• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.453-456
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• 2007

In this paper, we describes a design of Wireless Mesh Network based middleware that applied into USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Networks). WMN based middleware is a technique which links data between widely distributed sensor devices and WMN for context-awareness. The use of WMN base middleware in this paper makes possible communication on insufficiently network constructed area by use of WMN. WMN based middleware also anaylze events comprehensively that originated from specific sensor device. Based on the result from analyzed data with predetermined value WMN based middleware will given an order to designated actuator devices. Middleware operate each function of sensor network management and application service separately.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.51-62
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• 2007

Recently microcontrollers are being used in sensor networks to handle sophisticated control and monitoring activities. As applications become more sophisticated, their design and development processes become more complex which consequently necessitates the use of an operating system to manage the complexity and provide an abstraction for portability of code. This paper presents a Low-power real-time operating system, called UbiFOS-USN, designed for sensor networks. We present some of the features that make UbiFOS-USN appropriate especially for small, low-cost microcontrollers typically found in sensor networks. Through experimental results, we show that UbiFOS-USN is quite efficient for a sensor network, both in terms of system performance and memory requirement.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.14-19
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• 2006

Integrated development environment (IDE) plays an important role in reducing the developm ent time, thereby improving software development productivity. In recent years, ubiquitous sensor networks (USNs) have become increasingly popular. However their application software is developed mostly using command-line-based tools. Such a development process is not only likely to be error-prone but also inconvenient to debug errors. This paper describes a novel IDE for USN application developers called Nano Esto that provides a single, consistent, and integrated environment for building and executing USN applications. The Nano Esto helps the developers edit and cross-compile source code and download the executable image to the program memory of sensor nodes with just a few button clicks. It also provides support for configuring an application-specific kernel, simulating a wireless sensor network, and estimating power consumption in each sensor node. Currently, Nano Esto runs on Linux as well as on Windows with the same look and feel.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.145-157
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• 2009

If industrial disasters happen at workplace, work's desires of workers and business activities may be dispirited. Especially, industrial disasters frequently happen in the field of heavy and chemical industry companies. According to report of the korea occupational safety and health agency(KOSHA), damage due to industrial disasters is more 5 times than losses due to industrial strifes. Thus, in these manufacturing companies, a safety management field for preventing industrial disasters is emerging as an important factor of business activities. This paper proposes an industrial disaster prediction model for safety management and also implements industrial safety management system(after this, is called as u-Safety system) based on the proposed model using ubiquitous computing technologies like USN(ubiquitous sensor networks) which are given much attention among recent information technologies. The implemented system is successfully operating in the shipbuilding division of 'H' companies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.856-858
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• 2013

The data which is sensed on USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) environment is concerned with personal privacy and the secret information of business, but it has more vulnerable characteristics, in contrast to common networks. In other words, USN has the vulnerabilities which is easily exposed to the attacks such as the eavesdropping of sensor information, the distribution of abnormal packets, the reuse of message, an forgery attack, and denial of service attacks. Therefore, the key is necessarily required for secure communication between sensor nodes. This paper proposes a KDPC(Key Distribution Protocol based on Cluster) using ECDH algorithm by considering the characteristics of sensor network. As a result, the KDPC can provide the safe USN environment by detecting the forgery data and preventing the exposure of sensing data.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

The Sensor Network enables many distributed systems to be unmanned and automated by using of diverse sensors as well as wireless communication technologies. One of major enabling technologies for the sensor network is the USN middleware which plays the role of collecting and analyzing of measurements of sensors and controlling of the environments. The paper deals with the fungus cultivating environment based on Sensor Networks. Especially, we focus on the design of USN middleware for the embedded system, and explain how to design software architecture in terms of architectural patterns. In this design process, the improvement of methodology for pattern-oriented architecture design is proposed and the quality attributes for the architecture design is newly classified and suggested for the reference of software architecture design.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.1022-1025
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• 2009

USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) is a core infrastructure that makes come true the u-life in the ubiquitous society through various services of area such as u-city and u-Health. Therefore, we need to reseach about the domestic standards to establish the core technique of USN. Currently, the status of USN standards is most of technical standard and reseach that are technology for sensor node implementation and a protocol for energy-efficient communication and interlock with existing network. But, Standard and reseach for sensor network, integration management of heterogeneous sensor networks for USN application, sensing data management and USN database structure definition such as application and middleware are weak level. In this paper, we researched for standard development of the domestic sensor network service and relevant standard analysis to configure SWE(Sensor Web Enablement) of OGC(Open Geospatial Consortium) for standarded plattform technoloy in part of the middleware. Also we researched that it's a connection between domestic TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association) standards and SWE Standard. Finally, we researched for standard service plattform architecture on sensor network through analysis on the possibility of applying OGC-based services platform.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.4B
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• pp.174-183
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• 2008

In this paper we design and implement a sensor network management framework(SNMF) for ubiquitous sensor networks(USNs). The SNMF employs the policy-based management approach for the autonomous and energy-efficient management of USNs. Moreover, a new light-weight policy distribution protocol called TinyCOPS-PR is designed and USN PIB for low-level policy is also defined. This allows the high-level policies defined by an administrator to translate into the specific low-level policies. The low-level policies are executed on sensor nodes so it can fulfill the proper management actions. The sensor nodes that receive some policies from an administrator perform local management actions according to those policies. SNMF can therefore realize small energy consumption and bring long network lifetime. It can also manage USNs automatically with a minimum of human interference.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.663-673
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• 2008

The multi-scenario topology of multi-channel hybrid ubiquitous sensor networks (USNs) is studied and a novel link auto-diversity cross-layer cooperative scheduling scheme is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme integrates the attributes of the new performance evaluation link auto-diversity air-time metric and the topology space in the given multi-scenario. The proposed scheme is compared with other schemes, and its superiority is demonstrated through simulations. The simulation results show that relative energy consumption, link reception probability, and end-to-end blocking probability are improved. The addressing ratio of success with unchanged parameters and external information can be increased. The network can tolerate more hops to support reliable transportation when the proposed scheme is implemented. Moreover, the scheme can make the network stable. Therefore, the proposed scheme can enhance the average rate performance of the hybrid USN and stabilize the outage probability.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.461-472
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• 2007

In Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN), the sensor nodes are required to consume their energy evenly to prolong the lifetime of the entire sensor network because of the limited energy of the sensor node. AODV which is applied to USN as routing protocol selects route according to only the shortest distance of the minimum hop count but regardless of the remaining battery power for each node. Thus it comes to ill-balanced power consumption seriously. In this paper, a scheme that controls packet relay quantity of each sensor node adaptively to prevent traffic overhead at a certain node and to increase the entire network lifetime is proposed. As it is analyzed by simulations, the proposed scheme enhances USN lifetime by balancing each sensor node's packet relay quantity.