• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.178-187
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• 2002

Purpose : The detection of hydronephrosis(HN) with antenatal ultrasonography was first reported in the 1970s. Prenatal HN is diagnosed with an incidence of 1:100 to 1:500 on antenatal screening. Recently, the purpose of antenatal screening has changed from simple detection to selection for specific diagnosis-based management. this study is to evaluate the usefulness of antenatal sonography for HN and to investigate the differential causes of HN and their clinical outcomes. Patients and methods : 11,783 live neonates with prenatal ultrasonographic examination at Ajou University School of Medicine, from Sep. 1994 to Aug. 2001 were analyzed. Results and conclusion : Hydronephrosis (>10 mm) was detected in 119 (1.0%) cases antenatally and among these, 91 were proved to have HN postnatally Males were three times more affected than females. Additional imaging studies revealed that ureteropelvic junction obstruction was the most common postnatal diagnosis (47%), followed by multicystic dysplastic kidney, vesicoureteral junction obstruction and vesicoureteral reflux. During 20 months' follow-up(3 to 72 months), 58(48%) renal units showed spontaneous resolution and surgical interventions were necessary in 10 (7.4%) of postnatally confirmed hydronephrotic renal units.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.751-762
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to enhance the quality of multimedia service under the heterogeneous end-terminals and network environment by monitoring the data receiving status of the group members regularly when the sender multicasts real-time multimedia data to a group. Especially, it focuses to reduce the total number of status information responded to the sender from the receivers. Accordingly. it upgrades the sender's performance by suppressing the number of status information packets generated by the receivers. The key idea of this study starts from how we profile the activity of all the members in a group. We assume that the receiver status in the worst status, so called primary receiver, represents the status of the whole group. This means that the whole group is assumed as being degraded in performance if the primary receiver is degraded, and that the whole group is assumed as being upgraded if the primary one is upgraded. In this algorithm, the primary receiver announces its status information to the whole group prior to other receivers, ana every receiver listening to the primary and other receivers' status compares its own status with them. Accordingly, any receiver may give up the status notification in case its status is not worse than others, resulting in the reduction of unnecessary responses to the sender.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.86-94
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• 2003

Certified e-mail system guarantees that recipient will get mail content if and only if mall originator receives a receipt. Unlike previous schemes, Optimistic protocols recently published generate a receipt when it meets the condition that the mail content can be accessed by recliner at any time. So originator cannot assure the delivery of e-mail although he can get a receipt. In this paper, we show some flaws in optimistic protocols and propose improved schemes using delivery deadline. Modified protocols guarantee proof-of-receipt and eliminate the problem mentioned above. Furthermore, proposed modification technique can be applicable to most optimistic protocols and is efficient in the sense that modified schemes do not increase the number of messages.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.31-35
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 DVB-T 표준안의 모든 동작모드를 지원하며 임펄스 잡음 제거, 안테나 diversity 수신, 향상된 채널추정방법을 적용한 유럽향 디지털 TV 수신용 채널 칩셋의 설계에 관한 내용이다. 설계된 칩은 여러 개의 구성 블럭으로 구성되어있는데 여기에는 여러 가지의 향상된 알고리즘과 설계 아키텍쳐가 사용되었다. 가정용 가전기기들이 발생시키는 일정주기의 임펄스 잡음을 제거하기 위하여 임펄스 잡음 제거 블록을 AGC뒤에 사용하였다. 동기부는 대략적 주파수동기, 미세 주파수동기, 대략적 타이밍동기, 미세 타이밍 동기 등으로 이루어져 있으며 본 설계의 주파수 보상 영역은 $\pm$280Khz, 타이밍 보상 영역은 $\pm$500ppm이다. 파일럿 신호를 이용하여 채널추정과 보상을 수행하며 기존의 선형 보간기법과 함께 4개의 파일럿 신호를 이용한 보간기법을 사용하여 이동수신환경에 대응할 수 있도록 하였다. 이와 함에 수신성능을 개선할 수 있다고 알려진 안테나 diversity 기능을 채용하여 고정 및 이동 수신시의 수신성능을 향상시켰다. 안테나 diversity를 위해서 2개 이상의 수신 칩이 사용되며 이를 위해서 본 설계에서는 MRC(Maximum Ratio Combining)알고리즘을 사용하였다 본 설계는 5층 메탈 0.18um 공정을 사용하였으며 2.7Mbit 의 메모리 소자를 포함하여 대략 300 만 게이트의 회로크기를 갖으며 100 핀 PQFP로 제작되었다. 본 논문에서는 설계된 회로의 각 블록별 기능에 대한 설명과 함께 시뮬레이션 결과와 ASIC설계결과를 기술하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1449-1454
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• 2012

Received signal strength indicator (RSSI) represents the strength of the received signal at the front end of analog-to-digital convertor (ADC) input. RSSI value can be used for deciding the status of channel at the receiver. In this paper, the usage of RSSI in handover is studied using the practical measurement data. We first measure RSSI in 5.9GHz frequency band which is commonly used in wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) system. i.e., vehicular communications. Then, to implement a fast handover, the usability of RSSI data is analyzed based on the measured data. We also apply handover in practical highway environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.340-343
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• 2005

A realization for digital multimedia receiving system using Conditional Access System is presented in this paper. The key word for descrambling is make from smart card and Conditional Access System, a Stabilization is grow up in the method. It is possible to decoding that of average 15 fame/second of H.264 video format and that 24Khz${\sim}$48Khz audio sample rate using dual processor that of high performance DSP and RISC. This system is evaluated correct descrambling procedure in test stream added that signed user data.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.15-24
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• 1996

In this paper, we propose a new kind of signature scheme, called 'nominative signatures&, which is the dual scheme of undeniable signatures. Also we construct a zero-knowledge protocol that implements it. The new technique called 'nominative signatures' achieves these objectives: only nominee can verity the nominator(signer)'s signature and if necessary, only nominee can prove to the third party that the signature is issued to him(her) and is valid. Contraty to the undeniable signature scheme, nominative signatures are confirmed via a protocol between the nominee and the third party, so the cooperation of the nominee is necessary. That is, not a signer(nominator) but a verifier(nominee) can control the abuse of signatures - undeniable signature cannot be verified without the cooperation of the signer, so the signer controls the abuse of signatures. Our nominative signatures are very valuable for the case in which the content of signature is concerned with the verifier's privacy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.574-575
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• 2020

지상파 UHD방송이 송출이 된지도 벌써 3년째에 접어들고 있다. 지상파 방송은 무료 보편적 서비스로 누구나가 받을 수 있도록 되어 있지만 실제적으로 방송을 수신하고 있는 가정은 소수인 것으로 알려져 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 관련된 UHD방송이 보편적 서비스가 가능하도록 하는 UHD방송공동수신설비에 관련된 현황을 조사하고자 한다. 기초적인 조사로 UHD방송공동수신설비의 구축을 위한 핵심장비인 UHD신호처리기는 다양한 명칭으로 제작되어 보급이 되고 있지만, 현재 UHD방송공동수신설비가 지원되는 사업 외에 자체적인 사례가 거의 없어 UHD방송을 시청하는 공동주택이 2.3%정도 인 것으로 파악된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 UHD방송 및 방송공동수신설비의 활성화를 위하여 대안을 제시하고자 한다. 먼저 가장 중요한 UHD방송 콘텐츠의 제작이 우선이다. 또한 지상파 방송만이 UHD방송을 하는 것이 아닌 유료방송사업자의 적극적인 참여도 중요하다. 그리고 기술의 적극적인 수용이다. ATSC3.0은 양방향 서비스뿐만 아니라 다양한 플렛폼과 융합될 수 있다. 마지막으로 지상파 방송의 무료 보편적 서비스로서 사회안전을 위한 재난방송의 활용 방안과 함께 UHD방송공동수신설비에도 소소출력 중계기를 외부에 설치하도록 하는 다양한 수신환경 구축이 요구된다할 수 있다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2012

In this paper, a reception rate of terrestrial digital TV broadcasting service is analyzed and a novel method which can estimate the broadcasting coverage rate more objectively and reliably than the existing method is proposed. Previous method measures the reception rate by means of electric field intensity measurement or subjective video quality assessment. Because of limited measuring points, it inherently has measurement error and cannot consider the viewer's receiving conditions in real-time. In order to consider the viewer's population and receiving environment, morphology which characterizes the viewer's receiving environment is extracted using household census data of National Statistical Office and the land cover map of Ministry of Environment. Using the extracted geographical morphology, the reception rate of terrestrial digital TV broadcasting service is calculated with Spectrum Management Intelligence System (SMIs). Proposed method can calculate the reception rate more objectively and reliably than the existing methods because it fully considers the viewer's receiving environments in real-time.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.625-634
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• 2016

A full digital receiving active phased array antenna generates final receiving beams by digital beam forming of received digital signals in element-level that makes difficult to use typical near-field measurement method. Thus in this paper, a modified near-field measurement method which is suitable for full digital receiving active phased array antenna is proposed. Also the measured results of receiving beam pattern and G/T using developed L-band full digital receiving active phased array antenna are shown for the verification of proposed method.