• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.729-737
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• 2015

Wireless communication technologies, especially smartphones, have become increasingly common. Wireless technology is widely used in general industry and this trend is also expected to grow with the development of wireless technology. However, wireless technology is not currently applied in any domestic operating nuclear power plants (NPPs) because of the highest priority of the safety policy. Wireless technology is required in operating NPPs, however, in order to improve the emergency responses and work efficiency of the operators and maintenance personnel during its operation. The wired telephone network in domestic NPPs can be simply connected to a wireless local area network to use wireless devices. This design change can improve the ability of the operators and personnel to respond to an emergency situation by using important equipment for a safe shutdown. IEEE 802.11 smartphones (Wi-Fi standard), Internet Protocol (IP) phones, personal digital assistant (PDA) for field work, notebooks used with web cameras, and remote site monitoring tablet PCs for on-site testing may be considered as wireless devices that can be used in domestic operating NPPs. Despite its advantages, wireless technology has only been used during the overhaul period in Korean NPPs due to the electromagnetic influence of sensitive equipment and cyber security problems. This paper presents the electromagnetic verification results from major sensitive equipment after using wireless devices in domestic operating NPPs. It also provides a solution for electromagnetic interference/radio frequency interference (EMI/RFI) from portable and fixed wireless devices with a Wi-Fi communication environment within domestic NPPs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2015

With the recent popularity of smart terminals, the demand for high-data-rate transmission is growing rapidly, which brings a new challenge for the traditional cellular networks. Both device-to-device (D2D) communication and small cells are effective to improve the transmission efficiency of local communication. In this paper, we apply D2D communication into a small cell network system (SNets) and study about the optimization problem of resource allocation for D2D communication. The optimization problem includes system scheduling and resource allocation, which is exponentially complex and the optimal solution is infeasible to achieve. Therefore, in this paper, the optimization problem is decomposed into several smaller problems and a hierarchical scheme is proposed to obtain the solution. The proposed hierarchical scheme consists of three steps: D2D communication groups formation, the estimation of sub-channels needed by each D2D communication group and specific resource allocation. From numerical simulation results, we find that the proposed resource allocation scheme is effective in improving the spectral efficiency and reducing the outage probability of D2D communication.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.529-546
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• 2010

Greedy forwarding is the key mechanism of geographic routing and is one of the protocols used most commonly in wireless sensor networks. Greedy forwarding uses 1-hop local information to forward packets to the destination and does not have to maintain the routing table, and thus it takes small overhead and has excellent scalability. However, the signal intensity reduces exponentially with the distance in realistic wireless sensor network, and greedy forwarding consumes a lot of energy, since it forwards the packets to the neighbor node closest to the destination. Previous proposed greedy forwarding protocols are the sender-based greedy forwarding that a sender selects a neighbor node to forward packets as the forwarding node and hence they cannot guarantee energy efficient forwarding in unpredictable wireless environment. In this paper, we propose the receiver-based greedy forwarding called RGF where one of the neighbor nodes that received the packet forwards it by itself. In RGF, sender selects several energy efficient nodes as candidate forwarding nodes and decides forwarding priority of them in order to prevent unnecessary transmissions. The simulation results show that RGF improves delivery rate up to maximum 66.8% and energy efficiency, 60.9% compared with existing sender-based greedy forwarding.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2002년도 제13회 정기총회 및 2002년도 동계학술발표회
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• pp.56-57
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• 2002

Wireless LAN(Local Access Network) 및 근거리 광대역 무선통신 등에 응용되어질 수 있는 근거리 무선 광통신을 저렴하고 소형의 모듈로 구현하였다. 100 Mb/s의 속도로 2-3m 거리에서 송 .수신 각도는 5-6$^{\circ}$로 LOS(Line Of Sight) 문제를 보상하여 동작 되도록 연구하였다 연구 결과를 모듈로 제작하여 인터넷 및 실시간 동영상 송.수신 실험을 수행하였다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.145-151
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• 2009

유비쿼터스 네트워크의 실현을 위한 4세대 통신방식의 유력한 후보로 부상하는 OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 통신방식이 육상에서 주목받고 있으며, 고속 데이터 전송을 위한 Wireless LAN의 표준기술로 확정되어 있다. 해상통신의 경우에서도 OFDM 통신방식은 VHF 대역을 이용한 데이터 전송방식으로 제안되고 있으며 ITU (International Telecommunication Union)는 해상통신에서 32-point FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)를 사용하도록 권고하고 있다. 해상 통신에서는 해양사고 및 조난 시에도 통신이 이루어져야 하는 한계상황을 고려하면 OFDM 통신시스템의 중요 디바이스인 FFT는 저전력으로 동작되어야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 OFDM 방식의 중요 디바이스인 32-point FFT를 저전력으로 동작시키기 위해 radix-2와 radix-4를 이용하여 저전력 32-point FFT 알고리즘을 제안한다. 최적화된 설계로 32-point FFT를 저전력 동작이 가능하도록 설계하였으며, 제안한 알고리즘은 VHDL (VHSIC hardware description language)로 구현하고 FPGA (field-programmable gate array) Spartan3 board에 장착하여 Matlab의 이론값과 비교, 검증하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.1719-1728
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• 2004

The fusion of Internet technology and applications with wireless communication provides a new business model and promises to extend the possibilities of commerce to what is popularly called mobile commerce, or m-commerce. In mobile Internet banking service through wireless local area network, security is a most important factor to consider. We describe the development of security service for mobile Internet banking on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Banking Server and Authentication Server were developed to simulate banking business and to support certificate management of authorized clients, respectively. To increase security, we took hybrid approach in implementation: symmetric block encryption and public-key encryption. Hash function and random number generation were exploited to generate a secret key. The data regarding banking service were encrypted with symmetric block encryption, RC4, and the random number sequence was done with public-key encryption. PDAs communicate through IEEE 802.IIb wireless LAN (Local Area Network) to access banking service. Several banking services and graphic user interfaces, which emulatedthe services of real bank, were developed to verity the working of each security service in PDA, the Banking Server, and the Authentication Server.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.149-159
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• 2011

In this paper, we study the problem of how to design a medical-grade wireless local area network (WLAN) for healthcare facilities. First, unlike the IEEE 802.11e MAC, which categorizes traffic primarily by their delay constraints, we prioritize medical applications according to their medical urgency. Second, we propose a mechanism that can guarantee absolute priority to each traffic category, which is critical for medical-grade quality of service (QoS), while the conventional 802.11e MAC only provides relative priority to each traffic category. Based on absolute priority, we focus on the performance of real-time patient monitoring applications, and derive the optimal contention window size that can significantly improve the throughput performance. Finally, for proper performance evaluation from a medical viewpoint, we introduce the weighted diagnostic distortion (WDD) as a medical QoS metric to effectively measure the medical diagnosability by extracting the main diagnostic features of medical signal. Our simulation result shows that the proposed mechanism, together with medical categorization using absolute priority, can significantly improve the medical-grade QoS performance over the conventional IEEE 802.11e MAC.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.1659-1665
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 WLAN (wireless local area network) 응용을 위한 소형 인쇄형 모노폴 안테나의 새로운 설계에 대해 연구했다. 선폭이 다른 패치와 계단 모양의 접지면이 있는 복사체는 안테나 크기를 줄이기 위해 사용된다. 안테나의 크기는 16 × 17 × 1 ㎣이며 포토리소그래피(photolithography) 기술로 제작되었다. 시뮬레이션 및 측정 결과가 잘 일치한다. 연구된 안테나의 공진 주파수는 약 5.2 GHz이며 측정 결과 1 GHz의 임피던스 대역폭을 가진다. 또한 측정된 방사패턴을 제시하고 필요한 WLAN 5 GHz 주파수 대역 (5.15 - 5.825 GHz)에서 측정된 이득 및 효율을 제시했으며, 5 GHz 대역 WLAN 안테나로 사용할 수 있음을 확인했다. 연구된 안테나는 소형, 경량, 저비용, 전방향성 복사패턴, 고이득 및 고효율을 갖는다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.80-84
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• 2010

한 소스로부터 다수의 싱크로의 데이터 멀티캐스팅은 통신 비용 절약 뿐 아니라 효율적인 에너지의 사용을 위해 이루어진다. 무선 센서 네트워크에서, 지금까지의 멀티캐스팅 위한 방안들은 대부분 하나의 소스와 다수의 고정적인 싱크들 사이의 최적화된 멀티캐스트 트리로 만들어진다. 하지만 전쟁 지역에서의 적군 감지 시스템, 재난지역 구조 시스템 등의 실질적인 응용들에서, 싱크는 자신의 미션을 수행하기 위해 이동성을 가지고 센서 네트워크를 돌아다닐 것이다. 불행히도 싱크의 이동성은 전체 멀티캐스트 트리의 빈번한 재구성을 초래하고 이것은 제한된 배터리를 가진 센서들의 에너지 고갈을 야기시킨다. 그러므로, 우리는 지역적인 멀티캐스트 트리의 재구성을 통해 다수의 이동 싱크를 지원하는 에너지 효율적인 멀티캐스트 프로토콜을 제안한다. 또한 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 방안이 기존 연구들 보다 에너지 자원 관리 측면에서 더 효과적임을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.2042-2060
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• 2013

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), energy efficiency is one of the most essential design considerations, since sensor nodes are resource constrained. Group communication can reduce WSNs communication overhead by sending a message to multiple nodes in one packet. In this paper, in order to simultaneously resolve the transmission security and scalability in WSNs group communications, we propose a hierarchical cluster-based secure and scalable group key management scheme, called HRKT, based on logic key tree and route key tree structure. The HRKT scheme divides the group key into cluster head key and cluster key. The cluster head generates a route key tree according to the route topology of the cluster. This hierarchical key structure facilitates local secure communications taking advantage of the fact that the nodes at a contiguous place usually communicate with each other more frequently. In HRKT scheme, the key updates are confined in a cluster, so the cost of the key updates is reduced efficiently, especially in the case of massive membership changes. The security analysis shows that the HRKT scheme meets the requirements of group communication. In addition, performance simulation results also demonstrate its efficiency in terms of low storage and flexibility when membership changes massively.