• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4223-4239
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• 2016

In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) full-duplex relay network (FDRN) using simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, where a battery-free relay node harvests energy from the received radio frequency (RF) signals from a source node and uses the harvested energy to forward the source information to destination node. The time-switching relaying (TSR) protocol is studied, with the assumption that the channel state information (CSI) at the relay node is imperfect. We deliver a rigorous analysis of the outage probability of the proposed system. Based on the outage probability expressions, the optimal time switching factor are obtained via the numerical search method. The simulation and numerical results provide practical insights into the effect of various system parameters, such as the time switching factor, the noise power, the energy harvesting efficiency, and the channel estimation error on the performance of this network. It is also observed that for the imperfect CSI case, the proposed scheme still can provide acceptable outage performance given that the channel estimation error is bounded in a permissible interval.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.411-417
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• 2023

무인 항공기(UAV) 지원 중계는 분포가 쉽고 통신 채널이 양호하며, 이동성이 뛰어나 기존 지상 중계에 비해 높은 무선 연결성을 가질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선 주파수(RF) 대역을 활용하여 소스로부터 에너지를 수확하고 테라헤르츠(THz) 대역을 활용하여 2차 송신기와 해당 수신기 간에 정보를 전송할 수 있는 UAV 지원 중계 네트워크를 설계한다. 그 후, 릴레이 채널 용량을 최대화하는 UAV의 최적 위치를 결정하기 위한 최적화 문제의 해를 유도하고, 유도된 해를 활용하여 두 가지 UAV 궤적(직선 궤적과 타원 궤적)을 설계하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 제안된 알고리즘은 UAV 직선 궤도가 수확된 에너지 및 채널 용량 측면에서 더 나은 시스템 성능을 제공할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.98-102
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• 2017

이 논문에서는 백스케터 통신에 기반한 무선 센서인 보조 사용자의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 인지 무선 기반 백스케터 네트워크를 연구한다. 제안 된 모델에서, 캐리어 이미터를 추가하고 스펙트럼 센싱 정보를 활용하기 위해 이중감쇄를 피하는 것을 고려한다. 기본 채널이 사용 중일 때 보조 사용자는 Hybrid-Access Point(H-AP)와 캐리어 이미터를 통해 채널에서 RF 에너지를 수집 할 수 있다. 채널이 유휴 상태가 되면 보조 사용자는 수확된 에너지를 사용하여 무선 센서를 작동시키고 스펙트럼 센싱 후, 캐리어 이미터를 통해 백스케터 통신을 수행한다. 따라서 우리는 다수의 태그가 존재하는 벡스케터 채널을 deterministic과 멀티소스 요소로 수학적 모델링한다. 제안한 통신 환경에서 WiFi 신호를 활용한 벡스케터 통신의 BER 성능을 보인다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.49-53
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• 2011

This study concerns about wireless power generation that uses the energy harvester with EAP actuator. The UWSN(Underwater Wireless Sensor Network) has been considered many times by many researches. Because the information of underwater is getting important to secure the resource or to predict the meteorological phenomena. But the sensor node in the UWSN is driven by the acoustic wave to communicate with other sensor node. And this acoustic wave usually spends a 100 times energy than the RF(Radio Frequency) wave due to transfermation medium(sea water). Therefore the power source of the sensor node is very important that is needed to improve in the UWSN. For this purpose, the energy harvester is made by the acrylic elastomer in this study. And the electrode is modified with an aluminum impurity to improve the efficiency of energy harvester. After that, the modified energy harvester is experimented to confirm the improvement of the energy efficiency.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1889-1910
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• 2017

This paper investigates a protocol so-called Adaptive Harvest Then Transmit (AHTT) for wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) in multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink systems, which assists in transmitting signals from a multi-antenna transmitter to a single-antenna receiver. Particularly, the power constrained relay is supplied with power by utilizing radio frequency (RF) signals from the source. In order to take advantage of multiple antennas, two different linear processing schemes, including Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) and Selection Combination (SC) are studied. The system outage capacity and ergodic capacity are evaluated for performance analysis. Furthermore, the optimal power allocation is also considered. Our numerical and simulation results prove that the implementation of multiple antennas helps boost the energy harvesting capability. Therefore, this paper puts forward a new way to the energy efficiency (EE) enhancement, which contributes to better system performance.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 RF 에너지 하베스팅을 하는 센서로 구성된 모바일 애드혹 무선 센서 네트워크에서 적응적인 방향성 범위 안내가 가능한 에너지 엔트로피 기반의 다중경로 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 라우팅 프로토콜의 주요한 특징 및 기여도는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 센서노드의 에너지 정보를 기반으로 경로의 엔트로피로 계산하여 안정적인 경로 설정한다. 둘째, 경로의 안정성을 기반으로 전송범위를 동적으로 조절하고, 경로 설정에 참여하는 센서의 수를 조절하여, 경로 설정에 소모되는 에너지, 컨트롤 오버헤드, 시간지연을 줄여서 궁극적으로 테이터 전송 효율을 향상시킨다. OPNET을 사용한 성능 평과 결과 제안된 라우팅 프로토콜은 효과적으로 PDR을 지원 할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.3412-3432
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• 2019

Recent advances in radio frequency (RF) power transfer provide a promising technology to power sensor nodes. Adoption of mobile chargers to replenish the nodes' energy has recently attracted a lot of attention and the mobility assisted energy replenishment provides predictable and sustained power service. In this paper, we study the joint optimization of mobile charging and data gathering in sensor networks. A wireless multi-functional vehicle (WMV) is employed and periodically moves along specified trajectories, charge the sensors and gather the sensed data via one-hop communication. The objective of this paper is to maximize the uplink throughput by optimally allocating the time for the downlink wireless energy transfer by the WMV and the uplink transmissions of different sensors. We consider two scenarios where the WMV moves in a straight line and around a circle. By time discretization, the optimization problem is formulated as a 0-1 programming problem. We obtain the upper and lower bounds of the problem by converting the original 0-1 programming problem into a linear programming problem and then obtain the optimal solution by using branch and bound algorithm. We further prove that the network throughput is independent of the WMV's velocity under certain conditions. Performance of our proposed algorithm is evaluated through extensive simulations. The results validate the correctness of our proposed theorems and demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms two baseline algorithms in achieved throughput under different settings.

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.209-213
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• 2010

This paper describes the fabrication and characteristics of AlN piezoelectric MPG(micro power generator). The micro energy harvester was fabricated to convert ambient vibration energy to electrical power as a AlN piezoelectric cantilever with Si proof-mass. To be compatible with CMOS process, AlN thin film was grown at low temperature by RF magnetron sputtering and micro power generators were fabricated by MEMS technologies. X-ray diffraction pattern proved that the grown AlN film had highly(002) orientation with low value of FWHM(full width at the half maximum, $\theta=0.276^{\circ}$) in the rocking curve around(002) reflections. The implemented harvester showed the $198.5\;{\mu}m$ highest membrane displacement and generated 6.4 nW of electrical power to $80\;k{\Omega}$ resistive load with $22.6\;mV_{rms}$ voltage from 1.0 G acceleration at its resonant frequency of 389 Hz. From these results, the AlN piezoelectric MPG will be possible to suitable with the batch process and confirm the possibility for power supply in portable, mobile and wearable microsystems.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.8-13
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 RF (Radio Frequency) 에너지 하베스팅 센서 노드의 설계 방안과 CATV 망과 누설 동축 케이블 (leaky coaxial cable)을 활용한 센서 네트워크 구축 방안을 연구하였다. 센서 노드는 915MHz 주파수 대역에서 동작하는 WPTS (Wireless Power Transfer System) 전력 수신기로 전원공급부를 설계하였다. WOC (WiFi over Coax) 기술을 활용하여 CATV 망으로 센서의 BLE 무선통신 신호와 WPTS 전력 송신기 신호를 전송하고, 누설 동축 케이블로 RF 신호를 방사시키는 센서 네트워크 구축 방안을 제안하였다. 센서 네트워크를 구축하는 지점에 누설 동축 케이블을 활용하면 센서 노드의 수신 신호 강도 지표가 허용되는 최소값 (-78dBm)을 만족하는 지점까지 센서 네트워크의 커버리지를 확장할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.1250-1264
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• 2017

This paper presents the architecture design, implement, experimental validation of a bistatic backscatter wireless communication system in Wi-Fi network. The operating principle is to communicate a tag's data by detecting the power level of the power modulated Wi-Fi packets to be reflected or absorbed by backscatter tag, in interconnecting with Wi-Fi device and Wi-Fi AP. This system is able to provide the identification and sensor data of tag on the internet connectivity without requiring extra device for reading data, because this uses an existing Wi-Fi AP infrastructure. The backscatter tag consists of Wi-Fi energy harvesting part and a backscatter transmitter/a power-detecting receiver part. This tag can operate by harvesting and generating energy from Wi-Fi signal power. Wi-Fi device decodes information of the tag data by recognizing the power level of the backscattered Wi-Fi packets. Wi-Fi device receives the backscattered Wi-Fi packets and generates the tag's data pattern in the time-series of channel state information (CSI) values. We believe that this system can be achieved wireless connectivity for ultra- low-power IoT and wearable device.