• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.371-377
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• 2014

Localized topology control is attractive for obtaining reduced network graphs with desirable features such as sparser connectivity and reduced transmit powers. In this paper, we focus on studying how to prolong network lifetime in the context of localized topology control for wireless multi-hop networks. For this purpose, we propose an energy efficient localized topology control algorithm. In our algorithm, each node is required to maintain its one-hop neighborhood topology. In order to achieve long network lifetime, we introduce a new metric for characterizing the energy criticality status of each link in the network. Each node independently builds a local energy-efficient spanning tree for finding a reduced neighbor set while maximally avoiding using energy-critical links in its neighborhood for the local spanning tree construction. We present the detailed design description of our algorithm. The computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is deduced to be O(mlog n), where m and n represent the number of links and nodes in a node's one-hop neighborhood, respectively. Simulation results show that our algorithm significantly outperforms existing work in terms of network lifetime.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.69-81
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• 2013

Maintaining connectivity is essential in multi-hop wireless networks since the network topology cannot be pre-determined due to mobility and environmental effects. To maintain the connectivity, a critical point in the network topology should be identified where the critical point is the link or node that partitions the network when it fails. In this paper, we propose a new critical point identification algorithm and also present numerical results that compare the critical points of the network and H-hop sub-network illustrating how effectively sub-network information can detect the network-wide critical points. Then, we propose two localized topological control resilient schemes that can be applied to both global and local H-hop sub-network critical points to improve the network connectivity and the network resilience. Numerical studies to evaluate the proposed schemes under node and link failure network conditions show that our proposed resilient schemes increase the probability of the network being connected in variety of link and node failure conditions.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.296-303
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• 2013

This paper proposes a high efficiency three-phase cascaded phase shifted H-bridge multi-level inverter without DC/DC converters for grid-tied multi string photovoltaic (PV) applications. The cascaded H-bridge topology is suitable for PV applications since each PV module can act as a separate DC source for each cascaded H-bridge module. The proposed phase shifted H-bridge multi-level topology offers advantages such as operation at a lower switching frequency and a lower current ripple when compared to conventional two level topologies. It is also shown that low ripple sinusoidal current waveforms are generated with a unity power factor. The control algorithm permits the independent control of each DC link voltage with a maximum power point for each string of PV modules. The use of the controller area network (CAN) communication protocol for H-bridge multi-level inverters, along with localized PWM generation and PV voltage regulation are implemented. It is also shown that the expansion and modularization capabilities of the H-bridge modules are improved since the individual inverter modules operate more independently. The proposed topology is implemented for a three phase 240kW multi-level PV power conditioning system (PCS) which has 40kW H-bridge modules. The experimental results show that the proposed topology has good performance.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.1645-1654
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• 2007

In this paper, we study the problem of load balancing routing in clustered-based wireless mesh network in order to enhance the overall network throughput. We first address the problems of cluster allocation in wireless mesh network to achieve load-balancing state. Due to the complexity of the problem, we proposed a simplified algorithm using gradient load-balancing model. This method searches for a localized optimal solution of cluster allocation instead of solving the optimal solution for overall network. To support for load-balancing algorithm and reduce complexity of topology control, we also introduce limited broadcasting between two clusters. This mechanism maintain shortest path between two nodes in adjacent clusters while minimizing the topology broadcasting complexity. The simulation experiments demonstrate that our proposed model achieve performance improvement in terms of network throughput in comparison with other clustering methods.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.213-216
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• 2007

본 논문은 수중에서 여러 대의 자율무인잠수정(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, AUV)간의 통신을 위한 수중음향 통신 네트워크 기법중에서 효율적인 전력 사용으로 에너지 소비를 줄이고 수중의 긴 전파 지연에서도 원활한 통신이 가능한 수중 접속제어 프로토콜(Medium Access Control, MAC)을 제시하고자 한다. 제안된 접속제어 프로토콜은 스타 토폴로지를 채택하여 네트워크를 구성하는 한 노드가 마스터가 되어 멤버 노드들의 오버헤드를 최소화하고자 했으며 수중의 긴 전파 지연을 고려하여 지역 동기화(localized synchronization)방식을 사용하여 동기화를 용이하게 하였다. 또한, 멤버 노드들은 슬립 모드를 이용하여 노드들의 전력수명을 최대화하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.475-479
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• 2009

In ad hoc network, the scarce energy management of the mobile devices has become a critical issue in order to extend the network lifetime. Current research activity for the Minimum Energy Multicast (MEM) problem has been focused on devising efficient centralized greedy algorithms for static ad hoc networks. In this paper, we consider mobile ad hoc networks(MANETs) that could provide the reliable monitoring and control of a variety of environments for remote place. Mobility of MANET would require the topology change frequently compared with a static network. To improve the routing protocol in MANET, energy efficient routing protocol would be required as well as considering the mobility would be needed. In this paper, we propose a new method, the CACH(Context-aware Clustering Hierarchy) algorithm, a hybrid and clustering-based protocol that could analyze the link cost from a source node to a destination node. The proposed analysis could help in defining the optimum depth of hierarchy architecture CACH utilize. The proposed CACH could use localized condition to enable adaptation and robustness for dynamic network topology protocol and this provide that our hierarchy to be resilient. As a result, our simulation results would show that CACH could find energy efficient depth of hierarchy of a cluster.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.277-280
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• 2009

이동 애드혹 네트워크(MANET)는 기반 네트워크 없이 구성되어 원격지의 환경에 대한 정확한 모니터링 또는 제어를 가능하게 한다. 이러한 MANET에서는 정적인 네트워크에 비해 토폴로지가 자주 변하므로 이동성을 고려한 에너지 효율적인 라우팅 프로토콜이 요구된다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는, 상황인식 기반의 적응적이며 계층적 클러스터링 기법인 CACH(Context-aware Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)를 제안한다. CACH는 적응적 라우팅 기법과 비적응적 라우팅 기법을 융합한 하이브리드 라우팅 방식을 분산 클러스터링 기반으로 구성하였다. CACH는 또한 토폴로지 변경에 대해 상황인식을 기반으로 하여 적응적으로 토폴로지의 계층구조를 수정하는 새로운 기법을 이용하여, 네트워크의 수명을 연장하고 지연시간을 줄일 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.1222-1227
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 이동 애드혹 네트워크(MANET)에서의 상황인식 기반 계층적 클러스터링 기법인 CACH (Context-aware Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)를 제안한다. CACH는 적응적 라우팅 기법과 비적응적 라우팅 기법을 융합한 하이브리드 라우팅 방식의 분산 클러스터링 기법을 기반으로 하고 있으며, 제안된 CACH는 동적인 토폴로지에서 노드의 이동성을 고려한 에너지 효율적인 라우팅 프로토콜의 성능을 제공하게 된다. 또한 제안된 토폴로지 변경에 대해 상황인식을 기반으로 하여 적응적으로 토폴로지의 계층구조를 결정하는 새로운 기법의 모델을 제시하였고, 이로부터 네트워크에서 전송 에너지를 고려한 노드의 밀도에 따라 계층적 깊이를 결정하는 최적 다중 흡수를 결정하는 결과를 보여주었다.