• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.347-355
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• 2008

In this paper single degree of freedom macro-element model was presented to investigate the interaction between soil and the deep foundation under the lateral loads. It was made by modelling each component related to the soil-structure interaction and combining them into one piece. It enhanced the conventional method that was not able to break down the interaction components in piece due to the usage of simple spring element for interaction. A proposed macro-element classified the stress components in relation to the interaction into frictional and compressive resistance. Each component was modelled using the classical plasticity theory, and finally combined in parallel. An example study was carried out using the proposed macro-element for deep foundation embedded in three layered cohesive soil. It showed improved results compared to the conventional method by producing additional information of the interaction components as well as the overall behavior of foundation.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.77-87
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• 1999

The conventional design of prestressed concrete box girder bridges has been based on the linear elastic analyses using simplified geometric models. To overcome the restriction involved in the simplifications, a macro element for the rational analysis of prestressed concrete box girder bridges with variable cross sections is incorporated in the present analysis. Through the adoption of nonlinear material models, the behaviour of prestressed box bridges up to ultimate loading stage can be examined. The time dependent material models included in the present macro element code enable to predict the long term behaviour of prestressed concrete box girder bridges. The proposed macro element code with the nonlinear material models and time dependent routines can be efficiently used for the realistic analysis of prestressed concrete box girder bridges with arbitrary shapes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.436-441
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• 1997

A Formulation based on macroelement concept is developed to analysis the prestressed concrete box girder bridges. The proposed method enables to model the arbitrary shapes and boundary conditions of prestressed concrete box girder bridges. The validity of the algoriyhm is demonstrated through comparisons with other results.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.27-33
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• 2009

Selection of the Lagrangian multiplier is a key factor to determine the performance of Rate-Distortion Optimization (RDO) in video coding. JM, reference S/W of H.264, employs only one RDO model for all macroblock. However, since the characteristics of macroblocks are different, RDO model adaptive to their characteristics can give some performance improvement. In this paper, we propose an RDO algorithm adaptive to characteristics of macroblocks. We empirically obtain the optimal Lagrangian multipliers considering characteristics of macroblocks. For performance evaluation, the proposed method is applied to JM10.2 and, as a result, we have PSNR gain of 0.2dB on average.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.11C
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• pp.1123-1129
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• 2003

In the H.264 video coding standard, the information for the macroblock is encoded by the independent syntax elements, called RUN and MB_type. Through the experimental observation for various test sequences, it is shown that the performance of the video coding is improved by using the combined RUN and MB_type as an entity. Based on this fact, we propose an unified new syntax element composed of the RUN and MB_type in order to improve the compression ratio of H.264 video coding. In the proposed syntax element, an EOF(End-Of-Frame) symbol indicating the end of picture is used for enhancing the performance of video coding. The simulation result shows that the proposed method outperforms maximally 15 % to the conventional method for the bitrate of the macroblock.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.886-889
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• 2004

A simple macro triangle with drilling d.o.f.'s is proposed for plane stress problems based on IET(Individual element test) and finite element template. Three-node triangular element has geometrical advantages in preprocessing but suffers from bad performance comparing to other shapes of elements -especially quadrilateral. Main purpose of this study is to construct a high-performance linear triangular element with limited supplementary d.o.f.'s. A triangle is divided by three sub-triangles with drilling d.o.f.'s. The sub-triangle stiffness come from IET passing force-lumping matrix, so this assures the consistency of the element. The macro element strategy takes care of the element‘s stability and accuracy like higher-order stiffness in the F.E. template. The resulting element fits on the uses of conventional three-node. Benchmark examples show proposed element in closed form stiffness from CAS (Computer algebra system) gives the improved results without more computational efforts than others.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.716-723
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• 2006

A meso-scale analysis method using the natural element method is proposed for the analysis of material damage of brittle microcracking solids. The microcracking is assumed to occur along Voronoi edges in the Voronoi diagram generated using the nodal points as the generators. The mechanical effect of microcracks is considered by controlling the material constants in the neighborhood of the micorcracks. The macro elastic moduli of isotropic solids containing a number of randomly distributed microcracks are calculated considering the effect of microcrack closure to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1359-1365
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• 2008

The portion of header in H.264 gets higher than those of previous standards instead of its better compression efficiency. Therefore, this paper proposes a new technique to compress the header of H.264. Unifying a sentence elementary in H.264, H.264 does not consider the distribution of element which be encoded and uses existing Exp-Golomb method, but it is uneffective for variable length coding. Most of the header are block type(s) and motion vector difference(s), and there are redundancies in the header of H.264. The redundancies in the header of H.264 which are analyzed in this paper are three. There are frequently appearing symbols and non-frequently appearing symbols in block types. And when mode 8 is selected in macroblock, all of four sub-macroblock types are transferred. At last, same values come in motion vector difference, especially '0.' This paper proposes the algorithm using type code and quadtree, and with them presents the redundant information of header in H.264. The type code indicates shape of the macroblock and the quadtree does the tree structured motion compensation. Experimental results show that proposed algorithm achieves lower total number of encoded bits over JM12.4 up to 32.51% bit reduction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.63-66
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• 2009

기존의 H.264/AVC 비디오 표준은 고화질 비디오 부호화를 지원하지만 고해상도에 특화된 요소 기술이 도입되지 않아 만족할만한 성능을 보이지 못한다. 현존하는 동영상 압축 표준 중 가장 뛰어난 H.264/AVC 표준의 인트라 $16{\times}16$ 예측은 매크로블록에 인접한 최대 33개의 주변 화소를 이용하여 매크로블록에 속한 256개의 화소 값을 예측한다. 특히, 전체 예측 모드 중 수직과 수평 예측 모드에서는 16개의 수직 또는 수평 위치에 위치한 주변 화소로 전체 매크로블록 내의 화소 값을 예측하므로 매크로 블록의 끝으로 갈수록 예측의 정확도가 떨어져 부호화 비트가 증가한다. 고화질 영상에서는 인트라 $16{\times}16$ 모드로 부호화되는 블록이 많으므로 수행되므로 인트라 $16{\times}16$ 예측의 정확도를 높일 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 H.264/AVC의 예측 방법보다 예측 정확도가 높은 새로운 라인 기반 $16{\times}16$ 인트라 예측 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 편평한 특성을 보이는 인트라 $16{\times}16$ 블록이라도 좀 더 가까운 화소를 참조 화소로 사용하면 예측의 정확도를 높여 부호화 비트를 줄일 수 있다. 이를 이용하여 제안하는 알고리즘에서는 인트라 $16{\times}16$ 블록에서 16개 화소 한 줄을 단위로 예측 및 부호화를 수행한다. 1080p HD급 테스트 영상을 이용하여 실험한 결과, 기존의 H.264/AVC FRExt High 프로파일에 비해 평균 약 6.92%의 부호화 비트를 감소시킬 수 있음을 보였다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.86-98
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• 2013

최근 다양한 형태의 스마트 기기 출현과 대중적 보급으로 고속 데이터 전송에 대한 수요가 나날이 증가하고 있어 소형셀 기술에 대한 이동통신 사업자들의 관심이 높다. 이에 데이터 요구량이 많은 위치에 소형 셀을 다층으로 밀집 배치하고 매크로 기지국 및 소형 셀 기지국의 밀접한 협력을 통해 무선 네트워크의 용량을 증가시키기 위한 기술들에 대한 요구가 높아지고 있다. 매크로 셀과 소형 셀이 다층으로 배치된 구조에서 고려해 볼 수 있는 요소기술들은 단말의 다중 노드 연결, 효율적인 이동성 보장, 효율적인 셀/이동단말 발견, 이종 듀플렉스캐리어 집성, 셀 간 간섭 관리 등이며, 본 논문에서는 이들을 기반으로 최근 3GPP에서 활발히 논의되고 있는 LTE 소형셀 향상 표준화 동향에 대해 기술한다.