• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.18-25
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• 2014

A implanted sensor's error probability is more likely to external sensor's error probability by biological characteristic in WBAN. In this paper, we present method that external sensor transmits frame instead of doing implanted sensor's retransmission for improving lifetime of implanted sensors in WBAN. The proposed method, LI(Lifetime Increment) protocol is to add external sensor's id in transmission data frame of a implanted sensor. When the retransmission is required, external sensor that have to registered id in data frame retransmits frame instead of implanted sensors' retransmission. The comparison result shows that the proposed protocol reduces power consumption and improves life time.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.6C
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• pp.476-482
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• 2012

In this paper, we analyze and compare several co-channel interference mitigation algorithms for WBAN application in 2.4 GHz ISM frequency bands. ML (Maximum Likelihood), OC (Optimal Combining) and MMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error) has been considered for the possible techniques for interference cancellation in view of the trade off between the performance and the complexity of implementation. Based on the channel model of IEEE 802.15.6 standard, simulation results show that ML and OC attains the lower BER performance than that of MMSE if we assume the perfect channel estimation. But, ML and OC have the additional requirement of implementation for his own and other users's channel estimation process, hence, besides the BER performance, the complexity of implementation and the sensitivity to channel estimation error should be considered since it requires the simple and small sized equipment for WBAN system application. In addition, the gap of detection BER performance between ML, OC and MMSE is much decreased under the imperfect channel estimation if we adopt real channel estimation process, therefore, in order to apply to WBAN system, the trade off between the BER performance and complexity of implemetation should be seriously considered to decide the best co-channel interference cancellation for WBAN system application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.333-336
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• 2012

본 논문은 2.4GHz 대역을 사용하는 WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network)환경에서 동일 채널을 사용하는 경우에 발생하는 간섭을 제거하기 위해 MMSE(Minimum Mean Square Error), OC(Optimal Combining), ML(Maximum Likelihood)을 비교 분석하였으며, IEEE 802.15.6에서 정의된 시나리오 및 채널 모델에 대해서 분석하였다. 모의실험 결과 ML 알고리즘이 가장 우수한 성능을 나타내는 것을 알 수 있었다. 하지만 ML과 OC의 경우 원하는 신호의 채널 정보뿐만 아니라 간섭채널의 정보를 알아야 하기 때문에 채널을 추정하기 위한 훈련 심볼의 자리를 수신노드에서 알고 있어야 하므로 WBAN환경에 적용하는데 어려움이 있다. 따라서 복잡도와 성능사이에 적당한 trade-off를 만족하는 간섭 제거 알고리즘을 연구해야 할 것이다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.56-63
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• 2012

The WBAN technology means a short distance wireless network which provides each device interactive communication by connecting devices inside and outside of body. Standardization on the physical layer, data link layer, network layer and application layer is in progress by IEEE 802.15.6 TG BAN. Wireless body area network is usually configured in energy efficient using sensor and zigbee device due to the power limitation and the characteristics of human body. Wireless sensor network consist of sensor field and sink node. Sensor field are composed a lot of sensor node and sink node collect sensing data. Wireless sensor network has capacity of the self constitution by protocol where placed in large area without fixed position. Mobile sink node distribute energy consumption therefore network life time was increased than fixed sink node. The energy efficient is important matter in wireless body area network because energy resource was limited on sensor node. In this paper we proposed cluster topology algorithm for efficient data transmission in wireless body area network based mobile sink. The proposed algorithm show good performance under the advantage of grid routing protocol and TDMA scheduling that minimized overlap area on cluster and reduced amount of data on cluster header in error prone wireless sensor network based on mobile sink.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.16-27
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• 2017

IEEE 802.15.6 standard, a Wireless Body Area Network, aims to transfer not only medical data but also non-medical data, such as physical activity, streaming, multimedia game, living information, and entertainment. Services which transfer those data have very various data rates, intervals and frequencies of continuous access to a medium. Therefore, an efficient anti-collision operations and medium assigning operation have to be carried out when multiple nodes with different data rates are accessing shared medium. IEEE 802.15.6 standard for CSMA/CA medium access control method distributes access to the shared medium, transmits a control packet to avoid collision and checks status of the channel. This method is energy inefficient and causes overhead. These disadvantages conflict with the low power, low cost calculation requirement of wireless body area network, shall minimize such overhead for efficient wireless body area network operations. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a medium access scheduling scheme, which adjusts the time interval for accessing to the shared transmission medium according to the amount of data for generating respective sensor node, and a priority control algorithm, which temporarily adjusts the priority of the sensor node that causes transmission concession due to the data priority until next successful transmission to ensure fairness.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1163-1166
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• 2009

전 세계적으로 유헬스 서비스에 대한 관심도가 증가함에 따라 유헬스의 핵심기술 가운데 하나인 무선통신기반의 생체신호 전송기술에 대한 연구 또한 활발히 진행되고 있다. 특히 2000년대부터 시작하여 이미 많은 연구가 진행되어 온 WPAN에서는 Zigbee, Bluetooth, UWB 등의 무선대역을 통하여 생체 신호를 전송하는 연구가 상당히 진행되어 왔으며, 최근에는 IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN에서 MICS, WMTS등과 같은 무선대역을 이용하여 생체신호를 전송하기 위한 연구를 새로이 진행하고 있다. 특히 WLAN이 무선통신기술에 있어 1세대라 하고, WPAN이 2세대라 한다면 WBAN은 3세대 무선통신기술이라고 할 만큼 새로운 시장을 형성할 것으로 예상된다. 따라서 본 고에서는 기존의 WPAN과 최근에 이슈가 되고 있는 WBAN의 무선기술을 통해 생체신호를 전송하기 위한 기술을 분석하고 향후 연구해야 할 내용에 대해 언급하기로 한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.1074-1084
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• 2016

This paper presents a transmission method for improving human body communications in terms of spectral efficiency, and the performances of bit-error-rate (BER) and frame synchronization, with a highly simplified structure. Compared to the conventional frequency selective digital transmission supporting IEEE standard 802.15.6 for wireless body area networks, the proposed scheme improves the spectral efficiency from 0.25 bps/Hz to 1 bps/Hz based on the 3-dB bandwidth of the transmit spectral mask, and the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) by 0.51 dB at a BER of $10^{-6}$ with an 87.5% reduction in the detection complexity of the length of the Hamming distance computation. The proposed preamble structure using its customized detection algorithm achieves perfect frame synchronization at the SNR of a BER of $10^{-6}$ by applying the proposed pre-processing to compensate for the distortions on the preamble signals due to the band-limit effects by transmit and receive filters.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.106-114
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• 2015

Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN) is a network standard around a human body which connects various medical sensor and devices It has to satisfy various demands such as data transmission rate, priority, and delay time. In this paper, considering a data priority and transmission delay time, is proposed to improve efficiency of WBAN service depending on congestion status of network. The proposed algorithm operates with adapted data removal probability according to data priority when the hub buffer is congested than before. And in the case of lower congestion within the hub buffer data is served considering data delay time. Through the comparison with other existing scheduling algorithms, it is confirmed that quality of WBAN service is improved due to lower data loss rate of medical data and less delay time in the proposed algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2302-2322
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• 2012

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are introduced as an enabling technology in tele-health for patient monitoring. Designing an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is the main challenge in WBANs because of their various applications and strict requirements such as low level of energy consumption, low transmission delay, the wide range of data rates and prioritizing emergency data. In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol to provide different requirements of WBANs targeted for medical applications. The proposed MAC provides an efficient emergency response mechanism by considering the correlation between medical signals. It also reduces the power consumption of nodes by minimizing contention access, reducing the probability of the collision and using an efficient synchronization algorithm. In addition, the proposed MAC protocol increases the data rate of the nodes by allocating the resources according to the condition of the network. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed MAC protocol outperforms IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol in terms of power consumption level as well as the average response delay. Also, the comparison results of the proposed MAC with IEEE 802.15.6 MAC protocol show a tradeoff between average response delay and medical data rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.429-431
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a low-power hibernation technique (LHT) for WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical MAC to improve its energy efficiency. Simulation results show that the LHT also integrate WUSB transactions and WBAN traffic efficiently while it achieves high energy efficiency.