• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.171-185
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• 2023

The cardiovascular syndrome is the dominant reason for death and the number of deaths due to this syndrome has greatly increased recently. Regular cardiac monitoring is crucial in controlling heart parameters, particularly for initial examination and precautions. The quantity of cardiac patients is rising each day and it would increase the load of work for doctors/nurses in handling the patients' situation. Hence, it needed a solution that might benefit doctors/nurses in monitoring the improvement of the health condition of patients in real-time and likewise assure decreasing medical treatment expenses. Regular heart monitoring via wireless body area networks (WBANs) including implantable and wearable medical devices is contemplated as a life-changing technique for medical assistance. This article focuses on the latest development in wearable and implantable devices for cardiovascular monitoring. First, we go through the wearable devices for the electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring. Then, we reviewed the implantable devices for Blood Pressure (BP) monitoring. Subsequently, the evaluation of leading wearable and implantable sensors for heart monitoring mentioned over the previous six years, the current article provides uncertain direction concerning the description of diagnostic effectiveness, thus intending on making discussion in the technical communal to permit aimed at the formation of well-designed techniques. The article is concluded by debating several technical issues in wearable and implantable technology and their possible potential solutions for conquering these challenges.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 RFID와 근거리 무선 통신 기술인 ZigBee를 접목시켜 유비쿼터스 u-Health 시스템을 구현하였다. RFID 태그인식 기술, ZigBee의 데이터 송수신 기술을 이용하는 무선 프로토콜 키트를 만들었고 TinyOS에서 ZigBee의 소프트웨어를 구현하였다. RFID와 접목 가능한 무선 통신 기술들은 Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.11x WLAN 등이 있다. 논문에서 제시한 환경은 무인간병과 같은 u-Health 시스템으로서, 조밀한 sensor 네트워크 환경을 갖게 되는 병원 등의 환경에 적합하도록 ZigBee를 사용한 것이다. RFID와 ZigBee가 부착되는 디바이스들은 앞으로 팔찌, 손목시계, 반지 등의 크기로 소형화 될 것이다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 RFID와 ZigBee 통합 환경은 WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network) 및 WPAN(Wireless Person Area Network)환경에서 상태 정보를 인식하여 원하는 action들로 반응하도록 요구되는 응용에 활용될 수 있다. 태그의 정보와 환자의 상태에 따라 여러 가지 제약사항을 두어 환자의 단말기에 문자정보의 형태로 LCD에 표시하거나, 음성정보로 메시지를 전송하도록 설계하고 구축하였다 RFID는 어플리케이션의 목적에 맞춰 다양한 무선통신 기술과의 결합을 이루어 나갈 것이다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.19-29
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• 2011

The u-Healthcare system, a new paradigm, provides healthcare and medical service anytime, anywhere in daily life using wired and wireless networks. It only doesn't reach u-Hospital at home, to manage efficient personal health in fitness space, it is essential to feedback process through measuring and analyzing a personal vital signs. MBAN(Medical Body Area Network) is a core of this technology. MBAN, a new paradigm of the u-Healthcare system, can provide healthcare and medical service anytime, anywhere on real time in daily life using u-sensor networks. In this paper, an ontology-based context-awareness in MBAN proposed system development methodology. Accordingly, ontology-based context awareness system on MBAN to Elderly/severe patients/aged/, with measured respiratory rate/temperature/pulse and vital signs having small variables through u-sensor network in real-time, discovered abnormal signs and emergency situations which may happen to people at sleep or activity, alarmed and connected with members of a family or medical emergency alarm(Emergency Call) and 119 system to avoid sudden accidents for early detection. Therefore, We have proposed that accuracy of biological signal sensing and the confidence of ontology should be inspected.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1547-1568
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• 2013

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is an emerging short-range wireless communication network with sensor nodes located on, in or around the human body for healthcare, entertainment and ubiquitous computing. In WBANs, energy is severely constrained which is the prime consideration in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol named Energy-efficient Relay MAC with dynamic Power Control (ERPC-MAC) to save energy consumption. Without relying on the additional devices, ERPC-MAC employs relaying nodes to provide relay service for nodes which consume energy fast. Accordingly the superframe adjustment is performed and then the network topology can be smoothly switched from single-hop to multi-hop. Moreover, for further energy saving and reliability improvement, the dynamic power control is introduced to adjust the power level whenever a node transmits its packets to the coordinator or the relaying node. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first effort to integrate relay, topology adjustment and power control to improve the network performance in a WBAN. Comprehensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance. The results show that the ERPC-MAC is more superior to the existing standard and significantly prolongs the network lifetime.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3751-3774
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• 2014

With the rapid development of wireless communication, the confliction between the scarce frequency resources and the low spectral efficiency caused by the stationary spectrum sharing strategies seriously restricts the evolution of the future mobile communication. For this purpose, cognitive radio (CR) emerges as one of the most promising inventions which can overcome the spectrum shortage. As the key technology and main objective of CR, spectrum sharing can make full use of the limited spectrum, alleviate the scarcity of frequency resources and improve the system utilities, playing thereby an important role in improving the system performance of cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In this survey, the spectrum sharing in CRNs is discussed in terms of the sharing process, mainstream sharing technologies and spectrum sharing models. In particular, comparisons of different spectrum sharing strategies are concluded, as well as that of different spectrum sensing schemes in sharing procedure. Moreover, some application examples of the spectrum sharing in CRNs, such as smart grid, public safety, cellular network and medical body area networks are also introduced. In addition, our previous related works are presented and the open research issues in the field of spectrum sharing are stated as well.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4385-4399
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• 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) eHealth systems composed by Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has emerged recently. Sensor nodes are placed around or in the human body to collect physiological data. WBAN has many different applications, for instance health monitoring. Since the limitation of the size of the battery, besides speed, reliability, and accuracy; design of WBAN protocols should consider the energy efficiency and time delay. To solve these problems, this paper adopt the end-edge-cloud orchestrated network architecture and propose a transmission based on reinforcement algorithm. The priority of sensing data is classified according to certain application. System utility function is modeled according to the channel factors, the energy utility, and successful transmission conditions. The optimization problem is mapped to Q-learning model. Following this online power control protocol, the energy level of both the senor to coordinator, and coordinator to edge server can be modified according to the current channel condition. The network performance is evaluated by simulation. The results show that the proposed power control protocol has higher system energy efficiency, delivery ratio, and throughput.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.640-647
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• 2014

WBAN 기술은 3 m 이내에 위치한 인체 내부 및 외부 디바이스들을 무선으로 연결하는 근거리 무선통신 기술이다. WBAN 기반의 센서 네트워크를 지원하기 위해서는 WBAN 미들웨어 및 응용서비스를 위한 핵심 기술의 개발이 필요하다. 환자의 생체 정보를 수집하기 위한 장치로는 한백전자에서 출시된 zigbex를 사용하였으며 생체 정보를 수집하기 위한 메시지 구조로 바이오 모듈 메시지를 제안하였다. WBAN 환경을 위한 게이트웨이 설계 및 구현을 위하여 한백전자의 임베디드 시스템인 HBE-empos II를 사용하였으며 WBAN 네트워크를 위한 BNC와 BN를 구현하기 위해서 HBE-ubi-zigbex를 사용하였다. 마지막으로 제안한 센서 게이트웨이를 사용하여 다른 네트워크와 연동이 가능함을 확인 하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.286-289
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• 2006

Measurement results are presented for the effects of people moving near and across short-range indoor propagation links at 2.45 GHz (ISM band). Excess loss due to scattering and blockage by human bodies in the vicinity of one terminal were measured for different radio links in an office environment. Statistics on fades due to human body motion are given. Polarization coupling (depolarization) for various radio links was measured, and correlation of polarization components is discussed as a basis for using polarization diversity reception in short-range indoor systems.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2019

인체 통신은 인체를 매질로 통신하는 기술로, BAN (Body-Area Network) 환경에서, 무선 통신에 비해 신호 감쇠 측면에서 큰 이점이 있어 배터리로 동작하는 웨어러블 기기 간 통신 시 저전력 통신을 지원할 수 있다. 하지만, 인체 통신은 그 이점에 비해 안전성 등의 문제가 있어 채널 특성에 대한 연구가 미비하였다. 이에 본 논문은 인체 채널 특성에 있어 통신 성능에 영향을 주는 MAC 파라미터를 제시하고, 이를 이용한 새로운 인체 통신 용 MAC 프로토콜을 제안하고, 또한, 각기 다른 가드 인터벌을 설정하여 성능을 분석하였다. 결과로, IEEE 802.15.6 표준 기반 Slotted aloha 프로토콜에 비해 약 300kbps의 Goodput 이득을 가졌으며, Duty cycle 또한 약 7.07%로, 표준의 최소 duty cycle이 약 5%이지만, Goodput을 고려했을 때, 인정할 수 있는 성능이라 볼 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1447-1453
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• 2014

IEEE 802.15.6 표준인 무선 Body Area Networks (WBAN) 은 여러 디지털 장비들을 가지고 있는 사람과 사람간의 통신규약이다. WBAN 에서는 하나의 주 디바이스와 여러 개의 부 디바이스들을 가진 한 사람 단위로 피코넷이 구성 되며, 이 피코넷은 사람의 움직임에 따라 이동하게 되며, 다른 사람과 근처에 있게 되면 피코넷간의 충돌이 일어나게 된다. 따라서 이와 같은 충돌을 감지하고 간섭을 회피하는 일이 피코넷 내부 통신을 위하여 필요하게 된다. 이 논문에서는 피코넷 충돌에 관하여 논하며, 간단하며 유용한 로컬 오프셋을 이용한 분산시간 분리 피코넷 충돌회피 방법을 제시한다. 이 제시된 방법은 여러 응용(동영상, 보안, 의료 등)을 위하여 응용마다 다른 수준의 서비스를 제공하는 하게 되는 기능을 갖게 되며, 수행된 실험 결과는 전통적인 CSMA 에 비교하여 성능이 뒤지지 않음을 보인다.