Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110134818 | LOW-POWER METHOD FOR MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL IN SEMI-LINEAR SENSOR NETWORK - A low-power method for media access control on a semi-linear sensor network with multiple sensor nodes, includes: sensing a channel after waking up from a sleep mode by an arbitrary transmission sensor node that has obtained data; and generating a long preamble including a number of element preambles and sending to a destination sensor node after said channel sensing. This method further includes: sending said data to said destination sensor node after completion of transmission of said long preamble; and identifying duty cycle information of said destination sensor node after completion of transmission of said data and adjusting the number of said element preambles according to said duty cycle information. | 06-09-2011 |
20120014414 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CHANNEL RESOURCE IN BEACON-ENABLED WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK (WPAN) - Provided are a node device of a beacon-enabled Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) managing a channel resource and a method thereof. The node device may generate a pseudo random binary sequence (PRBS) and generate a hopping sequence based on a number of available channels using the PRBS, thereby generating a hopping sequence having a characteristic of pseudo randomness and selecting a channel to be hopped, using the hopping sequence. | 01-19-2012 |
20120093056 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SLOT - A slot managing method and apparatus is provided. A first layer of a destination node receives a request command for requesting a slot management from a source node, and transfers a first primitive for reporting a receipt of the request command to a second layer that is an upper layer of the first layer. The second layer transfers a second primitive to the first layer as a response to the slot management request. The first layer broadcasts a reply command including a result of the slot management request to neighboring nodes in response to the second primitive. The source node broadcasts a notify command including a result of the slot management request. | 04-19-2012 |
20120099575 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPLEX COMMUNICATION - A complex communication apparatus transmits/receives voice information with other complex communication apparatuses through a set voice channel. The complex communication apparatus broadcasts a signaling packet expressing a destination identifier representing a desired communication type of one-to-one communication, group communication, and broadcast communication with other complex communication apparatuses and information of the set voice channel and performs voice communication with a complex communication apparatus corresponding to a destination identifier of other complex communication apparatuses, having received the signaling packet. | 04-26-2012 |
20120155326 | WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - In a wireless sensor network system including at least one sensor network, when a network message received from a sensor node of a sensor network corresponds to a predetermined service, the wireless sensor network system forms a wireless local area network (WLAN) overlay network which is based on a WLAN system within a service area at which the sensor node is located. Data corresponding to the predetermined service is transmitted and received through the WLAN overlay network. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155471 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTING - A router relays sensing data between a field network including at least one sensor node and a plant network including a management system. The routing apparatus manages a routing table in which a next address and an output interface corresponding to an extension destination address of 6 bytes and an input interface are stored and transmits sensing data to another field network or a management system using the routing table. | 06-21-2012 |
20120230337 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKET CALL SETUP - An IP packet forwarding server forwards an IP data packet between a user terminal and a machine-type communications (MTC) device allocated with a private internet protocol (IP). Such an IP packet forwarding server allocates a call identifier for connection between the user terminal and the MTC device, sets up a packet call to the MTC device and the user terminal using the call identifier, obtains packet forwarding information while setting up the packet call to the MTC device and the user terminal, and forwards an IP data packet between the MTC device and the user terminal using the packet forwarding information. | 09-13-2012 |
20130156084 | RECTIFIER, RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATOR, AND RECEIVER - A received signal strength indicator is provided. The received signal strength indicator includes a plurality of differential amplifiers forming an amplifier chain for amplifying differential signals and a plurality of rectifiers for rectifying signals output from the plurality of differential amplifiers and the differential signals, and a low pass filter for combining the signals rectified by the plurality of rectifiers to output received signal strength. Each rectifier includes a class AB voltage-current converter for converting a differential voltage into a current, and two triode transistors. | 06-20-2013 |
20140141847 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes an embedded-type antenna embedded in a base, and a wireless communication unit including a communication unit that is connected to the embedded-type antenna and exchanges information with an external device, and a housing that is arranged to surround the communication unit, wherein at least one of the communication unit and the housing performs transmission and reception of electric waves as a substitute of the embedded-type antenna. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149561 | INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK - An integration framework system includes an interpreter configured to provide a general-purpose description and interpretation of a resource, a method, and a parameter regarding a hardware device on a network of things. An integration framework system includes an implementation binder configured to provide dynamic binding or dynamic unbinding depending on the change in the resource of the hardware devices. | 05-29-2014 |
20140153551 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCE FOR MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL - A method and apparatus for allocating a management resource of a channel of a node that is included in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) are provided. A resource of a channel performs communication with a specific node using a multi-superframe including a plurality of superframes, limits a position area of a time slot including a channel that is allocated to communication with a specific node to a predetermined superframe of the plurality of superframes, gives a logical connection ID to the time slot, and is allocated by matching the logical connection ID and a management resource that manages the time slot. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153587 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING CONSTANT AMPLITUDE IN CODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for encoding a constant amplitude that is applied to a code division multiplexing communication system are provided. By dividing a data bit into a block unit, the receiving side can easily determine an error, and by reducing power consumption in outdoor wide area communication using a bit string of a small length in a basic unit of an input frame, efficiency can be improved, and thus a physical layer of a ubiquitous sensor network can be optimized. | 06-05-2014 |
20150036537 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED ASSOCIATION IN WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and apparatus having advantages of resolving a phenomenon in which traffic is concentrated on an AP of a wireless network and preventing traffic collision to enhance network efficiency are provided. Thousands or more of nodes included in a wireless network can be connected to the wireless network through a plurality of distributed association nodes, rather than through a single AP, and thus, concentration can be resolved and the wireless network can be effectively operated. Also, by performing distributed association on the basis of a single hop, implementation complexity can be lowered. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PACKET IN MULTI-CHANNEL WIRELESS NETWORK - A multi-channel wireless network acquires reference time information that is commonly applied to all multi-channels and acquires packet receiving time information of a received packet on each channel basis based on the reference time information by spreading and applying the reference time information to each channel. | 02-05-2015 |