• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.389-399
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• 2010

Available transfer capability (ATC) is a measure of the transfer capability remaining in a transmission system. Application of unified power flow controllers (UPFCs) could have positive impacts on the ATC of some paths while it might have a negative impact on the ATC of other paths. This paper presents an approach to evaluate the impacts of UPFCs on the ATC from a cost/worth point of view. The UPFC application worth is considered as the maximum cost saving in enhancing the ATC of the paths due to the UPFC implementation. The cost saving is considered as the cost of optimal application of other system reinforcement alternatives (except for UPFC) to reach the same ATC level obtained by UPFC application. UPFC application costs include the maximum cost of alleviating the probable negative impact on the ATC of some paths caused by implementing UPFCs. Optimal system reinforcement is used for systems with UPFCs to determine the aforementioned cost. The proposed method is applied to the IEEERTS and the results are evaluated through a sensitivity analysis. The cost/worth of UPFC application is also used to develop an index for optimal UPFC location and the results are compared with those of other indices. A comparison is finally made with the results obtained using an existing ATC allocation profit-based approach to determine UPFC application worth.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.299-310
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• 2016

In practical wireless relay communication systems, non-destination nodes are assumed to be idle not receiving signals while the relay sends messages to a particular destination node, which results in reduced bandwidth efficiency. To improve the bandwidth efficiency, we relax the idle assumption of non-destination nodes and assume that non-destination nodes may receive signals from sources. We note that the message relayed to a particular node in such a system gives rise to interference to other nodes. To study such a more general relay system, we consider, in this paper, a relay system in which the relay first listens to the source, then routes the source message to the destination, and finally produces interference to the destination in sending messages for other systems. We obtain capacity upper and lower bounds and study the optimal method to deal with the interference as well as the optimal routing schemes. From analytic results obtained, we find the conditions on which the direct transmission provides higher transmission rate. Next, we find the conditions, by numerical evaluation of the theoretical results, on which it is better for the destination to cancel and decode the interference. Also we find the optimal source power allocation scheme that achieves the lower bound depending on various channel conditions. We believe that the results provided in this paper will provide useful insights to system designers in strategically choosing the optimal routing algorithms depending on the channel conditions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.4865-4886
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• 2017

The user experience of practical indoor power line communication (PLC) applications is greatly affected by the system quality-of-service (QoS) criteria. With a general broadcast-and-multi-access (BMA) relay scheme, in this work we investigate the joint source and relay power optimization of the amplify-and-forward (AF) relay systems used under indoor broad-band PLC environments. To achieve both time diversity and spatial diversity from the relay-involved PLC channel, which is time-varying in nature, the source node has been configured to transmit an identical message twice in the first and second signalling phase, respectively. The QoS constrained power allocation problem is not convex, which makes the global optimal solution is computationally intractable. To solve this problem, an alternating optimization (AO) method has been adopted and decomposes this problem into three convex/quasi-convex sub-problems. Simulation results show the fast convergence and short delay of the proposed algorithm under realistic relay-involved PLC channels. Compared with the two-hop and broadcast-and-forward (BF) relay systems, the proposed general relay system meets the same QoS requirement with less network power assumption.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.1951-1972
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• 2018

Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) optimization approaches are used in indoor positioning systems for signal coverage enhancement, as well as positioning precision improvement. Although the huge power consumption of the AP optimization forms a serious problem due to the signal coverage requirement for large-scale indoor environment, the conventional approaches treat the problem of power consumption independent from the design of indoor positioning systems. This paper proposes a new Fast Water-filling algorithm Group Power Constraint (FWA-GPC) based Wi-Fi AP optimization approach for indoor positioning in which the power consumed by the AP optimization is significantly considered. This paper has three contributions. First, it is not restricted to conventional concept of one AP for one candidate AP location, but considered spare APs once the active APs break off. Second, it utilizes the concept of water-filling model from adaptive channel power allocation to calculate the number of APs for each candidate AP location by maximizing the location fingerprint discrimination. Third, it uses a fast version, namely Fast Water-filling algorithm, to search for the optimal solution efficiently. The experimental results conducted in two typical indoor Wi-Fi environments prove that the proposed FWA-GPC performs better than the conventional AP optimization approaches.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.92-101
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• 2012

이 논문에서는 무선 멀티홉 네트워크 환경에서 종단간 최적 전송률을 제공하기 위한 분산 송신전력제어 방안을 제안한다. 제안 방안은 멀티홉 구성 링크들의 전송률이 갖는 연대 특성과 멀티홉 종단간 전송률이 최소 링크 전송률에 의해 결정된다는 점을 고려하여, 멀티홉 구성 링크들의 전송률이 모두 같아지도록 송신전력을 제어함으로써 종단간 전송률을 최대화 한다. 또한 제안 방안은 이웃단말과의 정보 공유만을 가지고 단말 스스로 송신전력 값을 계산하는 분산 방식으로 송신전력 제어에 필요한 정보 교환 오버헤드를 줄인다. 시뮬레이션 결과 제안 방안은 고정된 최대 송신전력 값을 사용한 기존 방식 대비 종단간 전송률과 전력소비 측면에서 큰 성능이득을 보여준다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.67-71
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 동일 채널 간섭을 겪는 중계기에 전력 분할 프로토콜을 적용하여 시스템의 성능을 최적화하는 방안을 제안하였다. 동일 채널 간섭을 겪는 중계기에 전력 분배 요인을 조절할 경우, 간섭 요인이 새로운 전력원으로 작용하기 때문에 수집 전력을 극대화할 수 있으며 수신단의 채널 용량을 최적화할 수 있다. 전력 분할 프로토콜이 적용된 중계기의 최적의 전력 분할 수준을 찾는다면 중계기 및 수신단의 불능 현상을 해결할 수 있으며 네트워크의 효율성을 높일 수 있다. 동일 채널 간섭 수준에 대한 아웃티지 확률 및 단대단 노드의 용량 성능을 분석함으로서 시스템의 성능을 평가한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2021

Cloud computing has drastically reduced the price of computing resources through the use of virtualized resources that are shared among users. However, the established large cloud data centers have a large carbon footprint owing to their excessive power consumption. Inefficiency in resource utilization and power consumption results in the low fiscal gain of service providers. Therefore, data centers should adopt an effective resource-management approach. In this paper, we present a novel load-balancing framework with the objective of minimizing the operational cost of data centers through improved resource utilization. The framework utilizes a modified genetic algorithm for realizing the optimal allocation of virtual machines (VMs) over physical machines. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework improves the resource utilization by up to 45.21%, 84.49%, 119.93%, and 113.96% over a recent and three other standard heuristics-based VM placement approaches.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권7호
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• pp.36-44
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• 2010

다중 사용자 MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) 시스템에서 사용자의 합 전송률을 최대화시키는 SRM (sum-rate maximization) 스케쥴러를 적용하는 경우, 셀 경계에 위치하거나 채널 환경이 좋지 않은 사용자는 선택받지 못하게 되는 공평성 문제를 발생시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자 간의 공평성을 향상시키기 위해 각 사용자 별 평균 전송률의 가중치를 고려한 합 전송률을 최대화하는 WSRM (weighted sum-rate maximization) 스케쥴러를 사용한다. 이를 활용하여 6-섹터 협력전송 시스템에서 WSRM을 위한 최적 전송 전력과 시스템의 WSR (weighted sum-rate)의 닫힌 형태 표현 수식을 유도하며, 유도한 수식을 기반으로 3-섹터 협력 전송 시스템에서 WSRM을 위한 최적 전송 전력을 찾는 알고리듬을 제안한다. 닫힌 형태 표현으로 유도한 수식과 제안한 알고리듬를 바탕으로 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 분산 MIMO 시스템에서 SRM 스케쥴러와 WSRM 스케쥴러의 합 전송률 및 평균 전송률의 로그 합 성능을 비교한다. 또한 WSRM 스케쥴러 방식이 하위 사용자 성능을 향상시킴을 보임으로써 사용자 간의 공평성 문제를 개선할 수 있는 방식임을 검증한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.632-650
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• 2013

The paper considers a spectrum sharing cognitive radio (CR) network coexisting with a primary network under the average interference power constraint. In particular, the secondary user (SU) is assumed to carry delay-sensitive services and thus shall satisfy a given delay quality-of-service (QoS) constraint. The secondary receiver is also assumed to be equipped with multiple antennas to perform maximal ratio combining (MRC) to enhance SU performance. We investigate the effective capacity of the SU with MRC diversity under aforementioned constraints in Nakagami fading environments. Particularly, we derive the optimal power allocation to achieve the maximum effective capacity of the SU, and further derive the effective capacity in closed-form. In addition, we further obtain the closed-form expressions for the effective capacities under three widely used power and rate adaptive transmission schemes, namely, optimal simultaneous power and rate adaptation (opra), truncated channel inversion with fixed rate (tifr) and channel inversion with fixed rate without truncation (cifr). Numerical results supported by simulations are presented to consolidate our studies. The impacts on the effective capacity of various system parameters such as the number of antennas, the average interference power constraint and the delay QoS constraint are investigated in detail. It is shown that MRC diversity can significantly improve the effective capacity of the SU especially for cifr transmission scheme.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.1012-1020
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• 2013

In this work, Self-adaptive Differential Evolutionary (SaDE) algorithm is proposed to solve Optimal Location and Size of Capacitor (OLSC) problem in radial distribution networks. To obtain the SaDE algorithm, two improvements have been applied on control parameters of mutation and crossover operators. To expand the study, three load conditions have been considered, i.e., constant, varying and effective loads. Objective function is introduced for the load conditions. The annual cost is fitness of problem, in addition to this cost, CPU time, voltage profile, active power loss and total installed capacitor banks and their related costs have been used for comparisons. To confirm the ability of each improvements of SaDE, the improvements are studied both in separate and simultaneous conditions. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, it is tested on IEEE 10-bus and 34-bus radial distribution networks and compared with other approaches.