Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090122733 | Coordinator in wireless sensor network and method of operating the coordinator - Provided are a coordinator in a wireless sensor network (WSN) which can improve transmission performance and prevent data loss, and a method of operating the coordinator. The method includes: scanning a transmitted beacon and storing information on a channel included in the beacon; when it is determined that a home channel communicating with a parent node is in an inactive mode on the basis of the information on the channel, in synchronization with the activation of another channel of the same hierarchical level as that of the home channel, activating a home channel communicating with a child node and communicating with the child node; and communicating with the child node through an auxiliary channel that has a frequency band different from those of the home channel communicating with the child node and home channels of other nodes and is always in an active mode. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122778 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING TIME SLOT FOR TRANSMITTING BEACON IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - A method and an apparatus for assigning a time slot for transmitting a beacon in a wireless sensor network operated in a beacon mode are provided. In the method and apparatus for assigning a time slot according to the present invention, the total time slots assigned to the network are divided into N blocks and a node to which a time slot is exclusively assigned, among nodes to which a specific node is capable of directly and wirelessly transmitting, is selected as a parent node, the network is divided into two or more regions centering the parent node, a block having the time slot assigned to the parent node and adjacent blocks, among the N blocks, are respectively assigned to the regions, a time slot having been yet unassigned, among the time slots belonging to the block assigned to the region to which the specific node belongs among the divided regions, is assigned as the time slot of the specific node. | 05-14-2009 |
20090141666 | WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK USING DYNAMIC MESSAGE ROUTING ALGORITHM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - Provided is a wireless sensor network using a dynamic message routing algorithm and a method of controlling the wireless sensor network. Therefore, a network system can be provided, in which each sensor node calculates a relay probability, periodically updates the relay probability, and dynamically determines a node for relaying a message on the basis of the relay probability, so that throughput per node is improved and a media access control (MAC) layer is not needed. | 06-04-2009 |
20090141667 | METHOD FOR ROUTING MESSAGE IN WIRELESS NETWORK BASED ON RELAY PROBABILITY - Provided is a method for routing a message in a wireless network based on relay probability. The method allows dynamic delivery of a message by calculating the relay probability of each node for message transmission, measuring the strength of a beacon signal received from a destination node, and determining a node that will relay a message based on the relay probability and the strength of beacon signal. | 06-04-2009 |
20090141741 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING SENSOR NETWORK TO HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - Provided are a method and apparatus for connecting a sensor network to a heterogeneous network, in which an external network connected to the sensor network functions as a virtual personal area network (PAN) so that the same PAN address system is used between the sensor network and the external network by using a concept of a ‘virtual PAN’. According to the method and apparatus for connecting the sensor network to the heterogeneous network, a node of the sensor network can efficiently communicate with a node of the external network including the heterogeneous network by assigning the virtual PAN address to the node of the external network including the heterogeneous network without inserting any additional layer into the node of the sensor network. | 06-04-2009 |
20090147699 | METHOD OF SUPPORTING NODE PORTABILITY IN SENSOR NETWORK - Provided is a method of supporting node portability in a sensor network, wherein data transmission to a portable node can be guaranteed since even when the portable node is assigned with a different address by being associated with another network, the newly assigned address is transmitted to a parent node or a sink node that was previously associated with the portable node. | 06-11-2009 |
20090147710 | Gateway apparatus for providing multi-channel functionality in sensor network, and method and apparatus for interfacing using serial peripheral interface in the gateway apparatus - Provided are a gateway apparatus for providing multi-channel functionality in a sensor network, and a method and an apparatus for interfacing using serial peripheral interface (SPI) in the gateway apparatus. The SPI interfacing apparatus is connected to a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units, and receives a data frame via an SPI to output the data frame to a wireless transmit/receive unit, based on information regarding selection of the wireless transmit/receive unit, wherein the information is contained in the data frame. Then, the SPI interfacing unit receives data frames from the wireless transmit/receive units to output the data frames in a predetermined order via an SPI. Thus, the wireless transmit/receive units for providing multi-channel functionality can interface a signal processing unit by using an SPI method. | 06-11-2009 |
20090147715 | ENERGY SAVING METHOD IN WIRELESS NETWORK - Provided is a method of minimizing power consumed by each node in a wireless network when communicating with neighboring nodes. | 06-11-2009 |
20090147725 | CROSS-LAYER ROUTING METHOD IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - Provided is a cross-layer routing method in a wireless sensor network including: locating a destination node which is a final destination of data by a source node which generates the data; and determining an optimal relay node among one or more neighboring nodes using their position information for each hop and forwarding the data from the source node to the destination node through the determined relay nodes. Therefore, an effective and stable routing which reduces overheads of additional control messages used for stable data forwarding and reduces collisions in a shared channel by using wireless link layer characteristics can be implemented. | 06-11-2009 |
20090147760 | Method and apparatus for routing in wireless sensor network - Provided are a method and apparatus for efficiently performing routing in a wireless sensor network having a tree-hierarchical structure, the method and apparatus reducing the number of hops required for transmitting data. According to the method and apparatus, a node is determined as a proximal node from among nodes within range of a wireless signal of a transmission node, wherein the node is a node having the smallest difference from among differences between each of address values of the nodes within the range and an address value of a target node, and data is directly transmitted from the transmission node to the proximal node. | 06-11-2009 |
20090161637 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - Provided are a communication method and apparatus of a wireless sensor network which uses at least one channel and has a tree structure. The method includes: generating windows, where a beacon interval is divided, according to each channel; selecting a window, which is not assigned to nodes that exist within a predetermined range from a certain node, from among the generated windows; and the certain node communicating with a child node of the certain node by using a channel to which the selected window belongs during a time corresponding to the selected window. | 06-25-2009 |
20100220653 | MULTI-PATH ROUTING METHOD IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - A multi-path routing method is provided a multi-path routing method for selecting appropriate multiple paths when information sensed from a source node is transmitted to a sink node in wireless sensor networks. The source node for transmitting the sensed information first transmits a Hello message to the sink node to identify the existence and position of the sink node. The sink node receives the Hello message and then re-transmits the Hello message with respect to all the received Hello messages. Respective middle nodes accumulate distances between the middle nodes while the Hello message is transmitted to the source node through a reverse path of the Hello message, and all the middle nodes maintain a real distance from the sink node. The source node receiving all the Hello messages can rout a plurality of appropriate paths through Hop-by-hop to the sink node by providing respective weights to an energy remaining amount, an appropriate transmission radius and a real distance from the sink node. Accordingly, priorities can be provided to lifetime of the source node, average energy consumption and the shortest path by adjusting the respective weights when routing the plurality of paths. In addition, appropriate paths can be routed considering the transmission success rate of a path, and a load balancing effect can be obtained using path cost. | 09-02-2010 |
20100241655 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SENSING DATA OF SENSOR NODE FOR PROACTIVE DATA FILTERING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - An apparatus for and a method of transmitting sensing data of a sensor node for proactive data filtering in a wireless sensor network are provided. In the apparatus and method, a request query of sensing data and timer parameters are received, local sensing data sensed in the sensor node in response to the received request query are detected, a driving time of a timer applying the timer parameters based on the request query is set, and the local sensing data are transmitted when the local sensing data do not overlap sensing data of a neighboring sensor node within a wireless reception range of the sensor node by overhearing the sensing data of the neighboring sensor node during the set driving time of the timer. Thus, since a data transferring path is selected considering the remaining energy of the node, the energy exhaustion of the node is distributed, thereby improve the lifespan of the network. | 09-23-2010 |
20100272092 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BROADCASTING DATA, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BROADCASTING RESPONSE DATA, OF SENSOR NODE IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK SYSTEM - Provided are an apparatus and method for broadcasting data, and an apparatus and method for broadcasting response data, of a sensor node in a beacon mode in a wireless sensor network system including a plurality of nodes. According to the apparatus and method for broadcasting data, an admission application message requesting an admission of a sensor node is transmitted to the wireless sensor network system, in which time-division time slots are assigned to each of the nodes of the wireless sensor network system, wherein, in the time-division time slot, the reception function of the node is activated and sensing data is transmitted; a beacon frame is received, which includes information that indicates a broadcasting time slot among the time-division time slots, wherein, in the broadcasting time slot, the reception function of each of the nodes of the wireless sensor network system having received the admission application message, is activated at the same time; and broadcasting data is transmitted during the broadcasting time slot. Accordingly, broadcasting data can be efficiently transmitted in a beacon mode of the wireless sensor network system. | 10-28-2010 |
20100278163 | METHOD OF DELIVERING DATA IN WIRELESS PRESONAL AREA NETWORK - Provided is a method of delivering data in a wireless personal area network. One of nodes forming the wireless personal area network broadcasts data including the address and the sequence number of one node to a plurality of other nodes, and broadcasts one of the data and other data to the other nodes depending on whether the data is received from the other nodes within a predetermined time. Accordingly, all the nodes on the network can receive data reliably and simultaneously power consumption is reduced, and thus the life of the network is extended. | 11-04-2010 |
20100306351 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOMAIN NAME AUTOCONFIGURATION IN IP-BASED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - A method and apparatus for domain name autoconfiguration in an IP-based wireless sensor network is provided. The method includes: receiving sensor node information including position information for representing an installed position of a sensor node, a type of data to be provided by the sensor node, and an internet address of the sensor node; searching for area information including an administrative address corresponding to the position information of the sensor node; generating a domain name of the sensor node based on a type of the sensed data and the found area information; and binding the generated domain name with an internet address of the sensor node and registering the bound result in a domain name server. | 12-02-2010 |
20110116414 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - Provided are a bridge system, a network management server, and communication methods at the bridge system and the network management server for efficient communication in a wireless sensor network (WSN). The communication method at the network management server includes communicating with bridge systems connected with a plurality of radio frequency (RF) regions within a personal area network (PAN) composed of sensor nodes using the same wireless channel, in which radio signals of the sensor nodes within the PAN reach the bridge systems, searching for a new channel to be used and an alternative bridge system which is to perform a channel change into the new channel based on information about the bridge systems upon receipt of an association failure report message from an error bridge system which is reported of an association failure from the RF region from among the bridge systems, sending a channel change request message to the found alternative bridge system, and adjusting channel information for the found alternative bridge system to the new channel and replacing information about sensor nodes connected to the found alternative bridge system with information about sensor nodes that are newly connected with the found alternative bridge system through the new channel. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125922 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING ROUTING PATH IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - Provided are a method and apparatus for setting a routing path in a wireless sensor network. The apparatus for setting a routing path includes a neighbor table storing information of a peripheral device within wireless communication distance of a transmitter transmitting data; a searching unit sequentially searching whether at least one of an address of a destination, a parent address or ancestor address of the destination representing an address of a receiver receiving data transmitted by the transmitter exists or not in the neighbor table; and a link quality indicator (LQI) judging unit transmitting the data to the receiver when a LQI value of the address is greater than a value that is previously set in a case in which an address is searched in the searching unit. | 05-26-2011 |