• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2005년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 논문집 Vol.32 No.1 (A)
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• pp.427-429
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• 2005

Energy efficiency is the most challenging issue in wireless sensor network to prolong the life time of the network, as the sensors has to be unattended. Cluster based communication can reduce the traffic on the network and gives the opportunity to other sensors for periodic sleep and thus save energy. Passive clustering (PC) can perform a significant role to minimize the network load as it is less computational and light weight. First declaration wins method of PC without any priority generates severe collision in the network and forms the clusters very dense with large amount of overlapping region. We have proposed several modifications for the existing passive clustering algorithm to prolong the life time of the network with better cluster formation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.452-464
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• 2019

The use of wireless body area networks (WBANs) in healthcare applications has made it convenient to monitor both health personnel and patient status continuously in real time through wearable wireless sensor nodes. However, the heterogeneous and complex network structure of WBANs has some disadvantages in terms of control and management. The software-defined network (SDN) approach is a promising technology that defines a new design and management approach for network communications. In order to create more flexible and dynamic network structures in WBANs, this study uses the SDN approach. For this, a WBAN architecture based on the SDN approach with a new energy-aware routing algorithm for healthcare architecture is proposed. To develop a more flexible architecture, a controller that manages all HUBs is designed. The proposed architecture is modeled using the Riverbed Modeler software for performance analysis. The simulation results show that the SDN-based structure meets the service quality requirements and shows superior performance in terms of energy consumption, throughput, successful transmission rate, and delay parameters according to the traditional routing approach.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권8호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 에러율이 높은 무선 센서 네트워크의 수명을 연장시키기 위한 라우팅 알고리즘을 제안한다 제안하는 기법은 무선 링크의 품질을 기반으로 하여 패킷을 송수신한 이후의 잔여 에너지를 미리 추정하고, 그 때의 에너지가 가장 많이 남아 있을 것으로 예상되는 경로로 데이터를 전송한다. 제안하는 기법은 에러율을 고려하기 때문에 불필요한 재전송에 따른 에너지 소비를 줄이고 트래픽도 골고루 분산시킨다. 그리고 송수신 이후의 잔여 에너지양들 중에서 최소값이 가장 클 것으로 예상되는 경로를 선택함으로써 노드의 에너지 고갈을 최대한으로 지연시킨다. 다른 방식들에 비하여 제안하는 기법이 네트워크의 수명을 더욱 연장시킨다는 사실을 실험을 통하여 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.1661-1669
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 센서 네트워크의 수명을 길게 하기 위해 클러스터 헤드에 집중된 에너지 과부하를 클러스터 그룹 헤드와 클러스터 헤드로 분산시켜서 에너지 소모량을 감소시키는 유전 알고리즘 기반의 에너지 효율적인 클러스터링(ECGA: Energy efficient Clustering based on Genetic Algorithm)을 제안한다. ECGA 알고리즘은 예상 에너지 비용 합계, 센서 노드 에너지 잔량의 평균 및 표준 편차를 구하여 이를 적합도 함수에 적용하였다. 이 적합도를 이용하여 최적의 클러스터 그룹 및 클러스터를 형성한다. 실험을 통하여 ECGA 알고리즘이 이전의 클러스터링 기법보다 에너지 소모를 줄이고 네트워크의 수명을 연장시켰음을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.3683-3703
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• 2018

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of set of sensor nodes. These sensor nodes are deployed in unattended area which are able to sense, process and transmit data to the base station (BS). One of the primary issues of WSN is energy efficiency. In many existing clustering approaches, initial centroids of cluster heads (CHs) are chosen randomly and they form unbalanced clusters, results more energy consumption. In this paper, an energy efficient clustering protocol to prevent unbalanced clusters based on firefly and midpoint algorithms called EEC-FM has been proposed, where midpoint algorithm is used for initial centroid of CHs selection and firefly is used for cluster formation. Using residual energy and Euclidean distance as the parameters for appropriate cluster formation of the proposed approach produces balanced clusters to eventually balance the load of CHs and improve the network lifetime. Simulation result shows that the proposed method outperforms LEACH-B, BPK-means, Park's approach, Mk-means, and EECPK-means with respect to balancing of clusters, energy efficiency and network lifetime parameters. Simulation result also demonstrate that the proposed approach, EEC-FM protocol is 45% better than LEACH-B, 17.8% better than BPK-means protocol, 12.5% better than Park's approach, 9.1% better than Mk-means, and 5.8% better than EECPK-means protocol with respect to the parameter half energy consumption (HEC).

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.315-324
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• 2017

In recent years, multicast services such as high-definition television (HDTV), video conferencing, interactive distance learning, and distributed games have increased exponentially, and wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks are considered to be a promising technology due to their support for multicast applications. Multicast survivability in WDM networks has been the focus of extensive attention since a single-link failure in an optical network may result in a massive loss of data. But the improvement of network survivability increases energy consumption due to more resource allocation for protection. In this paper, an energy-efficient multicast algorithm (EEMA) is proposed to reduce energy consumption in WDM networks. Two cost functions are defined based on the link state to determine both working and protection paths for a multicast request in WDM networks. To increase the number of sleeping links, the link cost function of the working path aims to integrate new working path into the links with more working paths. Sleeping links indicate the links in sleep mode, which do not have any working path. To increase bandwidth utilization by sharing spare capacity, the cost function of the protection path is defined to use sleeping fibers for establishing new protection paths. Finally, the performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in terms of energy consumption, and also the blocking probability is evaluated under various traffic environments through OPNET. Simulation results show that our algorithm reduces energy consumption while maintaining the quality of service.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.3151-3168
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• 2021

Internet of Things (IoT) connects several objects with embedded sensors and they are capable of exchanging information between devices to create a smart environment. IoT smart devices have limited resources, such as batteries, computing power, and bandwidth, but comprehensive sensing causes severe energy restrictions, lowering data quality. The main objective of the proposal is to build a hybrid protocol which provides high data quality and reduced energy consumption in IoT sensor network. The hybrid protocol gives a flexible and complete solution for sensor selection problem. It selects a subset of active sensor nodes in the network which will increase the data quality and optimize the energy consumption. Since the unused sensor nodes switch off during the sensing phase, the energy consumption is greatly reduced. The hybrid protocol uses Dijkstra's algorithm for determining the shortest path for sensing data and Ant colony inspired variable path selection algorithm for selecting active nodes in the network. The missing data due to inactive sensor nodes is reconstructed using enhanced belief propagation algorithm. The proposed hybrid method is evaluated using real sensor data and the demonstrated results show significant improvement in energy consumption, data utility and data reconstruction rate compared to other existing methods.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose the algorithms which determine 1) the efficient anchor-node visiting route of mobile sink in terms of energy supply and 2) the efficient energy amount to be charged to each anchor node, by using the information of each anchor node and the mobile sink. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) using mobile sinks can be deployed in more challenging environments such as those that are isolated or dangerous, and can also achieve a balanced energy consumption among sensors which leads to prolong the network lifetime. Most mobile sinks visit only some anchor nodes which store the data collected by the nearby sensor nodes because of their limited energy. The problem of these schemes is that the lifetime of the anchor nodes can be shorten due to the increased energy consumption, which rapidly reduces the overall lifetime of WSN. This study utilizes a mobile sink capable of wireless power transmission to solve this problem, so a mobile sink can gather data from anchor nodes while charging energy to them. Through the performance verification, it is confirmed that the number of blackout nodes and the amount of collected data are greatly improved regardless of the size of the network.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2009

무선 센서 네트워크(Wireless Sensor Networks)는 기존의 애드혹 네트워크(Ad-hoc Networks)보다 제한된 노드 자원, 배터리 의존성과 같은 제약사항을 가진다. 이러한 이유로 기존의 방법들과는 다른 형태의 에너지 효율적인 라우팅 연구가 진행되었지만 여전히 많은 문제점을 가지고 있다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 노드의 에너지와 차수를 고려한 클러스터 기반의 백본 생성 알고리즘을 제안한다. 클러스터링과 같은 계층구조 방식은 본질적으로 데이터 집중 및 융합에 유리한 장점이 있으며, 클러스터 헤드의 관리에 의해서 일반 노드들을 조정하여 전력 소모도 낮출 수 있다. 또한 백본을 구성하는 백본노드만 라우팅 정보를 유지하여 제어트래픽과 같은 통신오버헤드를 크게 줄일 수 있으며, 깨어있는 노드의 수를 최소화할 수 있다. 그러나 백본노드들은 비백본 노드의 트래픽을 모두 처리해야 하므로 에너지 소모가 크다. 따라서 에너지레벨 또는 차수가 높은 노드를 클러스터헤드로 선정해서 강건한 백본을 형성하고, 헤드 주변 노드 간 패킷전달의 역할을 분산함으로써 전체 네트워크 라이프타임(Network Lifetime)을 증가시킬 수 있는 방안을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과에서 제안 알고리즘은 기존 연구에 비해 클러스터헤드의 잔여에너지측면에서 약 10.36%, 차수측면에서 약 24.05%의 성능 향상을 보이며, 네트워크 라이프타임도 향상되었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1547-1568
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• 2013

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is an emerging short-range wireless communication network with sensor nodes located on, in or around the human body for healthcare, entertainment and ubiquitous computing. In WBANs, energy is severely constrained which is the prime consideration in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol named Energy-efficient Relay MAC with dynamic Power Control (ERPC-MAC) to save energy consumption. Without relying on the additional devices, ERPC-MAC employs relaying nodes to provide relay service for nodes which consume energy fast. Accordingly the superframe adjustment is performed and then the network topology can be smoothly switched from single-hop to multi-hop. Moreover, for further energy saving and reliability improvement, the dynamic power control is introduced to adjust the power level whenever a node transmits its packets to the coordinator or the relaying node. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first effort to integrate relay, topology adjustment and power control to improve the network performance in a WBAN. Comprehensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance. The results show that the ERPC-MAC is more superior to the existing standard and significantly prolongs the network lifetime.