• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.224-242
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• 2010

Data routing in wireless sensor networks must be energy-efficient because tiny sensor nodes have limited power. A cluster-based hierarchical routing is known to be more efficient than a flat routing because only cluster-heads communicate with a sink node. Existing hierarchical routings, however, assume unrealistically large radio transmission ranges for sensor nodes so they cannot be employed in real environments. In this paper, by considering the practical transmission ranges of the sensor nodes, we propose a clustering and routing method for hierarchical sensor networks: First, we provide the optimal ratio of cluster-heads for the clustering. Second, we propose a d-hop clustering scheme. It expands the range of clusters to d-hops calculated by the ratio of cluster-heads. Third, we present an intra-cluster routing in which sensor nodes reach their cluster-heads within d-hops. Finally, an inter-clustering routing is presented to route data from cluster-heads to a sink node using multiple hops because cluster-heads cannot communicate with a sink node directly. The efficiency of the proposed clustering and routing method is validated through extensive simulations.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2009

As one of the most important requirements for wireless sensor networks, prolonging network lifetime can be realized by minimizing energy consumption in cluster heads as well as sensor nodes. While most of the previous researches have focused on the energy of sensor nodes, we devote our attention to cluster heads because they are most dominant source of power consumption in the cluster-based sensor networks. Therefore, we seek to minimize energy consumption by minimizing the maximum(MINMAX) energy dissipation at each cluster heads. This work requires energy-efficient clustering of the sensor nodes while satisfying given energy constraints. In this paper, we present a constraint satisfaction modeling of cluster-based routing in a heterogeneous sensor networks because mixed integer programming cannot provide solutions to this MINMAX problem. Computational experiments show that substantial energy savings can be obtained with the MINMAX algorithm in comparison with a minimum total energy(MTE) strategy.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.1618-1637
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• 2014

Clustering wireless sensor network is an efficient way to reduce the energy consumption of individual nodes in a cluster. In clustering, multihop routing techniques increase the load of the Cluster head near the sink. This unbalanced load on the Cluster head increases its energy consumption, thereby Cluster heads die faster and create an energy hole problem. In this paper, we propose an Energy Balancing Cluster Head (EBCH) in wireless sensor network. At First, we balance the intra cluster load among the cluster heads, which results in nonuniform distribution of nodes over an unequal cluster size. The load received by the Cluster head in the cluster distributes their traffic towards direct and multihop transmission based on the load distribution ratio. Also, we balance the energy consumption among the cluster heads to design an optimum load distribution ratio. Simulation result shows that this approach guarantees to increase the network lifetime, thereby balancing cluster head energy.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권7호
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• pp.1293-1310
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• 2011

A simple modification of well known Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol is proposed to exploit cooperative diversity. Instead of selecting a single cluster-head, we propose M cluster-heads in each cluster to obtain a diversity of order M. The cluster-heads gather data from all the sensor nodes within the cluster using same technique as LEACH. Cluster-heads transmit gathered data cooperatively towards the destination or higher order cluster-head. We propose a code combining based cooperative diversity protocol which is similar to coded cooperation that maximizes the performance of the proposed cooperative LEACH protocol. The implementation of the proposed cooperative strategy is analyzed. We develop the upper bounds on bit error rate (BER) and frame error rate (FER) for our proposal. Space time block codes (STBC) are also a suitable candidate for our proposal. In this paper, we argue that the STBC performs worse than the code combining cooperation.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.361-367
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• 2014

This paper introduces balancing energy and memory consumption for lifetime increase of wireless sensor network. In cluster-based wireless sensor network, sensor nodes adjacent of cluster heads have a tendency to deplete their own battery energy and cluster heads occupy memory space significantly. If the nodes close to region where events occur frequently consume their energy and memory fully, network might be destroyed even though most of nodes are still alive. Therefore, it needs to balance network energy and memory with consideration of event occurrence probability so that network lifetime is increased. We show a method of balancing wireless sensor network energy and memory to organize cluster groups and elect cluster heads in terms of event occurrence probability.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.199-202
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• 2013

무선 센서 네트워크에서 클러스터링 방식의 네트워크 수명은 클러스터 헤드 결정 방법에 의해서 영향을 받는다. 대표적인 클러스터링 방식인 LEACH(Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)의 경우 주기적으로 클러스터 헤드를 선택함으로써 클러스터 재구축으로 인한 에너지 소모가 큰 단점이 있다. 한편 ACAWT(Adaptive Clustering Algorithm via Waiting Timer)는 클러스터 헤드의 잔여 에너지 수준이 하나의 특정 임계치에 도달하면 클러스터를 재구축하는 비주기적인 클러스터 재구축 방식을 사용한다. 본 논문에서는 클러스터를 주기적으로 재구축하지 않고 노드의 잔여 에너지 수준(level)을 여러 단계로 설정한 후 클러스터 헤드의 잔여 에너지 수준이 한 단계 낮아지면 클러스터를 재구축하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 클러스터 헤드 선정 시 이웃 노드 수와 잔여 에너지 수준을 고려함으로써 클러스터 헤드의 분포를 균일하게 유지시켜 네트워크 수명을 연장시킨다. 본 제안 방식의 성능을 평가하기 위해서 Qualnet 기반의 시뮬레이션을 수행하였으며, ACAWT와 성능을 비교한 결과 제안 방식이 네트워크 수명 측면에서 우월함을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권5B호
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• pp.801-808
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• 2010

무선 센서 네트워크의 가장 중요한 요구사항인 효율적인 에너지 사용을 위해 클러스터 구조를 가진 계층 기반 라우팅 프로토콜로 LEACH(Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)가 제안되었다. LEACH 프로토콜은 수많은 센서 노드들이 임의 개수의 클러스터를 구성하고, 각 클러스터에는 멤버 노드와 클러스터 헤드가 존재한다. 멤버 노드들은 데이터를 감지하여 자신이 소속된 클러스터 헤드에게 전송하고 클러스터 헤드는 멤버 노드에게 전송받은 데이터를 융합하여 Base Station(BS)에게 전송한다. LEACH 프로토콜에서는 클러스터 헤드가 균등하게 분포되는 것을 보장하지 않고, 융합된 데이터를 BS에게 직접 전송하기 때문에 에너지 소모가 크다는 제한사항을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 제한사항을 개선하기 위해, 클러스터 헤드간 체인을 형성해 멀리 떨어진 BS가 아니라 가장 가까운 인접 클러스터 헤드에게 데이터를 전송하고, 최종적으로 BS와 가장 가까운 클러스터 헤드가 데이터를 융합해 전송하는 LECEEP를 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과 LECEEP가 LEACH 프로토콜과 비교하여 시간 경과에 따른 전체 네트워크의 에너지 소모 및 생존 노드 수 측면에서 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.199-203
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• 2011

The wireless sensor network (WSN) based on ad hoc network is applied to vehicle parking guide system without parking guide man at area or building with large scale of parking lots. The optimum number of cluster heads was derived for getting the minimum power consumption as well as time delay. Through the theoretical analysis of power consumption and time delay with the number of cluster heads in wireless sensor network, it was found that there exists the minimum point in the variation of power consumption and time delay according to the number of cluster heads.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2015

무선 센서 네트워크에서는 효율적으로 에너지를 사용해서 전체 네트워크의 수명을 연장하는 것이 중요한 이슈이다. 기존의 라우팅 프로토콜에서는 클러스터 헤드를 단순히 센서노드들과 가까운 노드로 선택했기 때문에, 경우에 따라서는 클러스터 헤드와 Base Station(BS) 위치가 센서노드와 BS사이의 위치보다 멀어서 거리에 따른 불필요한 에너지 소모가 생긴다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 클러스터의 구성과 클러스터 헤드를 노드들의 위치 정보에 따라서 선정하는 위치기반 클러스터링 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 기존의 알고리즘보다 네트워크 시간이 연장되어 에너지를 효율적으로 사용함을 알 수 있다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.381-390
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• 2015

The efficient design of a transport protocol contributes to energy conservation as well as performance improvement in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, a node-density-aware transport protocol (NDTP) for intra-cluster transmissions in WSNs for monitoring physical attributes is proposed, which takes node density into account to mitigate congestion in intra-cluster transmissions. In the proposed NDTP, the maximum active time and queue length of cluster heads are restricted to reduce energy consumption. This is mainly because cluster heads do more works and consume more energy than normal sensor nodes. According to the performance evaluation results, the proposed NDTP outperforms the conventional protocol remarkably in terms of network lifetime, congestion frequency, and packet error rate.