• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.108-112
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• 2021

For smart mobile devices, the wireless communication module is one of the hardware modules that consume the most energy. If we can build a multi-channel multi-interface environment using heterogeneous communication modules and operate them dynamically, data transmission performance can be highly improved by increasing the parallelism. Also, because these heterogeneous modules have different data rates, transmission ranges, and power consumption, we can save energy by exploiting a power efficient and low speed wireless interface module to transmit/receive sporadic small data. In this paper, we propose a power efficient data transmission method using heterogeneous communication networks. We also compared the performance of our proposed scheme to a conventional scheme, and proved that our proposed scheme can save energy while guaranteeing reasonable data delivery time.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2021

Energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks(EH-WSNs) can collect energy from the environment and overcome the technical limitations of existing power. Since the transmission distance in a wireless sensor network is limited, the data are delivered to the destination node through multi-hop routing. In EH-WSNs, the routing protocol should consider the power situations of nodes, which is determined by the remaining power and energy-harvesting rate. In addition, in applications such as environmental monitoring, when there are urgent data, the routing protocol should be able to transmit it stably and quickly. This paper proposes an adaptive routing protocol that satisfies different requirements of normal and urgent data. To extend network lifetime, the proposed routing protocol reduces power imbalance for normal data and also minimizes transmission latency by controlling the transmission power for urgent data. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive routing can improve network lifetime by mitigating the power imbalance and greatly reduce the transmission delay of urgent data.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.101-108
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• 2017

A wireless image sensor node collecting image data for environmental monitoring or surveillance requires a large amount of energy to transmit the huge amount of video data. Even though solar energy can be used to overcome the energy constraint, since the collected energy is also limited, an efficient energy management scheme for transmitting a large amount of video data is needed. In this paper, we propose a method to reduce the number of blackout nodes and increase the amount of gathered data by selecting an appropriate video coding method according to the energy condition of the node in a solar-powered wireless video sensor network. This scheme allocates the amount of energy that can be used over time in order to seamlessly collect data regardless of night or day, and selects a high compression coding method when the allocated energy is large and a low compression coding when the quota is low. Thereby, it reduces the blackout of the relay node and increases the amount of data obtained at the sink node by allowing the data to be transmitted continuously. Also, if the energy is lower than operating normaly, the frame rate is adjusted to prevent the energy exhaustion of nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme suppresses the energy exhaustion of the relay node and collects more data than other schemes.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2017

최근 무선 센서 네트워크의 활발한 연구와 함께 센서 노드는 이동성과 위치 인식 기능을 가지는 등 성능이 점점 향상되고 있다. 이러한 센서 네트워크의 가장 중요한 목표 중의 하나는 이동성이 있는 다수의 센서 노드들에서 발생한 데이터를 에너지 효율을 고려하여 싱크 노드로 전송하는 것이다. 모바일 무선 센서 네트워크는 센서 노드들이 이동하기 때문에, 센싱된 데이터를 고정된 싱크로 전송하기 위해서는 에너지 소모량이 많아진다. 이에 대한 문제를 해결하고자 싱크가 네트워크 내부를 이동하면서 데이터를 수집하는 모바일 싱크에 대한 활용이 연구되고 있다. 모바일 무선 센서 네트워크에서 중요한 고려 사항은 이동성과 에너지 소모량이다. 각 센서 노드는 제한된 에너지를 보유하기 때문에 데이터 송신에 소모되는 에너지가 클 경우, 전체 네트워크 수명에 많은 영향을 준다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 센서 네트워크에서 모바일 싱크 기반 에너지 효율적인 클러스터링 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 내용은 모바일 센서 노드들의 이동성에 따라 새로운 클러스터 헤드를 선택할때의 에너지 효율을 높인다. 또한 전체 네트워크를 모바일 싱크 기반으로 여러 개의 클러스터 그룹으로 나누어, 이동성 문제를 고려하고 전체 에너지 소모량을 줄인다. 분석과 실험을 통해 제안된 기법이 이전의 모바일 센서 네트워크 클러스터링 기법보다 네트워크 에너지 효율성이 향상됨을 입증한다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.128-133
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• 2003

In this study, the momentum conservation type punching mechanism for micropunching system was developed to avoid the punch failure in the misaligned status between the punch and die. The punching energy can be precisely controlled by the falling height of the projectile mass and the intermediata mass, which contacts with the punch, transmit the energy to the punch with the same contact condition. The potential energy of the projectile mass is converted to kinetic energy at the light weight punch that the projection speed into the sheet metal workpiece can be accelerated. The butt formation characteristics for the alignment condition and for the projection speeds are investigated to verify the feasibility of the proposed punching mechanism.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.510-517
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• 2010

In this paper, an adaptive MAC protocol (variable load adaptive (VLA)-MAC) is proposed for wireless sensor networks. This protocol can achieve high energy efficiency and provide low latency under variable-traffic-load conditions. In the case of VLA-MAC, traffic load is measured online and used for adaptive adjustment. Sensor nodes transmit packets in bursts under high load conditions to alleviate packet accumulation and reduce latency. This also removes unnecessary listen action and decreases energy consumption in low load conditions. Simulation results show that the energy efficiency, latency, and throughput achieved by VLA-MAC are higher than those achieved by some traditional approaches.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.4387-4404
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• 2015

The energy-efficient design of sensing-based spectrum sharing of a multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) cognitive radio (CR) system with imperfect multiple antenna spectrum sensing is investigated in this study. Optimal resource allocation strategies, including sensing time and power allocation schemes, are studied to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of the secondary base station under the transmit power and interference power constraints. EE problem is formulated as a nonlinear stochastic fractional programming of a nonconvex optimal problem. The EE problem is transformed into its equivalent nonlinear parametric programming and solved by one-dimension search algorithm. To reduce searching complexity, the search range was founded by demonstration. Furthermore, simulation results confirms that an optimal sensing time exists to maximize EE, and shows that EE is affected by the spectrum detection factors and corresponding constraints.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1735-1754
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• 2022

The reliability and performance of WiFi need optimization because of the rising number of WiFi users day by day. A highlighted point is saving power while transmitting and receiving packets using WiFi devices. Wake-on-Wlan (WoW) is also implemented to improve energy consumption, but it also needs betterment. This paper will introduce universal ideas to transmit and receive packets using low-power technology like Bluetooth or BLE (Bluetooth low energy). While looking for power-saving ways in this research, WiFi connection and maintenance also take care using lesser power-consuming technology. Identifying different use-cases where low power technology can help save energy and maintain 802.11 connection is part of the research. In addition, the proposed method discuss energy saving with unicast and broadcast/multicast data. Calculation of power-saving and comparison with standalone WiFi usage clearly shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.26-36
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• 2018

Purpose: Children born with single ventricle physiology demonstrate poor growth rate and suffer from malnutrition, which lead to increased morbidity and mortality in this population. We assume that an anabolic steroid, oxandrolone, will promote growth in these infants by improving myocardial energy utilization. The purpose of this paper is to study the efficacy of oxandrolone on myocardial energy consumption in these infants. Materials and Methods: We modeled single ventricle physiology in a lamb by prenatally shunting the aorta to the pulmonary artery and then postnatally, we monitored cardiac energy utilization by quantitatively measuring the first order reaction rate constant, $k_f$ of the creatine-kinase reaction in the heart using magnetization transfer $^{31}P$ magnetic resonance spectroscopy, home built $^1H/^{31}P$ transmit/receive double tuned coil, and transmit/receive switch. We also performed cine MRI to study the structure and dynamic function of the myocardium and the left ventricular chamber. The spectroscopy data were processed using home-developed python software, while cine data were analyzed using Argus software. Results: We quantitatively measured both the first order reaction rate constant and ejection fraction in the control, shunted, and the oxandrolone-treated lambs. Both $k_f$ and ejection fraction were found to be more significantly reduced in the shunted lambs compared to the control lambs, and they are increased in oxandrolone-treated lambs. Conclusion: Some improvement was observed in both the first order reaction rate constant and ejection fraction for the lamb treated with oxandrolone in our preliminary study.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.1077-1083
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 다중 셀 상향링크 네트워크에서 합 용량을 크게 개선할 수 있는 에너지 효율적 기회적 간섭 정렬 기술을 소개한다. 각 사용자는 요구되는 신호 질을 만족하면서 타 셀 기지국에게 발생하는 간섭량을 최소화하는 측면에서 최적의 송신 벡터 설계 및 전력 제어를 수행한다. 주요 결과로써, 줄어든 간섭 레벨로 인하여 제안하는 기회적 간섭 정렬 기술은 전력 제어가 없는 기존 기회적 간섭 정렬보다 대부분의 신호 대 잡음 비 영역에서 더욱 높은 합 용량을 취득할 수 있음을 보인다. 뿐만 아니라, 제안하는 기회적 간섭 정렬 기술과 함께 수신 단에서 zero-forcing 검파 및 minimum mean square error (MMSE) 검파기를 사용할 경우 둘 사이 성능 비교를 수행하고, MMSE 검파 기반 기회적 간섭 정렬 기술이 우수한 성능을 취득할 수 있음을 보인다.