Suk-seung Hwang

A New MAC Protocol for emergency handling in wireless body area networks

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a special purpose sensor application network which can be applied for applications relating to the health care. WBAN should support immediate and reliable data transmission for medical service during an emergency situation. Hence this paper proposes a new MAC superframe structure which can handle emergency data as well as a regular periodic data at the time of emergency. Simulation result shows low latency and increased throughput of the proposed superframe.

Advanced partial encryption using watermarking and scrambling in MP3

In this paper, we propose an advanced partial encryption of watermarking and scrambling using the magnitude information of Modifed Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT). In MPEG-1/Audio Layer III (MP3), the magnitude and phase information of modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) coefficients is encrypted. The proposed method uses both watermarking and scrambling, and aims at protecting the contents against eavesdropping and moreover against illegal mass distribution after descrambled. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve higher security and less computational complexity by reusing the MDCT coefficients obtained in MP3.

Chaotic Behavior in Model with a Gaussian Function as External Force

In this paper, we propose a novel dynamical love model of Romeo and Juliet, which has an external force with a fuzzy membership function. The external force used in the model has the characteristics of a Gaussian function. The chaotic behavior in the model is demonstrated using time series and phase portraits.

Beacon based indoor positioning system using weighted centroid localization approach

There has been an upward trend in the requirement of indoor positioning systems using bluetooth low energy (BLE), Wi-Fi, and visible light communication. In order to realize the indoor positioning with these communication systems, techniques such as fingerprinting, trilateration, and triangulation have been widely studied. Even though fingerprinting has been chosen as a representative approach in many literatures, it is known as tedious and time consuming method due to the long-time location learning phase. Therefore, the fingerprinting is expected to be integrated with other methods to enhance the location accuracy and reduce the location estimation procedures. In this work, we discuss one of these methods used for indoor positioning, i.e., weighted centroid localization (WCL) using received signal strength indicator (RSSI) observed from neighboring BLE beacons. The WCL is evaluated in our testbed building and analyzed to configure its parameters for indoor positioning.

A TOA Shortest Distance Algorithm for Estimating Mobile Location

위치 추정 기술 (LDT, Location Detection Technology)은 자원관리 및 통신 서비스의 품질을 향상시키기 위한 무선통신 분야에서 사용되고 있는 LBS(Location Based Service)의 핵심기술 중 하나이다. 이동국(MS, mobile station)의 위치는 세 개의 기지국(BS, base station)들의 좌표와 이동국과 기지국들 사이의 거리에 상응하는 반지름에 기초한 세 개의 원들에 기반한 도래시간(TOA, Time of Arrival)기법을 사용하여 추정된다. 삼각변 측량법을 이용하여 정확한 이동국의 위치를 추정하기 위해서는 세 개의 원들이 한 점에서 만나야 하는데, 이동국과 기지국의 거리를 추정하기 위한 시간지연 개수와 전송 주파수에 따라 원들의 반지름이 증가하여 세 개의 원들이 한 점에서 만나지 못하는 경우들이 발생한다. 반지름이 증가된 세 개의 원들은 여섯 개의 교점을 가지게 되고 이 교점들 중 세 개의 교점들이 특정 이동국의 좌표에 가까이 위치하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 여섯 개의 전체 교점들 중에서 세 개의 내부 교점들을 선택하는 TOA 삼각변 측량법을 위한 최단 거리 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 여섯 개의 교점들 중 이동국의 좌표와 가장 가까운 세 개의 교점을 선택하고, 선택된 교점들의 평균 좌표를 특정 이동국의 위치로 결정한다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능은 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 예를 통해 확인된다.

Performance Analysis of RFID Interference Suppression System Based on the Gold Code

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an important and essential components of ubiquitous computing, with the development of wireless communication technologies and mobile computing environment. Recently, RFID becomes the mainstream application that helps fast handling and uniquely identifying the physical objects. It utilizes the electromagnetic energy for data transmission from a tag to a reader in the presence of arbitrary interference and noise. In order to employ the portable mobile RFID reader, a tag-collision problem between two or more adjacent tags should be considered. In this paper, we present the operation of RFID system in which numerous tags are present in the interrogation zone of a single reader at the same time. Since there may exist a number of tagged objects in the narrow area, multiple RFID tags may interfere each other, caused to degrade the data reliability and efficiency of the RFID system. In order to suppress interference signals from multiple neighboring tags, we present an application of Gold code for RFID communication system, which uses spread spectrum technique. In this RFID system, data bits are spreaded in each tags with the unique Gold code and the spreaded data bits are despreaded in the reader with the same Gold code. The performance analysis of the considered RFID anti-collision system is illustrated via computer simulation examples.

TPMS switching beamformer based on duplex wireless communications for interference suppression

The Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) is a wireless communication system designed to monitor the condition of a vehicle tire, based on the transmitted data from the tire sensor. This system reports the tire pressure or temperature information of tires to a driver. While wireless communications is used to transmit the measurement data from TPMS sensors to a central processing unit in the vehicle, it suffers from various interferences such as signal of each tire sensors or outside electrical equipments. In this paper, we propose a switching beamformer based on the conventional beamformer to suppress the outside interference signals and to efficiently receive effective data. In order to suppress interferences due to sensors of each tire and to save the power consumption for the communication, we assign the unique gold code to each tire. Moreover, we propose the data architecture of the duplex wireless communication for the TPMS to maximize the power efficiency of the battery. The performance of the proposed system is illustrated by computer simulations.

Sparse Reconfigurable Adaptive Filter with an Upgraded Connection Constraint Algorithm

A sparse reconfigurable adaptive filter (SRAF) based on a photonic switch determines the appropriate time delays and weight values for an optical switch implementation of tapped-delay-line (TDL) systems. It is well known that the choice of switch delays is significantly important for efficiently implementing the SRAF. If the same values exist as calculating the sum of weight magnitudes for implementing the connection constraint required by the SRAF, conventional connection algorithm based on sequentially selection the maximum elements might not work perfectly. In an effort to increase the effectiveness of system identification, an upgraded connection algorithm used progressive calculation to obtain the better solution is considered in this paper. The performance of the proposed connection constraint algorithm is illustrated by computer simulation for a system identification application.

Tag-to-Tag Interference Suppression Technique Based on Time Division for RFID

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a tracking technology that enables immediate automatic object identification and rapid data sharing for a wide variety of modern applications using radio waves for data transmission from a tag to a reader. RFID is already well established in technical areas, and many companies have developed corresponding standards and measurement techniques. In the construction industry, effective monitoring of materials and equipment is an important task, and RFID helps to improve monitoring and controlling capabilities, in addition to enabling automation for construction projects. However, on construction sites, there are many tagged objects and multiple RFID tags that may interfere with each other’s communications. This reduces the reliability and efficiency of the RFID system. In this paper, we propose an anti-collision algorithm for communication between multiple tags and a reader. In order to suppress interference signals from multiple neighboring tags, the proposed algorithm employs the time-division (TD) technique, where tags in the interrogation zone are assigned a specific time slot so that at every instance in time, a reader communicates with tags using the specific time slot. We present representative computer simulation examples to illustrate the performance of the proposed anti-collision technique for multiple RFID tags.

Construction Materials Management System Based on Location Information Using UHF RFID

Using the radio wave, RFID(: Radio Frequency IDentification) wirelessly transmits the unique information saved in a tag attached on the specific object. In the construction area, the trend in using RFID for managing the input and inventory of the construction materials is upward. General management systems for the construction materials have only a function of identifying the tag attached on the construction materials, but the management system with a function of identifying and managing the location information of the construction materials employing RFID, for reusing it, is not actively developed. For the efficient reuse of the construction materials, in this paper, we propose the RFID system with a function of estimating and saving the location information of the specific construction materials, based on the estimated distances between the particular subs and reader. The proposed system consists of RFID reader, distance estimate, communication, and memory units.