• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.104-108
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• 2014

The field of body sensor networks has attracted interest of many researchers due to its potential to revolutionize medicine. These sensors are usually implanted inside the human body and communicate among themselves. In the process of receiving, processing, or transmitting data, these devices produce heat. This heat damages the tissues surrounding the devices in the case of prolonged exposure. In this paper, to reduce this damages, we have improved and evaluated two protocols-the least temperature routing protocol and adaptive least temperature routing protocol-by implementing clustering as well as a leadership rotation algorithm. We used Castalia to simulate a basic body area network cluster composed of 6 nodes. A throughput application was used to simulate all the nodes sending data to one sink node. Simulations results shows that improved communication protocol with leadership rotation algorithm significantly reduce the energy consumption as compared to a scheme without leadership rotation algorithm.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.155-161
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• 2014

Mobility can lead to continual loss of data and service interruptions during communications in multi-hop cognitive radio networks. Mobility of primary users (PUs) or cognitive users (CUs) requires adjustment of multi-hop communications among CUs to avoid any interference to PUs. To provide durable and reliable data routing that ensures continuous network service, we propose mobility-aware cognitive routing (MCR) for multi-hop cognitive radio networks. MCR examines the risk level of each node against interference regions and selects the most reliable path for data delivery using a Markov predictor. Through simulation, we verify that the proposed scheme can avoid route destruction preemptively and achieve reliable data delivery.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

The ubiquitous computing system is expected to be widely utilized in digital home, logistics control, environment/disaster management, medical/health-care services and other applications. The ubiquitous sensor network (USN) is a key infra-structure of this system. Nodes in the USN are exposed to adverse environments and required to perform their missions with very limited power supply only. Also the sensor network is composed of much more nodes. In case some node consumes up its power capacity under a certain required level, the network topology should change and re-routing/ re-transmission of data is necessitated. Resultantly communication protocols studied for conventional wireless networks or ad-hoc networks are not suitable for the sensor network. Schemes should be devised to control the efficient usage of node power in the sensor network. This paper proposes a routing algorithm to enhance the efficiency of power consumption for USN node and analyzes its performance by simulation.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.117-126
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• 2009

The recent interest in sensor networks has led to a number of routing schemes that use the limited resources available at sensor nodes more efficiently. These schemes typically try to find the minimum energy path to optimize energy usage at a node. Some schemes, however, are prone to unbalance of the traffic and energy. To solve this problem, we propose a novel solution: a gradient-field approach which takes account of the minimum cost data delivery, energy consumption balancing, and traffic equalization. We also modify the backoff-based cost field setup algorithm to establish our gradient-field based sensor network and give the algorithm. Simulation results show that the overhead of routing establishment obtained by our algorithm is much less than the one obtained by Flooding. What's more, our approach guarantees the basic Quality of Service (QoS) without extra spending.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.349-352
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a newly energy-efficient routing protocol, which is called Maximum Utility Routing(MUR), in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) so as to investigate the minimum energy and maximum lifetimes issues together. We present a utility-based framework so as to meet various incompatible constraints simultaneously and fairly. To explore this issue, we use the concepts and mathematics of microeconomics and game theory. Though simulation results, we show that our routing scheme has much better performance especially in terms of network efficiency, network lifetime, and average power consumption.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.704-711
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• 2011

This paper proposes hybrid distributed stochastic addressing (HDSA), which combines the advantages of distributed addressing and stochastic addressing, to solve the problems encountered when constructing a network in a ZigBee-based wireless sensor network. HDSA can assign all the addresses for ZigBee beyond the limit of addresses assigned by the existing distributed address assignment mechanism. Thus, it can make the network scalable and can also utilize the advantages of tree routing. The simulation results reveal that HDSA has better addressing performance than distributed addressing and better routing performance than other on-demand routing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.1591-1594
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• 2002

이 논문에서는 기존의 Ad Hoc 네트워크 라우팅 방법 중 proactive routing 과 reactive routing 의 장점을 접목시켜 2-tier 계층구조위에서 효율적인 routing 기법을 제안한다. 또한 제한된 tier-2 네트워크에서 기존의 3GPP 서비스와 상호 연동 가능성을 고려하여 네트워크의 형태 변화에 따른 클러스터 헤더의 효율적인 생성 및 안정적인 경로 확보와 함께 클러스터 헤더의 신뢰성을 제공하기 위한 키 분배 메커니즘을 고찰한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.177-180
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• 2011

In practice, it is well known that geographical and/or location based routing is highly effective for wireless sensor network. Here, electing some landmarks on the network and forwarding data based on the landmark is one of the good approaches for a vast sensing field with holes. In the most previous works, landmarks are elected without considering the residual energy on each sensor. In this paper, we propose an Energy aware Landmark Election and Routing (ELER) protocol to establish a stable routing paths and reduce the total power consumption. The proposed protocol makes use of each sensor's energy level on electing the landmarks, which would be utilized to route a packet towards the target region using greedy forwarding method. Our simulation results illustrate that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the power dissipation and effectively lengthen the lifetime of the network.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.11
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• pp.804-809
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• 2001

In this paper, a shared channel scheme and routing algorithms are proposed to reduce the number of wavelength channels for the optical WDM multihop networks using the every-other-row-connecting bilayered ShuffleNet scheme. In the shared channel scheme proposed, 2P nodes share the common wavelength channel reducing the number of required channels compare to other ones. By assigning an effective address each node, packets can be routed to the destination nodes through the intermediate nodes.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.26-35
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the peer indexing scheme using data dissemination considering content and mobility. The proposed scheme consists of an index table, a buddy table, a routing table to support the cost of data dissemination, the search accuracy and cost. In this proposed scheme, a neighbor peer is recognized through a signal function and the cost of data dissemination is reduced by timestamp message. The transmitted messages are stored in the index structure considering timestamp and weight of interests which improves search accuracy and reduces the cost of search.