• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.1478-1485
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• 2009

A sensor network which is composed of a large number of sensors that perform various sensing is applied in a variety of fields. The sensor networks can be widely used for various application area like as home automation, fire detection and security area. Development of new sensor to have appropriate functions and deployment of networks for suitable application are served actively. In this paper, we design and implement a system that monitors various factory facilities by deploying sensor network at a working place which threatens the worker's safety. A sensor node reports its sensing data like as temperature and humidity to monitor facilities to a sink node. And the server which is connect to the sink node gathers and provides information by user interface. In addition, digital data which are generated at a work place can be transferred via the sensor network to increase the efficiency of works. The proposed sensor network provides the convenience of working, since it is deployed at a garbage collection company to monitor a temperature and humidity of garbage and to transmit data about the weight of trucks which enters the company.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.213-219
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• 2013

Recently, with the rapid advancement in information and communication technology, indoor location-based services(LBSs) that require precise position tracking have been actively studied with outdoor-LBS using GPS. However, in case of a ship which consists of steel structure, it is difficult to measure a precise localization due to significant ranging error by the diffraction and refraction of radio waves. In order to reduce location measurement errors that occur in these indoor environments, this paper presents distance compensation algorithms that are suitable for a narrow passage such as ship corridors without any additional sensors by using UWB(Ultra-wide-band), which is robust to multi-path and has an error in the range of a few centimeters in free space. These improvement methods are that Pythagorean theory and adjacent node technique are used to solve the distance error due to the node deployment and distance variation analysis technique is applied to reduce the ranging errors which are significantly fluctuated in the corner section. The experimental results show that the number of nodes and the distance error are reduced to 66% and 57.41%, respectively, compared with conventional CSS(Chirp spread spectrum) method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.820-823
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• 2011

WSN is composed of a lot of small sensors with the limited hardware resources. In WSN, at the initial stage, sensor nodes are randomly deployed over the region of interest, and self-configure the clustered networks by grouping a bunch of sensor nodes and selecting a cluster header among them. In this paper, we propose a self-configuration routing protocol for WSN, which consists of step-wise ripple routing algorithm for initial deployment, effective joining of sensor nodes. RRA is search node in RF-coverage of each node, which result in fast network connection, reducing overall power consumption, and extending the lifetime of network.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.198-205
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• 2007

In ubiquitous environment a user can be provided with context-aware services based on his or her current location, time, and atmosphere. LBS(Location-Based Services) play an important role for ubiquitous context-aware computing. Because deployment and maintenance of this specialized equipment is costly, many studies have been conducted on positioning using only wireless equipment under a wireless LAN infrastructure. Because a CPS(Cooperative Positioning System) that uses the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) between mobile equipments is more accurate than beacon based positioning system, it requires great concentration in its applications. This study investigates the relationship between nodes by analyzing a WiPS (Wireless LAN indoor Positioning System), a similar type of CPS, and proposes a improved WiCOPS-d(Wireless Cooperative Positioning System using node density) to increase performance by determining the convergence adjustment factor based on node density.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.411-413
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• 2012

생강, 양파와 같은 농산물은 재배지에서 우리 식탁에 놓일 때까지 신선도 유지를 위하여 저장고에 넣어 관리한다. 하지만, 현재 설치되어 사용 중에 있는 저장고는 내부에 온/습도를 측정할 수 있는 센서를 부착하고 측정함에도 불구하고, 농산물이 얼거나 부패되는 문제점이 발생하고 있다. 이것은 저장고 내부 센서의 부착이 그만큼 효율적이지 못하다는 것을 반증하고 있는 것이다. 이 문제점을 극복하기 위하여, 본 논문에서는 보로노이 다이어그램을 이용한 센서 배치 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 저장고 내부의 공간을 평면 분할하고, 분할된 공간에 센서 배치를 함으로서, 저장고 내부의 온도를 정확히 얻을 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 배치된 센서 개수의 최소화를 이룰 수 있도록 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1255-1258
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• 2007

이동센서 네트워크에서 관심영역 내로부터 최소의 노드 개수로 중복 없이 최대의 센싱 값을 얻기 위해서는 관심영역 내에 노드를 균일하게 그리고 이탈 없이 배치시키는 것이 중요하다. 기존 배치 알고리즘들은 관심영역 내 균일하지 못한 분포와 노드이탈 현상이 발생할 수 있으며 많은 에너지소모를 야기하는 부적절한 배치가 이루어질 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 이동 센서네트워크 환경에서 관심영역 내 노드를 균일하게 분포시키며 노드 이탈을 최소화하는 배치알고리즘을 제안한다. 관심영역에 대한 크기 정보를 바탕으로 노드가 이동하여 배치할 수 있는 방향을 여섯 방향으로 분할하여 각 단일 방향영역 파티션에 따라 배치에 필요한 최소 노드의 개수를 예측한다. 각 방향에 대한 파티션별 노드 집단들은 독립적으로 동시에 배치된다. 본 알고리즘은 중심 루트노드를 기준으로 시작하여 각 여섯 방향에 대하여 노드의 수를 미리 예측하고 배치되기 때문에 노드의 이탈을 최소화할 수 있으며 균일한 배치뿐만 아니라 배치시간 및 이동거리 단축시킬 수 있는 에너지 효율적인 배치알고리즘의 특성을 갖는다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.271-298
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• 2012

Researchers have made significant progress in recent years towards realizing effective structural health monitoring (SHM) utilizing wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs). These efforts have focused on improving the performance and robustness of such networks to achieve high quality data acquisition and distributed, in-network processing. One of the primary challenges still facing the use of smart sensors for long-term monitoring deployments is their limited power resources. Periodically accessing the sensor nodes to change batteries is not feasible or economical in many deployment cases. While energy harvesting techniques show promise for prolonging unattended network life, low power design and operation are still critically important. This research presents the WiSeMote: a new, fully integrated ultra-low power wireless smart sensor node and a flexible base station, both designed for long-term SHM deployments. The power consumption of the sensor nodes and base station has been minimized through careful hardware selection and the implementation of power-aware network software, without sacrificing flexibility and functionality.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.924-934
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• 2011

Sensor networks play an important role in making the dream of ubiquitous computing a reality. With a variety of applications, sensor networks have the potential to influence everyone's life in the near future. However, there are a number of issues in deployment and exploitation of these networks that must be dealt with for sensor network applications to realize such potential. Localization of the sensor nodes, which is the subject of this paper, is one of the basic problems that must be solved for sensor networks to be effectively used. This paper proposes a probabilistic support vector machine (SVM)-based method to gain a fairly accurate localization of sensor nodes. As opposed to many existing methods, our method assumes almost no extra equipment on the sensor nodes. Our experiments demonstrate that the probabilistic SVM method (PSVM) provides a significant improvement over existing localization methods, particularly in sparse networks and rough environments. In addition, a post processing step for PSVM, called attractive/repulsive potential field localization, is proposed, which provides even more improvement on the accuracy of the sensor node locations.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.5
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• pp.403-410
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• 2007

For reliable sensor network communication, secure data transmission mechanisms are necessary. In our work, for secure communication, we cluster the network field in hexagonal shape and deploy nodes according to Gaussian distribution. After node deployment, clusterheads and gateway nodes in each cluster play the role of aggregating and delivering the sensed data with suity information all the way to the base station. Our mechanism decreases the overhead and provides food performance. It also has resilience against various routing attacks.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.145-152
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• 2008

The specification of the Home Evolved NodeB (Home-eNB), which is a small base station designed for use in residential or small business environment, is currently ongoing in 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) systems. One of the key requirements for its feasibility in the LTE system is the mobility management in the deployment of the numerous Home-eNBs and other 3GPP network. In this paper, we overview the characteristic of Home-eNB and also describe the mobility management issues and the related approaches in 3GPP LTE based Home-eNB systems.