• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권7B호
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• pp.652-659
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• 2006

애드 혹 네트워크에서 라우팅 알고리즘은 매우 중요한 연구 분야중의 하나이다. 기존의 라우팅 알고리즘은 현재의 네트워크 토폴로지 상황만을 고려하여 라우팅 경로를 설정하기 때문에 안정적인 라우팅 경로를 설정하는데 많은 어려움이 있다. 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위해 수신 신호 세기를 이용하여 라우팅을 수행하는 알고리즘들이 제안되었지만, 이들은 평균 수신 신호 세기만을 고려하였기 때문에 라우팅 프로토콜의 성능 향상에는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 평균 수신 신호 세기와 수신 신호 세기의 변화를 고려한 링크 안정성 기반의 라우팅 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능을 분석하기 위해 다양한 환경에서의 모의실험을 수행하였으며, 그 결과 기존의 알고리즘보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.5338-5359
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• 2017

In-band full-duplex (IBFD) wireless communication supports symmetric dual transmission between two nodes and asymmetric dual transmission among three nodes, which allows improved throughput for distributed IBFD wireless networks. However, inter-node interference (INI) can affect desired packet reception in the downlink of three-node topology. The current Half-duplex (HD) medium access control (MAC) mechanism RTS/CTS is unable to establish an asymmetric dual link and consequently to suppress INI. In this paper, we propose a medium access control mechanism for use in distributed IBFD wireless networks, FD-DMAC (Full-Duplex Distributed MAC). In this approach, communication nodes only require single channel access to establish symmetric or asymmetric dual link, and we fully consider the two transmission modes of asymmetric dual link. Through FD-DMAC medium access, the neighbors of communication nodes can clearly know network transmission status, which will provide other opportunities of asymmetric IBFD dual communication and solve hidden node problem. Additionally, we leverage FD-DMAC to transmit received power information. This approach can assist communication nodes to adjust transmit powers and suppress INI. Finally, we give a theoretical analysis of network performance using a discrete-time Markov model. The numerical results show that FD-DMAC achieves a significant improvement over RTS/CTS in terms of throughput and delay.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.2399-2418
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• 2023

The paper focuses on investigating secure transmission in wireless powered communication networks (WPCN) that involve multiple energy-constrained relays and one energy-constrained source. The energy is harvested from a power beacon (PB) while operating in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. The study primarily aims to achieve energy-efficient secure communications by examining the impact of channel estimation on the secrecy performance of WPCN under both perfect and imperfect CSI scenarios. To obtain practical insights on improving security and energy efficiency, we propose closed-form expressions for secrecy outage probability (SOP) under the linear energy harvesting (LEH) model of WPCN. Furthermore, we suggest a search method to optimize the secure energy efficiency (SEE) with limited power from PB. The research emphasizes the significance of channel estimation in maintaining the desired performance levels in WPCN in real-world applications. The theoretical results are validated through simulations to ensure their accuracy and reliability.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2016

무선인체센서네트워크(WBSN: Wireless Body Sensor Network)은 일반적으로 무선인체네트워크(WBAN: Wireless Body Area Networks)라고도 불리는데, 일종의 무선센서네트워크(WSN: Wireless Sensor Network)의 응용 중에 하나로, 인간의 신체에 이식되거나 착용하는 형태의 감지노드들로 인체 가까이에 설치된다. WBSN에 설치된 각 노드로부터 측정된 데이터는 싱크 노드에서 인체 상태를 분석하기 위하여 사용되는데, 다른 무선센서네트워크 응용과 마찬가지로 노드와 싱크 노드는 서로 동기화되어야 한다. 무선센터네트워크에서 동작하는 여러시각 동기화 프로토콜이 제안되어왔으나 WBSN에 적용하기에는 부적합하다. 이 논문에서는 WBSN의 특성을 고려하여 새로운 시각 동기화 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안한 프로토콜은 간단할뿐만 아니라 전력 소모가 작아 네트워크의 수명을 오랫동안 유지할 수 있게 한다. 제안 방안의 성능을 시뮬레이션을 통해 평가하였으며, WBSN에서 구현하기에 적합함을 보였다.

• 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.

• 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.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.640-652
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• 2012

Many studies have investigated the smart grid architecture and communication models in the past few years. However, the communication model and architecture for a smart grid still remain unclear. Today's electric power distribution is very complex and maladapted because of the lack of efficient and cost-effective energy generation, distribution, and consumption management systems. A wireless smart grid communication system can play an important role in achieving these goals. In this paper, we describe a smart grid communication architecture in which we merge customers and distributors into a single domain. In the proposed architecture, all the home area networks, neighborhood area networks, and local electrical equipment form a local wireless mesh network (LWMN). Each device or meter can act as a source, router, or relay. The data generated in any node (device/meter) reaches the data collector via other nodes. The data collector transmits this data via the access point of a wide area network (WAN). Finally, data is transferred to the service provider or to the control center of the smart grid. We propose a wireless cooperative communication model for the LWMN.We deploy a limited number of smart relays to improve the performance of the network. A novel relay selection mechanism is also proposed to reduce the relay selection overhead. Simulation results show that our cooperative smart grid (coopSG) communication model improves the end-to-end packet delivery latency, throughput, and energy efficiency over both the Wang et al. and Niyato et al. models.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.14-17
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• 2014

Precision agriculture relies on information technology, whose precondition is providing real-time and accurate information. It depends on various kinds of advanced sensors, such as environmental temperature and humidity, wind speed, light intensity, and other types of sensors. Currently, it is a hot topic how to collect accurate information, the main raw data for agricultural experts, monitored by these sensors timely. Most existing work in WSNs addresses their fundamental challenges, including power supply, limited memory, processing power and communication bandwidth and focuses entirely on their operating system and networking protocol design and implementation. However, it is not easy to find the self-localization capability of wireless sensor networks. Because of constraints on the cost and size of sensors, energy consumption, implementation environment and the deployment of sensors, most sensors do not know their locations. This paper provides maximum likelihood estimators for sensor location estimation when observations are time-of arrival (TOA) range measurement.

• 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.