• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.617-641
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• 2014

The energy constraint is still a common issue for the practical application of wireless sensors, since they are usually powered by batteries which limit their lifetime. In this paper, a practical compound energy efficiency strategy is proposed and realized in the implementation of a real time wireless sensor platform. The platform is intended for wireless structural monitoring applications and consists of three parts, wireless sensing unit, base station and data acquisition and configuration software running in a computer within the Matlab environment. The high energy efficiency of the wireless sensor platform is achieved by a proposed adaptive radio transmission power control algorithm, and some straightforward methods, including adopting low power ICs and high efficient power management circuits, low duty cycle radio polling and switching off radio between two adjacent data packets' transmission. The adaptive transmission power control algorithm is based on the statistical average of the path loss estimations using a moving average filter. The algorithm is implemented in the wireless node and relies on the received signal strength feedback piggybacked in the ACK packet from the base station node to estimate the path loss. Therefore, it does not need any control packet overheads. Several experiments are carried out to investigate the link quality of radio channels, validate and evaluate the proposed adaptive transmission power control algorithm, including static and dynamic experiments.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3751-3774
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• 2014

With the rapid development of wireless communication, the confliction between the scarce frequency resources and the low spectral efficiency caused by the stationary spectrum sharing strategies seriously restricts the evolution of the future mobile communication. For this purpose, cognitive radio (CR) emerges as one of the most promising inventions which can overcome the spectrum shortage. As the key technology and main objective of CR, spectrum sharing can make full use of the limited spectrum, alleviate the scarcity of frequency resources and improve the system utilities, playing thereby an important role in improving the system performance of cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In this survey, the spectrum sharing in CRNs is discussed in terms of the sharing process, mainstream sharing technologies and spectrum sharing models. In particular, comparisons of different spectrum sharing strategies are concluded, as well as that of different spectrum sensing schemes in sharing procedure. Moreover, some application examples of the spectrum sharing in CRNs, such as smart grid, public safety, cellular network and medical body area networks are also introduced. In addition, our previous related works are presented and the open research issues in the field of spectrum sharing are stated as well.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.12-23
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• 2021

This paper proposes a low power radio frequency receiver front-end where, in a single stage, single-balanced mixer and voltage-controlled oscillator are stacked on top of low noise amplifier and re-use the dc current to reduce the power consumption. In the proposed topology, the voltage-controlled oscillator itself plays the dual role of oscillator and mixer by exploiting a series inductor-capacitor network. Using a 65 nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology, the proposed radio frequency front-end is designed and simulated. Oscillating at around 2.4 GHz frequency band, the voltage-controlled oscillator of the proposed radio frequency front-end achieves the phase noise of -72 dBc/Hz, -93 dBc/Hz, and -113 dBc/Hz at 10KHz, 100KHz, and 1 MHz offset frequency, respectively. The simulated voltage conversion gain is about 25 dB. The double-side band noise figure is -14.2 dB, -8.8 dB, and -7.3 dB at 100 KHz, 1 MHz and 10 MHz offset. The radio frequency front-end consumes only 96 ㎼ dc power from a 1-V supply.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.4408-4428
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• 2019

Due to the rapid advancement in smart phones, numerous new specifications are developed for variety of applications ranging from health monitoring to navigations and tracking. The word indoor navigation means location identification, however, where GPS signals are not available, accurate indoor localization is a challenging task due to variation in the received signals which directly affect distance estimation process. This paper proposes a hybrid approach which integrates fingerprinting based K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) and lateration based MinMax position estimation technique. The novel idea behind this hybrid approach is to use Euclidian distance formulation for distance estimates instead of indoor radio channel modeling which is used to convert the received signal to distance estimates. Due to unpredictable behavior of the received signal, modeling indoor environment for distance estimates is a challenging task which ultimately results in distance estimation error and hence affects position estimation process. Our proposed idea is indoor position estimation technique using Bluetooth enabled smart phones which is independent of the radio channels. Experimental results conclude that, our proposed hybrid approach performs better in terms of mean error compared to Trilateration, MinMax, K-NN, and existing Hybrid approach.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2013년도 제48차 하계학술발표논문집 21권2호
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• pp.119-122
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 물품관리의 효율성을 위해 모바일 RFID리더기와 스마트 모바일 기기를 이용한 스마트 선반 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템을 사용하여 관리자는 물품에 부착되어진 태그를 읽어서 실시간으로 물품의 상세정보를 열람할 수 있고, 선반에 부착되어진 태그를 읽어서 물품의 재고나 위치오류 상태를 파악할 수 있다. 이는 각 선반마다 RFID리더기를 부착시킨 형태의 기존의 스마트선반 시스템과 유사한 기능을 수행하면서도 구축비용과 물품 재질에 따른 인식 오류의 해결부담을 줄일 수 있는 효과가 있다.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.236-244
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• 2007

스마트무인기의 기본 비행성능 파악과 비행제어 알고리즘의 검증을 위하여 40% 축소형 비행체를 개발하였다. 축소형 비행체는 실물기와 유사한 형태의 짐발 허브와 드라이브 장치를 채택하였으며 강제 공랭 방식의 왕복엔진을 장착하였다. 축소형 비행체 주요 부품에 대한 다양한 시험을 수행하였고 조립된 축소형 비행체의 지상시험 및 호버링 시험을 통하여 주요 성능과 기계적 내구성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.208-213
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• 2013

This paper proposes a tag antenna for radio frequency identification (RFID) food system. The RFID tag antenna is designed and fabricated based on the rectangular loop concept used in the UHF band (Korean and Japanese standards, 916.7-923.5MHz). The proposed tag antenna is composed of a radiation patch, sensor tag chip, temperature sensor, oscillator, and battery. We conjugated matching between the tag antenna and the sensor tag using a U-shaped stub. Details of the proposed tag antenna design and the simulated and measured results are presented and discussed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.158-163
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the location measurement algorithm of unknown tag based on RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) by using RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) and TDOA (Time Difference of Arrival) and extended Kalman filter in smart space. To do this, first, we recognize the location of unknown tag by using the RSSI and TDOA recognition methods. Second, we set the coordinate of the tag location measured by using trilateration and SX algorithm. But the tag location data measured by this method are included complex environmental error. So, we use the extended Kalman filter in order to revise error data of the tag location. Finally, we validate the applicability of the proposed method though the simulation in a complex environment.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.237-248
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• 2013

하이브리드 방송(Hybrid Broadcasting) 환경은 다수의 전송경로를 통한 방송 통신 융합 환경이다. 이러한 하이브리드 방송 환경은 기존 방송망의 대역폭 제한으로 소수의 미디어만을 전달하던 것과 달리, 타 통신 전송망을 동시에 활용함으로써 다수의 미디어를 전달할 수 있다. 현재, 스마트TV를 필두로 방송망과 IP망을 결합한 하이브리드 방송 환경이 조성되어 다양한 서비스가 나타나고 있으며, 스마트폰 및 태블릿PC와 같은 타 스마트기기에서 또한 머지않아 하이브리드 방송 환경을 통한 서비스가 나타날 것으로 전망된다. 이렇게 다수의 미디어를 동시에 소비할 수 있는 하이브리드 방송 환경을 효과적으로 활용하는 방법의 하나는 장면구성을 이용하는 것이다. 장면구성은 미디어가 소비되는 시간과 화면상의 공간을 특정함으로써 다수의 미디어를 복합적으로 소비하는 방법이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 하이브리드 방송 환경에 적합하고, 스마트기기에 쉽게 적용될 수 있도록 HTML5를 기반으로 한 장면구성 기술을 제안한다. 하지만 HTML5의 스크립트 언어 및 스타일 언어를 활용한 미디어의 공간구성 및 시간구성은 처리의 복잡성을 높이고, 사용 가능한 단말기의 제한을 줄 수 있다. 또한, 하나의 HTML5 문서는 하나의 장면만 표현할 수 있다. 따라서 제안하는 장면구성 기술은 마크업 언어를 통해 미디어의 공간구성 및 시간구성과 다수 장면을 표현할 수 있도록 HTML5를 확장한다. 더불어 하이브리드 방송환경에 적용을 위한 확장을 포함한다. 이를 위해 HTML5 기술 및 제안하는 장면구성 기술을 소개하고, 구현 및 실험을 통해 본 제안을 검증한다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.111-120
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• 2011

The concept of Smart-Homes is becoming more and more popular. It is anticipated that Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology will play a major role in such environments. We can find many previously proposed schemes that focus solely on: authentication between the RFID tags and readers, and user privacy protection from malicious readers. There has also been much talk of a very popular RFID application: a refrigerator/bookshelf that can scan and list out the details of its items on its display screen. Realizing such an application is not as straight forward as it seems to be, especially in securely deploying such RFID-based applications in a smart home environment. Therefore this paper describes some of the RFID-based applications that are applicable to smart home environments. We then identify their related privacy and security threats and security requirements and also propose a secure approach, where RFID-tagged consumer items, RFID-reader enabled appliances (e.g., refrigerators), and RFID-based applications would securely interact among one another. At the moment our approach is just a conceptual idea, but it sheds light on very important security issues related to RFID-based applications that are beneficial for consumers.