• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.829-838
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• 2016

This paper focuses on the engineering trade-offs in designing capacitor voltage balancing schemes for modular multilevel converters (MMC) HVDC: regulation performance and switching loss. MMC is driven by the on/off switch operation of numerous submodules and the key design concern is balancing submodule capacitor voltages minimizing switching transition among submodules because it represents the voltage regulation performance and system loss. This paper first introduces the state-of-the-art MMC-HVDC submodule capacitor voltage balancing methods reported in the literatures and discusses the trade-offs in designing these methods for HVDC application. This paper further proposes a submodule capacitor balancing scheme exploiting a control signal to flexibly interchange between the on-state and the off-state submodules. The proposed scheme enables desired performance-based voltage regulation and avoids unnecessary switching transitions among submodules, consequently reducing the switching loss. The flexibility and controllability particularly fit in high-level MMC HVDC applications where the aforementioned design trade-offs become more crucial. Simulation studies for MMC HVDC are performed to demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed capacitor voltage balancing algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.3094-3109
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• 2014

This paper proposes a load balanced reliable routing protocol called LBR (Load Balanced Reliable routing) in wireless networks. The LBR protocol transmits messages through a reliable path considering the balancing of the traffic load. Recently, the authors have proposed a multipath-based reliable routing protocol called MRFR, which is an appealing protocol for fault tolerant reliable data transmission. However, However, MRFR has no concern with the problem of load balancing, which results in increasing congestion and consuming high energy at some network nodes. As a result, the problem affects negatively the performance of the network. Taking account of load balancing as a route selection criteria can avoid routing through the congested nodes and allows to find better routes. In this paper, we extend MRFR by considering load balancing in the route discovery process of reliable communication. The simulation results showed that the proposed protocol outperforms AODV in terms of end-to-end delay, packet delivery radio, and average jitter. Compared to MRFR, the LBR protocol has the same packet delivery ratio, and obtains a better efficiency of load balancing.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.483-486
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• 1998

In parallel system, the execution times of tasks cannot be accurately estimated and tasks may arrive at any time. In case, processors are overweighted with workload, the system utilization deteriorates. To solve this problem, dynamic load balancing that rearranges tasks in overloaded processors is required. We prospose the improved dynamic load balancing algorithm for $\textsc{k}-ary$ n-cubes using the property of ring and MWA which is the dynamic load balancing one for mesh. The proposed algorithm which uses the global load information has less communication cost than GDE, DDE and load difference within 1.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.590-596
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• 2000

Cause of excessive vibration with twice the rotational speed of a two-pole generator rotor for the fossil power plants was investigated. The two-pole generator rotor, treated as a typically asymmetric rotor in vibration analysis, produces asynchronous vibration with twice the rotational speed, sub-harmonic critical speeds, and potentially unstable operating zones due to its own inertia and/or stiffness asymmetry. This paper introduces a practical balancing procedure, and presents the results of the investigation on sources of the excessive vibration based on the experimental vibration data of the asymmetric two-pole rotor in balancing.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.1157-1167
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• 2011

We consider totally interpolating biorthogonal multiwavelet systems with finite impulse response two-band multifilter banks, a study balancing order conditions of such systems. Based on FIR and interpolating properties, we show that approximation order condition is completely equivalent to balancing order condition. Consequently, a prefiltering can be avoided if a totally interpolating biorthogonal multiwavelet system satisfies suitable approximation order conditions. An example with approximation order 4 is provided to illustrate the result.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.1078-1083
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• 2000

A high speed rotor balancing machine was developed, which is capable of balancing a flexible rotor in high speed. The machine is largely consisted of vacuum chamber, oil supply system and vacuum pump system. And, in order to investigate performances of the machine, various tests were carried. After high speed rotor balancing of gas turbine engine rotor using influence coefficient method, the flexible engine rotor passed smoothly through its critical speed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.397-400
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• 2005

SM 프로젝트는 SI 프로젝트와 달리 고객의 요청 사항(CSR)이 있을 때 마다 개발 계획을 세우고 관리를 하여야 하며 동시에 고객의 개발 요청 내용 외에도 운영업무에 대한 계획도 같이 세워 져야 한다. 하지만 대부분의 SM 프로젝트에서는 한 두 사람의 경험이나 판단으로 계획이 작성, 할당되며 운영업무에 대한 계획의 정확도도 떨어져 업무 load balancing 이 잘 되지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제 해결을 위해 효과적인 SM 프로젝트에서의 EFFROT ESTIMATION 프로세스를 제안하여 업무 load balancing 을 이루는 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.21 no.46
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• pp.241-251
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• 1998

There are two methods of load balancing for detail scheduling : One method is to generate an initial schedule and obtain an improved final schedule by load balancing only during a specific period. The other method is to generate an initial schedule and obtain an improved schedule by load balancing from current date(TIMENOW) to unlimited time with the whole manufacturing processes. This paper proposes an algorithm for detail scheduling which can be a practical solution in job shop production or project job type by applying the former method.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.25-30
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• 1980

자동차용 추진축의 위험회전속도를 원심력에 의한 탄성변형의 관계로부터 유도하여 보았다. 회전체의 unbalance량은 보통 회전속도에 관계없이 거의 일정하나 자동차용 추진축과 같이 외 경에 비하여 전장이 길고 고속회전하는 경우에는 축의 탄성변형에 의하여 unbalance량이 커진다. 회전속도에 따른 unbalance 변화량을 역시 원심력-탄성변형관계로부터 구하고 balancing을 위한 최적회전속도, tube의 편심도 기타 balancing 작업을 어렵게 하는 요소들에 대하여 정리하여 보았다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.427-437
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• 1994

Optimal static load balancing in star network configurations is considered. Three kinds of load balancing direction strategies are considered. First, a job arriving at the peripheral nodes may be processed either where it arrived(origin node) or transferred directly to central node Second, a job arriving at the central node may be processed there, or transferred to lightly loaded peripheral nodes. A nonlinear optimization problem is formulated. Using the optimal solution, an optimal load balancing algorithm is derived for the second load balancing strategy. Third a job arriving at the central node or a peripheral node may be processed either at origin node or transferred to another lightly loaded node (central or peripheral). A load balancing algorithm is derived for the third load balancing strategy. The effects of these three load balancing strategies are compared by numerical experiments. During the conduct of these in numerical experiments, several interesting phenomena were observed. The third load balancing strategy improved performance more than the first two other strategies. The second load balancing strategy, as a whole, resulted in only slightly improved performance. Finally, of the central node has larger processing power than the peripheral nodes, the first and third load balancing strategies produce equal performance improvement.