Reliable multi-hop communication for structural health monitoring

Nagayama, Tomonori,Moinzadeh, Parya,Mechitov, Kirill,Ushita, Mitsushi,Makihata, Noritoshi,Ieiri, Masataka,Agha, Gul,Spencer, Billie F. Jr.,Fujino, Yozo,Seo, Ju-Won Techno-Press 2010 Smart Structures and Systems, An International Jou Vol.6 No.5

Wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs) have been proposed by a number of researchers to evaluate the current condition of civil infrastructure, offering improved understanding of dynamic response through dense instrumentation. As focus moves from laboratory testing to full-scale implementation, the need for multi-hop communication to address issues associated with the large size of civil infrastructure and their limited radio power has become apparent. Multi-hop communication protocols allow sensors to cooperate to reliably deliver data between nodes outside of direct communication range. However, application specific requirements, such as high sampling rates, vast amounts of data to be collected, precise internodal synchronization, and reliable communication, are quite challenging to achieve with generic multi-hop communication protocols. This paper proposes two complementary reliable multi-hop communication solutions for monitoring of civil infrastructure. In the first approach, termed herein General Purpose Multi-hop (GPMH), the wide variety of communication patterns involved in structural health monitoring, particularly in decentralized implementations, are acknowledged to develop a flexible and adaptable any-to-any communication protocol. In the second approach, termed herein Single-Sink Multi-hop (SSMH), an efficient many-to-one protocol utilizing all available RF channels is designed to minimize the time required to collect the large amounts of data generated by dense arrays of sensor nodes. Both protocols adopt the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, which provides any-to-any routing and multi-cast capability, and supports a broad range of communication patterns. The proposed implementations refine the routing metric by considering the stability of links, exclude functionality unnecessary in mostly-static WSSNs, and integrate a reliable communication layer with the AODV protocol. These customizations have resulted in robust realizations of multi-hop reliable communication that meet the demands of structural health monitoring.

Reliable multi-hop communication for structural health monitoring

Tomonori Nagayama,Parya Moinzadeh,Kirill Mechitov,Mitsushi Ushita,Noritoshi Makihata,Masataka Ieiri,Gul Agha,Billie F. Spencer, Jr.,Yozo Fujino,Ju-Won Seo 국제구조공학회 2010 Smart Structures and Systems, An International Jou Vol.6 No.5

Wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs) have been proposed by a number of researchers to evaluate the current condition of civil infrastructure, offering improved understanding of dynamic response through dense instrumentation. As focus moves from laboratory testing to full-scale implementation, the need for multi-hop communication to address issues associated with the large size of civil infrastructure and their limited radio power has become apparent. Multi-hop communication protocols allow sensors to cooperate to reliably deliver data between nodes outside of direct communication range. However, application specific requirements, such as high sampling rates, vast amounts of data to be collected, precise internodal synchronization, and reliable communication, are quite challenging to achieve with generic multi-hop communication protocols. This paper proposes two complementary reliable multi-hop communication solutions for monitoring of civil infrastructure. In the first approach, termed herein General Purpose Multi-hop (GPMH), the wide variety of communication patterns involved in structural health monitoring, particularly in decentralized implementations, are acknowledged to develop a flexible and adaptable any-to-any communication protocol. In the second approach, termed herein Single-Sink Multi-hop (SSMH), an efficient many-to-one protocol utilizing all available RF channels is designed to minimize the time required to collect the large amounts of data generated by dense arrays of sensor nodes. Both protocols adopt the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, which provides any-to-any routing and multi-cast capability, and supports a broad range of communication patterns. The proposed implementations refine the routing metric by considering the stability of links, exclude functionality unnecessary in mostly-static WSSNs, and integrate a reliable communication layer with the AODV protocol. These customizations have resulted in robust realizations of multi-hop reliable communication that meet the demands of structural health monitoring.

무선 멀티 홉 통신 기반의 차량간 브로드캐스트 프로토콜

한용현,이혁준,최용훈,정영욱 한국ITS학회 2009 한국ITS학회논문지 Vol.8 No.4

차량간 통신은 노변기지국(RSE)을 통하지 않고 차량탑재장치(OBE)간에 정보를 전달하는 기술로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 차량간 통신네트워크는 차량의 높은 이동 속도로 인하여 토폴로지의 변화가 심하기 때문에 기존 애드혹 라우팅을 적용하기 어렵다. MMFP(Multi-hop MAC Forwarding)는 경로설정 과정과 위치정보를 사용하지 않고 목적지 노드의 도달 가능 정보를 사용하여 패킷을 전송하는 멀티 홉 유니캐스트 포워딩 프로토콜이다. 그러나 공공 안전 서비스에서 차량간 통신을 통해 제공 될 수 있는 차량 충돌, 장애물, 안개 등에 대한 정보는 특정 운전자가 아닌 다수의 운전자에게 유용한 정보이기 때문에 유니캐스트보다 브로드캐스트로 전달하는 것이 효율적이다. 플러딩은 가장 단순한 형태의 멀티 홉 브로드캐스트 방식으로 너무 많은 중복 패킷을 생성하여 패킷성공률 감소, 전송 지연 증가 등의 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 MMFP를 확장하여 차량간 통신 환경에서 멀티 홉 브로드캐스트 통신을 지원하는 두 가지 프로토콜을 제안한다. UMHB(Unreliable Multi-Hop Broadcast)는 일부 노드에게만 포워딩 의무를 부여하는 MMFP의 전송 방식을 기반으로 포워딩 노드의 수를 제한함으로써 플러딩의 중복 패킷 문제를 해결하나 신뢰성이 감소하는 문제가 있다. RMHB(Reliable Multi-Hop Broadcast)는 확인 응답과 재전송을 통해 UMHB의 비신뢰성 문제를 해결하나 전송 지연이 다소 증가한다. 그러나 RMHB의 지연 시간 증가는 충돌 방지 응용에는 문제가 되지 않음을 실험 결과를 분석하여 보인다. Inter-vehicular communication that propagates information without infrastructures has drawn a lot of interest. However, it is difficult to apply conventional ad-hoc routing protocols directly in inter-vehicular communication due to frequent changes in the network topology caused by high mobility of the vehicles. MMFP(Multi-hop MAC Forwarding) is a unicast forwarding protocol that transport packets based on the reachability information instead of path selection or position information. However, delivering public safety messages informing road conditions such as collision, obstacles and fog through inter-vehicular communication requires broadcast rather than unicast since these messages contain information valuable to most drivers within a close proximity. Flooding is one of the simplest methods for multi-hop broadcast, but it suffers from reduced packet delivery-ratio and high transmission delay due to an excessive number of duplicated packets. This paper presents two multi-hop broadcast protocols for inter-vehicular communication that extend the MMFP. UMHB(Unreliable Multi-Hop Broadcast) mitigates the duplicated packets of MMFP by limiting the number of nodes to rebroadcast packets. UMHB, however, still suffers from low delivery ratio. RMHB(Reliable Multi-Hop Broadcast) uses acknowledgement and retransmission in order to improve the reliability of UMHB at the cost of increase in transmission delay, which we show through simulation is within an acceptable range for collision avoidance application.

Performance Evaluation of Multi-Hop Communication Based on a Mobile Multi-Robot System in a Subterranean Laneway

Liu, Qing-Ling,Oh, Duk-Hwan Korea Information Processing Society 2012 Journal of information processing systems Vol.8 No.3

For disaster exploration and surveillance application, this paper aims to present a novel application of a multi-robot agent based on WSN and to evaluate a multi-hop communication caused by the robotics correspondingly, which are used in the uncertain and unknown subterranean tunnel. A Primary-Scout Multi-Robot System (PS-MRS) was proposed. A chain topology in a subterranean environment was implemented using a trimmed ZigBee2006 protocol stack to build the multi-hop communication network. The ZigBee IC-CC2530 modular circuit was adapted by mounting it on the PS-MRS. A physical experiment based on the strategy of PS-MRS was used in this paper to evaluate the efficiency of multi-hop communication and to realize the delivery of data packets in an unknown and uncertain underground laboratory environment.

차량통신시스템에서의 멀티홉 전송 방법

조웅 한국인터넷방송통신학회 2012 한국인터넷방송통신학회 논문지 Vol.12 No.6

차량통신은 정보통신기술과 차량 및 도로 기술을 결합한 대표적인 융합기술중 하나이다. 일반적으로 차량통신은 WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments)라 일컫어지는 IEEE 802.11p 표준을 채택하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 차량-노변기지국간 통신 및 차량간 통신을 지원하는 IEEE 802.11p 기반 통신시스템의 멀티홉 전송방식에 대해 알아본다. 먼저 IEEE 802.11p 기반 통신시스템의 성능에 대해 간단히 살펴본 후 브로드캐스팅과 유니캐스팅의 멀티홉 전송 방식에 대해 소개한다. 제안된 방식의 성능은 실제 시스템을 구현한 후 실험을 통한 결과를 통해 알아본다. Vehicular communication is one of main convergence technologies which combines information and communication technology (ICT) with vehicle and road industries. In general, vehicular communication adopts IEEE 802.11p standard which is commonly referred as wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE). In this paper, we investigate a multi-hop communication scheme for IEEE 802.11p based communication systems which support both vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. First, we briefly overview the performance of IEEE 802.11p based communication systems. Then, a multi-hop communication scheme is introduced for both broadcast and unicast. The performance of proposed scheme is presented via experimental measurements.

VLC 기반 멀티 홉 멀티미디어 데이터 전송 네트워크 시스템

박인철,신정진,박주영,리데덩,안병구 한국인터넷방송통신학회 2014 한국인터넷방송통신학회 논문지 Vol.14 No.3

본 논문에서는 VLC를 이용한 멀티 홉 멀티미디어 데이터 전송 시스템을 제안개발 한다. 제안된 시스템의 주 요한 기여도 및 특징은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 본 연구의 기여도는 LED 통신 기반으로 멀티 홉 기술을 사용하여 멀티미 디어 데이터를 장거리 전송이 가능한 전송네트워크 시스템을 개발하는 것이다. 둘째, 개발된 시스템은 다음과 같은 주 요한 특징이 있다. 전송부에서 오디오 데이터와 비디오 데이터를 두 개의 채널을 통하여 멀티 홉을 경유하여 전송된다. 오디오 채널의 릴레이에서는 전송된 신호를 포토다이오드로 데이터를 수신 받아 에러체크 및 증폭을 하여 수신부로 전 송한다. 수신부에서는 포토다이오드로부터 받은 인코딩된 오디오 데이터를 디코딩 및 증폭을 하여 아날로그 오디오 신 호로 컨버팅을 하여 스피커를 통해 오디오 데이터를 출력한다. 비디오 채널의 릴레이에서는 전송된 신호를 포토다이오 드로 데이터를 수신 받아 OP-AMP로 신호를 증폭하여 LED를 통하여 수신부로 신호를 전송한다. 수신부에서는 포토 다이오드로부터 받은 비디오 데이터 신호를 OP-AMP로 증폭을 하여 모니터를 통해서 비디오 데이터를 출력한다. 제 안된 시스템의 성능평가는 형광등이 켜져 있는 실험실에서 진행되었다. 성능평가 결과 제안된 시스템은 멀티미디어 데 이터를 멀티 홉 네트워크를 경유하여 효과적으로 전송할 수 있음을 보여 주었다. 반면에 사용된 색깔에 따라서 전송된 멀티미디어 성능에 약간의 차이가 있음을 알 수 있었다. In this paper, we propose VLC(visible light communication) based multi-hop multimedia data transmission system. The main contributions and features of the proposed system are as follows. First, the contribution of this research is to develope the LED communication based multi-hop transmission network system which can transmit multimedia data(audio data, video data) with long distance. Second, the developed system has the following features: In transmitter, audio data and video data are transmitted via multi-hops using two channels. The relay in audio channel receives digital audio signal by using photo diode and then transmits the signal to receiver after error checking and amplifying. The receiver receives the encoded audio data via photo diode and then converts to analog audio signal by using decoding and amplifying. The relay in video channel receives video signal by using photo diode and then amplify the video signal using OP-AMP and then transmits the signal to receiver. The receiver amplifies the received signal from photo diode and then sends it to the monitor. The performance evaluation of the proposed system is conducted in the laboratory with fluorescent light source. The results of the performance evaluation confirm that the system can provide high quality multimedia data transmission from transmiter to receiver via multi-hop relays in a long distance while we can see there are differences in the transmitted multimedia(audio and video) quality according to the used LED colors.

Tensor-Based Channel Estimation Approach for One-Way Multi-Hop Relaying Communications

( Shuangzhi Li ),( Xiaomin Mu ),( Xin Guo ),( Jing Yang ),( Jiankang Zhang ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2015 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.9 No.12

Multi-hop relaying communications have great potentials in improving transmission performance by deploying relay nodes. The benefit is critically dependent on the accuracy of the channel state information (CSI) of all the transmitting links. However, the CSI has to be estimated. In this paper, we investigate the channel estimation problem in one-way multi-hop MIMO amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system, where both the two-hop and three-hop communication link exist. Traditional point-to-point MIMO channel estimation methods will result in error propagation in estimating relay links, and separately tackling the channel estimation issue of each link will lose the gain as part of channel matrices involved in multiple communication links. In order to exploit all the available gains, we develop a novel channel estimation model by structuring different communication links using the PARAFAC and PARATUCK2 tensor analysis. Furthermore, a two-stage fitting algorithm is derived to estimate all the channel matrices involved in the communication process. In particular, essential uniqueness is further discussed. Simulation results demonstrate the advantage and effectiveness of the proposed channel estimator.

무선 멀티 홉 통신에서 협력적인 무선 에너지 공유를 통한 생존시간 최대화

Choi, Hyun-Ho 한국정보통신학회 2020 한국정보통신학회논문지 Vol.24 No.11

In this paper, we maximize the lifetime of a multi-hop path through a cooperative wireless energy sharing scheme between constituent nodes in a wireless multi-hop communication. Considering a bidirectional multi-hop communication environment, we present an optimization problem to maximize path lifetime by adjusting the amount of energy each node needs to share with its neighboring nodes. On the basis of solidarity property, i.e., the lifetime of the multi-hop path is maximized when the lifetimes of all nodes are the same, we convert the considered optimization problem into a linear programming problem and solve it easily. Simulation result shows that the proposed two-way wireless energy sharing method maximizes the path lifetime of multi-hop communications and approximately doubles the path lifetime compared with the one-way energy sharing method.

다중 빔을 사용하는 빔 호핑 위성통신시스템의 프레임 동기 성능 분석

이해욱,류영빈,박남형,박해원,임재유,오혁준 국제차세대융합기술학회 2023 차세대융합기술학회논문지 Vol.7 No.7

In the case of beam hopping technology used to increase the efficiency of multi-beam based satellite communication systems dramatically, data transmission with discontinuous irregular burst lengths must be made because resources for communication must be assigned adaptively according to traffic requirements. Therefore, frame synchronization for beam hopping system is important due to the aperiodic time cycle for beam illumination. In this paper, frame synchronization schemes based on the DVB-S2X standard's beam hopping superframe were compared, and a high-performance synchronization method that enables blind frame synchronization regardless of the type of superframe was proposed. The performance of the proposed frame synchronization method was compared and analyzed with existing ones through simulations. 다중 빔을 사용하는 위성통신시스템의 효율을 비약적으로 증대시키기 위하여 사용하는 빔 호핑 기술의경우, 트래픽 요구량에 따라 적응적으로 통신을 위한 자원이 할당되어야 하므로 비연속적 불규칙 길이를 갖는 데이터 전송이 이루어져야 한다. 따라서, 비주기적 운용을 위한 시분할 싸이클로 인하여 빔 호핑 프레임 동기가 중요하다. 본 논문은 DVB-S2X 표준의 빔 호핑 수퍼프레임에 기반한 빔 호핑 프레임 동기 기법에 대해 비교하고, 이에 기반한 수퍼프레임 종류에 상관없이 블라인드 프레임 동기가 가능한 고성능 동기 기법을 제안한다. 제안된다중 빔을 사용하는 빔 호핑 위성통신시스템을 위한 프레임 동기 기법의 우수성을 실제 빔 호핑 시나리오에 대하여 모의실험을 실시하여 제안된 프레임 동기 기법의 성능을 기존 방법들과 비교 분석하였다.

실내 멀티홉 VLC환경에서 디밍을 적용한 파워 성능 비교

김주석,이민정,김경석,Kim, Joo-Seok,Lee, Min-Jung,Kim, Kyung-Seok 한국인터넷방송통신학회 2017 한국인터넷방송통신학회 논문지 Vol.17 No.5

본 논문에서는 멀티 홉 VLC 환경에서 디밍 제어를 이용한 각 변조 방식의 전력 성능을 분석 하였다. 성능을 분석하기 위해서 VLC기반 실내 멀티 홉 시스템을 구성하였으며, OPPM과 VPPM의 두 가지 변조 방식 기법을 적용하였다. 시뮬레이션은 송신 전력과 수신 전력을 고려하여 각 변조기법의 dimming 제어 및 홉 수에 따라서 수행하였다. 그 결과, 변조에 따른 송신 전력 및 수신 전력에서, dimming이 증가함에 따라, OPPM은 VPPM보다 적은 전력 성능을 갖으며, 수신 전력 대 홉 수 및 dimming이 50 % 일 때, 홉 수가 증가하고 거리가 길수록 VPPM 및 OPPM의 수신 전력은 급속히 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. Visible light communication (VLC) offers communication function in addition to illumination. Because the signal communication capacity per cable is 1,000 times compared to the power line communication (PLC), optical fiber is being advertised as the basis of the information and communication. Also dimming control of LED is an important component needed to provide energy savings and quality of life. This study configured multi-hop VLC system model in a building using optical fiber and analyzed the power performance of two of modulations using dimming techniques. The transmission power and received power were used to compare the power performance in multi-hop VLC environments.