• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.128-152
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• 2010

With the advance of computer and communication technologies, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly used in many aspects of our daily life. However, since the battery lifetime of WSN nodes is restricted, the WSN lifetime is also limited. Therefore, it is crucial to determine this limited lifetime in advance for preventing service interruptions in critical applications. This paper proposes a feasible static analysis approach to estimating the worstcase lifetime of a WSN. Assuming known routes with a given sensor network topology and SMAC as the underlying MAC protocol, we statically estimate the lifetime of each sensor node with a fixed initial energy budget. These estimations are then compared with the results obtained through simulation which run with the same energy budget on each node. Experimental results of our research on TinyOS applications indicate that our approach can safely and accurately estimate worst-case lifetime of the WSN. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first one to estimate the worst-case lifetime of WSNs through a static analysis method.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2019년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.304-305
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• 2019

무선센서네트워크는 네트워크 유연함으로 인해 다양한 응용분야에 활용되고 있다. 특히 전력제한문제를 해결하기 위해 에너지 하베스팅 무선센서네트워크(EH-WSN)를 도입하여 센서네트워크의 활용범위가 더욱 넓어지고 있다. 센싱된 데이터를 목적노드까지 전송하기 위해서는 노드들의 전력을 고려한 MAC프로토콜이 중요하게 연구되고 있다. 전력상황과 데이터의 긴급성은 데이터 전송의 중요 요소이며 데이터의 긴급성과 노드들의 전력을 종합적으로 고려한 매체접근제어 프로토콜이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 전력상황과 데이터의 긴급성에 따라 중계노드를 선택할 수 있는 매체접근제어 프로토콜을 제안하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.674-684
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• 2008

This paper proposes a dual addressing scheme (DAS) for IPv6 over IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks (WSN). DAS combines a global unicast address to cope with association link changes and node mobility, and it links local addresses to lighten the overhead of the system to save energy and resources. This paper describes DAS address formats, address autoconfiguration, and address translation tables in the gateway. A detailed description of DAS is provided through examples. Simulations are performed to demonstrate the performance improvements of the DAS compared with the IPv6-based WSN, which uses the conventional single address.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제68권1호
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• pp.98-101
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose the power-based pipelined-forwarding MAC protocol which can select relay nodes according to the residual power and energy harvesting rate in EH-WSN (energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks). The proposed MAC follows a pipelined-forwarding scheme in which nodes repeatedly sleep and wake up in an EH-WSN environment and data is continuously transmitted from a high-level node to a low-level node. The sleep interval is adaptively controlled so that nodes with low energy harvesting rate can be charged sufficiently, thereby minimizing the transmission delay and increasing the network lifetime. Simulation shows that the proposed MAC protocol improves the balance of residual power and network lifetime.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.101-111
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• 2011

최근 유무선 통신 기술의 발전 및 모바일 정보기기의 보편화에 힘입어, 시간과 장소에 제약 없이 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅(Ubiquitous computing)기술이 각광받고 있다. 이에 따라, 무선 센서네트워크(Wireless Sensor Network: WSN) 기술과 상황인식(Context-awareness) 기술에 대한 관심이 크게 고조 되고 있으며, WSN과 상황인식을 접목하여 다양한 분야에서 활용할 수 있는 응용시스템의 개발이 활발하다. 하지만 기존 상황인식 기술을 WSN에 적용할 경우, 첫째, 불필요한 데이터를 전송하여 에너지효율성을 저하시키는 단점이 존재한다. 둘째, 새로운 응용 서비스를 구현할 경우, 특정 응용에 의존적이 기 때문에, 새로운 상황인식 모듈을 구현해야 하는 문제점이 있다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 무선 센서 네트워크에서 상황인식에 근거한 새로운 실시간 감시시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 센서노드에서 상황인식을 수행하여 불필요한 데이터 전송을 줄여 에너지 효율성을 높이고, 모듈화를 통해 새로운 상황인식 기능을 지원할 수 있는 확장성을 지닌다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.2640-2644
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• 2014

최근의 기술발전과 함께 무선 센서 네트워크 (Wireless Sensor Network, WSN)는 수많은 작고 저렴한 센서 노드로 구성된 센서네트워크이다. 무선 센서 네트워크는 공동으로 배치된 지역 내에서 정보감지, 수집, 처리 및 전송임무를 수행한다. 또한, 지능형교통, 의료구조, 환경감시, 정밀농업 및 공업 자동화 등 다양한 방면에 응용할 수 있다. 그래서 센서 네트워크 환경에서 데이터 유지관리 기술은 센서 네트워크의 핵심 기술 중 하나이다. 본 논문은 현재 무선 센서 네트워크 데이터 관리를 위한 기술을 분석하고 이들의 문제점에 대해 살펴보았다. 향후 본 연구를 통해 센서 네트워크의 체계적인 개발 접근을 시도해볼 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.341-346
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• 2011

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are formed by a great quantity of sensor nodes, which are consisted of battery-powered and some tiny devices. In WSN, both efficient energy management and Quality of Service (QoS) are important issues for some applications. Real-time services are usually employed to satisfy QoS requirements in critical environment. This paper proposes a real-time MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol with extended backoff scheme for wireless sensor networks. The basic idea of the proposed protocol employs (m,k)-firm constraint scheduling which is to adjust the contention window (CW) around the optimal value for decreasing the dynamic failure and reducing collisions DBP (Distant Based Priority). In the proposed protocol, the scheduling algorithm dynamically assigns uniform transmitting opportunities to each node. Numerical results reveal the effect of the proposed backoff mechanism.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.77-80
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• 2005

Wireless sensor networks(WSN) technology has various applications such as surveillance and information gathering in the uncontrollable area of human. One of major issues in WSN is the research for reducing the energy consumption and reliability of data. A system with forward error correction(FEC) can provide an objective reliability while using less transmission power than a system without FEC. In this paper, we propose to use LDPC codes of various code rate(0.53, 0.81, 0.91) for FEC for WSN. Also, we considered node-to-node interference in addition to AWGN channel. The proposed system has not only high reliable data transmission at low SNR, but also reduced transmission power usage.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.377-384
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• 2023

The existence of abnormal breakpoint data leads to poor channel balance in wireless sensor networks (WSN). To enhance the communication quality of WSNs, a method for positioning abnormal breakpoint data in WSNs on the basis of signal reconstruction is studied. The WSN signal is collected using compressed sensing theory; the common part of the associated data set is mined by exchanging common information among the cluster head nodes, and the independent parts are updated within each cluster head node. To solve the non-convergence problem in the distributed computing, the approximate term is introduced into the optimization objective function to make the sub-optimization problem strictly convex. And the decompressed sensing signal reconstruction problem is addressed by the alternating direction multiplier method to realize the distributed signal reconstruction of WSNs. Based on the reconstructed WSN signal, the abnormal breakpoint data is located according to the characteristic information of the cross-power spectrum. The proposed method can accurately acquire and reconstruct the signal, reduce the bit error rate during signal transmission, and enhance the communication quality of the experimental object.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.465-474
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• 2014

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is considered to be one of the most important research fields for ubiquitous healthcare (u-healthcare) applications. Healthcare systems combined with WSNs have only been introduced by several pioneering researchers. However, most researchers collect physiological data from medical nodes located at static locations and transmit them within a limited communication range between a base station and the medical nodes. In these healthcare systems, the network link can be easily broken owing to the movement of the object nodes. To overcome this issue, in this study, the fast link exchange minimum cost forwarding (FLE-MCF) routing protocol is proposed. This protocol allows real-time multi-hop communication in a healthcare system based on WSN. The protocol is designed for a multi-hop sensor network to rapidly restore the network link when it is broken. The performance of the proposed FLE-MCF protocol is compared with that of a modified minimum cost forwarding (MMCF) protocol. The FLE-MCF protocol shows a good packet delivery rate from/to a fast moving object in a WSN. The designed wearable platform utilizes an adaptive linear prediction filter to reduce the motion artifacts in the original electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Two filter algorithms used for baseline drift removal are evaluated to check whether real-time execution is possible on our wearable platform. The experiment results shows that the ECG signal filtered by adaptive linear prediction filter recovers from the distorted ECG signal efficiently.