• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Communications for mobile sink groups such as rescue teams or platoons bring about a new challenging issue for handling mobility in wireless sensor networks. To do this, many studies have been proposed to support mobile sink groups. When closely looking at mobile sink groups, they can be divided into (multiple) small groups according to the property of applications. For example, a platoon can be divided into multiple squads to carry out its mission in the battle field. However, the previous studies cannot efficiently support the division of mobile sink groups because they do not address three challenging issues engendered by the mobile sink group division. The first issue is to select a leader sink for a new small mobile sink group. The efficient data delivery from a source to small mobile sink groups is the second issue. Last, the third issue is to share data between leader sinks of small mobile sink groups. Thus, this paper proposes a routing protocol to efficiently support the division of mobile sink groups by solving the three challenging issues. For the first issue, the proposed protocol selects a leader sink of a new small mobile sink group which provide a minimum summation of the distance between the new leader sink and the previous leader sink and the distance from the new leader sink to all of its member sinks. For the efficient data delivery from a source to small mobile sink groups in the second issue, the proposed protocol determines the path to minimize the data dissemination distance from source to small mobile sink group by calculating with the location information of both the source and the leader sinks. With regard to the third issue, the proposed protocol exploits member sinks located among leader sinks to provide efficient data sharing among leaders sinks by considering the location information of member sinks. Simulation results verified that the proposed protocol is superior to the previous protocol in terms of the energy consumption.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.239-246
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• 2017

Communications for mobile sink groups such as rescue teams or platoons bring about a new challenging issue for handling group mobility in wireless sensor networks. Recently, a group region-based approach has been proposed to send data to a mobile sink group. However, it uses excessive flooding for 3 steps (group region discovery, region information notification, and data dissemination) to support mobile sink group. Thus, it causes high energy consumption and data delivery failure. Moreover, its per-sink mobility supporting scheme makes energy consumption and data delivery failure more serious. Thus, this paper proposes an Energy-efficient and Reliable Mobile Group communication protocol (ERMG) to support a mobile sink group, which exploits a virtual grid structure. For the group region discover and notification and the data dissemination, ERMG uses communications with only cell heads of grid cells that manages group sinks. ERMG also uses a per-grid based scheme to support sink mobility. Simulation results show that ERMG has 30% less energy consumption and 6% more desired delivery deadline success ratio than the existing protocols.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1431-1439
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a new location service and location-based routing for data dissemination from a source to a mobile group sink in less energy consumption of the sensor node. Unlike the existing protocols, the proposed protocol uses a leader sink instead of a group area as the location information to represent a mobile sink group. The proposed protocol also uses grid leaders on virtual grid structure to support sink mobility in location service. By using a leader sink as a representative and grid leaders for mobility supporting, the proposed protocol can exploit an efficient hierarchical location service and data dissemination method without using flooding. Accordingly, the proposed protocol carries out upper layer location services and data dissemination between a leader sink and a source and lower layer location services and data dissemination between the leader sink and member sinks. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed protocol achieves energy-efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.539-540
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• 2021

In this paper, we consider the management scheme of the crowd group in the sensor networks. In the case of the networks searching the critical area, the operation of crowd group can affect the mission implement. The mobile sink system leading the group networks can change the network configuration as the dangerous data gathered from group sensor nodes. The dynamic network management provides the important role to the mission of mobile sink to react the dangerous environments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.1
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• pp.63-71
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• 2013

In order to support mobility for sink groups, it is important to get the current location of a mobile sink group and then to offer the location to a source. Typically, previous works calculate a region including all member sinks by flooding; then, it notifies this region information to a source. However, flooding and location updates are periodically performed regardless of the group movement so that it causes considerable control overhead. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient scheme supporting mobile sink groups. The proposed scheme obtains a location of a group without flooding. It exploits the inherent property of mobile sink groups which could approximate entire group movement by only partial member sinks movement. Also, the scheme learns group location by back-propagation learning method through exploiting overhearing feature in wireless communication environment. Our simulation studies show that the proposed scheme significantly improves in terms of energy consumption compared to the previous work.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.541-542
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• 2021

In this paper, we consider the straggled network treatment in multiple sensor groups. During the moving or the implement of mission, the departed network should be handled. The loss of network group affects the mission implement of overall sensor networks, and it also requests the immediate treatment. In urgent mission environments, the network management of mobile sink should be considered to the group damage.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.6A
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• pp.617-625
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• 2011

In wireless sensor networks, data dissemination protocols have been proposed for mobile sink groups that are characterized by geographically staying closely and collective movement. They usually exploit flooding technology for mobility supporting and data delivery guarantee. However, it causes the excessive energy consumption of all sensor nodes in the group region due to data delivery participation. Moreover, the costs of the flooding would become higher in proportional to the group region. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient data dissemination scheme that resolves these problems. The virtual infrastructure called a 'pipe' is used as a rendezvous area. A source delivers data to the pipe, from which member sinks in the group retrieve it directly. Simulation results showed that this solution has better performance than existing protocols in terms of energy consumption as it reduces the number of regional flooding and eliminates unnecessary data flooding.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2017

Recently, the active research into wireless sensor networks has led to the development of sensor nodes with improved performance, including their mobility and location awareness. One of the most important goals of such sensor networks is to transmit the data generated by mobile sensors nodes. Since these sensor nodes move in the mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs), the energy consumption required for them to transmit the sensed data to the fixed sink is increased. In order to solve this problem, the use of mobile sinks to collect the data while moving inside the network is studied herein. The important issues are the mobility and energy consumption in MWSNs. Because of the sensor nodes' limited energy, their energy consumption for data transmission affects the lifetime of the network. In this paper, a mobile-sink based energy-efficient clustering scheme is proposed for use in mobile wireless sensor networks (MECMs). The proposed scheme improves the energy efficiency when selecting a new cluster head according to the mobility of the mobile sensor nodes. In order to take into consideration the mobility problem, this method divides the entire network into several cluster groups based on mobile sinks, thereby decreasing the overall energy consumption. Through both analysis and simulation, it was shown that the proposed MECM is better than previous clustering methods in mobile sensor networks from the viewpoint of the network energy efficiency.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.237-246
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• 2011

Robots have been used in many fields due to its performance improvement and variety of its functionality, to the extent which robots can replace human tasks. Individual feature and better performance of robots are expected and required to be created. As their performances and functions have increased, systems have gotten more complicated. Multi mobile robots can perform complex tasks with simple robot system and algorithm. But multi mobile robots face much more complex driving problem than singular driving. To solve the problem, in this study, driving algorithm based on the energy method is applied to the individual robot in a group. This makes a cluster be in a formation automatically and suggests a cluster the automatic driving method so that they stably arrive at the target. The energy method mentioned above is applying attractive force and repulsive force to a special target, other robots or obstacles. This creates the potential energy, and the robot is controlled to drive in the direction of decreasing energy, which basically satisfies lyapunov function. Through this method, a cluster robot is able to create a formation and stably arrives at its target.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.116-119
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• 2016

무선 센서 망에서 모바일 싱크 그룹에게 데이터를 전송하기 위한 Mobile Geocasting에 관한 연구가 진행되었다. Mobile Geocasting에서, 싱크 그룹의 지역에 싱크들에게 데이터를 전송하기 위해 유니캐스팅과 플러딩의 두 가지 접근 방식이 있다. 에너지 효율성의 관점에서, 유니캐스팅은 분산된 적은 수의 분산된 싱크들에게 효율적인 전송 방식이고, 반면에 플러딩은 다수의 밀집된 싱크들에게 효율적인 전송 방식이다. 하지만, 이 두 가지 방식은 모두 너무 극단적으로 보수적인 방법이기 때문에, 그룹 지역 내에 싱크들이 전체적으로는 분산적이지만 부분적으로는 밀집하게 분포된 일반적인 상황들을 지원하기는 어렵다. 그러므로, 본 논문은 일반적인 분포를 가지는 이동 싱크 그룹을 효율적으로 지원하기 위한 유니캐스팅과 플러딩을 통합하는 하이브리드 방안을 제안한다. 제안 방안은 그룹 지역내에 분산된 싱크들을 위해서는 개별적 유니캐스팅과 밀집된 싱크들에게는 부분적 플러딩을 이용한다. 부분적 플러딩 지역을 도출하기 위해, 제안 방안은 하나의 수학적 모델을 제시한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안 방안이 기존의 방안들보다 에너지 소비 관점에서 더 효율적임을 증명한다.