• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1055-1067
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• 2015

A theoretical procedure to estimate spectral displacement of a hysteretic oscillator with bilinear stiffness excited by band-limited excitation is presented. The stochastic method of ground-motion simulation is combined with the random vibration theory to compute linear and nonlinear structural response. The response is obtained by computing the root-mean-square oscillator response using dissipation energy balancing by integrating over all energy levels of system weighting with the stationary probability density of the energy. The results are presented in a convenient form, and the accuracy of the procedure is assessed by comparison with results obtained with the time-domain method using the recorded data. The model shows little or no bias at the structural period of engineering interest.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1321-1332
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• 2016

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are self-organized networks that typically consist of thousands of low-cost, low-powered sensor nodes. The reliability and availability of WSNs can be affected by faults, including those from radio interference, battery exhaustion, hardware and software failures, communication link errors, malicious attacks, and so on. Thus, we propose a novel multi-agent fault tolerant system for wireless sensor networks. Since a major requirement of WSNs is to reduce energy consumption, we use multi-agent and mobile agent configurations to manage WSNs that provide energy-efficient services. Mobile agent architecture have inherent advantages in that they provide energy awareness, scalability, reliability, and extensibility. Our multi-agent system consists of a resource manager, a fault tolerance manager and a load balancing manager, and we also propose fault-tolerant protocols that use multi-agent and mobile agent setups.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.223-225
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• 2004

Ad-Hoc 네트워크에서 기존의 On-Demand 방식의 라우팅 프로토콜은 네트워크에서 현재 사용 중인 경로가 혼잡하어라도 네트워크 토폴로지가 변하기 이전에는 새로운 경로를 찾지 못하므로 노드의 이동성이 낮은 환경에서는 트래픽이 특정노드로 집중되는 문제가 발생한다 또한 노드들의 이동성이 낮아 네트워크가 안정된 상태인 경우 특정 노드의 트래픽이 고려되지 않은 상태에서 최단 경로만을 선택하여 데이터를 전송하기 때문에 특정노드에 트래픽이 집중되어 전송지연 및 과도한 에너지 소비를 발생시킨다는 문제점을 갖는다. 이런 특정 노드의 과도한 에너지 소비를 차단하여 전체 네트워크의 수명을 연장시키기 위한 효과적인 방법을 찾기 위한 노력이 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 기존의 DSR에 에너지 소비율을 기반으로 경로설정 및 대체경로 설정기능을 추가한 ECLB(Energy Consumption based Load Balancing Method)를 제안한다. ECLB는 현재의 단위시간당 처리되는 패킷수와 과거의 평균 패킷처리율을 바탕으로 에너지 임계치(energy threshold)를 설정하고 이를 바탕으로 최적의 경로를 설정한다. 또한 계속적으로 동일 전송 경로를 사용함으로 인한 특정노드에 대한 에너지 소모의 심화와 전송지연을 최소화하기 위해 과중한 트래픽 상태를 분산시킬 수 있는 대체경로를 이용하여 데이터 집중에 따른 손실을 최소화시킨다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.8-14
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• 2023

This paper proposes a PFC converter with a double step-up function using an asymmetrical PWM scheme. For the conventional PWM scheme, the input voltage range, which maintains a double step-up function, is limited because the proposed converter has different voltage gains and characteristics when the duty ratio(D) is less than 0.5. The proposed converter has a constant voltage gain regardless of the magnitude of the input voltage and can achieve output voltage balancing by using the asymmetrical PWM scheme. A 1.6-kW prototype of the proposed converter was built and tested to verify the performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.249-250
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• 2008

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.686-695
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• 1988

An algorithm and a computer program were developed for the operational simulation of office building cooling system. Using this computer program, the following results were obtained. ${\bullet}$ There is a critical number of coil rows in AHU with which the cooling system can be operated in maximum efficiency. ${\bullet}$ Energy conservation can be achieved in an office building through TAB(Testing Adjusting and Balancing) of zone air volumes.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.42-50
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• 2018

UDN is expected to be a type of network capable of satisfying the requirements various 5G services, such as the peak data rate, connection density, and area traffic capacity. Technical challenges for 5G UDN, such as interference management, resource management, mobility management, load balancing, and energy efficiency are discussed. In addition, candidate technologies for solving these challenges, and their related standardization trends, are summarized in this article.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.7-15
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose an efficient routing protocol to achieve an optimal route searching process of the network lifetime by balancing power consumption per node. The proposed protocols aim at finding energy-efficient paths at low protocol power. In our protocol, each intermediate node keeps power level and branch number of child nodes and it transmits the data the nearest neighbor node. Our protocol may minimize the energy consumption at each node, thus prolong the lifetime of the system regardless of the location of the sink outside or inside the cluster. In the proposed protocol for inter-cluster communication, a cluster head chooses a relay node from its adjacent cluster heads according to the node's residual energy and its distance to the base station. Simulation results show that proposed protocol successfully balances the energy consumption over the network, and achieves a remarkable network lifetime improvement as highly as 7.5%.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.29-37
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• 2008

Clustering allows hierarchical structures to be built on the nodes and enables more efficient use of scarce resources, such as frequency spectrum, bandwidth, and energy in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This paper proposes a hierarchical clustering algorithm called EEHC which is more energy efficient than existing algorithms for WSNs, It introduces region node selection as well as cluster head election based on the residual battery capacity of nodes to reduce the costs of managing sensor nodes and of the communication among them. The role of cluster heads or region nodes is rotated among nodes to achieve load balancing and extend the lifetime of every individual sensor node. To do this, EEHC clusters periodically to select cluster heads that are richer in residual energy level, compared to the other nodes, according to clustering policies from administrators. To prove the performance improvement of EEHC, the ns-2 simulator was used. The results show that it can reduce the energy and bandwidth consumption for organizing and managing WSNs comparing it with existing algorithms.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.73-80
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• 2013

Recently, Li-ion battery is regarded as a potential energy storage device in the lime light and it can supply power to the satellite very effectively during eclipse. Because it has better features as high voltage range, large capacity and small volume than any other battery. Generally, multi cells are connected in series to use Li-ion batteries in satellite application. Since the internal resistance of cells is different each other, voltage in some cells can be overcharged or undercharged, so capacity of the cell is reduced and the life of whole battery pack is decreased. Therefore, a voltage balancing circuit with Fly-back converter is proposed and the voltage equalization of each cell is verified the prototype in this paper.