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Experimental Determination of Differential Fast Neutron Spectra in a Reactor using Threshold Detectors

  • Kim, Dong-Hoon
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.280-293
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    • 1972
  • The differential fast neutron spectra above 0.5 Mev at particular spatial positions in tile reactor(TRIGA MARK-II) core has been determined experimentally using several threshold activation detectors. The series expansion technique utilizing the concept of least squares optimization was used to obtain an approximate solution to the set of integral equations which are defined by the experimentally determined activation data. The influence of use of different weighting functions in the solution was analyzed in each measurement. To carry out the necessary mathematical calculations, a computer code for the UNIVAC 1106 digital computer has been prepared. Good agreement was achieved between the differential fast neutron spectra determined in this work and the computed flux determined independently using space-independent multigroup transport theory.

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Simulation and Performance Assessment of a Geiger-mode Imaging LADAR System (가이거모드 영상 LADAR 시스템의 시뮬레이션과 성능예측)

  • Kim, Seongjoon;Lee, Impyeong;Lee, Youngcheol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.687-698
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    • 2012
  • LADAR systems can rapidly acquire 3D point clouds by sampling the target surfaces using laser pulses. Such point clouds are widely used for diverse applications such as DSM/DTM generation, forest biomass estimation, target detection, wire avoidance and so on. Many kinds of LADAR systems have been developed with their respective purposes and applications. Particularly, Geiger mode imaging LADAR systems are increasingly utilized since they are energy efficient thank to extremely sensitive detectors incorporated into the systems. The purpose of this research is the performance assessment of a Geiger mode imaging LADAR system based on simulation with the real system parameters. We thus developed a simulation method of such a LADAR system by modeling its geometric, radiometric, optic and electronic aspects. Based on the simulation, we performed the performance assessment of a newly designed system to derive the outlier ratio and false alarm rate expected during its operation in almost real environment with reasonable system parameters. The proposed simulation and performance assessment method will be effectively utilized for system design and optimization, and test data generation.

A study on the optimization of light weight high efficiency shield for gamma-ray imaging detector (감마선 영상화 장치용 경량 고효율 차폐체 최적설계에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Gang-teck;Lee, Nam-ho;Hwang, Young-gwan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.773-774
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    • 2016
  • In this study, we perform the weight reduction and miniaturization of the shielding element that is applied for gamma-ray detectors for imaging of gamma-ray source. Through previous studies, we implemented a lead-based shielding element that represents the shielding effectiveness and performance of commercially available gamma-ray imaging apparatus similar to the shielding body. In this paper, we designed a tungsten-based shield for weight reduction and miniaturization than lead-based shield. We performed the MCNP simulation for shield design and then we obtained the results of reducing the weight of the 17% and 51% of the volume.

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Simplified Multilayer Perceptron for Interference Cancellation of CDMA Forward Link (CDMA 하향링크의 간섭제거를 위한 새로운 다계층 신경망의 복잡도 개선에 관한 연구)

  • 이봉희;김종민;이상규;한영수;황인관
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.28 no.3C
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    • pp.271-278
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we propose a new MLP based detector which has low circuit complexity and fast adaptation capability for CDMA downlink in frequency selective fading, and is easy for parameter optimization. The simplified structure of the proposed MLP is designed by making use of transmission characteristics of downlinks such that all users signals transmitted over same propagation paths and the number of channelization codes are limited. Significant performance improvement over Rake receiver can be obtained with the proposed MLP and the efficiency of the proposed MLP was compared with that of conventional MLP.

Minimum Distance based Precoder Design for General MIMO Systems using Gram Matrix

  • Chen, Zhiyong;Xu, Xiaodong
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.634-646
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    • 2015
  • Assuming perfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and receiver, the optimization problem of maximizing the minimum Euclidean distance between two received signals by a linear precoder is considered for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with arbitrary dimensions and arbitraryary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) input. A general precoding framework is first presented based on the Gram matrix, which is shown for 2-dimensional (2-D) and 3-dimensional (3-D) MIMO systems when employing the ellipse expanding method (EEM). An extended precoder for high-dimensional MIMO system is proposed following the precoding framework, where the Gram matrix for high-dimensional precoding matrix can be generated through those chosen from 2-D and 3-D results in association with a permutation matrix. A complexity-reduced maximum likelihood detector is also obtained according to the special structure of the proposed precoder. The analytical and numerical results indicate that the proposed precoder outperforms the other precoding schemes in terms of both minimum distance and bit error rate (BER).

Analysis of Improved Convergence and Energy Efficiency on Detecting Node Selection Problem by Using Parallel Genetic Algorithm (병렬유전자알고리즘을 이용한 탐지노드 선정문제의 에너지 효율성과 수렴성 향상에 관한 해석)

  • Seong, Ki-Taek
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.953-959
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    • 2012
  • There are a number of idle nodes in sensor networks, these can act as detector nodes for anomaly detection in the network. For detecting node selection problem modeled as optimization equation, the conventional method using centralized genetic algorithm was evaluated. In this paper, a method to improve the convergence of the optimal value, while improving energy efficiency as a method of considering the characteristics of the network topology using parallel genetic algorithm is proposed. Through simulation, the proposed method compared with the conventional approaches to the convergence of the optimal value was improved and was found to be energy efficient.

Optimal Strategies for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Multiple Cross-over Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Hu, Hang;Xu, Youyun;Liu, Zhiwen;Li, Ning;Zhang, Hang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.6 no.12
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    • pp.3061-3080
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    • 2012
  • To improve the sensing performance, cooperation among secondary users can be utilized to collect space diversity. In this paper, we focus on the optimization of cooperative spectrum sensing in which multiple cognitive users efficiently cooperate to achieve superior detection accuracy with minimum sensing error probability in multiple cross-over cognitive radio networks. The analysis focuses on two fusion strategies: soft information fusion and hard information fusion. Under soft information fusion, the optimal threshold of the energy detector is derived in both noncooperative single-user and cooperative multiuser sensing scenarios. Under hard information fusion, the optimal randomized rule and the optimal decision threshold are derived according to the rule of minimum sensing error (MSE). MSE rule shows better performance on improving the final false alarm and detection probability simultaneously. By simulations, our proposed strategy optimizes the sensing performance for each cognitive user which is randomly distributed in the multiple cross-over cognitive radio networks.

A Study on Function which supported GPU and Function Structure Optimization for AI Inference (서버리스 플랫폼에서 GPU 지원 및 인공지능 모델 추론 에 적합한 함수 구조에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Dong-Hyun;Kim, Dongmin;Choi, Young-Yoon;Han, Seung-Ho;Jeon, Gi-Man;Son, Jae-Gi
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2019.10a
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    • pp.19-20
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    • 2019
  • 서버리스 프레임워크(Serverless Framework)는 마이크로서비스 아키텍처의 이론을 클라우드와 컨테이너를 기반으로 구현한 것으로 아마존의 AWS(Amazon Web Service)와 같은 퍼블릭 클라우드 플랫폼이 서비스됨에 따라 활용도 높아지고 있다. 하지만 현재까지의 플랫폼들은 GPU 와 같은 하드웨어의 의존성을 가진 인공지능 모델의 서비스에는 지원이 부족하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 컨테이너 기반의 오픈소스 서버리스 플랫폼을 대상으로 엔비디어-도커와 k8s-device-plugin 을 적용하여 GPU 활용이 가능한 서버리스 플랫폼을 구현하였다. 또한 인공지능 모델이 컨테이너에서 구동될 때 반복되는 가중치 로드를 줄이기 위한 구조를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 구현된 서버리스 플랫폼은 객체 검출 모델인 SSD(Single Shot Multibox Detector) 모델을 이용하여 성능 비교 실험을 진행하였으며, 그 결과 인공지능 모델이 적용된 서버리스 플랫폼의 함수 응답 시간이 개선되었음을 확인하였다.

Real-time identification of the separated lanthanides by ion-exchange chromatography for no-carrier-added Ho-166 production

  • Aran Kim;Kanghyuk Choi
    • Journal of Radiopharmaceuticals and Molecular Probes
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 2021
  • No-carrier-added holmium-166 (n.c.a 166Ho) separation is performed based on the results of separation conditions using stable isotopes dysprosium (Dy) and holmium (Ho) to minimize radioactive waste from separation optimization procedures. Successful separation of two adjacent lanthanides was achieved by cation-exchange chromatography using a sulfonated resin in the H+ form (BP-800) and α-hydroxyisobutyric acid (α-HIBA) as eluent. For the identification process after separation of stable isotopes, the use of chromogenic reagents alternatively enables on-line detection because the lanthanides are hardly absorb light in the UV-vis region or exhibit radioactivity. Four different chromogenic reagents were pre-tested to evaluate suitable coloring reagents, of which 4-(2-Pyridylazo)resorcinol is the most recommendable considering the sensitivity and specificity for lanthanides. Lanthanide radioisotopes (RI) were monitored for separation with an RI detector using a lab-made separation LC system. Under the proper separation conditions, the n.c.a 166Ho was effectively obtained from a large amount of 100 mg dysprosium target within 2 hrs.

Design and optimization of thermal neutron activation device based on 5 MeV electron linear accelerator

  • Mahnoush Masoumi;S. Farhad Masoudi;Faezeh Rahmani
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.11
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    • pp.4246-4251
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    • 2023
  • The optimized design of a Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) system, including Delayed Gamma NAA (DGNAA) and Prompt Gamma NAA (PGNAA), has been proposed in this research based on Mevex Linac with 5 MeV electron energy and 50 kW power as a neutron source. Based on the MCNPX 2.6 simulation, the optimized configuration contains; tungsten as an electron-photon converter, BeO as a photoneutron target, BeD2 and plexiglass as moderators, and graphite as a reflector and collimator, as well as lead as a gamma shield. The obtained thermal neutron flux at the beam port is equal to 2.06 × 109 (# /cm2.s). In addition, using the optimized neutron beam, the detection limit has been calculated for some elements such as H-1, B-10, Na-23, Al-27, and Ti-48. The HPGe Coaxial detector has been used to measure gamma rays emitted by nuclides in the sample. By the results, the proposed system can be an appropriate solution to measure the concentration and toxicity of elements in different samples such as food, soil, and plant samples.