• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.299-304
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• 2017

A wireless passive sensor network is a network consisting of sink nodes, sensor nodes, and radio frequency (RF) sources, where an RF source transfers energy to sensor nodes by radiating RF waves, and a sensor node transmits data by consuming the received energy. Against theoretical expectations, a wireless passive sensor network suffers from many practical difficulties: scarcity of energy, non-simultaneity of energy reception and data transmission, and inefficiency in allocating time resources. Perceiving such difficulties, we propose a simple contending-type medium access control (MAC) scheme for many sensor nodes to deliver packets to a sink node. Then, we derive an approximate expression for the network-wide throughput attained by the proposed MAC scheme. Also, we present an approximate expression for the optimal partition, which maximizes the saturated network-wide throughput. Numerical examples confirm that each of the approximate expressions yields a highly precise value for network-wide throughput and finds an exactly optimal partition.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2016

별도의 RF 소스가 센서 노드에게 에너지를 공급하는 무선 수동형 센서 망은 배터리 없이 영원히 동작할 수 있는 망이다. 그러나 영원한 수명에 대한 기대와 달리 무선 수동형 센서 망은 아직 에너지의 희소성, 에너지 수신과 데이타 전송의 동시불가성, 자원 활용의 비효율성 등 많은 문제를 안고 있다. 본 논문에서는 패킷 상실에는 관대하지만 패킷의 적시 전달을 요구하는 서비스를 제공하는 무선 수동형 센서 망을 다룬다. 이러한 망에서 여러 센서 노드들이 하나의 싱크 노드에게 패킷들을 전달하도록 현실적 제약을 인식하여 framed and slotted ALOHA에 기초한 경합형 MAC 방식을 고려한다. 이어서 지리적으로 흩어져있는 센서 노드들이 전송한 패킷들이 경로 손실을 겪어 결국 capture 현상이 빚어질 때 MAC 방식이 얻을 수 있는 망전체 throughput을 조사한다. 특히 두 센서 노드만이 망에 있을 때 망 전체 throughput의 정확한 공식을 closed form으로 도출한다. 마지막으로 설계 parameter들을 조절하여 최대의 망 전체 throughput을 취하도록 경합형 MAC 방식을 최적화한다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.20-26
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• 2016

무선 수동형 센서 망은 RF 소스가 센서 노드에게 에너지를 공급하여 적어도 이론적으로 배터리 없이 영원히 동작할 수 있는 망이다. 그러나 기술이 성숙하지 못하여 무선 수동형 센서 망은 아직 센서 노드에서 에너지의 희소성, 에너지 수신과 data 전송의 동시불가성, data 전송의 비효율성 등 많은 어려움을 안고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 현실적 제약을 고려하여 여러 센서 노드가 하나의 싱크 노드에게 packet을 전달하기 위한 기본적인 MAC 방식을 제안한다. 수신한 에너지로 캐패시터를 충전하는 충전 구간과 싱크 노드와 통신하는 활동 구간이 번갈아 반복되는 시간 구조에 기초하여 제안하는 MAC 방식은 활동 구간 동안 slotted ALOHA를 따라 싱크 노드에게 패?을 전달한다. 일반적으로 경합형 방식은 throughput이 상대적으로 낮은 경향을 보인다. 따라서 모의 실험 방법을 이용하여 제안하는 MAC 방식의 throughput 성능을 다각도로 평가한다. 모의 실험 결과로부터 활동 구간의 길이를 적절히 설정하여 망 전체 throughput 성능을 높일 수 있음을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.382-388
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• 2007

Indoor location system using wireless sensor network technology was applied for the status evaluation and activity monitoring of elderly person or chronic invalid at home. Location awareness application is transparent to the daily activities, while providing the embedded computing infrastructure with an awareness of what is happening in this space. To locate an object, the active ceiling-mounted reference beacons were placed throughout the building. Reference beacons periodically publish location information on RF and ultrasonic signals to allow application running on mobile or static nodes to study and determine their physical location. Once object-carried passive listener receives the information, it subsequently determines it's location from reference beacons. By using only the sensor nodes without any external network infrastructure the cost of the system was reduced while the accuracy in our experiments. was fairly good and fine grained between 7 and 15 cm for location awareness in indoor environments. Passive architecture used here provides the security of the user privacy while at the server the privacy was secured by providing the authentication using Geopriv approach. This information from sensor nodes is further forwarded to base station where further computation is performed to determine the current position of object and several applications are enabled for context awareness.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2005년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 논문집 Vol.32 No.1 (A)
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• pp.427-429
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• 2005

Energy efficiency is the most challenging issue in wireless sensor network to prolong the life time of the network, as the sensors has to be unattended. Cluster based communication can reduce the traffic on the network and gives the opportunity to other sensors for periodic sleep and thus save energy. Passive clustering (PC) can perform a significant role to minimize the network load as it is less computational and light weight. First declaration wins method of PC without any priority generates severe collision in the network and forms the clusters very dense with large amount of overlapping region. We have proposed several modifications for the existing passive clustering algorithm to prolong the life time of the network with better cluster formation.

• 센서학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.277-285
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• 2007

In this paper, we outline the research issues that we are pursuing towards building of location aware environments for mainly ubiquitous healthcare applications. Such location aware application can provide what is happening in this space. To locate an object, such as patient or elderly person, the active ceiling-mounted reference beacons were placed throughout the building. Reference beacons periodically publish location information on RF and ultrasonic signals to allow application running on mobile or static nodes to study and determine their physical location. Once object-carried passive listener receives the information, it subsequently determines it's location from reference beacons. The cost of the system was reduced while the accuracy in our experiments was fairly good and fine grained between 7 and 12 cm for location awareness in indoor environments by using only the sensor nodes and wireless sensor network technology. Passive architecture used here provides the security of the user privacy while at the server the privacy was secured by providing the authentication using Geopriv approach. This information from sensor nodes is further forwarded to base station where further computation is performed to determine the current position of object.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 실내 전력소모를 효율적으로 줄이기 위하여, 무선센서네트워크 기반의 자율 실내조명 제어 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 먼저 출입문에 부착된 수동 적외선 (Passive Infrared: PIR) 센서를 이용하여 각 출입문을 통해 실내로 들어오고 나아가는 사람 수를 감지하다. 각 출입문에서 측정된 센서 값들은 무선센서네트워크를 통해 중앙 제어장치로 전송된다. 중앙제어장치는 전송된 센서 값을 이용하여 실내에 사람의 존재 유무를 파악할 수 있는 제어 알고리즘을 통해 실내조명을 자율적으로 제어 한다. 비용분석 및 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 시스템이 일상생활에 적용될 경우 약 20%의 전기소모를 절약할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.469-472
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• 2023

If temperature management is required in factory or environmental monitoring, temperature can be measured by connecting various sensors wired or wirelessly. Surface acoustic wave sensors measure temperature using changes in acoustic waves on the sensor surface according to temperature, and are useful for wireless networks. In this paper, in order to build a wireless temperature measurement system in the 900 MHz frequency band, the temperature characteristics of the passive SAW sensor were measured, and the analysis and removal of multipath reflection wave effect inside the high temperature chamber were conducted. The resonant frequency of the SAW sensor was measured, and radio transmission/reception and multipath reflected wave removal techniques were proposed in the shielded chamber.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.711-717
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• 2007

Location information will become increasingly important for future Pervasive Computing applications. Location tracking system of a moving device can be classified into two types of architectures: an active mobile architecture and a passive mobile architecture. In the former, a mobile device actively transmits signals for estimating distances to listeners. In the latter, a mobile device listens signals from beacons passively. Although the passive architecture such as Cricket location system is inexpensive, easy to set up, and safe, it is less precise than the active one. In this paper, we present a passive location system using Cricket Mote sensors which use RF and ultrasonic signals to estimate distances. In order to improve accuracy of the passive system, the transmission speed of ultrasound was compensated according to air temperature at the moment. Upper and lower bounds of a distance estimation were set up through measuring minimum and maximum distances that ultrasonic signal can reach to. Distance estimations beyond the upper and the lower bounds were filtered off as errors in our scheme. With collecting distance estimation data at various locations and comparing each distance estimation with real distance respectively, we proposed an equation to compensate the deviation at each point. Equations for proposed algorithm were derived to calculate relative coordinates of a moving device. At indoor and outdoor tests, average location error and average location tracking period were 3.5 cm and 0.5 second, respectively, which outperformed Cricket location system of MIT.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1515_1516
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• 2009

A 440MHz wireless and passive surface acoustic wave (SAW) based micro-sensor was developed for simultaneous measurement of temperature and humidity. The developed sensor is composed of a SAW reflective delay lines structured by an IDT (Inter-Digital Transducer), four reflectors and humidity sensitive film (polyimide). Polyimide was dry-ecthed by RIE (Reactive Ion Etching) to obtain high roughness, which gives the large reaction area resulting in high sensitivity. In wireless testing using a network analyzer, sharp reflection peaks with high S/N ratio, small signal attenuation, and few spurious peaks were observed in the time domain. High sensitivity towards the temperature and humidiy were also observed in the large concentration range. The obtained sensitivity was $16.8^{\circ}/^{\circ}C$ for temperature sensor and $15.8^{\circ}$/%RH for humidity sensor.