• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2644-2657
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• 2018

To utilize the energy of sensor nodes efficiently and extend the network lifetime maximally is one of the primary goals in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Thus, designing an energy-efficient protocol to optimize the determination of cluster heads (CHs) in WSNs has become increasingly important. In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient protocol based on an improved Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), which we refer to as Fitness value based Improved GWO (FIGWO). It considers a fitness value to improve the finding of the optimal solution in GWO, which ensures a better distribution of CHs and a more balanced cluster structure. According to the distance to the CHs and the BS, sensor nodes' transmission distance are recalculated to reduce the energy consumption. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach can prolong the stability period of the network in comparison to other algorithms, namely by 31.5% in comparison to SEP, and even by 57.8% when compared with LEACH protocol. The results also show that the proposed protocol performs well over the above comparative protocols in terms of energy consumption and network throughput.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1805-1824
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• 2013

Recently, the use of wireless body area networks (WBAN) has been increasing rapidly in medical healthcare applications. WBANs consist of smart nodes that can be used to sense and transmit vital data such as heart rate, temperature and ECG from a human body to a medical centre. WBANs depend on limited resources such as energy and bandwidth. In order to utilise these resources efficiently, a very well organized medium access control (MAC) protocol must be considered. In this paper, a new, adaptive and energy-efficient MAC protocol, entitled isMAC, is proposed for WBANs. The proposed MAC is based on multi-channel communication and aims to prolong the network lifetime by effectively employing (i) a collision prevention mechanism, (ii) a coordinator node (WCN) selection algorithm and (iii) a transmission power adjustment approach. The isMAC protocol has been developed and modelled, by using OPNET Modeler simulation software. It is based on a networking scenario that requires especially high data rates such as ECG, for performance evaluation purposes. Packet delay, network throughput and energy consumption have been chosen as performance metrics. The comparison between the simulation results of isMAC and classical IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) protocol shows that isMAC significantly outperforms IEEE 802.15.4 in terms of packet delay, throughput and energy consumption.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.135-141
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• 2018

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are composed of a large number of sensor nodes. Battery-powered sensor nodes have limited coverage; therefore, it is more efficient to transmit data via multi-hop communication. The network lifetime is a crucial issue in WSNs and the multi-hop routing protocol should be designed to prolong the network lifetime. Prolonging the network lifetime can be achieved by minimizing the power consumed by the nodes, as well as by balancing the power consumption among the nodes. A power imbalance can reduce the network lifetime even if several nodes have sufficient (battery) power. In this paper, we propose a routing protocol that prolongs the network lifetime by balancing the power consumption among the nodes. To improve the balance of power consumption and improve the network lifetime, the proposed routing scheme adaptively controls the transmission range using a power control according to the residual power in the nodes. We developed a routing simulator to evaluate the performance of the proposed routing protocol. The simulation results show that the proposed routing scheme increases power balancing and improves the network lifetime.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.214-218
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• 2004

In this paper, we have analyzed TCP performance over wireless correlated fading links with and without Snoop protocol. For a given value of the packet error rate, TCP performance without Snoop protocol is degraded as the fading is getting fast (i.e. the user moves fast). When Snoop protocol is introduced in the base station, TCP performance is enhanced in most wireless environments. Especially the performance enhancement derived from using Snoop protocol is large in fast fading channel. This is because packet errors become random and sporadic in fast fading channel and these random packet errors (mostly single packet errors) can be compensated efficiently by Snoop protocol's local packet retransmissions. But Snoop protocol can't give a large performance improvement in slow fading environments where long bursts of packet errors occur. Concerning to packet error rate, Snoop protocol results in the highest performance enhancement in the channel with mid-high values of packet error rate. This means Snoop protocol cannot fully fulfill its ability under too low or too high packet error rate environments.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.422-429
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• 2013

Advances in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology have enabled small and low-cost sensors with the capability of sensing various types of physical and environmental conditions, data processing, and wireless communication. In the WSN, the sensor nodes have a limited transmission range and their processing and storage capabilities as well as their energy resources are limited. A triple umpiring system has already been proved for its better performance in WSNs. The clustering technique is effective in prolonging the lifetime of the WSN. In this study, we have modified the ad-hoc on demand distance vector routing by incorporating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based dynamic clustering. The proposed scheme, which is an efficient and secure routing protocol for wireless sensor networks through SNR-based dynamic clustering (ESRPSDC) mechanisms, can partition the nodes into clusters and select the cluster head (CH) among the nodes based on the energy, and non CH nodes join with a specific CH based on the SNR values. Error recovery has been implemented during the inter-cluster routing in order to avoid end-to-end error recovery. Security has been achieved by isolating the malicious nodes using sink-based routing pattern analysis. Extensive investigation studies using a global mobile simulator have shown that this hybrid ESRP significantly improves the energy efficiency and packet reception rate as compared with the SNR unaware routing algorithms such as the low energy aware adaptive clustering hierarchy and power efficient gathering in sensor information systems.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2004

최근에 통신 기술과 하드웨어 기술의 발전으로 아주 작은 센서노드로 무선 센서 네트워크를 구성하는 것이 가능하게 되었다. 무선 센서 노드들은 이용 가능한 자원이 극히 제한되기 때문에, 노드들은 장시간 동안 활동하기 위해서 에너지 소모를 최소로 하는 것이 관건이다. 무선 센서 네트워크는 애드 혹 망과 매우 유사하지만, 통신, 전력소모 그리고 계산능력 측면에서 제약을 받는다. 각 노드들의 응용계층에서는 적은 양의 데이터를 생성하고, 느린 속도로 전송되는 특징을 가진다. 각각의 센서 노드는 소스(source)와 싱크(sink)가 될 수 있는 일반적인 애드 혹 환경과는 달리 하나의 기지국(base station)이 싱크의 역할을 하고 싱크를 제외한 노드들은 소스의 역할을 하게 된다. 또한 무선 센서 네트워크는 설치된 후 지속적으로 주변을 관찰하고 고정된 상태로 있는 것이 대부분이다. 기존 애드 혹 망에서 라우팅 프로토콜은 이러한 무선 센서 네트워크의 특징을 만족할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 무선 센서 네트워크의 통신 형태의 특징을 고려하여 트리 기반 라우팅 프로토콜을 확장한 에너지 측면에서 효율적인 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.841-847
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• 2015

WAVE(Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) 통신 시스템은 차량 간 무선통신을 가능하게 해주는 환경을 지원한다. 무선통신의 활용이 증가함에 따라 그에 따른 공격 방법도 다양해져, 패킷들은 통신 시 제3자에 의해 변조될 수 있다. 본 논문은 CA(Certificate Authority)와 차량이 통신 과정에서 ECIES(Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme)를 이용하여 자신이 적합한 호스트임을 인증 받고, AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) 알고리즘을 이용하여 패킷의 기밀성과 무결성을 보장하는 프로토콜을 제안하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.3542-3566
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• 2018

In this paper, we investigate a buffer-aided wireless powered cooperative communication network (WPCCN), in which the source and relay harvest the energy from a dedicated power beacon via wireless energy transfer, then the source transmits the data to the destination through the relay. Both the source and relay are equipped with an energy buffer to store the harvested energy in the energy transfer stage. In addition, the relay is equipped with a data buffer and can temporarily store the received information. Considering the buffer-aided WPCCN, we propose two buffer-aided relaying protocols, which named as the buffer-aided harvest-then-transmit (HtT) protocol and the buffer-aided joint mode selection and power allocation (JMSPA) protocol, respectively. For the buffer-aided HtT protocol, the time-averaged achievable rate is obtained in closed form. For the buffer-aided JMSPA protocol, the optimal adaptive mode selection scheme and power allocation scheme, which jointly maximize the time-averaged throughput of system, are obtained by employing the Lyapunov optimization theory. Furthermore, we drive the theoretical bounds on the time-averaged achievable rate and time-averaged delay, then present the throughput-delay tradeoff achieved by the joint JMSPA protocol. Simulation results validate the throughput performance gain of the proposed buffer-aided relaying protocols and verify the theoretical analysis.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1324-1329
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 WiMedia D-MAC 기술 기반 Wireless USB 프로토콜에서 분산적인 SoQ기반 Wireless USB Channel 자원 할당 방법의 성능을 분석하고, QoS 성능 향상을 위해 릴레이 통신 기술을 적용한 SoQ 릴레이 전송 프로토콜을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 SoQ 릴레이 전송 프로토콜은 Satisfaction of QoS (SoQ) 알고리즘을 각 단말 디바이스 내 WiMedia D-MAC 계층에서 분산적으로 실행하고, 충돌대상 디바이스에게 예약된 QoS 자원을 유지할 수 있도록 Direct Link 뿐만 아니라 릴레이 노드를 경유하여 또 다른 Indirect Link 링크를 예약할 수 있는 자원 예약 프로토콜을 제안한다.