• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2014

As energy harvesting communication systems emerge, there is a need for transmission schemes that dynamically adapt to the energy harvesting process. In this paper, after exhibiting a finite-horizon online throughput-maximizing scheduling problem formulation and the structure of its optimal solution within a dynamic programming formulation, a low complexity online scheduling policy is proposed. The policy exploits the existence of thresholds for choosing rate and power levels as a function of stored energy, harvest state and time until the end of the horizon. The policy, which is based on computing an expected threshold, performs close to optimal on a wide range of example energy harvest patterns. Moreover, it achieves higher throughput values for a given delay, than throughput-optimal online policies developed based on infinite-horizon formulations in recent literature. The solution is extended to include ergodic time-varying (fading) channels, and a corresponding low complexity policy is proposed and evaluated for this case as well.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국IT서비스학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.151-154
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an energy monitoring and management service based on wireless sensors and a home gateway for homes and buildings. Homes and buildings have a significant energy saving potential compared with other sectors. Sensing, monitoring, and managing of the information on the energy consumption are required for an efficient energy saving service. The proposed system is composed of two main components, wireless sensor and an intelligent home gateway. Wireless sensors have the ZigBee communication interface for communication, and the intelligent home gateway is an energy portal. We expect that energy saving could be achieved with this system. As a further work, we will analyze the practical impact of the proposed service.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권11호
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• pp.1903-1909
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• 2007

As the electric power industry has been revolutionarily transformed such that the distributed energy resources have been interconnected with power systems and a variety of energy service providers have been appeared, the need of Consumer Energy Portal as a core of two-way communication and service infrastructure between power suppliers and consumers has been gradually increased. Consumer Energy Portal can be thought of as a combination of hardware and software enabling two-way communication between energy service providers and equipment within the consumers' premises or a physical and logical link between consumers' in-building networks and wide-area access networks. In other words, Consumer Energy Portal can make the way the power industry has been traditionally operated the web-based way, enabling two-way interactions between energy service providers and consumers and mutual networking between end users' equipment. Thus, Consumer Energy Portal can be a kind of Service portal that provides new value-added services and efficient power operations that in the past. In this paper, for ESPs' integrated resources management, demand side management and value-added service provision, we have established the two-way access network that can gather real-time metering data using ZigBee technology and control physically networked equipment.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.506-516
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• 2015

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are generally comprised of densely deployed sensor nodes, which results in highly redundant sensor data transmissions and energy waste. Since the sensor nodes depend on batteries for energy, previous studies have focused on designing energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols to extend the network lifetime. However, the energy-efficient protocols induce an extra end-to-end delay, and therefore recent increase in focus on WSNs has led to timely and reliable communication protocols for mission-critical applications. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient and delay guaranteeing node scheduling scheme inspired by biological systems, which have gained considerable attention as a computing and problem solving technique.With the identification of analogies between cellular signaling systems and WSN systems, we formulate a new mathematical model that considers the networking challenges of WSNs. The proposed bio-inspired algorithm determines the state of the sensor node, as required by each application and as determined by the local environmental conditions and the states of the adjacent nodes. A control analysis shows that the proposed bio-inspired scheme guarantees the system stability by controlling the parameters of each node. Simulation results also indicate that the proposed scheme provides significant energy savings, as well as reliable delay guarantees by controlling the states of the sensor nodes.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.884-894
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• 2013

최근 지구 온난화에 따른 이산화탄소 배출량 감소 및 에너지 절약을 위하여 방송통신 기술 역시 에너지를 절약을 위한 연구가 시작되고 있다. 특히 방송통신 시스템의 전체 소비 에너지는 기지국에서 87.5%이상 차지하고 있지만 물리계층에서 에너지 효율성에 관한 연구는 전송용량을 총 전력 단일 상수로 나누어 분석하기 때문에 실제적인 에너지 특성을 분석하는데 문제점이 많다. 본 논문은 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 실제 증폭기에 사용되는 트랜지스터의 특성과 신호 모델에 관하여 간략히 소개한다. 이는 에너지 효율적인 방송통신 시스템을 설계하는데 이용 가능한 비선형 증폭기의 신호모델 그리고 증폭기의 특성을 고려한 기지국의 총 전력 사용량까지 포함하여 효율적인 에너지 효율을 계산하는 데 중요한 이해를 제시한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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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.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2008년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.35 No.1 (A)
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• pp.183-184
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• 2008

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2010년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.37 No.1(A)
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• pp.234-235
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• 2010

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2007

유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크(Ubiquitous Sensor Network)는 무선통신 기능을 가진 소형 센서들로 구성된 네트워크이다. 무선통신은 유선통신에 비해 데이터의 도청과 위조, 변조가 용이하다. 그러므로 센서 네트워크를 통해 전달되는 정보들의 신뢰성을 위한 보안 연구가 수행되어야 한다. 하지만 센서네트워크에 보안을 적용하기 위해서는 추가되는 에너지소모가 발생한다. 에너지 교체가 어려운 센서네트워크에서 추가적인 에너지소모는 중요한 문제이다. 본 논문은 센서네트워크에서 획득한 데이터를 안전하게 처리할 수 있는 에너지 효율적 클러스터 기반 라우팅을 제안한다. 제안방식은 초기에 형성된 클러스터는 고정시키고 클러스터 헤드노드만 교체하는 방식으로 최초에 생성 및 교환된 클러스터 키와 노드간 키가 다시 생성 및 교환되지 않게 하는 사전배포방식을 사용할 수 있다. 제안된 방법이 기존의 클러스터 기반 라우팅에 보안을 적용한 것보다 에너지 소모가 29.2% 적게 소모됨을 모의실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.276-283
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• 2012

Nowadays, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) comprise a tremendously growing infrastructure for monitoring the physical or environmental conditions of objects. WSNs pose challenges to mitigating energy dissipation by constructing a reliable and energy saving network. In this paper, we propose a novel network construction and routing method by defining three different duties for sensor nodes, that is, node gateways, cluster heads, and cluster members, and then by applying a hierarchical structure from the sink to the normal sensing nodes. This method provides an efficient rationale to support the maximum coverage, to recover missing data with node mobility, and to reduce overall energy dissipation. All this should lengthen the lifetime of the network significantly.