• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1573-1595
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• 2011

In this paper, the outage performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems exploiting joint spatial and multiuser diversities is investigated for Rayleigh fading channels with outdated feedback. First, we derive closed-form exact outage probabilities for the joint diversity schemes that combine user scheduling with different spatial diversity techniques, including: 1) transmit maximum-ratio combining (TMRC); 2) transmit antenna selection (TAS); and 3) orthogonal space-time block coding (OSTBC). Then the asymptotic outage probabilities are analyzed to gain more insights into the effect of feedback delay. It is observed that with outdated feedback, the asymptotic diversity order of the multiuser OSTBC (M-OSTBC) scheme is equal to the number of transmit antennas at the base station, while that of the multiuser TMRC (M-TMRC) and the multiuser TAS (M-TAS) schemes reduce to one. Further by comparing the asymptotic outage probabilities, it is found that the M-TMRC scheme outperforms the M-TAS scheme, and the M-OSTBC scheme can perform best in the outage regime of practical interest when the feedback delay is large. Theoretical analysis is verified by simulation results.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 무선 인지 중계 네트워크에서의 파워 할당 기법에 대해서 연구한다. 무선 인지 중계 네트워크는 주파수 공유를 통해서 주파수 효율성을 높일 뿐만 아니라 중계기의 사용으로 시스템의 커버리지를 확장시킬 수 있는 장점을 가진다. 그러나 기존의 연구들에서는 주파수 공유를 위해서 이차 사용자가 일차 사용자 사이와의 채널 정보를 완벽하게 알아야 한다고 가정한다. 그러나 이 채널 정보는 시변 특성 또는 피드백 지연 등의 이유로 이차 사용자가 불완전한 채널 정보를 얻게 된다. 이러한 불완전한 채널 정보로 인하여 결국 이차 사용자는 간섭 제약을 위반하게 되고 주파수를 공유할 수 없게 된다. 따라서 이 문제를 극복하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 일차 사용자의 허용 가능한 outage확률 간섭 제약을 만족하는 이차 사용자의 파워 할당 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 파워 할당 기법은 순시적인 채널 정보를 사용하지 않기 때문에, 이차 사용자의 피드백 부담을 덜어줄 뿐만 아니라 지연된(outdated) 채널 환경에 관계없이 간섭 제약을 만족시키는 장점을 가진다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 지연된 귀환 채널 정보를 가지는 STBC-공간다중화 OFDM 시스템을 위한 전처리기 구조를 제안한다. 보통 MIMO 시스템을 위한 전처리기는 귀환 채널 상태 정보를 송신단이 완벽하게 안다는 가정 하에 설계된다. 하지만 실제 시스템에서는 귀환 채널 지연과 링크 오류가 존재하므로 송신단이 부정확한 귀환 채널 정보를 사용하게 되어 시스템 성능이 감소한다. 제안된 전처리기는 이러한 성능 감쇠를 STBC가 제공하는 다이버시티 이득으로 보상할 수 있는 구조로 설계된다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 전처리 기법은 수신단에서 전처리 코드북의 색인을 송신단에 귀환하고 송신단은 전처리 행렬, 부반송파의 상관도, 채널의 자기 상관도를 고려하여 전송 심볼을 전처리한다 모의실험을 통해 STBC-SM OFDM 시스템이 도플러 주파수가 60Hz 이상이 되면 $SER=10^{-3}$ 이하에서 기존의 전처리된 MIMO-OFDM 시스템의 코드북 선택기법에 비해 성능이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1682-1701
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an intergraded unified imperfect CSI model and investigate the joined effects of feedback delay and channel estimation errors (CEE) for two-hop relaying systems with transmit beamforming and relay selection. We derived closed-form expressions for important performance measures including the exact analysis and lower bounds of outage probability as well as error performance. The ergodic capacity is also included with closed-form results. Furthermore, diversity and coding gains based on the asymptotic analysis at high SNRs are also presented, which are simple and concise and provide new analytical insights into the corresponding power allocation scheme. The analysis indicates that delay effect results in the coding gain loss and the diversity order loss, while CEE will merely cause the coding gain loss. Numerical results verify the theoretical analysis and illustrate the system is more sensitive to transmit beamforming delay compared with relay selection delay and also verify the superiority of optimum power allocation. We further investigate the outage loss due to the CEE and feedback delays, which indicates that the effect of the CEE is more influential at low-to-medium SNR, and then it will hand over the dominate role to the feedback delay.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.32-39
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• 2009

송신 단에서 채널 상태 정보를 알고 있는 폐루프 시스템은 개방 루프 시스템에 비하여 더 효율적인 전송을 수행할 수 있다. 그러나 실제 시스템은 제한된 피드백 채널을 가지므로 송신단에서 완벽한 채널 정보를 알 수 없으며, 따라서 부분 채널 정보를 활용하는 시스템의 설계가 중요한 요소로 부각되고 있다. 특히, 모바일 환경에서는 사용자의 이동성으로 인하여 채널 상태가 유동적으로 변화하며 이는 성능의 열화를 초래한다. 본 논문에서는 비트 인터리버와 결합한 부호화된 직교 주파수 다중 분할(BIC-OFDM; Bit-Interleaved Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템을 위하여 채널 변화에 적절히 대응하는 적응 변조 코딩 기법을 제안한다. 합리적인 피드백 정보량을 통해, 제안하는 기법은 도플러 확산에 의한 채널 변화를 보상하여 향상된 성능을 제공한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 기법이 정확한 비트 에러율의 추정을 통한 성능 이득을 가짐을 확인한다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.294-307
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• 2024

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Dietitians frequently use nutrition education tools to facilitate dietary counselling sessions. Nevertheless, these tools may require adaptation to keep pace with technological advancements. This study had a 2-fold purpose: first, to identify the types of nutrition education tools currently in use, identify their limitations, and explore dietitians' perspectives on the importance of these tools; second, to investigate the features that dietitians prefer in digital nutrition education tools. SUBJECTS/METHODS: A semi-structured face-to-face interview was conducted among 15 dietitians from selected public hospitals, primary care clinics, and teaching hospitals in Malaysia. Inductive thematic analysis of the responses was conducted using NVivo version 12 software. RESULTS: Most dietitians used physical education tools including the healthy plate model, pamphlets, food models, and flip charts. These tools were perceived as important as they facilitate the nutrition assessment process, deliver nutrition intervention, and are time efficient. However, dietitians described the current educational tools as impersonal, outdated, limited in availability due to financial constraints, unhandy, and difficult to visualise. Alternatively, they strongly favoured digital education tools that provided instant feedback, utilised an automated system, included a local food database, were user-friendly, developed by experts in the field, and seamlessly integrated into the healthcare system. CONCLUSION: Presently, although dietitians have a preference for digital educational tools, they heavily rely on physical nutrition education tools due to their availability despite the perception that these tools are outdated, impersonal, and inconvenient. Transitioning to digital dietary education tools could potentially address these issues.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.387-396
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• 2016

Multiuser communication has been an important research area of underwater acoustic communications and networking. This paper studies the use of adaptive orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) in a downlink scenario, where a central node sends data to multiple distributed nodes simultaneously. In practical implementations, the instantaneous channel state information (CSI) cannot be perfectly known by the central node in time-varying underwater acoustic (UWA) channels, due to the long propagation delays resulting from the low sound speed. In this paper, we explore the CSI feedback for resource allocation. An adaptive power-bit loading algorithm is presented, which assigns subcarriers to different users and allocates power and bits to each subcarrier, aiming to minimize the bit error rate (BER) under power and throughput constraints. Simulation results show considerable performance gains due to adaptive subcarrier allocation and further improvement through power and bit loading, as compared to the non-adaptive interleave subcarrier allocation scheme. In a lake experiment, channel feedback reduction is implemented through subcarrier clustering and uniform quantization. Although the performance gains are not as large as expected, experiment results confirm that adaptive subcarrier allocation schemes based on delayed channel feedback or long term statistics outperform the interleave subcarrier allocation scheme.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.137-147
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• 2022

In this study, for students who gave up their studies midway through college, we investigate the reasons for dropping out of college, analyze the factors that caused students to drop out, and suggest improvement measures to effectively increase the recruitment rate of enrolled students. This study explores measures to increase student enrollment in community colleges. For this purpose, it conducted a survey of students who dropped out of G College between 2018 and 2020 from June 28 to July 9, 2021. Its analysis is based on the results of 53 students who participated in the survey. First, our results suggest that programs to develop interpersonal relationships between students, faculty, and staff are necessary. Such programs will cultivate a culture of solidarity and collective identity among students, which in turn will reinforce positive experiences in college. Moreover, by developing systems to form relationships between faculty and students, colleges can have a feedback mechanism, such as an open-study program, through which they learn what the students want and need. Through this effort, colleges can help their students adjust to campuses and enhance student satisfaction in college. Second, it is necessary to develop various extracurricular programs not only for freshmen but existing students and to run hobby and leisure activity programs. To have continuous, standing extracurricular programs instead of one-time events, colleges should set up specific goals, delivery methods and strategies. Third, colleges should renovate old and outdated buildings and facilities on campus to enhance the quality of campus life. Moreover, more comprehensive improvement of facilities and a campus environment by having various convenient and leisure facilities that meet the needs and demands of students. Fourth, it is suggested to develop programs or systems that help students to more fully engage in campus lives and activities, which in turn increases confidence and self-efficacy among students. Through such programs, students can better adjust to their majors and, therefore, will be less likely to drop out of college.