• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.189-194
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• 2007

자원 제약적인 무선 센서네트워크상에서 전송비용을 최대한 줄이기 위하여 데이터의 수집 및 처리를 분산된 형태로 처리하는 방법이 필수적이다. 이에 따라 Declarative Query Language를 이용하여 다양한 질의를 표현하고, 이와 같은 질의를 효율적으로 처리하기 위한 에너지 분산 질의처리 방법이 중요한 이슈로 부각되고 있다. 본 논문은 [3]의 확장된 논문으로써 유한 상태 머신 기반 운영체제인 SenOS상에서 질의를 처리할 수 있는 시스템의 구조 중 SenOS의 동적 재구성 기능적 특성을 적용한 SenDB의 동적 Aggregation Function 추가 기능에 대하여 살펴보았다. 아울러 [3]에서 제안한 이기종 센서노드 연동기능의 개선점 및 구현 방법에 대하여 살펴보겠다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.441-448
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• 2014

USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) application software has a characteristic that it controls a variety of sensor nodes based on the various target operating systems. Accordingly, many researches for efficient development of USN application software are being performed. In this paper, the attributes design technique to support attribute-based development of USN node software for multi-platform is proposed. In the proposed technique, the method to design attributes for modeling Platform Independent Model and Platform Specific Model is presented. When using the proposed technique, productivity of software development will be increased because node software design for multi-platform is easily performed by selecting values of attributes. Also, maintainability of software will be increased because node software is easily regenerated by changing attributes according to the changes of operating systems.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.21 no.1 s.97
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• pp.1-13
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• 2006

임베디드 시스템이라 함은 우리가 생활하는 주변에서 흔히 접할 수 있고, 얘기만 들어도 쉽게 이해할 수 있는 PDA, 스마트폰, MP3 플레이어, 셋톱박스 등의 정보가전 기기들을 비롯하여 로봇, 텔레매틱스, 공장자동화, 군사기기와 센서노드에 이르는 디지털기기들에 컴퓨터가 내장되어 들어가 있는 시스템을 의미한다. 이러한 임베디드 시스템에 사용되는 임베디드 운영체제는 VxWorks, VRTX, pSOS, QNX와 같은 전용 RTOS에만 의존해 왔으나, 최근의 발전된 하드웨어와 네트워크 인프라로 인하여 보다 낮은비용으로 쉽고 빠르게 개발하며 범용으로 사용될 수 있는 임베디드 리눅스를 활용하는사례가 늘어나고 있는 추세에 있다. 이렇게 각광 받기 시작하는 임베디드 리눅스의 커널 기술과 관련한 대표적 관련 기술에 대해 설명한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1753-1756
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• 2005

센서 네트워크 환경에서 센서 노드에게 가장 큰 이슈는 저전력이다. 이러한 센서 노드에서 저전력화를 제공하는 것은 하드웨어 뿐만 아니라 소프트웨어에서도 중요하다. 유휴 시간에 마이크로 컨트롤러가 활성 상태로 대기 하는 대신 마이크로 컨트롤러가 제공하는 파워 슬립 모드를 이용하여 모든 주변 장치의 전원을 차단함으로서 저전력을 실현할 수 있다. 그러나 빈번한 슬립 모드 진입은 오히려 더 많은 전력을 소비하기 때문에 슬립 모드로 들어가는 시기와 나오는 시기를 적절하게 제어 하는 것은 쉬운 일이 아니다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 타이머 인터럽트를 활용하여 슬립 모드 제어 정책을 포함하는 컴포넌트 기반의 멀티 스레드 지원 센서 OS를 구현하였다. 코드 크기의 최적화로 성능 향상을 꾀하였으며, 이로서 전력 소비도 줄일 수 있다. 또한, 컴포넌트 기반의 구조는 다양한 하드웨어를 쉽게 지원할 수 있으며, 응용 분야에 따라 다양한 어플리케이션을 쉽게 제작할 수 있도록 설계하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.3
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• pp.127-136
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• 2010

A wireless sensor network(WSN) which roles as a mediator between living environment and computers in ubiquitous computing is very essential research area. Due to the constraint that sensor nodes should work in very resource-restricted circumstances, an operating system that can manage resources effectively is demanded. Also, a sensor network should be able to deal with many events quickly and simultaneously in order to respond to various physical changes in outer environment. The Sensor Network Operating System such as TinyOS, MANTIS and NanoQplus is much designed so that it can satisfy such requirement. But, for programmers who develop application program for sensor networks, they have lack of frameworks which the development is easily possible from restricted development environment. In this paper for this, we implemented a state machine framework apt for responsive systems in NanoQplus which is multi-thread-based sensor network operating system. In addition we propose an event broker module(EBM) for effective event dispatching, a message data structure for message sharing among state machines, and an execution module that handles messages and their queue and performs state transition of the machines. Furthermore, we could do the development more easily an application program with a state-based framework by developing CASE tools.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.9A
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• pp.884-891
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• 2006

A wireless sensor node is typically battery operated and energy constrained. Therefore it is critical to design efficient power management technique and scheduling technique. In this paper, we propose an OS-level power management technique for energy saving of wireless sensor node, it is called EA-SENTAS (Energy-Aware Sensor Node TAsk Scheduling). It can decrease the energy consumption of a wireless sensor node to use task scheduling technique that shut down components or use low power mode of each component when not needed. Simulation results show that EA-SENTAS saves energy up to 56 percent to compare with conventional duty cycle.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.8B
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• pp.509-520
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a real-time sensor node platform that guarantees the real-time scheduling of periodic and aperiodic tasks through a multitask-based software decomposition technique. Since existing sensor networking operation systems available in literature are not capable of supporting the real-time scheduling of periodic and aperiodic tasks, the preemption of aperiodic task with high priority can block periodic tasks, and so periodic tasks are likely to miss their deadlines. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of how to structure periodic or aperiodic task decomposition in real-time sensor-networking platforms as regard to guaranteeing the deadlines of all the periodic tasks and aiming to providing aperiodic tasks with average good response time. A case study based on real system experiments is conducted to illustrate the application and efficiency of the multitask-based dynamic component execution environment in the sensor node equipped with a low-power 8-bit microcontroller, an IEEE802.15.4 compliant 2.4GHz RF transceiver, and several sensors. It shows that our periodic and aperiodic task decomposition technique yields efficient performance in terms of three significant, objective goals: deadline miss ratio of periodic tasks, average response time of aperiodic tasks, and processor utilization of periodic and aperiodic tasks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.435-440
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• 2007

Wireless sensor networks are sensing, computing, and communication infrastructures that allow us to sense events in the harsh environment. The networks consist of many deployed sensor nodes. Each sensor node senses and transmits the sensed data to the administrator or base station of the networks. The sensor nodes are generally remotely-deployed, and therefore, software update must be done at run-time via communication channel. The software code update protocol should be energy-efficient to maximize lifetime of the sensor nodes. In this paper, we present a MCUP, which is a multi-level code update protocol for resource-constrained sensor nodes. MCUP enables energy-efficient code update by supporting multi-level code management. Our simulation results show that MCUP can reduce energy consumption compared with the existing one-level code update schemes.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.378-387
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• 2006

A programming model for ubiquitous sensor network (USN) applications based on Nano-Qplus is proposed. USN applications mean programs of nodes which are components of sensor network such as sensor, router, sink and actuator. Developers can automatically generate programs of USN applications by setting attributes values of nodes using a script after they model a sensor network. A script for setting attributes values of a node is proposed in this paper. The algorithm of automatic code generation is also described. Developers can easily implement USN applications even if they do not know details of low-level communication, data sharing, and collective operations because the applications are automatically generated from a script. They set only attributes values of nodes using the script. Efforts for USN applications development also are reduced because of automatic code generation. Furthermore, developers can correct errors of applications in the early stage of development through ear]y test based on rapid code generation.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1021-1030
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• 2010

In the sensor network, many tiny nodes construct Ad-Hoc network using wireless interface. As this type of system consists of thousands of nodes, managing each sensor node in real world after deploying them is very difficult. In order to install the sensor network successfully, it is necessary to verify its software using a simulator beforehand. In fact Sensor network simulators require high fidelity and timing accuracy to be used as a design, implementation, and evaluation tool of wireless sensor networks. Cycle-accurate, instruction-level simulation is the known solution for those purposes. In this paper, we developed an instruction-level sensor network simulator for Telos sensor node as named TeloSlM. It consists of MSP430 and CC2420. Recently, Telos is the most popular mote because MSP430 can consume the minimum energy in recent motes and CC2420 can support Zigbee. So that TeloSlM can provide the easy way for the developers to verify software. It is cycle-accurate in instruction-level simulator that is indispensable for OS and the specific functions and can simulate scalable sensor network at the same time. In addition, TeloSlM provides the GUI Tool to show result easily.