• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.2361-2366
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• 2009

Usually, it is possible for human administrator to control the facilities manually or automatically using sensors in order to manage the fixed electricity facilities. However, it is difficult to collect the status data of those facilities in the central management system. In this paper, we propose the electricity facility management system to collect the status of facilities using the Zigbee networks. the proposed system exploits the various types of sensors, such as motion, heat, optical, etc, to measure the states of the facilities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.566-567
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• 2013

In simulation model, when it's occurred model succession, the parent model is connected to child model. When the schoolzone system is constructed, it needs the module on networks. Hence, it is considerable about the zigbee based communication module so that this paper proposes the zigbee based schoolzone setup scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.749-751
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• 2009

In this paper, we designed a sensor network using zigbee for controlling and monitoring semiconductor equipments. Unlike general kinds of sensor networks, it is important to preferential send emergency data to the control server. Therefore, we proposed a MAC protocol which consider the priority for the urgency data handling.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.1510-1518
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• 2006

As a promising technology that enables ubiquitous computing and leads IT(information Technology) industries of next generation, the exciting new field of sensor networks is attracting so much attention and considered to be the one of the hottest research topics these days. From now on, all the each node, forming a network, and even the sensor network itself will interact with the generic network and evolve dynamically according to the change of environment with the perpetual creation and extinction. In this paper, we purpose the dynamic address interworking scheme for interactive networking between sensor network and Internet(IPv6). Proposed scheme is enable to interworking dynamically between sensor network address scheme based on Zigbee and Internet address scheme based on IP. Additionally, we implement the proposed address interworking scheme using Berkeley TinyOS, mica motes, and IP protocol. And, we verify the proposed scheme by the interconnection experimental between wireless sensor networks and Internet based on IPv4/IPv6.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.1793-1798
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• 2007

Recently there are some trends to construct smart home system infrastructure depending upon the development of Information and Communication Technology. Also requirements of the Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems at home which can monitor the status of health continuously are increased rapidly comparing with hospitals. Healthcare service can be divided into two categories. The first one is Alarm Service that can be used for the emergency status and the other one is Remote Support Service which can monitor the patient including home environments and give those diagnosis information to medical office or to his family. Generally wired networks and fixed healthcare measuring system have some limits to transmit reliable realtime based information for both categories described above comparing with portable monitoring system. Getting over the inefficiency we will design and implement portable healthcare system under the wireless Zigbee network environments.

• 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 Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.78-87
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• 2011

A variety of intelligent application using the sensor network system is being studied. In general, the sensor network consists of nodes which equipped with a variety of sensing module and is utilized to collect environment information. Recently, the demands of multimedia data are increasing due to the demands of more detailed environmental monitoring or high-quality data. In this paper, we overcome the limitations of low bandwidth in Zigbee-based sensor networks and propose a routing algorithm for real-time multimedia data transmission. In the previously proposed algorithm for multimedia data transmission occurs delay time of routing setup phase and has a low data transmission speed due to bandwidth limitations of Zigbee. In this paper, we propose the hybrid routing algorithm that consist of Zigbee and Bluetooth and solve the bandwidth problem of existing algorithm. We also propose the disjointed multipath setup algorithm based on competition that overcome delay time of routing setup phase in existing algorithm. To evaluate the superiority of the proposed algorithm, we compare it with the existing algorithm. Our experimental results show that the latency was reduced by approximately 78% and the communication speed is increased by approximately 6.9-fold.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.1939-1946
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• 2012

USNs (Ubiquitous Sensor Networks) such as IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee network share ISM (Industrial, Scientific, and Medical) frequency band with WiFi networks. Once both networks operate in a region, packet collision may happen because of frequency overlapping. To assure this possibility, we conducted experiments where WiFi and ZigBee communication networks had been installed in an area. As a result of the test, successful data transmission rate were reduced due to the frequency overlapping between a WiFi communication channel and a ZigBee communication band. To cope with this problem, we propose a collision avoidance algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, if frequency collision is sensed, new communication channel with different frequency band is allocated to each node. Performance of the proposed frequency collision avoidance algorithm was tested and the results were described.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.27-36
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• 2010

In wireless networks environment, there are attempts for constructing systems through which we can monitor and control various electronic devices used in large buildings at remoteness by using Zigbee protocol. Since address assignment method of DAA in Zigbee has a depth restriction, we cannot construct a network in large buildings. And also communication failures are frequent in a large network since broadcast storm can be occurred due to frequent broadcasts among a lot of nodes at AODV routing used in Zigbee. In order to solve these problems, in this paper, we propose a novel protocol which has improved the restriction of depth by using a fixed address assignment method, and has enhanced the broadcast occurrence by devising a static routing method to a packet movement between floors. Regardless of entire network, additionally, this was to enable internal communication reliably by composing an independent PAN. Specially, in this paper, we implemented the proposed wireless protocol and proved stability and practicality through experiment appliances of control of devices established in a large building.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-43
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• 2007

The object of this paper is to design a biomedical signal measure systems based on sensor networks for the patient, integrated with computing technology. Using a combination of zigbee RF, embedded hardware and software technologies, as it allows the healthcare center to receive the information on emergency situations and the ordinary state of the patients individually or simultaneously, the healthcare center can copy with quickly a state of emergency and assist the normal life of the patient. In order to meet the low power and other requirements for the proposed system, we introduce a zigbee based RP which is the most suitable solution for improving the performance of our beeper system.