• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.289-294
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• 2014

본 논문은 상향링크 공간분할접속 시스템에서 사용자 스케쥴링, 전력제어, 수신 빔포밍을 다룬다. 사용자는 단일 안테나를 가지며 기지국은 다중 안테나를 가진다고 가정한다. 기지국에서는 미리 약속된 방식으로 수신 빔포밍을 수행하고 빔포밍 후의 정해진 스케쥴링 방식에 따라 사용자가 선택된다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 각자 자신이 다른 사용자의 신호에 미칠 간섭을 미리 계산하여 그 값이 특정 임계치보다 클 경우 자신의 송신 전력을 낮추는 전력 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 기술의 상향링크 데이터 전송률은 기존에 제안된 다양한 사용자 스케쥴링 알고리즘들에 비하여 월등히 좋은 성능을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.389-405
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• 2014

Outdated Channel State Information (CSI) was proved to have negative effect on performance in two-way relay networks. The diversity order of widely used opportunistic relay selection (ORS) was degraded to unity in networks with outdated CSI. This paper proposed a multiple relay selection scheme for amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way relay networks (TWRN) with outdated CSI. In this scheme, two sources exchange information through more than one relays. We firstly select N best relays out of all candidate relays with respect to signal-noise ratio (SNR). Then, the ratios of the SNRs on the rest of the candidate relays to that of the Nth highest SNR are tested against a normalized threshold ${\mu}{\in}[0,1]$, and only those relays passing this test are selected in addition to the N best relays. Expressions of outage probability, average bit error rate (BER) and ergodic channel capacity were obtained in closed-form for the proposed scheme. Numerical results and Simulations verified our theoretical analyses, and showed that the proposed scheme had significant gains comparing with conventional ORS.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.759-770
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• 2009

본 논문은 신호와 잡음이 혼합된 관측치로부터 신호 관측치를 분류하는 문제를 다룬다. 잡음은 가우시안 분포를 따르고 신호는 감마 분포를 따른다고 가정할 때 관측치의 분포는 가우시안과 감마의 혼합 분포를 따르게 된다. EM 알고리즘을 통해 혼합 모델의 모수를 추정하고 신호 및 잡음을 분류하는 것을 다중 가설 검정으로 간주하여 베이즈 오류를 바탕으로 분류를 위한 경계치를 설정한다. 제안하는 방법을 분광 데이터에 근거하여 철강 제품에서 개재물 유무를 검출하는 문제에 적용하였고 별도의 시뮬레이션 데이터를 통해 성능의 우수성을 보였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2009

We investigate the connectivity of fading wireless ad-hoc networks with a pair of novel connectivity metrics. Our first metric looks at the problem of connectivity relying on the outage capacity of MIMO channels. Our second metric relies on a probabilistic treatment of the symbol error rates for such channels. We relate both capacity and symbol error rates to the characteristics of the underlying communication system such as antenna configuration, modulation, coding, and signal strength measured in terms of signal-to-interference-noise-ratio. For each metric of connectivity, we also provide a simplified treatment in the case of ergodic fading channels. In each case, we assume a pair of nodes are connected if their bi-directional measure of connectivity is better than a given threshold. Our analysis relies on the central limit theorem to approximate the distribution of the combined undesired signal affecting each link of an ad-hoc network as Gaussian. Supported by our simulation results, our analysis shows that (1) a measure of connectivity purely based on signal strength is not capable of accurately capturing the connectivity phenomenon, and (2) employing multiple antenna mobile nodes improves the connectivity of fading ad-hoc networks.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.17-21
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• 2008

Application of flash memory in mobile and ubiquitous related devices is rapidly being increased due to its low price and high performance. In addition, some notebook computers currently come out into market with a SSD(Solid State Disk) instead of hard-drive based storage system. Regarding this trend, applications need to increase the storage capacity using multiple flash memory chips for larger capacity sooner or later. Flash memory based storage subsystem should resolve the performance bottleneck for writing in perspective of speed and lifetime according to its physical property. In order to make flash memory storage work with tangible performance, reclaiming of invalid regions needs to be controlled in a particular manner to decrease the number of erasures and to distribute the erasures uniformly over the whole memory space as much as possible. In this paper, we study the performance of flash memory recycling algorithms and demonstrate that the proposed algorithm shows acceptable performance for flash memory storage with multiple chips. The proposed cleaning method partitions the memory space into candidate memory regions, to be reclaimed as free, by utilizing threshold values. The proposed algorithm handles the storage system in multi-layered style. The impact of the proposed policies is evaluated through a number of experiments.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.25-29
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• 2008

Reliability and performance in metal gate/high-k device with multiple gate dielectrics were investigated. MOSFETs with a thin $HfSiO_x$ layer on a thermal Si02 dielectric as gate dielectrics exhibit excellent mobility and low interface trap density. However, the distribution of threshold voltages of $HfSiO_x/SiO_2$ stack devices were wider than those of $SiO_2$ and $HfSiO_x$ single layer devices due to the penetration of Hf and/or intermixing of $HfSiO_x$ with underlying $SiO_2$. The results of TZDB and SILC characteristics suggested that a certain portion of $HfSiO_x$ layer reacted with the underlying thick $SiO_2$ layer, which in turn affected the reliability characteristics.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.655-663
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• 2011

Diffuse optical wireless (DOW) systems have the advantage that they do not require point-to-point siting so one transmitter can communicate with several receivers. In this paper, we investigate multiple access scheduling methods for downlink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in diffuse optical wireless networks. Unlike the radio frequency (RF) channel, the DOW channel has low-pass filter characteristics and so requires different scheduling methods than those developed for the RF channel. Multi-user diversity orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems nominate a cluster of subcarriers with the largest signal-to-noise-ratio for transmission. However, in a DOW channel, most users would choose the lowest frequency clusters of subcarriers. To remedy this problem, we make two proposals. The first is to use a variable cluster size across the subcarriers; the lower frequency clusters will have fewer subcarriers while the higher frequency clusters will have more subcarriers. This will equalize the capacity of the clusters. The second proposal is to randomize a user's cluster selection from a group of clusters satisfying a minimum threshold. Through simulation it is shown that combining these strategies can increase the throughput while ensuring a fair distribution of the available spectrum.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1418-1432
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• 2013

This paper studies the problem of secure information exchange between two sources via multiple relays in the presence of an eavesdropper. To this end, we propose a relay beamforming scheme, i.e., relay beamforming with artificial noise (RBwA), where the relay beamforming vector and the artificial noise vector are jointly designed to maintain the received signal-to-interference-ratio (SINR) at the two sources over a predefined Quality of Service (QoS) threshold while limiting the received SINR at the eavesdropper under a predefined secure threshold. For comparison, the relay beamforming without artificial noise (RBoA) is also considered. We formulate two optimization problems for the two schemes, where our goal is to seek the optimal beamforming vector to minimize the total power consumed by relay nodes such that the secrecy of the information exchange between the two sources can be protected. Since both optimization problems are nonconvex, we solve them by semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation theory. Simulation results show that, via beamforming design, physical layer secrecy of two-way relay networks can be greatly improved and our proposed RBwA outperforms the RBoA in terms of both low power consumption and low infeasibility rate.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2014

For professional drivers, there is a possibility to have musculoskeletal disorders on ankle joint due to repetitive pedaling operation. Therefore, this study have focused to examine ankle active range of motion (AROM), dorsiflexor strength, and pressure pain threshold (PPT) of tibialis anterior muscle (TA) in taxi drivers compared to a age-matched control group. Thirty male taxi drivers with at least 10 years of driving experience and thirty male sedentary workers were evaluated for ankle AROM, dorsiflexor strength, and PPT of TA. Multiple independent t-tests were used to identify significant differences between two groups. For the results, taxi drivers had significantly less AROM in dorsiflexion and greater AROM in external tibial rotation compared to the control group. Also, dorsiflexor strength and PPT of TA in taxi drivers was significantly lower than in the control group. This study indicates that the repetitive ankle movements associated with driving have an effect on ankle AROM, dorsiflexor strength, and PPT of TA and may lead to work-related musculoskeletal disorders on ankle. Professional drivers may need to be educated to prevent a potential musculoskeletal disorders associated with repetitive movement.

• 중소기업융합학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

PB/MC-CDMA는 기존 MC-CDMA 시스템과는 달리 여러 개의 블록으로 전체 주파수 대역을 분할하는 효율적인 시스템이다. 다중 블록 PB/MC-CDMA에서 효율적인 자원 할당 방식을 제안한다. 이 시스템은 주파수 효율을 향상시키고 다양한 채널 조건을 통해 사전에 정의 된 임계값을 만족시키면서 전체 처리량을 극대화 하는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. 또한, 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 시스템의 성능 처리량 측면에서 더 효과적인 것을 확인한다.