• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.78-90
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• 2015

Short rotation woody crops belonging to the genera Populus L., Salix L., Pinus L., and Eucalyptus L'Her. have provided broad economic and ecological benefits throughout the world, including afforestation and reforestation along urban to rural gradients. Within the genus Populus, cottonwoods, poplars, aspens, and their hybrids (hereafter referred to as poplars) have been shown to exhibit favorable genotype ${\times}$ environment interactions, especially in the face of changing climates. Similar growth responses have been reported for Pinus, especially with white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in the North Central United States. This has led to current research priorities focused on ecosystem services for both genera. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) defines cultural, supporting, provisioning, and regulating ecosystem services. The overarching objective of this paper was to synthesize information about the potential of poplars to provide multiple ecosystem services when grown at sites with varying soil and climate conditions across landscape gradients from urban to rural areas. Specific objectives included: 1) providing background of the United States Forest Service and its Research and Development branch, 2) integrating knowledge of current poplar breeding and development with biomass provisioning and carbon regulating ecosystem services as they relate to changing climates in the North Central United States, and 3) providing a case study illustrating this integration through comparisons of poplar with white pine. Our results were evaluated in the context of climate change mitigation, with specific focus on selection of favorable genotypes for sequestering atmospheric carbon and reducing fossil fuel carbon emissions.

• 서비스연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2012

새로운 유형의 임베디드 컴퓨팅 디바이스와 무선 랜의 발달으로 인하여 컴퓨팅의 영역이 직장, 가정부터 일반 생활까지 넓어지고 있다. 이런 트렌드는 사물 인터넷(Internet of Things, IoT) 환경의 발달을 가져오고 있다. 사물 인터넷 환경에서는 비싸지 않고 서로 연결되는 컴퓨팅 디바이스가 사용자의 다양한 작업을 자율적으로 지원한다. 이런 스마트 서비스를 개발하기 위해서는 컨텍스트 인지 컴퓨팅이 핵심 기술이다. 그러나 이런 서비스를 스마트하게 하기 위해서는 다양한 어려움이 있다. 대표적인 어려움으로는 다양한 컴퓨팅 환경, IoT 장비의 자원 제약사항, 다량의 IoT 장비로부터 생산되는 데이터, 컨텍스트 해석에 있어서의 다른 요구 사항 등이 있다. 이로 인하여 IoT 장비를 활용하여 스마트 서비스를 제공하는데에 어려움이 있다. 이런 상황을 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 재사용 가능한 프레임워크를 제안한다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.583-600
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• 2015

Generally, the wireless network provides priority to handover calls instead of new calls to maintain its quality of service (QoS). Because of this QoS provisioning, a call admission control (CAC) scheme is essential for the suitable management of limited radio resources of wireless networks to uphold different factors, such as new call blocking probability, handover call dropping probability, channel utilization, etc. Designing an optimal CAC scheme is still a challenging task due to having a number of considerable factors, such as new call blocking probability, handover call dropping probability, channel utilization, traffic rate, etc. Among existing CAC schemes such as, fixed guard band (FGB), fractional guard channel (FGC), limited fractional channel (LFC), and Uniform Fractional Channel (UFC), the LFC scheme is optimal considering the new call blocking and handover call dropping probability. However, this scheme does not consider channel utilization. In this paper, a CAC scheme, which is termed by a uniform fractional band (UFB) to overcome the limitations of existing schemes, is proposed. This scheme is oriented by priority and non-priority guard channels with a set of fractional channels instead of fractionizing the total channels like FGC and UFC schemes. These fractional channels in the UFB scheme accept new calls with a predefined uniform acceptance factor and assist the network in utilizing more channels. The mathematical models, operational benefits, and the limitations of existing CAC schemes are also discussed. Subsequently, we prepared a comparative study between the existing and proposed scheme in terms of the aforementioned QoS related factors. The numerical results we have obtained so far show that the proposed UFB scheme is an optimal CAC scheme in terms of QoS and resource utilization as compared to the existing schemes.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2005년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.32 No.2 (1)
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• pp.820-822
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• 2005

그리드 컴퓨팅 기술은 이용하여 이종의 분산 자원들을 묶어서 사용할 수 있게 해 준다. 최근의 그리드는 이기종 자원간의 상호 호환성 증대를 위하여 웹 서비스 기술을 도입하여, OGSA와 WSFR 표준을 정의하였다. 그에 따라 그리드 자원과 그 위에서 동작하는 작업들은 웹 서비스의 형태로 구현되고 관리된다. Globus Toolkit은 이 표준들을 구현한 미들웨어로 그리드 연구에서 가장 널리 활용되고 있다. 서비스가 자원을 효율적으로 사용하면서 서비스 성능을 유지하기 위해서는 서비스가 원하는 시점에 원하는 양의 자원을 제공 받을 수 있어야 한다. 이를 위해서 유휴자원을 찾는 기능과 동적으로 자원에 서비스를 설치하는 기능이 반드시 필요하다. 그러나 기존의 Globus Toolkit은 이런 기능을 제공하지 않는다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 Globus Toolkit에 동적 서비스 설치 기능을 추가하고 그것을 관리할 수 있는 도어 서비스를 구현하여. 동적 자원 제공 기능이 가능하도륵 하였다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.177-182
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• 2009

The optimal strategy for semelparous females may involve adjustments in the relative investment in two fitness components, the number of offspring and the post-hatching investment per capita. To determine the pattern of maternal resource allocation to offspring in the matriphagous spider, Amaurobius ferox (Amaurobiidae), I investigated the relationship between maternal body-mass and the number of offspring, and quantified the transfer of maternal body-mass to the offspring via different forms of maternal provisioning (trophic egg-laying and matriphagy). There was a positive relationship between female body-mass and the number of offspring. However, Amaurobius mothers did not produce more trophic eggs when they had larger broods. Rather, spiderlings in larger A. ferox broods consumed larger quantities of maternal body-mass via matriphagy. Mothers transferred $28.8{\pm}6.5%$ of their body-mass to the spiderlings via trophic egg-laying, and an estimated $39.0{\pm}12.5%$ of their body-mass was transferred to the spiderlings via matriphagy.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.29-37
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• 2007

장소와 시간에 무관하게 누구와도 하나의 단말기로 멀티미디어 통신을 할 수 있게 하기 위한 이동통신 시스템이 단일표준으로 되지 못하고 복수표준으로 진행됨에 따라 이종의 접속망들로 구성되는 융합망이 불가피하게 되었다. 이러한 융합망 환경에서는 멀티미디어 서비스의 지속성을 유지하기 위한 QoS 보장 방안이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 멀티미디어 세션의 지연이나 손실 등을 지속적으로 관찰하고 계약된 SLA 의 QoS 기준 만족 여부를 평가하고 이를 바탕으로 이종 망 내에서의 QoS 적응 및 조정을 수행함으써 멀티미디어 서비스의 QoS 를 유지하는 방안을 제안한다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2018

Visible-light communication (VLC) combined with advanced illumination can be expected to become an integral part of next-generation communication networks. One of the major concerns in VLC implementation is developing resource-allocation schemes in a multi-user scenario. However, the scheduling for heterogeneous quality of service (QoS) traffic has not been studied so far, for the indoor VLC downlink system. In this paper, we creatively introduce effective-bandwidth and effective-capacity theory into the multi-user scheduling (MUS) problem, to guarantee the user's statistical delay QoS. We also take account of the aggregate interference (AI) in the indoor VLC downlink system, and analyze its impact on the user-centric MUS problem for the first time. Simulations show that the AI has a nonnegligible influence on the scheduling result, and that the proposed scheduling scheme could guarantee the user's QoS requirement under the premise of ensuring sum capacity.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.4759-4775
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• 2015

The reduction of power consumption in large-scale datacenters is highly-dependent on the use of virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads. However, these consolidation strategies must also take into account additional important parameters such as performance, reliability, and profitability. Resolving these conflicting goals is often the major challenge encountered in the design of optimization strategies for cloud data centers. In this paper, we put forward a data center monitoring strategy which dynamically alters its approach depending on the cloud system's current state. Results show that our proposed scheme outperformed strategies which only focus on a single metric such as SLA-Awareness and Energy Efficiency.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.30-44
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• 2003

마이크로/피코셀 환경 하에서 이동체의 빈번한 위치 및 셀간 이동으로 인하여 많은 부가 트래픽이 발생한다. 이동체 위치 추정을 이용함으로서 효율적인 채널 할당과 QoS를 보장하는 핸드오프가 가능하다. 기존의 이동체 위치 추정 방안들은 단지 LOS 환경을 기반으로 하여 제시되었고 다중 경로 환경 또는 shadowing 환경에서는 성능의 감소를 가져왔다. 본 연구에서는 NLOS 환경, 그리고 수신 신호 세기 이외에 부정확한 다수의 위치 결정 파라미터를 고려함으로서 추정의 정확성을 증가시키는 새로운 위치 추정 방안들을 제시한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.22-32
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• 2010

The pervasive game environments have activated explosive growth of the Internet over recent decades. Thus, understanding Internet traffic characteristics and precise classification have become important issues in network management, resource provisioning, and game application development. Naturally, much attention has been given to analyzing and modeling game traffic. Little research, however, has been undertaken on the classification of game traffic. In this paper, we perform an interpretive traffic analysis of popular game applications at the transport layer and propose a new classification method based on a simple decision tree, called an alternative decision tree (ADT), which utilizes the statistical traffic characteristics of game applications. Experimental results show that ADT precisely classifies game traffic from other application traffic types with limited traffic features and a small number of packets, while maintaining low complexity by utilizing a simple decision tree.