• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2015년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.401-402
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• 2015

In this paper a direct cell-to-cell charge balancing circuit which can transfer the charge from any cell to any cell in the battery string is introduced. In the proposed topology the energy in the high voltage cell is transferred to the low voltage cell through the simple operation of a dc-dc converter to get fast equalization. Furthermore, the charge equalization can be performed regardless of the battery module operation whether it is being charged, discharged or relaxed. The monitoring circuit composed of a DSP and a battery monitoring IC is designed to monitor the cell voltage and protect the battery. In order to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed topology, a prototype circuit was designed and applied to 12 Lithium-Ion battery module. It has been verified with the experiments that the charge equalization time of the proposed method was shortest compared with those of other methods.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2001

This paper considers the scheduling of cell-based handoffs to balance the traffic in a fiber-optic microcelluar system. In the system depending on the order of cell based handoff, periodical balancing of the traffic among microcells can be achieved. The cell based handoff problem is formulated as a dynamic programming and the computational complexity is analyzed. Since the scheduling problem requires real time solution, heuristic algorithms are proposed and the computational results are discussed.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.324-329
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• 2011

휴대 기기가 고기능화, 다기능화 됨에 따라 다양한 멀티미디어 기능이 요구되면서 배터리를 보다 장시간 이용하면서 더 높은 전력과 에너지가 요구되고 있다. 이에 따라 여러 개의 리튬이온 cell을 연결한 배터리팩이 많이 사용되고 있다. 2개 이상의 cell로 구성된 리튬이온 배터리를 안전하게 사용하기 위해서는 과전압 및 과전류, 고온으로 부터 보호해야 됨은 물론, 수명을 연장하기 위해서 각 cell의 전압을 같게 유지시켜주는 balancing 기능이 반드시 요구된다. 본 논문에서 제안한 IC는 모바일 기기뿐만 아니라 E-bike, 하이브리드 자동차, 전기 자동차 분야에도 적용 가능할 것으로 예상되며, 국내 PMIC 발전에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.379-384
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• 2012

This paper presents the power source of wireless sensor node (WSN) using supercapacitors and a solar cell. Supercapacitors have high lifetime cycling compared to that of batteries. Supercapacitors are connected in series to achieve higher voltage and a voltage balancing circuit is required to ensure that no individual cell goes overvoltage. We employ an active balancing circuit that draws minimal current by using transistors. A diode is connected in series with each supercapacitor. A new balancing circuit that equalize the cells-voltage reduces energy consumption of supercapacitors. Voltage of operating WSN is applied 2.2-3.3V by DC/DC converter and supercapacitor voltage 2.2-5.1V. Maximum operating time of wireless sensor node is about 16 hours in full charging.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.2563-2568
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• 2013

최근 옥외용 이동통신시스템과 동일 주파수를 사용하면서 추가적으로 용량을 확보할 수 있는 옥내용 모바일 통신 시스템을 위한 초소형 기지국에 대한 연구 및 개발이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 옥내용 모바일 통신 시스템에서 초소형 기지국의 특성을 고려한 시스템 레벨 시뮬레이터를 개발하였고 초소형 기지국 환경에서 혼잡한(Congested) 기지국의 아웃티지 확률(Outage Probability)을 줄이는 적응적 Load-Balancing 방안을 제안하였다. 본 시뮬레이터에서는 초소형 기지국 특성을 고려한 링크 레벨 시뮬레이션 결과를 반영하였으며, 본 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 옥내용 모바일 통신 시스템에서 Load-Balancing 방안을 적용하였을 때와 적용하지 않았을 때의 아웃티지 확률을 비교해 보았다. 제안한 Load-Balancing 방안의 사용을 통해 혼잡한 기지국의 아웃티지 확률을 줄이고 전체 시스템의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 보였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.347-349
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• 2007

Charge equalization scheme for HEV lithium-ion battery system is proposed in this paper, where all the primary windings with in parallel bi-directional switches are coupled in series to provide the equalizing energy from the whole battery string to the specific under charged cells. Moreover, to realize minimized size of equalization circuit employing the proposed cell balancing scheme, the optimal power rating design rule according to equalization time and SOC distribution of imbalance is proposed. A prototype of HEV lithium-ion battery system of four cells shows the outstanding charge equalization performance while maintaining greatly reduced size of cell balancing circuit.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.350-352
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• 2007

Modularized charge equalization converter for HEV lithium-ion battery cells is proposed in this paper, in which intra-module and inter-module charge equalization can be achieved at the same time. For intra-module charge equalization, the conventional flyback DC/DC converters of low power and small size are employed, in which all of the primary sides are coupled in parallel for selective charge of the specific under charged cell within the module. For inter-module charge equalization, the flyback DC/DC converters are also added, in which all the secondary windings are electrically linked in parallel for automatic charge balancing among the modules. An engineering sample of forty cells hiring the proposed cell balancing scheme is implemented and its experimental result shows that the proposed modularized charge equalization circuit has good cell balancing performance.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1994년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.773-777
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• 1994

This paper is devoted to the development and performance evaluation of a hard bearing type balancing machine for rigid rotors. The pedestals of the balancing machine are designed to be rigid to be rigid enough to enable the balancing to operate far below the fundamental critical speed. The force measuring method is implemented to the balancing machine. The forces due to unbalance are measured through load cell that are attached to the pedestals. A helical coupling is used for transmitting the driving force from an AC servo motor to the rotor to be balanced. The experimental results show that the current hard bearing type balancing machine can indicate the presence of unbalance beyond 1 .mu. m in specific unbalance unit. The limitation of the current balancing machine is due to the coupling that is likely to make inconsistent offset errors everytime the rotor is connected to the machine.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권11호
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• pp.2230-2237
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 자연계에 존재하는 동기화 현상에 착안하여 무선 네트워크를 위한 자율적 부하균형 기법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 무선 접속 서비스를 제공하는 셀 사이의 부하균형 문제를 자연계 동기화 현상을 이용하여 모델링 한 후 각 셀들이 이웃 셀과의 부하 차이에 따라 자율적으로 부하를 분배하기 위한 알고리즘을 설계한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안 기법을 이용하여 각 셀들이 자신의 지역적 정보만을 이용하여 자율적으로 부하 분배 여부를 결정하더라도 셀 간 부하균형을 이룰 수 있다는 것을 검증하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1569-1586
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• 2015

This paper considers the optimal cell association and resource allocation for load balancing in a heterogeneous cellular network subject to user's quality-of-service (QoS) constraints. We adopt the proportional fairness (PF) utility maximization formulation which also accommodates the QoS constraints in terms of minimum rate requirements. With equal resource allocation this joint optimization problem is either infeasible or requires relaxation that yields a solution which is difficult to implement. Nevertheless, we show that this joint optimization problem can be effectively solved without any priori assumption on resource allocation and yields a cell association scheme which enforces single BS association for each user. We re-formulated the joint optimization problem as a network-wide resource allocation problem with cardinality constraints. A reweighted heuristic l₁-norm regularization method is used to obtain a sparse solution to the re-formulated problem. The cell association scheme is then derived from the sparsity pattern of the solution, which guarantees a single BS association for each user. Compared with the previously proposed method based on equal resource allocation, the proposed framework results in a feasible cell association scheme and yields a robust solution on resource allocation that satisfies the QoS constraints. Our simulations illustrate the impact of user's minimum rate requirements on cell association and demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves load balancing and enforces single BS association for users.