• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.7409-7414
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• 2013

Background: Delay in diagnosis of breast cancer is associated with a poorer survival and a pivotal contribution to this delayed diagnosis comes from patient delay in presenting at a clinic. Reasons involved must be evaluated in order to decrease this reducible delay. Objectives: i) To evaluate the reasons for patient delay in diagnosis of breast cancer; ii) to investigate any association with other variables. Materials and Methods: A 6 month cross sectional study (from July 2012 to Dec 2012), was carried out in Surgical and Oncology Units of Civil Hospital, Karachi. A total of 100 females diagnosed with breast cancer of any histological type were interviewed after informed consent and relevant data were collected. Due ethical clearance was obtained. Results: Mean age was $47.5{\pm}12.1$ years with a range from 25-77 years. Mean duration of delay was $5.13{\pm}4.8$ months, from shortest 1 month to longest 36 months. Duration of delay was observed to be no delay (<1 month) in 28%, short delay (1-3 months) in 30% and long delay (>3 months) in 42% of patients. Considering the symptoms as "harmless" (39%) was the most frequent reason of delay followed by "temporary" (20%) and the "use of traditional methods" (12%). Most common reason for later approaches was an increase in the size of the lump (41%). Statistically significant association (p-value <0.05) of longer patient delay was obtained with being single, being illiterate, painless breast lump as the first symptom, negative family history of breast cancer and vague attribution of the symptoms. Conclusions: Significant delay in approach to health care facility was observed in our study due to variable reasons given by women. Sufficient awareness regarding breast cancer, its symptoms and favorable effects of a timely diagnosis on prognosis must be imparted to our general population.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.331-339
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• 2014

지상기반 전리층모델로 계산한 전리층 지연값을 저궤도에서의 전리층 지연값으로 변환하기 위해서는 전리층 변환 배율 적용해야 하는데, 이러한 배율을 IRI 전리층모델을 사용하여 결정하는 기법을 제안하였다. IGS 전리층모델에 전리층 배율을 적용하여 계산한 전리층 지연값을 NASA GRACE 위성의 관측값과 비교하였다. 약 480 km 고도에서 2004년 평균 배율은 0.25이며, 표준편차는 0.01이다. 전리층 배율은 주간에 비해 야간에 상대적으로 증가하며, 계절적으로는 봄, 가을에 높은 값을 가진다. IGS모델에 전리층배율을 결합해서 추정한 저궤도 전리층 지연값 추정 오차 평균은 3.50 TECU이다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2011

This paper considers a topological optimization of a network design with mean packet delay and node connectivity constraints. The objective is to find the topological layout of links, at minimal cost. This Problem is known to be NP-hard. To efficiently solve the problem, a scatter search algorithm is proposed. An illustrative example is used to explain and test the proposal approach. Experimental results show evidence that the proposal approach performs more efficiently for finding a good solution or near optimal solution in comparison with a genetic approach.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.99-123
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• 1997

Performance analysis of NTT/BT protocol is investigated, which is a GFC (Generic Flow Control) ptotocol in ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode ) network and is based on cyclic reset mechanism. THe mean cell delay time is proposed as a performance measure of NTT/BT protocol. The mean cell delay time is defined as the duration from the instant the cell arrives at the transmission buffer until the cell is fully transmitted. The process of cell transmission can be described as a single server queueing modle with two dependent services. By utilizing this model, mean cell delay time is obtained and sensitivity of the factors such as window size and reset period is also analysed.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.716-724
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• 2007

As ultra-wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) uses short-duration impulse signals of nanoseconds, even a small number of timing errors can cause a detrimental effect on system performance. A delay-locked loop (DLL) is proposed to synchronize and reduce timing errors. The design of the DLL is vital for UWB systems. In this paper, an improved DLL is introduced to a UWB-IR time-hopping spread-spectrum system. Instead of using only two central correlator branches as in a conventional DLL, the proposed system uses two additional correlator branches with different delay parameters and different weight parameters. The performance of the proposed schemes with the optimal parameters is compared with that of traditional schemes through simulation: the proposed four-branch DLLs achieves less tracking jitter or a longer mean time to lose lock (MTLL) than the conventional two-branch DLLs if proper parameters are chosen.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권9A호
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• pp.684-693
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 시변 패킷 기반 무선 링크에서 메시지와 패킷의 전송 지연 시간을 분석하였다. 메시지는 베르누이(Bernoulli) 프로세스에 따라 도착하고 생성되는 메시지의 길이는 지수 분포를 가진다고 가정하였다. 또한 시간 변이성을 가지는 무선 링크의 특성을 반영하기 위하여 2-상태 마코프 모델을 사용하여 해석하였다. 이 마코프 모델로부터, 패킷의 도착율과 패킷 전송 서비스 시간, 무선 링크의 평균 PER(packet error rate)의 항으로 패킷의 평균 전송 지연 시간과 평균 큐 길이를 해석적으로 분석하였고, 이러한 패킷의 성능 지표들로부터 메시지의 전송지연 시간 및 큐 길이를 유도하였다. 수치적 결과로부터 시변 패킷 기반 무선 링크의 안정적 동작과 전송 성능을 보장하기 위해서는 PER에 따라 메시지 도착율 및 길이가 제한되어야 한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 성능에는 각 상태의 머무는 시간보다 PER의 영향이 큼을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.130-139
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• 2014

Due to the unpredictable nature of channel availability, carrying delay-sensitive traffic in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) is very challenging. Spectrum leasing of radio resources has been proposed in the so called coordinated CRNs to improve the quality of service (QoS) experienced by secondary users (SUs). In this paper, the performance of coordinated CRNs under fixed-rate with hard-delay-constraints traffic is analyzed. For the adequate and fair performance comparison, call admission control strategies with fractional channel reservation to prioritize ongoing secondary calls over new ones are considered. Maximum Erlang capacity is obtained by optimizing the number of reserved channels. Numerical results reveal that system performance strongly depends on the value of the mean secondary service time relative to the mean primary service time. Additionally, numerical results show that, in CRNs without spectrum leasing, there exists a critical utilization factor of the primary resources from which it is not longer possible to guarantee the required QoS of SUs and, therefore, services with hard delay constraints cannot be even supported in CRNs. Thus, spectrum leasing can be essential for CRN operators to provide the QoS demanded by fixed-rate applications with hard delay constraints. Finally, the cost per capacity Erlang as function of both the utilization factor of the primary resources and the maximum allowed number of simultaneously rented channels is evaluated.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제36권8호
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• pp.637-641
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 저전력 수중음향통신 시스템을 구현하기 위해 선형 등화기에 최적화된 탭 길이를 결정하는 기법을 제안하였다. 먼저 선형 등화기에서 탭 길이와 결정지연과의 관계를 조사하였다. 이 결과를 토대로 일정 이상 MSE(Mean Square Error) 성능을 만족하는 탭 길이에 대하여 분산을 구하고 이를 활용하여 최적의 결정 지연 범위가 추정된다. 또한 탭 길이에 따른 최적의 결정지연을 결정하기 위해 MSE 그래프를 도출하였으며, 이를 통해 최적의 값을 얻어냈다. 모의실험을 수행한 결과 최대의 탭 길이에서보다 40% 적은 탭 길이로도 충분한 성능을 보여주었으며, 동해 해상시험에서 획득한 데이타에 적용한 결과 탭 계수가 충분히 수렴했다고 볼 수 있는 최대 길이의 탭보다 33% 적은 탭 길이로 충분한 성능을 보여주었음을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.479-491
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 유한 크기의 출력 버퍼를 가진 ATM 스위치에서 셀 지연 요구와 셀 손실 요구를 고려한 2-레벨 임계치를 갖는 우선순위 제어 방식을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 우선 순위 제어 방식은 유한크기를 가진 하나의 버퍼에서 두개의 임계치를 두어 손실에 민감한 셀에 대해서는 셀손실률을 개선하고, 지연에 민감한 셀에 대해서는 셀 지연 시간을 개선하는 방법이다. 본 방식에서는 우선순위 제어 방식을 이론적으로 구하고 수치해석을 통해 셀손실률과 평균셀지연을 구하였다. 셀의 서비스 품질 특성에 따라 두개의 임계치를 적절히 조절함으로써 셀손실률 또는 평균셀지연의 개설효과를 얻을 수 있음을 확실히 알 수 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.430-438
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• 2013

This paper addresses the issue of throughput-delay of one-to-many wireless multi-hop flows based on random linear network coding (RLNC). Existing research results have been focusing on the single-hop model which is not suitable for wireless multi-hop networks. In addition, the conditions of related system model are too idealistic. To address these limitations, we herein investigate the performance of a wireless multi-hop network, focusing on the one-to-many flows. Firstly, a system model with multi-hop delay was constructed; secondly, the transmission schemes of system model were gradually improved in terms of practical conditions such as limited queue length and asynchronous forwarding way; thirdly, the mean delay and the mean throughput were quantified in terms of coding window size K and number of destination nodes N for the wireless multi-hop transmission. Our findings show a clear relationship between the multi-hop transmission performance and the network coding parameters. This study results will contribute significantly to the evaluation and the optimization of network coding method.