• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.39-43
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• 2006

In this paper, we proposed TASL-MAC, a medium-access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks. In wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes are usually deployed in a special environment, are assigned with long-term work, and are supported by a limited battery. As such, reducing the energy consumption becomes the primary concern with regard to wireless sensor networks. At the same time, reducing the latency in multi-hop data transmission is also very important. In the existing research, sensor nodes are expected to be switched to the sleep mode in order to reduce energy consumption. However, the existing proposals tended to assign the sensors with a fixed Sleep/Listening schedule, which causes unnecessary idle listening problems and conspicuous transmission latency due to the diversity of the traffic-load in the network. TASL-MAC is designed to dynamically adjust the duty listening time based on traffic load. This protocol enables the node with a proper data transfer rate to satisfy the application's requirements. Meanwhile, it can lead to much greater power efficiency by prolonging the nodes' sleeping time when the traffic. We evaluate our implementation of TASL-MAC in NS-2. The evaluation result indicates that our proposal could explicitly reduce packet delivery latency, and that it could also significantly prolong the lifetime of the entire network when traffic is low.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.207-212
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• 2015

Wi-Fi Direct allows battery powered mobile devices to form a wireless ad hoc network. Since one member of the network called Group Owner (GO) takes the role of managing the network, the network lifetime is mainly affected by the energy efficiency of GO. Hence, Wi-Fi Direct defines power saving schemes that allow GO to save the energy by turning off its radio interface during the periods called absence periods. However, the Wi-Fi Direct specification does not specify how to set parameters (denoted by PS parameters) determining the schedule of the absence periods. In this paper, we therefore propose a novel traffic-aware power saving scheme for Wi-Fi Direct networks. In particular, the proposed scheme estimates the application-level traffic load and adaptively tunes the PS parameters according to the estimated value.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2005

Recently, RFID/USN is one of fundamental technologies in information and communications networks. Low-Rate WPAN, IEEE802.15.4 is a low-cost communication network that allows wireless connectivity in applications with limited Power and relaxed throughput requirements. Its applications are building automation, personal healthcare, industrial control, consumer electronics, and so on. Some applications require location information. Of course location awareness is useful to improve usability of data Low-Rate WPAN Is regarded as a key specification of the sensor network with the characteristics of wireless communication, computing, energy scavenging, self-networking, and etc. Unfortunately ZigBee alliance propose a lot of applications based on location aware technologies, but the specification and low-rate WPAN devices don't support anything about location-based services. RSSI ( Received Signal Strength indication) is for energy detection to associate, channel selection, and etc. RSSI is used to find the location of a potable device in WLAN. In this paper we studied indoor location awareness using vector matching of RSSI in low-Rate wireless PAN. We analyzed the characteristics of RSSI according to distance and experimented location awareness. We implemented sensor nodes with different shapes and configured the sensor network for the location awareness with 4 fixed nodes and a mobile node. We try to contribute developing location awareness method using RSSI in 3-dimension space.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.130-139
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• 2010

Environmental issues and the need to reduce energy consumption for lowering operating costs have pushed power efficiency to become one of the major issues of current research in the field of wireless networks. This paper addresses a number of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) precoding and scheduling techniques across the PHY and MAC layers that can operate under a reduced link budget and collectively improve the transmit power efficiency of a base station, while maintaining the same levels of service. Different MIMO transmission and precoding schemes proposed for LTE, achieving varying degrees of multiuser diversity in both the time, frequency as well as the space domain, are examined. Several fairness-aware resource allocation algorithms are applied to the considered MIMO schemes and a detailed analysis of the tradeoffs between power efficiency and quality of service is presented. This paper explicitly examines the performance of a system serving real-time, VoIP traffic under different traffic loading conditions and transmit power levels. It is demonstrated that by use of efficient scheduling and resource allocation techniques significant savings in terms of consumed energy can be achieved, without compromising QoS.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.40-48
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• 2005

A hydraulic hose is an important part of the hydraulic system which transmits power using pressurized fluids. It allows relative motion between components at each end of the hose assembly, and it is much easier to route a hose assembly than it is to bend and install a rigid tubing assembly. Unnecessary loads, which drop the hose's pressure capability and shorten service life, depend on a hose-routing. Therefore, the Hydraulic system designers must be aware to consider unnecessary load does not affect the here. For this consideration in an early stage of the design process, CAD system must support the hose assembly routing design function which is to generate routing path and design fitting angle properly. This paper proposes 2 methods. One is to generate curves that are similar to routing paths of the real hose assembly using the energy minimization method and the optimization method. The other is to design fitting angles that are important design elements of a hose assembly using the Parallel Transport Frame. To implement the proposed methods above, commercial CAD software, CATIA has been integrated with our program.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.323-325
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 거리정보에 기반을 두지 않은 방식(range-free)에서 라우팅 에너지 효율성을 고려한 ALPS(Ad hoc network Localized Positioning System) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 관련하여 기존의 대표적인 관련 연구로는 DV-Hop 알고리즘이 있다. 이는 앵커 노드와 앵커 노드사이의 미지 노드들의 거리를 홉 수로 나누어 노드 사이의 거리를 구하고 삼각측량법을 이용하여 노드의 좌표를 계산한다. 하지만 이 경우 앵커 노드와 미지노드 사이의 거리를 홉 수로 나눈 한 홉 거리가 모두 동일하다고 가정하였고, 이에 사용되는 앵커노드간의 평균 거리를 사용하여 노드간의 거리정보를 구하게 되어 각 중계노드는 고정된 경로에서만 거리 정보를 알 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안되는 ALPS 알고리즘은 계층적 클러스터 단위에 소속된 임의의 노드에 대한 위치정보를 제공하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에 따른 위치정보를 사용 할 경우 기존의 DV-hop방식에 따른 노드의 위치정보를 사용한 경우보다 보다 최적화된 에너지 소모를 유지할 수 있는 경로 알고리즘을 최종적으로 제공하는데 연구의 목적이 있다. 본 논문에서는 상기 두 가지 방식의 위치정보에 따른 라우팅에서 소모되는 에너지 관계를 비교하여 보다 최적화된 에너지 경로 알고리즘이 제공되는 결과를 검증하고 보여주고자 한다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2019

A wireless sensor network is emerging technology and intelligent wireless communication paradigm that is dynamically aware of its surrounding environment. It is also able to respond to it in order to achieve reliable and efficient communication. The dynamical cognition capability and environmental adaptability rely on organizing dynamical networks effectively. However, optimally clustering the cognitive wireless sensor networks is an NP-complete problem. The objective of this paper is to develop an optimal sensor network design for maximizing the performance. This proposed Ranking Artificial Bee Colony (RABC) is developed based on Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) with ranking strategy. The ranking strategy can make the much better solutions by combining the best solutions so far and add these solutions in the solution population when applying ABC. RABC is designed to adapt to topological changes to any network graph in a time. We can minimize the total energy dissipation of sensors to prolong the lifetime of a network to balance the energy consumption of all nodes with robust optimal solution. Simulation results show that the performance of our proposed RABC is better than those of previous methods (LEACH, LEACH-C, and etc.) in wireless sensor networks. Our proposed method is the best for the 100 node-network example when the Sink node is centrally located.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.89-98
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 스마트그리드 환경에서 적용되고 있는 ZigBee 무선 통신 환경의 주소 지정 방식과 라우팅 알고리즘의 성능을 향상시키기 위한 새로운 좌표 값 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 수천 개의 네트워크 크기와 16비트 주소 할당은 빈번한 주소 충돌로 매우 혼잡스러울 수 있다. 따라서 16비트 주소 공간을 분할하여 사용하는 (x, y, z) 좌표축 주소 구조와 라우팅을 제안한다. (x, y) 좌표축 주소 할당은 센서노드가 지리적으로 가까운 라우터에게 연결되어 있어야 하기 때문에, 어떤 라우터는 많은 수의 하위 노드를 가질 수 없다는 문제점을 가지기 때문이다. 또한 제안한 주소 구조를 사용한 위치 기반 라우팅 알고리즘을 제안한다. 그 결과 각 노드에서 라우팅 시 적은 비트 연산과 멀티 홉을 감소시킬 수 있었고, 효과적인 주소 할당과 라우팅은 네트워크의 각 노드의 에너지 소비를 최소화 했다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.1039-1049
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• 2012

The first category of Affective Domain objectives in Bloom's Taxonomy is about "Receiving". In it, the first subdivision listed is "Awareness" (Krathwohl, Bloom & Masia, 1964). Since these categories are intended to be hierarchical in ascending order of internalization, it is important that young learners be given ample opportunities in their learning experiences in class to be aware of positive values and effective life skills. This paper reports a feasibility study on the adoption of an integrative cognitive-affective learning approach in a primary school science lesson. 37 primary six students in a Singapore primary school were taught the concept of centre of gravity, including a hands-on activity to find the centre of gravity of an irregularly shaped cardboard by using a plumbline. After reviewing how a plumbline works, their teacher then led them into a discussion on the question "Who is the plumbline in your life?" a reference to identifying positive role models in their lives. From the transcript of the students' in-class sharing and their written responses to the question, it is clear that the integrative cognitive-affective learning approach did enable students to present their ideas and learning experiences in the affective domain quite readily. This conclusion provides a valuable lead to a follow-up project on whether students who are exposed to such integrative learning approaches will be more capable and more aware of identifying important positive social habits or values. If so, then the teaching of values in schools could take on a whole new dimension, that of borrowing students' learning energy in the cognitive domain to learn values and life skills in the affective domain.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 스마트폰 사용자의 실시간 상황 인식을 위한 효과적인 사운드 분류 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템은 전처리 과정에서 입력 사운드 데이터로부터 고요한 사운드와 화이트 노이즈를 미리 여과해버림으로써, 제한적인 계산 자원의 불필요한 소모를 막을 수 있다. 또한 에너지 레벨이 낮은 사운드 데이터들은 사전에 증폭시킴으로써, 이들에 대한 분류 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. 또, 제안하는 사운드 분류 시스템은 HMM 분류 모델의 효율적인 학습과 적용을 위해 k-평균 군집화를 이용하여 특징 벡터들에 대한 차원 축소와 이산화를 수행한다. 한 대학 연구동내 일상생활로부터 수집한 8가지 유형의 사운드 데이터 집합을 이용하여 제안한 시스템의 성능 분석 실험을 수행하였다. 이 실험을 통해 본 논문에서 제안한 사운드 분류 시스템은 높은 분류 성능을 보여 주었다.