• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권6A호
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• pp.341-350
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 시공간 블록 부호 송신 다이버시티 기법(STBC-TD)이 적용된 WCDMA 하향 링크에서 이동 평균(Moving Average) 필터 구조의 채널 추정기에 대해 성능 평가를 하였다. 또한 FIR(Finite Impulse Response) 필터 구조의 채널 추정기에서 발생하는 메모리 요구 문제와 채널 추정 지연 시간 문제를 해결하기 위해 IIR(Infinite Impulse Response) 필터 구조를 제시하고 이에 대한 성능 평가 및 비교를 하였다. 컴퓨터 모의 실험 결과 일반적으로 STBC-TD 기법이 적용된 경우 두 구조 모두 이동국의 속도가 저속일 때 상당한 성능 개선이 발생하였다. 이동평균 필터 구조의 채널 추정기는 STBC-TD 기법을 적용함으로써 성능 개선과 함께 필터의 최적 탭 수가 감소되고 이로 인해 채널 추정 지연 시간과 수신단의 복잡도를 줄일 수 있었다. 또한 IIR 필터 구조의 채널 추정기는 이동평균 필터 구조에 비해 메모리 요구 문제와 추정 지연 시간 문제가 작은 장점을 가지지만 IIR 필터 내부의 계수는 이동국의 속도 변화에 매우 민감하며 따라서 최적의 IIR 필터 계수 설정이 중요한 고려 사항이다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2008

A cross-sectional study involving 400 mothers was conducted in the Manya Krobo district of Ghana with the objective of studying household dietary practices, quality of diets and family nutritional status of rural Ghana, A combination of methods, including structured interviews using questionnaire, dietary assessments and anthropometry was used to collect data for the study. The data obtained was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 10 in Windows. Means and standard deviations were generated for continuous variables and frequency distribution for categorical variables. Most women consumed meals three times a day but only a few (12.5%) cooked all three meals at home. Breakfast and lunch were the two main meals purchased from food vendors. The most frequently consumed food items on daily basis were the starchy staples, maize, fish, pepper, onion, tomato and palm fruits. The nutritional qualities of diets were poor in terms of calcium and the B-vitamins. A significant proportion of the women were nutritionally at risk of being either underweight (12%), overweight (17%) or obese (5%). For adequate nutrition in this population, nutrition education intervention programs aimed at improving nutrient intake through improved diet diversity and increased use of local foods rich in calcium and the B-vitamins needs to be undertaken. There is also the need to intensify education on excessive weight gain and its attendant health problems in the area.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.924-944
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• 2014

This paper investigates the power allocation and outage performance of MIMO full-duplex relaying (MFDR), based on orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC), in cognitive radio systems. OSTBC transmission is used as a simple means to achieve multi-antenna diversity gain. Cognitive MFDR systems not only have the advantage of increasing spectral efficiency through spectrum sharing, but they can also extend coverage through the use of relays. In cognitive MFDR systems, the primary user experiences interference from the secondary source and relay simultaneously, owing to full duplexing. It is therefore necessary to optimize the transmission powers at the secondary source and relay. In this paper, we propose an optimal power allocation (OPA) scheme based on minimizing the outage probability in cognitive MFDR systems. We also analyse the outage probability of the secondary user in noise-limited and interference-limited environments in Nakagami-m fading channels. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes achieve performance improvements in terms of reducing outage probability.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.48-53
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• 2014

수중음향통신은 시변동성으로 인하여 도플러 편이를 발생하고, 다중경로로 인하여 지연 확산의 특성을 갖는다. 이러한 채널 특성은 인접 심볼 간 간섭을 발생시켜 통신 성능을 저하시킨다. 통신 성능을 개선하기 위하여 시역전, 공간 다이버시티, 위상 추정기 및 등화기 등과 같은 다양한 기법이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 시변동성 다중경로로 인한 인접 심볼 간 간섭을 완화하는 방법으로 빔 형성 기반의 공간 필터 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 원하는 신호방향으로 빔을 조향하여 공간상의 신호를 분리하고, 배열 이득으로 신호 대 간섭 잡음비를 향상시키고 통신 성능을 개선한다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 각 홉에서 다중 안테나를 가지는 노드 간 채널 환경을 고려하여 가장 좋은 성능을 가지는 하나의 안테나와 하나의 중계기를 동시에 선택하는 시스템을 제안하며, 제안된 시스템의 성능을 분석한다. 다중 채널을 통해 다수의 수신 신호를 받아 MRC(Maximal Ratio Combining) 기법을 이용하여 다이버시티를 얻는 일반적인 시스템은 상대적으로 열악한 채널을 통과하는 신호 또한 수신하며, 이는 곧 시스템의 성능 저하로 이어지는 결과를 얻는다. 제안하는 시스템은 송신단-중계기, 중계기-수신단 간의 모든 채널 환경을 고려하여 가장 좋은 채널을 통해서만 데이터를 전송함으로써 열악한 채널을 통과하는 신호의 수신을 차단함으로써 성능을 향상시킨다. 따라서 가장 좋은 채널상의 안테나와 중계기를 동시에 선택하는 과정을 거치며, 이를 구현하기 위해 단일 중계기만을 선택하고 각 홉에서는 단일 안테나만을 이용할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.107-114
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• 2017

Implementation of crop improvement programs relies on genetic diversity. To overcome the limited occurrence of natural mutations, researchers and breeders applied diverse methods, ranging from conventional crossing to classical bio-technologies. Earlier generations of knockout and gain-of-function technologies often result in incomplete gene disruption or random insertions of transgenes into plant genomes. The newly developed editing tool, CRISPR/Cas9 system, not only provides a powerful platform to efficiently modify target traits, but also broadens the scope and prospects of genome editing. Customized Cas9/guide RNA (gRNA) systems suitable for efficient genomic modification of mammalian cells or plants have been reported. Following successful demonstration of this technology in mammalian cells, CRISPR/Cas9 was successfully adapted in plants, and accumulating evidence of its feasibility has been reported in model plants and major crops. Recently, a modified version of CRISPR/Cas9 with added novel functions has been developed that enables programmable direct irreversible conversion of a target DNA base. In this review, we summarized the milestone applications of CRISPR/Cas9 in plants with a focus on major crops. We also present the implications of an improved version of this technology in the current plant breeding programs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.4738-4758
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• 2017

Resource allocation plays a crucial role in multiuser multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems to improve overall system performance. While previously proposed resource allocation algorithms are mainly designed from the point of view of the information-theoretic, we formulate the resource allocation problem as an average bit error rate (BER) minimization problem subject to a total power constraint when considering employing realistic MIMO detection techniques. Subsequently, we derive the optimal subcarrier and power allocation algorithms for three types of well-known MIMO detectors, including the maximum likelihood (ML) detector, linear detectors, and successive interference cancellation (SIC) detectors. To reduce the complexity, we also propose a two-step suboptimal algorithm that separates subcarrier and power allocation for each detector. We also analyze the diversity gain of the proposed suboptimal algorithms for various MIMO detectors. Simulation results confirm that the proposed suboptimal algorithm for each detector can achieve a comparable performance with the optimal allocation with a much lower complexity. Moreover, it is shown that the suboptimal algorithms perform better than the conventional algorithms that are known in the literature.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.528-544
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• 2015

Base Station Cooperation (BSC) has been a promising technique for combating the Inter-Cell Interference (ICI) by exchanging information through a high-speed optical fiber back-haul to increase the diversity gain. In this paper, we propose a novel pilot symbol assisted data fusion scheme for distributed Uplink BSC (UBSC) based on Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm. Furthermore, the proposed scheme exploits the pre-defined pilot symbols as the sample of transmitted symbols to constitute a sub-optimal Weight Calculation (WC) model. To circumvent the non-linear programming problem of the proposed sub-optimal model, DE algorithm is employed for searching the proper fusion weights. Compared with the existing equal weights based soft combining scheme, the proposed scheme can adaptively adjust the fusion weights according to the accuracy of cooperative information, which remains the relatively low computational complexity and back-haul traffic. Performance analysis and simulation results show that, the proposed scheme can significantly improve the system performance with the pilot settings of the existing standards.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권9호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

이 논문에서는 다중 사용자 환경에서 성능을 향상시키는 MIMO(Multi-Input Multi-Out)-OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템의 수신기 구조와 이 구조에 적합한 적응 빔 형성기법을 제안하고 성능을 분석한다. MIMO-OFDM수신기에 Pre-FFT적응 빔 형성기법을 제안 함으로서 원하는 사용자에게 송신 안테나 수만큼 빔 패턴이 형성되어 CCI에 의한 간섭이 제거되고 다이바시티 이득을 얻을 수 있어 MIMO-OFDM의 성능이 크게 향상된다. MIMO-OFDM 시스템에 제안된 적응 빔 형성기를 적용할 경우 성능 개선 효과를 모의 실험을 통하여 확인한다.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.51-61
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• 1999

Small apartment housings in Korea are dissatisfied due to the growing areas and changing lifestyle of the residents. Many of them currently confronted with slum areas and kinds of housing stock accumulated much more in Korean contexts. An extention of the existing small houses could be an adaptation model to the increasing requirement standards of the house residents. The new model could support diverse identification of the dwelling model in a settlement and many residents could be satisfied with the settlement. This paper deals with the unification typology of two dwelling units to one in order to remodel existing small apartment houses on the 15-pyung areas (N type) constructed by Korea National Housing Corporation in Naju. The proposed type of the merging of the dwellings remove concrete panel walls, make a path through balcony and attach a living areas to the front of the houses in order to make a circulation between the dwellings. A stair hall can be located in-between or inside the merged houses. It can also enhance privacy against conflictive activities in a house and possibly provide space appropriate for three-generation living. It can be devided for the multi-family use. Finally, the merging types of two dwelling units into one can be used as a device to get rid of the monotonous characteristics and gain diversity in the declining stock housing.