• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제12C권6호
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• pp.875-880
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• 2005

제한된 자원을 가진 센서 노드들로 구성된 센서 네트워크에서 가장 중요한 이슈 중 하나는 쑤어진 에너지를 최대한 활용하여 네트워크 수명을 연장하는 것이다. 네트워크 수명을 연장하는 가장 대표적인 방법은 클러스터링 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 CH(Cluster Head) 및 후보 CH 노드들로부터 주어지는 통신 부하(load)와 잔여 에너지 양에 대한 정보를 기반으로 클러스터 크기를 동적으로 변화시켜 클러스터 내의 노드 밀도에 상관없이 각 CH에게 주어지는 부담을 일정하게 유지시키는 새로운 동적 크기 다중홉 클러스터링 방법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 방법이 기존의 단일홉 모드나 고정 크기 다중홉 모드 클러스터링 방법보다 우수함을 보였다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2008

Clustering allows hierarchical structures to be built on the nodes and enables more efficient use of scarce resources, such as frequency spectrum, bandwidth, and energy in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This paper proposes a hierarchical clustering algorithm called EEHC which is more energy efficient than existing algorithms for WSNs, It introduces region node selection as well as cluster head election based on the residual battery capacity of nodes to reduce the costs of managing sensor nodes and of the communication among them. The role of cluster heads or region nodes is rotated among nodes to achieve load balancing and extend the lifetime of every individual sensor node. To do this, EEHC clusters periodically to select cluster heads that are richer in residual energy level, compared to the other nodes, according to clustering policies from administrators. To prove the performance improvement of EEHC, the ns-2 simulator was used. The results show that it can reduce the energy and bandwidth consumption for organizing and managing WSNs comparing it with existing algorithms.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.180-190
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• 2011

Efficient energy consumption is a critical factor for deployment and operation of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). To achieve energy efficiency there have been several hierarchical routing protocols that organize sensors into clusters where one sensor is a cluster-head to forward messages received from its cluster-member sensors to the base station of the WSN. In this paper, we propose a self-organized clustering method for cluster-head selection and cluster based routing for a WSN. To select cluster-heads and organize clustermembers for each cluster, every sensor uses only local information and simple decision mechanisms which are aimed at configuring a self-organized system. By these self-organized interactions among sensors and selforganized selection of cluster-heads, the suggested method can form clusters for a WSN and decide routing paths energy efficiently. We compare our clustering method with a clustering method that is a well known routing protocol for the WSNs. In our computational experiments, we show that the energy consumptions and the lifetimes of our method are better than those of the compared method. The experiments also shows that the suggested method demonstrate properly some self-organized properties such as robustness and adaptability against uncertainty for WSN's.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 센서 네트워크용 병렬 시뮬레이터인 PASENS(Parallel SEnsor Network Simulator)를 이용하여 센서 네트워크에 이용되는 라우팅 알고리즘 중에서 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜의 대표적인 방식인 LEACH(Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)와 그의 변형인 TL-LEACH(Two Level Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), M-LEACH(Multihop Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), 그리고 LEACH-C(LEACH-Centralized)의 전력 소모량과 데이터의 수신율을 비교하고 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션을 이용한 분석 결과에 따르면, M-LEACH 라우팅 프로토콜의 경우에는 여러 센서 노드들을 통하여 데이터가 전달되기 때문에 일정한 크기 이상의 넓은 공간에서 높은 수신율을 보였으며, LEACH-C 라우팅 프로토콜은 싱크 노드(서버)가 전체 센서 노드의 잔여 에너지와 위치를 고려하여 클러스터 헤드를 결정하기 때문에 좁은 공간에서 보다 오랜 수명을 필요로 하는 센서 네트워크를 구축하는데 가장 효율적이라는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.50-58
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• 2013

In Wireless Sensor Network, clustering scheme is used to prolong the lifetime of WSN by efficient usage of energy of sensor. In the distributed clustering protocol just like LEACH, every sensor in a network plays a cluster head role once during each epoch. So the FND is prolonged. But, even though every sensor plays a head role, the energy consumed by each sensor is different because the energy consumed increases according to the distance to the Base Station by the way of multiple increase. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to select a head depending on the distance to Base Station, which extends the timing of FND occurrence by 68% compared to the LEACH and makes network stable.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1238-1259
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• 2019

Saving energy is a big challenge for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which becomes even more critical in large-scale WSNs. Most energy waste is communication related, such as collision, overhearing and idle listening, so the schedule-based access which can avoid these wastes is preferred for WSNs. On the other hand, clustering technique is considered as the most promising solution for topology management in WSNs. Hence, providing interference-free clustering is vital for WSNs, especially for large-scale WSNs. However, schedule management in cluster-based networks is never a trivial work, since it requires inter-cluster cooperation. In this paper, we propose a clustering method, called Interference-Free Clustering Protocol (IFCP), to partition a WSN into interference-free clusters, making timeslot management much easier to achieve. Moreover, we model the clustering problem as a multi-objective optimization issue and use non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II to solve it. Our proposal is finally compared with two adaptive clustering methods, HEED-CSMA and HEED-BMA, demonstrating that it achieves the good performance in terms of delay, packet delivery ratio, and energy consumption.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 통신소사이어티 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.135-139
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• 2003

Sensor networks consist of sensor nodes with small-size, low-cost, low-power, and multi-functions to sense, to process and to communicate. Minimizing power consumption of sensors is an important issue in sensor networks due to limited power in sensor networks. Clustering is an efficient way to reduce data flow in sensor networks and to maintain less routing information. In this paper, we propose a multi-hop clustering mechanism using global and local ID to reduce transmission power consumption and an efficient routing method for improved data fusion and transmission.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.559-573
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• 2016

In this paper, we investigate the problem of achieving proportional fairness in hierarchical wireless sensor networks. Combining clustering formulation and scheduling, we maximize total bandwidth utility for proportional fairness while controlling the power consumption to a minimum value. This problem is decomposed into two sub-problems and solved in two stages, which are Clustering Formulation Stage and Scheduling Stage, respectively. The above algorithm, called CSPF_PC, runs in a network formulation sequence. In the Clustering Formulation Stage, we let the sensor nodes join to the cluster head nodes by adjusting transmit power in a greedy strategy; in the Scheduling Stage, the proportional fairness is achieved by scheduling the time-slot resource. Simulation results verify the superior performance of our algorithm over the compared algorithms on fairness index.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2011

무선 센서 네트워크에서 클러스터 기반의 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜들은 모든 노드들의 수명을 균등하게 유지하여, 센서 네트워크의 수명을 최대로 연장하는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 싱크의 위치 변화를 고려한 적응적 클러스터링 프로토콜을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 클러스터링 프로토콜의 특징은 클러스터 트리의 레벨에 따라 클러스터의 크기를 제한하는 대칭형 계층적 클러스터를 구성함으로써 싱크의 위치 변화에 적응적으로 대응 가능하며, 모든 클러스터의 생존 시간을 향상시킴과 동시에 균등한 생존 시간을 보장할 수 있다. 이 기법의 효율성을 입증하기 위해 기존의 대표적인 클러스터링 프로토콜들인 LEACH, EEUC와 본 논문에서 제안하는 적응적 클러스터링 프로토콜의 에너지 소비 정도를 시뮬레이션을 통해 비교하였으며, 그 결과 에너지 소비와 네트워크 수명의 균형에 대해 더 나은 성능을 얻어낼 수 있었다.

• 경영과학
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2009

The objective of this paper is to propose an ant colony optimization (ACO) for clustering design in wireless sensor network problem. This proposed ACO approach is designed to deal with the dynamics of the sensor nodes which can be adaptable to topological changes to any network graph in a time. Long communication distances between sensors and a sink in a sensor network can greatly consume the energy of sensors and reduce the lifetime of a network. We can greatly minimize the total communication distance while minimizing the number of cluster heads using proposed ACO. Simulation results show that our proposed method is very efficient to find the best solutions comparing to the optimal solution using CPLEX in 100, 200, and 400 node sensor networks.