• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.584-588
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• 2019

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is a networking technology that enables early detection of abnormal health conditions, real-time medical monitoring, and telemedicine support systems. The internet of things (IoT) for healthcare, which has become an issue recently, is one of the most promising areas for improving the quality of human life. It must meet the high QoS requirements of the medical communication system like any other communication system. Therefore, the bit error rate (BER) threshold was chosen to accommodate the QoS requirements of the WBAN communication system. In this paper, we calculated BER performance of WBAN channel using IR-UWB PPM modulation and analyzed link budget and system margin of WBAN according to various system parameters.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.47-54
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• 2010

This paper presents a simple and efficient two-dimensional rigid-body-spring network model able to accurately estimate the fractural behavior of civil fiber reinforced pavements. The proposed rigid-body-spring network model, denoted as RBSN model, considers civil fiber reinforcing materials using the beam elements and link spring elements. The RBSN method is able to model collapse due to asphalt crushing and civil fiber slip. The RBSN model is used to predict the applied load-midspan deflection response of civil fiber retrofitted asphalt specimen subjected to the three-point bending. Numerical simulations and experimental measurements are compared to based on tests available in the literature. The numerically simulated responses agree significantly with the corresponding experimental results until the maximum load. However, It should be mentioned that, in order to more accurately predict the postpeak flexural behavior of the civil fiber retrofitted asphalt pavement, development of the advanced model to simulate the slip relationship between civil fiber and asphalt is required.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.4385-4399
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• 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) eHealth systems composed by Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has emerged recently. Sensor nodes are placed around or in the human body to collect physiological data. WBAN has many different applications, for instance health monitoring. Since the limitation of the size of the battery, besides speed, reliability, and accuracy; design of WBAN protocols should consider the energy efficiency and time delay. To solve these problems, this paper adopt the end-edge-cloud orchestrated network architecture and propose a transmission based on reinforcement algorithm. The priority of sensing data is classified according to certain application. System utility function is modeled according to the channel factors, the energy utility, and successful transmission conditions. The optimization problem is mapped to Q-learning model. Following this online power control protocol, the energy level of both the senor to coordinator, and coordinator to edge server can be modified according to the current channel condition. The network performance is evaluated by simulation. The results show that the proposed power control protocol has higher system energy efficiency, delivery ratio, and throughput.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.95-102
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• 2001

The design of automobile body assembly line is one of essential parts for improving the process performance. The major objective of this research is to develop a performance evaluation model for automobile assembly line using a closed queueing network(CQN) and simulation method. In this study we used a two-step approach to compute the performance of the assembly line : first, we used CQN model considering assembly line equipments and the line operating time under the assumption of no failure, and second we used a well-known simulator FACTOR/AIM. Finally we implemented this model on a K automobile company and we have shown the sample results of automobile body assembly line.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.178.2-178
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• 2001

Today, many electronic devices and ECUs (Electronic Control Units) are used in the automotive body control systems. It becomes more common that these devices exchange data with others through an in-vehicle network. Automobile manufacturers concentrate their efforts on development of body control systems based on networks in order to save cost and to increase flexibility and safety. OSEK/VDX has been founded as a joint project in German and French automotive industry aiming at an industry standard for an open-ended architecture for distributed control units in vehicles OSEK/VDX consists of Communication (specification of data exchange within and between control units), Network Management specification of Configuration determination and monitoring and Operating System (specification of realtime executive for ECU software ...

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.225-234
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• 2018

E-Health allows you to supersede the central patient wireless healthcare system. Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) is the first phase of the e-Health system. In this paper, we aim to understand e-Health architecture and configuration, and attempt to minimize energy consumption and latency in transmission routing protocols during restrictive latency in data delivery of WBSN phase. The goal is to concentrate on polling protocol to improve and optimize the routing time interval and schedule communication to reduce energy utilization. In this research, two types of network models routing protocols are proposed - elemental and clustering. The elemental model improves efficiency by using a polling protocol, and the clustering model is the extension of the elemental model that Destruct Supervised Decision Tree (DSDT) algorithm has been proposed to solve the time interval conflict transmission. The simulation study verifies that the proposed models deliver better performance than the existing BSN protocol for WBSN.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.465-472
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• 2019

The major challenge in wireless body area networks (WBAN) is setting up a protected communication between data consumers and a body area network controller while meeting the security and privacy requirements. This paper proposes efficient and secure data communication in WBANs using a Twofish symmetric algorithm and ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption with constant size ciphertext; in addition, the proposed scheme incorporates policy updating to update access policies. To the best of the author's knowledge, policy updating in WBAN has not been studied in earlier works. The proposed scheme is evaluated in terms of message size, energy consumption, and computation cost, and the results are compared with those of existing schemes. The result shows that the proposed method can achieve higher efficiency than conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1359-1362
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• 2009

센서 네트워크의 저전력 단거리 무선통신의 특징을 의료분야에 적용한 의료용 네트워크(Medical Body Area Networks)는 사람의 인체를 진단하기 위한 소형 의료 디바이스들간의 연결성을 제공하기위해 최근 주목받고 있는 기술이다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 프로토콜은 MBAN에서 전력의 효율성 및 신뢰성에 초점을 맞추어 제안 하였다. IEEE 802.15.3의 MCTA를 MBAN에서 적용 가능한 SR-MCTA로 변형하여 전송의 신뢰성 및 전력 사용의 효율성을 고려한 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 프로토콜에서 SR-MCTA 슬롯은 단말 디바이스의 요청에 의해 MBAN 코디네이터가 할당하며, 할당하는 방법은 현재 슬롯에서 긴급 패킷이 발생할 때 임이의 충돌 패킷을 발생시켜 서 패킷을 획득하는 방법을 사용한다. 이를 위해 WBAN 네트워크내의 특정 노드를 클러스터의 헤드로 설정한다. 제안하는 프로토콜의 효율성 분석을 통하여 제안하는 방법이 전송의 지연 개선 및 에너지 효율적임을 보였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.401-407
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• 2007

This paper proposes the ethernet-based in-vehicle networking method for "body" and "multimedia" domains. The ethernet-based in-vehicle networking method should modify the topology and the layer 2 for traffic shaping. In this paper, we simulate the two ring networking systems, the Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) and the proposed system with the shaping by the network simulator 2 and evaluate each performance. In addition, we demonstrate the proposed networking system to exchange two kinds of traffic, i.e., QoS data and best-effort data, on the ring network constituting of three nodes. Finally this paper expects to substitute the ethernet-based in-vehicle network for the MOST in advance.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.175-180
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• 2002

In order to satisfy the requirements of time reduction and cost saving for development of electronic control systems(ECU) in automotive industry, the applications of a standardized real-time operating system(RTOS) and a communication protocol to ECUs are increased. In this study, a body control module(BCM) that employs OSEK/VDX(open system and corresponding interfaces for automotive electronics/vehicle distributed executive) OS tour the RTOS and a controller area network(CAN) fur the communication protocol is designed, and the performances of the system are evaluated. The BCM controls doors, mirrors, and windows of the vehicle through the in-vehicle network. To identify all the transmitted and received control messages, a PC connected with the CAN communication protocol behaves as a CAN bus emulator. The control system based upon in-vehicle network improves the system stability and reduces the number of wiring harness. Furthermore it is easy to maintain and simple to add new features because the system is designed based on the standards of RTOS and communication protocol.