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A Survey on Transport Protocols for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

  • Costa, Daniel G.;Guedes, Luiz Affonso
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.241-269
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    • 2012
  • Wireless networks composed of multimedia-enabled resource-constrained sensor nodes have enriched a large set of monitoring sensing applications. In such communication scenario, however, new challenges in data transmission and energy-efficiency have arisen due to the stringent requirements of those sensor networks. Generally, congested nodes may deplete the energy of the active congested paths toward the sink and incur in undesired communication delay and packet dropping, while bit errors during transmission may negatively impact the end-to-end quality of the received data. Many approaches have been proposed to face congestion and provide reliable communications in wireless sensor networks, usually employing some transport protocol that address one or both of these issues. Nevertheless, due to the unique characteristics of multimedia-based wireless sensor networks, notably minimum bandwidth demand, bounded delay and reduced energy consumption requirement, communication protocols from traditional scalar wireless sensor networks are not suitable for multimedia sensor networks. In the last decade, such requirements have fostered research in adapting existing protocols or proposing new protocols from scratch. We survey the state of the art of transport protocols for wireless multimedia sensor networks, addressing the recent developments and proposed strategies for congestion control and loss recovery. Future research directions are also discussed, outlining the remaining challenges and promising investigation areas.

Hybrid Full Frequency Precoding for Integrated Remote Wireless Sensor and Multibeam Satellite Networks

  • Li, Hongjun;Dong, Feihong;Gong, Xiangwu;Deng, Changliang;Jia, Luliang;Wang, Jingchao
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.2546-2566
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    • 2016
  • This paper investigates an efficient transmission scheme for the remote wireless sensors to receive information which is rarely discussed in the integrated remote wireless sensor and multibeam satellite networks (IWSMSNs). The networks can be employed to exchange sensing information for emergency scenario, ocean scenario, and so on, which are isolated from available terrestrial networks. As the efficient transmission link is important to the IWSMSNs, we propose a hybrid full frequency (HFF) precoding by taking advantage of frequency reuse and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoding. Considering energy efficiency and sinks fairness are crucial to transmission link, thus the HFF precoding problems are formulated as transmit power minimization (TPM) and max-min fair (MMF) received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) problems, which can be transformed to indefinite quadratic optimization programs. Then this paper presents a semi-definite programming (SDP) algorithm to solve the problems for the IWSMSNs. The promising potential of HFF for the real IWSMSNs is demonstrated through simulations.

A Study on the Structure of Scientific Collaboration Networks in "The Journal of The Korea Institute of Electronic Communication Sciences" (한국전자통신학회 논문지에 나타난 공동연구 네트워크의 구조에 관한 연구)

  • Hahn, Hyuk;Kwon, Oh-Jin;Kang, Hye-Jin;Shim, We;Noh, Kyung-Ran
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.671-678
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    • 2013
  • The rise of collaboration in science or technology has increased the need to understand collaboration networks. The purpose of this paper is to identify the structure of collaboration research networks in "The Journal of the Korean Institute of Electronic Communication Sciences". To accomplish this purpose, we have collected and analysed the data from co-authored papers published from 2006 to 2013 in this journal. It shows that there are 12 collaboration sub-networks based on the locality of authors in this journal.

Throughput and Delay of Single-Hop and Two-Hop Aeronautical Communication Networks

  • Wang, Yufeng;Erturk, Mustafa Cenk;Liu, Jinxing;Ra, In-ho;Sankar, Ravi;Morgera, Salvatore
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.58-66
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    • 2015
  • Aeronautical communication networks (ACN) is an emerging concept in which aeronautical stations (AS) are considered as a part of multi-tier network for the future wireless communication system. An AS could be a commercial plane, helicopter, or any other low orbit station, i.e., Unmanned air vehicle, high altitude platform. The goal of ACN is to provide high throughput and cost effective communication network for aeronautical applications (i.e., Air traffic control (ATC), air traffic management (ATM) communications, and commercial in-flight Internet activities), and terrestrial networks by using aeronautical platforms as a backbone. In this paper, we investigate the issues about connectivity, throughput, and delay in ACN. First, topology of ACN is presented as a simple mobile ad hoc network and connectivity analysis is provided. Then, by using information obtained from connectivity analysis, we investigate two communication models, i.e., single-hop and two-hop, in which each source AS is communicating with its destination AS with or without the help of intermediate relay AS, respectively. In our throughput analysis, we use the method of finding the maximum number of concurrent successful transmissions to derive ACN throughput upper bounds for the two communication models. We conclude that the two-hop model achieves greater throughput scaling than the single-hop model for ACN and multi-hop models cannot achieve better throughput scaling than two-hop model. Furthermore, since delay issue is more salient in two-hop communication, we characterize the delay performance and derive the closed-form average end-to-end delay for the two-hop model. Finally, computer simulations are performed and it is shown that ACN is robust in terms of throughput and delay performances.

Improving the Reliability of IEEE 802.11s Based Wireless Mesh Networks for Smart Grid Systems

  • Kim, Jaebeom;Kim, Dabin;Lim, Keun-Woo;Ko, Young-Bae;Lee, Sang-Youm
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.629-639
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    • 2012
  • A challenge faced by smart grid systems is providing highly reliable transmissions to better serve different types of electrical applications and improve the energy efficiency of the system. Although wireless networking technologies can provide high-speed and cost-effective solutions, their performance may be impaired by various factors that affect the reliability of smart grid networks. Here, we first suggest the use of IEEE 802.11s-based wireless LAN mesh networks as high-speed wireless backbone networks for smart grid infrastructure to provide high scalability and flexibility while ensuring low installation and management costs. Thereafter, we analyze some vital problems of the IEEE 802.11s default routing protocol (named hybrid wireless mesh protocol; HWMP) from the perspective of transfer reliability, and propose appropriate solutions with a new routing method called HWMP-reliability enhancement to improve the routing reliability of 802.11s-based smart grid mesh networking. A simulation study using ns-3 was conducted to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed schemes.

Towards Choosing Authentication and Encryption: Communication Security in Sensor Networks

  • Youn, Seongwook;Cho, Hyun-chong
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.1307-1313
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    • 2017
  • Sensor networks are composed of provide low powered, inexpensive distributed devices which can be deployed over enormous physical spaces. Coordination between sensor devices is required to achieve a common communication. In low cost, low power and short-range wireless environment, sensor networks cope with significant resource constraints. Security is one of main issues in wireless sensor networks because of potential adversaries. Several security protocols and models have been implemented for communication on computing devices but deployment these models and protocols into the sensor networks is not easy because of the resource constraints mentioned. Memory intensive encryption algorithms as well as high volume of packet transmission cannot be applied to sensor devices due to its low computational speed and memory. Deployment of sensor networks without security mechanism makes sensor nodes vulnerable to potential attacks. Therefore, attackers compromise the network to accept malicious sensor nodes as legitimate nodes. This paper provides the different security models as a metric, which can then be used to make pertinent security decisions for securing wireless sensor network communication.

Study of the Wireless Ad-hoc Networks with Robust Route Maintenance Scheme

  • Hong, Geun-Bin;Yun, Ji-Hun;Kim, Kwan-Woong
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.46-49
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    • 2010
  • This paper has proposedfor wireless Ad-hoc networks with robust route maintenance schemes. The device feature Bluetooth and/or IEEE 802.11 network interfaces and communicate in a decentralized manner. The nodes have the responsibility of self-organizing so that the network is robust to the variations in network topology due to node mobility as well as the fluctuations of the signal quality in the wireless environment.

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Closed-loop Feedback Control for Enhancing QoS in Real-time communication Networks

  • Kim, Hyung-Seok;Kwon, Wook-Hyun
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.40.1-40
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, control theoretic approaches are proposed to guarantee QoS (Quality of Series) such as packet delay and packet loss of real-time traffic in high-speed communication network. Characteristics of variable rate real-time traÆc in communication networks are described. The mathematical model describing networks including source and destination nodes are suggested. By a traffic control mechanism, it is shown that worst-case end-to-end transfer delay of traffic can be controlled and packet loss can be prevented. The simulation shows results of delay control and buer level control to raise QoS in realtime traffic.

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Advanced Big Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence & Communication Systems

  • Jeong, Young-Sik;Park, Jong Hyuk
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2019
  • Recently, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) based on communication systems have become one of the hottest issues in the technology sector, and methods of analyzing big data using AI approaches are now considered essential. This paper presents diverse paradigms to subjects which deal with diverse research areas, such as image segmentation, fingerprint matching, human tracking techniques, malware distribution networks, methods of intrusion detection, digital image watermarking, wireless sensor networks, probabilistic neural networks, query processing of encrypted data, the semantic web, decision-making, software engineering, and so on.

Energy-Efficient Base Station Operation in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

  • Nguyen, Hoang-Hiep;Hwang, Won-Joo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.1456-1463
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we study the ON/OFF control policy of base stations in two-tier heterogeneous cellular networks to minimize the total power consumption of the system. Using heterogeneous cellular networks is a potential approach of providing higher throughput and coverage compared to conventional networks with only macrocell deployment, but in fact heterogeneous cellular networks often operates regardless of total power consumption, which is a very important issue of modern cellular networks. We propose a policy that controls the activation/deactivation of base stations in heterogeneous cellular networks to minimize total power consumption. Under this policy, the total power consumed can be significantly reduced when the traffic is low while the QoS requirement is satisfied.