WBAN is short range wireless communication technology which is consists of several small devices close to, attached to or implanted into the human body. WBAN is classified into between medical and non-medical by applications based on technology and medical data with periodic characteristics is used the GTS method for transmitting data to guarantee the QoS. In this paper we proposed algorithm that resolve lack of GTSs while data transmit GTS method in superframe structure of WBAN. Coordinator dynamically allocates GTSs according to the data rate of devices and make devices share GTSs when lack of GTSs. We compared delay bounds, throughput for performance evaluation of the proposed algorithm. In other words, we proposed algorithm adaptive WFQ scheduling that GTS allocation support differential data rate in environments of WBAN. The experiment results show the throughput increased and the maximum delay decreased compared with Round Robin scheduling.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.674-678
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• 2008

Our research is for development of smart object in WBAN environment. Too many smart object in various computing device were developed, but users always attention to their lot of smart objects and any personal things now. So we need smart object that classification and management all of user's personal devices and any effects in invisible and seamless system. We discussed how develop do that object in WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network) system and how make components in this system to wireless network in this paper.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.109-118
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• 2009

WBAN은 사람이 착용하는 옷이나 인체 내부 혹은 외부에 있는 여러 장치들을 상호 연결하여 통신할 수 있는 근거리 무선통신 기술로서 2005년부터 IEEE 802.15 TG16에서 표준화가 활발히 진행되고 있다. WBAN표준은 근거리, 저전력, 고신뢰성 무선통신을 위한 표준화를 목표로 하고 있으며, 용도에 따라 전송속도가 수 kbps$\sim$수십 Mbps 범위로서 의료용뿐만 아니라 비의료용 분야에 활용된다. 의료용은 체내에 이식되는 이식형과 인체 주변에 부착되는 착용형 장치에 활용되며, 비의료용은 데이터 전달이나 게임 응용 등 다양한 엔터테인먼트 분야에 활용된다. 본 고에서는 IEEE 802.15 TGl6에 제안된 WBAN 응용서비스와 이들 서비스의 요구사항을 분석하고, 일반인이 언제 어디서나 이용 가능한 미래의 헬스케어 서비스를 제공하기 위한 WBAN 구조를 살펴보고자 한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.47-53
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• 2008

블루투스는 IETE 802.15 BAN스터디그룹에서 제안하는 다양한 WBAN 응용 시나리오를 이미 지원하고 있는 매우 성숙된 기술로서 향후 새로운 WBAN MAC/PHY의 시장 진입을 위해 블루투스 응용 방식에 대한 분석이 필요하다. 본 고에서는 블루투스를 활용한 WBAN 응용 서비스로서 생체 정보 모니터링, 원격 제어/IO와 착용형 멀티미디어 스트림 시스템 개발에 대하여 살펴본다. 생체 정보 모니터링이나 원격 제어/IO의 경우는 시스템 개발 초기엔 블루투스를 많이 활용하였으나 저전력을 위해 지그비 사용이 증가하고 있으며 더 나아가 새로운 WBAN 기술이 활용될 것으로 기대된다. 착용형 멀티미디어 스트림의 경우는 블루투스가 계속 발전할 것으로 예상된다. 본 고에서 기술하는 착용형 블루투스 오디오 시스템에서는 웨어러블 MP3 플레이어와 같은 개인용 음악 재생기를 확장하여 복수의 사용자가 무선으로 오디오를 공유한다. 착용형 블루투스 멀티미디어 시스템에서는PMP와 같은 국지 동영상 파일 재생기의 발전된 모습으로 비디오는 안경형이나 손목시계형 무선 디스플레이 장치에서 재생하고 오디오는 무선 헤드폰에서 비디오와 동기적으로 재생한다. 또한 국지 미디어뿐만 아니라 근거리 IP 무선망에 있는 미디어도 UPnP-Bluetooth 브리지를 통하여 스트리밍된다.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.188-192
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• 2010

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1087-1095
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• 2014

A recent major development in computer technology is the advent of the wearable computer system that is based on human-centric interface technology trends and ubiquitous computing environments. Wearable computer systems can use the wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) that refers to USB technology that is merged with WiMedia PHY/MAC technical specifications. In this paper, we focus on an integrated system of the wireless USB over the IEEE 802.15.6 wireless body area networks (WBAN) for wireless wearable computer systems supporting U-health services. And a communication structure that can differentiate QoS of U-health WBAN and WUSB traffic with different priorities is proposed for WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical protocol. In our proposal and performance evaluation, throughputs of U-health WBAN and WUSB traffic are analyzed under single and multiple QoS classes to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed QoS differentiating structure in WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6.