• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.109-115
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• 2019

Currently, LPWA(Low Power Wide Area) communication technology is widely used due to the development of IoT(Internet of Things) technology. Among the LPWA technologies, LoRaWAN(Long Range Wide Area Network) is widely used in many fields due to its wide coverage, stable communication speed, and low-cost modem module prices. In particular, LoRa(Long Range) can easily construct LoRaWAN with a dedicated gateway. So many organizations are building their own LoRaWAN-based networks. The LoRaWAN Gateway receives the LoRa packet transmitted from an End-device installed in the adjacent location, converts it into the Internet protocol, and sends the packet to the final destination server. Current LoRa Gateway uses a single-hop method, and each gateway must include a communication network capable of the Internet. If it is the mobile communication(i.e., WCDMA, LTE, etc.) network, it is required to pay the internet usage fee which is installed in each gateway. If the LoRa communication is frequent, the user has to spend a lot of money. We propose an idea on how to design a multi-hop protocol which enables packet routing between gateways by analyzing the LoRaWAN communication method implemented in its existing single-hop way in this paper. For this purpose, this paper provides an analysis of the standard specification of LoRaWAN and explains what was considered when such protocol was designed. In this paper, two gateways have been placed based on the functional role so as to make the multi-hop protocol realized: (i) hopping gateway which receives packets from the end-device and forwards them to another gateway; and (ii) main gateway which finally transmits packets forwarded from the hopping gateway to the server via internet. Moreover, taking into account that LoRaWAN is wireless mobile communication, a level-based routing method is also included. If the protocol proposed by this paper is applied to the LoRaWAN network, the monthly internet fee incurred for the gateway will be reduced and the reliability of data transmission will be increased.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.365-373
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• 2001

We propose a new channel reservation protocol which can reduce message delay by using a counter for detection of d source conflict in a WDM single-hop network with non-equivalent propagation delay. A source convict occurs when a source node has the right to transmit more than or equal to two messages simultaneously, which are transmitted using different wavelengths. In such a case, the source node has to newly obtain the right to transmit the message. In the proposed protocol, by using a source conflict counter a source node can detect a source conflict before a wave-length assignment is performed. Therefore, the source node can start a procedure to newly obtain the right to transmit the message which cannot be transmitted due to a source conflict. We analyse the throughput performance by taking the effect of a source conflict into account, and show that the approximate analysis and the computer simulated results are close. Also, from computer simulated results, we show that our proposed protocol can reduce mean message delay dramatically without degrading throughput performance as the offered load becomes large.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.422-429
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• 2008

Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have recently got in the limelight of the research community that is striving to build efficient and effective mobile content addressable networks. Along this line of research, we propose a new peer-to-peer file sharing protocol suited to mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). The main ingredients of our protocol are network coding and mobility assisted data propagation, i.e., single-hop communication. We argue that network coding in combination with single-hop communication allows P2P file sharing systems in MANET to operate in a more efficient manner and helps the systems to deal with typical MANET issues such as dynamic topology and intermittent connectivity as well as various other issues that have been disregarded in previous MANET P2P researches such as addressing, node/user density, non-cooperativeness, and unreliable channel. Via simulation, we show that our P2P protocol based on network coding and single-hop communication allows shorter file downloading delays compared to an existing MANET P2P protocol.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2014

In multi-hop communication systems, two-way relaying is one of the solutions to mitigate the spectral efficiency loss caused by a half-duplex transmission. In this paper, a simple two-way relaying scheme is proposed for two-hop two-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. In the proposed system, a base station and a relay station (RS), both equipped with two antennas, form a point-to-point MIMO channel, while the RS and two single-antenna mobile users form a point-to-multipoint multiuser (MU)-MIMO channel. Numerical examples show that the proposed system achieves a significant sum rate gain as compared to a one-way relaying system as the distance between a relay and the two users decreases. We also show that although we can expand the proposed scheme to more than two users, its performance gain as compared to that of one-way relaying decreases with an increase in the number of users.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.3823-3840
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• 2017

This paper analyzes the nodes deployment optimization problem in energy constrained wireless sensor networks, which multi-hop cooperative beamforming (CB) based cooperative-multi-input-single-output (CMISO) transmission is adopted to reduce the energy consumption. Firstly, we establish the energy consumption models for multi-hop SISO, multi-hop DSTBC based CMISO, multi-hop CB based CMISO transmissions under random nodes deployment. Then, we minimize the energy consumption by searching the optimal nodes deployment for the three transmissions. Furthermore, numerical results present the optimal nodes deployment parameters for the three transmissions. Energy consumption of the three transmissions are compared under optimal nodes deployment, which shows that CB based CMISO transmission consumes less energy than SISO and DSTBC based CMISO transmissions. Meanwhile, under optimal nodes deployment, the superiorities of CB based CMISO transmission over SISO and DSTBC based CMISO transmissions can be more obvious when path-loss-factor becomes low.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 2021년도 제33회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.588-591
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• 2021

다중추론 질의응답 태스크는 하나의 문서만 필요한 기존의 단일추론 질의응답(Single-hop QA)을 넘어서 복잡한 추론을 요구하는 질문에 응답하는 것이 목표이다. IRQA에서는 검색 모델의 역할이 중요한 반면, 주목받고 있는 Dense Retrieval 모델 기반의 다중추론 질의응답 검색 모델은 찾기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 검색분야에서 좋은 성능 보이고 있는 Dense Retrieval 모델의 다중추론을 위한 사전학습 방법을 제안하고 관련 한국어 데이터 셋에서 이전 방법과의 성능을 비교 측정하여 학습 방법의 유효성을 검증하고 있다. 이를 통해 지식 베이스, 엔터티 링킹, 개체명 인식모듈을 비롯한 다른 서브모듈을 사용하지 않고도 다중추론 Dense Retrieval 모델을 학습시킬 수 있음을 보였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권5B호
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• pp.539-548
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• 2011

본 논문은 협력통신 기법을 이용하여 단일-홉과 다중-홉 수중환경에서 효율적인 재전송 (ARQ : Automatic Repeat reQuest) 기법을 제안한다. 소스 (source) 노드가 전송한 패킷을 수신한 이웃 노드들 중, 제안한 기법에서 정의한 협력 영역에 속한 노드들은 협력 노드 집합을 형성한다. 협력 노드는 특정 소스-목적 링크 (link)에 대하여 또 다른 대체 경로를 제공한다. 이러한 대체 경로는 소스-목적 경로보다 높은 채널 품질을 제공한다. 따라서 수중 음향 채널의 특성인 긴 전파지연을 줄일 수 있고, 성공적인 재전송 확률을 높임으로써 높은 비트 오류율도 극복할 수 있다. 또한 다중-홉 네트워크에서는 다중-홉에 의한 릴레이 시 별도의 ACK 없이 자신이 전송한 패킷이 되돌아오는 것을 응답신호로 활용함으로써 시스템 성능을 향상 시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 협력 재전송 기법을 전송 효율 (throughput efficiency) 측면에서 기존의 S&W (Stop and Wait) ARQ 기법과 비교, 분석한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권6A호
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• pp.506-514
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• 2009

센서 네트워크를 위한 MAC 프로토콜들은 전력 소모를 최소화하기 위해 낮은 듀티 사이클(Duty Cycle)을 사용한다. 그 중에서 RMAC [4]의 경우 Pioneer(PION) 프레임을 이용하여 한 주기 내에 여러 홉을 전송한다. 본 논문에서는 HE-MAC(Hop-Extended MAC)이라는 홉 연장 프로토콜을 제안한다. HE-MAC의 데이터 전송은 기존 RMAC과는 달리 한 주기 내에 전달될 수 있는 최대 홉 수 정보가 포함된 Explorer(EXP)를 이용하여 이루어진다. EXP의 정보와 Ready-to-Receive(RTR) 상태를 이용하여 RMAC에 비해 2홉을 늘림으로써 평균 전송 지연 시간을 감소시킨다. 또한, 적응적 슬립을 통하여 불필요한 전력 소모를 최소화할 뿐만 아니라 RMAC에서 나타나는 잦은 트래픽(Traffic)으로 인한 패킷 역전 문제를 해결한다. HE-MAC의 패킷 전송 지연시간을 수학적으로 분석하였으며, ns-2를 이용한 모의실험을 통해 성능평가를 하였다. 300개의 노드가 배치된 랜덤 토폴로지에서 HE-MAC은 RMAC에 비해 전력 소모량과 평균 전승 지연 시간을 14%, 20%만큼 감소시킨다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권9C호
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• pp.887-895
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• 2009

본 논문은 다중 안테나를 가진 릴레이가 설치된 다중-셀 다중-사용자 시스템에서 부분 채널 정보를 이용하여 기지국과 릴레이 간 협력적으로 전력을 할당하는 기법을 제안한다. 이중-흡 MISO (Multi-Input Single-Output) 릴레이 채널에서, 릴레이 채널 용량(end-to-end capacity)을 최대화하기 위해 홉 간 송신 전력을 채널 상태에 따라 동적으로 할당할 필요가 있다. 제안된 기법은 목표 릴레이의 평균 채널 이득과 인접 릴레이로부터의 원하는 채널과 간섭 채널의 송신 상관 행렬의 주요한 고유벡터의 상대적인 각도 차이를 고려하여 릴레이 송신 전력을 동적으로 할당한다. 상향-경계치 분석을 통해서 릴레이 채널 용량은 원하는 채널과 간섭 채널의 주요한 고유벡터의 상대적인 각도 차이가 직교가 될 때 최대가 됨을 이론적으로 증명하였다.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.57-61
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• 2013

Objective: To determine the correlation among three functional tests: single leg vertical jump (SLVJ), single leg hop for distance (SLHD), and single leg squat (SLSQ). Design: Cross sectional study. Methods: Twenty healthy men (n=10) and women (n=10) with no history of lower extremity dysfucntion participated in this study and performed in university research laboratory. The procedures consisted of a general warm-up, a task-specific warm-up, actual testing, and a cool down. All participants performed the three tests in random order. Each test was performed three times for the dominant and non-dominant lower extremity (LE). SLVJ, SLHD, SLSQ were measured using a standard tape measure. Results: Statistically significant difference was presented between dominant LE and non-dominant LE in each function test (p<0.05). The strongest correlation was between SLVJ and SLSQ, 0.939 and 0.883 for dominant and non-dominant LE, respectively (p<0.05). The weakest correlation was between SLVJ and SLHD, 0.713 for dominant (p<0.05) and between SLSQ and SLHD, 0.739 for non-dominant (p<0.05). Conclusions: There is a strong correlation between SLVJ and SLSQ, suggesting that each test measures similar constructs of function and can be substitutive, while weak correlation between SLSQ and SLHD suggest these two tests do not measure the same functional components and could be paired as outcome measures for the clinical assessment of LE function. It will provide physical therapist with scientific evidence for effective test combination of LE function assessment in clinical practice.