• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.312-315
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• 2008

Recently, owing to the development of ubiquitous, RFID and local area wireless communication technology, many studies on the system which can measure biomedical signals are being carried out. In this paper, we have designed and implemented an u-Healthcare system based on sensor network using biomedical signal measurement sensors such as ECG, blood pressure, and heartbeats. The biomedical signals from sensor nodes pass through the gateway and are finally transmitted to a healthcare renter. The acquired biomedical signals are processed in the healthcare center and the analyzed results are transmitted to the patients to improve patients' health using either kinesitherapy or dietary treatment.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2008

If a sink can move in sensor networks, the routing change can be more occur. If the sink has the mobility, it moves in sensor network area so that the connection between the sink system and sensor nodes will be changed continuously. Hence, the overhead can occur cased by the many routing changed. Therefore, the dynamic routing scheme is needed to support the mobile sink connection. In this paper, we propose the previous connection assignment scheme. The mobile sink can have low cost overhead from calculating dynamic rerouting that it determines the new virtual path before the physical path setup.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.148-153
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant QoS routing scheme based on interference awareness for providing both high throughput and minimum end-to-end delay for wireless sensor networks. With the proposed algorithm, it is feasible to find out the optimal transmission path between sensor nodes to the sink node by using cumulative path metric where real-time delivery, high energy efficiency and less interference are considered as in path selection. Finally, simulation results show that network throughput and delay can be improved by using the proposed routing scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.964-973
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• 2015

Ship Area Network(SAN) can monitor the status of ship in real time and minimize the maintenance costs by connecting various devices to the network. In particular, among researches on SAN, Wireless Sensor Network using sensor nodes that is low-cost, low-power, and multifunctional has a number of advantages. In this paper, we propose cluster-based multi-channel algorithm considering the energy efficiency in wireless sensor network in a ship. The proposed algorithm shows the result of improvement of throughput and energy efficiency, because it reduces interference between clusters by using channel allocation algorithm that is distributed and dynamic.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.3
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• pp.247-254
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• 2014

For wireless multimedia sensor network (WMSN), it is crucial to select appropriate channels to deliver multimedia data stream generated by image and voice sensors periodically or continuously. Although most of previous researches assume that fixed channels are used for wireless sensor networks, they causes limit to support various application areas. In this paper, we apply link-setup algorithms developed for wireless cognitive radio networks for searching common channels between two nodes without common control channels. We also show the algorithm causes serious performance degradation as the total number of used channels increases, and then propose a new link-setup algorithm to resolve the problem. Therefore, the proposed algorithm shows 30 % higher performance compared to existing algorithms.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.31-36
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• 2014

Recent advancement in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has paved the way for WSNs to enable in various environments in monitoring temperature, motion, sound, and vibration. These applications often include the detection of sensitive information from enemy movements in hostile areas or in locations of personnel in buildings. Due to characteristics of WSNs and dealing with sensitive information, wireless sensor nodes tend to be exposed to the enemy or in a hazard area, and security is a major concern in WSNs. Because WSNs pose unique challenges, traditional security techniques used in conventional networks cannot be applied directly, many researchers have developed various security protocols to fit into WSNs. To develop countermeasures of various attacks in WSNs, descriptions and analysis of current security attacks in the network layers must be developed by using a standard notation. However, there is no research paper describing and analyzing security models in WSNs by using a standard notation such as The Unified Modeling Language (UML). Using the UML helps security developers to understand security attacks and design secure WSNs. In this research, we provide standard models for security attacks by UML Sequence Diagrams to describe and analyze possible attacks in the three network layers.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.4B
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• pp.399-404
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• 2011

For the underwater wireless sensor networks, we propose the packet transmission method which distinguishes more important packet than others. Because the ocean underwater transmission environments are extremely unstable, we use SON(Self Organizing Network) techniques to adapt to the constantly varying underwater acoustic communication channels and randomly deployed sensor nodes. Especially we suppose two kinds of packets which have different priorities, and through the simulations we show that high priority packets arrive at the source node faster than lower priority packets with a proposed scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.250-253
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• 2010

Underwater sensor network has attracted more and more attention from the networking research community recently. Most of traditional studies focus on the topology with a single gateway. Underwater sensor network consists of a variable number of sensors and multi-gateway to ensure the reliability of the network. In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol that can reduce collisions among sensor nodes and improve QoS(Quality of Service) for underwater sensor network with multi-gateway. We evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme through simulation. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing MAC protocol.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3219-3236
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• 2012

A tree routing structure is often adopted for many-to-one data gathering and aggregation in sensor networks. For real-time scenarios, considering lossy wireless links, it is an important issue how to construct a maximum-lifetime data gathering tree with delay constraint. In this work, we study the problem of lifetime-preserving and delay-constrained tree construction in unreliable sensor networks. We prove that the problem is NP-complete. A greedy approximation algorithm is proposed. We use expected transmissions count (ETX) as the link quality indicator, as well as a measure of delay. Our algorithm starts from an arbitrary least ETX tree, and iteratively adjusts the hierarchy of the tree to reduce the load on bottleneck nodes by pruning and grafting its sub-tree. The complexity of the proposed algorithm is $O(N^4)$. Finally, extensive simulations are carried out to verify our approach. Simulation results show that our algorithm provides longer lifetime in various situations compared to existing data gathering schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3152-3165
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• 2012

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) often employ asynchronous MAC scheduling, which allows each sensor node to wake up independently without synchronizing with its neighbor nodes. However, this asynchronous scheduling may not deal with collisions due to hidden terminals effectively. Although most of the existing asynchronous protocols exploit a random back-off technique to resolve collisions, the random back-off cannot secure a receiver from potentially repetitive collisions and may lead to a substantial increase in the packet latency. In this paper, we propose a new collision resolution algorithm called Transient Coordinator (TC) for asynchronous WSN MAC protocols. TC resolves a collision on demand by ordering senders' transmissions when a receiver detects a collision. To coordinate the transmission sequence both the receiver and the collided senders perform handshaking to collect the information and to derive a collision-free transmission sequence, which enables each sender to exclusively access the channel. According to the simulation results, our scheme can improve the average per-node throughput by up to 19.4% while it also reduces unnecessary energy consumption due to repetitive collisions by as much as 91.1% compared to the conventional asynchronous MAC protocols. This demonstrates that TC is more efficient in terms of performance, resource utilization, and energy compared to the random back-off scheme in dealing with collisions for asynchronous WSN MAC scheduling.