• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10c
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• pp.109-111
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• 2003

최근 무선 네트워킹 장치들이 등장 하면서 제한된 배터리에 의존하는 무선 호스트들의 전력 절감은 중요한 이슈가 되었다. 특히 Ad­Hoc에서 배터리는 제한된 에너지를 제공하기 때문에 무선 호스트에 의해서 소모되어지는 에너지의 양을 감소시키기 위한 기술은 대단히 중요하다. 특히 MAC 과 라우팅 에서 전력 절감을 이루기 위한 논문들이 기존에 발표 되었다. 이 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 표준의 DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) 에서의 전력 절감 메카니즘을 향상 시킨 논문 이다. DCF를 위한 IEEE 802.11 전력 절감 메카니즘에서는 비콘 간격 이라는 시간으로 나누어지며 또한 이러한 각각의 비콘 간격이 시작될 때 각각의 노드들은 ATIM 창 동안 깨어 있어야 한다. 물론 모든 노드는 같은 시간에 깨어 있기 위해서는 동기화 되는 것이 필요하다. ATIM 창 동안 노드들은 비콘 기간 동안 깨어 있는 상태로 있을 것인지를 결정하기 위해서 control packet을 교환 한다. 이러한 ATIM 창 크기는 각각의 노드들의 전력절감에 상당한 영향을 미친다. 따라서 이 논문은 ATIM 창 크기를 동적으로 증감시켜서 보다 에너지 효율을 발휘 하고자 하는 논문이다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.18D no.1
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• pp.45-56
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• 2011

The importance of low-power embedded system is being increased. The studies on low-power system have been performed in issues of hardware architecture and operating system. However because the behaviors of software control the working of hardware devices, the power analysis of software is one of critical issues in energy-efficient embedded system development. This paper proposes a technique to extract tasks from software design models with considering power consumption. We first define the criteria for task extraction, and then propose the way to separate out the task from UML 2.0 design models. Our technique can provide the chance to reduce the power consumption as well as to fulfill the performance requirement in the early phase of software development.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.3B
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• pp.247-254
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• 2009

Over the last decade multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been actively researched and started to be deployed in wireless communications owing to the significant increase in channel capacity. In this paper, we propose a energy saving MAC protocol in systems by focusing on energy efficiency instead of capacity maximization. We considers the energy consumption together with the tradeoff between reliability (i.e., diversity) and throughput (i.e., multiplexing gain), and dynamically chooses an appropriate number of antennas for transmission. In computing the total energy consumption, we counts circuit energy as well as transmission energy. Naturally the circuit energy consumption is directly proportional to the number of active antennas. Through numerical analysis, we confirm that our power saving MAC scheme for MIMO considerably saves energy consumption compared to conventional capacity maximization schemes that use a fixed number of MIMO channels, for a given outage constraint. Our finding is that the capacity maximizing communication which possibly can be regarded best in terms of energy efficiency gives a different solution from the energy minimizing communication.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.2
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• pp.53-60
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• 2014

The recent electric power shortage has led to the vigorous study for energy conservation in the many different fields. In this paper, cell zooming technology, which can reduce the energy loss at the base stations controlling the transmission power of the stations depending on the changing trffic density for reduce energy consumption that occurs when there is little or no trffic in the service area, is proposed and energy conservation is confirmed by comparing base stations' service scenario depending on traffic change.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.92-101
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• 2008

전원관리 및 전력소모 절감 기술은 휴대폰, 노트북 등의 휴대 기기 사용이 보편화되고 다기능화, 고성능화함에 따라 지속적으로 발전해 왔다. 특히 반도체 소자의 선폭이 나노미터급으로 초미세화 됨에 따라 누설 전류가 급증하고 칩의 처리 성능을 높이기 위해 클록 주파수를 높이면서 스위칭 전류 소모도 증가하므로, 이러한 동적/정적 전력소모 증가를 억제시킬 수 있는 다중 문턱전압 소자, DVFS, sub-threshold, 클록 게이팅, 저전압 회로 기술이 SoC 설계에 점진적으로 적용되고 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 휴대폰용 부품을 중심으로, 무선 통신 기능을 갖춘 기기의 전력소모 요인을 분석하고 배터리 사용시간을 연장시킬 수 있는 저전력 SoC 기술 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.48-51
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• 2016

Many studies have been carried out in order to develop a frequency efficient communication system than the current communication system for satisfying the increasing demands of wireless data services in mobile communication systems. Service providers must maintain a lot of base station equipments to meet the increasing demands of wireless data service. Therefore service provider needs a system or method to reduce maintenance costs. The amount of wireless data service are changed according to the time of day, geographical location and so on. Power consumption can be reduced if the supplied power of communication systems is controlled by the amount of wireless data traffics. In this paper, power management system of base station's equipment for mobile communication is designed and implemented. The proposed power management system controls the power supplied to the mobile communication infrastructures depending on the service amount of wireless data. Field test result of the implemented system shows the proposed system saves 26% of the power consumption in the base stations.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.126-134
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• 2016

Due to the merits of OLED displays such as fast responsiveness, wide view angle, and power efficiency, their use has increased. However, despite the power efficiency of OLED displays, the portion of their power consumption among the total power consumption is still high since user interaction-based applications such as instant messaging, video play, and games are frequently used. Their power consumption varies significantly depending on the display contents and thus color transformation is one of the low-power techniques used in OLED displays. Prior low-power color transformation techniques have not been rigorously studied in terms of satisfaction of the human visual system, and have not considered optimal visual satisfaction and power consumption at the same time in relation to color transformation. In this paper, we propose a novel low-power color transformation technique which strictly considers human visual system-awareness as well as optimization of both visual satisfaction and power consumption in a balanced way. Experimental results show that the proposed technique achieves better human visual satisfaction in terms of visuality and also shows on average 13.4% and 22.4% improvement over a prior one in terms of power saving.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.7B
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• pp.649-658
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• 2009

Due to limited size and limited battery lifetime of sensor node, one has to address the power saving issue in wireless sensor network. The existing power saving algorithm based on data reuse was proposed for the cluster structured wireless sensor network. We state the problem of existing power saving algorithm and propose new power saving algorithm for tree structured wireless sensor network. The proposed algorithm reduces power consumption by buffering the sensed data at the selected relay node for its data lifetime. The optimum buffering node is selected so that the power saving gain is maximized and at the same time, power consumption among sensor nodes are equally distributed in the network. With computer simulations, it is shown that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional algorithm in terms of power saving gain.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.185-188
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• 2006

본 논문은 모바일 무선 시스템의 가용시간을 늘리고자 최근 사용량이 증가하고 있는 웹 응용으로 대표되는 대화형 응용을 사용할 때 시스템의 에너지를 효율적으로 줄일 수 있는 통합 전력 제어 기법을 제시한다. 기존의 방법들은 CPU와 WNIC의 소모 에너지 절감을 위하여 상호간에 영향이 없다는 가정하에 CPU와 WNIC에 대하여 각각의 정책을 수립하였다. 하지만 제시되는 매커니즘은 대화형 응용을 처리할 때 WNIC에서 얻을 수 있는 정보들을 CPU의 전압과 주파수 조절에 사용함으로써 시스템 레벨의 에너지 소모를 효율적으로 줄일 수 있다. 실험결과는 제시되는 매커니즘에 의해 기존의 CPU와 WNIC의 모드를 별개로 제어한 방법에 비해 평균 46%, 최대 62%의 소모 에너지 절감 효과를 보였다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.247-253
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose and implement the automated brightness control system using distance measuring sensor for reducing the power consumption of emotional lighting device. In order to reduce the power consumption of emotional lighting devices which express continuous color changes, the proposed device measures the distance continuously using ultrasonic sensor and by using this, it also performs PWM Dimming control. The lighting device is composed of micro controller, LED driver, ultrasonic sensor, communication module and so on. And the device performs the real time brightness control by adapting the measured distance information from ultrasonic sensor to PWM signals. From this experiment, we implement the active lighting system which minimizes unnecessary power consumption during user's absence by adapting existing energy reducing techniques.