• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.1009-1019
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• 2018

Bitcoin is the first application utilizing the blockchain, but it has limitations in terms of scalability. The concept of Lightning Network was recently introduced to address the scalability problem of Bitcoin. In this paper, we found that the real-world Bitcoin Lightning Network shows the scale-free property. Therefore, the Bitcoin Lightning Network can be vulnerable to the intentional attacks targeting some specific nodes in the network while it is still robust to the random node failures. We experimentally analyze the robustness of the Bitcoin's Lightning Network via the simulation of network attack model. Our simulation results demonstrate that the real-world Lightning Network is vulnerable to target attacks that destroy a few nodes with high degree.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2006

Lightning induced faults accounts for more than 66% at the transmission lines of KEPCO. The lightning causes damages to power system equipments including transmission line, the shut down of electricity and the electro-magnetic interference. Because of this reason, we need the real time lightning information for the optimal operation of power system. And, it is required to obtain and accumulate the lightning current parameters for the insulation design. A lightning detection system, LPATS, has been operated since 1995 in KEPCO. For the improved detection efficiency, we had in stalled the new lightning detection network named as KLDNet in 2005. Also, we had developed the new software for the lightning parameters analysis and real time information service on the WEB. In this paper, we would like to introduce about the new system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.398-399
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• 2015

The fault level of power transmission lines caused by natural disaster such as lightning and rainstorm has been on the rise. Especially, the cause of lightning stokes is large part of transmission faults. In order to reduce the lightning failures, it is necessary to measure and analyze the lightning characteristics. This paper deals with observation of the lightning strokes by KEPCO Lightning Detection Network(KLDNet) and analysis including lightning density, multiplicity and amplitude distribution.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.55 no.11
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• pp.532-537
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• 2006

Lightning induced faults accounts for more than 66% at the transmission lines of KEPCO. The lightning causes damages to power system equipments including transmission line, the blackout of electricity and the electro-magnetic interference. Because of this reason, we need the real time lightning information for the optimal operation of power system. And, it is required to obtain and accumulate the lightning current parameters for the insulation design. In 2005, KEPRI constructed a lightning detection network, the KLDNet (i.e. Kepco Lightning Detection & Information System) and launched a lightning information service for KEPCO customers. It is intended to provide data service on the operation of transmission lines and collect lightning-related data, which is the most important factor regulating power system design and operation. The new system will replace LPATS, the old detection system, which has been operating since 1995 and is rapidly failing in terms of both detection performance and location accuracy. The purpose of this paper is to explain the work performed and the results of that work in performing a site survey of several locations. The purpose of the site survey is to find locations acceptable for the installation of a lightning location receiver in support of a Lightning detection system(LDS). A restriction was placed on the surveyed locations, as they must belong to the Korea Electric Power Company. This requirement was made to facilitate the communication needs of the LDS network. Total of 15 sites were evaluated as possible LDS sensor sites. Some of the sites were rejected for physical reasons and therefore no electrical testing was performed. Of the 15 sites, total of 10 sites were considered acceptable and 5 sites were rejected for various reason. In this paper, we would like to explain the site survey and detection efficiency for LDS.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.691-693
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• 2007

KEPCO, a Korean utility, has been operating a new lightning detection network since 2006. The lightning data detected by the new system named as Kepco Lightning Detection & information Network(KLDNet) is presented, and compared with ten-years-old-statistics accumulated by LPATS in order to look over the detection abilities.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.438-439
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• 2008

KEPCO has been operating a lightning detection network, KLDNet, to cope with lightning-induced faults. An weather observation for last 40 years shows that heavy rainy days per year and the strength of rain have almost doubled. It could be interpreted as more frequent occurrence of lightning events. In accordance with that, the lightning activities and the mischievous influences, such as transmission faults, have increased. In this paper, the observed data by the network in 2007 is analyzed and compared with ten-years-old-statistics accumulated by the former system, LPATS.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.11
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• pp.1012-1018
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• 2016

We perform a electromagnetic analysis method for indirect effects of a high-conductive structure such as an aircraft exposed by lightning, by using the finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) method. The lightning waveform used to analyze indirect effects has low frequency spectrum and high-conductive materials such as aluminum and carbon fiber composite materials have very short skin depths, and thus, it requires large memory and long computation time using conventional three dimensional FDTD analysis method. We develop an efficient electromagnetic analysis method suitable for lightning and high-conductive structures. The developed analysis method is based on two dimensional FDTD and impedance network boundary condition(INBC) algorithms and we investigate the indirect effects on the structures exposed to lightning.

• KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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• v.5A no.4
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• pp.366-370
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• 2005

To meet increasing power demand, 500 kV power systems are under consideration in the regions of some Middle Asian countries. As the power system voltage becomes higher, the cost for the power system insulation increases significantly. 500 kV transmission systems will become the basis of a region's power system and they require much higher system reliability. Consequently, by the methods of limiting overvoltages effectively, a reasonable insulation design and coordination must be accomplished. In particular, the Substations must be constructed to be of outdoor type. In order to determine the various factors for the insulation design, the EMTP (Electro-magnetic transient program) is used for the magnification of transient phenomena of the 500 kV systems in the planned network. In this paper, we will explain the calculation results of lightning overvoltages by the EMTP for lightning protection design for the 500 kV substations. To obtain reliable results, the multi-story tower model and EMTP/TACS model are introduced for the simulation of dynamic arc characteristics.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.117-123
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• 2009

Recently, the failures of electrical equipment have been reduced due to the improvement of its quality and the advance of operation techniques but the failure rates caused by natural disasters such as wind and lightning have been increased. To reduce the failures due to lightning, it is necessary for insulation design of transmission lines to be done, effectively. Also the analysis on the lightning characteristics is essential to the effective insulation design. In this paper, we describe lightning distribution, multiplicity, IKL(Iso-Keraunic Level) and amplitude distribution of lightning current base on the lightning data by KLDNet.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.2356-2363
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• 2015

Localization of lightning strike point (LSP) in the forest is modeled to mitigate the forest fire damage. Though forest fire ignited by lightning rarely happens, its damage on the forest is grievousness. Therefore, predicting accurate location of LSP becomes crucial in order to control the forest fire. In this paper, we proposed a new hybrid localization algorithm by combining the received signal strength (RSS) and the received signal strength ratio (RSSR) to improve the accuracy by mitigating the environmental effect of lightning strike location in the forest. The proposed hybrid algorithm employs antenna theory (AT) model of cloud-to-ground (CG) return stroke lightning channel to forecast the location of the lightning strike. The obtained results show that the proposed hybrid algorithm achieves better location accuracy compared to the existing RSS method for predicting the lightning strike location considering additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) environment.