• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.704-711
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• 2011

This paper proposes hybrid distributed stochastic addressing (HDSA), which combines the advantages of distributed addressing and stochastic addressing, to solve the problems encountered when constructing a network in a ZigBee-based wireless sensor network. HDSA can assign all the addresses for ZigBee beyond the limit of addresses assigned by the existing distributed address assignment mechanism. Thus, it can make the network scalable and can also utilize the advantages of tree routing. The simulation results reveal that HDSA has better addressing performance than distributed addressing and better routing performance than other on-demand routing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.22-32
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• 2013

Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) has attracted great interest recently and the necessity of ZigBee has appeared to standardize and apply the upper layer specification based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard specification in industrial field. Currently, there are many studies about the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee communication channel. And it is subject of interest to analyze the performance in various channel environments. In this paper, we propose channel models through the analysis of the IEEE 802.15.4 radio wave propagation characteristics in various channel environments. Also, we have analyzed the performance of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee for the standard of physical layer of 2.4GHz band in each channel environments.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.31-42
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• 2007

A transform coding scheme for the transmission of audio data in ZigBee based wireless personal area networks (WPAN) is presented in this paper. Here, wavelet transform is exploited to encode the features of audio data included mainly in the low frequency region. As a result, it is confirmed that the presented scheme recovers the original audio signals much accurately while it transmits the binary data compressed as 37.5% of the entire data generated without coding scheme. Especially, the mean-squared error between the recovered and original audio data approaches $10^{-4}$ when the signal-to-noise power ratio is sufficiently high. Hence, the presented coding scheme which exploits the wavelet transform is possibly applied for high-quality audio data transmission services in a small-scale sensor network based on ZigBee. Such a result is considered to be applicable as a basic material to update the technical specifications and develop the applications of ZigBee in WPANs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.993-996
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• 2007

LR-WPAN의 대표적인 기술인 ZigBee는 저속 전송속도를 갖는 홈오토메이션 및 데이터 네트워크를 위해 IEEE 802.15.4 표준을 기반으로 상위 프로토콜과 응용을 규격화한 기술이다. 특히 개방된 무선 환경인 ZigBee 네트워크에서는 무엇보다 보안의 중요성이 대두되고 있으며, ZigBee Alliance 규격에도보안 계층이 포함되어 있다. 그러나 암호화에 사용되는 링크키를 생성하기 위해 신뢰성 있는 정보(마스터키)를 평문으로 전송하기 때문에 직접적으로 노출되는 위험성과 방문자 위치 추적 등 디바이스의 이동이 빈번한 환경에서 PAN 코디네이터의 과부하가 발생할 수 있는 등의 여러 가지 문제점이 존재하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 Du 등이 제안한 사전 키 분배 기법을 이용하여 ZigBee 네트워크에서의 효율적인 키 분배 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 제안된 프로토콜은 디바이스에게 임의의 행렬 열과 행 값을 송신하여 링크키를 생성함으로서 이전의 문제점을 해결하고 더욱 빠른 통신이 가능하도록 하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.537-540
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• 2006

When multiple ZigBee wireless personal area networks (WPANs) are in close proximity to each other, contentions and collisions in transmissions will lead to increased packet delays. However, there is no existing study on how delay performance would be affected in a crowded real-life environment where each person walking down a busy street would be wearing a ZigBee WPAN. This letter studies the use of ZigBee WPANs in such a real-life environment for real-time heart beat monitoring. To be pragmatic, we derived a mobility pattern from the analysis of a real-life video trace. Then, we estimated the delay performance from the video trace by combining data collected from ZigBee experiments. The results show that the 300 ms packet delay requirement will not be met for only 11% of the time. When failure occurs, it will last for an average duration of 1.4 s.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.104-112
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• 2006

ZigBee is the emerging industrial standard for ad hoc networks based on IEEE 802.15.4. It is used for low data rate and low power wireless network applications. Expected applications of ZigBee include wireless sensor networks for remote monitoring, home control, and industrial automation. Since one of the most important design goals of ZigBee is to reduce the installation and running costs, the ZigBee stack is embedded in the cheap and small micro-controller unit. The hierarchical routing algorithm is used for ZigBee end devices which have very limited resources. Using the block addressing scheme, end devices can send data to the destination without a routing table. However, hierarchical routing has the problem that the packets follow the tree hierarchy to the destination even if the destination is located nearby. In this paper, we propose a scheme to improve the hierarchical routing algorithm in ZigBee networks by employing the neighbor table that is originally used together with the routing table. We suggest selecting the neighbor node that has the minimum remaining hops to the destination as the next hop node. Simulation result shows that the proposed scheme saves more than 30% of the hop counts compared with the original hierarchical routing.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.151-161
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• 2010

Recently, as the era of ubiquitous has arrived, an infrastructure for the short-distance wireless communication has been extended socially, and thus a variety of services are being proposed. The Multimedia Contents Delivery System using the ZigBee, in particular, has an important stance in enlargement of a variety of services in the aspect of individual-oriented service support though Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). Nonetheless, the ZigBee, or the IEEE 802.15.4 Standard, has many restrictions on the Multimedia Contents Delivery System due to the low data transport rate. In order to improve the ZigBee which presents a limit on the transport rate at the IEEE 802.15.4 Standard, this thesis has designed the burst mode which is a method of transmitting a certain amount of data in block units at a high speed without any stoppage until the completion of the transmission. Also, to provide a Multimedia Contents Delivery Service with an application of the normal data transmission mode, it improved the transmission performance of the ZigBee. In addition, for the Multimedia Contents Delivery Service under the ubiquitous environment, it designed and implemented a broadcasting Multimedia Contents Delivery System based on the ZigBee to conduct a comparative analysis on the data transmission performance according to the transmission method.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.6
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• pp.1063-1068
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• 2008

BACnet(Building Automation and Control Networks) is a standard data communication protocol specifically designed for building automation and control systems, BACnet provides six options for data link layer protocols and these six data link layer options can be applied with various wired transmission media. Recently wireless technology prevails in automation area. ZigBee is an IEEE 802.15.4 based standard communication protocol for low-rate wireless personal area networks. In this study, we propose a BACnet over ZigBee model that adopts ZigBee communication channel as a wireless data link layer protocol in a BACnet-based communication network system. The technology proposed in this paper can expand the BACnet application using the advantages of wired and wireless integrated network solution.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.343-348
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• 2012

ZigBee Network is enabling technology for home automation, surveillance and monitoring system. For better secure network environment, secure and robust security model is important. The paper proposes an application, attribute-based proxy re-encryption on ZigBee networks. The method can distribute the authority to designated sensor nodes to decrypt re-encrypted ciphertext with associated attributes. However, a previous method is required to compute complex pairing operations. The high complexity is not suited to low resource device sensor networks, and it does not provide routing security either. To resolve these problems, we present a novel mechanism. The method can reduce overhead by imposing overhead to full function devices and ensure routing paths as well.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.263-268
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• 2008

고도의 정보 사회로의 빠른 변화는 통신 기술의 발달과 통신 정보들의 다양함에 있다. 현대 사회에서 이용자들은 기존의 통신 서비스보다 좀 더 복잡한 기능과 편리한 기능 다양한 서비스를 필요로 하고 있다. 최근 전 세계적으로 '언제나 어디서나'라는 뜻을 가진 유비쿼터스 사회를 이루기 위한 근거리 무선 통신에 대해 관심을 많이 가지고 있으며 그에 따라 연구와 개발이 활발히 진행이 되고 있다. 무선통신 환경이 증가하고 무선 네트워크화의 필요와 수요에 따른 차세대 근거리 무선 통신 기술 중 대표적인 ZigBee 통신과 기능검증에 대한 H/W 플랫폼을 설계하고 구현하였으며 실험을 통하여 ZigBee의 전송도달거리와 송수신 속도를 확인하였다. 근거리 무선 통신 중 ZigBee의 특성을 고찰하였고 근거리 무선 통신의 연구 방향에 대해 제시하였다.