• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.911-923
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• 2014

Ad hoc cognitive radio wireless sensor networks allow secondary wireless sensor nodes to recognize spectrum opportunities and transmit data. Most existing protocols proposed for ad hoc cognitive radio wireless sensor networks require a dedicated common control channel. Allocating one channel just for control packet exchange is a waste of resources for channel-constrained networks. There are very few protocols that do not rely on a common control channel and that exchange channel-negotiation control packets during a pre-allocated time on the data channels. This, however, can require a substantial amount of time to access the channel when an incumbent is present on the channel, where the nodes are intended to negotiate for the data channel. This study examined channel access delay on cognitive radio wireless sensor networks that have no dedicated common control channel.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.345-352
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• 2017

Traffic management is a highly beneficial mechanism for satisfying quality-of-service requirements and overcoming the resource scarcity problems in networks. This paper introduces an optimal connection admission control mechanism to decrease the packet loss ratio and end-to-end delay in cognitive radio sensor networks (CRSNs). This mechanism admits data flows based on the value of information sent by the sensor nodes, the network state, and the estimated required resources of the data flows. The number of required channels of each data flow is estimated using a proposed formula that is inspired by a graph coloring approach. The proposed admission control mechanism is formulated as a semi-Markov decision process and a linear programming problem is derived to obtain the optimal admission control policy for obtaining the maximum reward. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed mechanism outperforms a recently proposed admission control mechanism in CRSNs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1279-1300
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• 2017

In the interweave cognitive networks, the interference from the primary user degrades the performance of the cognitive user transmissions. In this paper, we propose an adaptive cooperation scheme in the interweave cognitive networks to improve the performance of the cognitive user transmissions. In the proposed scheme for the bidirectional communication of two end-source cognitive users, the bidirectional communication is completed through the non-relay direct transmission, the one-way relaying cooperation transmission, and the two-way relaying cooperation transmission depending on the limited feedback from the end-sources. For the performance analysis of the proposed scheme, we derive the outage probability and the finite-SNR diversity multiplexing tradeoff (f-DMT) in a closed form, considering the imperfect spectrum sensing, the interference from the primary user, and the power allocation between the relay and the end-sources. The results show that compared with the direct transmissions (DT), the pure one-way relaying transmissions (POWRT), and the pure two-way relaying transmissions (PTWRT), the proposed scheme has better outage performance. In terms of the f-DMT, the proposed scheme outperforms the full cooperation transmissions of the POWRT and PTWRT.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.51-62
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• 2012

The exponential growth in wireless services has resulted in an overly crowded spectrum. The current state of spectrum allocation indicates that most usable frequencies have already been occupied. This makes one pessimistic about the feasibility of integrating emerging wireless services such as large-scale sensor networks into the existing communication infrastructure. Cognitive radio is an emerging dynamic spectrum access technology that can be used for flexibly and efficiently achieving open spectrum sharing. Cognitive radio is an intelligent wireless communication system that is aware of its radio environment and that is capable of adapting its operation to statistical variations of the radio frequency. In ad hoc cognitive radio networks, a common control channel (CCC) is usually used for supporting transmission coordination and spectrum-related information exchange. Determining a CCC in distributed networks is a challenging research issue because the spectrum availability at each ad hoc node is quite different and dynamic due to the interference between and coexistence of primary users. In this paper, we propose a novel CCC selection protocol that is implemented in a distributed way according to the appearance patterns of primary systems and connectivity among nodes. The proposed protocol minimizes the possibility of CCC disruption by primary user activities and maximizes node connectivity when the control channel is set up. It also facilitates adaptive recovery of the control channel when the primary user is detected on that channel.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.119-125
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• 2016

인지 무선 기술은 보조 사용자가 (SUs) 주 사용자 (PUs)에 간섭을 주지 않고 기회주의적 방식으로 라이선스 스펙트럼을 사용할 수 있는 기술이다. 인지 라디오의 핵심 기술은 스펙트럼 센싱이다. 그러나 인지 무선 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율적인 스펙트럼 센싱 기법에 대한 연구는 많지 않다. 본 논문에서는 클러스터 기반의 인지 무선 센서 네트워크를 위한 에너지 효율적인 협력 스펙트럼 센싱 노드 선택 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법에서, 허위 경보 확률 및 에너지 소비를 최적화하기 위하여 클러스터 내 스펙트럼 센싱 노드들의 수를 최소화하게 된다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 최적의 스펙트럼 센싱 노드 수를 적용하므로 스펙트럼 센싱 효율성이 향상되었고, 또한 네트워크의 에너지 효율성도 보장된 것을 검증하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.36-45
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• 2020

A priority-based data communication approach, developed by employing cognitive radio capacity for sensor nodes in a wireless terrestrial sensor network (TSN), has been proposed. Data sensed by a sensor node-an unlicensed user-were prioritized, taking sensed data importance into account. For data of equal priority, a first come first serve algorithm was used. Non-preemptive priority scheduling was adopted, in order not to interrupt any ongoing transmissions. Licensed users used a nonpersistent, slotted, carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) technique, while unlicensed sensor nodes used a nonpersistent CSMA technique for lossless data transmission, in an energy-restricted, TSN environment. Depending on the analytical model, the proposed wireless TSN environment was simulated using Riverbed software, and to analyze sensor network performance, delay, energy, and throughput parameters were examined. Evaluating the proposed approach showed that the average delay for sensed, high priority data was significantly reduced, indicating that maximum throughput had been achieved using wireless sensor nodes with cognitive radio capacity.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.683-694
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• 2017

Several studies have focused on multimedia transmission over wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we propose a comprehensive and robust model to transmit images over cognitive radio WSNs (CRWSNs). We estimate the spectrum sensing frequency and evaluate its impact on the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). To enhance the PSNR, we attempt to maximize the number of pixels delivered to the receiver. To increase the probability of successful image transmission within the maximum allowed time, we minimize the average number of packets remaining in the send buffer. We use both single- and multi-channel transmissions by focusing on critical transmission events, namely hand-off (HO), No-HO, and timeout events. We deploy our advanced updating method, the dynamic parameter updating procedure, to guarantee the dynamic adaptation of model parameters to the events. In addition, we introduce our ranking method, named minimum remaining packet best channel selection, to enable us to rank and select the best channel to improve the system performance. Finally, we show the capability of our proposed image scrambling and filtering approach to achieve noticeable PSNR improvement.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권3호
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• pp.247-254
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• 2014

무선 멀티미디어 센서 네트워크는 이미지 센서나 마이크 센서에 의해 주기적으로 생성된 멀티미디어 데이터를 효율적으로 전송하기 위해서 가장 적합한 채널을 선택하는 것이 중요하다. 대부분의 기존 연구에서는 무선 센서 네트워크가 사용할 채널을 미리 고정하는 경우가 많았지만, 주파수 부족 문제가 심각한 현실에서는 특정 채널을 고정적으로 사용한다는 것이 다양한 환경을 지원하는데 큰 제약이 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 개선하기 위해서 기존 무선 인지 라디오 네트워크(Cognitive radio network)에서 사용하는 공통 제어 채널 없이 두 노드가 서로 사용 가능한 채널을 찾기 위한 방식을 도입하였다. 또한 기존 방식의 문제점으로 사용하는 채널수가 늘어날수록 성능이 크게 저하됨을 보이고, 이를 개선하기 위해 새로운 방식을 제안하였다. 따라서 제안 방식은 네트워크의 노드 밀도가 증가할수록 다른 방식에 비해 30% 이상 빠르게 링크를 설정할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.4367-4386
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• 2015

The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has shed new light on WSN technologies. MAC protocol issues improving the network performance are important in WSNs because of the increase in demand for various applications to secure spectrum resources. Cognitive radio (CR) technology is regarded as a solution to the problems in this future wireless network. In recent years, energy efficiency has become an issue in CR networks. However, few relevant studies have been conducted. In this paper, an energy-efficient non-overlapping channel MAC (ENC-MAC) for CR-enabled sensor networks (CRSNs) is proposed. Applying the dedicated control channel approach, ENC-MAC allows the SUs to utilize channels in a non-overlapping manner, and thus spectrum efficiency is improved. Moreover, the cooperative spectrum sensing that allows an SU to use only two minislots in the sensing phase is addressed to en-hance energy efficiency. In addition, an analytical model for evaluating the performance, such as saturation throughput, average packet delay, and network lifetime, is developed. It is shown in our results that ENC-MAC remarkably outperforms existing MAC protocols.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1097-1114
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• 2021

The primary objective of this work was to discover a solution for the survival of people in an emergency flood. The geographical information was obtained from remote sensing techniques. Through helpline numbers, people who are in need request support. Although, it cannot be ensured that all the people will acquire the facility. A proper link is required to communicate with people who are at risk in affected areas. Mobile sensor networks with field-programmable gate array (FPGA) self-configurable radios were deployed in damaged areas for communication. Ad-hoc networks do not have a centralized structure. All the mobile nodes deploy a temporary structure and they act as a base station. The mobile nodes are involved in searching the spectrum for channel utilization for better communication. FPGA-based techniques ensure seamless communication for the survivors. Timely help will increase the survival rate. The received signal strength is a vital factor for communication. Cognitive radio ensures channel utilization in an effective manner which results in better signal strength reception. Frequency band selection was carried out with the help of the GRA-MADM method. In this study, an analysis of signal strength for different mobile sensor nodes was performed. FPGA-based implementation showed enhanced outcomes compared to software-based algorithms.