• Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.69-75
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• 2009

Objectives : The detrended fluctuation analysis is one of the nonlinear methods for the investigation of biological time series. It quantifies the fractal scaling properties and is known to be useful in the evaluation of long-range correlations in time series. The heart rate variability(HRV) of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) patients during nighttime was analyzed by detrended fluctuation analysis to assess its relationship with the severity of the symptoms. Methods : Fifty nine untreated male OSAS patients with moderate to severe symptoms(mean age=45.4${\pm}$11.7 years, apnea-hypopnea index, AHI${\geq}$15) underwent nocturnal polysomnography. Moderate(AHI=15-30, N=22) and severe(AHI>30, N=37) OSAS patients were compared for the indices derived from detrended fluctuation analysis and frequency domain analysis of HRV. Results : In the detrended fluctuation analysis, the alpha values were 0.75${\pm}$0.11 and 0.82${\pm}$0.07 for the severe and the moderate OSAS groups respectively. The difference was significant(p<.01). The alpha value had negative correlation with AHI(r=-.425, p=.001). Negative correlation coefficients were also found in the relationships between the alpha values and very low frequency(VLF)(r=-.425, p=.001), low frequency(LF)(r=-.633, p= <.001) and the LF/HF ratio(r=-.305, p=.019) respectively. LF/HF ratio(p=.005) was higher in the severe OSAS group compared to that of the moderate OSAS group. Conclusion : In this study, the detrended fluctuation analysis showed the significant difference between the two OSAS groups classified according to their severity of symptoms. The scaling exponent showed the negative correlation with AHI and indicies of frequency domain analysis. This result suggests that detrended fluctuation analysis can be helpful to estimate the severity of OSAS.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.1405-1411
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• 2022

Power management is still an important issue in embedded environments as hardware advances like high-performance processors. Power management methods such as DVFS control CPU frequencies in an adaptive manner for efficient power management in polling-based I/O programs such as network communication. This paper presents the problems of the existing power management method and proposes a new power management method. Through this, it is possible to reduce electric consumption by increasing the polling cycle in situations where the frequency of data reception is low, and on the contrary, in situations where data reception is frequent, it can operate at the maximum frequency without performance degradation. After implementing this as a code layer on the embedded board and observing it through Atmel's Power Debugger, the proposed method showed a performance improvement of up to 30% in energy consumption compared to the existing power management method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.1379-1382
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• 2003

Recently, mobile embedded systems used widly in various applications. Managing power consumption is becoming a matter of primary concern because those systems use limited power supply. As an approach reduce power consumption, voltage can be scaled down. according to the execution time and deadline. By reducing the supplying voltage to 1/N power consumption can be reduced to 1/N. DPM-S is a well known method for dynamic voltage scaling. In this paper, we enhanced DPM-S by using average execution time aggressively. The frequency of processor is calculated based in average execution time instead of worst case execution time. Simulation results show that our method achieve up to 5％ energy savings than DPM-S.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1010-1018
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• 2004

This study presents the methodological aspects of combustion instability modeling and provides the numerical results of the model (sub-scale) combustion chamber, regarding geometrical dimensions and operating conditions, which are for determining the combustion stability boundaries using the model chamber. An approach to determine the stability limits and acoustic characteristics of injectors is described intensively. Procedures for extrapolation of the model operating parameters to the actual conditions are presented, which allow the hot-fire test data to be presented by parameters of the combustion chamber pressure and mixture (oxidizer/fuel) ratio, which are customary for designers. Tests with the model chamber, based on the suggested scaling method, are far more cost-effective than with the actual (full-scale) chamber and useful for injector screening at the initial stage of the combustor development in a viewpoint of combustion instabilities.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.40-47
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• 1999

Focusing is widely used to increase the resolution in ultrasound transmit field. It increases signal levels returning from the mainlobe direction and decreases those due to sidelobe directions. However, when the sidelobes cannot be completely canceled, the resulting image resolution is greatly deteriorated. This paper proposes a method of improving the resolution by scaling the received signal according to the difference between the mainlobe and sidelobe levels computed in the frequency domain by the use of Fourier transform. The proposed method is verified by computer simulation and experiments, and is shown to be highly effective in narrowing the mainlobe width and decreasing the sidelobe levels.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06b
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• pp.113-116
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• 2002

This paper describes a design of 8192-Point pipelined FFT/IFFT processor (PFFTSk) core for DVB-T and DMT-based VBSL modems. A novel two-step convergent block floating -point (75_CBFP) scaling method is proposed to improve the signal- to-quantization-noise ratio (SeNR) of FFT/IFFT results. Our approach reduces about 80% of memory when compared with conventional CBFP methods. The PFFTSk core, which is designed in VHDL and synthesized using 0.25-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS library, has about 76,300 gates, 390k bits RAM, and Twiddle factor ROM of 39k bits. Simulation results show that it can safely operate up to 50-MHz clock frequency at 2.5-V supply, resulting that a 8192-point FFT/IFFT can be computed every 164-$mutextrm{s}$. The SQNR of about 60-dB is achieved.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.158-164
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• 2013

This paper expands a previously proposed optimized higher order (2, 4) finite-difference time-domain scheme (H(2, 4) scheme) for use with lossy material. A low dispersion error is obtained by introducing a weighting factor and two scaling factors. The weighting factor creates isotropic dispersion, and the two scaling factors dramatically reduce the numerical dispersion error at an operating frequency. In addition, the results confirm that the proposed scheme performs better than the H(2, 4) scheme for wideband analysis. Lastly, the validity of the proposed scheme is verified by calculating a scattering problem of a lossy circular dielectric cylinder.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.519-528
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• 2004

For reappearance of driving perception in a driving simulator, a washout algorithm is required. This algorithm can reappear the vehicle driving motions within workspace of the driving simulator. However classical washout algorithm contains several problems such as selection of order, cut-off frequency of filters, generation of wrong motion cues by characteristics of filters, etc. In order to overcome these problems, this paper proposes a new washout algorithm which gives more accurate sensations to drivers. The algorithm consists of an artificial inclination of the motion plate and human perception model with band pass filter and dead zone. As a result of this study, the motion of a real car could be reappeared satisfactorily in the driving simulator and the workspace of motion plate is restrained without scaling factor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.203-206
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• 2008

기존의 대표적인 디지털 통신방식으로 주파수 편이 변조(FSK: frequency shift keying), 위상 편이 변조(PSK: phase shift keying), 진폭 편이 변조(ASK: amplitude shift keying) 방식들이 있다. 본 논문에서는 2진 정합필터를 이용하여 웨이브릿 편이변조 신호를 복원하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 웨이브릿 편이 변조 시스템은 스케일링 함수(scaling function)와 웨이브릿(wavelet)을 이용한다. 스케일링 함수를 1로, 웨이브릿 함수를 0으로 할당하여 2진 데이터를 변조한다. 기존의 웨이브릿 편이 변조 시스템에서는 복원을 위해 후처리가 필요하였다. 된 논문에서는 2진정합필터를 이용하여 복원하므로, 별도의 후처리 과정 없이 복원을 가능하게 하였다. 모의실험 결과 제안한 알고리즘이 타당함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.164-168
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• 2008

일반적으로 확률강우량은 관측지점에서 관측된 연최대 강우량자료를 바탕으로 빈도해석을 적용하여 산정한다. 그러나 국내에서는 매시각별로 관측된 자료가 대부분이기 때문에 단기간 혹은 장기간의 지속기간에 대한 확률강우량을 산정하는 것은 쉽지 않다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 매시각단위의 지속기간 강우자료를 바탕으로 다양한 지속기간에 대한 확률 강우량을 산정할 수 있는 스케일 성질을 적용하여 확률강우량을 산정하여 정확성을 판단하였다. 강우자료는 비교적 신뢰성이 높고 자료기간이 긴 기상청 지점 22개 자료를 사용하였으며, 2003년까지의 관측된 자료를 이용하여 확률강우량을 산정한 후 지점빈도해석 프로그램인 FARD2006과 비교하여 지점빈도해석의 결과 값을 참값으로 절대상대오차를 산정하여 비교하였다. 산정한 방법은 기준이 되는 확률강우량을 산정한 후 그보다 긴 지속기간에 대한 확률강우량을 산정하는 방법인 상향스케일링 (Up-scaling)과 그 보다 짧은 지속기간에 대한 확률강우량을 산정하는 방법인 하향스케일링(Down-scaling)의 두 가지 방법으로 확률강우량을 산정하였다. 두 방법 모두 1시간$\sim$24시간의 지속기간에 대한 확률강우량을 2년$\sim$500년의 재현기간에 대하여 확률강우량을 산정하였으며, 빈도해석으로 산정한 FARD2006의 결과값과 비교하여 절대상대오차를 산정하였다. 그 결과, 시간단위자료를 사용할 경우 대부분 절대상대오차가 10% 미만인 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며, 14개의 재현기간 중에서 8개 이상의 재현기간에 대해 적용이 가능한 것으로 나타났다. 지속기간 1시간 강우자료를 기준 지속기간으로 1시간 미만의 지속기간에 대한 확률강우량을 추정한 결과 10분을 제외하고는 대부분 절대상대오차가 10% 내외의 정확도를 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 스케일 성질을 이용하여 미계측 강우지속기간의 확률강우량을 추정할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.