• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.01a
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• pp.409-412
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 환자가 실내 측위 기술과 스마트폰을 이용하여 대형 병원의 내부에서 진료 동선을 스스로 찾아갈 수 있도록 하는데 도움을 주는 네비게이션 모델을 제안한다. 정보기술의 비약적인 발전과 함께 실내 측위 기술을 결합한 스마트폰의 위치기반 어플리케이션들이 각광 받게 되었다. 또한, 실내 측위와 관련된 응용 서비스도 새로이 창출되어 점차 이에 대한 관심과 그 정확성을 높이기 위한 연구들이 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 기존의 실내측위 기법들 중 가장 보편적인 것은 Wi-Fi 신호를 이용 하는 삼각측량 기법으로 초기 구축비용이 저렴하며 서비스 제공 가능 범위가 넓어 본 논문에서 다루고자 하는 장소인 병원의 특성에 알맞다. 따라서 본 모델은 Wi-Fi를 이용하여 사용자의 정확한 위치를 추정하고 진료 프로세스에 따라 경로를 안내를 해주는 네비게이션 서비스를 제공한다. 이를 통하여 환자에게는 진료를 위한 효율적인 동선을 제공함과 동시에 대형 병원에서는 인적, 물적 낭비를 줄이는데 도움이 되고자 한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.2668-2717
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• 2021

Demands for high-speed wireless data services grow rapidly. It is a big challenge to increasing the network capacity operating on licensed spectrum resources. Unlicensed spectrum cellular networks have been proposed as a solution in response to severe spectrum shortage. Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) was standardized by 3GPP, aiming to deliver data services through unlicensed 5 GHz spectrum. Furthermore, the 3GPP proposed 5G New Radio-Unlicensed (NR-U) study item. On the other hand, artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted enormous attention to implement 5G and beyond systems, which is known as Intelligent Radio (IR). To tackle the challenges of unlicensed spectrum networks in 4G/5G/B5G systems, a lot of works have been done, focusing on using Machine Learning (ML) to support resource allocation in LTE-LAA/NR-U and Wi-Fi coexistence environments. Generally speaking, ML techniques are used in IR based on statistical models established for solving specific optimization problems. In this paper, we aim to conduct a comprehensive survey on the recent research efforts related to unlicensed cellular networks and IR technologies, which work jointly to implement 5G and beyond wireless networks. Furthermore, we introduce a positioning assisted LTE-LAA system based on the difference in received signal strength (DRSS) to allocate resources among UEs. We will also discuss some open issues and challenges for future research on the IR applications in unlicensed cellular networks.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.91-100
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• 2013

This paper introduces an indoor sensor fusion wireless communication device which provides the Location Based Service (LBS) using fire prevention facility. The proposed system can provide information in real time by optimizing the hardware of Wi-Fi technology. The proposed system can be applied to a fire prevention facility (i.e., emergency exit) and provide information such as escape way, emergency exit location, and accident alarm to smart phone users, dedicated terminal holders, or other related organizations including guardians, which makes them respond instantly with lifesaving, emergency mobilization, etc. Also, the proposed system can be used as a composite fire detection sensor node with additional fire and motion detect sensors.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.11-16
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• 2023

As techniques for indoor positioning, fingerprinting, indoor positioning method using trilateration, and utilizing information obtained from equipments by Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, etc are common and representative methods to specify the user's indoor position. However, in these methods, an indoor space should be provided with enough space to install a large number of equipment (AP, Beacon). In this paper, we propose a technique that can express the user's location within a building by simultaneously using the GPS signal and the signal transmitted from the beacon in a building structure where the conventional method cannot be applied, such as a narrow building. A shortest path search system was designed and implemented by applying the Dijkstra Algorithm, one of the most representative and efficient shortest path search algorithms for shortest path search. The proposed technique can be considered as one of the methods for measuring the user's indoor location considering the structural characteristics of a building in the future.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.106-116
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• 2012

The huge success of location-aware applications has called for the rapid development of an alternative positioning system to the global positioning system (GPS) for indoor localization based on existing technologies, such as 802.11 wireless networks. This paper proposes the Wireless MAC Processor Positioning System (WMPS), which is a localization system running on off-the-shelf 802.11 Access Points and based on the time-of-flight ranging of users' standard terminals. This paper proves through extensive experiments that the propagation delays can be measured with the accuracy required by indoor applications despite the different noise components that can affect the result: latencies of the hardware transreceivers, multipath, ACK jitters and timer quantization. Key to this solution is the choice of the Wireless MAC Processor architecture, which enables a straightforward implementation of the ranging subsystem directly inside the commercial cards without affecting the basic DCF channel access algorithm. In addition to the proposed measurement framework, this study developed a simple and effective localization algorithm that can work without requiring any preliminary calibration or device characterization. Finally, the architecture allows the measurement methodology to be adjusted as a function of the network load or propagation environments at the run time, without requiring any firmware update.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.50-55
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• 2023

Due to the unavailability of global positioning system (GPS) indoors, various indoor pedestrian positioning methods have been designed to estimate the position of the user using received signal strength (RSS) measurements from radio beacons, such as wireless fidelity (WiFi) access points and Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons. In indoor environments, radio-frequency (RF) signals are unpredictable and change over space and time because of multipath associated with reflection and refraction, shadow fading caused by obstacles, and interference among different devices using the same frequencies. Therefore, the outliers in the positional information obtained from the indoor positioning method based on RSS measurements occur often. For this reason, the performance of the positioning method can be degraded by the characteristics of the RF signal. To resolve this issue, a map-matching (MM) algorithm based on maximum probability (MP) estimation is applied to the indoor positioning method in this study. The MM algorithm locates the aberrant position of the user estimated by the positioning method within the limits of the adjacent pedestrian passages. Empirical experiments show that the positioning method can achieve higher positioning accuracy by leveraging the MM algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.373-374
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• 2015

스마트폰에 대한 사용빈도와 그 기술에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있는 현대사회에서는 다양한 응용 서비스를 만족하기 위한 위치기반 서비스의 필요성이 증대하고 있으며, 특히 Wi-Fi 기반의 실내 측위는 RFID와 같이 측위를 위한 추가 장비가 필요하지 않은 장점을 가지고 있기에, 본 연구에서는 다양한 측위 기술 가운데 오차 범위가 적은 Fingerprinting 방식에 무선 네트워크에서 대표적으로 사용되는 IEEE 802.11를 기반으로 KNN 방식을 이용한 실내 측위 시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.2730-2736
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• 2010

Recently, various networks have been introduced in the car of the internal and external sides. These have been integrated by one HMI(Human Machine Interface) to control devices of each network and provide information service. The existing vehicle navigation system, providing GPS based vehicle positioning service, has been included to these integrated networks as a default option. The GPS has been used to the most universal device to provide position information by using satellites' signal. But It is impossible to provide the position information when the GPS can't receive the satellites' signal in the area of tunnel, urban canyon, or forest canopy. Thus, this paper propose and implement the method of measuring vehicle position by using the sensing data of internal CAN network and external Wi-Fi network of the integrated car navigation circumstances when the GPS doesn't work normally. The results obtained by implementation shows the proposed method works well by map matching.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.7B
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• pp.586-594
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• 2012

The drastic growth of mobile communication and spreading of smart phone make the significant attention on Location Based Service. The one of most important things for vitalization of LBS is the accurate estimating position for mobile object. Focusing on AP's probabilistic position estimation, we develop an AP distribution map and new pattern matching algorithm for position estimation. The developed approaches can strengthen the advantages of Radio fingerprint based Wi-Fi Positioning System, especiall on the algorithms and data handling. Compared on the existing approaches of fingerprint pattern matching algorithm, we achieve the comparable higher performance on both of average error of estimation and deviation of errors. Furthermore all fingerprint data have been harvested from the actual measurement of radio fingerprint of Seoul, Kangnam area. This can approve the practical usefulness of proposed methodology.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.573-578
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• 2019

Recently, the development of indoor positioning technology, base station positioning, Wi - Fi positioning, and Bluetooth beacon positioning technology have been introduced in buildings and underground space. This paper introduces a technique that enables user-oriented ultra-high precision positioning by adopting a lenticular positioning technology, which is a method in which a user directly locates a user's moving line based on a provider-oriented positioning system and service. Through the study on the implementation of coverage using lenticular stickers, we will discuss how to implement coverage of lenticular stickers, which is one of the most important parts of lenticular positioning technology.