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A Study on Resolving Shadow Area of LoRa-based Communication for Workplace Safety (작업현장의 안전을 위한 LoRa기반 통신의 음영지역 해소를 위한 연구)

  • Kim, Seungyong;Kim, Dongsik;Hwang, Incheol;Kim, Kyoungsoo;Kim, Gyoungyong
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.402-410
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: The purpose of this research is to eliminate communication shadowing loss of the 'smart safety management system'. The 'smart safety management system' can monitor and relay real time data of workers working in high risk workplace (i.e: industrial scene, disaster scene). The data will provide the rescue team the 'golden hour' in their rescue operations. Method: In this research, safety tag was designed and implemented so that it acts as a repeater for the user. Result: In other words, when communication in-between the safety tag and headquarters' communication terminal is jeopardized, the safety tag will act as a repeater-terminal for other safety tags in the area. Conclusion: The research tested if a specific building with communication shadowing loss problem was resolved when safety tags were implemented. Communication shadowing was first identified in-between the safety tag and headquarters' communication terminal. When extra safety tags were deployed in the same situation, the results showed that the communication shadowing loss was resolved. The repeater safety tags could resolve communication shadowing loss of up to three basement levels in this test building.

Characterization of Body Shadowing Effects on Ultra-Wideband Propagation Channel

  • Pradubphon, Apichit;Promwong, Sathaporn;Chamchoy, Monchai;Supanakoon, Pichaya;Takada, Jun-Ichi
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.219-222
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    • 2004
  • There are several factors that disturb an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio propagation in an indoor environment such as path loss, shadowing and multipath fading. These factors directly affect the quality of the received signal. In this paper, we investigated the influence of the human body shadowing on UWB propagation based on measured wireless channel in an anechoic chamber. The characteristics of the UWB channel including the transmitter and the receiver antenna effects are acquired over the frequency bandwidth of 3${\sim}$11 GHz. The major factors such as the power delay profile (PDP), the angular power distribution (APD), the pulse distortion and the RMS delay spread caused by the human body shadowing are presented.

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Multi-layer Front Electrode Formation to Improve the Conversion Efficiency in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell (결정질 실리콘 태양전지의 효율 향상을 위한 다층 전면 전극 형성)

  • Hong, Ji-Hwa;Kang, Min Gu;Kim, Nam-Soo;Song, Hee-Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.25 no.12
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    • pp.1015-1020
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    • 2012
  • Resistance of the front electrode is the highest proportion of the ingredients of the series resistance in crystalline silicon solar cell. While resistance of the front electrode is decreased with larger area, it induces the optical loss, causing the conversion efficiency drop. Therefore the front electrode with high aspect ratio increasing its height and decreasing is necessary for high-efficiency solar cell in considering shadowing loss and resistance of front electrode. In this paper, we used the screen printing method to form high aspect ratio electrode by multiple printing. Screen printing is the straightforward technology to establish the electrodes in silicon solar cell fabrication. The several printed front electrodes with Ag paste on silicon wafer showed the significantly increased height and slightly widen finger. As a result, the resistance of the front electrode was decreased with multiple printing even if it slightly increased the shadowing loss. We showed the improved electrical characteristics for c-Si solar cell with repeatedly printed front electrode by 0.5%. It lays a foundation for high efficiency solar cell with high aspect ratio electrode using screen printing.

A Study on Rheology Characteristics of Ag Paste for Screen Printing Method for Silicon Solar Cells Electrodes Capable of Forming High Aspect Ratio (고온 소결형 실리콘 태양 전지의 High Aspect Ratio 전극 형성이 가능한 Ag 페이스트의 레오로지 특성 연구)

  • Oh, Tae-Hun;Kim, Sung-Bin;Nam, Su-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2010
  • Photovoltaic solar cells are all in the incident because they are not converted into electrical energy, high-efficiency solar cells in order to reduce the loss of elements must be. Significant factor in the loss of solar cells, optical loss and electrical loss can be divided into. Optical losses occur when the sun will be joined on the surface of the reflection, the shadow loss due to electrodes, and the losses are in the solar wavelengths. Commercialization is currently the most common solar cells on the front of the light incident on the electrode is formed. Therefore, the shadow caused by the electrode to cover the dead area of the sun, due to factors that hinder the absorption of sunlight which is shadowing them and conversion efficiency of solar cells is the inhibition factor. These barriers to eliminate the electrode linewidth reduces the shadowing to reduce, but simply of the electrode line width is reduced electrode area by reducing the series resistance elevates this because to improve the electrode Aspect ratio(height/width) to increase Ag development of paste is required. In this study, aspect ratio of screen-printing method to increase the electrode Ag paste composition of the binder for the characterization of rheology in the shadow of the electrode by reducing the optical loss of the photoelectric conversion efficiency of solar cells to boost the performance measures was. Properties and printability of the paste, the binder resin sintered characteristics that affect the thermal properties are excellent with a good screen printability acrylic resin, ethyl cellulose, using a resin were evaluated. Prepared paste rheology properties, was formed to evaluate the electrode conductivity and aspect ratio.

Comparison of the PSD radial profiles between before and after geosynchronous flux dropout: case studies using THEMIS observations

  • Hwang, Junga;Lee, Dae-Young;Kim, Kyung-Chan;Choi, Eunjin;Shin, Dae-Kyu;Kim, Jin-Hee;Cho, Jung-Hee
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.122-122
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    • 2012
  • Geosynchronous electron flux dropouts are most likely due to fast drift loss of the particles to the magnetopause (or equivalently, the "magnetopause shadowing effect"). A possible effect related to the drift loss is the radial diffusion of PSD due to gradient of PSD set by the drift loss effect at an outer L region. This possibly implies that the drift loss can affect the flux levels even inside the trapping boundary. We recently investigated the details of such diffusion process by solving the diffusion equation with a set of initial and boundary conditions set by the drift loss. Motivated by the simulation work, we have examined observationally the energy spectrum and pitch angle distribution near trapping boundary during the geosynchronous flux dropouts. For this work, we have first identified a list of geosynchronous flux dropout events for 2007-2010 from GOES satellite electron measurements and solar wind pressures observed by ACE satellite. We have then used the electron data from the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) spacecraft measurements to investigate the particle fluxes. The five THEMIS spacecraft sufficiently cover the inner magnetospheric regions near the equatorial plane and thus provide us with data of much higher spatial resolution. In this paper, we report some case studies showing energy dependence during magnetopause shadowing effect.

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Effects of soft handoff region ratio on the reverse link capacity of a DS-CDMA cellular system (DS-CDMA 셀룰라 시스템의 역방향 링크에서 소프트 핸드오프 영역비율의 효과)

  • 전형구;권오준;강창언
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.26 no.11B
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    • pp.1534-1539
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, effects of soft handoff region on the reverse link capacity of a DS-CDMA cellular system are investigated. The reverse link capacity of a CDMA cellular system is calculated at a given soft handoff region ratio (SHRR) and path loss model. The results show that the reverse link capacity increases by 1 ∼ 4 channels according to the soft handoff region ratio and the path loss model. However, in the case of the path loss model having a large attenuation exponent ($\mu$ = 5) and a small shadowing standard deviation ( $\sigma$ = 6 dB), the reverse link capacity is no more increased by increasing SHRR.

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Generalized Vector Channel Model for Communication Systems Using Antenna Arrays and Implementation of the Spatial Channel Simulator (안테나 배열을 사용하는 통신 시스템을 위한 일반화된 벡터 채널 모델과 공간 채널 시뮬레이터의 구현)

  • 오성근;류원형
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.25 no.3B
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    • pp.408-422
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we propose a generalized vector channel model for wireless communication systems using antenna arrays. The proposed channel model reflects path loss. spatial-temporal variation of shadowing, multipath fading , Doppler effect, spatial distribution of local scatterers and delay spread due to remote dominant scatterers. In addition, we use a discrete ray model in which respective ray signal experiences independent shadowing, fading and Doppler shift, and impinges on antenna arrays at a distinct angle. Based on the proposed mode. we derive the relations on the spatial and temporal correlations of the received signals and implement a spatial channel simulator. By comparing the theoretical values with the simulated ones, we verify the effectiveness of the implemented simulator. The simulator is then used to generate an arbitrary channel impulse response and to analyze the channel characteristics under various environments.

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The analysis on the effect of rician fading and lognormal shadowing in microcellular mobile radio system using outage probability (마이크로셀룰라 이동 무선 시스템에서 Outage 확률을 이용한 라이시안 페이딩과 로그노말 섀도우잉 영향에 관한 분석)

  • Ahn, Chy-Hun;Kim, Nam;Park, Sung-Gyun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.60-71
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    • 1998
  • The propagation environment is effected by Rayleigh fading, Rician fading, path loss and lognormal shadowing in microcellular mobile radio system. In these surroundings we analysed the performance on received Rician signals among L Rician interferers and the characteristics of lognormal shadowing for various parameters such as reuse distance, cluster size, signal to interference power ratio and protection ratio using outage probability. We also studied various channels Rayleigh signal and Rician interferer, Rician signal and Rayleigh interferer, Rician signal and Rician interferer and so on using outage probability. The theoretical extention and computer simulation effectively analysed the characteristic of lognormal shadowed Rician channel.

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A Study on Adjustable Base Station Antenna Based on Electrical Tilt for Null Steering (전기적 빔 조향기반의 기지국 안테나에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Vea-O;Cheon, Chang-Yul;Chung, Young Seek
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.1128-1136
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose an electrically tilting system based on a null-steering in order to solve the problem of the shadowing loss caused by the mechanically tilted antenna system in mobile services. Especially, we improve the downward shadowing loss by eliminating or moving the vertical beampattern nulls between $-30^{\circ}{\sim}0^{\circ}$ to be able to tilt the downward beampattern between $-10^{\circ}{\sim}0^{\circ}$. The antenna has 14.5 dBi gain and side lobe level (SLL) is lower than -18 dB within downward tilting range. The isolation of polarization is greater than 30 dB when running in electric tilt down to $-10^{\circ}$. To verify this paper, we made the base-station antenna for W-CDMA and beam tilting devices, and verified the performances.

Design of 5.8 GHz Patch Array Antenna for FTMS Roadside Equipment (FTMS 기지국용 5.8 GHz 대역 배열 패치 안테나 설계)

  • Kwon, Han-Joon;Lee, Jae-Jun;Lee, Seung-Hwan;Kim, Yong-Deak
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2008
  • This paper designed the antenna for collecting and servicing the traffic information that apply to freeway Traffic Management System, as using DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication). Active DSRC is the technology that is using 5.8GHz Radio Frequency to a mean Sequency and there are a lot of the case occurring a physical electric wave shadowing because of the traveling straight of a electric wave. In such inferior communication environment, it constructed the stabilized communication link that can do collecting and servicing the correct traffic information and designed the beam pattern considering the establishment position of the antenna that can apply to various road environments and a communication area. By considering the communication link environment, this paper designed and manufacture the mean frequency of 5.8GHz, the input loss of -17dB in 75MHz bandwidth, the Axial ratio of 1.5:1, and $2{\times}4$ array microstrip antenna which beam pattern have the characteristic of $55^{\circ}$ horizontal half power beam width and $26^{\circ}$elevation half power beam width and the minimum establishment height of the antenna was designed as 14m for avoiding electric wave shadowing on a physical condition between vehicles

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