• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.607-621
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• 2015

Wireless sensor technology has been opened up numerous opportunities to advanced health and maintenance monitoring of civil infrastructure. Compare to the traditional tactics, it offers a better way of providing relevant information regarding the condition of building structure health at a lower price. Numerous domestic buildings, especially longer-span buildings have a low frequency response and challenging to measure using deployed numbers of sensors. The way the sensor nodes are connected plays an important role in providing the signals with required strengths. Out of many topologies, the dense and sparse topologies wireless sensor network were extensively used in sensor network applications for collecting health information. However, it is still unclear which topology is better for obtaining health information in terms of greatest components, node's size and degree. Theoretical and computational issues arising in the selection of the optimum topology sensor network for estimating coverage area with sensor placement in building structural monitoring are addressed. This work is an attempt to fill this gap in high-rise building structural health monitoring application. The result shows that, the sparse topology sensor network provides better performance compared with the dense topology network and would be a good choice for monitoring high-rise building structural health damage.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.612-615
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• 2012

무선 센서 네트워크는 제한된 에너지를 사용하기 때문에 에너지 효율성을 증가시키는 것이 매우 중요하다. 일반적인 무선 센서 네트워크에서 특정 지역에 무작위로 배포된 센서노드는 배포 방법 및 환경에 영향을 받아 불균형하게 분포되어 센서 노드 밀집 지역이 발생되며 이는 네트워크의 전체적 수명을 단축시키는 단점이 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 센서 노드 밀집 지역에 클러스터 헤드를 추가적으로 선출하여 무선 센서 네트워크의 수명을 연장시키는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 클러스터링의 대표적인 LEACH(Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) 클러스터링을 이용하여 네트워크를 구성하였을 때와 제안한 알고리즘을 이용하여 네트워크를 구성하였을 때 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘을 이용한 네트워크가 전체적으로 균등한 에너지를 유지하고 있음을 알 수 있다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제12권3_4호
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• pp.399-414
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• 2013

The smart sensor technology has opened new horizons for assessing and monitoring structural health of civil infrastructure. Smart sensor's unique features such as onboard computation, wireless communication, and cost effectiveness can enable a dense network of sensors that is essential for accurate assessment of structural health in large-scale civil structures. While most research efforts to date have been focused on realizing wireless smart sensor networks (WSSN) on bridge structures, relatively less attention is paid to applying this technology to buildings. This paper presents a decentralized damage detection using the WSSN for building structures. An existing flexibility-based damage detection method is extended to be used in the decentralized computing environment offered by the WSSN and implemented on MEMSIC's Imote2 smart sensor platform. Numerical simulation and laboratory experiment are conducted to validate the WSSN for decentralized damage detection of building structures.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.101-111
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 밀집된 무선센서네트워크에서 노드의 밀집도를 고려하고 에너지 효율적으로 동작하는 클러스터 기반의 새로운 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안한 프로토콜은 인접노드의 밀집도가 높으면 발생하는 에너지 낭비 요인들을 줄이기 위해 클러스터 헤더가 인접 노드의 밀집도를 고려하도록 디자인 되었다. 클러스터 헤더가 인접노드의 밀집도를 파악하고 밀집도가 높을 경우 2개 이상의 티어로 분리하여 동작하도록 ACK 메시지를 수정하였다. 그리하여 같은 티어에 있는 노드들간의 통신을 하도록 구현하여 에너지 낭비요소를 줄이고 네트워크의 수명을 연장하였다. 본 논문에서는 NS-2 네트워크 시뮬레이터를 사용하여 기존의 MAC 프로토콜인 S-MAC과 비교하였으며, 패킷전송률, 처리량, 에너지 소모 부분에서 S-MAC보다 우수함을 보였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.433-435
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• 2007

Geographic wireless sensor networks use position information for Greedy routing. Greedy routing works well in dense network where as in sparse network it may fail and require the use of recovery algorithms. Recovery algorithms help the packet to get out of the communication void. However, these algorithms are generally costlier for resource constrained position based wireless sensor type networks. In the present work, we propose a Void Avoidance Algorithm (VAA); a novel idea based on virtual distance upgrading that allows wireless sensor nodes to remove all stuck nodes by transforming the routing graph and forward packet using greedy routing only without recovery algorithm. In VAA, the stuck node upgrades distance unless it finds next hop node which is closer to the destination than itself. VAA guarantees the packet delivery if there is a topologically valid path exists. NS-2 is used to evaluate the performance and correctness of VAA and compared the performance with GPSR. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm achieves higher delivery ratio, lower energy consumption and efficient path.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.3034-3055
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• 2014

Wireless Sensor Networks have extensively been utilized for ambient data collection from simple linear structures to dense tiered deployments. Issues related to optimal resource allocation still persist for simplistic deployments including linear and hierarchical networks. In this work, we investigate the case of dimensioning parameters for linear and tiered wireless sensor network deployments with notion of providing extended lifetime and reliable data delivery over extensive infrastructures. We provide a single consolidated reference for selection of intrinsic sensor network parameters like number of required nodes for deployment over specified area, network operational lifetime, data aggregation requirements, energy dissipation concerns and communication channel related signal reliability. The dimensioning parameters have been analyzed in a pipeline monitoring scenario using ZigBee communication platform and subsequently referred with analytical models to ensure the dimensioning process is reflected in real world deployment with minimum resource consumption and best network connectivity. Concerns over data aggregation and routing delay minimization have been discussed with possible solutions. Finally, we propose a node placement strategy based on a dynamic programming model for achieving reliable received signals and consistent application in structural health monitoring with multi hop and long distance connectivity.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.177-183
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 무선센서 네트워크에서 네트워크 성능을 향상시키는 하이브리드 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 MAC 프로토콜 구조는 많은 노드들로 구성된 무선센서 네트워크를 위해 특별히 설계되었다. 본 논문에서 기여한 점은 다음과 같다. 먼저, 제안된 스케줄링 알고리즘은 네트워크 토폴로지에 무관하게 동작한다 BS의 원 홉(one hop) 노드 수가 증가하는 밀도가 높은 네트워크 환경에서도 주파수의 추가 사용 없이 모든 타임 슬롯을 사용 할 수 있다. 둘째로, BS의 one hop 노드는 필요에 따라 하나 이상의 타임 슬롯을 사용할 수 있기 때문에 네트워크 성능이 향상된다. 본 논문에서 제안된 구조와 기존의 연구인 HyMAC[1]과의 네트워크 성능 비교를 하였다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2005년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 논문집 Vol.32 No.1 (A)
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• pp.427-429
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• 2005

Energy efficiency is the most challenging issue in wireless sensor network to prolong the life time of the network, as the sensors has to be unattended. Cluster based communication can reduce the traffic on the network and gives the opportunity to other sensors for periodic sleep and thus save energy. Passive clustering (PC) can perform a significant role to minimize the network load as it is less computational and light weight. First declaration wins method of PC without any priority generates severe collision in the network and forms the clusters very dense with large amount of overlapping region. We have proposed several modifications for the existing passive clustering algorithm to prolong the life time of the network with better cluster formation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.5425-5448
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• 2018

Wireless sensor network has been widely used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications to support large and dense networks. As sensor nodes are usually tiny and provided with limited hardware resources, the existing multiple access methods, which involve high computational complexity to preserve the protocol performance, is not available under such a scenario. In this paper, we propose an intelligent Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol selection scheme based on machine learning in wireless sensor networks. We jointly consider the impact of inherent behavior and external environments to deal with the application limitation problem of the single type MAC protocol. This scheme can benefit from the combination of the competitive protocols and non-competitive protocols, and help the network nodes to select the MAC protocol that best suits the current network condition. Extensive simulation results validate our work, and it also proven that the accuracy of the proposed MAC protocol selection strategy is higher than the existing work.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.247-268
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• 2011

Due to the application-specific nature of wireless sensor networks, the sensitivity to such a requirement as data reporting interval varies according to the type of application. Such considerations require an application-specific, parameter tuning paradigm allowing us to maximize energy conservation prolonging the operational network lifetime. In this paper, we propose a reporting interval adaptive, sensor control platform for energy-saving data gathering in wireless sensor networks. The ultimate goal is to extend the network lifetime by providing sensors with high adaptability to application-dependent or time-varying, reporting interval requirements. The proposed sensor control platform is based upon a two phase clustering (TPC) scheme which constructs two types of links within each cluster - namely, direct link and relay link. The direct links are used for control and time-critical, sensed data forwarding while the relay links are used only for multi-hop data reporting. Sensors opportunistically use the energy-saving relay link depending on the user reporting, interval constraint. We present factors that should be considered in deciding the total number of relay links and how sensors are scheduled for sensed data forwarding within a cluster for a given reporting interval and link quality. Simulation and implementation studies demonstrate that the proposed sensor control platform can help individual sensors save a significant amount of energy in reporting data, particularly in dense sensor networks. Such saving can be realized by the adaptability of the sensor to the reporting interval requirements.