• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.3152-3165
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• 2012

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) often employ asynchronous MAC scheduling, which allows each sensor node to wake up independently without synchronizing with its neighbor nodes. However, this asynchronous scheduling may not deal with collisions due to hidden terminals effectively. Although most of the existing asynchronous protocols exploit a random back-off technique to resolve collisions, the random back-off cannot secure a receiver from potentially repetitive collisions and may lead to a substantial increase in the packet latency. In this paper, we propose a new collision resolution algorithm called Transient Coordinator (TC) for asynchronous WSN MAC protocols. TC resolves a collision on demand by ordering senders' transmissions when a receiver detects a collision. To coordinate the transmission sequence both the receiver and the collided senders perform handshaking to collect the information and to derive a collision-free transmission sequence, which enables each sender to exclusively access the channel. According to the simulation results, our scheme can improve the average per-node throughput by up to 19.4% while it also reduces unnecessary energy consumption due to repetitive collisions by as much as 91.1% compared to the conventional asynchronous MAC protocols. This demonstrates that TC is more efficient in terms of performance, resource utilization, and energy compared to the random back-off scheme in dealing with collisions for asynchronous WSN MAC scheduling.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.130-139
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• 2010

Environmental issues and the need to reduce energy consumption for lowering operating costs have pushed power efficiency to become one of the major issues of current research in the field of wireless networks. This paper addresses a number of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) precoding and scheduling techniques across the PHY and MAC layers that can operate under a reduced link budget and collectively improve the transmit power efficiency of a base station, while maintaining the same levels of service. Different MIMO transmission and precoding schemes proposed for LTE, achieving varying degrees of multiuser diversity in both the time, frequency as well as the space domain, are examined. Several fairness-aware resource allocation algorithms are applied to the considered MIMO schemes and a detailed analysis of the tradeoffs between power efficiency and quality of service is presented. This paper explicitly examines the performance of a system serving real-time, VoIP traffic under different traffic loading conditions and transmit power levels. It is demonstrated that by use of efficient scheduling and resource allocation techniques significant savings in terms of consumed energy can be achieved, without compromising QoS.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.196-206
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• 2012

능동 위상 배열 레이더(AESA Radar: Active Electronically Scanned Array radar)는 전자적으로 빔을 조향함으로써 빔 조향 시간이 비약적으로 빨라져 기존의 기계식 빔 조향 레이더에 비해 레이더에서 수행할 수 있는 다중 임무 처리 능력이 크게 향상되었다. 이러한 이유로 레이더에 주어진 시간, 에너지, 처리 능력 등의 한정된 자원을 실시간으로 효율적으로 관리, 운용할 수 있는 레이더 자원 관리 기술의 중요성이 크게 대두되었다. 그 중 레이더 빔 스케줄링 기술은 레이더 자원 관리의 핵심적인 요소라 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 simulated annealing을 이용한 추계적 레이더 빔 스케줄링 알고리즘을 제안하고, 이를 기존의 dispatching rule에 기반한 빔 스케줄링 기법과 비교하였다. 빔 처리 지연도(latency)와 주어진 시간 내에서 처리할 수 있는 빔의 개수 측면에서 스케줄링 결과를 비교하여 성능의 우월성을 입증하였으며, 또한 실시간성을 보장하면서도 기존의 규칙 기반 알고리즘보다 성능이 우수함을 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.380-386
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• 2015

Guaranteeing quality of service over a multihop wireless network is difficult because end-to-end (ETE) delay is accumulated at each hop in a multihop flow. Recently, research has been conducted on network coding (NC) schemes as an alternative mechanism to significantly increase the utilization of valuable resources in multihop wireless networks. This paper proposes a new section-based joint NC and scheduling scheme that can reduce ETE delay and enhance resource efficiency in a multihop wireless network. Next, this paper derives the average ETE delay of the proposed scheme and simulates a TDMA network where the proposed scheme is deployed. Finally, this paper compares the performance of the proposed scheme with that of the conventional sequential scheduling scheme. From the performance analysis and simulation results, the proposed scheme gives more delay-and energy-efficient slot assignments even if the NC operation is applied, resulting in a use of fewer network resources and a reduction in ETE delay.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.960-967
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• 2014

In this paper, an analytical framework is proposed for the optimization of network performance through joint congestion control, channel allocation, rate allocation, power control, scheduling, and routing with the consideration of fairness in multi-channel wireless multihop networks. More specifically, the framework models the network by a generalized network utility maximization (NUM) problem under an elastic link data rate and power constraints. Using the dual decomposition technique, the NUM problem is decomposed into four subproblems - flow control; next-hop routing; rate allocation and scheduling; power control; and channel allocation - and finally solved by a low-complexity distributed method. Simulation results show that the proposed distributed algorithm significantly improves the network throughput and energy efficiency compared with previous algorithms.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권5호
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• pp.225-234
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• 2015

가상발전소(Virtual Power Plant)는 비상발전(DG), 열병합발전(CHP), 에너지 저장 장치(ESS), 부하(Load)등과 같은 분산 에너지 자원을 ICT기반의 기술로 연계하여 하나의 단일 발전소와 같이 운영하는 기술이다. 지금까지의 가상발전소는 하나의 가상발전 플랫폼을 통하여 광범위하게 산재해 있는 다양한 분산 에너지 자원을 네트워크로 연결하는 구조를 기반으로 개발되고 실증되었다. 그러나 분산 에너지 자원 종류 및 수가 지속적으로 증가할 경우 이러한 분산 에너지 자원과 관련된 데이터 또한 기하급수적으로 증가할 수밖에 없으며 분산 에너지 자원의 분포가 광범위한 지역에 분포되어 있는 경우 하나의 가상발전 플랫폼으로 이들 모든 자원에 대한 네트워크를 중앙 집중형으로 가져가는 것은 네트워크 구성을 위한 기술적, 비용적 측면에서 매우 비효율적이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 광범위한 지역에 분포되어 있는 분산 에너지 자원을 효율적으로 관리함으로써 시스템 부하에 따른 오류 확률을 낮추고, 분산 에너지 자원과의 데이터 교환의 견고성과 가상발전소의 확장성을 확보할 수 있는 대단위 가상 발전소 구성 방법을 제안한다. 또한 대단위 가상 발전소 구성 시 분산 에너지 자원을 직접적으로 제어하고 모니터링하는 소단위 가상발전 플랫폼에서 가변 및 민감성 부하를 고려한 최적의 자원 스케줄링 방법 또한 시뮬레이션을 통해 그 결과의 유효성을 검증한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.3172-3193
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• 2022

Cognitive radio-simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (CR-SWIPT) has attracted much interest since it can improve both the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks. This paper focuses on the resource sharing between a point-to-point primary system (PRS) and a multiuser multi-antenna cellular cognitive radio system (CRS) containing a large number of cognitive users (CUs). The resource sharing optimization problem is formulated by jointly scheduling CUs and adjusting the transmit power at the cognitive base station (CBS). The effect of accessing CUs' spatial channel correlation on the possible transmit power of the CBS is investigated. Accordingly, we provide a low-complexity suboptimal approach termed the semi-correlated semi-orthogonal user selection (SC-SOUS) algorithm to enhance the spectrum efficiency. In the proposed algorithm, CUs that are highly correlated to the information decoding primary receiver (IPR) and mutually near orthogonal are selected for simultaneous transmission to reduce the interference to the IPR and increase the sum rate of the CRS. We further develop a spatial correlation-based resource sharing (SC-RS) strategy to improve energy sharing performance. CUs nearly orthogonal to the energy harvesting primary receiver (EPR) are chosen as candidates for user selection. Therefore, the EPR can harvest more energy from the CBS so that the energy utilization of the network can improve. Besides, zero-forcing precoding and power control are adopted to eliminate interference within the CRS and meet the transmit power constraints. Simulation results and analysis show that, compared with the existing CU selection methods, the proposed low-complex strategy can enhance both the achievable sum rate of the CRS and the energy sharing capability of the network.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권9호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 상위 수준 합성에서 시간 제약과 하드웨어 제약을 동시에 고려하여 에너지 소모를 최소로 줄이는 다중 전압스케줄링 방법을 개발하였다. 기존의 다중 전압 스케줄링에서는 임계 경로에 있는 연산에 대해 높은 전압을 할당하고, 임계 경로에 있지 않은 연산에 대해서는 낮은 전압을 할당하는 방법을 주로 사용하였다. 우리는 다중 전압 리스트 스케줄링을 기반으로 simulated annealing기법을 적용하여 임계 경로상의 연산인지와 관계없이 자유롭게 여러 전압을 할당하여 최적화함으로서 저전력 스케줄링 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 계산 시간 제한에 여유가 있을 때에는 전반적으로 낮은 전압을 사용하여 에너지 소모를 더욱 낮출 수 있다. 그리고 후처리 과정을 통해 추가의 에너지 감소를 얻을 수 있었다. 경우에 따라, 전압 level shifter 수를 줄일 필요가 있으므로 비용 함수에 가중치를 줄 수 있도록 하였다. 예를 들어, level shifter 에너지 소모에 6배의 가중치를 주면, 전압 level shifter 수는 약 24%, shifter 에너지 소모는 약 20% 정도 감소한다. 이를 이용하여 전체 에너지 소모와 level shifter 사용횟수의 tradeoff가 가능하다.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.100-104
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• 2017

This paper analyzes the correlation between Net Benefit Test (NBT) and System marginal price (SMP), which has a significant impact on the allocation of demand response (DR) resources in resource scheduling and commitment (RSC) process, based on the performance data of the demand resource market which has been established in 2014. Demand resources compete with generation resources in the RSC process, and it is prescribed to use demand resources only when net benefit occurs. Analysis result shows that the larger the SMP than the Net Benefit Threshold Price (NBTP), the more the winning bid of demand response resource was. It is interpreted that the introduction of NBT in DR market is justified. The demand resource market has been steadily growing. It is required to expand the scope of resources up to the small-sized DR, and to expand the functionalities of demand resources not only in the current energy market but also in the reserve market in the future. In order for that, institutional improvements are required.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.152-161
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• 2021

The paper focuses on Device-to-device (D2D) Architectures evaluation frameworks. D2D communication and discovery can improve spectrum usage efficiency and optimize the tradeoffs between throughput and energy consumption. The target operation modes involve both indirect communication between two nodes via a base station or the direct communication among proximal nodes, enabling use cases that can support communications out of cellular coverage, as well as low end-end delay requirements. The paper will present the architectural evolution of D2D networks within 3GPP standardization and will highlight key network functionalities and signaling protocols. It will also identify key analytical and simulation models that can be used to assess the performance and energy efficiency of resource allocation strategies, and it will present a suitable cross-layer integrated framework.