• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.206-211
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• 2010

In this paper, an implantable planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) for an artificial cardiac pacemaker is proposed. The antenna has a simple structure with a low profile and is placed on the top side of the pacemaker. The dimensions of the pacemaker system, including the antenna element, are $42{\times}43.6{\times}11$ mm. When the antenna is embedded in pig tissue, its $S_{11}$ value is -10.94 dB at 403 MHz and the -10 dB impedance bandwidth of the antenna is 6 MHz (399~406 MHz). The proposed PIFA in tissue has a peak gain of -20.19 dBi and a radiation efficiency of 1.12 % at 403 MHz. When the proposed antenna is placed in a flat phantom, its specific absorption ratio (SAR) value is 0.038 W/kg (1 g tissue). Performances of the proposed PIFA is sufficient to operate at the MICS band (402 ~ 405 MHz).

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.142-148
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• 2011

Because currently available wireless technologies are not appropriate for wireless body area networks (WBANs), the IEEE 802.15.6 standard was introduced by the IEEE 802.15.6 Task Group to satisfy all the requirements for a monitoring system that operates on, in, or around the human body. In this work, we develop an analytical model for evaluating the performance of an IEEE 802.15.6-based WBAN under saturation condition and a noisy channel. We employ a three-dimensional Markov chain to model the backoff procedure as specified in the standard. Probability generating functions (PGFs) are used to compute the performance descriptors of the network. The results obtained from the analytical model are validated by simulation results. Our results indicate that under saturation condition, the medium is accessed by the highest user priority nodes at the vast majority of time while the other nodes are starving.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.452-464
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• 2019

The use of wireless body area networks (WBANs) in healthcare applications has made it convenient to monitor both health personnel and patient status continuously in real time through wearable wireless sensor nodes. However, the heterogeneous and complex network structure of WBANs has some disadvantages in terms of control and management. The software-defined network (SDN) approach is a promising technology that defines a new design and management approach for network communications. In order to create more flexible and dynamic network structures in WBANs, this study uses the SDN approach. For this, a WBAN architecture based on the SDN approach with a new energy-aware routing algorithm for healthcare architecture is proposed. To develop a more flexible architecture, a controller that manages all HUBs is designed. The proposed architecture is modeled using the Riverbed Modeler software for performance analysis. The simulation results show that the SDN-based structure meets the service quality requirements and shows superior performance in terms of energy consumption, throughput, successful transmission rate, and delay parameters according to the traditional routing approach.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.126-129
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• 2010

WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network)기반의 의료 응용으로 실시간 모니터링 시스템을 구현하였다. 특히 산소포화도 생체 센서들로부터 연속적으로 전송되는 스트림 데이터에 대해 다양한 조건을 포함하는 질의들이 실행 되는데 이러한 실시간 모니터링 질의들을 효율적으로 식별하기 위한 질의 인덱스를 설계하였다. 매번 모든 질의들을 실행하기에는 시간이 많이 걸리기 때문에 Interval Skip List 를 이용하여 빠르고 효율적으로 식별하도록 설계하였다. 이로써 위급한 상황의 환자의 건강에 문제가 생겼을 때 신속하게 대처할 수 있는 환경을 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 방대한 양의 스트림 데이터와 이 데이터를 실시간으로 감시할 수 있도록 Interval Skip List 를 스마트 메디컬 스페이스(m-MediNet)에 적용한 방법을 기술하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1359-1362
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• 2009

센서 네트워크의 저전력 단거리 무선통신의 특징을 의료분야에 적용한 의료용 네트워크(Medical Body Area Networks)는 사람의 인체를 진단하기 위한 소형 의료 디바이스들간의 연결성을 제공하기위해 최근 주목받고 있는 기술이다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 프로토콜은 MBAN에서 전력의 효율성 및 신뢰성에 초점을 맞추어 제안 하였다. IEEE 802.15.3의 MCTA를 MBAN에서 적용 가능한 SR-MCTA로 변형하여 전송의 신뢰성 및 전력 사용의 효율성을 고려한 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 프로토콜에서 SR-MCTA 슬롯은 단말 디바이스의 요청에 의해 MBAN 코디네이터가 할당하며, 할당하는 방법은 현재 슬롯에서 긴급 패킷이 발생할 때 임이의 충돌 패킷을 발생시켜 서 패킷을 획득하는 방법을 사용한다. 이를 위해 WBAN 네트워크내의 특정 노드를 클러스터의 헤드로 설정한다. 제안하는 프로토콜의 효율성 분석을 통하여 제안하는 방법이 전송의 지연 개선 및 에너지 효율적임을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1231-1233
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• 2011

WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network)과 같은 스트림 데이터의 환경에서는 데이터가 아닌 질의들이 등록되어 있고 데이터들이 끊임없이 시스템에 도착한다. 때문에 도착한 데이터에 대해서 처리할 수 있는 질의만을 찾아 해당 질의들만을 수행하도록 해서 시스템의 질의 부담을 덜어주는 방법이 필요하다. 기존의 단순하고 단편적인 질의의 문제점을 해결하고자 본 연구에서는 Interval Skip List 자료 구조와 시간기반 윈도우를 이용하여 효율적인 실시간 모니터링 시스템을 구현하였다. 특히 산소포화도 생체 센서들로부터 연속적으로 전송되는 스트림 데이터에 대해 다양한 조건을 포함하는 질의들이 실행 되는데 이러한 실시간 모니터링 질의들을 효율적으로 식별하기 위한 질의 인덱스를 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.1 s.343
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• pp.79-88
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• 2006

In this paper, we designed and implemented ubiquitous u-Health system using RFE and ZigBee. We made a wireless protocol Kit which combines RFE Tag recognition and ZigBee data communication capability. The software is designed and developed on the TinyOS. Wireless communication technologies which hold multi-protocol stacks with RFID and result in the wireless ubiquitous world could be Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.11x WLAN and so on. The environments that the suggested u-Health system may be used is un-manned nursing, which would be utilized in dense sensor networks such as a hospital. The the size of devices with RFID and ZigBee will be so smaller and smaller as a bracelet, a wrist watch and a ring. The combined wireless RFID-ZigBee system could be applied to applications which requires some actions corresponding to the collected (or sensed) information in WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network) and/or WPAN(Wireless Person Area Network). The proposed ubiquitous u-Health system displays some text-type alert message on LCD which is attached to the system or gives voice alert message to the adequate node users. RFE will be used as various combinations with other wireless technologies for some application-specific purposes.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.16-27
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• 2017

IEEE 802.15.6 standard, a Wireless Body Area Network, aims to transfer not only medical data but also non-medical data, such as physical activity, streaming, multimedia game, living information, and entertainment. Services which transfer those data have very various data rates, intervals and frequencies of continuous access to a medium. Therefore, an efficient anti-collision operations and medium assigning operation have to be carried out when multiple nodes with different data rates are accessing shared medium. IEEE 802.15.6 standard for CSMA/CA medium access control method distributes access to the shared medium, transmits a control packet to avoid collision and checks status of the channel. This method is energy inefficient and causes overhead. These disadvantages conflict with the low power, low cost calculation requirement of wireless body area network, shall minimize such overhead for efficient wireless body area network operations. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a medium access scheduling scheme, which adjusts the time interval for accessing to the shared transmission medium according to the amount of data for generating respective sensor node, and a priority control algorithm, which temporarily adjusts the priority of the sensor node that causes transmission concession due to the data priority until next successful transmission to ensure fairness.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.12
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• pp.1150-1158
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• 2013

Artificial cochlear implant system is known as the most efficient and widespread device to patients who have cochlear disorder. However, current commercialized artificial cochleas have inconveniences because of large volume size and high power consumption, requiring further research on improvements in terms of the size, power, and performance. In this paper, we will introduce our fully implantable artificial cochlear implant system, where small-size sensors and actuators are wirelessly connected, focusing on communication system design and its performance simulation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.221-237
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• 2016

The wireless body area networks (WBANs) consist of wearable computing devices and can support various healthcare-related applications. There exist two crucial issues when WBANs are utilized for healthcare applications. One is the protection of the sensitive biometric data transmitted over the insecure wireless channels. The other is the design of effective medical management mechanisms. In this paper, a secure medical information management system is proposed and implemented on a TinyOS-based WBAN test bed to simultaneously address these two issues. In this system, the electronic medical record (EMR) is bound to the biometric data with a novel fragile zero-watermarking scheme based on the modified visual secret sharing (MVSS). In this manner, the EMR can be utilized not only for medical management but also for data integrity checking. Additionally, both the biometric data and the EMR are encrypted, and the EMR is further protected by the MVSS. Our analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system not only protects the confidentialities of both the biometric data and the EMR but also offers reliable patient information authentication, explicit healthcare operation verification and undeniable doctor liability identification for WBANs.