• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.59-61
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• 2022

Among indoor positioning system techniques using wireless APs, fingerprint techniques collect Mac information and reception strength of APs before performing positioning, build a radio map, and compare it with AP information collected during positioning. However, the existing Radio Map construction method has a problem in that signal interference occurs due to collisions of numerous APs depending on the indoor environment, and the signal strength search result is not always constant. Therefore, this paper compares the existing fixed radio map construction method and the variable radio map construction technique that actively analyzes and constructs the measurement area itself according to signal strength.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.341-343
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• 2014

실내 무선 측위 시스템(IPS : Indoor Positioning System) 중 Wifi 신호를 활용하는 방식의 대부분은 측위를 수행하기 이전에 AP의 mac 정보와 수신세기를 수집 하여 radio map을 구축하고 이후 측위 과정에서 수집되는 AP의 정보와 비교하여 위치를 판단한다. 이 방식은 신호 세기의 변화가 없을 경우 실내에서 매우 높은 정확도로 측위를 수행할 수 있다. 그러나 현실세계에서는 구축된 radio map의 신호에 심각한 영향을 줄 수 있는 여러 가지 상황이 존재한다. 대표적으로 채널 간섭 현상을 둘 수 있다. radio map으로 구축되어 있는 AP의 신호 영역 내에 동일 채널 및 인접 채널을 가지는 AP 및 테더링 기기 등이 신규로 설치될 경우 기존 radio map 신호에 영향을 주어 측위 과정에서 정확도가 떨어지는 문제점이 발생하다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 언급한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 AP의 특성 정보를 다중 그리드 Radio map으로 구성하는 방안을 연구하였다. 이 다중 그리드 Radio map을 통해 측위 단계에서 수집된 AP 신호를 더욱 정확하게 분석하고 신호 변동에 능동적으로 대처할 수 있도록 구성하여 기존의 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 방안에 대하여 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.85-87
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• 2011

WPS_WS는 무선 AP의 정보를 통해 현재 이동 객체의 위치를 찾는 시스템이다. 실외 및 실내의 AP 신호 세기 특징을 활용하여 현재 위치를 판단하며 이를 위해 AP 정보를 저장하기 위한 Radio Map구축이 선행되어야 한다. 최초 서비스를 위하여 map을 구성하더라도 실외의 경우 AP신호의 가변성에 의해 구축된 DB의 map 정보를 100% 신뢰할 수 없다. 따라서 신호세기의 변동을 감지하여 능동적으로 map 정보를 변경해 줄 필요가 있다. 본 논문은 이동객체가 현재의 위치를 판단하기 위해 수집한 AP의 정보 중 오류 정보들을 저장하여 분석하고 이를 토대로 구축된 MAP을 실시간으로 변경 및 수정하여 AP의 신호 변경에 능동적으로 대처할 수 있는 Radio Map 최적화 모듈에 대하여 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.643-648
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• 2017

Among Wi-Fi based indoor positioning systems, fingerprinting localization is the most common technique with high precision. However, construction of the initial radio map and the update process require considerable labor and time effort. To address this problem, we propose an efficient method that constructs the initial radio map at each vertex based on a graph. In addition, we introduce a method to update the radio map automatically by mapping signal data acquired from users to the reference point created on each edge. Since the proposed method collects signal data manually only at the vertex of the graph to build the initial radio map and updates it automatically, our proposed method can dramatically reduce labor and time effort, which are the disadvantages of the conventional fingerprinting method. In our experimental study, we show validity of our radio map update method by comparing with the actual reference point data. We also show that our proposed method is able to construct the radio map with an accuracy of about 3.5m by automatically updating the radio map.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.2685-2690
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• 2014

WPS determines position via a two-step process. In the construction phase, a radio map is constituted by collecting radio information signals. Positioning procedure is a step of comparing the radio signal newly acquired with the radio map. If the signals collected and the radio map are different the accuracy decreases. Even though the rate of accuracy is different according to positioning algorithms, accuracy drop is an issue common to all WPS systems. Signal strength fluctuation is caused by the malfunction of the device that receives positioning signals, obstruction and channel interference, etc. In this paper, in order to solve the problem caused by signal strength change, we propose a new radio map construction technique. The proposed method is intended to constitute a strong radio map to changes in the signal strength and updated by collecting the signal strength changes to the radio map. The use of this method is expected to enhance the accuracy of WPS by actively counteracting signal fluctuation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.3780-3797
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• 2022

The estimation of radio map (RM) is a fundamental and critical task for the network planning and optimization performance of mobile communication. In this paper, a RM estimation method is proposed based on a deep dual learning structure. This method can simultaneously and accurately reconstruct the urban building map (UBM) and estimate the RM of the whole cell by only part of the measured reference signal receiving power (RSRP). Our proposed method implements UBM reconstruction task and RM estimation task by constructing a dual U-Net-based structure, which is named RadioCycle. RadioCycle jointly trains two symmetric generators of the dual structure. Further, to solve the problem of interference negative transfer in generators trained jointly for two different tasks, RadioCycle introduces a dynamic weighted averaging method to dynamically balance the learning rate of these two generators in the joint training. Eventually, the experiments demonstrate that on the UBM reconstruction task, RadioCycle achieves an F1 score of 0.950, and on the RM estimation task, RadioCycle achieves a root mean square error of 0.069. Therefore, RadioCycle can estimate both the RM and the UBM in a cell with measured RSRP for only 20% of the whole cell.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.62-68
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• 2016

The fingerprint, which is one of the methods of indoor localization using WiFi, has been frequently studied because of its ability to be implemented via wireless access points. This method has low positioning resolution and high computational complexity compared to other methods, caused by its dependence of reference points in the radio map. In order to compensate for these problems, this paper presents a radio map designed algorithm based on the log-distance path loss model fusing a WiFi and BLE fingerprint. The proposed algorithm designs a radio map with variable values using the log-distance path loss model and reduces distance errors using a median filter. The experimental results of the proposed algorithm, compared with existing fingerprinting methods, show that the accuracy of positioning improved by from 2.747 m to 2.112 m, and the computational complexity reduced by a minimum of 33% according to the access points.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.422-424
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• 2014

IPS 측위는 실내의 특정 위치의 무선 신호 정보를 수집하여 radio map을 구성하고 측위 시점에 구성된 정보와 수집된 무선 정보를 비교하여 현재 위치를 판단한다. 비교방법은 핑거프린트, 삼각 측량법 등의 알고리즘을 활용하며 최근에는 wifi 신호와 다른 신호를 혼합하여 계산하거나 다중 비교 방식을 사용하여 정확도를 높이는 측위 방법도 개발되었다. 앞서 언급한 측위방법은 비교적 정확한 실내 위치를 판단하지만 구축된 radio map정보와 측위 시점에서 수집된 신호 정보가 상이할 경우 측위 정확도는 크게 하락한다. 구축 시점과 측위 시점의 무선 신호에 차이가 발생하는 이유는 신호 발생 기기의 고장, 장애물 발생, 채널 간섭 현상 등이다. 특히 채널 간섭은 구축된 신호 영역 내에 동일 채널 및 인접 채널을 가지는 AP 및 테더링 기기 등이 신규로 설치되었을 때 측위에 영향을 주는 신호잡음 현상이다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 언급한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 신호 잡음에 강인한 IPS용 라디오맵에 대하여 제안한다. 제안하는 radio map 설계 방법은 측위 시점에 신호잡음이 발생하였을 때 이 정보를 수집하여 기존 radio map에 반영하여 정확도를 유지하는 방법이다. 이 방법을 적용할 경우 신호잡음에 능동적으로 대처하여 IPS 측위의 정확도를 높일 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.83.2-83.2
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• 2015

The Goheung radio interferometer with three 1.8-m antennas has been installed at National Youth Space Center in Goheung, Korea. The interferometric observation of the Sun using the Goheung radio interferometer was carried out and the observed data was analysed to construct the radio contour map of the Sun in 2014. The specifications of Goheung radio interferometer and the synthesized interferometer map of the Sun are provided. As a science activity center for youth, we currently provide students some experimental activities based on the principle of radio observation and interferometer. Our goal is to encourage youth to be interested in astronomy by engaging real experience of radio observation and constructing a synthesized interferometer map with observed data.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1881-1903
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• 2015

With the fast-developing of mobile terminals, positioning techniques based on fingerprinting method draws attention from many researchers even world famous companies. To conquer some shortcomings of the existing fingerprinting systems and further improve its performance, we propose a radio map building and updating technique, which is able to customize the spatial and temporal dependency of radio maps. The method includes indoor propagation and penetration modeling and the analysis of human traffic. Based on the combination of Ray-Tracing Algorithm, Finite-Different Time-Domain and Rough Set Theory, the approach of indoor propagation modeling accurately represents the spatial dependency of the radio map. In terms of temporal dependency, we specifically study the factor of moving people in the interest area. With measurement and statistics, the factor of human traffic is introduced as the temporal updating component. We improve our existing indoor positioning system with the proposed building and updating method, and compare the localization accuracy. The results show that the enhanced system can conquer the influence caused by moving people, and maintain the confidence probability stable during week, which enhance the actual availability and robustness of fingerprinting-based indoor positioning system.