• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.193-204
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• 2010

Since Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network(WMSN) needs to process various multimedia data such as audio, image and video data as well as scalar data, it requires a mechanism that can support Quality of Service(QoS) to handle efficiently. This paper classifies traffic in WMSN as periodic monitoring traffic, event traffic, multimedia traffic and query-based traffic, proposes marking algorithm and queue management mechanism that guarantee differentiated QoS in terms of delay, energy efficiency and credibility on each traffic and conduct performance analysis with simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.387-388
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• 2012

최근 무선 멀티미디어 센서 네트워크(WMSN : Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network)에서 비디오 영상을 전송하는데 있어 그 특성을 고려하지 않은 전송 방법으로 인하여 영상 정보에 대한 신뢰도가 낮다는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문은 WMSN에서 비디오 프레임의 구성요소인 I, P, B 픽처의 특성에 따라 타임아웃을 동적으로 설정하여 노드와 노드간의 패킷 수신율을 증가시켜 전체 서비스의 QoS를 제공하고, 이벤트를 감지하여 특정 구간의 영상 정보를 제공받을 수 있는 기법을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.11
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• pp.903-917
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• 2012

For transmitting sensed data, wireless sensor networks have been developed and researched for the improvement of energy efficiency, hence, many MAC protocols in WSN employ the duty cycle mechanism. Since the progressed development of the low power transceiver and processor let the high energy efficiency come true, the delivery of the multimedia data which occurs in area of sensor work should be needed to provide supplemental information. In this paper, we design a new scheme for massive transmission of large multimedia data where the duty cycle is used in contention based MAC protocol, for WMSN. The proposed scheme can be applied into the previous duty cycle mechanism because it provides two operation between normal operation and massive transmission operation. Measuring the buffer status of sender and the condition of current radio channel can be criteria for the decision of the above two operations. This paper shows the results of the experiment by performing the simulation. The target protocol of the experiment is X-MAC which is contention based MAC protocol for WSN. And two approaches, both X-MAC which operates only duty cycle and X-MAC which operates combined massive transmission scheme, are used for the comparative experiment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.2323-2329
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• 2008

Advances in wireless communication and hardware technology have made it possible to manufacture high-performance tiny sensor nodes. More recently, the availability of inexpensive cameras modules that are able to capture multimedia data from the environment has fostered the development of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks(WMSNs). WMSN supplements the a advanced technique that senses, transmits, and processes the multimedia contents upon the text based traditional wireless sensor network. Since the amount of data which the multimedia contents have, is significantly larger than that of text based data, multimedia contents require lots of computing power and high network bandwidth. To process the multimedia contents on the wireless sensor node which has very limited computing power and energy, a technique for WMSN should take account of computing resource and efficient transmission. In the paper, we propose a new image compression technique YWCE for efficient compression and transmission of image data in WMSN. YWCE introduces 4 type of technique for motion estimation and compensation based on the Resolution Scalability of Wavelet. Experimental result shows that YWCE has high compression performance with different set of 4 type.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.453-458
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• 2013

Aside from the issues like energy saving and maximizing network lifetime. WMSN has another issue to deal with: support of quality of service(QoS) which is required especially for handling real-time data such as object tracking and data gathering. This paper proposes a multipath routing algorithm considering the distance to sink node, energy level and link quality of neighbour nodes. Proposed algorithm supports multipath routing path with high quality links. Hence it helps to reduce a power consumption concentration that happens in particular set of nodes along the frequently selected route. It also specifies a service quality pattern and a service quality level depending on traffic pattern. By doing this, the proposed algorithm can realize a differentiated service with QoS guaranteed data transmission.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.464-471
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• 2013

With the advance of wireless sensor networks, WMSN(Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks) researches to transfers multimedia data have been studied actively. First of all, three basic protocols, End-to-end, Hop-by-hop, and Unreliable transmission method, are compared to transfer multimedia data using simulations. This paper presents an efficient protocol to transfer multimedia data by overhearing messages of nodes and by transmitting next packets during the unused time interval. The proposed method is verified its performance by simulations and experiments. The results shows that the transmission rate of the proposed method 22% higher than that of End-to-end protocol with half of transmission time. Also the performance of the proposed method is compared with that of PIGAB(Packet Interval Gap based on Adaptive Backoff).

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.161-169
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• 2009

The development of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks(WMSNs) is getting realized in accordance with the increased demands to provide multimedia data transmission service such as CCTV movie, image chapter information, audio information based on wireless sensor network. It is very important to provide the differentiated quality assurance of service. In this paper, we propose a sensor medium access control protocol based on DSMAC, which provides differentiated Quality of Service(QoS) for delay. A proposed protocol is able to reduce the delay without increasing the energy consumption by adaptively changing the duty cycle according to the buffer occupancy. Simulation results show that the new MAC protocol performs better in terms of latency than S-MAC and DSMAC.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.218-224
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• 2013

Uplink overflow in WMSN (Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks) aggravates the resource consumption, delay, and traffic congestion. This paper proposes a new traffic congestion control mechanism using popularity. The proposed mechanism controls congestions by dispersing the media traffic, and it control fairly packets according to priority. This paper proposes PQS (Packet Queue Scheduler) to control fairly packets, and the proposed mechanism provides a fair opportunity to all sensor nodes without a specific location. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism achieves improved performance in throughput, delay ratio, link quality, and buffer queue control ratio compared with those of other existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.946-949
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• 2008

저가형 이미지 센서와 무선 센서 네트워크의 하드웨어 성능 향상으로 인해 WMSN(Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks) 기술이 주목받고 있다. WMSN은 기존의 무선 센서 네트워크 기술에 멀티미디어 정보를 센싱하고 처리하는 기반기술을 포함한다. 멀티미디어 컨텐츠는 많은 데이터양을 가지므로 이를 처리하기 위해서는 많은 계산량과 데이터 전송량을 필요로 하게 된다. 저사양의 센서 노드에서 이를 수용하기 위해서는 에너지 소모를 고려한 압축 기법 및 효율적인 전송에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 무선 센서 네트워크에서 이미지를 효율적으로 압축하고 전송하기 위하여 웨이블릿의 Resolution Scalability 특성을 이용한 4가지 움직임 보상/예측 기법을 제안하고, 압축 성능과 발생 패킷 수, 에너지 소모량을 비교하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.1457-1470
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• 2015

In wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN), the latency of transmission is an increasingly problem. With the improvement of resolution, the time cost in image and video compression is more and more, which seriously affects the real-time of WMSN. In JPEG system, the core of the system is DCT, but DCT-JPEG is not the best choice. Block-based DCT transform coding has serious blocking artifacts when the image is highly compressed at low bit rates. APBT is used in this paper to solve that problem, but APBT does not have a fast algorithm. In this paper, we analyze the structure in JPEG and propose a parallel framework to speed up the algorithm of JPEG on GPU. And we use all phase biorthogonal transform (APBT) to replace the discrete cosine transform (DCT) for the better performance of reconstructed image. Therefore, parallel APBT-JPEG is proposed to solve the real-time of WMSN and the blocking artifacts in DCT-JPEG in this paper. We use the CUDA toolkit based on GPU which is released by NVIDIA to design the parallel algorithm of APBT-JPEG. Experimental results show that the maximum speedup ratio of parallel algorithm of APBT-JPEG can reach more than 100 times with a very low version GPU, compared with conventional serial APBT-JPEG. And the reconstructed image using the proposed algorithm has better performance than the DCT-JPEG in terms of objective quality and subjective effect. The proposed parallel algorithm based on GPU of APBT also can be used in image compression, video compression, the edge detection and some other fields of image processing.