• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.1049-1052
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• 2009

This paper develop a intelligent personal emergency call system using the wireless sensor network to resolve that a portable problem of established emergency call system. The proposed system is composed of a transmitter nodes for individuals, routing nodes for multihop communications, and a server part. The transmitters for patients are monitored for both low battery and operational status. The transmitters provide location of the person activating an emergency call using RSSI. The efficacy of the proposed system is verified by means of experiments. Experimental results are presented that show the effectiveness.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.440-448
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• 2021

This paper presents problems of network technology in smart grid and implements a blockchain-based LoRa multi-hop network to solve them. Since some smart grid applications are operated in harsh environments, it is difficult to establish communication infrastructure. We propose a LoRa network with multi-hop using the Flooding routing protocol. Smart grid environment composes an independent network using various power grid protocols depending on the application. Since this has a problem that an independent infrastructure must be established for each network, a single gateway device supports multiple power grid protocols to implement a method for network integration. Lastly, the author applied Hyperledger-based blockchain to the LoRa network to ensure the integrity of data in a smart grid environment, and strengthened security by physically distributing it. After constructing the three suggestions on the actual test bed, we confirmed that the network operates normally through experiments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.6B
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• pp.350-357
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• 2007

The IEEE 802.15.3 high-rate WPAN has been developed to communicate with devices within l0m. A piconet consists of one Piconet Coordinator (PNC) and several devices. The devices associated with a parent piconet can become child PNCs in order to form child piconets. A mesh network made up of a parent piconet and several child piconets can support multi-hop communications. In this paper, we analyze the maximum level and the avaliable superframe size to make the best use of bandwidth for multi-hop communications, and compare the analysis with the simulation results in terms of time to discover devices for multi-hop communications. The average number of levels in mesh networks is shown to be about 1.9 when the number of devices increases within a fixed area. We have also shown that the maximum available superframe size is 52ms and the discovery time is approximately 155ms.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.328-339
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• 2007

Conventional topology-based routing protocols are not suitable for inter-vehicular communication, where frequent route updates are necessary due to continuous and abrupt changes in network topology Position-based routing protocols are widely accepted to better serve their purpose in such a scenario as they do not require path discovery or maintenance. However they have to deal with the overhead of the location service and inaccurate position information. This paper proposes the MMFP (Multi-hop MAC Forwarding Protocol) for inter-vehicle communication that relies on reachability information collected from received packets in making a forwarding decision without path discovery. The MMFP is designed as an extension to the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer to ensure accuracy in its time-critical operations. This paper also presents some simulation results that demonstrate the superior performance of the MMFP over AODV in a realistic inter-vehicular communication.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.33-39
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• 2007

In this paper, we investigate the throughput capacity of a multi-hop relay with cognitive radio (CR) enabled relay stations (RS). We suggest a TDMA/FDMA based frame structure where RSs dynamically select unused channels to communicate with the base station (BS) using CR techniques to analyze the throughput capacity. We develop the throughput capacity model for the proposed system based on utilization factor. The analytical results based on those equations show significant improvement in throughput capacity for CR enabled multi-hop relay system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.6A
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• pp.594-599
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• 2010

This paper studies the effect of the deployment position of the relay stations on the downlink signal-to-interference-noise-ratio (SINR) in multihop cellular networks. Two different relay deployment scenarios are considered where relay stations are located either inside cells or on the boundary among adjacent cells. The fundamental contribution is to compare fairly the average SINR between two scenarios with the proposed relay modeling framework that includes multi-cell geometries and inter-cell interferences. The mathematical results show that the SINR increases when relay stations are located inside cells because of higher received signal power.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.149-156
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• 2011

In wireless multi-hop network, many applications need multicast communication where the group leader needs to send data to all members of the group. Multicast routing provides a balanced, efficient, and fairness network environment for the group members. However, large load for transmission management to leader node and signal interference between several paths for multi-hop links always took long transmission delay and low throughput efficiency. In this paper, we propose a Zone-based Hierarchical Multicast Routing Protocol (ZHMP). This routing protocol is designed based on zone routing schemes, where proactive routing is applied for intra-zone node level multicasting and reactive routing is used for searching inter-zone paths. By each hierarchical and independent multicast working in separated zones, load of multicast source node will be distributed by several zone-level routings for a better load balance and signal interference between each multi-hop paths will be resisted for a maximum multicast throughput.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.30-37
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• 2008

릴레이(Relay station)는 이동통신 시스템에서 음영 지역 해소를 위해 도입된 기술로서 현재 널리 사용되고 있다. 과거의 방식이 단순히 신호를 증폭해서 보내는 리피터(Repeater)의 기능에 국한된 것에 비해 최근에는 보다 지능화된 형태로 발전하고 있다. 더 나아가 릴레이 기술은 차세대 이동통신 시스템에서 기지국 증설 비용과 백홀 통신망의 유지비용을 줄이는 동시에 서비스 커버리지 확대와 데이터처리율 향상을 위해 반드시 필요한 기술로 평가받고 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 릴레이 기술의 일반적인 분류와 도입 시나리오 및 요소 기술에 대해 살펴보고 표준화가 진행 중인 IEEE 802.16j Relay TG (Task group)의 동향 그리고 무선 인지 환경하에서의 릴레이 도입의 가능성에 대해 기술한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2281-2287
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• 2013

Network Coding(NC) is a new paradigm for network communication. In network coding, intermediate nodes create new packets by algebraically combining ingress packets and send it to its neighbor node by broadcast manner. Network Coding has rapidly emerged as a major research area in information theory due to its wide applicability to communication through real networks. Network coding is expected to improve throughput and channel efficiency in the wireless multi-hop network. Prior researches have been carried out to employ network coding to wireless ad-hoc network. In our study, intermediate nodes identify one-hop bidirectional flows for network coding decision. We expect that the proposed scheme shall improve decoding success rate of network coded packet. From the simulation, the proposed network coding scheme achieved better performance in terms of coding gain and packet delivery rate than traditional network coding scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.85-87
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• 2006

센서 네트워크에서의 네트워크 리프로그래밍은 무선 통신을 통해 센서 노드에서 수행되는 소프트웨어를 변경하는 것으로서, 이를 사용하면 센서 네트워크를 구성하는 수백 개 혹은 수천 개의 노드들의 소프트웨어를 효과적으로 변경시킬 수 있다. 현재 네트워크 리프로그래밍을 위해 XNP, MNP. MOAP, Deluge, Mate 및 Incremental 기법 등이 제안되어 왔지만 아직 만족할만한 방법은 찾아보기 힘든 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 멀티홉을 지원하는 Deluge에 Incremental 기법을 통합하여 효율적인 리프로그래밍 기법을 구현하였다. 제안된 기법은 TinyOS 1.1.14 버전에 구현되었으며, 이를 통해서 네트워크 리프로그래밍을 위해 요구되는 패킷의 수와 소요시간을 크게 단축시킬 수 있다. 또한 센서 노드에서 패킷 전송에 따른 전력소 모가 가장 큰 점을 고려할 때 본 연구에서 제안하는 방식을 사용하면 센서 노드의 전력소모량도 크게 감소시킬 수 있는 효과를 기대할 수 있다.