• Journal of KIISE
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.303-310
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• 2018

LoRaWAN(Long Range Wide Area Network) is a standard for low-power, long-range, low-speed communication as announced in the LoRa Alliance. LoRaWAN addresses the physical layer and medium access control layer and the technology used in the physical layer is referred to as LoRa. LoRa can be used for remote monitoring and remote control in maritime conditions. However, unlike land, marine environment is not only difficult to construct an infrastructure for service provision, but also difficult to analyze LoRa performance in maritime. In this study, we construct an infrastructure using cloud platform and analyze LoRa link performance in maritime conditions.

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.549-555
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• 2023

The representative technology of the WWAN wireless communication network used in the Internet of Things is LoRa communication technology, and LoRa communication uses the ISM band. The 920 MHz (920.9 MHz~923.3 MHz) band frequency, which is used as a domestic LoRa frequency, had a problem in performing LoRa network practice in the curriculum using a commercially available LoRa modules that have been used in Europe and the United States because of different frequency band, but a RYLR896 LoRa module was developed that allowed RF frequency to be programmed. With this module, this paper confirmed that the frequency can be set at a specified frequency in Korea using AT commands. In addition, using these RYLR896 LoRa modules, a LoRa network consisting of end nodes and gateways was constructed and practiced to confirm that development equipment capable of practicing the RYLR896 LoRa module and IoT was operating normally.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.139-141
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• 2019

This paper proposes the application of LoRa network, which has been under various research recently, to use control system for the transfer of Unmanned Vehicle. LoRa( Long Range) has a wide coverage of up to30 km, and is characterized by large-scale low-power long-distance radio communication. LoRa has already been studied in various industries. It is also proposed to study various functions by utilizing LoRa network and applying it to the control system of the uninhabited entity.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.913-922
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a LoRa communication module using the LoRa RF module of Murata Electronics is designed to configure the IoT digital meter remote meter reading and a method of configuring a remote meter reading network by collecting multiple meter data in a DCU (Data Concentrate Unit) to configure a network with LoRaWAN. The developed system can be installed more easily and economically in the network configuration than the existing system by allowing the meter to be directly connected to the network or matched with a DCU to connect to the network according to the configuration of the consumer. The developed system was constructed using a digital water meter as an example, but it can also be applied to remote meter reading of the metered values of other meters such as electricity, water, gas, hot water and calorie meters. The main development contents are the design, configuration, and construction of digital meters, LoRa modules and DCUs, and how to connect the LoRaWAN network and transmit meter data to the server. By networking these devices, the system is configured, and the actual LoRaWAN communication is tested and the result is shown.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.105-107
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• 2019

최근 몇 년간 소량의 데이터를 송수신하는 Massive IoT 네트워크에 많은 관심을 가지고 있다. 이러한 환경을 구축하기 위해서 저전력 광역 네트워크(LPWAN) 기술 중 LoRa(Long Range) 네트워크를 사용하고 있다. 대부분의 IoT 응용 서비스는 디바이스가 장시간 안정적으로 작동해야 하므로 에너지 효율성을 중점으로 두고 LoRa 디바이스의 수명을 최대화하기 위한 디바이스의 여러 동작들을 설계하는 에너지 소비 모델링이 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 LoRa Class B 통신 방식의 에너지 소비 모델을 정의하고 성능을 평가한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.95-99
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• 2019

In this paper, the uplink data transmitted from LoRa node is received and decomposed in LoRaWAN Network Server and converted into data with key and value. The data is converted into the data format required by the existing oneM2M platform, and transmitted. The oneM2M platform stores the data, another system for transmitting the data is implemented so that the processing for the data can be started immediately.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2019

This paper explains the design idea of a multi-Hop network for LoRaWAN. First, the existing LoRaWAN communication method(Single-Hop) will be described based on the standard specification. It then discusses technical considerations when converting from LoRaWAN to a multi-hop network. Finally, we introduce our ideas in this paper.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.164-171
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• 2019

Focusing on the bridge facilities, which occupy the largest proportion among SOC public facilities in Korea, it is possible to reduce the cost compared to existing wired measurement systems or wireless measurement systems developed by domestic telecommunications companies, and to increase the technical perfection to be applied to many bridges. We developed a wireless measurement system for bridges. Using LoRa, one of the unlicensed LPWAN technologies, we have developed an optimized MEMS-based LoRa smart sensor node considering the domestic ISM band and the existing wired sensor LoRa DAQ sensor node that can communicate with the LoRa network. Application server was developed for the test bed performance verification and efficient management of the developed sensor node.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.109-115
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• 2019

Currently, LPWA(Low Power Wide Area) communication technology is widely used due to the development of IoT(Internet of Things) technology. Among the LPWA technologies, LoRaWAN(Long Range Wide Area Network) is widely used in many fields due to its wide coverage, stable communication speed, and low-cost modem module prices. In particular, LoRa(Long Range) can easily construct LoRaWAN with a dedicated gateway. So many organizations are building their own LoRaWAN-based networks. The LoRaWAN Gateway receives the LoRa packet transmitted from an End-device installed in the adjacent location, converts it into the Internet protocol, and sends the packet to the final destination server. Current LoRa Gateway uses a single-hop method, and each gateway must include a communication network capable of the Internet. If it is the mobile communication(i.e., WCDMA, LTE, etc.) network, it is required to pay the internet usage fee which is installed in each gateway. If the LoRa communication is frequent, the user has to spend a lot of money. We propose an idea on how to design a multi-hop protocol which enables packet routing between gateways by analyzing the LoRaWAN communication method implemented in its existing single-hop way in this paper. For this purpose, this paper provides an analysis of the standard specification of LoRaWAN and explains what was considered when such protocol was designed. In this paper, two gateways have been placed based on the functional role so as to make the multi-hop protocol realized: (i) hopping gateway which receives packets from the end-device and forwards them to another gateway; and (ii) main gateway which finally transmits packets forwarded from the hopping gateway to the server via internet. Moreover, taking into account that LoRaWAN is wireless mobile communication, a level-based routing method is also included. If the protocol proposed by this paper is applied to the LoRaWAN network, the monthly internet fee incurred for the gateway will be reduced and the reliability of data transmission will be increased.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.897-906
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol based on the harmonic transmission of ACK, called HAT-LoRa, for improving the reliability and the utilization in multiple gateway LoRa Networks. LoRa is basically vulnerable to collision due to the primitive pure ALOHA-like MAC. Whereas data frame delivery can be guaranteed by the transparent bridge of multiple receiving gateways, ACK is still transmitted by a single gateway in LoRa Network. HAT-LoRa provides the augmented reception opportunity of ACK via the simultaneous transmissions of identical ACK in multiple spreading factors. The proposed method reduces the expected transmission times of ACK double gateway environment as well as single gateway environment, by 55 and 60% in maximum, by 35% and 40% in average, in a single- and double-gateway environment, respectively. Especially, it outperforms under the environment where the distance between end device and gateways are similar to each other.