• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.47-59
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• 2009

Due to the application-specific nature of wireless sensor networks, the sensitivity to such a requirement as data reporting latency may vary depending on the type of applications, thus requiring application-specific algorithm and protocol design paradigms which help us to maximize energy conservation and thus the network lifetime. In this paper, we propose a novel delay-adaptive sensor scheduling scheme for energy-saving data gathering which is based on a two phase clustering (TPC). The ultimate goal is to extend the network lifetime by providing sensors with high adaptability to the application-dependent and time-varying delay requirements. The TPC requests sensors to construct two types of links: direct and relay links. The direct links are used for control and forwarding time critical sensed data. On the other hand, the relay links are used only for data forwarding based on the user delay constraints, thus allowing the sensors to opportunistically use the most energy-saving links and forming a multi-hop path. Simulation results demonstrate that cluster-based delay-adaptive data gathering strategy (CD-DGS) saves a significant amount of energy for dense sensor networks by adapting to the user delay constraints.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.403-410
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• 2010

The switched Ethernet has many features for real-time communications such as providing traffic isolation, large bandwidth, and full-duplex links, and so on. The switched Ethernet, however, cannot guarantee the timely delivery of a real-time message because message delay increases when collisions occurs at the output ports and message loss can even occur due to the overflow at the output buffer. Recently, many research efforts have been done to use the switched Ethernet as an industrial control network. In the industrial control network, sensors periodically sense the physical environment and transmit the sensed data to an actuator, and the periodic messages from sensors to actuators have typically real-time requirements such that those messages must be transmitted within their deadlines. This paper first suggests a feasible condition for EDF (Earliest Deadline First)-based scheduling of periodic messages on a synchronized switched Ethernet and a message scheduling algorithm which satisfies the proposed feasible condition. Pedreiras, et al. [10] suggested a feasible condition for message scheduling on the Ethernet (shared media Ethernet), but there has been no research result on the scheduling condition on the switched Ethernet until now. We compared the real-time message scheduling capacity between the Ethernet and the switched Ethernet by simulation. The simulation result shows that the message scheduling capacity of the Ethernet has almost remained constant as the number of nodes on the network increases, but, in the case of the switched Ethernet, the message scheduling capacity has increased linearly according to the number of nodes on the network.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.19C no.3
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• pp.209-214
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• 2012

Time synchronization is important role in a network, especially in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) which is required for time-critical applications such as surveillance, tracking, data fusion and scheduling. Time synchronization in WSN should meet the other different requirements than the one in other networks because WSN has critical resource constraints, especially power consumption. This paper presents a new time synchronization scheme for WSN, which is energy efficient by reducing communication overhead. Simulation test shows this new scheme has better energy efficiency and performance of accuracy than existing schemes proposed previously.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.217-228
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• 2001

무선 통신 기술 및 이동 컴퓨터의 성능의 발전함에 따라 이동 컴퓨팅 환경을 단순한 단말기로 사용하기 보다는 독립된 수행 단위로 이용하려는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 즉 모든 작업을 서버에게 보내어 결과를 기다리는 대신 이동 컴퓨터에서 직접수행할 수 있는 알고리즘이 개발되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이동 컴퓨터에서의 트랜잭션 수행 알고리즘을 제안한다. 우리는 낙관적인 기법을 채택하였는데 이기법은 (a) 동기화에 필요한 메시지를 적게 필요로 하며 (b) 브로드캐스트 기법의 장점을 얻을수 있다. 브로드캐스트 기법은 최근 많은 수의 클라이언트에게 정보를 전송할 수 있는 수단으로써 많이 연구되고 있다. 그러나 접근하는 데이터간에 충돌이 빈번하게 발생한다면 낙관적 기법은 결국 높은 철회율을 보이게 되며 이는 다시 이동 컴퓨터 자원으로 효율적으로 사용하려는 목적과 반대 결과가 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 높은 철회율을 감소시키기 위해 재순서화 개념을 도입하였다. 즉 충돌이 발견될 경우 데이터의 일관성을 침해하지 않는 범위내에서 충돌 순서를 결정하도록 하는 것이다. 특히 읽기-쓰기 트랜잭션에 대해서는 후위-재순서화 개념을 읽기-전용 트랜잭션에 대해서는 전위-재순화 개념(O-Pre)을 제안하였으며 실험에 의하여 성능 향상을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.18-29
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• 2007

The main objective of this paper is to propose a new stability analysis method for a networked control system with multiple packet transmission. The new scheduling method that can guarantee the maximum time delay and discrete switch state equation model which represent a network data loss is proposed. The equivalent model of a MIMO(multi-input multi-output) networked control system is derived from a state space model of linear time invariant interconnected systems in the form of asynchronous dynamical system. Using this model, this paper presents new stability theorems that can determine stability of the networked control system with regard to time delay, data loss, and the number of transmission packets. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of proposed stability analysis method.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1464-1473
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• 2000

In this paper, we analyze the cycle property of the (n,k)-star graph that has an attention as an alternative interconnection network topology in recent years. Based on the graph-theoretic properties in (n,k)-star graphs, we show the pancyclic property of the graph and also present the corresponding algorithm. Based on the recursive structure of the graph, we present such top-down approach that the resulting cycle can be constructed by applying series of "dimension expansion" operations to a kind of cycles consisting of sub-graphs. This processing naturally leads to such property that the resulting cycles tend to be integrated compactly within some minimal subset of sub-graphs, and also means its applicability of another classes of the disjoint-style cycle problems. This result means not only the graph-theoretic contribution of analyzing the pancyclic property in the underlying graph model but also the parallel processing applications such a as message routing or resource allocation and scheduling in the multi-computer system with the corresponding interconnection network.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.103-111
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• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient data transmission strategy using adaptive-tier low transmission power schedule in a TDMA-based ad hoc MAC protocol. Since the network resource of ad hoc networks has the characteristic of reassignment due to the multiple interferences and the contention-based limited wireless channel, the efficient time slot assignment and low power transmission scheme are the main research topics in developing ad hoc algorithms. Based on the proposed scheme of interference avoidance when neighbor clusters transmit packets, this paper can minimize the total energy dissipation and maximize the utilization of time slot in each ad hoc node. Simulation demonstrates that the proposed algorithm yields 15.8 % lower energy dissipation and 4.66% higher time slot utilization compared to the ones of two-tier conventional energy dissipation model.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.7_8
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• pp.352-358
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• 2003

A cluster of servers is the most promising solution to provide highly scalable and highly available network services with low implementation cost. One of popular solutions is using dispatcher as a request distributor. However this solution has the problem that is can be the bottleneck or single-point of failure point of itself. ONE-IP, the previous work, solves this serious problem by using broadcast message for distributing the request packet in LAN. Using simple scheduling technique, in addition, the overhead due to dispatching the request becomes minimal. However, as ONE-IP using very simple static scheduling algorithm, it would spread the request among servers unevenly and downgrades the cluster performance consequently. In this paper, we propose an improved TCP connection scheduling technique solving this unbalanced distributing problem. Using Round-Robin(RR) scheduling instead of hashing clients IP address, proposed technique can more evenly distribute incoming service requests among the servers. Experiments show average 3.8% improved performance in throughput compared to original ONE-IP technique.