• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.107-114
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• 2017

In beacon-enabled mode, beacon collision is a significant problem for the scalability of cluster-tree wireless sensor networks. In this paper, multi-channel time division scheduling (MCTS) is proposed to prevent beacon collisions and provide scalability. A coordinator broadcasts a beacon frame, including information on allocated channels and time-slots, and a new node determines its own channel and time-slot. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by comparing the proposed approach with a typical ZigBee. MCTS prevents beacon collisions in cluster-tree wireless sensor networks. It enables large-scale wireless sensor networks based on a cluster tree to be scalable and effectively constructed.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.41-52
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• 2013

One of the obstacles preventing the Zigbee protocol from being widely used is the excessive power consumption of Zigbee devices in low bandwidth and low power requirement applications. This paper proposes a protocol that resolves the power efficiency problem. The proposed protocol reduces the power consumption of Zigbee devices in beacon-enabled networks without increasing the time taken by Zigbee peripherals to communicate with their coordinator. The proposed protocol utilizes a beacon control mechanism called a "sleep pattern," which is updated based on the previous event statistics. It determines exactly when Zigbee peripherals wake up or sleep. A simulation of the proposed protocol using realistic parameters and an experiment using commercial products yielded similar results, demonstrating that the protocol may be a solution to reduce the power consumption of Zigbee devices.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.17-36
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• 2006

본 고에서는 U-City를 구현할 때 가장 핵심적인 부가 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 서비스의 종류를 소개하고 이 서비스들이 필요로 하는 공통적인 요구사항을 정리한 후 이 서비스 구현에 적용 가능한 근거리 무선 통신 기술로서 최적의 프로토콜인 WiBEEM (Wireless Beacon-enabled Energy Efficient Mesh Network) 기술에 대해 소개하였다. WiBEEM 기술은 정보통신부가 추진한 IT 839 정책 중에서 핵심 인프라기술로 인정받고 있는 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network)을 위한 최적의 아키텍처로, Mesh Network를 구현 시 Bluetooth나 ZigBee 기술이 해결하지 못하는 다양한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 여러 개의 Beacon을 수용하는 새로운 Superframe 구조를 제안하였으며 여러 개의 비컨들이 충돌없이 네트워크 정보를 전송할 수 있는 최적의 Beacon Scheduling 기법을 채택하였다. 또한 WiBEEM 기술은 기기의 이동성을 제공해 주기 위해 LAA (Last Address Assigned) 기법을 이용한 새로운 Short Address 할당 기법을 채택함으로써 16-bit 주소 공간을 낭비 없이 사용할 수 있게 하였으며 이동하는 기기와의 정보 전송을 위해 고속의 Routing 기법을 제공하는 USN 최적의 아키텍처이다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.82-88
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• 2017

Emergency lights and exit signs are an indispensable part of safety precautions for effective evacuation in case of emergency in public buildings. These emergency sign indicates safe escape routes and emergency doors, using an internationally recognizable sign. However visibility of those signs drops drastically in case of emergency situations like fire smoke, etc. and loss of visibility causes serious problems for safety evacuation. This paper propose a novel emergency light and exit sign built-in with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacon to assist the emergency self-guiding evacuation using devices for crisis and emergency management to avoid panic condition inside the buildings. In this approach, the emergency light and exit sign with the BLE beacons deployed in the indoor environments and the smart devices detect their indoor positions, direction to move, and next exit sign position from beacon messages and interact with map server in the Internet / Intranet over the available LTE and/or Wi-Fi network connectivity. The map server generate an optimal emergency exit path according to the nearest emergency exit based on a novel graph generation method for less route computation for each smart device. All emergency exit path data interfaces among three system components, the emergency exit signs, map server, and smart devices, have been defined for modular implementation of our emergency evacuation system. The proposed exit sign experimental system has been deployed and evaluated in real-time building environment thoroughly and gives a good evidence that the modular design of the proposed exit sign system and a novel approach to compute emergency exit path route based on the BLE beacon message, map server, and smart devices is competitive and viable.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10d
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• pp.510-513
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• 2007

무선 센서 네트워크의 표준인 IEEE 802.15.4는 전력소모를 줄이기 위해 비컨을 사용하는 슈퍼프레임 구조를 지원하는데 이를 멀티 홈 네트워크 환경에 적용시킬 경우 비컨의 충돌이 발생한다. 네트워크의 정보를 담은 비컨이 충돌되면 노드간의 통신에 장애가 발생하고 새로 네트워크에 참여하고자하는 노드도 수용할 수 없게 된다. 이와 같은 문제를 개선하고자 본 논문에서는 현재 제안되어있는 비컨 충돌 회피 방법들을 분석하고 이를 바탕으로 이웃 노드의 정보를 이용하여 다수의 센서 노드가 중복된 시간에 비컨을 전송할 수 있도록 하여 전체 네트워크에 비컨이 전송되는 시간을 줄이는 방법을 제시한다.

• TTA Journal
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• s.112
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• pp.46-54
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• 2007

본 고에서는 u-City를 구현할 때 가장 핵심적인 부가 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 대표적인 서비스의 종류를 소개하고 이 서비스들이 필요로 하는 공통적인 요구 사항을 정리한 후, 이 서비스 구현에 필요한 핵심 기술에 대해 소개하였다. 2007년 7월 현재 u-City Forum 기술 분과 위원회에서 표준화된 핵심 기술은 u-City 통합운영센터 기술과 근거리 무선 통신 기술로서 최적의 USN 아키텍처인 WiBEEM (Wireless Beacon-enabled Energy Efficient Mesh Network) 기술이다. 이 외에도 유비쿼터스 통합단말기 플랫폼 표준과 u-City를 위한 통합 코드체계 기술, 그리고 센서 데이터 포맷 표준화, u-City 시설물 관리 기술 표준화, USN 미들웨어 표준화, u-City 백본망과의 인터페이스 표준화, u-City 데이터 전송을 위한 정보 보호 표준화 등이 앞으로 추진해야 할 대상이다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.436-440
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• 2008

In IEEE 802.15.4 beacon-enabled mode, performance decreases as the number of devices competing in the contention access period(CAP) increases. In this letter, we propose partitioned contention access mechanism(PCAM) to compensate performance degradation. In PCAM, the PAN coordinator divides CAP into two sub-periods and activity of devices is delimited in their assigned sub-periods. Since PCAM reduces the number of devices which compete at the same time by half, collision probability between transmitted frames can be reduced. In addition, devices can save their power consumption because PCAM shorten the duration that devices stay in active state into half. We perform simulations to compare the performance of PCAM with that of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. From the result, PCAM yields better performance than IEEE 802.15.4 standard.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.82-94
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• 2007

Wireless sensor networking technology is one of the basic infrastructures for ubiquitous environment. It enables us to gather various sensory data such as temperature, humidity, gas leakage, and speed from the remote sensor devices. To support these networking functions, IEEE WPAN working group makes standards for PHY and MAC, while ZigBee Alliance defines the standards for the network, security, and applications. The low-rate WPAN was emerged to have the characteristics of network resilience, low cost, and low power consumption. It has a broad range of applications including, but not limit to industrial control and monitoring, home automation, disaster forecast and monitoring, health care. In order to provide more intelligent and robust services, users want voice-based solutions to accommodate to low-rate WPAN. In this paper, we have evaluated voice quality of an IEEE 802.15.4 standard compliant voice node. Specifically, it includes the design of a voice node and experiments based on the prediction of voice quality using the E-model suggested by ITU-T G.107, and the network communication mechanisms considering beacon-enabled and nonbeacon-enabled networks for real-time voice communications.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2018

This paper describes the applicability of Bluetooth and ZigBee networks for real-time control in wireless networked control system and suggests an effective usage of them. The Bluetooth SCO link, SPP and HID profiles and the ZigBee non-beacon enabled network are analyzed and the latency of them are measured. A number of wireless networked control system experiments are performed via DC motor control system and the various profiles of Bluetooth and ZigBee in real-time wireless networked control system are compared.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.3C
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• pp.224-232
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• 2012

Priority MAC is an important issue in every communication system when we consider differentiated service applications. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to support priority MAC based on multi-parameters for IEEE 802.15.7 visible light communication (VLC). By using three parameters such as number of backoff times (NB), backoff exponent (BE) and contention window (CW), we provide priority for multi-level differentiated service applications. We consider beacon-enabled VLC personal area network (VPAN) mode with slotted version for random access algorithm in this paper. Based on a discrete-time Markov chain, we analyze the performance of proposed mechanism under non-saturation environments. By building a Markov chain model for multi-parameters, this paper presents the throughput and transmission delay time for VLC system. Numerical results show that we can apply three parameters to control the priority for VLC MAC protocol.