• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.64-72
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• 2009

Previous research on sensor networks mainly focused on efficient transmission of data from sensors to fixed sink nodes. Recently there has been active research on mobile sink nodes, but the re-search of an environment where both fixed sink nodes and mobile sinks are present at the same time is rather scarce. This paper proposes a technique for context gathering by mobile devices with the sink functionality added through fixed sinks under a previously built, cluster based multi hop sensor network environment. To this end, clustering of mobile devices were done based on the fixed sinks of a previously built sensor network, and by using appropriate fixed sinks, context gathering was made possible. By mathematical comparison with TTDD routing protocol, which was proposed for mobile sinks, it was conformed that performance increases in energy with the number of mobile sinks, and with the number of movements by mobile devices.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Communications for mobile sink groups such as rescue teams or platoons bring about a new challenging issue for handling mobility in wireless sensor networks. To do this, many studies have been proposed to support mobile sink groups. When closely looking at mobile sink groups, they can be divided into (multiple) small groups according to the property of applications. For example, a platoon can be divided into multiple squads to carry out its mission in the battle field. However, the previous studies cannot efficiently support the division of mobile sink groups because they do not address three challenging issues engendered by the mobile sink group division. The first issue is to select a leader sink for a new small mobile sink group. The efficient data delivery from a source to small mobile sink groups is the second issue. Last, the third issue is to share data between leader sinks of small mobile sink groups. Thus, this paper proposes a routing protocol to efficiently support the division of mobile sink groups by solving the three challenging issues. For the first issue, the proposed protocol selects a leader sink of a new small mobile sink group which provide a minimum summation of the distance between the new leader sink and the previous leader sink and the distance from the new leader sink to all of its member sinks. For the efficient data delivery from a source to small mobile sink groups in the second issue, the proposed protocol determines the path to minimize the data dissemination distance from source to small mobile sink group by calculating with the location information of both the source and the leader sinks. With regard to the third issue, the proposed protocol exploits member sinks located among leader sinks to provide efficient data sharing among leaders sinks by considering the location information of member sinks. Simulation results verified that the proposed protocol is superior to the previous protocol in terms of the energy consumption.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.360-365
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• 2006

무선 센서 네트워크는 센서노드와 싱크로 구성되며, 센서 노드로부터 생성된 신호들은 싱크로 전송되어 처리된다. 센서네트워크는 모든 노드들이 한정된 에너지를 가지고 운용되기 때문에 센서 네트워크를 오랫동안 유지하기 위한 연구가 많이 진행되어 왔다. 대부분의 연구들은 싱크를 고정으로 가정하였다. 그러나 실제 환경에서는 사람이나 자동차 등에 의해 싱크가 이동성을 가지는 경우가 많다. 본 논문에서는 이동 싱크에 기반한 그리드 방식을 적용하여 노드의 에너지 소비를 줄이기 위한 방안을 제안한다. 이 방안은 대부분의 라우팅 작업량을 이동 싱크가 처리하고, 무선 센서지역을 세분화하여 운용함으로써 전력 소비를 줄인다. 또한 시뮬레이션에 의한 성능 평가를 통해 제안방안에 대해 분석하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.16A no.3
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• pp.169-180
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• 2009

With fixed sinks, the network stability could be improved while the network life time could be decreased by the rapid energy dissipation around the fixed sink because of the concentrated network traffic from sensor nodes to the fixed sink in wireless sensor network. To address this problem, mobile sinks, which decentralize the network traffic, has received a lot of attention from many researchers recently. Since a mobile sink has a limited period to communicate with each sensor nodes, it is necessary for a scheduling algorithm to provide the fairness of data collection from each sensor nodes. In the paper, we propose the new scheduling algorithm, ASF(Availability based Scheduling scheme for Fair data collection), for the fair data collection by a mobile in the sensor networks. The ASF takes account of the distance between each sensor nodes and the mobile sink as scheduling metric, as well as the amount of collected data from each sensor nodes. Experiment results shows that the ASF improves the fairness of data collection among the sensor nodes, comparing to existing algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.719-722
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• 2006

무선 센서 네트워크는 센서 노드가 센싱한 정보를 무선 네트워크를 통해서 싱크 노드에게 전달한다. 지금까지의 센서 네트워크는 에너지 소모를 최소화하기 위한 연구가 주로 진행되어 왔다. 그러나 데이터를 수집하는 싱크 노드의 이동성이 보장된다면 더욱 다양한 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. PULSE 프로토콜은 센서 네트워크상에서 에너지 효율적으로 경로를 설정하는 프로토콜이다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 PULSE 프로토콜의 펄스 플러딩 사이에 네트워크 일정 범위 내의 플러딩이 가능하도록 수정한 인터 펄스 플러딩을 추가하여 싱크 노드의 이동성을 지원하고 에너지 효율성도 높인 M-PULSE 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.12
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• pp.447-454
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• 2016

The research on multipath routing has been studied to solve the problem of frequent path breakages due to node and link failures and to enhance data delivery reliability in wireless sensor networks. In the multipath routing, mobile sinks such as soldiers in battle fields and rescuers in disaster areas bring about new challenge for handling their mobility. The sink mobility requests new multipath construction from sources to mobile sinks according to their movement path. Since mobile sinks have continuous mobility, the existing multipath can be exploited to efficiently reconstruct to new positions of mobile sinks. However, the previous protocols do not address this issue. Thus, we proposed an efficient multipath reconstruction protocol called LGMR for mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks. The LGMR address three multipath reconstruction methods based on movement types of mobile sinks: a single hop movement-based local multipath reconstruction, a multiple hop movement-based local multipath reconstruction, and a multiple hop movement-based global multipath reconstruction. Simulation results showed that the LGMR has better performance than the previous protocol in terms of energy consumption and data delivery delay.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.442-444
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 대규모의 센서 네트워크(Large Scale Sensor Networks)에서 가상 싱크 로테이션(Virtual Sink Rotation) 이라 불리는 새로운 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안 한다. VSR은 많은 수의 소스(source) 와 많은 수의 이동성을 가지는 싱크(sink)를 효율적으로 지원한다. VSR의 주 아이디어는 두 가지로 나뉘는데, 첫 번째는 싱크 이동으로 인한 위치 업데이트를 줄일 수 있는 가상 싱크라는 개념으로 소스 의 데이터를 모으고 모아진 데이터를 싱크에 전달 하여 준다. 두 번째는 싱크 주변의 노드들의 급격한 에너지 소모로 인하여 VSR은 가상 싱크 로테이션 알고리즘을 사용한다. 가상 싱크 로테이션은 네트워크의 노드들이 에너지를 균일하게 소모 시키도록 하고, 네트워크 수명을 늘린다. VSR 라우팅 프로토콜 과 기존에 제안된 논문의 비교 실험 결과를 통하여 에너지 소모, 메시지 지연 시간, 전송 효율 등에서 좋은 성능을 가지는 것을 보여줄 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.274-276
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• 2004

싱크의 이동성은 대규모 센서 네트워킹에 새로운 도전을 야기한다. 이동 싱크의 위치는 센서필드 전역에 걸쳐 전달되어야 하며, 이를 위해 각 센서노드는 새로운 정보를 갱신해야 한다. 그러나 빈번한 위치 갱신은 파워의 제약을 가진 센서에는 초과 에너지 낭비를 일으키고, 무선 통신의 충돌도 증가시킬 것이다. 이에 따라 본 논문은 다중 이동 싱크와 소스가 확장가능하면서 효율적으로 데이터를 전달하는 방법을 제안한다. 각 데이터 소스와 모바일 싱크가 적극적으로 싱크가 이벤트 정보를 획득 가능하도록 그리드 구조를 형성하고, 질의를 보내려는 하는 싱크도 로컬로 질의를 전송함으로써 그리드 형성에 적극 참여하였다. 본 제안 방법은 소스와 싱크가 중간 경유 노드에서 위치 정보를 교환함으로써 낮은 오버헤드로 경로 설정이 가능하게 하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.239-246
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• 2017

Communications for mobile sink groups such as rescue teams or platoons bring about a new challenging issue for handling group mobility in wireless sensor networks. Recently, a group region-based approach has been proposed to send data to a mobile sink group. However, it uses excessive flooding for 3 steps (group region discovery, region information notification, and data dissemination) to support mobile sink group. Thus, it causes high energy consumption and data delivery failure. Moreover, its per-sink mobility supporting scheme makes energy consumption and data delivery failure more serious. Thus, this paper proposes an Energy-efficient and Reliable Mobile Group communication protocol (ERMG) to support a mobile sink group, which exploits a virtual grid structure. For the group region discover and notification and the data dissemination, ERMG uses communications with only cell heads of grid cells that manages group sinks. ERMG also uses a per-grid based scheme to support sink mobility. Simulation results show that ERMG has 30% less energy consumption and 6% more desired delivery deadline success ratio than the existing protocols.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.107-117
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• 2006

Wireless Sensor Network consists of sensor nodes and sink. A sink receives and processes signals created from sensor nodes. Many studies have been performed, since sensor network allows multiple nodes to run using a limited amount of energy, Most researches have focused on using fixed sink. However, in many cases, the sink has mobility effected by man, cars, and etc. This research proposes three methods for reducing the node's energy consumption which is applied the Grid method based on mobile sink. Most routing processes handled by the mobile sink and wireless sensor area is separated and operated respectively. So, this research allows decreasing the power costs. In addition, it also proposes methods using simulation to test the quality of the performance.