• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2014

A new cooperative MAC protocol called the busy tone cooperative medium access control (BT-COMAC) protocol is proposed to overcome the drawbacks and maximize the advantages of existing schemes. This scheme uses a new metric called decibel power to decide an appropriate helper node. Using received power strength is more efficient in selecting an appropriate helper node, especially in a densely populated network, than the effective transmission rates used in conventional schemes. All communication nodes in a communication service area are assumed to move independently. Two performance metrics are used: System throughput and channel access delay. A performance evaluation of the BT-COMAC protocol is conducted using a computer simulation over a slow fading wireless channel, and its performance results are compared with those of four existing schemes. The numerical results show that the BT-COMAC protocol improves the system throughput by approximately 15% as compared to the best existing scheme.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.587-599
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• 2021

The modified-ECOMAC approach to monitor and investigate health of structure in marine platforms was evaluated in this research. The material properties of structure were defined based on the real platform located in Persian Gulf. The nonlinear time-history analyses were undertaken using the marine natural waves. The modified-ECOMAC approach was designed to act as the solution of the best sensor placement according to structural dynamic behavior of structure. This novel method uses nonlinear time-history analysis results as an exact seismic response despite the common COMAC algorithms utilize the eigenvalue responses. The processes of modified-ECOMAC criteria were designed and developed by author of this paper as a toolbox of Matlab. The Results show that utilizing an efficient ECOMAC method in SHM process leads to detecting the critical weak points of sensitive marine platforms to make better decision about them. The statistical results indicate that considering modified ECOMAC based on seismic waves analysis has an acceptable accuracy on identify the sensor location. The average of statistical comparison of COMAC and ECOMAC via modal and integrated analysis, had a high MAE of 0.052 and RSME of 0.057 and small R2 of 0.504, so there is significant difference between them.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.1811-1819
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 무선통신에서의 시스템 성능을 향상시키기 위해 협력통신에서 매우 중요한 도움노드를 선정하는 방법에 대하여 연구를 수행하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 BT-COMAC (busy tone cooperative MAC) 프로토콜은 사후(reactive) 도움노드 선정기법을 채용하였으며, 기존 기법의 장점을 극대화하면서 단점을 보완한 새로운 협력통신용 MAC 프로토콜이다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 성능평가를 수행하였으며, 시스템 처리량과 채널 액세스 지연시간을 성능평가 척도로 사용하였다. 모든 통신노드들이 통신영역 내에서 독자적으로 움직이는 이동성 모델을 사용하였으며, 슬로우 페이딩 채널 환경에서 수신 전력을 기반으로 전송속도를 결정하는 방법을 사용하였다. 성능평가 결과 본 논문에서 제안한 기법이 기존 방식에 비해 시스템 처리량 측면에서 최대 15% 정도 성능개선을 달성한 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권3B호
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• pp.421-430
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• 2010

최근 통신망이 광대역화 됨에 따라 다양한 양방향 TV 서비스를 제공하는 IPTV(Internet Protocol Television)서비스가 증가하고 있다. 그러나 IPTV의 셋톱박스와 스마트 카드 간에 전달되는 데이터가 셋톱박스 내에서 대부분 전달되기 때문에 맥코맥 핵 공격을 이용하여 불법적으로 콘텐츠 내용에 접근하여 합법적인 권한을 획득하는 불법 사용자를 완벽하게 예방할 수 없다. 이 논문에서는 스마트카드로부터 셋톱박스까지 연결된 데이터 라인을 불법 사용자가 동일 기종의 다른 셋톱박스를 이용하여 불법적으로 IPTV 서비스의 접근 허가를 받으려는 맥코맥 핵공격(McComac Hack Attack)을 예방하기 위한 셋톱박스 접근 보안 모델을 제안한다. 제안 모델은 사전에 셋톱박스에 사용가능한 스마트 카드의 상태정보를 등록하여 불법적으로 접근허가를 승인받으려는 사용자를 인증서버에서 점검하여 점검 결과를 셋톱박스에 통보하여 불법 사용자를 사전에 예방한다. 특히, 제안 모델은 Pseudo 랜덤 함수를 통해 생성된 임의의 난수와 비밀값을 통해 이웃 링크 설립과 상호 인증 과정에 사용되는 공개키에 적용하여 셋탑박스에 대한 보안을 강화하고 있다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.451-468
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• 2020

Although model updating has been widely applied using a specific optimization algorithm with a single objective function using frequencies, mode shapes or frequency response functions, there are few studies that investigate hybrid optimization algorithms for real structures. Many of them did not take into account the sensitivity of the updating parameters to the model outputs. Therefore, in this paper, optimization algorithms and sensitivity analysis are applied for model updating of a real cable-stayed bridge, i.e., the Kien bridge in Vietnam, based on experimental data. First, a global sensitivity analysis using Morris method is employed to find out the most sensitive parameters among twenty surveyed parameters based on the outputs of a Finite Element (FE) model. Then, an objective function related to the differences between frequencies, and mode shapes by means of MAC, COMAC and eCOMAC indices, is introduced. Three metaheuristic algorithms, namely Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA), Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO) and hybrid PSOGSA algorithm, are applied to minimize the difference between simulation and experimental results. A laboratory pipe and Kien bridge are used to validate the proposed approach. Efficiency and reliability of the proposed algorithms are investigated by comparing their convergence rate, computational time, errors in frequencies and mode shapes with experimental data. From the results, PSO and PSOGSA show good performance and are suitable for complex and time-consuming analysis such as model updating of a real cable-stayed bridge. Meanwhile, GSA shows a slow convergence for the same number of population and iterations as PSO and PSOGSA.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.15-29
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• 2019

This paper addresses the problem of damage detection in suspension bridge hangers, with an emphasis on the modal flexibility method. It aims at evaluating the capability and the accuracy of the modal flexibility method to detect and locate single and multiple damages in suspension bridge hangers, with different level of severity and various locations. The study is conducted numerically and experimentally on a laboratory suspension bridge mock-up. First, the covariance-driven stochastic subspace identification is used to extract the modal parameters of the bridge from experimental data, using only output measurements data from ambient vibration. Then, the method is demonstrated for several damage scenarios and compared against other classical methods, such as: Coordinate Modal Assurance Criterion (COMAC), Enhanced Coordinate Modal Assurance Criterion (ECOMAC), Mode Shape Curvature (MSC) and Modal Strain Energy (MSE). The paper demonstrates the relative merits and shortcomings of these methods which play a significant role in the damage detection ofsuspension bridges.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.4447-4464
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• 2023

This paper focuses on the development of a new computational model of the CNESTEN's TRIGA Mark II research reactor using the 3D continuous energy Monte-Carlo code TRIPOLI-4 (T4). This new model was developed to assess neutronic simulations and determine quantities of interest such as kinetic parameters of the reactor, control rods worth, power peaking factors and neutron flux distributions. This model is also a key tool used to accurately design new experiments in the TRIGA reactor, to analyze these experiments and to carry out sensitivity and uncertainty studies. The geometry and materials data, as part of the MCNP reference model, were used to build the T4 model. In this regard, the differences between the two models are mainly due to mathematical approaches of both codes. Indeed, the study presented in this article is divided into two parts: the first part deals with the development and the validation of the T4 model. The results obtained with the T4 model were compared to the existing MCNP reference model and to the experimental results from the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR). Different core configurations were investigated via simulations to test the computational model reliability in predicting the physical parameters of the reactor. As a fairly good agreement among the results was deduced, it seems reasonable to assume that the T4 model can accurately reproduce the MCNP calculated values. The second part of this study is devoted to the sensitivity and uncertainty (S/U) studies that were carried out to quantify the nuclear data uncertainty in the multiplication factor k_eff. For that purpose, the T4 model was used to calculate the sensitivity profiles of the k_eff to the nuclear data. The integrated-sensitivities were compared to the results obtained from the previous works that were carried out with MCNP and SCALE-6.2 simulation tools and differences of less than 5% were obtained for most of these quantities except for the C-graphite sensitivities. Moreover, the nuclear data uncertainties in the k_eff were derived using the COMAC-V2.1 covariance matrices library and the calculated sensitivities. The results have shown that the total nuclear data uncertainty in the k_eff is around 585 pcm using the COMAC-V2.1. This study also demonstrates that the contribution of zirconium isotopes to the nuclear data uncertainty in the k_eff is not negligible and should be taken into account when performing S/U analysis.

• Spatial Information Research
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.81-90
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• 2014

본 연구는 선행연구에서 주요요인으로 도출되었던 가로의 물리적 환경, 접근성, 밀도, 다양성 등의 보행증진요인을 기반으로 가로차원의 변수가 가로활성화에 영향을 미치는지 분석해 보았다. 또한 Jacobs(1961)가 중요하다고 언급했던 업종의 다양성과 Ray Oldenburg(1989), Richard MacCormac(1983)이 주장했던 특정 공간이 가로활성화에 미치는 영향을 살펴보고자 하였다. 본 논문에서는 가로활성화 영향요인 모형을 업종별 유형으로 구분하여 분석해 본 결과, Jacobs(1961)가 주장했던 기본적인 가로 환경, 접근성, 밀도, 다양성 등의 보행증진요인은 주중과 주말의 모형에서 거의 유사한 것으로 나타났지만, Ray Oldenburg(1989), Richard MacCormac(1983)이 주장했던 주요 업종은 주중과 주말에 따라 가로활성화에 영향을 주는 정도가 차이가 있음을 도출했다.