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Design of Time Synchronization Mechanism of Wireless USB over IEEE 802.15.6

WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN 프로토콜의 시각 동기 구조 설계

  • Hur, Kyeong (Department of Computer Education, Gyeongin National University of Education)
  • Received : 2014.02.24
  • Accepted : 2014.03.25
  • Published : 2014.07.31
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Abstract

Wearable computer systems can use the wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) that refers to USB technology that is merged with WiMedia PHY/MAC technical specifications. In this paper, we focus on an integrated system of the wireless USB over the IEEE 802.15.6 wireless body area networks (WBAN) for wireless wearable computer systems supporting U-health services. And a communication structure that performs the time-synchronization is proposed for WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical protocol. Proposed time-synchronization mechanisms adopt the WBAN Polling Access and combine it with a time-synchronization middleware using time stamps. In our performance evaluations, time-synchronization performances with only WBAN Polling Access scheme are analyzed first. After that, performances combined with the time-synchronization middleware are analyzed to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed time-synchronization structure in WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6.

웨어러블 컴퓨터 시스템은 WiMedia PHY/MAC 기술과 결합된 USB 기술로 WUSB (wireless universal serial bus) 기술을 사용하여 구성할 수 있다. 본 논문은 U-Health 기능을 지원하는 무선 웨어러블 컴퓨터시스템을 구성하기 위해 WUSB기술과 IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN (wireless body area networks) 기술을 결합한 통신시스템 구조에 초점을 맞추었다. 그리고 IEEE 802.15.6 기반 WUSB 통신 구조에서 시각동기 통신 기술을 제안하였다. 제안하는 시각동기 구조는 WBAN Polling Access 구조를 활용하고 Time Stamp를 사용한 시각동기 미들웨어를 결합한다. 성능 평가에서는 WBAN Polling Access를 적용한 시각동기 성능 및 시각동기 미들웨어를 추가한 성능을 비교분석하여, WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 통신구조에서 제안한 시각동기 방식의 효율성을 평가하였다.

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