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A Priority Based Transmission Control Scheme Considering Remaining Energy for Body Sensor Network

  • Encarnacion, Nico;Yang, Hyunho
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2015
  • Powering wireless sensors with energy harvested from the environment is coming of age due to the increasing power densities of both storage and harvesting devices and the electronics performing energy efficient energy conversion. In order to maximize the functionality of the wireless sensor network, minimize missing packets, minimize latency and prevent the waste of energy, problems like congestion and inefficient energy usage must be addressed. Many sleep-awake protocols and efficient message priority techniques have been developed to properly manage the energy of the nodes and to minimize congestion. For a WSN that is operating in a strictly energy constrained environment, an energy-efficient transmission strategy is necessary. In this paper, we present a novel transmission priority decision scheme for a heterogeneous body sensor network composed of normal nodes and an energy harvesting node that acts as a cluster head. The energy harvesting node's decision whether or not to clear a normal node for sending is based on a set of metrics which includes the energy harvesting node's remaining energy, the total harvested energy, the type of message in a normal node's queue and finally, the implementation context of the wireless sensor network.

Design of Tapered Slot Antenna for UWB Communications (UWB 통신을 위한 테이퍼드 슬롯 안테나 설계)

  • Kim, Sun-Woong;Choi, Dong-You
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.64-69
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we have proposed a tapered slot antenna for UWB communication system. The tapered slot antenna has directional radiation and broad bandwidth. Proposed tapered slot antenna is designed using Ansys Inc. HFSS and its VSWR, return los, and radiation pattern is analyzed. Operating band of the antenna were satisfied -10 dB S11 and $VSWR{\leq}2$ in 2.7 ~ 4.8 GHz band. The radiation pattern of the antenna is showed in E-plane (YZ plane) and the H-plane (XZ plane) and the highest gain of 7.3 dBi is seen at 4.5 GHz. Therefore, proposed tapered slot antenna has wide bandwidth characteristic and directional for location awareness.

Color image restoration for a single-CCD color camcorder system (단일 CCD 컬러 캠코더 시스템을 위한 컬러 영상복원)

  • Na, Woon;Park, Yong-Cheol;Paik, Joon-Ki
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.1398-1415
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    • 1996
  • Instead of using three charge-coupled devices (CCDs) for the corresponding color channels, most consumer's most consummer's color macmorders reconstruct color images by using only one CCD with a color filter array (CFA), which periodically samples different color signals. By this reson the resulting image cannot produce the full resolution of the input image. More sepecifically, a single-CCD color camcorder reconstructs red, greed, and blue color channels from a color filter array followed by a CCD. During the reconstruction process, color cross-talk among channels (interchannel distortion) and eriodically space-verying blur (intrachannel distortion) occur. The proposed restoration system reduces distortions due to interchannel interference, and then restores each color channel by removing the corresponding intrachannel distortion. Experimental results show that the proposedsystem provides the improved image in oth objective and subjective senses. A major advantage of the proposed system is feasible to real-time image improvement because it can be implemented by a finite impulse response (FIR) filter structure.

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The Correlation Parameters and the Optimization of a PN Sequence Phase for Variable Spreading Gain (VSG) Multi-Rate DS/CDMA System (멀티레이트 서비스를 지원하는 VSG-DS/C음 시스템에서의 PN 시퀀스 상관 파라미터 특성과 최적화)

  • 이연우;김응배;차균현
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.25 no.1A
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we evaluate the correlation properties and the optimization of PN sequence phase for multi-media DS/CDMA system with variable spreading gain (VSG) scheme. In multi-media multi-rate DS/CDMA systems, the optimization of PN sequence phase is not a tractable problem, since the sequences should be optimized against both sequences of the same length and other sequences with different length. Hence, we verify the correlation properties of PN sequence phase in multi-rate system environment and furthermore, we propose the new phase criterion, MIN-AIP (minimum-average interference parameter), to minimize the bit error rate (BER). As the results of performance evaluations, it is shown that the performance of MIN-AIP criteria gives the best results.

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SPMC-MAC : Slim Preamble Multi-Channel MAC Protocol with Transmission Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서 네트워크에서 다중 채널과 전송세기 제어를 이용한 맥 프로토콜)

  • Yoon, Jang-Muk;Bahk, Sae-Woong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.10B
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    • pp.876-884
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we propose an asynchronous MAC protocol to minimize energy usage and to maximize data throughput for a wireless sensor network in multi channel environments. Our proposed SPMC-MAC (Slim Preamble Multi-Channel Media Access Control) adopts the preamble sliming mechanism proposed in [6] that takes advantage of the knowledge about the wakeup time of the receiver node. The preamble contains the receiver's ID and a randomly selected channel ID for data communication, and it is transmitted over a dedicated common channel. The power control has the benefit of keeping an appropriate number of nodes with the communication range, resulting in reduced collision and interference. We compare our SPMC-MAC and X-MAC extensively in terms of energy consumption and throughput using mathematical analysis and simulation.

A Study on the Development of IPMG for Multimedia Service with the Convergence of Broadcasting and Communications (통신방송의 융합형 멀티미디어 서비스를 지원하는 IPMG(IP Media Gateway) 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Kwang-Hyun;Won, Heon;Cho, Yok-Yon;Kim, Hyun-Cheol;Ahn, Kwang-Yong
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.45-46
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    • 2007
  • In order to go digital broadcasting in Korea, it is conducted various policies in the country which be expanded network, be increased digital broadcasting hours. And broadcasting stations in the country close down analog broadcasting until 2012. Moreover IPTV is a method of delivering broadcast television and on-demand, rich media content that uses an IP(Internet protocol network) as the medium. And an IP is regarded as a very favorable approach for the future "Medium for Digital TV". However It is not easy to replace the entire digital infrastructure. And there are some problems in the digital infrastructure for Digital TV(i.e. channel zapping delay). Moreover user require service. IPMG is to solve these problems. IPMG is digital converter that allows receive and transmit signal by using many kinds of medium for Digital TV. Moreover IPMG provides users a Network PVR service. In this paper we developing, manufacturing IPMG and analyze its performance.

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Handoff Management for Mobile Devices in Hybrid Wireless Data Networks

  • Inayat Riaz;Aibara Reiji;Nishimura Kouji
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.76-86
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    • 2005
  • Today's wireless access networks consist of several tiers that overlap each other. Provisioning of real time undisrupted communication to mobile users, anywhere and anytime through these heterogeneous overlay networks, is a challenging task. We extend the end-to-end approach for the handoff management in hybrid wireless data network by designing a fully mobile-controlled handoff for mobile devices equipped with dual mode interfaces. By handoff, we mean switching the communication between interfaces connected to different subnets. This mobile-controlled handoff scheme reduces the service disruption time during both horizontal and vertical handoffs and does not require any modification in the access networks. We exploit the IP diversity created by the dual interfaces in the overlapping area by simultaneously connecting to different subnets and networks. Power saving is achieved by activating both interfaces only during the handoff period. The performance evaluation of the handoff is carried out by a simple mathematical analysis. The analysis shows that with proper network engineering, exploiting the speed of mobile node and overlapping area between subnets can reduce service disruption and power consumption during handoff significantly. We believe that with more powerful network interfaces our proposal of dual interfaces can be realized.

Overlay Multicast Tree Construction Algorithm for Synchronized Real-time Media Multicast Service over the Internet (동기화된 실시간 미디어 멀티캐스트 서비스에 적합한 오버레이 멀티캐스트 트리 구성 알고리즘)

  • Joo, Hyun-Chul;Song, Hwang-Jun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.31 no.11A
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    • pp.1037-1043
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    • 2006
  • This work presents an effective overlay multicast tree construction algorithm for synchronized real-time media multicast service over the Internet. The proposed algorithm is designed to minimize delay variance among group members to provide the synchronized service as well as average delay of group members in order to support the service in real-time. Basically, of orthogonal genetic algorithm is employed to obtain the near optimal tree with a low computational complexity since the given problem is NP-complete. Finally, experimental results are provided to show the superior performance of the proposed algorithm.

On-Demand Power-Efficient QoS Routing Algorithm over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET에서의 온-디멘드 방식의 전력 효율적인 QoS 라우팅 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Zae-Kwun;Song, Hwang-Jun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.32 no.9A
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    • pp.923-930
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents MAPER, a media-aware power efficient routing algorithm over mobile ad hoc networks. Generally, multimedia services need various quality of service over the network according to their characteristics and applications. But it is not easy to guarantee quality of service over mobile ad hoc networks since the resources are very limited and time-varying. Furthermore only a limited power is available at mobile nodes, which makes the problem more challenging. Now, we propose an effective routing algorithm over mobile ad hoc networks that provides the stable end-to-end quality of service with the minimum total power consumption. Finally, experimental results are provided to show the performance of the proposed algorithm.

A Study on Fluid Identity in Digital Contents (디지털콘텐츠를 위한 플루이드 아이덴티티 연구)

  • Kim, Hak Min
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.201-212
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study are to show a new possibility of identity design to be used as tools of users identity expression, designing digital contents by studying on the methods to express users identities successfully in the digital contents design, and to present the possibility to expand the area of identity design. Digital contents are a communication media in it self, but this study tried to consider the digital contents as a tool of users communication or expression. The identity expression, which are not only makes communications efficient but also lets products and companies acknowledged by users, is one of the most indispensable factors in products competitive power in both the present and the future. However, no define methods of identity expression are settled as well as recognized by users properly and accurately yet, so that this study focuses on that point. Therefore, This study is advanced in the direction of establishing the concept of digital identity for an expansion of the media toward the identity expression in design as well as making researchers in successful identity expression ways by means of actual design, more than a graphic image making that simply decorates a digital contents. The point of this study is to show a new concept of identity design that expresses users identities so as to suggest another possibility of identity design.