• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1604-1617
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• 2014

This paper proposes RIX-MAC (Receiver-Initiated X-MAC), a new energy-efficient MAC protocol based on an asynchronous duty cycling. RIX-MAC improves energy efficiency through utilizing short preambles and adopting the receiver-initiated approach, where RIX-MAC minimizes sender nodes' energy consumption by enabling transmitters to predict receiver nodes' wake-up times. It also reduces receiver nodes' energy consumption by decreasing the number of control frames. We use the network simulator to evaluate RIX-MAC's performance. Compared to the prior asynchronous duty cycling approaches of X-MAC and PW-MAC, the proposed protocol shows a remarkable improvement in energy-efficiency and end-to-end delay.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.311-314
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• 2003

In recent years, distributed control systems(DCS) using fieldbus such as CAN have been applied to process systems but it is very difficult to design the DCS while guaranteeing the given end-to-end constraints such as precedence constraints, time constraints, and periods and priorities of tasks and messages. This paper presents a scheduling method to guarantee the given end-to-end constraints considering aperiodic, periodic and non-real-time message and task simultaneously. The presented scheduling method is the integrated one considering both tasks executed in each node and messages transmitted via the network and is designed to be applied to a general DCS that has multiple loops with several types of constraints, where each loop consists of sensor nodes with multiple sensors, actuator nodes with multiple actuators and controller nodes with multiple tasks.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.701-702
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• 2006

In this paper, we embodied the environment monitoring system that can acquire correct data in real-time. And we used module that is 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4 / Zigbee network for radio communication between nodes. The nodes sense the data of temperature, humidity, illumination periodically. The nodes store the data in their buffer and transmit. We confirmed that the system is in real-time as it is changed instantly due to the varying environment by the simulation Therefore, we can construct the efficient and correct system as applied this system to monitor the environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.534-537
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• 2009

Clustering protocol of Wireless sensor networks(WSNs) can not only reduce the volume of inter-node communication by the nodes's data aggregation but also extend the nodes's sleep times by cluster head's TDMA-schedule coordination. In order to extend the network lifetime of WSNs, we propose CHS algorithm to select cluster-head using three variables. It consists of initial and current energy of nodes, round information, and total numbers which have been selected as cluster head until current round.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.175-183
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• 2008

In wireless sensor networks with ad hoc networking capability, sensor nodes are battery operated and are usually disposable once deployed. As a result, each sensor node senses and communicates with limited energy and, thus, energy efficiency has been studied as a key design factor which determines lifetime of a wireless sensor network, and it is more improved recently by using so-called cross-layer optimization technique. In this paper, we propose and implement a new energy saving mechanism that reduces energy consumption during data collection by controlling transmission power at sensor nodes and then measure its performance in terms of lifetime improvement for the wireless sensor network platform ZigbeX. When every sensor node transmits sensed data to its clusterhead, it controls its transmission power down to as low level as communication is possible, resulting in energy saving. Each sensor node controls its transmission power based on RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator) of the packet received from its clusterhead. In other words, the sensor node can save energy by controlling its transmission power down to an appropriate level that its clusterhead safely receives the packet it transmits. According to the repetitive experiment of the proposed scheme on the ZigbeX platform using the packet analyzer developed by us, it is observed that the network lifetime is prolonged by up to 21.9% by saying energy during the data collection occupying most amount of network traffic.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.439-444
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• 2017

Wireless sensor network technology is a rapidly growing technology of ubiquitous computing environment and application and research are being carried out in various fields. The sensor nodes constituting the wireless sensor network maintain the life cycle by using the battery in the distributed network environment, so energy efficiency is more important than QoS requirement. In MAC protocol of IEEE802.15.4, MAC protocol study adaptive to traffic and standardization work emphasizing reliability and efficiency in wireless sensor network environment are underway. but, Wireless sensor networks have the problem that the response speed of the sensor node drops as the energy efficiency decreases. In this paper, we designed the MAC protocol with improved energy efficiency of the whole network by analyzing the MAC protocol of the synchronous method and the hybrid method.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.244-250
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• 2011

Gossip is a well-known protocol which was proposed to implement broadcast service with a high reliability in an arbitrarily connected network of sensor nodes. The probabilistic techniques employed in gossip have been used to address many challenges which are caused by flooding in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, very little work has yet been done on real-time wireless sensor networks which require not only highly reliable packets reception but also strict time constraint of each packet. Moreover, the unique energy constraining feature of sensor makes existing solutions unsuitable. Combined with unreliable links, redundant messages overhead in real-time wireless sensor networks is a new challenging issue. In this paper, we introduce a Reliable Gossip Zone, a novel fine-tailored mechanism for real-time wireless sensor networks with unreliable wireless links and low packet redundancy. The key idea is the proposed forwarding probability algorithm, which makes forwarding decisions after the realtime flooding zone is set. Evaluation shows that as an oracle broadcast service design, our mechanism achieves significantly less message overhead than traditional flooding and gossip protocols.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.378-383
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• 2012

Nowadays, the study is going on develop USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) with diffusion of the internet and development of computer network technology. USN sensor nodes equipped with various types of sensors provide sensor information to each individual sensors. To do this there needs standardized data description language for allowing many people to use based on XML in web services environment. In this paper, USN sensor information required for application services in a standardized form to describe the sensor data representation language was designed. USN-based technology utilized in the field, and will be utilized for service activation.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.57-65
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• 2008

Wireless sensor networks achieve environment monitoring and controlling through use of small devices of low cost and low power. Such network is comprised of several sensor nodes, each having a microprocessor, sensor, actuator and wired/wireless transceiver inside a small device. In this paper, we employ the sensor networks in order to design and implement a real-time vehicle safety system. Such system can inform the safe velocity in a specific weather condition to drivers in advance through analyzing the weather data collected from sensor networks. As a result, the drivers can prevent effectively accidents by controlling their car speed.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.10-16
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• 2010

As the study of ubiquitous computing environment has been very active in recent years, the senor network technology is considered to be a core technology of it. This wireless sensor network is enabled to sense and gather data of interest from its surroundings by sensor nodes applied in physical space. Each sensor node structuring the sensor network is demanded to execute the required service using limited resources. This limited usage of resources requires the sensor node to energy-efficiently perform in building wireless sensor network, which enables to extend the entire network life. This study structures a system able to monitor changing environment data on a real-time basis using a computer remotely as it energy-efficiently gathers and sends environment data of specific areas.