• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.925-928
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 기존 유선 전력 전송 기반 에너지 하베스팅 시스템에서 발생되는 문제점을 해결하기 위해 릴레이 기반의 무선 전력 전송 방식을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방식은 에너지 블록 내에 4방향코일을 배치하여 전자기 유도 기반의 무선 전력 전송을 수행할 수 있으며, 전송 신뢰성을 확보하기 위한 릴레이 제어 알고리즘을 통해 송 수신 경로를 확장할 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.1679-1685
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 무선전력 통신 네트워크에서 소스에서 목적지 노드까지 종단간 데이터 전송률을 최대화하기 위한 최적의 멀티홉 전송 방식을 제안한다. 에너지 하베스팅을 하면서 멀티홉 전송을 위한 프레임 구조를 제시하고, 노드간 서로 다른 에너지 수확량과 링크 품질을 고려하여 종단간 전송률을 최대화하는 각 노드의 전송 시간을 수학적 분석을 통하여 도출한다. 아울러, 고려하는 무선전력기반 멀티홉 전송의 시스템 모델링을 통하여 최적화 문제를 도출하고, 이 최적화 문제가 convex 함을 보임으로써 전역 최적해가 존재함을 증명한다. 이를 통하여 최적화 문제를 계산 가능한 형태로 변형하여 손쉽게 최적해를 찾는다. 제안한 최적 멀티홉 전송 방식은 모든 링크의 전송률이 같아지도록 노드별 전송 시간을 최적으로 할당함으로써 종단간 전송률을 최대화한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2007

Energy efficiency is one of the most critical concerns for wireless sensor networks. By allowing sensor nodes in close proximity to cooperate in transmission to form a virtual multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) system, recent progress in wireless MIMO communications can be exploited to boost the system throughput, or equivalently reduce the energy consumption for the same throughput and BER target. However, these cooperative transmission strategies may incur additional energy cost and system overhead. In this paper, assuming that data collectors are equipped with antenna arrays and superior processing capability, energy efficiency of relevant traditional and cooperative transmission strategies: Single-input-multiple-output(SIMO), space-time block coding(STBC), and spatial multiplexing(SM) are studied. Analysis in the wideband regime reveals that, while receive diversity introduces significant improvement in both energy efficiency and spectral efficiency, further improvement due to the transmit diversity of STBC is limited, as opposed to the superiority of the SM scheme especially for non-trivial spectral efficiency. These observations are further confirmed in our analysis of more realistic systems with limited bandwidth, finite constellation sizes, and a target error rate. Based on this analysis, general guidelines are presented for optimal transmission strategy selection in system level and link level, aiming at minimum energy consumption while meeting different requirements. The proposed selection rules, especially those based on system-level metrics, are easy to implement for sensor applications. The framework provided here may also be readily extended to other scenarios or applications.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1357-1372
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• 2017

Energy harvesting techniques, particularly radio frequency energy harvesting (RF-EH) techniques, which are known to provide feasible solutions to enhance the performance of energy constrained wireless communication systems, have gained increasing attention. In this paper, we consider a wireless-powered cooperative communication network (WPCCN) for transferring energy in the downlink and forwarding signals in the uplink. The objective is to maximize the average transmission rate of the system, subject to the total network power constraint. We formulate such a problem as a form of wireless energy transmission based on resource allocation that searches for the joint subcarrier pairing and the time and power allocation, and this can be solved by using a dual approach. Simulation results show that the proposed joint optimal scheme can efficiently improve system performance with an increase in the number of subcarriers and relays.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.243-249
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• 2016

Energy-harvesting nodes in wireless sensor networks(WSNs) can be exhausted due to a heavy workload even though they can harvest energy from their environment. On contrast, they can sometimes fully charged, thus waste the harvested energy due to the limited battery-capacity. In order to utilize the harvested energy efficiently, we introduce a selective data compression and transmission range control scheme for energy-harvesting nodes. In this scheme, if the residual energy of a node is expected to run over the battery capacity, the node spends the surplus energy to exploit the data compression or the transmission range expansion; these operations can reduce the burden of intermediate nodes at the expanse of its own energy. Otherwise, the node performs only basic operations such as sensing or transmitting so as to avoid its blackout time. Simulation result verifies that the proposed scheme gathers more data with fewer number of blackout nodes than other schemes by consuming energy efficiently.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권10호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2010

무선 패킷 망에서 무선 자원과 무선 단말의 전력을 얼마나 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는가 하는 것은 무선 패킷 망 보급을 위한 기본 해결 과제이다. 이에 단말의 전력 소모를 줄이면서 무선 망 용량 (capacity)을 증가시키는 기법으로 전송 파워 조절 기법이 주목받고 있다. 무선 패킷 망에 전송 파워 조절 기법을 적용할 때 전송 파워의 세기에 따라 공평한 전송성능을 보장하지 못하고 기아상태에 이르는 전송 불공평성 문제가 지금까지 깊이 연구되지 않고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 전송 파워의 세기에 따른 성능 불공평성을 경쟁자 수의 차이에 의한 불공평한 매체 접근 기회에 있음을 분석을 통해 보이고 불공평성을 해결하기 위한 간단한 물리-맥 (PHY-MAC) 계층 간 접근법을 제안한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.341-350
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• 2020

In a wireless sensor network (WSN), the data transmission technique based on the cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (CMIMO) scheme reduces the energy consumption of sensor nodes quite effectively by utilizing the space-time block coding scheme. However, in networks with high node density, the scheme is ineffective due to the high degree of correlated data. Therefore, to enhance the energy efficiency in high node density WSNs, we implemented the distributed source coding (DSC) with the virtual multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) data transmission technique in the WSNs. The DSC-MIMO first compresses redundant source data using the DSC and then sends it to a virtual MIMO link. The results reveal that, in the DSC-MIMO scheme, energy consumption is lower than that in the CMIMO technique; it is also lower in the DSC single-input single-output (SISO) scheme, compared to that in the SISO technique at various code rates, compression rates, and training overhead factors. The results also indicate that the energy consumption per bit is directly proportional to the velocity and training overhead factor in all the energy saving schemes.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.213-220
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• 2008

This paper analyzes a broadcasting technique for wireless multi-hop sensor networks that uses a form of cooperative diversity called opportunistic large arrays (OLAs). We propose a method for autonomous scheduling of the nodes, which limits the nodes that relay and saves as much as 32% of the transmit energy compared to other broadcast approaches, without requiring global positioning system (GPS), individual node addressing, or inter-node interaction. This energy-saving is a result of cross-layer interaction, in the sense that the medium access control (MAC) and routing functions are partially executed in the physical (PHY) layer. Our proposed method is called OLA with a transmission threshold (OLA-T), where a node compares its received power to a threshold to decide if it should forward. We also investigate OLA with variable threshold (OLA-VT), which optimizes the thresholds as a function of level. OLA-T and OLA-VT are compared with OLA broadcasting without a transmission threshold, each in their minimum energy configuration, using an analytical method under the orthogonal and continuum assumptions. The trade-off between the number of OLA levels (or hops) required to achieve successful network broadcast and transmission energy saved is investigated. The results based on the analytical assumptions are confirmed with Monte Carlo simulations.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.169-178
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• 2012

In this paper, we study the advantages of using range extension cooperative transmission (CT) in multi-hop energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (EH-WSNs) from the network layer perspective. EH-WSNs rely on harvested energy, and therefore, if a required service is energy-intensive, the network may not be able to support the service successfully. We show that CT networks that utilize both range extension CT and non-CT routing can successfully support services that cannot be supported by non-CT networks. For a two-hop toy network, we show that range extension CT can provide better services than non-CT. Then, we provide a method of determining the supportable services that can be achieved by using optimal non-CT and CT routing protocols for EH-WSNs. Using our method and network simulations, we justify our claim that CT networks can provide better services than nonCT networks in EH-WSNs.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.1460-1465
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient and multimedia traffic friendly MAC protocol (EEMF-MAC) that controls sender's wakeup period based on the data packet's transmission urgency and the receiver's wakeup periods based on the received data packet traffic loads. The protocol is useful for applications such as object tracking, real time data gathering, in which priority-based packet transmission is required. The basic idea of EEMF-MAC is that it uses the priority concept with transmission urgency of sender's data packet to reduce the transmission delay of the urgent data and it also uses duty cycling technique in order to achieve energy efficiency. EEMF-MAC showed a better performance in energy efficiency and packet transmission delay compared to existing protocols, RI-MAC and EE-RI-MAC.