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A Study on Automatic Control Systems for Seawater Desalination Plants (해수 담수화 플랜트 제어 시스템 구성 방안 연구)

  • Ju, Young-Duk;Kim, Kyeong-Beom;Kim, Jin
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2008
  • Recently, the plant industries are being activated and plant control systems use various technologies. Because the optimized design for the plants is very important for the reducing of operation and maintenance costs, automatic control systems become more important. Plant control systems consist of the master controller, the plant networks, the programming environment for engineering, monitoring software and the field devices. The control systems should have reliability, availability and safety. Modular architecture of hardware and software makes flexible configuration of the control systems. Each component should have diagnostic functions. It follows industrial standards and makes open systems. Open systems increase accessibility against the data which is distributed in the plants. The controllers including processor and communication modules use the up-to-date technology. They have real time and fault tolerant function by duplicating processors or networks. It also enables to make the distributed control systems. The distributed architecture makes more scalable main control system. Automatic control systems can be operated with better performance. In this paper, we analyzed the requirements of the seawater desalination plants and made some consideration facts for developing the optimized controller. Also we described the design concept of the main controller, which consists of several modules. We should validate and complement the design for the reliability and better performance.

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Resource Allocation Algorithm for Multi-cell Cognitive Radio Networks with Imperfect Spectrum Sensing and Proportional Fairness

  • Zhu, Jianyao;Liu, Jianyi;Zhou, Zhaorong;Li, Li
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.38 no.6
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    • pp.1153-1162
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    • 2016
  • This paper addresses the resource allocation (RA) problem in multi-cell cognitive radio networks. Besides the interference power threshold to limit the interference on primary users PUs caused by cognitive users CUs, a proportional fairness constraint is used to guarantee fairness among multiple cognitive cells and the impact of imperfect spectrum sensing is taken into account. Additional constraints in typical real communication scenarios are also considered-such as a transmission power constraint of the cognitive base stations, unique subcarrier allocation to at most one CU, and others. The resulting RA problem belongs to the class of NP-hard problems. A computationally efficient optimal algorithm cannot therefore be found. Consequently, we propose a suboptimal RA algorithm composed of two modules: a subcarrier allocation module implemented by the immune algorithm, and a power control module using an improved sub-gradient method. To further enhance algorithm performance, these two modules are executed successively, and the sequence is repeated twice. We conduct extensive simulation experiments, which demonstrate that our proposed algorithm outperforms existing algorithms.

Position-Based Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks

  • Kim Dong-hwan;Lee Ho-seung;Jin Jung-woo;Son Jae-min;Han Ki-jun
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.330-333
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    • 2004
  • Microsensor nodes is energy limited in sensor networks. If nodes had been stop in working, sensor network can't acquire sensing data in that area as well as routing path though the sensor can't be available. So, it's important to maximize the life of network in sensor network. In this paper, we look at communication protocol, which is modified by LEACH(Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy). We extend LEACH's stochastic cluster-head selection algorithm by a Position-based Selection (PB-Leach). This method is that the sink divides the topology into several areas and cluster head is only one in an area. PB-Leach can prevent that the variance of the number of Cluster-Head is large and Cluster-Heads are concentrated in specific area. Simulation results show that PB-Leach performs better than leach by about 100 to $250\%.$

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Super Cluster based Routing Protocol in Sensor Network

  • Noh Jae-hwan;Lee Byeong-jik;Kim Kyung-jun;Lee Ick-soo;Lee Suk-gyu;Han Ki-jun
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.193-198
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    • 2004
  • In variety of environments for applications, wireless sensor networks have received increasing attention in the recent few years. But, sensor nodes have many limitations including battery power and communication range. These networks require robust wireless communicant protocols that are energy efficient and provide low latency. In this paper, we propose new protocol as is defined SCP. The key idea of SCP is that only one node which is defined as a Super-Cluster Header sends the combined data to the BS. We evaluated the effectiveness of SCP through experiments which have several parameter violations. Simulation results shows that performance of SCP is through better than other legacy protocol within the framework of energy cost, life time of the sensor network and fair distribution of the energy consumption.

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Noise Filtering of ECG signal using RBF Neural Networks (RBF 신경회로망을 이용한 심전도 신호의 잡음 필터링)

  • 이주원;이한욱;김원욱;강익태;이건기;김영일
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.553-558
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    • 1999
  • The ECG signal is very important information for diagnosis of patient and a cardiac disorder That signal is hard to filter the noise because that is mixed with a lot of noise, and the error of the filtering will distort the ECG signal. The existing method for the filtering of the ECG signal has structure that has many steps for filtering, so that structure is complex and the processing speed is slow. For the improvement of that problem, we propose the method of filtering that has simple structure using the RBF neural networks and have good results.

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A Route Selection Scheme for WLAN Offloading with Cloud Server in EPC Network (Cloud 서버를 포함한 EPC 망에서 WLAN 오프로딩 경로 선택 방안)

  • Kim, Su-hyun;Min, Sang-won
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.603-606
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    • 2013
  • Mobile and wireless communication technologies to the development of a variety of next-generation mobile networks such as smart phones, tablet PC and mobile terminals will coexist various access networks. In a variety of network service continuity and quality of service degradation due to network conditions, and the EPC network traffic overload phenomenon still remains a problem. In this paper, the EPC network traffic overload in distributed cloud servers is proposed to select. Our proposed scheme using an efficient network handover can provide optimal service according to the network condition.

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Improving the Performance of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks by Selective Transmission Power Control

  • Kim, Tae-Hoon;Tipper, David;Krishnamurthy, Prashant
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.7-14
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    • 2015
  • In a multi-hop wireless network, connectivity is determined by the link that is established by the receiving signal strength computed by subtracting the path loss from the transmission power. Two path loss models are commonly used in research, namely two-ray ground and shadow fading, which determine the receiving signal strength and affect the link quality. Link quality is one of the key factors that affect network performance. In general, network performance improves with better link quality in a wireless network. In this study, we measure the network connectivity and performance in a shadow fading path loss model, and our observation shows that both are severely degraded in this path loss model. To improve network performance, we propose power control schemes utilizing link quality to identify the set of nodes required to adjust the transmission power in order to improve the network throughput in both homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks. Numerical studies to evaluate the proposed schemes are presented and compared.

Data Direction Aware Clustering Method in Sensor Networks (데이터 전송방향을 고려한 센서네트워크 클러스터링 방법)

  • Jo, O-Hyoung;Kwon, Tae-Wook
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.7B
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    • pp.721-727
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    • 2009
  • Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) make use of low cost and energy constrained sensor nodes. Thus, reaching the successful execution of its tasks with low energy consumption is one of the most important issues. The limitation of existing hierarchical algorithms is that many times the data are transmitted to the opposite direction to the sink. In this paper, DDACM (Data Direction Aware Clustering Method) is proposed. In this method, the nearest node to the sink is elected as cluster head, and when its energy level reaches a threshold value, the cluster head is reelected. We also make a comparison with LEACH showing how this method can reduce the energy consumption minimizing the reverse direction data transmission.

Performance Analysis for Selection Decode-and-Forward Relay Networks with Differential Modulation over Rayleigh Fading Channels (레일리 페이딩 채널에서 차등 변조기법을 이용한 선택적 복호 후 재전송 중계 네트워크의 성능 분석)

  • Kong, Hyung-Yun;Bao, Vo Nguyen Quoc
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.35 no.1A
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2010
  • This paper offers performance analysis of selection decode and forward (DF) networks with differential modulation/demodulation for an arbitrary number of relays in independent but not identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels. We have shown that the selection DF protocol with differential modulation can achieve full diversity in both independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) and independent but not identically distributed (i.n.d.) Rayleigh fading channels, and the performance loss due to using non-coherent detection is not substantial. Furthermore, we study the impact of combining techniques on the performance of the system by comparing a system that uses selection combining (SC) to one that uses maximum ratio combining (MRC). Simulations are performed and show that they match exactly with analytic ones in high SNR regime.

Mobile Small Cells for Further Enhanced 5G Heterogeneous Networks

  • Lee, Choong-Hee;Lee, Sung-Hyung;Go, Kwang-Chun;Oh, Sung-Min;Shin, Jae Sheung;Kim, Jae-Hyun
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.856-866
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    • 2015
  • A heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a network topology composed by deploying multiple HetNets under the coverage of macro cells (MCs). It can improve network throughput, extend cell coverage, and offload network traffic; for example, the network traffic of a 5G mobile communications network. A HetNet involves a mix of radio technologies and various cell types working together seamlessly. In a HetNet, coordination between MCs and small cells (SCs) has a positive impact on the performance of the networks contained within, and consequently on the overall user experience. Therefore, to improve user-perceived service quality, HetNets require high-efficiency network protocols and enhanced radio technologies. In this paper, we introduce a 5G HetNet comprised of MCs and both fixed and mobile SCs (mSCs). The featured mSCs can be mounted on a car, bus, or train and have different characteristics to fixed SCs (fSCs). In this paper, we address the technical challenges related to mSCs. In addition, we analyze the network performance under two HetNet scenarios-MCs and fSCs, and MCs and mSCs.