• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.350-358
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• 2009

In a wireless sensor network (WSN) setting, this paper presents a distributed decision-making framework and illustrates its application in an online structural health monitoring (SHM) system. The objective is to recover a damage severity vector, which identifies, localizes, and quantifies damages in a structure, via distributive and collaborative decision-making among wireless sensors. Observing the fact that damages are generally scarce in a structure, this paper develops a nonlinear 0-norm minimization formulation to recover the sparse damage severity vector, then relaxes it to a linear and distributively tractable one. An optimal algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) and a heuristic distributed linear programming (DLP) algorithm are proposed to estimate the damage severity vector distributively. By limiting sensors to exchange information among neighboring sensors, the distributed decision-making algorithms reduce communication costs, thus alleviate the channel interference and prolong the network lifetime. Simulation results in monitoring a steel frame structure prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.17-28
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• 2011

Despite the fact that the deployment of sensor networks and target tracking could both be managed by taking full advantage of Voronoi diagrams, very little few have been made in this regard. In this paper, we designed an optimized barrier coverage and an energy-efficient clustering algorithm for forming Vonoroi-based Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) in which we proposed a mobile target tracking scheme (CTT&MAV) that takes full advantage of Voronoi-diagram boundary to improve detectability. Simulations verified that CTT&MAV outperforms random walk, random waypoint, random direction and Gauss-Markov in terms of both the average hop distance that the mobile target moved before being detected and lower sensor death rate. Moreover, we demonstrate that our results are robust as realistic sensing models and also validate our observations through extensive simulations.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.804-812
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• 2015

Energy harvesting (EH) technology in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is gaining increasing popularity through removing the burden of having to replace/recharge depleted energy sources by energy harvester devices. EH provides an alternative source of energy from the surrounding environment; therefore, by exploiting the EH process, WSNs can achieve a perpetual lifetime. In view of this, emphasis is being placed on the design of new medium access control (MAC) protocols that aim to maximize the lifetime of WSNs by using the maximum possible amount of harvested energy instead of saving any residual energy, given that the rate of energy harvested is greater than that which is consumed. Various MAC protocols with the objective of exploiting ambient energy have been proposed for energy-harvesting WSNs (EH-WSNs). In this paper, first, the fundamental properties of EH-WSN architecture are outlined. Then, several MAC protocols proposed for EH-WSNs are presented, describing their operating principles and underlying features. To give an insight into future research directions, open research issues (key ideas) with respect to design trade-offs are discussed at the end of this paper.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.27-28
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• 2007

In this paper, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based on ZigBee technology was devised and developed. Wireless communication was applied to petrochemical domain, like other industries. And sensor network of IEEE 802.15.4 protocol stack diagram was described. Then, by analyzing the protocol, the software systems included the communication Protocol and point-to-point network were implemented with Freescale Semiconductor's product MC13192-SARD DSK board. After that, the performance of this design system was evaluated, and finally, by using PC Graphic User Interface (GUI) and IDE CW08 V3.1 programming tool, the real time communication data and the curve function were displayed.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.245-251
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• 2014

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) are applied to many monitoring applications. Present sensor nodes can perform many functions at the same time and contain complex software. During the lifetime of sensor nodes, they are required to reprogram their software because of their new functions, software, software bug fixes. The nodes are inaccessible physically or it is very difficult to upgrade their software by one by one. To upgrade the software of sensor nodes in WSNs remotely, this paper presents an energy efficient method by selecting an optimal relay node. The CHR(Cluster Head Relay) method is compared with SPIN and RANDOM method. Three methods are simulated in NS-2 with the same environmental parameters. Simulation results show that CHR shows faster update time and less power consumption compared with other two methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.202-203
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• 2015

무선 센서 네트워크는 제약된 하드웨어와 개방된 환경으로 인해 싱크 홀 공격에 취약한데 이를 위해서 INSENS가 제안되었다. 이러한 INSENS는 베이스 스테이션과 센서 노드들 사이에 거리를 기반으로 경로를 설정하므로 이벤트가 자주 발생할 경우 특정 경로에 노드들은 트래픽이 증가하여 에너지 불균형을 가진다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 네트워크 상황을 고려하여 균형적으로 에너지를 소모하게 하는 퍼지 시스템 기반의 효율적인 경로 설정 방법을 제안한다. 퍼지 시스템은 배터리 잔량, 홉 수, 경로설정 횟수의 입력을 통해 네트워크의 효율적인 경로를 설정한다. 그러므로 제안 기법은 효율적인 경로 선택으로 트래픽을 분산시켜 전체 센서 네트워크의 수명을 연장한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2016

IT 산업의 발달에 따라 기기간의 네트워크 구조도 단순한 중앙 제어 방식에서 필요에 의해 다양한 형태로 발전해왔다. 이러한 네트워크의 복잡화는 유지 보수의 어려움을 발생시켰고, 이를 완화하기 위해 등장한 것이 소프트웨어 정의 네트워크이다. 이러한 소프트웨어 정의 기법을 활용한 이더넷 장비의 효율성이 입증되자 해당 기법을 센서 네트워크 분야에 적용하려는 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 하지만 이더넷과 센서 네트워크는 주소 체계나 프로토콜 등 통신 및 구성이 상이하기 때문에, 기존의 소프트웨어 정의 네트워크를 단순히 적용하기만 해서는 구현이 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 Internet of Things 분야의 소프트웨어 정의 네트워크 구축에 필요한 요소들과 관련 연구의 동향에 대해 서술하고자 한다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.126-131
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• 2008

Wireless Sensor Network(WSNs) consists of small sensor nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communication capabilities. It has new information collection scheme and monitoring solution for a variety of applications. Faults occurring to sensor nodes are common due to the limited resources and the harsh environment where the sensor nodes are deployed. In order to ensure the network quality of service it is necessary for the WSN to be able to detect the faulty sensors and take necessary actions for the reconstruction of the lost sensor data caused by fault as earlier as possible. In this paper, we propose an recursive PCA-based fault detection and lost data reconstruction algorithm for sensor networks. Also, the performance of proposed scheme was verified with simulation studies.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.471-482
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• 2012

For disaster exploration and surveillance application, this paper aims to present a novel application of a multi-robot agent based on WSN and to evaluate a multi-hop communication caused by the robotics correspondingly, which are used in the uncertain and unknown subterranean tunnel. A Primary-Scout Multi-Robot System (PS-MRS) was proposed. A chain topology in a subterranean environment was implemented using a trimmed ZigBee2006 protocol stack to build the multi-hop communication network. The ZigBee IC-CC2530 modular circuit was adapted by mounting it on the PS-MRS. A physical experiment based on the strategy of PS-MRS was used in this paper to evaluate the efficiency of multi-hop communication and to realize the delivery of data packets in an unknown and uncertain underground laboratory environment.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.589-602
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• 2012

With the increasing demand for real time applications in the Wireless Senor Network (WSN), real time critical events anticipate an efficient quality-of-service (QoS) based routing for data delivery from the network infrastructure. Designing such QoS based routing protocol to meet the reliability and delay guarantee of critical events while preserving the energy efficiency is a challenging task. Considerable research has been focused on developing robust energy efficient QoS based routing protocols. In this paper, we present the state of the research by summarizing the work on QoS based routing protocols that has already been published and by highlighting the QoS issues that are being addressed. The performance comparison of QoS based routing protocols such as SAR, MMSPEED, MCMP, MCBR, and EQSR has also been analyzed using ns-2 for various parameters.