• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.523-533
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• 2014

Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) is a promising technique, which can provide high downlink capacity for the future wireless systems. The total capacity of OFDMA can be maximized by adaptively assigning subchannels to the user with the best gain for that subchannel, with power subsequently distributed by water-filling. In this paper, we propose the use of composite differential evolution (CoDE) algorithm to allocate the subchannels. The CoDE algorithm is population-based where a set of potential solutions evolves to approach a near-optimal solution for the problem under study. CoDE uses three trial vector generation strategies and three control parameter settings. It randomly combines them to generate trial vectors. In CoDE, three trial vectors are generated for each target vector unlike other differential evolution (DE) techniques where only a single trial vector is generated. Then the best one enters the next generation if it is better than its target vector. It is shown that the proposed method obtains higher sum capacities as compared to that obtained by previous works, with comparable computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.174-176
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• 2002

전력산업 구조개편이 진행되면서 국내의 수요관리에 대한 정책도 변화하고 있는 실정이다. 수용 가에 계량 및 원격제어를 할 수 있는 시스템이 설치되고 이를 통하여 원격에서 부하를 하단하고 참여하는 수용가에 보상금을 지급하는 방식인 직접부하제어 방식은 부하 관리 자원 이용 가능성의 우의, 성과계량의 용이, 비용 효과 증대 동의 이유로 인하여 최근 많은 각광을 받고 있으며 한국전력, 에너지 관리공단에 의하여 시범적으로 국내에 도입되었다. 또한, 다수의 수용가에 대한 대표성을 가지며 수용가의 부하를 관리하여 직접부하제어를 대 행하는 민간기관인 부하관리 사업자가 국내에 생겨나게 되었다. 부하관리 사업자는 약정을 체결한 다수의 수용가 부하를 자원으로 하여 현재의 수요관리에서 직접부하 관리에 참여 할 수 있으며 향 후 도매경쟁체제에서는 확보한 부하 자원을 이용하여 다양한 방법으로 시장에 참 여할 수 있는 기회를 가지게 된다. 부하관리 사업자를 활성화하기 위해서는 수익을 창출할 수 있는 사업모델이 필요하며 활성화 되면 활용할 수 있는 부하자원의 양이 많아지게 되어 전력시장의 안정화를 위한 역할을 할 수 있게 될 것으로 기대된다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.3594-3610
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• 2015

Recent advancements in broadband wireless communication technologies enable mobile users to receive video streaming services with various smart devices. The long term evolution (LTE) network provides high bandwidth and low latency for several emerging mobile applications. This paper proposes the buffer aware scheduling (BAS) approach to schedule the downlink video traffic in LTE network. The proposed BAS scheme applies the weighting function to heuristically adjust the scheduling priority by considering the buffer status and channel condition of UE so as to reduce the time that UE stays in the connected state without receiving data. Both of 1080P and 2160P resolution video streaming sources were applied for exhaustive simulations to examine the performance of the proposed scheme by comparing to that of the fair bandwidth (FB) and the best channel quality indicator (CQI) schemes. The simulation results indicate that the proposed BAS scheme not only achieves better performance in power saving, streaming delivery time, and throughput than the FB scheme while maintaining the similar performance as the best CQI scheme in light traffic load. Specifically, the proposed scheme reduces streaming delivery time and generates less signaling overhead than the best CQI scheme when the traffic load is heavy.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.1421-1444
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• 2012

Mobile devices such as Android devices are emerging as a convenient client computing device with mobility and context-sensing capability. However, the computing power and hardware resource of the devices are limited due to their small form-factor. Consequently, large-scaled applications could not be deployed on these devices. Nonetheless, if the large-scaled applications are deployed and executed on the devices, high performance of the applications cannot be guaranteed. To remedy the limitation in terms of performance, it is inevitable to let some heavy-weight functionality executed on the server side and let a client application invoke the functionality in the server. To realize this kind of mobile applications, we adopt well-defined architecture design principles; being thin-client, being layered with Model-View-Controller (MVC), and being balanced between client side and server side. By adopting the principles, we propose a unique, ideal and practical architecture for mobile applications, called balanced MVC architecture. By considering the principles, key design considerations of realizing balanced MVC architecture lie in functionality partitioning. Hence, we define key criteria of determining the degree of performance. And, we define a method to design a balanced MVC architecture which embodies functionality partitioning for high performance, and a simulation-based evaluation method of balanced MVC architectures.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.112.2-112.2
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• 2011

미곡종합처리장에서 발생되는 농업부산물인 왕겨는 대부분 퇴비의 재료로 활용되고 있으며, 수익성이 없는 것으로 알려져 있다. 근래에 화석자원의 고갈이 진행되면서, 왕겨, 볏짚을 포함한 농업부산물은 화석연료와 달리 재생이 가능하고 지속 가능한 자원으로 각광을 받고 있다. 바이오매스를 이용하는 신재생에너지 기술로는 생물학적, 열화학적, 물리적 변환 기술 등이 있다. 그중 열화학적 변환 기술은 반응시간이 짧고, 단위부피당 처리량이 높으며 공정상의 폐기물이 적은 장점을 지니고 있어 왕겨의 에너지 활용에 효율적인 기술로 알려져 있다. 왕겨의 열분해 가스화는 CO, $H_2$, $CO_2$, 및 $CH_4$ 가스가 주성분인 합성가스로 전환되는 것을 말하며, 생산된 합성가스는 가스엔진의 발전 연료로 사용될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 농업부산물인 왕겨를 이용한 열분해 가스화기에서 발생된 합성가스를 정제한 후, 20kW급 가스엔진을 적용하여 합성가스 에너지 활용특성에 관하여 고찰하였다. 그 결과 왕겨의 열분해/가스화반응에 의해 발생된 합성가스를 가스엔진으로 안정적으로 공급하였으며,16kw의 전력이 생산되는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.54.1-54.1
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• 2011

The conventional energy-production system by burning fossil fuels releases many pollutants and carbon dioxide($CO_2$) to the environment. Therefore, many countries pay attention to new and renewable energy and invest in the development of these new technologies for the future energy security. One of the most promising of these technologies is a photovoltaic system. In this study, Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) is carried out to analyse the environmental issues(e.g. global warming, abiotic resource depletion) of CdTe photovoltaic system. The spatial and temporal scope of this study was set in Korea during 2004~2005. We assumed that CdTe photovoltaic system was installed in Mokpo where the amount of solar irradiation was higher than other places in Korea. Based on the present data and some assumptions, greenhouse gas emission was 39.2g $CO_2$-eq./kWh. Therefore the electricity produced by CdTe photovoltaic system is more environmentally friendly than the conventional power generation system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.1076-1089
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• 2012

Home automation networks are good environments for merging sensor networks and consumer electronics technologies. It is very important to reduce the energy consumption of each sensor node because sensor nodes operate with limited power based on a battery that cannot be easily replaced. One of the primary mechanisms for achieving low energy operation in energy-constrained wireless sensor networks is the duty-cycle operation, but this operation has several problems. For example, unnecessary energy consumption occurs during synchronization between transmission schedules and sleep schedules. In addition, a low duty-cycle usually causes more performance degradation, if the network becomes congested. Therefore, an appropriate control scheme is required to solve these problems. In this paper, we propose UDC (Unsynchronized Duty-cycle Control), which prevents energy waste caused by unnecessary preamble transmission and avoids congestion using duty-cycle adjustment. In addition, the scheme adjusts the starting point of the duty-cycle in order to reduce sleep delay. Our simulation results show that UDC improves the reliability and energy efficiency while reducing the end-to-end delay of the unsynchronized duty-cycled MAC (Media Access Control) protocol in sensor-based home automation networks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.4643-4660
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• 2014

Integrity authentication of biometric data in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a critical issue because the sensitive data transmitted over broadcast wireless channels could be attacked easily. However, traditional cryptograph-based integrity authentication schemes are not suitable for WBAN as they consume much computational resource on the sensor nodes with limited memory, computational capability and power. To address this problem, a novel lightweight integrity authentication scheme based on reversible watermark is proposed for WBAN and implemented on a TinyOS-based WBAN test bed in this paper. In the proposed scheme, the data is divided into groups with a fixed size to improve grouping efficiency; the histogram shifting technique is adopted to avoid possible underflow or overflow; local maps are generated to restore the shifted data; and the watermarks are generated and embedded in a chaining way for integrity authentication. Our analytic and experimental results demonstrate that the integrity of biometric data can be reliably authenticated with low cost, and the data can be entirely recovered for healthcare applications by using our proposed scheme.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.24-30
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• 2014

This study investigates computing offloading effect of cloud in real-time video personal broadcast service, whose server is mobile device. Mobile device does not have enough computing resource for encoding video. The computing burden is offloaded to cloud, which has abundant resources in terms of computing, power, and storage compared to mobile device. By reducing computing burden, computation energy can be saved while transmission data amount increases because of decreasing compression efficiency. This study shows that the optimal operation point can be found adaptively to time-varying LTE communication condition result of tradeoff analysis between offloaded computation burden and increase in amount of transmitted data.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.2680-2700
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• 2017

Finite field arithmetic over GF($2^m$) is used in a variety of applications such as cryptography, coding theory, computer algebra. It is mainly used in various cryptographic algorithms such as the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Twofish etc. The multiplication in a finite field is considered as highly complex and resource consuming operation in such applications. Many algorithms and architectures are proposed in the literature to obtain efficient multiplication operation in both hardware and software. In this paper, a modified serial multiplication algorithm with interleaved modular reduction is proposed, which allows for an efficient realization of a sequential polynomial basis multiplier. The proposed sequential multiplier supports multiplication of any two arbitrary finite field elements over GF($2^m$) for generic irreducible polynomials, therefore made versatile. Estimation of area and time complexities of the proposed sequential multiplier is performed and comparison with existing sequential multipliers is presented. The proposed sequential multiplier achieves 50% reduction in area-delay product over the best of existing sequential multipliers for m = 163, indicating an efficient design in terms of both area and delay. The Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation results indicate a significantly less power-delay and area-delay products of the proposed sequential multiplier over existing multipliers.