• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.724-730
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• 2017

SpaceWire invented for spacecrafts has Time-Code defined for time synchronization over SpaceWire network. A Time-Code suffers transmission delay of 14[bit-period] and jitter up to 10[bit-period] whenever it passes through a SpaceWire link, which is the primary cause of time synchronization error. This work presents a simple method to improve the time synchronization which uses two extended Time-Codes. Nodes on a SpaceWire network can find how much delay and jitter a received Time-Code has suffered while it passes through the network, and they can correct time synchronization error with this information. The proposed method was validated in a simulation environment developed based on OMNeT++. The simulation result showed that time synchronization error less than a few bit-periods can be achieved. The proposed method is cost effective and suitable for small-scale SpaceWire network systems.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.487-491
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• 2008

This paper proposes the Byzantine fault tolerant clock synchronization scheme for wireless sensor networks to cope with the clock synchronization disturbance attack of malicious nodes. In the proposed scheme, a node which is requiring clock synchronization receives 3m+1 clock synchronization messages not only from its parent nodes but also from its sibling nodes in order to tolerate malicious attacks even if up to m malicious nodes exist among them. The results show that the proposed scheme is 7 times more resilient to the clock synchronization disturbance attack of malicious nodes than existing schemes in terms of synchronization accuracy.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.7
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• pp.564-571
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• 2013

Wireless network has been used in many applications due to its advantages such as convenience, mobility, productivity, easy deployment, easy expandability and low cost. When it comes to stability, wireless network still shows its limitation which makes it difficult to be used for real-time control system. One of the first problems of using wireless network for control system is clock synchronization. There have been synchronization schemes proposed for wired networked control system as well as wireless network. But these should not be applied directly in wireless network control system. In this paper, we point out the importance of clock synchronization in wireless network control system. Then based on the characteristic of wireless networked control system, we propose a clock synchronization scheme for it. Furthermore, we simulate our scheme and compare with previous synchronization scheme in wired and wireless environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.68-71
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a synchronization protocol for underwater acoustic networks which aims to minimize the effects of long propagation delay and uncertain delay variations and employs packet train scheme with considering low data rate. The proposed protocol uses an one-way delay measurement method by transmitting consecutive packets and acquires synchronization only considering propagation delay variations by calculating packet arrival time differences. We perform simulations under various network conditions, such as node mobility, time interval for packet transmission, network range, and elapsed time after synchronizing. The simulation results shows the superiority of our protocol, compared with a previously proposed protocol.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.208-214
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• 2006

Participants of a NVE(networked virtual environment) may have different hardwares and network environments, and to guarantee the fairness, messages of participants should be synchronized. A solution for the synchronization problem is to wait for a certain amount of time until the server processes the message. It is not easy to determine a suitable waiting period because of the trade-off between the fairness and the responsiveness. In this paper we propose a method to decide a waiting period by considering only the participants with small network delays and perform experiments for the performance evaluation. Experiments show that the proposed method leads to significant improvement of responsiveness, while retaining fairness.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.127-134
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• 2016

WBSN (Wireless Body Sensor Network), also called WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks) generally, is a kind of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) applications, which is composed of the various sensor nodes residing in human body embodied or in wearable way. The measured data at each sensor node in WBSN requires being synchronized at sink node for exact analysis for status of human body, which is like WSN. Although many time synchronization protocols for WSN has been already developed, they are not appropriate to WBSN. In this paper, a new time synchronization protocol for WBSN considering the characteristics of WBSN is proposed. The proposed scheme is not only simple, but also consumes less power, leading to increasing network life time. We will show that the proposed scheme is appropriate to WBSN by evaluating its performance by simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.106-108
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• 2004

연속적이고 동기화된 미디어 스트림을 요구하는 분산 가상 환경 (DVE: Distributed Virtual Environment) 시스템은 크게 3 개 계층, 즉 가상환경, 동기화, 그리고 네트워크 계층 등으로 나누어 질 수 있다. 그 중 동기화 계층의 목적은 그룹 멤버들 간에 일관된 전역적인 상태와 멤버쉽을 유지하게 하는 것이다. 분산 가상 환경에서 이질적인 종단 시스템들 간에 효율적인 미디어 재생을 위해 적응형 동기화 기업들이 연구 되어 왔으나 기존의 적응형 동기화 기업은 가변적인 재생지연의 조절로 인하여 skipping 과 pausing 현상 을 야기한다. 본 논문에서는 분산 가상환경 시스템에서 다자간 미디어 재생을 지원하기 위한 동기화 계층을 설계하고 구현하는 방법에 대해서 기술한다. 특히, 가변적인 네트워크 상태로 인해 발생되는 이벤트 패킷 지연 (delay) 과 순서 오류 (out of sequence) 를 수신 측에서 효과적으로 제어하기 위한 적응형 동기화 재생 기법을 제안하고 skipping 과 pausing 현상을 감소시키기 위한 재생 버퍼 구조를 소개한다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 기법의 효율성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.1203-1206
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• 2017

IoT-Cloud 융합 가상 기계 시스템은 오프로딩 기법을 사용하여 저성능 사물인터넷 장비에서 고성능 클라우드 서버의 연산력을 제공받는다. 이 경우 오프로딩 실행 대상 프로그램은 사물인터넷 장비와 클라우드 서버의 실행환경에서 일관성이 유지되어야하기 때문에 문맥 동기화가 필요하다. 현재 문맥 동기화 방식은 전체 문맥 동기화를 시도하기 때문에 네트워크 오버헤드가 증가하여 비효율적이다. 본 논문은 오프로딩 실행에 필요한 문맥 정보만을 동기화하는 효율적인 문맥 동기화를 위해서 정적 프로파일링을 통해 오프로딩 실행 대상 작업에 동기화가 필요한 문맥 정보들을 사전에 추출하였다. 추출된 문맥 정보를 기반으로 문맥 동기화가 이뤄지면 오프로딩 실행에 필요한 문맥 정보만을 동기화하기 때문에 네트워크 통신 오버헤드 감소를 기대할 수 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.8
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• pp.488-490
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• 2014

This paper deals with distributed time and frequency synchronization algorithms using the flocking technique for OFDMA-based wireless mesh networks. We propose a time and frequency synchronization model taking into account channel propagation delays existing in wireless mesh networks, and analyze the convergence condition of the proposed synchronization algorithm. Convergence performance of the proposed synchronization algorithm is analyzed via computer simulation in terms of synchronization parameters in the time and frequency synchronization model.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.446-457
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• 2007

In wireless sensor network, to provide the proper responses quickly for diverse events, wireless sensor nodes have to cooperate with each other. For successful cooperation, the time synchronization among sensor nodes is an important requirement for application execution. In the wireless sensor network, the message packets including time information are used for the time synchronization. However, the transmission of many message packets will exhaust the battery of wireless sensor nodes. Since wireless sensor nodes works on the limited battery capacity, the excessive transmission of message packets has an negative impact upon their lifetime. In this paper, the Reference Interpolation Protocol (RIP) is proposed to reduce the number of message packets for the time synchronization. The proposed method performs the time interpolation between the reference packet's time and the global time of the base station. The proposed method completes the synchronization operation with only 2 message packets when compared to the previous Reference Broadcast Synchronization (RBS) technique. Due to the simple synchronization procedure, our method greatly reduces the number of synchronization messages and showed the 12.7 times less power consumption than the RBS method. From the decrease in the transmission of message packets, the convergence time among wireless sensor nodes is shortened and the lifetime of wireless sensor nodes is also prolonged as much as the amount of saved battery energy.