• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1460-1465
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient and multimedia traffic friendly MAC protocol (EEMF-MAC) that controls sender's wakeup period based on the data packet's transmission urgency and the receiver's wakeup periods based on the received data packet traffic loads. The protocol is useful for applications such as object tracking, real time data gathering, in which priority-based packet transmission is required. The basic idea of EEMF-MAC is that it uses the priority concept with transmission urgency of sender's data packet to reduce the transmission delay of the urgent data and it also uses duty cycling technique in order to achieve energy efficiency. EEMF-MAC showed a better performance in energy efficiency and packet transmission delay compared to existing protocols, RI-MAC and EE-RI-MAC.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.118-129
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• 2008

This paper describes an IEEE 802.15.4-based hierarchical sensor network model for a VAWS(Vehicle Approach Warning System) which provides the drivers of vehicles approaching a sharp turn with the information about vehicles approaching the same turn from the opposite end. In the proposed network model, a tree-structured topology, that can prolong the lifetime of network is formed in a self-organizing manner by a topology control protocol. A simple but efficient routing protocol, that creates and maintains routing tables based on the network topology organized by the topology control protocol, transports data packets generated from the sensor nodes to the base station which then forwards it to a display processor. These protocols are designed as a network layer extension to the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC. In the simulation, which models a scenario with a sharp turn, it is shown that the proposed network model achieves a high-level performance in terms of both energy efficiency and throughput simultaneously.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.29-34
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed a system protocol for detecting injurious insect to support energy saving transmission in wireless bio sensor networks. The main ideas and features of the system are as follows. First, the route establishment method which is based on the energy efficiency and stability by using time-division tree structure. Second, multi-hop direction-based data gatering structure. In this structure, the selected fading method is used to transmit packet via the established tree structure for supporting power saving and route lifetime efficiently. Finally, we can get the node power saving and reduce transmission delay, thus network lifetime and efficiency are improved. The performance evaluation of the proposed protocol is via OPNET(Optimized Network Engineering Tool).

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.71-78
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• 2008

The sensor node's performance is expected to be improved and the price will be largely decreased. As USN-applied field is expanded, multiple application services are expected to be provided through one USN soon. Multiple applications be required a periodic data reporting, consecutive information monitoring, event-driven data and query-based data as the data pattern that USN is delivered. Accordingly, the mechanism which can assure QoS according to each data characteristic is required. In this paper, A proposed protocol apply the duty cycle of S-MAC protocol variably and flexible according QoS level. This method largely reduces the delay on the delay-sensitive traffic, while keeping the energy efficiency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.7B
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• pp.411-421
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• 2007

It is well known that the biggest problem of wireless sensor networks is power conservation. There have been two major approaches to efficiently use energy in wireless sensor networks. One is to use a dynamic power management scheme and the other is to use energy efficient protocols. In the former, the power manager is responsible for managing the proper power state of CPU and each I/O with respect to the events, but the power manager does not concern about the internal operation of the underlying network protocols. Thus such conventional power managers can waste unpredicted power during communication period. On the other hand, the energy efficient protocols are just focused on the power saving operation of the radio PHY. In this paper, we introduce an energy-efficient power saving mechanism that can significantly reduce unwanted power consumption of wireless sensor nodes through the communication event-driven power management. We show that our scheme improves the energy conservation in the entire network through simulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8B
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• pp.712-721
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an Enhanced cross-layer Geographic Forwarding (EGF) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). EGF uses an optimal back-off time to make the packet forwarding decisions using only source and destination's location information and energy cost without information about neighbor nodes' location or the number of one hop neighbor nodes. EGF is also a cross-layer protocol by combining efficient asynchronous MAC and geographic routing protocol. The proposed protocol can find optimal next hop location quickly without broadcasting node's location update and with minimizing overhead. In our performance evaluation, EGF has better performance in terms of packet success ratio, energy efficiency and end-to-end delay in wireless sensor networks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.715-717
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• 2004

최근 무선 통신 기술과 전자 기술의 진보로 지능형 센서(Smart Sensor)를 이용한 무선 센서 네트워크 구축이 가능해졌고, 이러한 센서 네트워크는 최근 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅과 Ad-Hoc 네트워크에서 많이 연구되고 있는 새로운 이슈이다. 최근 센서관련 논문에서는 각 센서 노드의 제한된 에너지를 효율적으로 사용하기 위해 데이터 전송이 없을 경우 노드의 통신 모듈을 Sleep 시킴으로써 에너지를 절약 한다. 이를 위해서 모든 센서 노드들은 동기화를 맞추어 listen과 sleep를 주기적으로 반복해야 한다. 이러한 프로토콜들에서 발생하는 가장 큰 문제는 에너지 효율성과 데이터 전송 지연간의 반비례 관계이다. 에너지의 효율성을 위해 Sleep 시간을 길게 할수록, Sleep 시간에서 발생한 데이터의 지연 시간도 길어지게 되므로, 데이터의 지연을 고려하여 sleep 시간을 적당히 조정해야 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 에너지 효율성을 위해 listen/sleep 주기를 사용하면서도 데이터 지연을 최소화 할 수 있는 효율적 sleep 시간에 대해 논의 해 보려 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.213-216
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• 2007

The paper deals with a approach to underwater acoustic based Ad-hoc communication, which allows major design strategies for Media Access Control (MAC) within a group of the autonomous underwater vehicles(AUV). The proposed MAC aims at deploying AUV-centric star topology, which minimizes overhead of sensor nodes and improves energy-efficiency. Furthermore, that is also well under long and unknown propagation delays of the underwater acoustic medium. The implemented MAC protocol makes it easier to achieve frame synchronization than TDMA due to deploying localized schedule time, in addition to saving energy consumption by letting nodes sleep. It is also superior to MACA and MACAW in terms of propagation delay. This scalable centralized protocol has the potential to serve as a primer for development of MAC protocol for future underwater acoustic based ad-hoc networks.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.258-268
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• 2011

Underwater acoustic sensor networks can be used disaster prevention and environmental monitoring systems in underwater environments. Because, the underwater environment is different from the ground, the long propagation delay, low transfer rates and limited bandwidth characteristics should be considered. In this, paper will propose the MAC protocol that allocates time slot into each node according to priority policy through the period of contention-free slot reservation in underwater acoustic sensor networks in order to avoid collision and minimize energy consumption waste. We perform mathematical analysis to evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol with regard to the collision probability, the energy consumption by collision, throughput and channel utilization. We compare the proposed protocol with the conventional protocol, and the performance results show that the proposed protocol outperforms the conventional protocol.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.102-105
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• 2014

일반적으로 무선 센서네트워크에서 각 센서 노드들에서 생성된 데이터는 목적지 노드 즉, 싱크(sink) 노드로 전송되어진다. 본 논문에서는 이처럼 데이터 전송이 몰리게 되는 sink 노드 근처에서 노드들 사이에 전송된 데이터 패킷의 충돌을 줄임으로 에너지 효율과 지연의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 TDMA 기반의 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 전송할 데이터를 가지는 노드들은 먼저 싱크 노드에게 자신이 전송할 데이터의 양을 포함하는 RTS 패킷을 전송한다. 이 RTS 패킷을 받은 싱크 노드는 각 노드들에게 전송할 수 있는 전송 스케줄을 노드들에게 보내고, 이 스케줄을 받은 각 노드들은 전송 스케줄에 맞추어 자신들에게 할당된 슬롯에 데이터 패킷을 전송함으로 충돌 없이 bursty데이터를 전송한다. 이 방법을 통하여 각 노드들은 동시에 멀티 슬롯을 할당 받아 여러 패킷을 전송할 수 있다. 따라서 버스티한 트래픽 전송에서 지연(Delay)을 줄이는 동시에 충돌을 없애 데이터 전송 효율을 높일 수 있다.