• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.259-264
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• 2014

IEEE 802.15.4 has been emerging as the popular choice for various monitoring and control applications. In this paper, a fault management system for DC power-lines has been designed using IEEE 802.15.4, in order to monitor DC power-lines in real time, and to rapidly detect faults and shut off the line where such faults occur. Numbers were allocated for each node and unslotted CSMA-CA method of IEEE 802.15.4 was used, the performance of which was analyzed by a simulation. For such purpose, a total of 60 bits of the control data consisting of 16 bits of the current, 16 bits of the amplitude, 28 bits of the terminal state data were sent out, and the packet transfer rate and the transmission delay time of the fault management system for DC power-lines were measured and analyzed. When the traffic load was 330 packets per second or lower, the average delay time was shown to be shorter than 0.02 seconds, and when the traffic load was 260 packets per second or lower, the packet transfer rate was shown to be 99.99% or higher. Therefore, it was confirmed that the stringent condition of US Department of Energy (DOE) could be satisfied if the traffic load was 260 packets per second or lower, The results of this study can be utilized as basic data for the establishment of the fault management system for DC power-lines using IEEE 802.15.4.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.160-162
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• 2006

In this paper, a heterogeneous home network is designed and implemented based on the PLC (power line communications) and the IEEE 802.15.4. This paper presents the need of the heterogeneous home network and the convergence sub-layer. The convergence sub-layer is designed and implemented on the Xelline power line communication modem with IEEE 802.15.4 communication module.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.510-516
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• 2010

In this paper, a dynamic GTS allocation method of wireless control networks is proposed for the use of factory automation using IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol. A superframe of IEEE 802.15.4 is applied to the transmission method of real-time periodic I/O data of wireless control systems within the limited time in factory environment. The method is proposed for efficient transmission of real-time periodic I/O traffic. The simulation results show the average network utilization and available I/O node numbers could be increased by the proposed method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.18-26
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• 2008

In this paper, dynamic GTS scheduling method based on IEEE 802.15.4 is proposed for wireless control system considering reliability and real-time property. The proposed methods can guarantee a transmission of real-time periodic and sporadic data within the limited time frame in factory environment. The superframe of IEEE 802.15.4 is used for the dynamic transmission method of real-time mixed traffic (periodic data, sporadic data, and non real-time message). By separating CFP and CAP properly, the periodic, sporadic, and non real-time messages are transmitted effectively and guarantee real-time transmission within a deadline. The simulation results show the improvement of real-time performance of periodic and sporadic data at the same time.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.2857-2863
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• 2014

IR-UWB has been developed as a standard of indoor ranging technology, because it has robust and good transmission characteristics in indoor environments and it can be operated with low power. In this paper, a IR-UWB packet analyzer is designed and implemented based on IEEE 802.15.4a, which is useful in developing IR-UWB real time location system with resolution of a few ten centimeters. A sniffer device of the packet analyzer monitors IR-UWB wireless networks, captures MAC packet frames, and transmits packet frames to the packet analyzing computer. The packet analyzing program in a computer analyzes received MAC packet frames and displays parsed packet information for developing engineers. Developed packet analyzer is used to analyze IEEE 802.15.4a MAC protocol, and also it can be used in other IEEE 802 series MAC protocol by modifying some functions.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 2018

This paper explores the reliability issue especially associated with the time-division synchronous communication when a networking stack is implemented using software timers provided by embedded operating systems. Especially, we explore the reliability of beacon synchronization of IEEE 802.15.4. Our experiments based on its practical implementation clearly show that processing delays or losses of hardware timer interrupts used for software timers lead to occasional failures in beacon synchronization. To avoid such failures, we suggest a reception time compensation scheme that turns on the receiver earlier than expected.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1108-1130
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• 2013

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are becoming increasingly important to solve the issue of health care. IEEE 802.15.6 is a wireless communication standard for WBANs, aiming to provide a real-time and continuous monitoring. In this paper, we present our development of a modified Markov Chain model and a backoff model, in which most features such as user priorities, contention windows, modulation and coding schemes (MCSs), and frozen states are taken into account. Then we calculate the normalized throughput and average access delay of IEEE 802.15.6 networks under saturation and ideal channel conditions. We make an evaluation of network performances by comparing with IEEE 802.15.4 and the results validate that IEEE 802.15.6 networks can provide high quality of service (QoS) for nodes with high priorities.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1558-1562
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• 2005

This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless home network system using Home Network Control Protocol (HNCP) called the wireless HNCP home network system. For wireless interfaces of HNCP, IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.15.4 standard protocols are considered. With the implementation of the wireless HNCP home network system, a simple analysis about coexistence between IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.15.4 is achieved. Through the implemented wireless HNCP home network system and the analytical results about the coexistence between both two different wireless protocols, the feasibility of the wireless HNCP home network system is shown.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1214-1219
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• 2010

In this paper, a software radio system, supporting the physical layer of IEEE 802.15.4 standard, has been developed using USRP(Universal Software Radio Peripheral) board and GNU Radio package of an open source development kit for software radio. The software radio system supports the standards of BPSK and OQPSK modulations for 868/915 MHz band and OQPSK modulation for 2.45 GHz band. To verify the operation of the developed system, it has been tested under the standard signals according to the frequency band and packet structures for the transmitting and receiving operation. At 2.4 GHz, the Smart RF EV board and CC2430 modules are used to check the proper operation of the software radio system. The system performance test shows that the emission power spectrum, the eye-pattern, and PER(Packet Error Rate) meet the standard. It has been confirmed that the developed system supports the PHY layer of IEEE 802.15.4.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1215-1218
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• 2008

IEEE 802.15.4 기반의 무선 센서 네트워크는 다양한 종류의 센서들로 구성된다. 이러한 센서들은 각각 다양한 주기들로 중심 노드에게 데이터를 전송하고자 한다. 슈퍼프레임마다의 주기적인 전송을 위해 IEEE 802.15.4에서는 GTS(Guaranteed Time Slot) 메커니즘을 제공한다. 하지만 하나의 센서 네트워크에서 슈퍼프레임 길이는 모두 동일하기 때문에 이보다 긴 주기를 갖는 센서들은 GTS를 할당받고도 데이터를 전송하지 않는 경우가 발생할 수 있다. 때문에 IEEE 802.15.4의 GTS 메커니즘에서는 낮은 사용 효율의 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문은 이러한 문제를 보완하고자 주기적 GTS 할당 방법(PGTS: Periodic Guaranteed Time Slot)을 제안한다. 주기적 GTS 할당 방법에서는 단말들이 GTS 요청 시 자신의 데이터 전송 주기를 PAN 코디네이터에게 보고하고, PAN 코디네이터는 이를 고려하여 단말의 주기에 따른 슈퍼프레임에서만 GTS 구간을 할당한다. 이를 통해 주기적 GTS 할당 방법은 기존 GTS 할당 방법보다 대역의 낭비를 줄여 GTS를 효율적으로 사용가능하도록 하고 더 많은 수의 단말들에게 GTS를 배정할 수 있게 한다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 주기적 GTS 할당 방법이 IEEE 802.15.4의 GTS 할당 방법보다 효율적이며 더 많은 수의 단말에게 GTS를 할당할 수 있음을 확인하였다.