• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3064-3094
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• 2018

Currently, the Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) is mainly an interesting area due to its ability to provide a technology to gather many valuable data from underwater environment such as tsunami monitoring sensor, military tactical application, environmental monitoring and many more. However, UWSNs is suffering from limited energy, high packet loss and the use of acoustic communication. In UWSNs most of the energy consumption is used during the forwarding of packet data from the source to the destination. Therefore, many researchers are eager to design energy efficient routing protocol to minimize energy consumption in UWSNs. As the opportunistic routing (OR) is the most promising method to be used in UWSNs, this paper focuses on the existing proposed energy efficient OR protocol in UWSNs. This paper reviews the existing proposed energy efficient OR protocol, classifying them into 3 categories namely sender-side-based, receiver-side-based and hybrid. Furthermore each of the protocols is reviewed in detail, and its advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Finally, we discuss potential future work research directions in UWSNs, especially for energy efficient OR protocol design.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.694-701
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• 2013

This paper deals with the problem of accurately tracking a single target moving through UWSNs (Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks) by employing underwater acoustic sensors. This paper addresses the issues of estimating the states of the target, and improving energy efficiency by applying a Kalman filter in a distributed architecture. Each underwater wireless sensor nodes composing the UWSNs is battery-powered, so the energy conservation problem is a critical issue. This paper provides an algorithm which increases the energy efficiency of each sensor node through WuS (Waked-up/Sleeping) and VM (Valid Measurement) selecting schemes. Simulation results illustrate the performance of the distributed tracking filter.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2012

수중 센서네트워크에서는 음파를 이용하여 노드간 통신을 한다. 그러나 긴 전파지연으로 인해 무선 센서네트워크를 위해 연구된 기존의 MAC(Media Access Control) 프로토콜을 그대로 이용할 수 없다. 따라서 수중 센서네트워크에서 효율적인 통신을 위해서는 긴 전파지연시간을 고려한 새로운 MAC 프로토콜이 필요하다. 수중 센서네트워크에서는 수중이라는 환경의 특성상 노드의 균일한 배치가 어렵다. 또한, 노드의 배치 밀도가 높은 경우 단일 홉 내에 서로 다른 거리를 갖는 다수의 노드들이 존재하게 된다. 이러한 환경에서 노드간 간격에 따른 불공평성 문제가 발생한다. 긴 전파지연으로 인하여 하나의 목적노드로 다수의 노드가 데이터 전송을 위해 경쟁하는 경우 백오프(Back-off)를 이용한 경쟁 기반의 MAC 프로토콜에서는 목적노드에 인접한 노드가 채널 경쟁에서 승리할 확률이 올라간다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 불공평성 문제를 해결하기 위해 제안된 방법에서 전송할 데이터가 있는 노드는 자신의 큐 상태정보를 RTS 패킷에 포함하여 전송한다. 기존 방법에서는 RTS 패킷을 수신한 후에 CTS 패킷을 바로 전송하지만 제안된 방법에서는 CTS 패킷 전송을 지연시키고 일정 시간동안 여러 개의 RTS 패킷을 수신한 후에 큐 상태 정보를 이용하여 하나의 RTS 패킷을 선택하고 이에 대한 CTS 패킷을 전송한다. 제안하는 기법의 성능을 기존에 연구된 수중 센서네트워크를 위한 MAC 프로토콜과 비교한다. 비교 결과 제안하는 MAC 프로토콜의 우수성을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.641-648
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• 2009

Currently several kinds of sensor localization methods have been developed for terrestrial wireless sensor networks. This study, in order to extend the field to underwater environments, a localization technique is studied for UWSNs (Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks). In underwater environments, RF (Radio Frequency) signal is not suitable for underwater usage because of extremely limited propagation. Because of that reason UWSNs should be constituted with acoustic modems. But, to realize underwater application, we can borrow many design principles from ongoing research for terrestrial environments. So, in this paper we introduce the modified localization algorithm using ToA method which is based on the terrestrial research. First of all, we study the localization techniques for terrestrial environments where we investigate possible methods to underwater environment. And then the appropriate algorithm is presented in the underwater usage. Finally the proposed underwater based localization algorithm is evaluated by using computer.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.504-527
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• 2015

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are similar to the terrestrial sensor networks. Nevertheless, there are different characteristics among them such as low battery power, limited bandwidth and high variable propagation delay. One of the common major problems in UWSNs is determining an efficient and reliable routing between the source node and the destination node. Therefore, researchers tend to design efficient protocols with consideration of the different characteristics of underwater communication. Furthermore, many routing protocols have been proposed and these protocols may be classified as location-based and location-free routing protocols. Pressure-based routing protocols are a subcategory of the location-free routing protocols. This paper focuses on reviewing the pressure-based routing protocols that may further be classified into non-void avoidance protocols and void avoidance protocols. Moreover, non-void avoidance protocols have been classified into single factor based and multi factor based routing protocols. Finally, this paper provides a comparison between these protocols based on their features, performance and simulation parameters and the paper concludes with some future works on which further study can be conducted.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.4844-4864
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• 2017

Interference-aware routing protocol design for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is one of the key strategies in reducing packet loss in the highly hostile underwater environment. The reduced interference causes efficient utilization of the limited battery power of the sensor nodes that, in consequence, prolongs the entire network lifetime. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient interference-aware routing (EEIAR) protocol for UWSNs. A sender node selects the best relay node in its neighborhood with the lowest depth and the least number of neighbors. Combination of the two routing metrics ensures that data packets are forwarded along the least interference paths to reach the final destination. The proposed work is unique in that it does not require the full dimensional localization information of sensor nodes and the network total depth is segmented to identify source, relay and neighbor nodes. Simulation results reveal better performance of the scheme than the counterparts DBR and EEDBR techniques in terms of energy efficiency, packet delivery ratio and end-to-end delay.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1390-1411
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• 2024

Underwater Wireless Sensors Networks (UWSNs) are deployed in remotely monitored environment such as water level monitoring, ocean current identification, oil detection, habitat monitoring and numerous military applications. Providing scalable and efficient routing is very challenging in UWSNs due to the harsh underwater environment. The biggest difficulties are the nodes inherent movement due to water current, long delay in data transmission, low bandwidth of the acoustic signal, high error rate and energy scarcity in battery powered nodes. Many routing protocols have been proposed to solve the aforementioned problems. There are three broad categories of routing protocols namely depth based, energy based and vector-based routing. Vector Based Forwarding protocols perform routing through virtual pipeline by defining their radius which give proper direction to packets communication. We proposed a routing protocol termed as Path-Oriented Energy Scaled Expanded Vector Based Forwarding (PESEVBF). PESEVBF takes into account all parameters; holding time, the source nodes packets routing path and void holes creation on the second hop; PESEVBF not only considers the packet upward advancement but also focus on density of the forwarded nodes in terms of number of potential forwarding and suppressed nodes for path selection. Node selection in resultant holding time is based on minimum Path Factor (PF) value. Moreover, the suppressed node will be selected for packet forwarding to avoid the void holes occurrences on the second hop. Performance of PESEVBF is compared with other routing protocols using matrices such as energy consumption, packet delivery ratio, packets dropping ratio and duplicate packets creation indicating considerable performance improvement.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.2940-2955
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose aggregate signcryption for achieving data security in UWSNs. The main challenge of these networks established in sensitive environments is offline sink visiting. Moreover, the sensors must retain collected data for long enough time to offload them onto the itinerant sink. Thus, the unattended nature of data collection intervals might offer the adversary the opportunity to apply various attacks without detection. In this paper, employing low order operations (in time and space), we propose a new secure scheme in which various security goals such as confidentiality (through encrypting), authentication and integrity (through signing) are achieved. In addition, the aggregation process of our scheme reduces the space and communication overheads both for sensors and sink, i.e. the proposed technique efficiently enables the sensors and sink to protect, verify and recover all the related data. We further compare our scheme with the best alternative work in the literature.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.4971-4987
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• 2019

Node localization is the basic task of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). Most of the existing underwater localization methods rely on ranging accuracy. Due to the special environment conditions in the ocean, beacon nodes are difficult to deploy accurately. The narrow bandwidth and high delay of the underwater acoustic communication channel lead to large errors. In order to reduce the ranging error and improve the positioning accuracy, we propose a localization algorithm based on ranging correction and inertial coordination. The algorithm can be divided into two parts, Range Correction based Localization algorithm (RCL) and Inertial Coordination based Localization algorithm (ICL). RCL uses the geometric relationship between the node positions to correct the ranging error and obtain the exact node position. However, when the unknown node deviates from the deployment area with the movement of the water flow, it cannot communicate with enough beacon nodes in a certain period of time. In this case, the node uses ICL algorithm to combine position data with motion information of neighbor nodes to update its position. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm greatly improves the positioning accuracy of unknown nodes compared with the existing localization methods.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1438-1449
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• 2011

수중센서네트워크 응용은 적용 대상 및 지역적 범위에 따라 효과적인 모델링이 필요하고 이러한 특정화된 응용 모델 기반에서 에너지 효율적인 데이터통합 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 수중에 고정된 닻으로 좌우 움직임이 가능한 센서노드들로 구성된 3차원 육각기둥 벌집모델에 기초하여 오염 및 침투 감시용 응용 모델링 및 이를 기초로 한다. 이 모델에서는 층별 구성 셀들의 이벤트 감지 데이터와 해당 층 위치 데이터를 수면기지국까지 효율적으로 전송하면 그 목적이 달성된다. 여기서 기존의 데이터통합 방법을 적용하면 최소 경로나 멀티캐스트 트리에 기반된 관계로 과정이 복잡하여 에너지 비효율적이다. 본 논문에서는 층별 셀들에서 발생되는 이벤트 데이터를 해당 층 헤드노드로 효과적으로 전달하기위한 클러스터 내부에서 클러스터 기반의 에너지 효율적인 세 가지 가능한 데이터통합 방법을 제시한다. 그리고 층별 클러스터 헤드노드에서 수집된 데이터를 기지국까지 효율적으로 전달하기위한 클러스터 간 세 가지 데이터통합 방법도 제시한다. 제시된 데이터통합 방법들은 주어진 영역 침투 감시등과 같은 특정화된 응용 대상으로 동작의 단순성과 에너지 효율화 측면이 주된 고려 요소이다. 마지막으로 시뮬레이션과 성능 비교분석을 통해 제시된 클러스터 층별 및 층간 데이터통합 방법의 조합 중 가장 우수한 에너지 효율적인 데이터통합 방법을 도출한다.