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A Simple $N^{th}$ Best-Relay Selection Criterion for Opportunistic Two-Way Relay Networks under Outdated Channel State Information

  • Ou, Jinglan;Wu, Haowei;Wang, Qi;Zou, Yutao
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.10
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    • pp.3409-3422
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    • 2014
  • The frequency spectrum available for the wireless communication is extremely crowded. In order to improve the spectral efficiency, the two-way relay networks have aroused great attention. A simple $N^{th}$ best-relay selection criterion for the opportunistic two-way relay networks is proposed, which can be implemented easily by extending the distributed timer technique in practice, since the proposed criterion is mainly based on the channel gains. The outage performance of the proposed relay selection scheme is analyzed under the outdated channel state information (CSI), and a tight closed-form lower bound and asymptotic value of the outage probability over Rayleigh fading channels are obtained. Simulation results demonstrate that the tight closed-form lower bound of the outage probability very closely matches with simulated ones in the whole SNR region, and the asymptotic results provide good tight approximations to the simulation ones, especially in the high SNR region.

Energy-based design base shear for RC frames considering global failure mechanism and reduced hysteretic behavior

  • Merter, Onur;Ucar, Taner
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.63 no.1
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    • pp.23-35
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    • 2017
  • A nonlinear static procedure considering work-energy principle and global failure mechanism to estimate base shears of reinforced concrete (RC) frame-type structures is presented. The relative energy equation comprising of elastic vibrational energy, plastic strain energy and seismic input energy is obtained. The input energy is modified with a factor depending on damping ratio and ductility, and the energy that contributes to damage is obtained. The plastic energy is decreased with a factor to consider the reduced hysteretic behavior of RC members. Given the pre-selected failure mechanism, the modified energy balance equality is written using various approximations for modification factors of input energy and plastic energy in scientific literature. External work done by the design lateral forces distributed to story levels in accordance with Turkish Seismic Design Code is calculated considering the target plastic drift. Equating the plastic energy obtained from energy balance to external work done by the equivalent inertia forces considering, a total of 16 energy-based base shears for each frame are derived considering different combinations of modification factors. Ductility related parameters of modification factors are determined from pushover analysis. Relative input energy of multi degree of freedom (MDOF) system is approximated by using the modal-energy-decomposition approach. Energy-based design base shears are compared with those obtained from nonlinear time history (NLTH) analysis using recorded accelerograms. It is found that some of the energy-based base shears are in reasonable agreement with the mean base shear obtained from NLTH analysis.

Compressional MHD wave transport in the boundary region between cold and hot plasmas

  • Park, Seong-Kook;Lee, Dong-Hun;Kim, Ki-hong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.40-40
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    • 2003
  • When the magnetotail is disturbed by an impulsive input such as the substorm onset, compressional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves play an important role in delivering perturbed energy and exciting various wave modes and currents. The plasmasheet, in which relatively hot plasmas exist, is surrounded by relatively cold plasmas at the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) and the equatorial plasmasphere. Since the Alfven speed significantly varies near these regions, the compressional waves are expected to undergo mode conversion by inhomogeneity at the boundary between cold and hot plasma regions. We investigate how the initial compressional MHD wave energy is reflected, transmitted, and absorbed across that boundary by adopting the invariant imbedding method (IIM) which gives the exact reflection, transmission, and absorption coefficients without any theoretical approximations for given frequencies and wave numbers. The IIM method is very useful in quantifying the reflection and transmission of compressional waves in the sense that we can calculate how much fast mode wave energy is delievered into shear Alfven waves or field-aligned currents. Our results show that strongly localized absorption occurs at the boundary region. This feature suggests that localized field-aligned currents can be impulsively excited at such boundary regions by any compressional disturbances, which is highly associated with impulsive auroral brightening at the substorm onset. We compare our results with previous studies in cold inhomogeneous plasmas.

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Development of Algorithm for Maximum Power Point Tracking of PV system (PV 시스템의 최대출력점 추정을 위한 알고리즘 개발)

  • Park, Ki-Tae;Ko, Jae-Sub;Choi, Jung-Sik;Park, Byung-Sang;Chung, Dong-Hwa
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.316-321
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    • 2007
  • This paper is proposed a novel method to approximate the maximum power for a photovoltaic inverter system and tracking method. It is designed for power systems application and utilities. The proposed Maximum Power Point Tracking(MPPT) control has the advantage to provide a new simple way to approximate the optimal or rated voltage, the optimal or rated current and maximum power rating produced by a solar panel and the photovoltaic inverter. And this straightforward method will be named linear reoriented coordinates method(LRCM) with the advantage that Pmax and $V_{op}$ can be approximated using the satre variable as the dynamic model without using complicate approximations or Taylor series. Furthermore tracking method is improved over 50% photovoltaic efficiency. This paper is proposed MPPT using LRMC and tracking method using weather condition of domestic moderate program technique. This paper is proposed the experimental results to verify the effectiveness of the new methods.

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A Noncoherent Method for Sequential Code Acquisition with Simplified Structure Based on Approximated Bessel Function (어림 베셀함수를 바탕으로 얼개를 간단히 한 비동위상 순차 부호획득 방법)

  • Kwon, Hyoung-Moon;Lee, Ju-Mi;Yoon, Seok-Ho;Lee, Sung-Ro;Song, Iick-Ho
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.30 no.9C
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    • pp.955-963
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we consider the noncoherent code acquisition problem using sequential schemes. We show that the outputs of the noncoherent receiver approximately have a central chi-square distribution under the null hypothesis through simulations. Based on this observation, simplified acquisition schemes are obtained using the approximations of the Bessel function. The performance of the simplified and original schemes are compared in additive white Gaussian noise and slowly varying fading channels. Numerical results show that the simplified schemes have essentially the same performance as the original schemes.

Delay-Margin based Traffic Engineering for MPLS-DiffServ Networks

  • Ashour, Mohamed;Le-Ngoc, Tho
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.351-361
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a delay-margin based traffic engineering (TE) approach to provide end-to-end quality of service (QoS) in multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks using differentiated services (DiffServ) at the link level. The TE, including delay, class, and route assignments, is formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem reflecting the inter-class and inter-link dependency introduced by DiffServ and end-to-end QoS requirements. Three algorithms are used to provide a solution to the problem: The first two, centralized offline route configuration and link-class delay assignment, operate in the convex areas of the feasible region to consecutively reduce the objective function using a per-link per-class decomposition of the objective function gradient. The third one is a heuristic that promotes/demotes connections at different links in order to deal with concave areas that may be produced by a trunk route usage of more than one class on a given link. Approximations of the three algorithms suitable for on-line distributed TE operation are also derived. Simulation is used to show that proposed approach can increase the number of users while maintaining end-to-end QoS requirements.

Discretizing Spatio-Temporal Data using Data Reduction and Clustering (데이타 축소와 군집화를 사용하는 시공간 데이타의 이산화 기법)

  • Kang, Ju-Young;Yong, Hwan-Seung
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.57-61
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    • 2009
  • To increase the efficiency of mining process and derive accurate spatio-temporal patterns, continuous values of attributes should be discretized prior to mining process. In this paper, we propose a discretization method which improves the mining efficiency by reducing the data size without losing the correlations in the data. The proposed method first s original trajectories into approximations using line simplification and then groups them into similar clusters. Our experiments show that the proposed approach improves the mining efficiency as well as extracts more intuitive patterns compared to existing discretization methods.

A study on alternatives to the permutation test in gene-set analysis (유전자집합분석에서 순열검정의 대안)

  • Lee, Sunho
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.241-251
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    • 2018
  • The analysis of gene sets in microarray has advantages in interpreting biological functions and increasing statistical powers. Many statistical methods have been proposed for detecting significant gene sets that show relations between genes and phenotypes, but there is no consensus about which is the best to perform gene sets analysis and permutation based tests are considered as standard tools. When many gene sets are tested simultaneously, a large number of random permutations are needed for multiple testing with a high computational cost. In this paper, several parametric approximations are considered as alternatives of the permutation distribution and the moment based gene set test has shown the best performance for providing p-values of the permutation test closely and quickly on a general framework.

A GNSS Signal Correlation Using Map-based Partial-time Common Intermediate Frequency Removal Method (맵 기반의 부분시간 공통 중간주파수 제거방식을 이용한 GNSS 신호의 상관 기법)

  • Im, Sung-Hyuck;Jee, Gyu-In
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.695-701
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we propose the efficient Doppler removal method using map-based partial-time common intermediate frequency removal technique. In the proposed algorithm, the 2-stage carrier removal process was used. First, the component of common intermediate frequency is removed. Next the component of Doppler was removed with averaging and approximation. For the evaluation of the proposed algorithm, The real-time software GPS L1 C/A-code receiver was implemented. When the proposed algorithms are used, 12 tracking channels with 3 track arm(early, prompt, late) is operated real-time on PC using a Intel Pentium-III 1.0GHz CPU. Also, the requirement of memory was less than 2Mbytes. The real-time software GNSS receiver using the proposed algorithms provides the navigation solution with below 10 meter rms error. Especially, in spited of using the various approximations for implementing the algorithms, the high sensitivity capability (able to track the weak signal with -159dBm) was achieved.

A Study to Propose Closed-form Approximations of Seismic Hazard (지진 재해도의 닫힌 근사식 제안에 관한 연구)

  • Kwag, Shinyoung;Hahm, Daegi
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.245-251
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we address some issues in existing seismic hazard closed-form equations and present a novel seismic hazard equation form to overcome these issues. The presented equation form is based on higher-order polynomials, which can well describe the seismic hazard information with relatively high non-linearity. The accuracy of the proposed form is illustrated not only in the seismic hazard data itself but also in estimating the annual probability of failure (APF) of the structural systems. For this purpose, the information on seismic hazard is used in representative areas of the United States (West : Los Angeles, Central : Memphis and Kansas, East : Charleston). Examples regarding the APF estimation are the analyses of existing platform structure and nuclear power plant problems. As a result of the numerical example analyses, it is confirmed that the higher-order-polynomial-based hazard form presented in this paper could predict the APF values of the two example structure systems as well as the given seismic hazard data relatively accurately compared with the existing closed-form hazard equations. Therefore, in the future, it is expected that we can derive a new improved APF function by combining the proposed hazard formula with the existing fragility equation.