• 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.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.18-25
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• 2008

지능형 센서, 마이크로전자공학 및 집적회로, SoC (system-on-chip) 설계와 저전력 무선통신의 급속한 발달로 소형 지능형 센서노드의 개발을 촉진하여 왔다. 이러한 센서 노드는 인체센서네트워크(Body Sensor Network;BSN)의 개발에 초석이 되며, 향후 이 분야의 급속한 발전을 기대하게 된다. 초 저전력 RF 기술의 발전은 침투식 및 비침투식 장치들이 원격 단말과 데이터 전송을가능케 하며, 환자를 장기간 모니터링하여 의료 전문가에게 실시간으로 피드백 함으로써 건강관리 시스템의 일대 혁신을 일으키고 있다. 본 기고에서는 이식형 의료 장치들간의 무선통신 방법과 BSN 분야에서의 최근 기술적 발전동향에 주안점을 두어, 인체 내장형 및 인체 부착형 통신 네트워크 구조를 파악한 후, 이들 분야에서 미해결 쟁점과 난제에 관하여 분석하였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2014

In wireless body sensor system(WB-SNSs), unlike existing sensor network system, the size of device is small and amount of battery is considerably limited. And various channel environments can be made by link channel characteristic, human movements, sensor placements, transmission power control(TPC) algorithms and so on. In this paper, therefore we take diverse experiments with totally considerated environments to overcome these restrictions and to manage the energy efficiently and find the value of target received signal strength indicator(RSSI) based on diverse factors such as human movements, sensor placements, and TPC algorithms. And we conduct analysis in terms of energy consumption and packet delivery rate(PDR) based on the experimental results. Through these analysis, we compare and evaluate the efficiency according to setup values of Target RSSI and Target RSSI range suitable for wireless body sensor network system.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.139-146
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• 2008

Wireless sensor network-related application system can perform functions such as environmental pollution monitoring, building control, home automation in future. In this paper, we present wireless sensor network based system for subway station in order to reduce the damage of the people and the subway station due to fire. Sensor nodes in this system can sense temperature, illumination, smoke, and human body in real time and detect the accident in the subway station. These real-time sensing and wireless networking minimize casualties and damage to property.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.585-588
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• 2009

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is consisted of lots of tiny sensor nodes with limited processing power and computing resources. Thus, the most critical and fundamental element of WSN technology is sensor node, which gathers environmental information and transmits it to the user application systems. Due to the technological advancement, sensor nodes are become smaller and more intelligent, hence, expand their application area. Specifically, implantable wireless sensor node technology, to monitor and treat disease by implanting tiny sensor nodes into human body or livestock, shows further directions of WSN. In this paper, we have designed an implantable wireless sensor node to monitor livestock body temperature in real time. We also discussed on the additional considerations to implement real time bio-monitoring systems.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.40-46
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• 2013

본고에서는 무선인체센서내트워크의 개념을 정립하고, WBAN (Wireless Body Network)의 표준화 동향, 문제점 그리고 향후 지속 가능한 연구 방향에 대하여 고찰하였다. 클라우드 컴퓨팅 환경은 인체센서 노드에서 고성능 슈퍼 컴퓨터에 이르는 다양한 범위의 서로 다른 장치를 연결하여 컨텐트 중심의 서비스를 제공하게 될 것이며 이에 대한 이슈와 연구방향을 진단하였다. 나노기술로 인하여 나노미터 수준의 장치를 개발할 수 있을 것으로 예상되며, 이러한 나노장치 간 정보교환은 의료, 환경 및 군사 분야에서 떠오르는 나노 응용기술로 발전하게 되었다. 나노장치 사이의 정보전송을 전기자기학적(EM) 나노통신 및 분자레벨 나노통신으로 구분할 수 있으며 이들의 연구 방향을 통신 이론적 관점에서 고찰하고 분석하였다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.884-887
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• 2012

무선 센서 네트워크 기술은 상시적으로 물리정보를 획득할 수 있기 때문에 광범위한 응용분야에서 수요가 증가하고 있다. 또한 무선 센서 네트워크에 적용되는 무선 센서 시스템은 일반적으로 배터리를 장착하여 회로에 전력을 공급해주는 방식을 사용한다. 그러나 센서가 적의 기지근처, 인체 조직내 삽입, 건물의 내벽 등과 같이 배터리를 교체할 수 없는 곳에 위치해 있는 경우, 반영구적인 사용에 제한이 있기 때문에 무전원 무선 센서의 개발이 절실히 필요하다. 특히, 이러한 센서를 새롭게 개발하고 검증하려며 센서의 주파수 특성을 분석해야 하는데 기존에는 단순한 파형만을 분석할 수 있는 일반적인 계측기를 사용할 수밖에 없었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존의 계측기보다 유연성 있고 효율적으로 무전원 무선 센서의 개발과 검증이 가능하도록 신호의 모니터링과 신호발생기를 에뮬레이션하는 NI LabVIEW기반의 SAW System Analyzer와 SAW Reader Emulator 시스템을 설계하고 개발하였다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.39-46
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• 2009

Wireless sensor networks consist of small, autonomous devices with wireless networking capabilities. In order to further increase the applicability in real world applications, minimizing energy consumption is one of the most critical issues. Therefore, accurate energy model is required for the evaluation of wireless sensor networks. In this paper we analyze the power consumption for wireless sensor networks. To develop the power consumption model, we have measured the power characteristics of commercial Kmote node based on TelosB platforms running TinyOS. Based on our model, the estimated lifetime of a battery powered sensor node can use about 6.9 months for application of human detection using PIR sensors. This result indicates that sensor nodes can be used in a monitoring system for elderly living alone.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.10A
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• pp.823-829
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• 2011

Recently, wireless body area network (WBAN) has received much attention as an application for the ubiquitous healthcare system. In WBAN, each sensor nodes and a personal base station such as PDA have an energy constraint and computation overhead should be minimized due to node's limited computing power and memory constraint. The reliable data transmission also must be guaranteed because it handles vital signals. In this paper, we propose a systematic network coding scheme for WBAN to reduce the network coding overhead as well as total energy consumption for completion the transmission. We model the proposed scheme using Markov chain. To minimize the total energy consumption for completing the data transmission, we made the problem as a minimization problem and find an optimal solution. Our simulation result shows that large amount of energy reduction is achieved by proposed systematic network coding. Also, the proposed scheme reduces the computational overhead of network coding imposed on each node by simplify the decoding process.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.186-194
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• 2008

This paper has implemented a ubiquitous healthcare system that can measure and check the electrocardiogram of a human body in anytime and anywhere. The implemented prototype is composed of electrocardiogram measurement terminal, data gathering base node, and medical information server. The implemented node constructs a sensor network using the Zigbee protocol and the TinyOS is installed on each node. The data gathering base node is linux-based node that can transfer sensed medial data through wireless LAN. And, the medical information server stores the processed medical data and can promptly notify the urgent status to the connected medical team. Through experiment, we confirmed the possibility of ubiquitous healthcare system based on sensor network using the Zigbee.