• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.3213-3230
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• 2016

Sensor node (SN) is a crucial part in any remote monitoring system. It is a device designed to monitor the particular changes taking place in its environs. Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a system formed by the set of wirelessly connected SNs placed at different geographical locations within a target region. Precise placement of SNs is appreciated, as it affects the efficiency and effectiveness of any WSN. The manual placement of SNs is only feasible for small scale regions. The task of SN placement becomes tedious, when the size of a target region is extremely large and manually unreachable. In this research article, an automated mechanism for fast and precise deployment of SNs in a large scale target region has been proposed. It uses an assembly of rotating cannons to launch the SNs from a moving carrier helicopter. The entire system is synchronized such that the launched SNs accurately land on the pre-computed desired locations (DLs). Simulation results show that the proposed model offers a simple, time efficient and effective technique to place SNs in a large scale target region.

• 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보컨버전스학회 2008년도 International conference on information convergence
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• pp.199-204
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• 2008

Sensor nodes have various energy and computational constraints because of their inexpensive nature and ad-hoc method of deployment. Considerable research has been focused at overcoming these deficiencies through faster media accessing, more energy efficient routing, localization algorithms and system design. Our research attempts to provide a method of improvement MAC performance in these issues. We show that traditional carrier-sense multiple access(CSMA) protocols like IEEE 802.11 do not handle the first constraint adequately, and do not take advantage of the second property, leading to degraded latency and throughput as the network scales in size, We present more efficient method of a medium access for real-time wireless sensor networks. Proposed MAC protocol is a randomized CSMA protocol, but unlike previous legacy protocols, does not use a time-varying contention window from which a node randomly picks a transmission slot. To reduce the latency for the delivery of event reports, it carefully decides a fixed-size contention window, non-uniform probability distribution of transmitting in each slot within the window. We show that it can offer up to several times latency reduction compared to legacy of IEEE 802.11 as the size of the sensor network scales up to 256 nodes using widely used simulator ns-2. We, finally show that proposed MAC scheme comes close to meeting bounds on the best latency achievable by a decentralized CSMA-based MAC protocol for real-time wireless sensor networks which is sensitive to latency.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.310-319
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• 2011

In this paper, a new soft-fusion approach for multiple-receiver wireless communication systems is proposed. In the proposed approach, each individual receiver provides the central receiver with a confidence level rather than a binary decision. The confidence levels associated with the local receiver are modeled by means of soft-membership functions. The proposed approach can be applied to wireless digital communication systems, such as amplitude shift keying, frequency shift keying, phase shift keying, multi-carrier code division multiple access, and multiple inputs multiple outputs sensor networks. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated and compared to the performance of the optimal diversity, majority voting, optimal partial decision, and selection diversity in case of binary noncoherent frequency shift keying on a Rayleigh faded additive white Gaussian noise channel. It is shown that the proposed approach achieves considerable performance improvement over optimal partial decision, majority voting, and selection diversity. It is also shown that the proposed approach achieves a performance comparable to the optimal diversity scheme.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2011

In this paper, a new medium access control (MAC) protocol entitled three-phase multiple access with continual contention resolution (TPMA-CCR) is proposed for wireless multi-hop ad hoc networks. This work is motivated by the previously known three-phase multiple access (TPMA) scheme of Hou and Tsai [2] which is the suitable MAC protocol for clustering multi-hop ad hoc networks owing to its beneficial attributes such as easy collision detectible, anonymous acknowledgment (ACK), and simple signaling format for the broadcast-natured networks. The new TPMA-CCR is designed to let all contending nodes participate in contentions for a medium access more aggressively than the original TPMA and with continual resolving procedures as well. Through the systematical performance analysis of the suggested protocol, it is also shown that the maximum throughput of the new protocol is not only superior to the original TPMA, but also improves on the conventional slotted carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) under certain circumstances. Thus, in terms of performance, TPMA-CCR can provide an attractive alternative to other contention-based MAC protocols for multi-hop ad hoc networks.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.460-470
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• 2015

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is one of the most widely used technologies in current wireless communication systems and standards. Cognitive radio (CR) provides a robust solution to the problem of spectrum congestion as it offers opportunistic usage of frequency bands that are not occupied by primary users. Due to the underlying sensing, spectrum shaping, scaling, and interoperable capabilities of OFDM, it has been adapted as a best transmission technology for CR wireless systems. However, the performance of an OFDM-based CR wireless system is affected by the existence of narrowband interference (NBI) from other users. Further, due to carrier frequency offset in NBI sources, NBI energy may spread over all subcarriers of an OFDM signal. In this paper, a fixed Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay that operates at a frequency band that is different from that of direct mode is introduced to suppress the effect of NBI. Analytical expressions are derived for outage probability in direct, AF-relay, and incremental relaying modes. The outage performance of the proposed AF relay-based CR network is proven to be better than that of direct mode.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.605-613
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 CSMA 다중 access 방식으로 분산 무선 통신망을 구현할 때 다중 access 방식의 성능을 비교하였다. 또한 숨겨진 노드가 존재하거나 전자파 장애로 인한 CSMA방식의 성능 저하의 원인을 개설 할 수 있는 프로토콜을 제안하여 성능을 개선하였다. 숨겨진 노드가 존재하는 상황에서 CSMA의 방식을 개선하기 위해 중앙 집중식망에서 ISMA(Idle Signal Multiple Access), BTMA(Busy Tone Multiple Access), BCMA(Busy Channel Multiple Access)등 과 같은 채널 access 방식을 사용하였다. 본 논문에서는 중앙 집중식이 아닌 분산이면서 독립적인 노드로 통신하는 환경에서 숨겨진 노드가 존재하거나 전자파 방애로 인한 노드들이 있는 경우 성능 개선을 위해 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 새로운 프로토콜을 이용하여 컴퓨터 모의실험(simulation)을 함으로써 처리율(throughput)과 전송성공 확률이 실질적으로 개선됨을 확인하였다. 모의실험은 OPNET simulator를 사용하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.193-202
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• 2023

We demonstrate the transmission of uncompressed 4K videos over the photonics-based terahertz (THz) wireless link using a directly modulated distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD). For optical heterodyne mixing and data modulation, a DFB-LD was employed and directly modulated with a 5.94-Gb/s non-return-to-zero signal, which is related to a 6G-serial digital interface standard to support ultra-high-definition video resolution. We derived the optimal frequency of the THz carrier by varying the wavelength difference between DFB-LD output and Tunable LD output in the THz signal transmitter to obtain the best transmission performances of the uncompressed 4K video signals. Furthermore, we exploited the negative laser-to-filter detuning for the adiabatic chirp management of the DFB-LD by the intentional discrepancy between the center wavelength of the optical band-pass filter and the output wavelength of the DFB-LD. With the help of the abovementioned methods, we successfully transmitted uncompressed 4K video signals over the 2.3-m wireless transmission distance without black frames induced by time synchronization error.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2004

IEEE 802.11a 무선 LAN에서 사용하는 임의 접근 방식은 CSMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance)에 기반한 DCF(Distributed Coordination Function)방식이다. 그러나, IEEE 802.11는 지수적 백오프 방식을 사용하기 때문에, 충돌이 일어났을 경우 경쟁 윈도우의 크기가 2배로 커진다. 따라서, 패킷 전송 지연 시간이 증가하게 되어, 효율성이 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 수정된 백오프 알고리즘 방식을 사용하여 IEEE 802.11 MAC DCF 프로토콜의 TCP 패킷 전송 시간을 분석하였다. 결과로부터, OFDM/QPSK 변조 방식의 패킷 전송에 있어 패킷 전송 시간을 줄이기 위해서 TCP 패킷 크기가 증가해야 한다는 것을 알 수 있었고, 실험 결과로부터 TCP 계층 안 TCP 패킷 크기와 전체 메시지 전송 시간 상관관계에서 TCP 계층의 적당한 패킷 크기를 구할 수가 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.4296-4301
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• 2011

갠트리 로더(Gantry loader)는 생산설비 자동화의 물류이송에서 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 최근 물류 반송거리가 확대되면서 이동반(Carrier)과 제어반(Controller)의 유선연결로 갠트리 운동의 장해, 주기적 유지보수로 인한 시간 지연 등이 문제점으로 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이동반과 제어반의 연결을 무선화 하여 생산효율을 향상시키고자 갠트리 로더의 기구부를 트롤리 바(Trolley Bar)를 사용하여 개선하고 무선통신 시스템과 모션 제어기 및 제어 프로그램을 제작하여 무선 갠트리 로더 시스템을 개발하였으며 유선 갠트리 시스템과의 비교 평가를 통해 정밀도와 안정성을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.272-283
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• 2010

무선 메쉬 네트워크는 최근 주목받는 연구 주제로 부상하고 있다. 무선 메쉬 네트워크는 대규모 무선 랜 장치와 AP들이 서로 연결된 무선 기반 구조로, 무선 메쉬 네트워크의 처리량(throughput)을 향상시키는 것을 목표로 한 수많은 연구가 이루어진 바 있다. 여기에서는 동시에 생겨나는 다수의 트래픽 흐름들을 전송하기 위한 적절한 라우팅 경로를 설정하는 작업이 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 DCF하에서 전송되는 다수의 트래픽 흐름에 대해 신호 감지(Carrier Sensing), 간섭 등의 정보를 이용하여 양 말단간 (end-to-end) 처리량을 수학적으로 모델화하기 위한 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 각 단말에 성공적으로 이루어지는 평균 서비스 시간을 비교하고, 한편으로는 트래픽 흐름 가운데 병목현상이 발생하는 부분을 찾아내어 그로부터 말단간 처리량의 최대치를 계산할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제시된 모델을 사용하여 동시에 전송되는 다수의 트래픽 흐름을 전달하기 위한 전송 경로에 대한 후보 경로를 얻어낼 수 있으며, 얻어진 경로로부터 처리량을 최대로 높일 수 있는 효율적인 경로를 찾아낼 수 있다. 제시된 모델링 기법과 최적 경로 선택 메커니즘은 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서의 다양한 트래픽 흐름을 사용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 평가하였다.