• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.76-87
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• 2014

Today the energy consumption of ICT networks is about 10% of the worldwide power consumption and is predicted to increase remarkably in the near future. For this reason, this paper studies energy saving strategies assuring the network-level QoS. In the strategies, the energy consumption of NIC(network interface card) on both endpoint of links decreases by selecting links and making them sleep when the total traffic volume of the IP network is lower than a threshold. In this paper, we propose a heuristic routing algorithm based on so-called delegating/delegated routers, and evaluate its characteristics using computer simulation considering network-level QoS. The selection of sleep links is determined in terms of the number of traffic paths (called min_used path) or the amount of traffics(called min_used traffic) through those kinks. To our experiment, the min_used traffic method shows a little better energy saving but the increased path length compared to the min_used path method. Those two methods have better energy saving characteristics than the random method. This paper confirms that the delegating/delegated router-based routing algorithm results in energy saving effects and sustains network-level QoS in IP networks.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.626-634
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• 2004

In a client-server model, network server systems suffer from both heavy communication and computational loads. While communication channels become increasingly speedy, the existing protocol stack architectures still include mainly three performance bottlenecks of protocol stack processing, system call, and network interrupt overheads. To address these obstacles, in this paper we present a host-independent network system where a network interface card (NIC) is utilized in an efficient manner. First, by offloading network-related portion to the NIC, the host can fully utilize its processing power for other useful purposes. Second, it eliminates the system call overhead, such as context-switching and memory copy operations, since the host communicates with the NIC through its user-level libraries. Third, it a] so reduces the network interrupt operation count as the host handles the interrupt in a segment instead of a packet. The experimental results show that the proposed network system reduces the host CPU overhead for communication system by 68-71%. It also shows that the proposed system improves the communication speed by 11-83% under heavy computational and communication load conditions.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.388-392
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• 2000

An on-line glucose flow injection analysis system was developed and used for the automatic analysis and addition of glucose in the cultivationof a Saccharomyces cerevisiae in a korean paper digestion wastewater in order to increase the cell concentration. The system was composed of a ceramic sampler a sampling valve an injection valve an immobilized glucose oxidase column a debbble a flow cell with platinum electrodes a potentiostat a computer and interface system and tubing pumps. The glucose concentration of the wastewater medium was mainitained at the low concentration of $176{\pm}31 mg/L$ with the on-line FIA system and by adding glucose and $>(NH_4)_2S0_4$ the cell concentration as total cell count can be increased by 3.1times.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.321-326
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• 1993

Recently, microcomputer technology has been developed rapidly and it provides not only graphic user interface that can be fraendly accessable but also large storage capacity to han- dle much hospital information. Almost all the order communication system for hospital has been developed under the concept of host and terminal environment since last 20 years. However, host-terminal system has not been successful in korea simply because most of physicians prescibe for rrlany patients a day(sometimes more than 150 patients a day). Also, under the host-terminal environment, programs are not friendly implemented for users. Since March 1991, we had developed order communication system for out-patients(named YONSEI-PC) using personal computer(PC) and local area network(LAN) . Since September 1992, we has applied succesfully in the Yonsei Cardiovascular Center, Sevrance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine. This system consisted with Server and Clients which is communicated through LAN(Ethernet). The system also use the Host computer(IBM 9221 170) as a data bank and communicates to the Server with emulation card(3270 emulator, Interlink Inc., Korea) . After introducing this system, it enables patients to receive drugs witllin 20 minutes after prescription of 300-400 patients per day and it seemed to be effective system not to reduce waiting time for the patients but also to remove charge-troubling(due to His-entry of prescription) . This system also seems to be effective in terms of office automatism for hospital management. However users, usually physitions, required more friendly and easy system to operate and we thought that the most important one to successfully introduce order communication computer system in the hospital is user interface.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.323-328
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• 2008

Inflatable Mouse is a volume-adjustable user interface. It can be inflated up to the volume of a familiar mouse, but be deflated and stored flat in a PC card slot of a laptop computer when not in use. Inflatable Mouse functions just like a typical mouse; moreover, it provides new interaction techniques by sensing the air pressure in the balloon of the mouse. It also addresses some issues associated with pressure-sensing interactions such as the lack of bi-directional control and the lack of effective feedback. Moreover, it can be used as both a control tool and a display tool. In this paper, the design of an Inflatable Mouse prototype is described and potential application scenarios such as zooming in/out and fast scrolling using pressure control are explained. We also discuss the potential use of Inflatable Mouse as an emotional communication tool.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.444-457
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• 2014

This paper presents the design and realization of a digital PV simulator with a Push-Pull Forward (PPF) circuit based on the principle of modular hardware and configurable software. A PPF circuit is chosen as the main circuit to restrain the magnetic biasing of the core for a DC-DC converter and to reduce the spike of the turn-off voltage across every switch. Control and I/O interface based on a personal computer (PC) and multifunction data acquisition card, can conveniently achieve the data acquisition and configuration of the control algorithm and interface due to the abundant software resources of computers. In addition, the control program developed in Matlab/Simulink can conveniently construct and adjust both the models and parameters. It can also run in real-time under the external mode of Simulink by loading the modules of the Real-Time Windows Target. The mathematic models of the Push-Pull Forward circuit and the digital PV simulator are established in this paper by the state-space averaging method. The pole-zero cancellation technique is employed and then its controller parameters are systematically designed based on the performance analysis of the root loci of the closed current loop with $k_i$ and $R_L$ as variables. A fuzzy PI controller based on the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model is applied to regulate the controller parameters self-adaptively according to the change of $R_L$ and the operating point of the PV simulator to match the controller parameters with $R_L$. The stationary and dynamic performances of the PV simulator are tested by experiments, and the experimental results show that the PV simulator has the merits of a wide effective working range, high steady-state accuracy and good dynamic performances.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.102-110
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• 2006

This paper explains the design and development of the stand-alone high sound quality Internet Radio system, which is aimed for a small embedded type audio device rather than a general PC type. This device is designed to work with an Internet connection. This kind of system is not standardized so far, and also the related algorithm is not open to the public. So it is necessary to analyze several receiving algorithms of current radio receivers, and develop our own hardware in order to overcome these obstacles, finally to get the high quality of sound radio. The main electronic components of this Internet Radio are TCP/IP interfaces, an audio MP3 decoder, an I/O interface, and a Flash Memory Card with advanced audio multicasting for the next-generation Internet Radio. Basic structures and implementation issues of the next-generation most-versatile digital music player, and Internet Radio receivers, are discussed.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.234-240
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose the method in which a stream of multimedia data simultaneously transfers to the main memory and the multimedia processor from the network interface card using a conventional system bus. The proposed method can reduce the input/output time of multimedia data and improve the data stream in the system bus. Also, we compared the number of system bus accesses, bus cycles and data transmission time to the number of participants between the proposed method and the conventional methods in the multi-party video conference systems. The comparison results of performance anticipate that the number of bus accesses of the proposed method was reduced by 50%, and the total transmission time was reduced by 75% as much as the conventional method regardless of the relation of the participant numbers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.1383-1386
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• 2001

Internet 이용자의 급격한 증가와 광대역 통신망(B-ISDN) 구축의 확산에 따라 ATM(Asynchronous Transfer Mode)망 접속장치의 큰 수요가 기대되며, 또한 ATM망 접속장치의 성능 향상도 요구되고 있다. 기존의 연구들은 컴퓨터 프로그램의 메모리에 대한 참조가 지역적이라는 특성을 이용한 가상 메모리의 효율적인 페이지 교체 알고리즘 및 캐쉬 처리 방안들이 진행되어 왔다. 본 논문은 ATM 프로토콜 프로세서를 설계하는데 있어 네트워크 트래픽의 지역성(Locality of Reference)을 고려한 캐쉬 메모리 구조를 적용하여 보다 향상된 ATM 셀 수신이 가능하도록 한다. ATM 셀의 가상 패스 식별자/가상 채널 식별자(VPI/VCI)를 캐쉬 처리함으로써, 패킷을 분해, 재조립(Segmentation and Reassembly)할 때 관련 테이블의 검색 시간을 줄일 수 있다. 캐쉬 메모리 적용으로 인한 성능 향상을 평가하기 위해 ATM NIC 프로세서와 내부 캐시 메모리 그리고, 외부 SRAM 사이에 셀 수신 정보의 Read 와 Write에 드는 시간 비용(System Clock Cycle)을 캐시의 Hit 또는 Miss 등에 따라 구분하고, 이를 기반으로 한 시뮬레이터에 3 종류의 ATM 셀 스트림을 가하여 각각에 대해 평균 셀 처리시간, 데이터 버스의 트래픽 비율 그리고, 히트율의 3가지 평가요소를 측정하고, 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.113-117
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• 2007

The study was performed on the development of system in which the bead width can be controlled. In order to control the bead width, we designed the automatic seam tracking device by attaching the probe type strain gauge sensor, motor driving slide and encoder to check the moving distance, and interface card connected MCU(80Cl96KC) upside the speed controllable carriage. Seam tracking experiments were done by changing the bead width. We compared and analyzed the sampling data which were obtained by output voltage of strain gauge sensor and rotary encoder pulse every 50ms.