• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.341-351
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• 2008

다수의 센서 노드들이 임의의 장소에 불규칙하게 위치하는 비정형적 환경에서의 무선 센서 네트워크에서는 일반적으로 센서 노드들이 수집한 데이타가 싱크 노드 방향으로만 전송되기 때문에 단방향이라고 할 수 있다. 이런 센서 네트워크에서는 통신이 한쪽 방향으로만 이루어지기 때문에 어떤 특이 데이타가 수신되었을 때 이에 대한 재확인 명령의 전송이 어려우며 따라서 이에 대한 사후 대책 수립이 곤란하다. 이 논문에서는 TDMA에 기반한 단방향 무선 데이타 전송 프로토콜인 WSLP(Wireless Sensor Line Protocol)을 양방향 통신이 가능하도록 확장한 BiWSLP(Biredictional WSLP)를 제안하고 이를 구현한다. 또한 제안한 BiWSLP의 기능을 평가하고 검증하기 위하여, 센서 노드를 통한 데이타 수집뿐만 아니라 노드들에게 명령을 전송하여 노드들의 동작을 제어하는 기능을 가지고 있는 가상 교량 관리 시스템을 구축하고 운영한 결과를 제시한다. 또한 가상 교량 관리 시스템을 운영 결과를 바탕으로 에너지 효율 및 양방향 통신 가능성의 관점에서 BiWSLP의 효용성을 보인다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2007

In general, wireless sensor networks composed of many nodes which are located in ad. hoc environment and send the gathered data to sink node support only one way traffic. In those cases, it is not possible to send commands to nodes to react for exceptional events because the networks can not deliver downward data and the nodes run in pre-assigned fixed schedule. This paper expands the WSLP to bidirectional WSLP and implements a fire monitoring system on it, and shows the feasibility of bidirectional USN by demonstrating the usability of the process of reaction to a fire in the implemented fire monitoring system.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.1031-1034
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• 2005

This paper introduces a novel sensor network protocol, R-WSLP(Realtime Wireless Sensor Line Protocol), which has extremely low latency characteristic in large-scale WSN. R-WSLP is proposed to implement realtime forest fire monitoring system. We propose Distributed TDMA method for the multiple channel access and Time Synchronized Forwarding Mechanism instead of routing technique to achieve low latency network. Also, R-WSLP provides extremely low power operation which we accomplished by reducing idle listening. In our experimentation, we get successful results at the forest fire monitoring system with our protocol.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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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.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.369-376
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• 2011

Since wireless sensor networks generally have the capability of network recovery, malfunction of a few sensor nodes in a sensor network does not cause a crucial problem paralyzing the sensor network. The malfunction of the sink node, however, is critical. If the sink node of a sensor network stops working, the data collected by sensor nodes cannot be delivered to the gateway because no other sensor nodes can take the place of the sink node. This paper proposes a TDMA-based wireless sensor network equipped with dual sink nodes, with a view to preventing data loss in the case of malfunction of a sink node. A secondary sink node, which synchronizes with a primary sink node and receives data from other sensor nodes in normal situations, takes the role of the primary sink node in the case of malfunction of the primary sink, thereby eliminating the possibility of data loss. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated through experiments.