• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.780-786
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• 2012

Surveillance has become one of promising application areas of wireless sensor networks which allow for pervasive monitoring of concerned environmental phenomena by facilitating context awareness through sensor fusion. Existing systems that depend on a postmortem context analysis of sensor data on a centralized server expose several shortcomings, including a single point of failure, wasteful energy consumption due to unnecessary data transfer as well as deficiency of scalability. As an opposite direction, this paper proposes an energy-efficient distributed context-aware surveillance in which sensor nodes in the wireless sensor network collaborate with neighbors in a distributed manner to analyze and aware surrounding context. We design and implement multi-modal sensor stations for use as sensor nodes in our wireless sensor network implementing our distributed context awareness. This paper presents an initial experimental performance result of our proposed system. Results show that multi-modal sensor performance of our sensor station, a key enabling factor for distributed context awareness, is comparable to each independent sensor setting. They also show that its initial performance of context-awareness is satisfactory for a set of introductory surveillance scenarios in the current interim stage of our ongoing research.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권1호
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• pp.90-96
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• 2014

센서 네트워크를 위한 표준인 IEEE802.15.4는 저전력, 저속 데이터 통신이 특징으로 주로 ZigBee 네트워크와 같은 Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN)를 구성하기 위해 사용하고 있다. 그러나 최근 센서 네트워크 기반의 음성통신과 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)를 연동하여 장거리 및 대규모 사용자를 지원하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 센서 네트워크 기반의 음성통신과 SIP를 연동하여 다수 사용자 지원하고 기존 시스템을 하나의 통합 Base Station으로 설계하였다. 또한, 설계한 Base Station의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 사용자수 증가에 따른 Packet 수와 Delay를 측정하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.258-262
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• 2009

A Practical application of environmental monitoring system based on wireless sensor node network with the core of embedded system STR711FR2 microprocessor is presented in the paper. The adaptable and classifiable wireless sensor node network is used to achieve the data acquisition and multi-hop wireless communication of parameters of the monitoring base station environment including repeaters. The structure of the system is proposed and the hardware architecture of the system is designed, and the system operating procedures is proposed. As a result of field test, designed hardware platform operated with 50kbps bit rate and 5MHz channel spacing at 2040Hz. The wireless monitoring system can be managed and swiftly retreated without support of base station environmental monitoring.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.1283-1285
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• 2007

A wireless sensor network is the combination of a large number of deployed sensors over an area. Communication between the sensors is the most important factor for a successful sensor network. It is mandatory that long distance and multi-hop communication will occur between sensors. Generally sensors relay the sensed data of a particular territory to the command center via a base station. For the non uniformed deployment of sensors many sensors may deploy in hostile areas surrounded by full of obstacles or in other condition it may be out of the direct communication range of the base station. It seems a critical problem for routing data to and from those sensors to the base station. This paper proposes a route management scheme using a dynamic load balancing approach based on residual energy of each agent sensors.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.583-599
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• 2022

In this paper, a multi-objective wireless sensor network configuration optimization method is proposed. The proposed method aims to determine the optimal information and lifespan wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring of large-scale infrastructures. In particular, cluster-based wireless sensor networks with multi-type of sensors are considered. To optimize the lifetime of the wireless sensor network, a cluster-based network optimization algorithm that optimizes the arrangement of cluster heads and base station is developed. On the other hand, based on the Bayesian inference, the uncertainty of the estimated parameters can be quantified. The coefficient of variance of the estimated parameters can be obtained, which is utilized as a holistic measure to evaluate the estimation accuracy of sensor configurations with multi-type of sensors. The proposed method provides the optimal wireless sensor network configuration that satisfies the required estimation accuracy with the longest lifetime. The proposed method is illustrated by designing the optimal wireless sensor network configuration of a cable-stayed bridge and a space truss.

• 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.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.561-578
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• 2010

This study proposes a multi-level damage localization strategy to achieve an effective damage detection system for civil infrastructure systems based on wireless sensors. The proposed system is designed for use of distributed computation in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Modal identification is achieved using the frequency-domain decomposition (FDD) method and the peak-picking technique. The ASH (angle-between-string-and-horizon) and AS (axial strain) flexibility-based methods are employed for identifying and localizing damage. Fundamentally, the multi-level damage localization strategy does not activate all of the sensor nodes in the network at once. Instead, relatively few sensors are used to perform coarse-grained damage localization; if damage is detected, only those sensors in the potentially damaged regions are incrementally added to the network to perform finer-grained damage localization. In this way, many nodes are able to remain asleep for part or all of the multi-level interrogations, and thus the total energy cost is reduced considerably. In addition, a novel distributed computing strategy is also proposed to reduce the energy consumed in a sensor node, which distributes modal identification and damage detection tasks across a WSN and only allows small amount of useful intermediate results to be transmitted wirelessly. Computations are first performed on each leaf node independently, and the aggregated information is transmitted to one cluster head in each cluster. A second stage of computations are performed on each cluster head, and the identified operational deflection shapes and natural frequencies are transmitted to the base station of the WSN. The damage indicators are extracted at the base station. The proposed strategy yields a WSN-based SHM system which can effectively and automatically identify and localize damage, and is efficient in energy usage. The proposed strategy is validated using two illustrative numerical simulations and experimental validation is performed using a cantilevered beam.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3220-3226
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• 2011

지하철 역사에 화재, 테러 등의 내 외부 위험요인을 감시하기 위하여 CCTV와 각종 센서를 이용한 감시시스템이 구축되어 왔으며, 최근 최신의 IT기술인 센서네트워크기술을 이용한 감시시스템기술 도입이 여러 분야에서 시도되고 있다. 2007년부터 정부 주도하에 지하철 역사의 경우에도 최신의 IT기술인 무선 센서네트워크기술 및 지능 형영상감시기술 등과 접목하여 화재, 제한지역 침입, 승객 혼잡도, 우범지역, 역사 건전성 등을 종합적으로 감시하는 도시철도지능형종합감시시스템 개발 및 구축이 추진 중에 있다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 개발 중인 도시철도 지능형 종합감시시스템의 현장 역사 적용에 앞서 무선센서네트워크의 대표라 할 수 있는 ZigBee기반의 현장 무선통신환경 시험을 서울지하철 충무로 역사에서 수행하였고, 본 논문에 충무로역사 내부 승강장 및 대합실에서의 ZigBee기반의 무선통신환경 시험결과를 정리, 분석하였다. 승강장 및 대합실의 무선 스펙트럼분석 결과 ZigBee기반의 센서네트워크의 주파수와 중첩되는 주파수는 없었으며 인접 주파수 또한 10MHz 이상 이격되어 주파수 간섭을 받지 않는 것으로 나타났다. ZigBee를 이용한 무선데이터 전송 시험 결과, 데이터 전송은 열차의 승강장 진출입시의 영향보다 승강장 혹은 대합실의 이용승객 수 및 유동량에 의한 멀티패스 페이딩(multi-path fading) 효과에 더 큰 영향을 받는 것으로 나타나, 역사에 지능형종합감시시스템 구축 시 이를 고려하여야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.63-74
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• 2021

According to the double-phase cluster-head election method (DCE), the final cluster heads (CHs) sometimes are located at the edge of cluster. They have a long distance from the base station (BS). Sensor data is directly transmitted to BS by CHs. This makes some nodes consume much energy for transmitting data and die earlier. To address this problem, energy efficient multi-hop cluster-head election strategy (EEMCE) is proposed in this paper. To avoid taking these nodes far from BS as CH, this strategy first introduces the distance from the sensor nodes to the BS into the tentative CH election. Subsequently, in the same cluster, the energy of tentative CH is compared with those of other nodes, and then the node that has more energy than the tentative CH and being nearest the tentative CH are taken as the final CH. Lastly, if the CH is located at the periphery of the network, the multi-hop method will be employed to reduce the energy that is consumed by CHs. The simulation results suggest that the proposed method exhibits higher energy efficiency, longer stability period and better scalability than other protocols.

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2010

A home healthcare system based wireless sensor network, which can continuously monitor and manage the elderly's electrocardiogram(ECG) signal at any space at home without space limit is proposed. The communication coverage of wireless network is expended by multi-hop wireless sensor network. In order to send the elderly's ECG data wirelessly, a small size ECG sensor node was designed to forward the ECG data over multi-hop relay network. The packet acquired by mobile ECG node is transmitted through wireless intermediate nodes to base station for analyzing the packet reception rate. Modified minimum cost forwarding(MMCF) protocol and flooding protocol are designed and implemented to check the transmission efficiency of a packet in a wireless sensor network. The developed MMCF protocol shows an advantage of high reception rate by reduced network traffic.