• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.31-38
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• 2016

인체에 근접한 다양한 휴대 정보 단말기 간의 통신망을 무선으로 구축하는 Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN) 분야에 관한 연구 결과가 국내외에서 지속적으로 발표되고 있다. 이 가운데 인체통신 기술은 인체를 신호의 전송경로로 활용하여 단말기들 간의 연결을 위한 케이블이 필요하지 않으며, 저전력 고속 데이터 전송이 가능하여 WBAN에 가장 적합한 통신 기술로 손꼽힌다. 더불어 인체통신 기술은 사용자의 간단한 접촉을 기반으로 인체 네트워크를 구성하므로 웨어러블 디바이스/센서/단말 및 임플란트 디바이스 분야에 반드시 필요한 핵심 통신 기술로 주목받고 있다. 본고에서는 WBAN에서 최근 인체통신 기술의 개발 동향과 활용 분야 및 표준화 동향에 관하여 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.1228-1235
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• 2012

In this Paper, we propose an energy efficient localization technique based on WUSB (Wireless USB) over WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks) protocol required for Wearable Computer systems. For this purpose, the proposed localization algorithm minimizes power consumption and estimates location without range information. It is executed independently on the basis of WUSB over WBAN protocol at each sensor node comprising peripherals of a wearable computer system. And it minimizes power consumption by estimating locations of sensor nodes with range-free method fast.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.181-183
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• 2012

WBAN(Wireless body area network)에서 사용되는 저 출력 센서 디바이스는 상당한 패킷 손실률을 발생시키며 데이터의 신뢰성을 떨어뜨리는 원인이 된다. 기존의 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC 프로토콜은 데이터 오류 발생 시 수신한 전체 데이터를 재전송하기 때문에 불필요한 에너지 소모와 오버헤드가 발생된다. 특히 WBAN 환경에서 인체 내부에 이식되는 디바이스의 경우 배터리 교체의 어려움과 초 저전력을 요구하기 때문에 노드의 수명 유지를 위해 사용되는 전력 소모량도 중대한 문제가 되고 있으며, 전체 데이터를 재전송하는 기존의 방식에서 발생하는 에너지 소모는 노드의 수명을 단축시키는 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 저전력과 신뢰성을 요구하는 WBAN 환경에서 수신 오류율 변화에 따른 데이터 동적 블록화 기법을 사용하여 재전송 데이터의 크기를 줄인다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.87-93
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• 2012

Due to the development of information and communication, there is a rising interest on WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network) that maintain and check the human being health. According to the application of different quality of service and a special mechanism for transferring medical data are required in WBAN environment. In this paper, we proposed the new formed superframe that has CSMA/CA based TDMA scheduling and CSMA/CA used IEEE 802.15.4 in order to process emergency data and on-demand data in WBAN environment. We estimated performance of the proposed MAC protocol by compared performance of other MAC protocols that are IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocl and Z-MAC protocol has contention access period based TDMA scheduling.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06d
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• pp.170-173
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• 2010

최근 진보된 무선 통신 기술과 발전된 의료 기술로 인하여 u-Health의 핵심 기술인 WBAN에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 인체에 이식 가능한 WBAN 장치는 전원 공급에 제한이 있으므로 소비전력을 최소화하기 위한 MAC 프로토콜이 필요하다. 본 논문은 WBAN 장치의 다양한 무선 통신 특성을 적용한 시뮬레이터에 관한 것으로 MICS 대역의 채널 특성을 적용하였고, 데이터의 신뢰성과 에너지 효율성을 향상시키기 위해 가변 패킷 및 비트맵 기반의 패킷 블록 전송기법을 적용한 MAC 프로토콜을 사용한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.4C
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• pp.290-296
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a practical authentication system based on Wireless Body Area Networks(WBAN) for U-healthcare medical information environments. The proposed authentication system is based on symmetric cryptosystem such as AES and is designed to not only provide security such as data secrecy, data authentication, data integrity, but also prevent replay attack by adopting timestamp technique and perform secure authentication between sensor node, master node, base-station, and medical server.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.561-562
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• 2009

On-body WBAN 시스템은 저속 생체 정보 전달과 고속 멀티미디어 통신을 모두 지원할 수 있는 시스템 구조를 가져야 한다. 게다가 WBAN 시스템의 특성상 최대한 저전력 구현이 가능한 시스템 설계가 수반되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 UWB를 이용하여 다중 속도 지원이 가능한 On-body WBAN 시스템 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 Block-Coded Group PPM 변조 기법을 사용하여 데이터 신뢰도를 높일 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1077-1093
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• 2013

This paper proposes a new network coordinator node design to select the most suitable wireless technology for WBANs by using fuzzy logic. Its goal is to select a wireless communication technology available considering the user/application requirements and network conditions. A WBAN is composed of a set of sensors placed in, on, or around human body, which monitors the human body functions and the surrounding environment. In an effort to send sensor readings from human body to medical center or a station, a WBAN needs to stay connected to a local or a wide area network by using various wireless communication technologies. Nowadays, several wireless networking technologies may be utilized in WLANs and/or WANs each of which is capable of sending WBAN sensor readings to the desired destination. Therefore, choosing the best serving wireless communications technology has critical importance to provide quality of service support and cost efficient connections for WBAN users. In this work, we have developed, modeled, and simulated some networking scenarios utilizing our fuzzy logic-based NCN by using OPNET and MATLAB. Besides, we have compared our proposed fuzzy logic based algorithm with widely used RSSI-based AP selection algorithm. The results obtained from the simulations show that the proposed approach provides appropriate outcomes for both the WBAN users and the overall network.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.263-274
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• 2016

The exceptional development of electronic device technology, the miniaturization of mobile devices, and the development of telecommunication technology has made it possible to monitor human biometric data anywhere and anytime by using different types of wearable or embedded sensors. In daily life, mobile devices can collect wireless body area network (WBAN) data, and the co-collected location data is also important for disease analysis. In order to efficiently analyze WBAN data, including location information and support medical analysis services, we propose a geohash-based spatial index method for a location-aware WBAN data monitoring system on the NoSQL database system, which uses an R-tree-based global tree to organize the real-time location data of a patient and a B-tree-based local tree to manage historical data. This type of spatial index method is a support cloud-based location-aware WBAN data monitoring system. In order to evaluate the proposed method, we built a system that can support a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Binary JSON (BSON) document data on mobile gateway devices. The proposed spatial index method can efficiently process location-based queries for medical signal monitoring. In order to evaluate our index method, we simulated a small system on MongoDB with our proposed index method, which is a document-based NoSQL database system, and evaluated its performance.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.657-662
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• 2019

The power consumption of wearable sensors and electrocardiogram regulators should be very low to extend the network lifetime and anticipated QoS( : Quality of Service) control such as error correction and authentication of data processed by WBAN( : Wireless Body Area Network) nodes is important. Therefore, QoS control is the most urgent concern to implement WBAN in health monitoring regulations. For optimal QoS control, we compare the energy efficiency and the average number of transmissions with IEEE 802.15.6 and the error correction method considering energy efficiency. The performance of the proposed error correction technique shows that the energy efficiency and the transmission rate are improved by adjusting the coding rate appropriately using the channel estimation.