• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.32 no.3D
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• pp.247-258
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• 2012

This research evaluates the serviceability of ZigBee device that provides a potential technology to realizing the ubiquitous computing by improving the productivity and effectiveness in construction and data acquisition. Literature review was conducted in various application areas such as bridge monitoring, slope management, road management, highway traffic control. In addition characteristics and challenges in various wireless technologies are described to identify their adoptability to construction environment. Among them, ZigBee technology was selected to introduce the functionality on hardware, network, and security. Then, questionnaire survey was implemented by four different group, construction engineers, students, hardware developers, and researchers to explore the success and failure factors of ZigBee technology in construction area. The results proposes a guideline of the applicability of ZigBee technology in the area of serviceability, application area, considerations, and future direction. This paper would provide valuable information for future researches and technology development in designing the wireless sensor network applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.7B
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• pp.703-709
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• 2009

Recently, we are using wireless system based on ZigBee technology. It solves a complicated space and frequency movement. Then, we had studied it for improved performance. So, we are must concerned about routing protocol for improvement of a weak point of physical feature. But many researchers are not focusiong on developing Routing Protocol. In this paper, we proposed improved routing protocol using AODV for wireless system based on ZigBee technology. And it is analyzed the simulation result which compare with original and improved AODV protocol based on ZigBee network.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1279-1282
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• 2005

지금까지 무선 통신 기술은 높은 데이터 처리량을 가진 통신에 대하여 집중 개발되었으나, 낮은 처리량과 적은 비용, 낮은 전력소모의 요구사항을 가진 소형 경량의 무선 통신 분야의 기술개발은 활발하지 못했다. 현존하는 무선 통신 기술들을 낮은 처리율과 낮은 가격, 낮은 전력소모의 요구사항에 적용하기에는 필요이상의 성능과 비용이 들어가며, 특히 많은 전력을 소모하는 문제점이 발생한다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 소형 경량의 무선 통신 기술인 ZigBee가 생겨나게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 현존하는 무선 통신 기술과 ZigBee 기술을 비교분석하여 ZigBee 기술의 필요성과 장단점을 제시하고, ZigBee의 핵심 기술 중 하나인 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC(Medium Access Control) 프로토콜 개발결과를 기술한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.5479-5486
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• 2012

In this paper, we have measured PRR, RSSI and LQI of ZigBee channels under Wi-Fi environment and have assessed channel characteristic and link quality. To confirm any relationship among RSSI, LQI values and PRR under Wi-Fi interference in overlapping and non-overlapping channels of Wi-Fi and ZigBee, the experiments were performed without Wi-Fi, with Wi-Fi and file download through Wi-Fi. Under Wi-Fi interference, We perfomed experiments to ensure channel characteristics and link quality by fixing Wi-Fi and ZigBee receiver and varying the distance between ZigBee receiver and transmitter. ZigBee transmitter sends packet of 256 bits every second to ZigBee receiver. PRR was measured from ZigBee with variance of distance between fixed Wi-Fi and ZigBee. RSSI, LQI, PRR were measured from ZigBee with fixed Wi-Fi, fixed ZigBee receiver and variance of distance of ZigBee transmitter. As a result, we confirmed decrease of PRR under Wi-Fi interference but RSSI, LQI values similar regardless of overlapped or non-overlapped channel and Wi-Fi interference. Therefore, PRR should be used for interference detection in ZigBee communication under Wi-Fi environment but RSSI and LQI are not appreciate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.405-416
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• 2013

ZigBee is a wireless sensor network protocol recognized as a next-generation standard infrastructure for WBAN and Smart Grid. Security plays an important role in several ZigBee applications. Especially, strict membership control should be enforced when the membership is changed during the join and leave operations in ZigBee. In this paper, we investigate the security weakness of the current leave operation in ZigBee and propose a new security scheme to address it as well as its security and performance analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.1014-1017
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• 2009

Ubiquitous makes it possible to expand a short-distant wireless communications infra and provide various services. Especially, it is very important to develop multimedia contents service technology through ZigBee and WPAN technology. But because the data transmission rate of IEEE 802.15.4 Standard ZigBee is low, there are many barriers for multimedia contents services. In this paper, to improve ZigBee that has the limitation of transmission rate in IEEE 802.15.4 Standard, an upgraded model to 1Mbps through MAC Layer remodeling is designed. And Zigbee-based broadcasting multimedia contents services system is designed and implementation to provide the service in Ubiquitous environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.416-421
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• 2007

ZigBee is becoming a promising communication protocol for wireless sensor networks based on low-power consumption. In case of a ZigBee network requesting continuous transmission of sensed data, the required bandwidth can be overwhelm the maximum transmission rate of 150Kbps. However, the ZigBee router which delivers data from source node to destination node can transmit data at most in a half of maximum rate because the router can not send and receive the data simultaneously. In this paper, we propose and implement a dual-channel router which can send and receive data simultaneously. Also, we propose a centralized channel allocation algorithm to allocate different channels to each module. The experiment result by the proposed dual-channel router shows a maximum throughput of 150Kbps as large as twice of normal single-channel router.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.299-300
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• 2010

This paper presents experimental results on frequency interference phenomena between WiFi and ZogBee communication systems which are used for wireless communication in a port. When communication systems use a frequency band in a region, it hurts communication reliability. Hence, understanding and analysis on frequency interference phenomena through experiments. With various experiments between WiFi and ZigBee, we find out that 26th channel of ZigBee collides with WiFi communication channels, which is unknown result yet.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.47-53
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• 2013

본고에서는 현재 스마트 에너지와 리모컨, LED 조명제어 분야에서 많이 쓰이고 있는 ZigBee 의 기술 및 응용 분야를 알아본다. ZigBee는 근거리 무선 통신의 표준 중 컨트롤 및 모니터에 특화되어 있으며 조절 가능한 노드 수가 많고 대기전력이 적어 현재 컨트롤 디바이스에 활발히 쓰이고 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.12
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• pp.114-119
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• 2008

In this paper, a home network gateway has been developed, which supports the ZigBee and power line communication methods at the same time. A conversion protocol for smooth information exchange between ZigBee module and power line communication module have been implemented on the gateway, and the performance and reliability of the gateway have been evaluated as good through field tests. The gateway can support various home networks.