• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.477-496
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• 2013

Due to their cost-effectiveness and ease of installation, wireless smart sensors (WSS) have received considerable recent attention for structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure. Though various wireless smart sensor networks (WSSN) have been successfully implemented for full-scale structural health monitoring (SHM) applications, monitoring of low-level ambient strain still remains a challenging problem for WSS due to A/D converter (ADC) resolution, inherent circuit noise, and the need for automatic operation. In this paper, the design and validation of high-precision strain sensor board for the Imote2 WSS platform and its application to SHM of a cable-stayed bridge are presented. By accurate and automated balancing of the Wheatstone bridge, signal amplification of up to 2507-times can be obtained, while keeping signal mean close to the center of the ADC span, which allows utilization of the full span of the ADC. For better applicability to SHM for real-world structures, temperature compensation and shunt calibration are also implemented. Moreover, the sensor board has been designed to accommodate a friction-type magnet strain sensor, in addition to traditional foil-type strain gages, facilitating fast and easy deployment. The wireless strain sensor board performance is verified through both laboratory-scale tests and deployment on a full-scale cable-stayed bridge.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1217-1231
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• 2016

In this research, a slotted patch antenna sensor is designed for wireless strain and crack sensing. An off-the-shelf RFID (radiofrequency identification) chip is adopted in the antenna sensor design for signal modulation. The operation power of the RFID chip is captured from wireless reader interrogation signal, so the sensor operation is completely battery-free (passive) and wireless. For strain and crack sensing of a structure, the antenna sensor is bonded on the structure surface like a regular strain gage. Since the antenna resonance frequency is directly related with antenna dimension, which deforms when strain occurs on the structural surface, the deformation/strain can be correlated with antenna resonance frequency shift measured by an RFID reader. The slotted patch antenna sensor performance is first evaluated through mechanics-electromagnetics coupled simulation. Extensive experiments are then conducted to validate the antenna sensor performance, including tensile and compressive strain sensing, wireless interrogation range, and fatigue crack sensing.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.3550-3566
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• 2020

As a widely used way to exfiltrate information, wireless covert channel (WCC) brings a serious threat to communication security, which enables the wireless communication process to bypass the authorized access control mechanism to disclose information. Unlike the covert channel on the network layer, wireless covert channels on the physical layer (WCC-P) is a new covert communication mode to implement and improve covert wireless communication. Existing WCC-P scheme modulates the secret message bits into the Gaussian noise, which is also called covert digital communication system based on the joint normal distribution (CJND). Finding the existence of this type of covert channel remains a challenging work due to its high undetectability. In this paper, we exploit the square autocorrelation coefficient (SAC) characteristic of the CJND signal to distinguish the covert communication from legitimate communication. We study the sharp increase of the SAC value when the offset is equal to the symbol length, which is caused by embedding secret information. Then, the SAC value of the measured sample is compared with the threshold value to determine whether the measured sample is CJND sample. When the signal-to-noise ratio reaches 20db, the detection accuracy can reach more than 90%.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.2701-2722
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• 2017

Key generation is essential for protecting wireless networks. Based on wireless channel reciprocity, transceivers can generate shared secret keys by measuring their communicating channels. However, due to non-simultaneous measurements, asymmetric noises and other interferences, channel measurements collected by different transceivers are highly correlated but not identical and thus might have some discrepancies. Further, these discrepancies might lead to mismatches of bit sequences after quantization. The referred mismatches significantly affect the efficiency of key generation. In this paper, an efficient key generation scheme leveraging wireless channel reciprocity is proposed. To reduce the bit mismatch rate and enhance the efficiency of key generation, the involved transceivers separately apply discrete cosine transform (DCT) and inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) to pre-process their measurements. Then, the outputs of IDCT are quantified and encoded to establish the bit sequence. With the implementations of information reconciliation and privacy amplification, the shared secret key can be generated. Several experiments in real environments are conducted to evaluate the proposed scheme. During each experiment, the shared key is established from the received signal strength (RSS) of heterogeneous devices. The results of experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme can efficiently generate shared secret keys between transceivers.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2015

In a multi-hop wireless network, connectivity is determined by the link that is established by the receiving signal strength computed by subtracting the path loss from the transmission power. Two path loss models are commonly used in research, namely two-ray ground and shadow fading, which determine the receiving signal strength and affect the link quality. Link quality is one of the key factors that affect network performance. In general, network performance improves with better link quality in a wireless network. In this study, we measure the network connectivity and performance in a shadow fading path loss model, and our observation shows that both are severely degraded in this path loss model. To improve network performance, we propose power control schemes utilizing link quality to identify the set of nodes required to adjust the transmission power in order to improve the network throughput in both homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks. Numerical studies to evaluate the proposed schemes are presented and compared.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.422-429
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• 2013

Advances in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology have enabled small and low-cost sensors with the capability of sensing various types of physical and environmental conditions, data processing, and wireless communication. In the WSN, the sensor nodes have a limited transmission range and their processing and storage capabilities as well as their energy resources are limited. A triple umpiring system has already been proved for its better performance in WSNs. The clustering technique is effective in prolonging the lifetime of the WSN. In this study, we have modified the ad-hoc on demand distance vector routing by incorporating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based dynamic clustering. The proposed scheme, which is an efficient and secure routing protocol for wireless sensor networks through SNR-based dynamic clustering (ESRPSDC) mechanisms, can partition the nodes into clusters and select the cluster head (CH) among the nodes based on the energy, and non CH nodes join with a specific CH based on the SNR values. Error recovery has been implemented during the inter-cluster routing in order to avoid end-to-end error recovery. Security has been achieved by isolating the malicious nodes using sink-based routing pattern analysis. Extensive investigation studies using a global mobile simulator have shown that this hybrid ESRP significantly improves the energy efficiency and packet reception rate as compared with the SNR unaware routing algorithms such as the low energy aware adaptive clustering hierarchy and power efficient gathering in sensor information systems.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1644-1652
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 동일한 5㎓ 대역에서 무선 LAN 시스템(IEEE 802.11a)과 레이다 시스템간의 간섭 영향을 분석하였다. 최근에 국내 5㎓ 대역에 무선 LAM의 도입으로 인해 기존에 이미 할당되어 있는 레이다 시스템과의 간섭문제가 대두되고 있다. 이에 국내 5㎓ 대역에 무선 LAN을 도입할 경우에 대해 미리 주파수 할당 방안을 예측해 보고 이렇게 할당 된 대역내에 존재하는 레이다 신호를 모델링하여 시뮬레이션을 통해 간섭량이 얼마나 되는지를 정량적으로 분석하였다. 본 논문에서 시뮬레이션 결과는 PER (Packet Error Rate)과 EVM (Error Vector Magnitude)으로 간섭 영향을 측정하였으며, 그 결과 Target PER이 10­1 일 경우 대략 20 ㏈의 높은 SIR (Signal to Interference Ratio)이 요구되는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38B권2호
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• pp.154-161
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.16m WirelessMAN-Advanced 단말에서 SINR(Signal to Interference Plus Noise Ratio)을 측정하는 방법을 설명하고, 이를 구현 및 시험한 결과에 대해 기술하였다. IEEE 802.16m규격의 하향링크는 두 가지의 A-Preamble인 PA-preamble과 SA-preamble을 포함하는데, 이들을 이용하여 SINR을 측정하였다. 본 논문은 PA-preamble로부터 잡음전력을 구하고, SA-preamble을 이용해 신호전력과 간섭전력을 구하는 방법에 대해 설명하고 이 값들로부터 SINR값을 계산하는 과정을 설명한다. 특히 수신 신호와의 시간동기 오차로 인한 부반송파의 위상회전 영향을 해결하는 방법과 구현과정에서 고려해야하는 사항들에 대해 설명하고 전산 실험 및 하드웨어로 구현된 시험 결과에 대해 기술한다. 구현 결과물인 SINR 측정기는 ETRI가 구현한 IEEE 802.16m 시스템의 단말에 탑재되어 AMC(Adaptive Modulation and Coding) 적용 및 핸드오버의 판단 근거를 제공하며, 전산 실험과 시스템 시험에서도 우수한 측정 성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.565-566
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• 2018

기존 IoT 시스템들은 서버에서 디바이스의 정보를 처리하는 중앙 집중형 시스템이며 무선랜 네트워크를 사용하는 방식이 대다수를 차지하고 있다. 그러나 무선랜 네트워크의 신호가 닿지 않아 IoT 제품을 사용할 수 없거나 더 강한 신호의 무선랜 네트워크에 접속하는 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 리피터를 이용하여 IoT 제품의 안정성을 유지하고, IoT 제품을 관리하며 서버에서 처리하는 데이터의 일부를 리피터에서 처리하여 서버의 부담을 줄이는 시스템을 제안한다. 무선랜 네트워크의 신호가 원인으로 생기는 문제는 리피터로 신호를 증폭함으로써 해결하고 서버에서 발생할 수 있는 과부화 문제는 리피터가 자신에게 연결된 IoT 제품을 관리함으로써 서버의 사용량을 줄이는 것으로 해결할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권9호
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• pp.1350-1357
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• 2012

Medical system for personal health management recently changes its paradigm from hospital service to self home care based on ubiquitous technology for healthcare anywhere at any time. The present study developed a wireless bio-signal measurement system for patients to self manage pulmonary disease and benign prostate hyperplasia(BPH), both of which are chronic diseases with increasing frequency in modern society. Velocity-type respiratory air flow transducer adapted to develop respiratory module for pulmonary disease management was simplified in structure to measure uni-directional flow since most important diagnostic parameters are evaluated on the expiratory flow signal only. Standard weight measurement technique was introduced to obtain urinary flow signal for BPH management. Three load cell signals were acquired for averaging to minimize noise, followed by accuracy evaluation. Transmission and receiver modules were also developed with user program for wireless communication. Averaged relative errors were 2.05 and 1.02% for respiratory volume and maximal flow rate, respectively, and the relative error was 2.17% for urinary volume, demonstrating that both modules enabled very accurate measurements. Wireless communication distance was verified within 15m, long enough for home care application. The present system allows the user to select a necessary measurement module on a particular health demand and to immediately provide the self-test results, thus better quality health care would be possible.