• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.301-309
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• 2023

Tilt is a key indicator of structural safety. Real-time monitoring of tilt responses helps to evaluate structural condition, enable cost-effective maintenance, and enhance lifetime resilience. This paper presents a prototype wireless sensing system for structural tilt measurement. Long range (LoRa) technology is adopted by the sensing system to offer long-range wireless communication with low power consumption. The sensor integrates a gyroscope and an accelerometer as the sensing module. Although tilt can be estimated from the gyroscope or the accelerometer measurements, these estimates suffer from either drift issue or high noise. To address this challenging issue and obtain more reliable tilt results, two sensor fusion algorithms, the complementary filter and the Kalman filter, are investigated to fully exploit the advantages of both gyroscope and accelerometer measurements. Numerical simulation is carried out to validate and compare the sensor fusion algorithms. Laboratory experiment is conducted on a simply supported beam under moving vehicle load to further investigate the performance of the proposed wireless tilt sensing system.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.73-78
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• 2016

In wireless sensor networks, sensors have capabilities of sensing and wireless communication, computing power and collect data such as sound, movement, vibration. Sensors need to communicate wirelessly to send their sensing data to other sensors or the base station and so they are vulnerable to many attacks like garbage packet injection that cannot be prevented by using traditional cryptographic mechanisms. To defend against such attacks, a behavior-based attack detection is used in which some specialized monitoring nodes overhear the communications of their neighbors(normal nodes) to detect illegitimate behaviors. It is desirable that the total sensing area of normal nodes covered by monitoring nodes is as large as possible. The previous researches have focused on selecting the monitoring nodes so as to maximize the number of normal nodes(node coverage), which does not guarantee that the area sensed by the selected normal nodes is maximized. In this study, we have developed an algorithm for selecting the monitoring nodes needed to cover the maximum sensing area. We also have compared experimentally the covered sensing areas computed by our algorithm and the node coverage algorithm.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.141-150
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• 2005

무선 센서 네트워크는 센서 테크놀로지의 발전으로 인하여 급속히 개발되고 있으며, 여러 분야에서 다양하게 응용될 것으로 예측된다. 무선 센서 네트워크에서 가장 중요한 요소는 네트워크를 에너지 효율적으로 운용하는 것이다. 이러한 목적을 충족시키기 위해 여러 라우팅 프로토콜이 제시되었다. 그러나 기존의 연구들은 모든 센서 노드들이 센싱 데이터를 갖고 있다는 이상적인 상황을 가정하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 일부 센서 노드들만이 데이터를 갖고 있는 센서 네트워크 상에서 클러스터 헤드를 선정하는 센싱 인지 클러스터 선정 알고리즘을 LEACH-C 기반으로 설계 및 구현하였다. 또한 제안된 알고리즘을 여러 네트워크 상황에서 시뮬레이션하여 센싱 인지 기법이 가장 효율적인 네트워크 상황을 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과에서 데이터를 센싱한 노드군(群)을 중심으로 클러스터 헤드를 선정하는 것이 가장 효율적임을 알 수 있었으며, 일부 센서들만이 데이터를 갖고 있는 경우에는 센싱 인지 개념을 클러스터 헤드 선정에 적용하는 것이 중요하다는 점을 보여주었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.4625-4641
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• 2016

The performances of two commonly used feature detectors for wireless energy-harvesting cognitive radio systems are compared with the energy detector under energy causality and collision constraints. The optimal sensing duration is obtained by analyzing the effect of the detection threshold on the average throughput and collision probability. Numerical examples show that the covariance detector has the optimal sensing duration depending on an appropriate choice of the detection threshold, but no optimal sensing duration exists for the ratio of average energy to minimum eigenvalue detector.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.69-88
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• 2007

In this study, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are investigated as a practical solution to the challenge of designing an optimal platform for implementing algorithms in a wireless sensing unit for structuralhealth monitoring. Inherent advantages, such as tremendous processing power, coupled with reconfigurable and flexible architecture render FPGAs a prime candidate for the processing core in an optimal wireless sensor unit, especially when handling Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and system identification algorithms. This paper presents an effort to create a proof-of-concept unit, wherein an off-the-shelf FPGA development board, available at a price comparable to a microprocessor development board, was adopted. Data processing functions, including windowing, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), and peak detection, were implemented in the FPGA using a Matlab Simulink-based high-level abstraction tool rather than hardware descriptive language. Simulations and laboratory tests were carried out to validate the design.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제63권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2014

In cognitive radios, secondary users can use the spectrum exclusively allocated to a primary wireless system if the secondary users detect the spectrum in idle states. Because the secondary users can utilize the idle state of the spectrum, the utilization rate of the spectrum can be improved. The idle states can be detected by using secondary users' sensing schemes. However, the wireless channel environment where secondary users perform the spectrum sensing is not very friendly to secondary users because the signal-to-noise ratio of the received primary signal is very low. Hence, cooperative sensing scheme where more than one secondary user take part in the spectrum sensing is generally used in cognitive radios. In this paper, we investigate the cooperative sensing performance for machine-to-machine communication devices operated by batteries with limited energy. In general, the energy consumed for the spectrum sensing increases as the length of the sensing period and the number of cooperative sensing nodes. Accordingly, even though the total amount of the consumed energy is the same, an energy allocation methodology how to distribute the energy to the sensing period and sensing nodes can achieve the optimum sensing performance, which is numerically analyzed.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.10-18
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• 2007

본 논문에서는, 가변의 감지 반경을 갖는 무선 센서 네트워크에서 감지범위가 중첩되는 영역을 최소화하기 위한 노드의 위치를 결정하는 방법에 관하여 기술하였다. 최적의 노드위치를 구하기 위하여, 이웃하는 노드들과의 감지영역이 중첩되는 면적과 각 노드의 감지 반경 및 이웃하는 노드와의 전개 각도를 이용하여 최적화 식을 유도하였다. 이를 기반으로 한 새로운 가변감지영역제어 (ASRC: Adjustable Sensing Ranges Control)에 의한 노드 위치방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 기존의 조건에 의한 방법과는 달리 수학적 식에 근거하여 유도된 모델로서, 다양한 시뮬레이션을 통하여 타당성을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1618-1637
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• 2018

By means of compressive sensing (CS) technique, this paper considers the collection of sensor data with spatiotemporal correlations in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In energy-constrained WSNs, one-dimensional CS methods need a lot of data transmissions since they are less applicable in fully exploiting the spatiotemporal correlations, while the Kronecker CS (KCS) methods suffer performance degradations when the signal dimension increases. In this paper, an appropriate sensing matrix as well as an efficient sensing method is proposed to further reduce the data transmissions without the loss of the recovery performance. Different matrices for the temporal signal of each sensor node are separately designed. The corresponding energy-efficient data gathering method is presented, which only transmitting a subset of sensor readings to recover data of the entire WSN. Theoretical analysis indicates that the sensing structure could have the relatively small mutual coherence according to the selection of matrix. Compared with the existing spatiotemporal CS (CS-ST) method, the simulation results show that the proposed efficient measurement method could reduce data transmissions by about 25% with the similar recovery performance. In addition, compared with the conventional KCS method, for 95% successful recovery, the proposed sensing structure could improve the recovery performance by about 20%.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.194-201
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• 2009

In this paper, a new spectrum sensing method based on energy detection is proposed and analyzed in a cognitive radio(CR) system. We employ a delay diversity receiver for sensing the primary user's spectrum with reasonable cost and complexity. Conventional CR with the receiver equipping multiple antennas requires additional hardware and space for installing multiple antennas in accordance with increase in the number of antennas. If the number of antennas increases, detection probability as well as hardware complexity and cost rise. Then, it is difficult to make a primary user detector practically. Therefore, we adopt a delay diversity receiver for solving problems of the conventional spectrum detector utilizing multiple antennas. We derive analytical expressions for the spectrum sensing performance of the proposed system. From the simulation results, it is demonstrated that the primary user detector with the delay diversity receiver has almost half the complexity and shows similar or improved performance as compared with that employing multiple antennas. Therefore, the proposed spectrum sensing structure can be a practical solution for enhancing the detection capacity in CR system operations. The results of this paper can be applied to legacy CR systems with simple modifications.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2007년도 학술대회
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• pp.176-180
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• 2007

In this study, we deployed the cable tunnel inspection and monitoring system by wireless sensor network. It is shown that the wireless sensor network which is composed of sensor, wireless communication module, and gateway can be applied to cable tunnel monitoring system. Sensors considered herein are flame detection sensor, flood detection sensor, intruder detection sensor, and temperature sensor, etc. It is also found that the wireless sensor network can deliver sensing data reliably by wireless sensing technology. The gateway system that can transmit sensed data to server by CDMA is developed. Monitoring system is constructed by web service technology, and it is observed that this system can monitor the present state of tunnel without difficulties. The system provides an alternative to inspect and monitor the tunnel efficiently where the conventional wired system is infeasible.