• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.241-269
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• 2012

Wireless networks composed of multimedia-enabled resource-constrained sensor nodes have enriched a large set of monitoring sensing applications. In such communication scenario, however, new challenges in data transmission and energy-efficiency have arisen due to the stringent requirements of those sensor networks. Generally, congested nodes may deplete the energy of the active congested paths toward the sink and incur in undesired communication delay and packet dropping, while bit errors during transmission may negatively impact the end-to-end quality of the received data. Many approaches have been proposed to face congestion and provide reliable communications in wireless sensor networks, usually employing some transport protocol that address one or both of these issues. Nevertheless, due to the unique characteristics of multimedia-based wireless sensor networks, notably minimum bandwidth demand, bounded delay and reduced energy consumption requirement, communication protocols from traditional scalar wireless sensor networks are not suitable for multimedia sensor networks. In the last decade, such requirements have fostered research in adapting existing protocols or proposing new protocols from scratch. We survey the state of the art of transport protocols for wireless multimedia sensor networks, addressing the recent developments and proposed strategies for congestion control and loss recovery. Future research directions are also discussed, outlining the remaining challenges and promising investigation areas.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2015

Recent years have seen a significant increase in demand for multimedia data over wireless sensor networks for monitoring applications that utilize sensor nodes to collect multimedia data, including sound and video. However, the multimedia streams generate a very large amount of data. When data transmission schemes for traditional wireless sensor networks are applied in wireless multimedia sensor networks, the network lifetime significantly decreases due to the excessive energy consumption of specific nodes. In this paper, we propose a data compression scheme that implements the Chinese remainder theorem to a wireless multimedia sensor network. The proposed scheme uses the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) to compress and split multimedia data, and it then transmits the bit-pattern packets of the remainder to the base station. As a result, the amount of multimedia data that is transmitted is reduced. The superiority of our proposed scheme is demonstrated by comparing its performance to that of an existing scheme. The results of our experiment indicate that our proposed scheme significantly increased the compression ratio and reduced the compression operation in comparison to those of existing compression schemes.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.890-900
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• 2010

The Bayesian networks methods provide an efficient tool for performing information fusion and decision making under conditions of uncertainty. This paper proposes Bayes estimators for the system effectiveness in energy saving of the wireless sensor networks by use of the Bayesian method under the non-informative prior knowledge about means of active and sleep times based on time frames of sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network. And then, we conduct a case study on some Bayesian estimation models for the system energy saving effectiveness of a wireless sensor network, and evaluate and compare the performance of proposed Bayesian estimates of the system effectiveness in energy saving of the wireless sensor network. In the case study, we have recognized that the proposed Bayesian system energy saving effectiveness estimators are excellent to adapt in evaluation of energy efficiency using non-informative prior knowledge from previous experience with robustness according to given values of parameters.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.909-914
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• 2015

In wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes have a short transmission range and data is transferred from source to destination node using the multi-hop transmission. Sensor nodes are powered by battery and the link qualities are different, and the routing protocol in the wireless sensor network is one of the important technical issues. Multipath routing was proposed to reduce the data congestion and increase data throughput. In the multipath routing, however, each path can be interfered by the other path, and it can aggravate network performance. In this paper, we propose the multipath routing scheme for multi-rate wireless sensor networks. The multipath routing selects transmission paths to minimize transmission delay and path interference.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.671-680
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• 2015

무선 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율을 높이기 위해 클러스터링 방법이 제안되었다. 클러스터링 방법은 데이터를 수집하고 전달하는 계층 구조를 형성하고 있다. 그러나 대용량 데이터를 전송하는 무선 멀티미디어 센서 네트워크에서 기존의 무선 센서 네트워크의 클러스터링 기법은 과도한 데이터 전송에너지 소모량과 극도로 짧은 수명으로 인하여 적용하는 데에 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 상황에 따른 협력 통신 기법을 적용한 대용량 데이터 전송 방법으로 EEAC를 제안하여 에너지 효율을 높였다. 실험결과 제안방법은 기존의 방법보다 에너지 효율이 약 2.5배 향상되었음을 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.2323-2329
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• 2008

저가형 이미지 센서 기술의 발전과 무선 센서 네트워크 기술의 발전으로 인해 WMSN(Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks) 기술이 활발히 연구되고 있다. WMSN은 기존의 무선 센서 네트워크 기술에 멀티미디어 컨텐츠를 센싱하고 전송 및 처리하는 기반기술을 포함한다. 멀티미디어 컨텐츠는 많은 데이터량을 가지므로 이를 처리하기 위해서는 많은 컴퓨팅 자원과 높은 네트워크 대역폭을 필요로 한다. 저사양의 센서 노드에서 멀티미디어 컨텐츠를 수용하기 위해서는 컴퓨팅 자원을 고려한 압축 기법 및 효율적인 전송에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 무선 센서 네트워크에서 이미지를 효율적으로 압축하고 전송하기 위한 압축기법인 YWCE기법을 제안한다. YWCE는 웨이블릿의 Resolution Scalability 특성을 이용한 4가지 움직임 보상/예측 기법을 도입한다. 실험을 통하여 4가지 각 압축 기법들의 조합에 따라 매우 높은 성능을 나타냄을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5286-5306
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• 2016

Emerging applications in automation, medical imaging, traffic monitoring and surveillance need real-time data transmission over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS) for real-time traffic over WSNs creates new challenges. Rapid penetration of smart devices, standardization of Machine Type Communications (MTC) in next generation 5G wireless networks have added new dimensions in these challenges. In order to satisfy such precise QoS constraints, in this paper, we propose a new cross-layer QoS-provisioning strategy in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). The network layer performs statistical estimation of sensory QoS parameters. Identifying QoS-routing problem with multiple objectives as NP-complete, it discovers near-optimal QoS-routes by using evolutionary genetic algorithms. Subsequently, the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer classifies the packets, automatically adapts the contention window, based on QoS requirements and transmits the data by using routing information obtained by the network layer. Performance analysis is carried out to get an estimate of the overall system. Through the simulation results, it is manifested that the proposed strategy is able to achieve better throughput and significant lower delay, at the expense of negligible energy consumption, in comparison to existing WMSN QoS protocols.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2021

As IoT(Internet Of Things) devices like a smart sensor have constrained power sources, a power strategy is critical in WSN(Wireless Sensor Networks). Therefore, it is necessary to figure out the residual power of each sensor node for managing power strategies in WSN, which, however, requires additional data transmission, leading to more power consumption. In this paper, a residual power estimation method was proposed, which uses ignorantly small amount of power consumption in the resource-constrained wireless networks including WSN. A residual power prediction is possible with the least data transmission by using Machine Learning method with some training data in this proposal. The performance of the proposed scheme was evaluated by machine learning method, simulation, and analysis.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2013

최근 무선 센서 네트워크는 멀티미디어 센서 모듈을 활용한 멀티미디어 데이터 수집을 기반으로 하는 고품질의 모니터링에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있다. 그러나 기존 센서 네트워크에서 수집되는 수치 데이터와 달리 멀티미디어 센서 네트워크에서 수집되는 데이터는 크기가 매우 크므로 데이터를 수집하는 과정에서 특정 노드의 과도한 에너지 소모 및 네트워크 성능 저하 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 무선 멀티미디어센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율적인 동적 영역 압축 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 중국인의 나머지 정리와 동적 변화 영역 감지 및 분할 알고리즘에 기반을 둔 수집 데이터의 데이터 압축 및 전송을 수행함으로써 대용량 멀티미디어 데이터 전송에서 발생하는 에너지 소모를 최소화한다. 성능평가 결과, 제안하는 기법은 기존 기법에 비해 데이터 압축률은 평균 37% 향상되었고, 데이터 전송량은 평균 56% 감소하였으며, 그에 따른 노드 생존율은 평균 14% 증가함을 보임으로써 그 우수성을 확인하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1808-1815
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• 2016

TPSN(Timing-sync Protocol for Sensor Networks), the representative of time synchronization protocol, has been already developed to provide time synchronization among nodes in wireless sensor networks. Even though the TPSN's method has been referenced by so many other time synchronization schemes for resource-constrained networks like wireless sensor networks or low power personal area networks, it has some inefficiency in terms of power consumption and network-wide synchronization time (or called convergence time). The main reason is that each node in TPSN needs waiting delay to solve the collision problem due to simultaneous transmission among competing nodes, which causes more power consumption and longer network convergence time for a network-wide synchronization. In this paper an improved scheme is proposed by changing message exchange method among nodes. The proposed scheme not only shortens network-wide synchronization time, but also reduce collision traffic which lead to needless power consumption. The proposed scheme's performance has been evaluated and compared with an original scheme by simulation. The results are shown to be better than the original algorithm used in TPSN.