• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.35-45
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• 2009

In an open environment such as Home Network, ZigBee Cluster comprising a plurality of Ato-cells is required to provide intense security over the movement of collected, measured data. Against this setting, various security issues are currently under discussion concerning master key control policies, Access Control List (ACL), and device sources, which all involve authentication between ZigBee devices. A variety of authentication methods including Hash Chain Method, token-key method, and public key infrastructure, have been previously studied, and some of them have been reflected in standard methods. In this context, this paper aims to explore whether a new method for searching for neighboring devices in order to detect device replications and Sybil attacks can be applied and extended to the field of security. The neighbor detection applied method is a method of authentication in which ACL information of new devices and that of neighbor devices are included and compared, using information on peripheral devices. Accordingly, this new method is designed to implement detection of malicious device attacks such as Sybil attacks and device replications as well as prevention of hacking. In addition, in reference to ITU-T SG17 and ZigBee Pro, the home network equipment, configured to classify the labels and rules into four categories including user's access rights, time, date, and day, is implemented. In closing, the results demonstrates that the proposed method performs significantly well compared to other existing methods in detecting malicious devices in terms of success rate and time taken.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.8940-8947
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• 2015

Mixed-model assembly line has been widely used in automotive assembly industry to quickly respond the diverse product demands. But, this model can lead to part confusion, which is a source for assembly errors when parts are physically interchangeable in a mixed-model assembly line. With the recent application of new technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) to the assembly process, real-time information has become available in this manufacturing systems through IT infrastructures. At first, this paper presents an RFID application for assembly processes, specifically, for a mixed-model assembly line. Thus, to ensure that parts be picked accurately, each cockpit module on the assembly line is attached with a RFID tag and the tag is scanned using a RFID reader and recognizes the vehicle, and each part of the cockpit module is attached with a barcode and the barcode is scanned by a barcode reader and each part is identified correctly for the vehicle. Second, this paper presents a ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol-based application for a reconfigurable mixed-model assembly line of cockpit module to reduce the assembly errors and the cost of the change/reconfiguration on the assembly lines due to the various orders and new models from the motor company, avoiding the wiring efforts and inconvenience by wiring between the several RFID devices and the IT server system. Finally, we presents the operation results for several years using this RFID/ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol-based cockpit module assembly line.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.41-48
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• 2008

The realization of a monitoring system for senior citizens living alone through wireless sensor network. Due to the recent advances in medical science, people live longer than ever before which accelerates the number of senior citizens. The high rate of the old people in population causes some changes in the form of families, which results in the increasing number of old people living by themselves. This also causes a lot of social problems concerning aging population. For example, people found a dead body of 83-year-old, who had lived alone, after he passed away a month before. There is a national monitoring service for the old people of their daily lives, but the application of such system is very limited. Considering this, the current paper focuses on the realization of a monitoring system for senior citizens living alone through wireless sensor network. The system consists of ZigBee sensor network, which is based on standard IEEE 802.15.4. and the system uses Tmote Sky sensor mote made by Moteive, which is installed with TinyOS. The circumstances information data will be saved on DB and a household will be monitored through a Webpage or Mobile.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.101-110
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• 2011

A smart grid networks delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology with two-way communications to control appliances at consumers' homes to save energy, reduce cost and increase reliability and transparency. Security is critically important for smart grid networks that are usually used for the electric power network and IT environments that are opened to attacks, such as, eavesdroping, replay attacks of abnormal messages, forgery of the messages to name a few. ZigBee has emerged as a strong contender for smart grid networks. ZigBee is used for low data rate and low power wireless network applications. To deploy smart grid networks, the collected information requires protection from an adversary over the network in many cases. The security mechanism should be provided for collecting the information over the network. However, the ZigBee protocol has some security weaknesses. In this paper, these weaknesses are discussed and a method to improve security aspect of the ZigBee protocol is presented along with a comparison of the message complexity of the proposed security protocol with that of the current ZigBee protocol.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.2
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• pp.306-312
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• 2014

The ZigBee communication method, which is the most frequently applied to the LED lighting control system, has drawbacks of low-speed and low-capacity, and the communication failure possibility due to environmental influences is on the rise. Therefore, it is important to secure the communication reliability by applying an integrated interface with a wire-wireless dual-network. This paper developed a communication module, which has a platform converging and combining the ZigBee of USN environments with the PLC of power line communication environments, to implement a dualized communication interface system supporting the wire-wireless integrated protocol, and implemented a wire-wireless networking device and a control system software technology. As a result, it was automatically switched into the PLC communication within 4.4 seconds on average when there was an access failure in the ZigBee communication network, so a reliable communication network was built.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.3220-3226
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• 2011

In order to monitor internal risk factors such as fire, terror, etc. on the subway station, the surveillance systems using CCTV and various kinds of sensors have been implemented and recently, introduction of surveillance systems using an advanced IT technology, sensor network technology is tried on several areas. Since 2007, Korean government has made an effort to develop the intelligent surveillance and monitoring system, which can monitor fire, intrusion, passenger congestion, health-state of structure, etc., by using wireless sensor network technology and intelligent video analytic technique. For that purpose, this study carried out field wireless communication environment test on Chungmuro Station of Seoul Metro on the basis of ZigBee that is considered as a representative wireless sensor network before field application of the intelligent integrated surveillance system being developed, arranged and analyzed and ZigBee based wireless communication environment test results on the platform and waiting room of Chungmuro Station on this paper. Results of wireless spectrum analysis on the platform and waiting room showed that there is no radio frequency overlapped with that of ZigBee based sensor network and no frequency interference with adjacent frequencies separated 10MHz or more. As results of wireless data transmission test using ZigBee showed that data transmission is influenced by multi-path fading effect from the number and flow rate of passengers on the platform or the waiting room rather than effects from entrance and exit of the train to/from the platform, it should be considered when implementing the intelligent integrated surveillance system on the station.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.268-270
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 ZigBee Alliance에서 다루어지고 있는 IEEE 802.15.4틀 기반으로 하는 USN을 위한 라우팅 프로토콜을 연구한다. 현재 ZigBee Specification v1.0의 표준에서는 AODV라우팅 프로토콜과 Hierarchical 라우팅 프로토콜을 사용하고 있다. 하지만 ZigBee Specification v1.0의 표준에서 사용하고 있는 이 두 가지 라우팅 프로토콜은 대규모의 센서네트워크에 적용하였을 때, 많은 단점들이 존재한다. 이러한 단점들은 센서네트워크가 가지고 있는 여러 가지 특성들을 고려하지 않은 일반적인 Adhoc 네트워크에서 사용하는 라우팅 프로토콜을 사용했기 때문이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점들을 해결 할 수 있는 클러스터 기반의 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2018

This paper describes the applicability of Bluetooth and ZigBee networks for real-time control in wireless networked control system and suggests an effective usage of them. The Bluetooth SCO link, SPP and HID profiles and the ZigBee non-beacon enabled network are analyzed and the latency of them are measured. A number of wireless networked control system experiments are performed via DC motor control system and the various profiles of Bluetooth and ZigBee in real-time wireless networked control system are compared.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.457-460
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• 2008

현재 전 세계적으로 IT기술이 급속도로 발전함에 따라 유비쿼터스 환경으로 급속히 변화하고 있다. 이러한 유비쿼터스 환경에서는 근로자가 언제, 어디서나 고도의 유무선 정보 통신 기술을 활용하여 업무를 수행할 수 있는 u-Work 환경이 도래될 전망이다. u-Work를 보다 발전된 방향으로 구축하려면 센서 네트워크가 중요하며 그 중 ZigBee가 가장 유용하고 사회적으로 대두되어 개발이 많이 되고 있는 기술 중 하나이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 보다 나은 사무환경 조성을 위해 u-Work와 ZigBee 기술을 조사하고 u-Work 환경에서 ZigBee 네트워크의 효율적인 보안기법 설계를 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.818-821
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• 2007

무선 센서 네트워크에서 특정 지역에 분포된 센서들은 데이터를 감지하고, 싱크 노드는 소스 노드들에게서 데이터를 수집한다. 현재, 여러 연구기관 및 기업에서 무선 센서 네트워크를 구현하고 실용화하기 위해 연구하는 중이며, 대표적인 예로 IEEE Standards의 IEEE 802.15.4와 이를 하위 계층으로 사용하는 ZigBee Alliance 의 ZigBee 가 있다. 본 논문에서는, ZigBee 기반의 네트워크에서 감지된 데이터들을 수집하기 위한 이동성을 지원하는 게이트웨이의 정보처리 메커니즘을 설계한다.