• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.8A
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• pp.1104-1114
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• 2000

If the control system that works important job fails, economical loss occurred. Hence, to guarantee high reliability, it must be duplicated. In the case of traditional duplication mechanism, dedicated operating system with duplication functions were built. This required much development and maintenance cost. They can be saved, if we use commercial operating system and its development environment.This paper proposes a duplication mechanism for the system based on commercial 0S. The system that explained in this paper is BSC(Base Station Controller). The duplicated BSC system uses concurrent write memory for synchronization and VxWorks as an operating system. We propose how the task supporting duplication functions is executed without delay and preemption, how to synchronize standby's memory with active' s, and how to use concurrent-write memory easily with VxWorks' s partition. We also describe the takeover procedure when the active detects its hardware fault and when the standby recognizes the failure of the active.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.57-64
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• 2007

This paper proposed the low power texture cache for mobile 3D graphics accelerators. It is very important to reduce the leakage power in the standby mode for mobile 3D graphics accelerators and the memory access latency of texture mapping in the active mode which needs a large memory bandwidth. The proposed structure reduces the leakage power using variable threshold values of power mode transitions according to the selected texture filtering algorithms of application programs, which has the run time gain for texture mapping. In the trace driven cache simulation the proposed structure shows the best 7% performance gain to the previous MSA cache according to the new performance metric considering both normalized leakage power and run time impact.

• Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.193-200
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• 2000

In this paper, we consider confidence limits for steady state availability of a redundant structure with the function of switchover processing. The system considered in this paper consists of three units which are an active unit, a standby unit and a switchover device. A control module does not affect the performance of the system while the active unit is operating but causes the system failure if the active unit fails at the failure of the control module. The effect of failure of control module is included in our reliability model of the simple redundant structure. The availability of the system is obtained by using the state space method. An example is given to illustrate our results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.50-53
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• 2010

최근 DSMS의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있고, 그에 따른 고가용성 서비스를 제공하기 위한 환경으로 확장되고 있다. DSMS와 같은 실시간 데이터베이스 응용 시스템 분야나 임무 결정적인 응용 시스템을 다루는 산업 분야에서 가용성을 유지 하지 못하는 것은 치명적인 결과를 초래 할 수 있다. 이런 DSMS환경에서 고가용성을 유지하는 기법으로는 Active/Active 알고리즘과 Active/Standby기법이 있다. 하지만 이 기법들의 고가용성을 유지하기 위해 주 서버와 동일한 규모의 보조 서버를 유지해야 하는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 질의를 두 가지 타입으로 나누어 누적 데이터가 필요한 질의들만 실시간 동기화를 통해 보조 서버에 유지하고 나머지 질의들에 대해서는 메타 데이터들만 보조 서버에 유지해 보조 서버의 규모를 줄일 수 있었다.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.47-53
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• 2020

In the case of a failure due to equipment deterioration in the public address system or a worker's mistake during construction, broadcasting becomes impossible. In this situation, we have designed a more advanced management broadcast system that can broadcast. The broadcasting service is operated using main broadcasting device, and local broadcasting device operates separately only in the local area. If the main broadcasting device becomes inoperable, the procedure for transferring the control activates the device with the local broadcasting devices based on data backed up by the main controller. This paper proposes an improved method of the conventional emergency broadcasting device duplication method. The existing method could not use the standby equipment in the normal state, but in the proposed method, the standby equipment can be used as local broadcasting equipment in usually. This method enables stable system operation while minimizing resource waste due to redundant configuration of expensive devices.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.12
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• pp.1150-1159
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• 2011

Reliability is defined as a probability that a system will operate properly for a specified period of time under the design operating conditions without failure. Reliability-Redundancy Optimization Problem(RROP) involves selection of components with multiple choices, redundancy levels and redundancy strategy(Active or Standby) for maximizing system reliability with constraints such as cost, weight, etc. Based on the design configuration of Multi-Spectral Camera(MSC) system of KOMPSAT-2, the mathematical programming model for RROP is suggested in this study. Due to the nature of RROP, i.e. NP-hard problem, Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization(PPSO) algorithm is proposed to solve it. The result of the numerical experiment for RROP is presented as instance of recommended design configuration at some mission time.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.11
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• pp.51-55
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• 2007

Generally, PLC (Power Line Communication) based home automation devices such as wall switch, walt socket, gas controller, etc, must maintain wake-up status at all time to control other electronic devices and monitor their on/off status whether they are in service or not. In order to reduce the unnecessary energy consumption during the standby mode, the new power-saving PLC 2 ports wall switch has been developed, separating PLC communication part and controller part and introducing sleep mode. In addition, to expand life cycle of PLC product and to reduce the rate of product failure in active mode, the instant controlling method in controlling process is adopted instead of the maintenance controlling method. In comparison to the earlier model, the new 2 ports PLC wall switch has reduced power by 0.95[W] less in standby mode and 3.2[W] less in active mode than the previous one.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.1717-1722
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• 2016

Availability, one of the important metrics used to assess the performance of network system, is defined as the probability that a system is operational at a given point in time under a given set of environmental conditions. To improve the availability of the network service, the redundancy models and the rejuvenation schemes are the effective schemes to be typically used. In this paper, we analyse the effect of 2N redundancy model and/or rejuvenation scheme on the availability of network service. The 2N redundancy model consists of one active and one standby component and the performance of time-based rejuvenation scheme mainly depends on its rejuvenation period. We design stochastic reward net model for the 2N redundancy model with time-based rejuvenation scheme and analyse the service availability of the model using stochastic Petri net package. We provide some numerical examples of the service availability, which shows that the system with rejuvenation has higher availability than the system without rejuvenation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.280-282
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• 2006

대용량 데이터 처리를 위한 SAN(Storago Area Network)는 각 호스트마다 두 대의 HBA(Host Bus Adapter)사용 하며, 한대는 Active로서 활동을 하고 다른 한대는 Active가 동작하지 않을 때를 대비하여 Standby로 사용된다. 현재 리눅스 커널에선 두 대의 HBA를 동시에 사용하여 효율성을 극대화하기 위한 멀티패스를 지원하고 있다. 데이터의 패스는 라운드 로빈 방식에 의해 수행되며 단순히 패스를 돌아가며 선택하는 방식을 사용한다. 라운드 로빈 방식의 패스 셀렉터는 워크로드의 양이 일정하지 못할 경우에는 좋지 않은 성능을 보인다. 본 논문은 워크로드의 양이 일정하지 않을 경우에도 동일한 성능을 낼 수 있는 패스 셀렉터를 제안한다.