• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.72-78
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• 2006

Effect of organic loading rate on digester performance was evaluated under the conditions of same surface area/reactor volume ratio and different reactor diameter. At the low loading rate of $0.4\;kg\;COD/m^3{\cdot}d$, high rate of organic removal could be obtained regardless of reactor diameter. It can be estimated that reactor configuration can not affect reactor performance at the low loading rate. However, different performance depending on reactor diameter was observed at the organic loading rate of $6\;kg\;COD/m^3{\cdot}d$. That is, volatile acid accumulation and low COD removal efficiency was observed in reactor having 6.4 cm diameter, while volatile acid was not accumulated at all and high COD removal efficiency was observed in reactor having 3 cm diameter. Such a difference of reactor performance depending on reactor diameter can be explained that sludge bed can be fluidized by evolved gas bubble in narrow reactor while sludge bed can not be fluidized by evolved gas bubble only in wide reactor. At a high organic loading rate of $20\;kg\;COD/m^3{\cdot}d$, it can be judged that there is no relation between reactor configuration and reactor performance because all reactors showed very low COD removal efficiencies regardless of reactor diameter. Sludge bed fluidization is one of the most important factors in achieving efficient start-up of anaerobic digester. Narrow and tall type reactor is favorable condition for making sludge bed fluidization at a constant surface area/reactor volume ratio. Thus, it can be judged that reactor configuration and sludge bed fluidization have great influence to reactor performance.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.227-235
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• 2008

This study analyzed the efficiency of a trunk with branches and a trunk with feeders route system comparing the user cost and operator cost of those route systems. Basically, a trunk with branches is more efficient than a trunk with feeders in the passengers' perspective if the transit system of a trunk and feeders are the same. In the case that the trunk system is hierarchically higher than the feeder system, a trunk with feeders has the competitive edge over a trunk with branches if the saving of travel cost induced by using the trunk line is larger than the increasing waiting and transfer cost. This result is consistent with the previous research by Park et al.(2007c), which analyzed the efficiency of hierarchical structure in a grid transit network. If the travel demand of each origins and destinations is low, increasing headway according to the travel demand can increase passenger load or operating efficiency in a trunk with feeders route system. In this case, a trunk with feeders route system is more prevalent as the operating cost, route length, and number of destinations increases, while it is less prevalent as the transfer cost and passengers' time value of the waiting time increases. In cases that central business district, which is located in the middle of a trunk line, generates travel demand, a trunk with feeders is more efficient than a trunk with branches with the increasing travel demand from and to the CBD. Therefore it can be concluded that to have a dual operating system between CBD and suburban is more efficient than one type transit system. The efficiency of that system can be increased through an efficient transfer system that can reduce the transfer cost.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.73-87
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate the empirical results of Analytic Hierarchy Process/Data Envelopment Analysis-Assurance Region(AHP/DEA-AR) by using multiple regression analysis during the period of 2009-2012 with 5 inputs (number of gantry cranes, number of berth, berth length, terminal yard, and mean depth) and 2 outputs (container TEU, and number of direct calling shipping companies). Assurance Region(AR) is the most important tool to measure the efficiency of seaports, because individual seaports are characterized in terms of inputs and outputs. Traditional AHP and multiple regression analysis techniques have been used for measuring the AR. However, few previous studies exist in the field of seaport efficiency measurement. The main empirical results of this study are as follows. First, the efficiency ranking comparison between the two models (AHP/DEA-AR and multiple regression) using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Mann-Whitney signed-rank sum test were matched with the average level of 84.5 % and 96.3% respectively. When data for four years are used, the ratios of the significant probability are decreased to 61.4% and 92.5%. The policy implication of this study is that the policy planners of Korean port should introduce AHP/DEA-AR and multiple regression analysis when they measure the seaport efficiency and consider the port investment for enhancing the efficiency of inputs and outputs. The next study will deal with the subjects introducing the Fuzzy method, non-radial DEA, and the mixed analysis between AHP/DEA-AR and multiple regression analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.422-427
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• 2005

In this paper, Doherty amplifier is designed by the need of improving the linearity and efficiency of wireless network and repeater for WCDMA. It is designed to maintain the high linearity and efficiency at the low efficiency period of the power amplifier after analyzing Doherty technique using the active load-pull in condition of the high efficiency power amplifier implementation according to the variation of input power. CW 1-tone experimental results at the WCDMA frequency 2.11$\~$2.17 CHz shows that Doherty amplifier, which achieves pore. add efficiency(PAE) 50$\%$ at 6dB back off the point from maximum output power 52.3dBm, obtains higher efficiency of 13.3$\%$ than class AB. finding optimum bias point after adjusted gate voltage, Doherty amplifier shows that IMD3 improves 4dB.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.589-597
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• 2014

The increasing demand for various mobile telecommunication services calls for more spectrum resource. Considering the scarcity of spectrum resource and the difficulties of development of higher frequency band, the unique way to meet the increasing demand is to maximize the utilization efficiency of the current spectrum resource. Under the circumstances, various spectrum sharing plans have been in recent studies to dissolve the excess spectrum demand. In addition, spectrum efficiency measurement methods become more important to verify the effectiveness of spectrum sharing and estimate the performance of various wireless systems. Our research addresses measurement methods to estimate spectrum utilization efficiency in a rational manner. Based on ITU-R recommendations, various measuring methods for spectrum utilization efficiency are reviewed. Then a queueing based approach is newly presented as alternatives to the current models. By using the proposed model, the spectrum efficiency increment with the adoption of spectrum sharing plans can be estimated more properly.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.149-156
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• 2010

As following the development of the USN technology, sensor node used in sensor network has capability of quick data process and storage to support efficient network configuration is enabled. In addition, tree-based structure was transformed to cluster in the construction of sensor network. However, query processing based on existing tree structure could be inefficient under the cluster-based network. In this paper, we suggest energy efficient query processing mechanism using filtering through data attribute classification in cluster-based sensor network. The suggestion mechanism use advantage of cluster-based network so reduce energy of query processing and designed more intelligent query dissemination. And, we prove excellence of energy efficient side with MATLab.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.08a
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• pp.234-234
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• 2012

고효율 저전력 고휘도를 장점으로 가지고 있는 OLED의 개선을 위하여 수많은 재료와 기술이 연구되어 왔다. 전기적 손실의 방지를 위하여 다양한 재료가 연구되고 있지만 그 중에서도 가장 각광받는 것은 그래핀이다. 그래핀(graphene)은 탄소원자가 육각형 벌집 모양 배열의 격자구조를 가지는 원자 단층 두께의 물질이다. 그래핀은 에너지와 역격자의 k 벡터가 선형적으로 비례하며 전도띠(conduction band)와 가전자띠(valence band)가 한 점에서 만나는 구조를 가지는 특징으로 인해 매우 빠른 전하 이동도(Mobility)를 가지고 있다. 이와 같은 그래핀의 특성을 이용하여 전극 층으로 이용함으로써 소자 특성의 개선이 가능할 것으로 예상되었다. $1{\times}1$ inch Glass에 ITO 대신에 그래핀을 증착한 후 Spin coater를 사용하여 PEDOT을 각각 1,000 rpm, 2,000 rpm으로 도포 하였다. 그 후 HTL (Hole transport latey), ETL (Electron-transport layer), EML (Emissive layer), EIL (Electron injection layer)를 순차적으로 증착 하여 소자를 제작하였다. 발광층에는 유기물질 Alq3를 사용하여 녹색광을 방출하도록 하였다. Spin coater의 rpm에 따라 전도성 고분자의 두께가 결정이 되는데, rpm이 높을수록 두께가 얇으며, 얇을수록 소비전력 효율이 낮다. 하지만 전류밀도 특성이 균일하지 못한 것을 확인하였다. 휘도 효율 특성은 PEDOT의 두께가 얇을수록 동일한 전압에서 휘도가 낮은것을 확인 하였다. 또한 ITO를 이용한 동일 공정의 OLED와 비교하였을 때 상대적으로 낮은 휘도와 전류 효율특성을 보였지만, 전류밀도는 상대적으로 그래핀이 높은 것으로 확인되었다. 본 연구를 바탕으로 그래핀 소자의 개선이 이루어진다면 더욱 높은 효율과 휘도를 낼 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.439-444
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• 2017

Wireless sensor network technology is a rapidly growing technology of ubiquitous computing environment and application and research are being carried out in various fields. The sensor nodes constituting the wireless sensor network maintain the life cycle by using the battery in the distributed network environment, so energy efficiency is more important than QoS requirement. In MAC protocol of IEEE802.15.4, MAC protocol study adaptive to traffic and standardization work emphasizing reliability and efficiency in wireless sensor network environment are underway. but, Wireless sensor networks have the problem that the response speed of the sensor node drops as the energy efficiency decreases. In this paper, we designed the MAC protocol with improved energy efficiency of the whole network by analyzing the MAC protocol of the synchronous method and the hybrid method.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.166-174
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• 1999

On-line efficiency optimization control of an induction motor drive using neural network is important from the v viewpoints of energy saving and controlling a nonlinear system whose charact81istics are not fully known. This paper p presents a neural networklongleftarrowbased on-line efficiency optimization control for an induction motor drive, which adopts an optimal slip an밍J.lar frequency control. In the proposed scheme, a neuro-controller provides minimal loss operating point i in the whole range of the measured input power. Both simulation and experimental results show that a considerable e energy saving is achieved compared with the conventional constant vlf ratio operation.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.3-9
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• 2016

Recently, a lot of researches have been done to increase the life span of network using the energy efficient sensor node in WSN. In the WSN environment, we must use limited amount of energy and hardware. Therefore, it is necessary to design energy efficient communication protocol and use limited resources. Cluster based routing method such as LEACH and HEED get the energy efficient routing using data communication between cluster head and related member nodes. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient routing algorithm as well as performance result using simulation.