• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2015년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.216-217
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• 2015

Duty-cycling could efficiently prolong the life time of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) by let nodes be in dormant state most of the time, and only wake up (for sending or receiving) for a very short period. Flooding is one critical operation of WSNs. Many studies have been studied to improve the delay and/or energy efficiency of flooding. In this paper, we propose a novel time slot design, and the switching decision that reduce energy consumption for the schedule-based flooding tree. Each node, if failed to receive from its parent, will look for other candidate, among its siblings to overhear the flooding packet. By accurately collect information from other siblings, each node can make the best as possible switching decision; therefore the energy efficiency of the network is improved.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2011

무선센서네트워크를 위한 무선센서노드는 한정된 전력원을 이용하여 수천에서 수만시간의 동작을 가능하게 해야하므로 초저전력 (Ultra Low Power: ULP) 소모가 매우 중요한 설계 요구조건이 된다. 이를 위해 센서노드의 동작 주기(Duty Cycling)를 제어하는 기법이 전체 전력소모를 줄이는 매우 중요한 기술로 사용되고 있다. 회로의 전력 소모 감소를 위한 몇 가지 중요한 기술에는 회로적으로는 전류 재사용기술과 송수선기 구조로는 Super-regenerative 구조와 On-Off Keying 송수신기 구조가 있다. 또한 ULP Radio가 휴면모드에도 Wake-up을 가능하게 하기 위해서는 초저전력 클락 발생기 회로가 1${\mu}W$이하의 전력소모로 구현할 수 있어야 한다. 이러한 사항들을 적절히 고려함으로써 초저전력 CMOS Radio를 구현할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1393-1405
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• 2017

It is well known that duty-cycling control by dynamically adjusting the polling interval according to the traffic loads can effectively achieve power saving in wireless sensor networks. Thus, there has been a significant research effort in developing polling interval adaptation schemes. Especially, Dynamic Low Power Listening (DLPL) scheme is one of the most widely adopted open-looping polling interval adaptation techniques in wireless sensor networks. In DLPL scheme, if consecutive idle (busy) samplings reach a given fixed threshold, the polling interval is increased (decreased). However, due to the trial-and-error based approach, it may significantly deteriorate the system performance depending on given threshold parameters. In this paper, we propose a novel DLPL scheme, called SDL (Sequential hypothesis testing based Dynamic LPL), which employs sequential hypothesis testing to decide whether to change the polling interval conforming to various traffic conditions. Simulation results show that SDL achieves substantial power saving over state-of-the-art DLPL schemes.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.1460-1465
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient and multimedia traffic friendly MAC protocol (EEMF-MAC) that controls sender's wakeup period based on the data packet's transmission urgency and the receiver's wakeup periods based on the received data packet traffic loads. The protocol is useful for applications such as object tracking, real time data gathering, in which priority-based packet transmission is required. The basic idea of EEMF-MAC is that it uses the priority concept with transmission urgency of sender's data packet to reduce the transmission delay of the urgent data and it also uses duty cycling technique in order to achieve energy efficiency. EEMF-MAC showed a better performance in energy efficiency and packet transmission delay compared to existing protocols, RI-MAC and EE-RI-MAC.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2024

TCP is considered as one of the major candidate transport protocols even for constrained IoT networks..In our previous work, we investigated the congestion control mechanism of the uIP TCP. Since the uIP TCP sets the window size to one segment by default, managing the retransmission timer is the primary approach to congestion control. However, the original uIP TCP sets the retransmission timer based on the fixed RTO, it performs poorly when a radio duty cycling mechanism is enabled and the hidden terminal problem is severe. In our previous work, we proposed a TCP retransmission timer adjustment scheme for uIP TCP which adopts the notion of weak RTT estimation of CoCoA, exponential backoffs with variable limits, and dithering. Although our previous work showed that the proposed retransmission timer adjustment scheme can improve performance, we observe that the scheme often causes a node to set the retransmission timer for an excessively too long time period. In this work, we show that slightly modifying the dithering mechanism of the previous scheme is effective for improving TCP fairness.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.86-94
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• 2012

초기의 동기식 프로토콜의 대표적인 S-MAC 과 T-MAC은 듀티사이클 기법을 사용으로 주기적인 활성과 비활성을 반복함으로써 기존의 무선 MAC 프로토콜에 비하여 에너지 소모를 줄였음을 보였다. 하지만 동기식 프로토콜은 동기화를 위한 별도의 제어패킷이 사용됨으로써 에너지 효율성이 떨어지고 설계 면으로서도 복잡하다는 단점을 갖는다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 비동기 프로토콜인 B-MAC과 X-MAC은 CSMA매체 접근 방식과 프리엠블을 통한 전송을 하는 LPL(Low Power Listeing)기법을 사용하여 별도의 제어패킷의 사용 없이 독립적인 듀티사이클 스케줄을 가지고도 통신이 가능하도록 설계됐다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 비동기 프로토콜인 X-MAC을 기반으로 보다 높은 에너지 효율성을 갖는 무선 센서 네트워크를 위한 에너지 효율적인 비동기 방식의 센서 MAC 프로토콜을 설계한다. 이를 위하여서 송신노드와 수신노드에 프리엠블 넘버링 기법과 가상동기화기법을 설계 및 적용하였으며 대표적인 센서 노드인 TelosB센서모트를 이용하여 기존의 X-MAC 프로토콜과 에너지 효율성을 비교 및 검증한다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.70-76
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• 1998

Most fossil power plants and many critical components will be approaching the end of their nominal design life. At the same time, utilities are finding it economically attractive to extend the use of these plants for several more years, Especially Main steam pipe that operated under high temperature and pressure, often under the more severe operating conditions associated with cycling duty, is most important pipe system and critical component in fossil power plant. To extend the viability of older pipe system and to improve the operation and maintenance reliability, some technologies of precise diagnosis and life management have evolved out of the necessity. The purpose of this study is to descrive the related technologies and show the example of one power plants. The purpose of this study is to descrive the related technologies and show the example of one power plants. The stress analysis was done using ANSYS FEM Code. The branch area from main steam to turbine was the high stressed zone. To evaluate the degradation of the pipe material, replica, visual check, magnetic test, hardness test were done at the welding spot. The degradation level of welding point was E/F, so the remaining life of the welded area was about 0-25%.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2009

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)을 위한 핵심과제 중 하나는 에너지 제약적 센서노드에 에너지 효율적이고 유연한 작업주기 기술을 적용하여 네트워크 수명을 극대화하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 WBAN에 적합한 일반용, 응급용, 그리고 주문형(on-demand) 방식의 트래픽을 신뢰 있게 전달하는 방법의 효율적인 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 본 프로토콜은 두 가지 방식의 웨이크 업(Wakeup) 메커니즘을 지원하며 첫 번째는 트래픽 기반의 웨이크 업 메커니즘으로 이는 노드의 트래픽 패턴을 이용하여 일반 트래픽을 수용한다. 또한, 두 번째 방식은 레디오 웨이크 업 통신 메커니즘이며 이는 웨이크업 전송을 이용하여 응급 및 온 주문형 트래픽을 수용한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 프로토콜이 WBAN 시스템의 수명기간을 향상 할 뿐만 아니라 불규칙적으로 발생하는 사건들을 처리 할 수 있는 신뢰적인 방법을 제공함을 알 수 있다. 시뮬레이션 통하여 제안된 프로토콜의 성능이 WiseMac을 전력 소모 및 지연 측면에서 우수한 성능향상을 보여준다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제69권4호
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• pp.407-416
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• 2019

This paper develops a wireless sensor for online fatigue crack detection and failure warning based on crack-induced nonlinear ultrasonic modulation. The wireless sensor consists of packaged piezoelectric (PZT) module, an excitation/sensing module, a data acquisition/processing module, a wireless communication module, and a power supply module. The packaged PZT and the excitation/sensing module generate ultrasonic waves on a structure and capture the response. Based on nonlinear ultrasonic modulation created by a crack, the data acquisition/processing module periodically performs fatigue crack diagnosis and provides failure warning if a component failure is imminent. The outcomes are transmitted to a base through the wireless communication module where two-levels duty cycling media access control (MAC) is implemented. The uniqueness of the paper lies in that 1) the proposed wireless sensor is developed specifically for online fatigue crack detection and failure warning, 2) failure warning as well as crack diagnosis are provided based on crack-induced nonlinear ultrasonic modulation, 3) event-driven operation of the sensor, considering rare extreme events such as earthquakes, is made possible with a power minimization strategy, and 4) the applicability of the wireless sensor to steel welded members is examined through field and laboratory tests. A fatigue crack on a steel welded specimen was successfully detected when the overall width of the crack was around $30{\mu}m$, and a failure warnings were provided when about 97.6% of the remaining useful fatigue lives were reached. Four wireless sensors were deployed on Yeongjong Grand Bridge in Souht Korea. The wireless sensor consumed 282.95 J for 3 weeks, and the processed results on the sensor were transmitted up to 20 m with over 90% success rate.