• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.344-358
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• 2011

Wireless tactical network (WTN) is the most important present-day technology enabling modern network centric warfare. It inherits many features from WMNs, since the WTN is based on existing wireless mesh networks (WMNs). However, it also has distinctive characteristics, such as hierarchical structures and tight QoS (Quality-of-Service) requirements. Little research has been conducted on hierarchical protocols to support various QoS in WMN. We require new protocols specifically optimized for WTNs. Control packets are generally required to find paths and reserve resources for QoS requirements, so data throughput is not degraded due to overhead. The fundamental solution is to adopt topology aggregation, in which a low tier node aggregates and simplifies the topology information and delivers it to a high tier node. The overhead from control packet exchange can be reduced greatly due to decreased information size. Although topology aggregation is effective for low overhead, it also causes the inaccuracy of topology information; thus, incurring low QoS support capability. Therefore, we need a new topology aggregation algorithm to achieve high accuracy. In this paper, we propose a new aggregation algorithm based on star topology. Noting the hierarchical characteristics in military and hierarchical networks, star topology aggregation can be used effectively. Our algorithm uses a limited number of bypasses to increase the exactness of the star topology aggregation. It adjusts topology parameters whenever it adds a bypass. Consequently, the result is highly accurate and has low computational complexity.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.3468-3495
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• 2015

In this paper, we present a multi-chain based hierarchical topology control algorithm (MCHTC) for wireless sensor networks. In this algorithm, the topology control process using static clustering is divided into sensing layer that is composed by sensor nodes and multi-hop data forwarding layer that is composed by leader nodes. The communication cost and residual energy of nodes are considered to organize nodes into a chain in each cluster, and leader nodes form a tree topology. Leader nodes are elected based on the residual energy and distance between themselves and the base station. Analysis and simulation results show that MCHTC outperforms LEACH, PEGASIS and IEEPB in terms of network lifetime, energy consumption and network energy balance.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2016

This paper proposes a hierarchical routing algorithm for enhancing survivability of sensor nodes on WSAN. Proposed algorithm has two important parts. The first is a clustering algorithm that uses distance between sensor and actor, and remaining energy of sensor nodes for selecting cluster head. It will induce uniform energy consumption, and this has a beneficial effect on network lifetime. The second is an enhanced routing algorithm that uses the shortest path tree. The energy efficient routing is very important in WSAN which has energy limitation. As a result, proposed algorithm extends network and nodes lifetime through consuming energy efficiently. Simulation results show that the proposed clustering algorithm outperforms conventional routing algorithms such as VDSPT in terms of node and network life time, delay, fairness, and data transmission ratio to BS.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.499-505
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• 1998

In developing an automated surface inspect algorithm, we have designed a hierarchical classifier using neural network. The defects which exist on the surface of cold mill strip have a scattering or singular distribution. We have considered three major problems, that is preprocessing, feature extraction and defect classification. In preprocessing, Top-hit transform, adaptive thresholding, thinning and noise rejection are used Especially, Top-hit transform using local minimax operation diminishes the effect of bad lighting. In feature extraction, geometric, moment, co-occurrence matrix, and histogram ratio features are calculated. The histogram ratio feature is taken from the gray-level image. For defect classification, we suggest a hierarchical structure of which nodes are multilayer neural network classifiers. The proposed algorithm reduced error rate by comparing to one-stage structure.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.1229-1239
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• 2016

For efficient interaction between humans and robots, robots should be able to understand the meaning and intention of human behaviors as well as recognize them. This paper proposes an interactive human intention reading method in which a robot develops its own knowledge about the human intention for an object. A robot needs to understand different human behavior structures for different objects. To this end, this paper proposes a hierarchical behavior knowledge network that consists of behavior nodes and directional edges between them. In addition, a human intention reading algorithm that incorporates reinforcement learning is proposed to interactively learn the hierarchical behavior knowledge networks based on context information and human feedback through human behaviors. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through play-based experiments between a human and a virtual teddy bear robot with two virtual objects. Experiments with multiple participants are also conducted.

• 산업공학
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• 제16권spc호
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• pp.14-20
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• 2003

This paper presents a multi-criteria decision model and Multi-Criteria Generic Algorithm(MCGA) approach to improve backbone topology by leveraging the Virtual Link(VL) system in an hierarchical Link-State(LS) routing domain. Given that the sound backbone topology structure has a great impact on the overall routing performance in an hierarchical LS domain, the importance of this research is evident. The proposed decision model is to find an optimal configuration of VLs that properly meets two-pronged engineering goals in installing and maintaining VLs: i.e., operational costs and network reliability. The experiment results clearly indicates that it is essential to the effective operations of hierarchical LS routing domain to consider not only engineering aspects but also specific benefits from systematical layout of VLs, thereby presenting the validity of the decision model and MCGA.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2023

Coreference resolution is a task in discourse analysis that links several headwords used in any document object. We suggest pointer networks-based coreference resolution for Korean using multi-task learning (MTL) with an attention mechanism for a hierarchical structure. As Korean is a head-final language, the head can easily be found. Our model learns the distribution by referring to the same entity position and utilizes a pointer network to conduct coreference resolution depending on the input headword. As the input is a document, the input sequence is very long. Thus, the core idea is to learn the word- and sentence-level distributions in parallel with MTL, while using a shared representation to address the long sequence problem. The suggested technique is used to generate word representations for Korean based on contextual information using pre-trained language models for Korean. In the same experimental conditions, our model performed roughly 1.8% better on CoNLL F1 than previous research without hierarchical structure.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.73-82
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 연속질의에 대한 집계연산을 수행할 때, 센서 네트워크의 수명을 길게 하기 위해 각 센서 및 클러스터 헤드에서의 데이터 전송량을 줄이기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 센서의 에너지 소모를 줄이는 가장 중요한 요소는 전승되는 메시지 수를 줄이는 것이다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 기본적으로 클러스터링, 네트워크 내 집계 및 계층적 필터링을 결합한 것이다. 계층적 필터링이란 센서 네트워크를 두 계층으로 나누어 필터링하는 것이다. 1계층 필터링은 클러스터 멤버에서 클러스터 헤드로 데이터를 전송시 필터링을 수행하고, 2계층 필터링은 클러스터 헤드에서 기지국으로 데이터를 전송시 필터링을 수행한다. 이 방법은 기존의 데이터 필터링 방법보다 더 효율적이고 효과적인 방법이다. 다양한 실험을 통해서, 제안한 방법이 다른 방법들보다 더 많은 메시지를 줄이고. 네트워크의 생존기간이 더 증가하였음을 보여준다.

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.465-486
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• 2005

A unreliable network system results in unsatisfied performance. A performance criterion of a network is throughput and availability. One of the most compelling technological advances of this decade has been the advent of deploying wireless networks of heterogeneous smart sensor nodes for complex information gathering tasks, The advancement and popularization of wireless communication technologies make more efficiency to network devices with wireless technology than with wired technology. Recently, the research of wireless sensor network has been drawing much attentions. In this paper, We evaluate throughput and availability of wireless sensor network, which have hierarchical structure based on clustering and estimate the maximum hroughput, average throughput and availability of the network considering several link failure patterns likely to happen at a cluster consisted of sensor nodes. Also increasing a number of sensor nodes in a cluster, We analysis the average throughput and availability of the network.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.2550-2556
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 노드의 위치정보를 측정함에 있어 거리정보에 기반을 두지 않은 방식(range-free)에서의 라우팅 에너지 효율성을 개선한 ALPS(Ad hoc network Localized Positioning System) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안되는 ALPS 알고리즘은 계층적 클러스터 단위에 소속된 임의의 노드에 대한 위치정보를 RSSI(Received signal strength indication)에 의해 상대적 위치정보를 제공하는 방법이다. 제안된 알고리즘에 따른 위치정보를 사용 할 경우 기존의 DV-hop방식에 따른 노드의 평균 위치정보를 사용한 경우보다 계층적 좌표 방식에 의한 제안된 방식이 보다 최적화된 에너지 소모를 유지할 수 있는 경로 알고리즘을 제공하게 된다. 제공된 알고리즘의 성능 분석을 위해 본 논문에서는 상기 두 가지 방식의 위치정보에 따른 라우팅에서 소모되는 에너지 관계를 비교 하였고, 이로부터 보다 최적화된 에너지 경로 관리가 되는 결과를 보여주었다.