• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2009

XScale PXA255 기반 Embedded Linux 환경에서 전력 소비를 줄이기 위해 DFS(Dynamic Frequency Scaling) 기법의 디바이스 드라이버를 제작하고 이 디바이스 드라이버가 포팅되어 있는 임베디드 타겟보드의 전력을 관리하기 위한 미들웨어 DFM(Dynamic Frequency Management)를 설계하고 구현하여 임베디드 시스템의 전력 소비를 감소하는 방법을 제시한다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2012

Power continues to be a driving force in central processing units (CPU) design. Most of the advanced breakthroughs in power have been in a realm that is applicable to workstation CPUs. Advanced power management systems will manage temperature, dynamic voltage scaling and dynamic frequency scaling in a CPU. The use of power management systems for microcontrollers and embedded CPUs has been modest, and mostly focuses on very large scale integration (VLSI) level optimizations compared to system level optimizations. In this paper, a dynamic frequency controlling (DFC) technique is introduced, to lay the foundation of a system level power management system for commercial microcontrollers. The DFC technique allows a commercial microcontroller to have minor modifications on both the hardware and software side, to allow the clock frequency to change to save power; results in this study show a 10% savings. By adding an additional layer of software abstraction at the interrupt level, the microcontroller can operate without having knowledge of the current clock frequency, and this can be accomplished without having to use an embedded operating system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.849-858
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• 2022

Dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) has been widely adopted for runtime power management of various processing units. In the case of neural processing units (NPUs), power management of neural network applications is required to adjust the frequency and voltage every layer to consider the power behavior and performance of each layer. Unfortunately, DVFS is inappropriate for layer-wise run-time power management of NPUs due to the long latency of voltage scaling compared with each layer execution time. Because the frequency scaling is fast enough to keep up with each layer, we propose a layerwise dynamic frequency scaling (DFS) technique for an NPU. Our proposed DFS exploits the highest frequency under the power limit of an NPU for each layer. To determine the highest allowable frequency, we build a power model to predict the power consumption of an NPU based on a real measurement on the fabricated NPU. Our evaluation results show that our proposed DFS improves frame per second (FPS) by 33% and saves energy by 14% on average, compared with DVFS.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.13-16
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• 2000

This paper introduces a more effective usage of the limited OVSF cod in compressed mode which is used during inter-frequency/inter-system handover in UTRA(Universal mobile telecommunications system) Terrestrial Radio Access). The usager is to use dynamic common channel which is shared by several users during the compressed mode.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2009

The power consumption of a high-end microprocessor increases very rapidly. High power consumption will lead to a rapid increase in the chip temperature as well. If the temperature reaches beyond a certain level, chip operation becomes either slow or unreliable. Therefore various approaches for Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a learning based temperature prediction scheme for a multi-core system. In this approach, from repeatedly executing an application, we learn the thermal patterns of the chip, and we control the temperature in advance through DTM. When the predicted temperature may go beyond a threshold value, we reduce the temperature by decreasing the operation frequencies of the corresponding core. We implement our temperature prediction on an Intel's Quad-Core system which has integrated digital thermal sensors. A Dynamic Frequency System (DFS) technique is implemented to have four frequency steps on a Linux kernel. We carried out experiments using Phoronix Test Suite benchmarks for Linux. The peak temperature has been reduced by on average $5^{\circ}C{\sim}7^{\circ}C$. The overall average temperature reduced from $72^{\circ}C$ to $65^{\circ}C$.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.949-966
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• 2013

Recently, Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has promise to revolutionize human daily life. The need for multiple sensors and constant monitoring lead these systems to be energy hungry and expensive with short operating lifetimes. In this paper, we offer a review of existing work of WBAN and focus on energy-aware management in it. We emphasize that nodes computation, wireless communication, topology deployment and energy scavenging are main domains for making a long-lived WBAN. We study the popular power management technique Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and identify the impact of slack time in Dynamic Power Management (DPM), and finally propose an enhanced dynamic power management method to schedule scaled jobs at slack time with the goal of saving energy and keeping system reliability. Theoretical and experimental evaluations exhibit the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.2401-2409
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• 2016

안드로이드 CPU 거버너는 CPU 주파수를 낮추어 CPU 공급 전압을 감소시키는 DVFS (Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling) 기반 전력 관리 기법을 사용한다. 그러나 CPU 주파수의 감소는 태스크의 실행 속도 지연을 유발한다. 이로 인해 태스크의 응답 시간 및 마감 시한 초과율이 증가하여 태스크가 제공하는 서비스의 품질 하락이 발생한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 다양한 안드로이드 CPU 거버너들을 전력 소비와 태스크의 응답성 및 마감 시한 측면에서 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2124-2143
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• 2016

In Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) systems, Inter-cell Interference (ICI) is a prominent limiting factor that affects the performance of the systems, especially at the cell edges. Based on the literature, Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) methods are known as efficient interference management techniques. In this report, the proposed Dynamic Fractional Frequency Reuse (DFFR) technique improved the capacity and cell edge coverage performance by 70% compared to the Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) technique. In this study, an improved power allocation method was adopted into the DFFR technique to reach the goal of not only reducing the ICI mitigation at the cell edges, but also improving the overall capacity of the LTE-A systems. Hence, an improved water-filling algorithm was proposed, and its performance was compared with that of other methods that were considered. Through the simulation results and comparisons with other frequency reuse techniques, it was shown that the proposed method significantly improved the performance of the cell edge throughput by 42%, the capacity by 75%, and the coverage by 80%. Based on the analysis and numerical expressions, it was concluded that the proposed DFFR method provides significant performance improvements, especially for cell edge users.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.1405-1411
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• 2022

고성능 프로세서와 같은 하드웨어의 발전이 계속됨에 따라 임베디드 환경에서 전력관리는 여전히 중요한 문제이다. DVFS와 같은 전력관리방식은 네트워크 통신과 같은 폴링 기반의 입출력 프로그램에서 효율적인 전력관리를 위해 적응형 방식으로 CPU 주파수를 조절한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 전력관리방식에서의 문제점을 제시하고 새로운 전력관리 방식을 제안한다. 이를 통해 데이터 수신의 빈도가 낮은 상황에서는 폴링 주기를 늘려 전력소모를 줄일 수 있고, 반대로 데이터 수신이 빈번한 상황에서는 최대주파수로 동작하여 성능저하없이 동작 할 수 있다. 이를 임베디드 보드상에 코드계층으로 구현하고 Atmel사의 Power Debugger를 통해 실험 관찰한 결과 제안한 방식은 기존의 전력관리방식과 비교하여 전력소모에서 최대 30%의 성능향상을 보였다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.184-191
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• 2015

As the power electronics system increases the frequency, the power loss and thermal management are paid more attention. This research presents a real time model of dissipation power with junction temperature response for 120kw IGBT inverter which is applied to the thermal management of high power IGBT inverter. Since the computational time is critical for real time simulation, look-up tables of IGBT module characteristic curve are implemented. The power loss from IGBT provides a clue to calculate the temperature of each module of IGBT. In this study, temperature of each layer in IGBT is predicted by lumped capacitance analysis of layers with convective heat transfer. The power loss and temperature of layers in IGBT is then communicated due to mutual dependence. In the dynamic model, PWM pulses are employed to calculation real time IGBT and diode power loss. Under Matlab/Simulink$^{(R)}$ environment, the dynamic model is validated with experiment. Results showed that the dynamic response of power loss is closely coupled with effective thermal management. The convective heat transfer is enough to achieve proper thermal management under guideline temperature.