Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Korea University Industrial Academic Collaboration Foundation

Ii Whan Kim

Chung Gu Kang

Sang Do Park

Paul Barom Jeon

Won Keun Kong

Jun Hyeong Kim

Sun Shin An

Sung Min Kang

A method and apparatus for allocating a radio resource in a wireless sensor network are provided, in which a signal requesting a radio resource allocation is received from any one of sensors included in the wireless sensor network, an amount of remaining energy is compared with respect to each zone where a sensor transmitting the signal is included, an order of zones, from a zone comprising a greatest amount of remaining energy to a zone having a least amount of remaining energy, is determined as a result of the comparison, and a time slot is allocated to a sensor of each zone according to the determined order of zones, when transmitting a frame for the radio resource allocation.

Method and apparatus for allocating radio resource in wireless sensor network

Growing community of inventors

Incheon-si, South Korea

Ii Whan Kim