• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.34-45
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• 2008

In dynamic wireless sensor networks where sources and sinks are moving or are created/died, control overheads for route establishment are increased and thus become one of the major factors for energy consumption. This study introduces prefetching and pruning for Directed Diffusion to remove redundant control messages. Prefetching collects path information for each event with "AnyEvent" in advance and gives quick responses without further flooding of requests. Pruning accumulates history information from previous requests and replies, and then stops forwarding a request towards where the event does not exist. Simulation results with ns show that it is possible to build implicit and soft infrastructures within a Directed Diffusion system through these active collection and passive accumulation and they improve energy consumption more as control overhead goes higher.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.36-41
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• 2001

It is often said that the supply of fossil fuels in use for energy source will last only for 40 years. Futhermore, statistics shows that most of the fuels are imported from outside and that 30-40% of total cost for housing in Korea. One of those methods for reducing the energy cost for housing is to use underground space. Being used well, it may bring a considerable saving of energy since the underground space keeps its air cool in summer and warm in winter. To use underground space, we need to analyse its temperature first. For this purpose, what is generally used is the numerical analysis with the use of nodal system. That is, we can calculate a specific underground temperature with the matrix of thermal resistance after we make a nodal system. However, the existing numerical analysis programs need usually high cost and require a computer with large capacity. So they are seldom used in practice. Considering such problems, this study seeks to find a method for making the matrix of thermal resistance operatable on PC level.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.42-52
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• 2011

As environmental issues are rising recently efforts to reduce environmental stress are emerging in all industry segments. Especially environmental impact of buildings occupy a critical portion, so each country is operating green building rating system for life cycle of buildings. Accordingly green building rating system for every facility is operating in Korea. And acquisition of grade I for building energy efficiency is mandatory for every new public buildings since 2010. To design green building efficiently and systematically eco-friendly elements should be considered and checked from the schematic design phase. But in many cases eco-friendly elements are checked at the end of constructed design phase. So applying eco-friendly elements at the value engineering process, which is performing through schematic and constructed design phase, could make a efficient and systematic green building design. Value engineering process is divided into pre workshop, workshop and post workshop stages. And subject selection in pre workshop stage is the step that finds out the subjects which has the great possibility to be improved to perform efficient value engineering workshop. So this study present the Green VE subject selection model to select the most considerable eco-friendly subjects in projects.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.707-725
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• 2021

Energy management systems (EnMS) contribute to sustainable energy saving and greenhouse gas reduction by emphasizing the role of energy management in production-oriented economies. Although understanding the methods used to measure energy performance is a key factor in constructing successful EnMS, few attempts have been made to examine these methods, their applicability, and their utility in practice. To fill this research gap, this study aimed to deepen the understanding of energy performance measures by focusing on four energy performance indicators (EnPIs) proposed by ISO 50006, namely the measured energy value, ratio between measured values, linear regression model, and nonlinear regression model. This paper presents policy and managerial implications to facilitate the effective use of these measures. An analytic hierarchy process (AHP) analysis was conducted with 41 experts to analyze the preference for EnPIs and their key selection criteria by the industry sector, and organization and user type. The findings suggest that the most preferred EnPI is the ratio between the measured values followed by the measured energy value. The ease of use was considered to be most important while choosing EnPIs.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.269-280
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• 2011

Today, global warming is one of main problems all over the world. The cause of the global warming is carbon dioxide outbreak by the rapidly increasing energy use. Therefore, it is necessary to save energy in each industrious field. It was investigated that the half of total energy consumption over the world was used for construction and building. Therefore, the saving of the building energy plays a significant role in decreasing total energy consumption. With the considerable increase in building energy consumption, a green building rating system and certification are required to reduce building energy consumption and $CO_2$ emissions. Of various elements reducing building energy, the thermal conductivity of materials affects the energy consumption as a basic element, which is directly related with reducing energy consumption. In particular, as the thermal conductivity of finishing materials is an important factor to decide heating energy efficiency of floor heating system, the investigation and development are necessary.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.8C
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• pp.489-496
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• 2011

Energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks is a principal issue to prolong applications to track the movement of the large-scale phenomena. It is a selective wakeup approach that is an effective way to save energy in the networks. However, most previous studies with the selective wakeup scheme are concentrated on individual objects such as intruders and tanks, and thus cannot be applied for tracking continuous objects such as wild fire and poison gas. This is because the continuous object is pretty flexible and volatile due to its sensitiveness to surrounding circumferences so that movable area cannot be estimated by the just spatiotemporal mechanism. Therefore, we propose a cluster-based algorithm for applying the efficient and more accurate technique to the continuous object tracking in enough dense sensor networks. Proposed algorithm wakes up the sensors in unit cluster where target objects may be diffused or shrunken. Moreover, our scheme is asynchronous because it does not need to calculate the next area at the same time.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.2 s.46
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• pp.141-150
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• 2007

This paper proposes how to reduce the amount of data transmitted in each sensor and cluster head in order to lengthen the lifetime of sensor network. The most important factor of reducing the sensor's energy dissipation is to reduce the amount of messages transmitted. This paper proposed is to classify the node's cluster state into 6 categories in order to reduce both the number and amount of data transmission: Initial, Cluster Head, Cluster Member, Non-transmission Cluster Head, Non-transmission Cluster Member, and Sleep. This should increase the efficiency of filtering and decrease the inaccuracy of the data compared to the methods which enlarge the filter width to do more filtering. This method is much more efficient and effective than the previous work. We show through various experiments that our scheme reduces the network traffic significantly and increases the network's lifetime than existing methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.331-335
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• 2010

Previous low-energy time synchronization methods have mainly focused on reducing the number of transmission or reception packets. However, this paper proposes a method that reduces the percentage of time a node has to be awake (the duty cycle), assuming that a periodic sleep-wake cycle is used to conserve energy. Based on our experience with actual WSN devices, a system model is proposed, and the potential performance of the proposed method, with different parameter values, is analyzed. To further demonstrate the feasibility of our method, experiments were conducted using nine WSN devices in a $3{\times}3$ grid network topology. The results show the average synchronization error is 107.57 $\mu{s}$ in duty cycle 5% and synchronization period 10 sec, and 130 $\mu{s}$ in duty cycle 2.5% and synchronization period 20 sec.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.141-146
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• 2001

실내 공기조화를 하는 거주역에 대한 온열환경요소의 자극 변화를 통해 실내 에너지를 절약할 수도 있으며 쾌적감도 향상시킬 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 거주자의 온열감각을 자극할 수 있는 온열요소 중 비교적 영향이 크고 용이하게 제어할 수 있는 온도 및 기류의 변동으로 한국인의 온열감각(온냉감, 쾌적감, 만족감)에 미치는 영향을 실험을 통하여 파악하였다. 온도 및 기류별 실험을 통하여 22$^{\circ}C$, 24$^{\circ}C$, 26$^{\circ}C$의 각 온도에 대한 패케지 에어컨의 강, 중, 약 기류에 대한 인체순응 시간과 인체 변화를 파악하였다. 또한 인체순응시간을 고려한 온도 상승 실험을 통하여 24$^{\circ}C$, 26$^{\circ}C$에서 1$^{\circ}C$온도 상승시 인체의 온열쾌적감의 변화를 파악하였으며 온도 상승을 통한 인체 순응시간을 도출하였다. 본 실험을 통하여 초기공조 조건을 24C$^{\circ}C$ 로 한 경우 인체순응을 통한 온도 상승으로 30분 후의 공조중기와 공조후기에 온도 및 기류의 지속적인 변동 자극으로 온냉감은 "약간 서늘하다"를 지속적으로 유지하고 있으며 온도상승으로 인한 쾌적존의 높은 온도에서도 기류의 영향으로 쾌적감은 30분 이후부터 "쾌적"을 지속적으로 유지하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 본 연구를 통하여 인체순응을 고려한 온도 및 기류의 자극을 통하여 공조초기부터 공조말기의 장시간에도 인체가 지속적인 쾌적성을 유지한다는 것을 알 수 있었다.성을 유지한다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.43 no.6
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• pp.876-883
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• 2015

Han-green project, which pursues Korean style post and beam timber house with traditional construction technique of Han-ok, has been carried out in KFRI (Korea Forest Research Institute) since 2006. Recently, the improvement of its building energy performance was studied with energy-saving elements. This study was conducted to provide the insulation details of building envelopes in a post-beam timber house for recent enhanced insulation standards and following effect on building energy performance. The level of thermal transmittance (U-value) values of building envelopes was composed of two stages: present Korean insulation standards and passive house. To evaluate building energy performance, the building airtightness values of two stages was ACH50 = $3.0h^{-1}$ for common domestic timber house constructed recently, and ACH50 = $0.6h^{-1}$ for passive house. Consequently, four cases of the building energy performance according to the combination of U-value with airtightness were evaluated. The test house for evaluation was located in Seoul and its energy performance was evaluated with CE3 commercial building energy simulation program. The result showed that enhanced insulation from level I to II reduced $14kWh/(m^2{\cdot}a)$ of annual heating energy demand regardless of airtightness.