• 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.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.5A
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• pp.561-570
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• 2008

Time synchronization is essential for a number of network applications such as high speed communication and parallel/distribution processing systems. As the era of ubiquitous computing is ushered in, the high precise time synchronization in wireless networks have been required in. This paper presents the design ana the implementation of the high precision time synchronization in wireless networks using ZigBee. To achieve high precision requirements, we have tried to analyze and reduce error factors such as the latency and jitters of a protocol stack on wireless environments. In addition, this paper includes some experiments and performance evaluations of our system. The result is that we established for nodes in a network to maintain their elects to within a 50 nanosecond offset from the reference clock.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.227-234
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• 2011

The Interest in robotics has been steadily increasing in recent times both in Korea as well as abroad. Research on robots for new and diverse fields is ongoing. This study discusses the current research and development on robot actuator, which are used to control the joints of robots, and focuses on developing more efficient technology for joint control, as compared with the current technologies. It also aims to find means to apply the abovementioned technology to diverse industrial fields. We found that easy and effective control of actuators could be achieved by using ZigBee sensor networks, which were widely being used on wireless communications. Throughout the experiments it is proved that the developed wireless actuator could be used for easy control of various robot joints. This technology can be effectively applied to develop two-legged robots that will be able to walk like human, or even quadruped and hexapod robots. It can also be applied to motors used in industry. In this study, we develop an extremely minimized ZigBee sensor network module that can be used to control various servo motors with low power consumption even if it is long distances. We realized effective wireless control by optimizing the ZigBee antenna, and were able to quickly check the status of relevant Tree node through mutual communication between the servo motors composing the ZigBee sensor network and the main server control modules. The developed Servo Motor with ZigBee sensor network modules can be applied in both robotics as well as for home or factory automation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.2B
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• pp.184-194
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• 2011

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, eavesdropping, 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 Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.102-110
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• 2012

ZigBee networks developed for low power and short range communication are being used as home network solution for ubiquitous computing. However, as smart phones and tablet PCs have been widely used, WLANs which use same frequency with ZigBee networks have been increasingly used. Therefore, radio frequency interference causes many problems. To solve radio frequency interference problem among ZigBee networks and WLANs, many researches focus on designing interference minimization schemes in ZigBee networks. However, existing schemes have problems that have waste of resource for detecting interference, and have unnecessary time to avoid interference. In this paper, we propose an interference minimization scheme to solve radio frequency interference in ZigBee networks. The proposed scheme detects interference using ACK mechanism to reduce waste of resource, and avoids interference using table driven channel hopping scheme which is faster than existed schemes. The performance of proposed interference minimization scheme is evaluated by using OPNET simulator. Through the simulation result, we prove that proposed scheme has faster channel hopping than existing schemes.

• 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 IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.169-170
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• 2008

To achieve secure communication in current ZigBee networks, encrypted messages using security keys need to be shared among devices. A link key shared by two devices is used for unicast communications, where the master key is the starting point for establishing a link key. The ZigBee protocol has some limitations in end-to-end key establishment, which are discussed and an improved end-to-end key establishment scheme is presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.124-125
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• 2011

최근, 모바일 분야의 급성장으로 고성능 스마트폰의 보급과 함께 이들을 단말기로 활용할 수 있는 사례가 늘어나고 있다. 또한, ZigBee 기술은 저전력 무선 네트워킹에 기반하여 다양한 기기들을 네트워크로 연결하고 이들의 모니터링 및 제어가 가능하게 하였다. 본 논문은 스마트폰과 ZigBee 네트워크 기술을 이용하여 원격으로 모니터링하고 제어할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다.

• 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.