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GDCS : Energy Efficient Grid based Data Centric Storage for Sensor Networks (GDCS : 센서네트워크를 위한 에너지 효율적인 그리드 기반 데이터 중심 저장 시스템)

  • Shin, Jae-Ryong;Yoo, Jae-Soo;Song, Seok-Il
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.98-105
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, new data centric storage that is dynamically adapted to the change of work load is proposed. The proposed data centric storage distributes the load of hot spot area by using multilevel grid technique. Also, the proposed method is able to use existing routing protocol such as GPSR (Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing) with small changes. Through simulation the proposed method enhances the lifetime of sensor networks over one of the state-of-the-art data centric storages. We implement the proposed method based on a operating system for sensor networks, and evaluate the performance through running based on a simulation tool.

Experimental Sensitivity Table Method for Precision Alignment of Amon-Ra Instrument

  • Oh, Eunsong;Ahn, Ki-Beom;Kim, Sug-Whan
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.241-246
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    • 2014
  • The Amon-Ra instrument is the main optical payload of the proposed EARTHSHINE satellite. It consists of a visible wavelength instrument and an IR energy channel instrument to measure a global Earth albedo. We report a new sensitivity technique for efficient alignment of the visible channel instrument. Whilst the sensitivity table method has been widely used in the alignment process, the straightforward application of the method tends to produce slow process convergence because of shop floor alignment practice uncertainties. We investigated the error sources commonly associated with alignment practices and used them when estimating the Zernike polynomial coefficients. Aided with single center field wavefront error (WFE) measurements and their corresponding Zernike polynomial coefficients, the method involves the construction and use of an experimental, instead of simulated, sensitivity table to be used for alignment state estimations. A trial alignment experiment for the Amon Ra optical system was performed and the results show that 71.28 nm in rms WFE was achieved only after two alignment iterations. This tends to demonstrate its superior performance to the conventional method.

A Power Aware QoS Routing in Multimedia Ad-hoc Networks (멀티미디어 Ad-hoc 네트워크에서의 전력인지 QoS 라우팅)

  • Kim, Yoon-Do;Seo, Kyung-Ryong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.258-264
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    • 2010
  • In the Ad-hoc networks, the limitation on the availability of power for operation is a significant bottleneck, given the requirements of portability, weight, and size of mobile devices. Hence, the use of routing metrics that consider the capabilities of the power sources of the network nodes contributes to the efficient utilization of energy. This paper presents a QoS routing protocol that minimize the power consumed by a packet in traversing from source node to the destination node. Results obtained of simulation show that, with our approach we can reduce the power consumption of nodes and increases the life time of the network.

Study on Vibration Energy Harvesting with Small Coil for Embedded Avian Multimedia Application

  • Nakada, Kaoru;Nakajima, Isao;Hata, Jun-ichi;Ta, Masuhisa
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.47-52
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    • 2018
  • We have developed an electromagnetic generator to bury in subcutaneous area or abdominal cavity of the birds. As we can't use a solar battery, it is extremely difficult to supply a power for subcutaneous implantation such as biosensors under the skin due to the darkness environment. We are aiming to test the antigen-antibody reaction to confirm an avian influenza. One solution is a very small generator with the electromagnetic induction coil. We attached the developed coil to chickens and pheasants and recorded the electric potential generated as the chicken walked and the pheasant flew. The electric potential generated with physical simulator is equal to or exceeds the 7 V peak-to-peak at maximum by 560/min of flapping of wings. Even if we account for the junction voltage of the diode (200 mV), efficient charging of the double-layer capacitor is possible with the voltage doubler rectifier. If we increase the voltage, other problems arise, including the high-voltage insulation of the double-layer capacitor. For this reason, we believe the power generated to be sufficient for subcutaneous area of birds. The efficiency, magnetic 2 mm in length and coil 15mm in length, if axial direction is rectified, the magnetic flux density given to the coil could calculated to 7.1 % and generated power average 0.47mW. The improvements in size and wire insulation are expected in the future.

A Study on Pitch Detection using Cochlear Model on Cochannel Speech (청각 모델을 이용한 Cochannel 음성에서의 피치 추출에 관한 연구)

  • Sin, Dae-Gyu;Sin, Jung-In;Lee, Jae-Hyeok;Han, Du-Jin;Park, Sang-Hui
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.330-333
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, a new pitch estimation method is proposed using the Robinson cochlear model. This estimation method is useful in noisy environments and especially very efficient under cochannel in which two speaker voices exist at the same time. For the one speaker speech, the pitch can be extracted from just the neurogram of the Robinson cochlear model. In this case, as the estimation is performed in time domain, the exact pitch period can be detected though the pitch period is various. But in noisy and cochannel cases, the neurogram has many spurious peaks, so we use the autocorrelators in the neurogram to manifest the period. It the autocorrelators are used for the all delays, the large amount of calculations is necessary. Due to this defect, we propose that the autocorrelators are used for the part of the delays on which energy is concentrated. First of all, the proposed algorithm is applied to the one speaker speech, and later to the cochannel speech. And then the results are compared with the autocorrelation pitch detection method.

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AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF OIL SPILLS WITH LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUE FROM REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY

  • Konstantinos, Karantzalos;Demetre, Argialas
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.126-129
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    • 2006
  • The marine environment is under considerable threat from intentional or accidental oil spills, ballast water discharged, dredging and infilling for coastal development, and uncontrolled sewage and industrial wastewater discharges. Monitoring spills and illegal oil discharges is an important component in ensuring compliance with marine protection legislation and general protection of the coastal environments. For the monitoring task an image processing system is needed that can efficiently perform the detection and the tracking of oil spills and in this direction a significant amount of research work has taken place mainly with the use of radar (SAR) remote sensing data. In this paper the level set image segmentation technique was tested for the detection of oil spills. Level set allow the evolving curve to change topology (break and merge) and therefore boundaries of particularly intricate shapes can be extracted. Experimental results demonstrated that the level set segmentation can be used for the efficient detection and monitoring of oil spills, since the method coped with abrupt shape’s deformations and splits.

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Collaborative Wireless Sensor Networks for Target Detection Based on the Generalized Approach to Signal Processing

  • Kim, Jai-Hoon;Tuzlukov, Vyacheslav;Yoon, Won-Sik;Kim, Yong-Deak
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1999-2005
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    • 2005
  • Collaboration in wireless sensor networks must be fault-tolerant due to the harsh environmental conditions in which such networks can be deployed. This paper focuses on finding signal processing algorithms for collaborative target detection based on the generalized approach to signal processing in the presence of noise that are efficient in terms of communication cost, precision, accuracy, and number of faulty sensors tolerable in the wireless sensor network. Two algorithms, namely, value fusion and decision fusion constructed according to the generalized approach to signal processing in the presence of noise, are identified first. When comparing their performance and communication overhead, decision fusion is found to become superior to value fusion as the ratio of faulty sensors to fault free sensors increases. The use of the generalized approach to signal processing in the presence of noise under designing value and decision fusion algorithms in wireless sensor networks allows us to obtain the same performance, but at low values of signal energy, as under the employment of universally adopted signal processing algorithms widely used in practice.

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Efficient Simulation of Hysteretic Behavior of Diagonally Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams (효율적인 대각보강 콘크리트 연결보의 이력거동 예측)

  • Koh, Hyeyoung;Han, Sang Whan;Lee, Chang Seok
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.95-101
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    • 2018
  • Diagonally reinforced concrete coupling beams (DRCB) play an important role in coupled shear wall systems since these elements dissipate most of seismic input energy under earthquake loading. For reliable seismic performance evaluation using nonlinear response history analysis, it is important to use an accurate analytical model for DRCBs. In this study, the Pinching4 model is used as a base model to simulate the cyclic behavior of DRCBs. For simulating the cyclic behavior of DRCBs using the Pinching4 model, the analytical parameters for backbone curve, pinching and cyclic deterioration in strength and stiffness should be computed. To determine the proper values of the constituent analytical parameters efficiently and accurately, this study proposes the empirical equations for the analytical parameters using regression analyses. It is shown that the hysteretic behavior of coupling beams can be simulated efficiently and accurately using the proposed numerical model with the proposed empirical equations of model parameters.

A Study on the Simulation of Natural Ventilation Effect for Single-sided Casement Window as Opening Types (케이스먼트 창호 개폐방식에 따른 자연환기 효과에 관한 시뮬레이션 연구)

  • Choi, Taehwoan;Kim, Taeyeon;Leigh, Seung-Bok
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2007
  • At the moment, the reduction of building energy consumption is a unavoidable task of mankind for conserving global environment. Decreasing overall U-value of building envelope and air infiltration, especially in Korean climate condition with clear four seasons, are the obvious solutions for the objective. Thus low glazing ratio with small window openings are required for heating and cooling load reduction in buildings. Using larger window openings could provide better natural ventilation but it also increases the direct solar radiation penetration into indoor space, heat gain in summer and heat loss in winter. On the other hand, the ventilation rates decreasing problem with smaller window openings could be occurred. As a solution for it, the use of casement window can cause increasing natural ventilation rates by wing wall effect. This paper focuses on deduce the most efficient opening type of casement window in Korean climate. To estimate ventilation performance of each opening types, CFD simulation was used. The best performance of opening type in every wind direction is opening both windows to the center and the most appropriate opening type for Korean climate is also opening both windows to center.

Routing protocol for efficient power consumption of sensor node (센서노드의 효율적인 전력소모를 위한 라우팅 프로토콜 연구)

  • Kim, Ki-Tae;Kim, Dong-Il
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.382-385
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    • 2011
  • The sensor network technology for core technology of ubiquitous computing is in the spotlight recently, the research on sensor network is proceeding actively which is composed many different sensor node. One of the important condition for design of sensor node is to extend for network life which is to minimize power-consumption under the limited resources of sensor network. This study suggest routing protocol that was used second level cluster structure to reduce power-consumption of sensor node. the first level use the previous routing protocol under the LEACH, second level decide to transmit or not by comparision of data value for Effective Usage, reduce the unnecessary power-consumption.

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