• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1046-1052
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• 2017

The load on the power grid of South Korea is expected to grow continuously until the late 2020s, and it is necessary to increase the transfer capacity from the Eastern grid to the Seoul-Gyeonggi region by reinforcing the transmission network for the electric power system to remain stable. To this end, the grid reinforcement by two bipole LCC HVDC transmission systems have been considered on account of the public acceptability and high growth of the fault current level, even though an additional 765kV system construction is more economical. Since the probability of the existing 765kV double circuit transmission line trip is extremely low, a dynamic simulation study was carried out to estimate the efficient HVDC capacity able to stabilize the transient stability by utilizing the HVDC overload capability. This paper suggests the application plan to reduce the HVDC construction capacity with ensuring the transient stability during the 765kV line trip.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.365-378
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• 2011

Piezo-based active structural health monitoring (SHM) requires amplifiers specifically designed for capacitive loads. Moreover, with the increase in number of applications of wireless SHM systems, energy efficiency and cost reduction for this type of amplifiers is becoming a requirement. General lab grade amplifiers are big and costly, and not built for outdoor environments. Although some piezoceramic power amplifiers are available in the market, none of them are specifically targeting the wireless constraints and low power requirements. In this paper, a piezoceramic transducer amplifier for wireless active SHM systems has been designed. Power requirements are met by two digital On/Off switches that set the amplifier in a standby state when not in use. It provides a stable ${\pm}180$ Volts output with a bandwidth of 7k Hz using a single 12 V battery. Additionally, both voltage and current outputs are provided for feedback control, impedance check, or actuator damage verification. Vibration control tests of an aluminum beam were conducted in the University of Houston lab, while wireless active SHM tests of a wind turbine blade were performed in the Harbin Institute of Technology wind tunnel. The results showed that the developed amplifier provided equivalent results to commercial solutions in suppressing structural vibrations, and that it allows researchers to perform active wireless SHM on moving objects with no power wires from the grid.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.379-382
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• 2007

In ubiquitous sensor networks(USNs), various sensing devices deployed in wireless sensor networks collect meaningful data from physical environments and the data are delivered to neighbor node through radio interfaces for further processing. In this processing, efficiently using of the limited source of low power and low cost is USNs on the point of energy consumption. In this paper, we measure and analyze the power consumption of LR-WPAN.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.115-115
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• 2014

First, We will briefly introduce early science results of AGN observations with KVN and KaVA. KaVA is the combined array of the Korean VLBI network (KVN) and VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy (VERA). These include KaVA monitoring of M87, Sgr A* and a few bright blazars and KVN Search for circular polarized Blazars. Furthermore, we will present our future plan of monitoring observation of Sgr A* and M87 with KaVA and Low Radio Power AGN multi frequency polarization survey with KVN. Because of the largeness of their centralsuper-massive black holes, we select them as top-priority sources of our key science program (KSP). The main science goals of the KaVA KSP are (1) mapping the velocity field of the M87 jet and testing magnetically-driven-jet paradigm, and (2) obtaining tightest constraints on physical properties of radio emitting region in Sgr A. High sensitivity achieved through simultaneous multifrequency phase referencing technique of KVN will allow us to explore Low Radio Power AGN cores which build majority of AGNs and therefore are important for undestanding the evolution of AGNs and of their hosts.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.76-81
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• 2009

The transmitting node in WSN for ITS would be small and operated by battery, and the MCU in the node would be low speed with small sized memory and low power consumption. In this paper, the post-checksum method in which the checksum field is added to the tail of the TCP segment for ITS applications, is proposed to reduce data processing time and power consumption, and so there is no limitation of the transmitting data size.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.165-167
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• 2006

In this paper we present a new-generation sensor network processor which is not optimized in circuit level, but in system architecture level. The new design build on a conventional processor architecture, improving the design by focusing on application oriented specification, ISA, and micro-architectural optimization that reduce overall design size and advance energy-per-instruction. The design employs harvard architecture, 8-bit data paths, and an compact 19 bit wide RISC ISA. The design also features a unique interrupt handler which offloads periodical monitoring jobs from the main part of CPU. Our most efficient design is capable of running at 300 KHz (0.3 MIPS) while consuming only about few pJ/instruction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.472-474
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• 2019

We propose an antenna for subminiature sensor node in the marine IoT service based on low power wide area (LPWA) network. The proposed antenna is designed for multi-band in ISM band. The specification of the proposed antenna expressed here is also for multi-band service.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.151-157
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• 2023

RPL (IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power Lossy Network) is a standardized routing protocol for LLNs (Low power and Lossy Networks) by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). RPL creates routes and builds a DODAG (Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph) through OF (Objective Function) defining routing metrics and optimization objectives. RPL supports a leaf mode which does not allow any child nodes. In this paper, we propose INFRA-RPL which provides a dynamic leaf mode functionality to a leaf node with the mobility. The proposed protocol is implemented in the open-source IoT operating system, Contiki-NG and Cooja simulator, and its performance is evaluated. The evaluation results show that INFRA-RPL outperforms the existing protocols in the terms of PDR, latency, and control message overhead.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.326-329
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• 2010

USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) 기반 융 복합 사업화 및 서비스를 실현 하는데 있어서 가장 큰 문제점 중에 하나가 센서부의 높은 전력소모 문제로서, 기존의 설비산업용 센서(온도, 압력, 유량, 레벨, 스트레인게이지 등)는 상전과 같은 방식의 전원 공급을 요구하므로 저전력 센싱(Low-Power Sensing) 시스템으로 개발하기에 어려움이 있기 때문에, USN 의 저전력화의 장점과 시너지효과를 발휘할 수 있는 USN 에 적합한 설비산업용 저전력 센싱 핵심기술에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 이를 해결하기 위한 방안으로, 센싱주기와 다양한 환경에 따른 상황 예측기법과 같은 센싱 방법의 소프트웨어적 효율화 기법 들을 제안하였으며, 이를 융합한 지능형 센싱 핵심기술을 개발하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.92-105
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• 2015

WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network) is a network which is to consistently monitor body signals with implanted or attached sensor nodes. Especially, nodes that are used in medical services have to operate with low power consumption since they are hard to replace, and have to guarantee high data rate and low transmission delay for consistent signal monitor. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that aims to reduce transmission delay and power consumption, and guarantees stable throughput, by assuming the number of active nodes, and followed by dynamically adjusting the random access period and transmission possibilities in a superframe. The assumed number of active nodes may be incorrect since it only relies on the channel status of a previous superframe. Therefore, we assume the number of active nodes and define a pattern. And revise the number of the active nodes with the defined pattern. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we have implemented a WBAN environment with the MATLAB. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm provides better throughput, low power consumption, and low transmission delay when compared to the slotted ALOHA of the IEEE 802.15.6.