• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.176-192
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• 2014

The realization of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) has been fostered by the availability of low cost and low power CMOS devices. However, the transmission of bulk video data requires adequate bandwidth, which cannot be promised by single path communication on an intrinsically low resourced sensor network. Moreover, the distortion or artifacts in the video data and the adherence to delay threshold adds to the challenge. In this paper, we propose a two stage Quality of Service (QoS) guaranteeing scheme called Prioritized Multipath WMSN (PMW) for transmitting H.264 encoded video. Multipath selection based on QoS metrics is done in the first stage, while the second stage further prioritizes the paths for sending H.264 encoded video frames on the best available path. PMW uses two composite metrics that are comprised of hop-count, path energy, BER, and end-to-end delay. A color-coded assisted network maintenance and failure recovery scheme has also been proposed using (a) smart greedy mode, (b) walking back mode, and (c) path switchover. Moreover, feedback controlled adaptive video encoding can smartly tune the encoding parameters based on the perceived video quality. Computer simulation using OPNET validates that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the conventional approaches on human eye perception and delay.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.931-940
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• 2012

Social networking services which spreading rapidly is a system using interrelationship of people by internet or mobile. SNS is a network system of the human-centered. In this paper, in order to make robot become a member of social networks we studied the necessary elements and formation. For robot with communication function and sensing, autonomous, collision avoidance method and communication protocol is needed to let Robot share the present conditions dangerous or special situation. We realized this after investigating necessary sensor for SNS, studying robot's collision-avoidance method, and defining protocol of robot for SNS. Also, we suggested and implemented the wired and wireless integrated communications method.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.1329-1336
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• 2015

Due to the advances in hardware technologies for low-power CMOS cameras, there have been various researches on wireless video sensor network(WVSN) applications including agricultural monitoring and environmental tracking. In such a system, its core technologies include video compression and wireless transmission. Since data of video sensors are bigger than those of other sensors, it is particularly necessary to estimate precisely the traffic after video encoding. In this paper, we present an estimation method for the encoded video traffic in WVSN networks. To estimate traffic characteristics accurately, the proposed method first measures complexities of frames and then applies them to the bit rate estimation adaptively. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed method improves the estimation of bit rate characteristics by more than 12% as compared to the existing method.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.931-942
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• 2010

A home network provides users with a variety of information services. The kind and quality of the services can be substantially enhanced by utilizing a variety of data from sensors. However, home networks currently limit their potential by focusing on providing multimedia services rather than services utilizing sensor data. Outdoor electronics are frequently made in a form that emphasizes only certain limited functions in contrast to home appliances. Thus, sensors with one or two functions rather than many can be used in outdoor systems and their use will be more economical than using sensor nodes indoors with more complex home appliances. In this study, we chose to work with motion sensors as they have many potential uses, and we selected a parking lot control system with to use the motion sensors. This parking lot control system was implemented and applied as part of a home network. For this purpose, we defined and implemented a protocol to manage the network in a ubiquitous sensor network environment for the wireless home network in this study. Although a network management system in a Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) related to this study is being advanced for other projects, the protocol interface and message system have not yet been clearly defined for use in a general purpose network or in an extension into heterogeneous kinds of networks, communication support, etc. Therefore, USN network management should be conducted for management of faults, composition, power, and applications. To verify the performance of the protocol interface designed in this study, we designed and implemented the necessary units (sensor nodes, sensor gateway, and server) for each network section and, with them, proved the validity of this study.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.269-277
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• 2007

Network clustering has been proposed to provide that sensor nodes minimize energy and maximize a network lifetime by configuring clusters, Although dynamic clustering brings extra overhead like as head changing, head advertisement, it may diminish the gain in energy consumption to report attribute tasks by using cluster heads. Therefore, this paper proposes a new routing algorithm which configures cluster to reduce the number of messages when establishing paths and reports to the sink by way of cluster heads when responding sens ing tasks. All sensor nodes only broadcast bitmap once and maintain a bitmap table expressed by bits, allowing them to reduce node energy and to prolong the network lifetime. After broadcasting, each node only updates the bitmap without propagation when the adjacent nodes broad cast same query messages, This mechanism makes nodes to have abundant paths. By modifying the query which requests sensing tasks, the size of cluster is designed dynamically, We try to divide cluster by considering the number of nodes. Then, all nodes in a certain cluster must report to the sub- sink node, The proposed routing protocol finds easily an appropriate path to report tasks and reduces the number of required messages for the routing establishment, which sensor nodes minimize energy and maximize a network lifetime.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.308-310
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• 2012

최근 무선 센서 네트워크 환경에서 대용량 멀티미디어 데이터에 대한 요구가 증가하면서 통신 대역폭 및 한정적인 에너지의 한계를 극복하기 위한 대안으로 데이터 분할 및 다중 경로 기법들이 제안되었다. 기존 기법들은 데이터 전송 시에 발생하는 부하의 분산을 통해 네트워크의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다는 것을 증명하였지만, 데이터의 효율적인 분할과 악의적인 공격에 의한 보안성 문제에 대해서 고려하지 않았다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 비트평면 분할 기반의 보안성 있는 비-중첩 다중경로 라우팅 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 멀티미디어 데이터를 비트평면 단위로 분할하여 다중 경로로 전송함으로써 기존의 키 기반의 암호화 기법을 사용하지 않고도 전체 네트워크에 대한 보안성을 향상 시켰다. 또한 경로 상 노드들의 잔여 에너지를 고려하여 데이터 전송을 수행함으로써 전체 네트워크의 에너지 효율성을 향상시켰다. 성능평가 결과, 제안하는 기법은 기존 기법에 비해 노드의 생존율이 평균 50% 이상 향상되었고, 데이터가 노출되더라도 해당 패킷을 가지고 본래 이미지를 복구하는 것이 불가능하기 때문에 높은 보안성을 제공한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.202-204
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• 2012

무선 멀티미디어 센서 네트워크는 무선 통신과 비정형 네트워크 토폴로지를 기반으로 운용되며 스트리밍 미디어 데이터가 연속적으로 전송되기 때문에 악의적인 목적을 가진 사용자의 공격에 쉽게 노출이 된다. 따라서 무선 멀티미디어 센서 네트워크에서 보안은 필수적이다. 모든 대용량 데이터를 암호화 하는 것은 한정적인 자원을 가지고 있는 무선 센서 네트워크에서는 적합하지 않으므로 데이터의 일부만을 암호화 하는 선택적 암호화 기법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 프레임 간의 동적인 움직임을 감지하고 이를 압축 하고 암호화하는 선택적 암호화 기법을 제안한다. 동적인 영역만을 암호화함으로써 암호화 대상 데이터의 크기를 효과적으로 감소시킴으로써 스트리밍 데이터에 적합하며 전체적인 네트워크 수명을 연장시키는 것이 가능하다. 제안하는 기법의 우수성을 보이기 위해 기존 기법과 제안하는 기법의 성능 평가를 수행한다. 성능평가 결과, 제안하는 기법은 기존 기법에 비해 데이터 전송량이 약 80.3% 감소했으며, 영상을 전송하기 위한 에너지 소모는 약 76.9% 감소하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1053-1056
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• 2010

현재 센서 네트워크 시스템을 이용한 다양한 지능형 응용들에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 일반적으로 센서 네트워크는 환경정보를 수집하기 위해 많이 활용된다. 최근 더욱 상세한 환경 모니터링이나 고품질 데이터에 대한 요구로 인해 멀티미디어 데이터의 요구가 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 Zigbee 기반 센서 네트워크의 낮은 대역폭의 한계를 극복하고, 실시간 멀티미디어 데이터 전송을 위한 라우팅 기법에 대한 연구를 수행한다. 기존에 제안된 멀티미디어 데이터 전송 기법의 경우 비효율적인 다중경로 설정단계로 인해 경로설정 시간의 지연이 발생하고, Zigbee 의 대역폭 한계로 인해 낮은 데이터 전송속도를 보인다. 본 논문은 기존 기법의 대역폭 문제를 해결하는 블루투스와 Zigbee 하이브리드 라우팅 구조를 제안한다. 또한 경로설정 시간 지연 문제를 해결하는 경쟁기반 비-중첩 다중 경로 설정 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법의 우수성을 비교평가하기 위해 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 그 결과 약 78% 지연시간이 감소되었으며, 통신 속도가 약 6.9 배 증가하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.1404-1415
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• 2022

The 2-dimensional arrangement method of nodes has been used in most of RF (Radio Frequency) based communication network simulations. However, this method is not useful for the an none-obstacle 3-dimensional space networks in which the propagation delay speed in communication is very slow and, moreover, the values of performance factors such as the communication speed and the error rate change on the depth of node. Such a typical example is an underwater communication network. The 2-dimensional arrangement method is also not useful for the RF based network like some WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks), IBSs (Intelligent Building Systems), or smart homes, in which the distance between nodes is short or some of nodes can be arranged overlapping with their different heights in similar planar location. In such cases, the 2-dimensional network simulation results are highly inaccurate and unbelievable so that they lead to user's erroneous predictions and judgments. For these reasons, in this paper, we propose a method to place uniformly and randomly communication nodes in 3-dimensional network space, making the wireless link with neighbor node possible. In this method, based on the communication rage of the node, blocks are generated to construct the 3-dimensional network and a node per one block is generated and placed within a block area. In this paper, we also introduce an algorithm based on this method and we show the performance results and evaluations on the average time in a node generation and arrangement, and the arrangement time and scatter-plotted visualization time of all nodes according to the number of them. In addition, comparison with previous studies is conducted. As a result of evaluating the performance of the algorithm, it was found that the processing time of the algorithm was proportional to the number of nodes to be created, and the average generation time of one node was between 0.238 and 0.28 us. ultimately, There is no problem even if a simulation network with a large number of nodes is created, so it can be sufficiently introduced at the time of simulation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1427-1438
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• 2013

We have developed a 128-bit stream cipher algorithm composed of the 5-stage pipeline, capable of real-time processing, confidentiality and integrity. The developed stream cipher is a stream cipher algorithm that makes the final 128-bit ciphers through a whitening process after making the ASR 277 bit and SHACAL-2 and applying them to the CFB mode. We have verified the hardware performance of the proposed stream cipher algorithm with Modelsim 6.5d and Quartus II 12.0, and the result shows that the hardware runs at 33.34Mhz(4.27Gbps) at worst case. According to the result, the new cipher algorithm has fully satisfied the speed requirement of wireless Internet and sensor networks, and DRM environment. Therefore, the proposed algorithm with satisfaction of both confidentiality and integrity provides a very useful ideas.