• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.343-347
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• 2008

Wakeup schemes that turn off sensors' radio when communication is not necessary have great potential in energy saving. At the start of each beacon interval in the IEEE 802.11 power saving mode specified for DCF, each node periodically wakes up for duration called the ATIM Window. However, in the power saving mechanism specified in IEEE 802.11, all nodes use the same ATIM window size. Since the ATIM window size critically affects throughput and energy consumption, a fixed ATIM window does not perform well in all situations. This paper proposes an adaptive mechanism to dynamically choose an ATIM window size according to network condition. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the IEEE 802.11 power saving mechanism in terms of the amount of power consumed and the packet delivery ratio.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.329-337
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• 2016

With the increasing deployment of distributed generators in the distribution system, a very large search space is required when dynamic programming (DP) is applied for the optimized dispatch schedules of voltage and reactive power controllers such as on-load tap changers, distributed generators, and shunt capacitors. This study proposes a new optimal voltage and reactive power scheduling method based on dynamic programming with a heuristic searching space reduction approach to reduce the computational burden. This algorithm is designed to determine optimum dispatch schedules based on power system day-ahead scheduling, with new control objectives that consider the reduction of active power losses and maintain the receiving power factor. In this work, to reduce the computational burden, an advanced voltage sensitivity index (AVSI) is adopted to reduce the number of load-flow calculations by estimating bus voltages. Moreover, the accumulated switching operation number up to the current stage is applied prior to the load-flow calculation module. The computational burden can be greatly reduced by using dynamic programming. Case studies were conducted using the IEEE 30-bus test systems and the simulation results indicate that the proposed method is more effective in terms of saving electric charges and improving the voltage profile than loss minimization.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제2권7호
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• pp.283-292
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• 2013

기존 서버 클러스터에서는 고성능을 보장하기 위해, 실시간 요청 수량에 관계없이 모든 서버를 항상 On 한다. 그 방법에서는 QoS를 보장하지만 일부 서버들이 Idle할 때 서버 전력을 낭비하게 된다. 서버들이 소모하는 에너지를 절약하기 위해, 서버가 필요하지 않을 경우 해당 서버의 전력을 Off 하게 하는 서버 전력 제어 방법이 제안되었다. 서버 전력 제어 방법은 서버의 Power가 실제로 어느 시점에 Off 되느냐에 따라 정적인 방법과 동적인 방법이 있다. 정적인 방법에서는 특정 서버가 Off 하기로 결정된 다음 일정 시간 지연 후 그 서버가 Off 된다. 동적인 방법에서는 그 서버에서 수행중인 모든 서비스가 종료된 다음에 해당 서버가 Off 된다. 이는 가변 시간 지연 후 서버가 Off 되는 방법에 해당된다. 정적 종료방식은 단점이 있다. 반복 실험을 통해 수작업으로 최적의 시간 지연을 알아내기 위해서는 많은 시간이 소요된다. 본 논문에서는 정적 종료 방식의 단점을 극복하는 동적 종료 방식을 제안한다. 제안된 방식은 최적의 지연 시간으로 자동적으로 접근하므로 좋은 전력 절약을 하면서 QoS를 보장하는 것을 가능하게 해준다. 30대의 PC 클러스터를 이용하여 실험이 수행되었다. 실험결과는 제안하는 동적 종료 방법이 기존의 정적 종료 방법과 비교할 때 에너지 절감측면에서는 비슷하지만 QoS 측면에서 우수함을 보여준다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.126-134
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• 2005

Reducing energy consumption in mobile hosts (MHs) is one of the most critical issues in wireles/mobile networks. IP paging protocol at network layer and power saving mechanism (PSM) at link layer are two core technologies to reduce the energy consumption of MHs. First, we investigate the energy efficiency of the current IEEE 802.11 power saving mechanism (PSM) when IP paging protocol is deployed over IEEE 802.11 networks. The result reveal that the current IEEE 802.11 PSM with a fixed wakeup interval (i.e., the static PSM) exhibits a degraded performance when it is integrated with IP paging protocol. Therefore, we propose an adaptive power saving mechanism in IEEE 802.11-based wireless IP networks. Unlike the static PSM, the adaptive PSM adjusts the wake-up interval adaptively depending on the session activity at IP layer. Specifically, the MH estimates the idle periods for incoming sessions based on the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) scheme and sets its wake-up interval dynamically by considering the estimated idle period and paging delay bound. For performance evaluation, we have conducted comprehensive simulations and compared the total cost and energy consumption, which are incurred in IP paging protocol in conjunction with various power saving mechanisms: The static PSM, the adaptive PSM, and the optimum PSM. Simulation results show that the adaptive PSM provides a closer performance to the optimum PSM than the static PSM.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.155-158
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• 2005

An invesitigation on power consumption of a mobile multimedia system using OFDM and MDVS technique is reported here. Analysis and simulation are performed to find the significances of proposed Microscopic Dynamic Voltage Scaling(MDVS) tehnique[4] on digital processor in terms of power saving. A study is also made to show power reduction in mobile multimedia system by incorporating OFDM modulation scheme in RF front-end. Finally, overall power consumption by functionally distinguished blocks ie. RF front-end, digital processor and human interface unit is shown here. Total power consumption is 8.2W for 2Mbps SD-quality WCDMA multimedia video service - the power consumption of digital processor is 3.9W(48%), the power consumption of RF front-end is 3.2W (36%), and the power consumption of interface is 1.8W(16%). Power saving of applying purposed MDVS technique is 35% in digital processor, and power saving of OFDM technique is 10-12dB in RF front-end.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제14C권6호
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• pp.475-480
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• 2007

최근 무선 네트워킹 장치들이 등장 하면서 제한된 배터리에 의존하는 무선 호스트들의 전력 절감은 중요한 이슈 가 되었다. 특히 Ad-Hoc에서 배터리는 제한된 에너지를 제공하기 때문에 무선 호스트에 의해서 소모되어지는 에너지의 양을 감소시키기 위한 기술은 대단히 중요하다. 특히 MAC 과 라우팅 에서 전력 절감을 이루기 위한 논문들이 기존에 발표 되었다. 이 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 표준의 DCF(Distributed Coordination Function)에서의 전력 절감 메카니즘을 향상 시킨 논문 이다. DCF를 위한 IEEE 802.11 전력 절감 메카니즘에서는 비콘 간격 이라는 시간으로 나누어지며 또한 이러한 각각의 비콘 간격이 시작될 때 각각의 노드들은 ATIM 창 동안 깨어 있어야 한다. 물론 모든 노드는 같은 시간에 깨어 있기 위해서는 동기화 되는 것이 필요하다. ATIM 창 동안 노드들은 비콘 기간 동안 깨어 있는 상태로 있을 것인지를 결정하기 위해서 control packet을 교환 한다. 이러한 ATIM 창 크기는 각각의 노드들의 전력 절감에 상당한 영향을 미친다. 따라서 이 논문은 ATIM 창 크기를 동적으로 증감시켜서 보다 에너지 효율을 발휘 하고자 하는 논문이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1393-1405
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• 2017

It is well known that duty-cycling control by dynamically adjusting the polling interval according to the traffic loads can effectively achieve power saving in wireless sensor networks. Thus, there has been a significant research effort in developing polling interval adaptation schemes. Especially, Dynamic Low Power Listening (DLPL) scheme is one of the most widely adopted open-looping polling interval adaptation techniques in wireless sensor networks. In DLPL scheme, if consecutive idle (busy) samplings reach a given fixed threshold, the polling interval is increased (decreased). However, due to the trial-and-error based approach, it may significantly deteriorate the system performance depending on given threshold parameters. In this paper, we propose a novel DLPL scheme, called SDL (Sequential hypothesis testing based Dynamic LPL), which employs sequential hypothesis testing to decide whether to change the polling interval conforming to various traffic conditions. Simulation results show that SDL achieves substantial power saving over state-of-the-art DLPL schemes.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2010년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.37 No.1(D)
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• pp.360-365
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a distributed algorithm for detecting dynamic event regions in wireless sensor network with the consideration on energy saving. Our model is that the sensing field is monitored by a large number of randomly distributed sensors with low-power battery and limited functionality, and that the event region is dynamic with motion or changing the shape. At any time that the event happens, we need some sensors awake to detect it and to wake up its k-hop neighbors to detect further events. Scheduling for the network to save the total power-cost or to maximize the monitoring time has been studied extensively. Our scheme is that some predetermined sensors, called critical sensors are awake all the time and when the event is detected by a critical sensor the sensor broadcasts to the neighbors to check their sensing area. Then the neighbors check their area and decide whether they wake up or remain in sleeping mode with certain criteria. Our algorithm uses only 2 bit of information in communication between sensors, thus the total communication cost is low, and the speed of detecting all event region is high. We adapt two kinds of measure for the wake-up decision. With suitable threshold values, our algorithm can be applied for many applications and for the trade-off between energy saving and the efficiency of event detection.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.428-430
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• 2006

This paper proposes a new means of performance optimization for multimedia algorithm utilizing the Microscopic DVS (Dynamic Voltage Scaling). The Microscopic DVS technique controls the operating frequency and the supply voltage levels dynamically according to the processing requirement for each frame of multimedia data. The huffman decoding algorithm of MPEG-2 AAC audio decoder is optimized to maximize the power saving efficiency of Microscopic DVS technique. The experimental results show the reduction of computational complexity by more than 30% and the reduction of power consumption by more than 17% compared with those of the conventionally fast method.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.544-546
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• 2006

This paper proposes a new means of performance optimization for multimedia algorithm utilizing the Microscopic DVS (Dynamic Voltage Scaling). The Microscopic DVS technique controls the operating frequency and the supply voltage levels dynamically according to the processing requirement for each frame of multimedia data. The huffman decoding algorithm of MPEG-2 AAC audio decoder is optimized to maximize the power saving efficiency of Microscopic DVS technique. The experimental results show the reduction of computational complexity by more than 30% and the reduction of power consumption by more than 17% compared with those of the conventionally fast method.