• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.154-177
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• 2015

India faces a formidable challenge in ensuring security of access to modern energy carriers to majority of its population. The fossil-fuel dominated centralized energy system has proved to be ineffective in creating sustainable access to energy, which suggests need for a radical and innovative approach. We present such an approach. First, the need for innovations given the implications of lack of energy access on sustainable development is assessed. Next, possible innovations with respect to technologies, policies, institutions, markets, financial instruments and business models are discussed. Finally, an economic and financial feasibility of implementing such innovations are analyzed. The results indicate that such a proposal needs an investment of US$ 26.2 billion over a period of 20 years for a GHG mitigation potential of 213Tg $CO_{2e}$. The proposition is profitable for the enterprises with IRRs in the range of 39%-66%. The households will get lifeline access to electricity and gas for cooking at an affordable monthly cost of about US$ 5.7.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.928-941
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• 2016

유선 데이터 네트워크(wired data network) 영역에서 가장 많은 에너지를 요구하는 영역은 액세스 네트워크(access network) 영역이다. 오늘날 그린 네트워킹(Green networking)은 유선 데이터 네트워크에서도 통합적인 에너지 관리를 통해 에너지 낭비와 $CO_2$ 배출 감소를 유도하기 위해 주요 관심분야가 되었다. 그러나 유선 액세스 네트워크의 에너지 소모량과 $CO_2$ 배출에 의한 환경적 영향에 대해서는 널리 알려져 있지 않으며, 그에 따른 범용적이고 정량적인 평가 기준도 매우 부족하다. 본 논문에서는 유선 액세스 네트워크의 에너지 소모량을 추정하는 기존의 모델링 기법들의 문제점을 비교 분석하고 하향식(top-down) 접근법을 이용하여 대규모 유선 액세스 네트워크의 에너지 소모량을 추정하는 모델링 기법을 제안한다. 또한 제안 모델로부터 도출된 추정치를 이용하여 액세스 네트워크들이 환경에 미치는 영향도를 산출하는 모델을 제안한다. 그리고 실제 사례를 적용하여 기존 모델과 제안 모델로부터 산출한 추정치와 해당 사례에 대한 기존의 조사와 실측 데이터와 비교 평가 한다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2021

그린 네트워킹(Green networking)은 유선 데이터 네트워크(Wired data network)에서 통합적인 에너지 관리를 통해 에너지 낭비와 CO2 배출 감소를 유도하기 위해 주요 관심분야가 되었다. 그러나 액세스 네트워크(access networks)는 유선 데이터 네트워크 영역에서 사용자 단말을 제외하면 가장 많은 에너지를 소비하는 영역임에도 불구하고 그 범위가 매우 광대하여 통합적인 관리가 어렵고, 그 에너지 소모량과 에너지 절약 잠재성을 예측하기가 매우 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 다양한 수학적 예측 모델과 실험 및 실측 데이터를 이용하여 유선 액세스 네트워크의 에너지 소모량 데이터를 수집하고 머신러닝(Machine learning)의 지도학습을 이용한 다중 선형 회귀모델을 생성한다. 또한 생성한 모델로부터 다양한 실험을 통해 회귀모델의 성능을 최적화하여 유선 액세스 네트워크의 에너지 소모량을 예측하였고 생성한 회귀모델은 널리 알려진 평가 지표를 통해 성능을 평가하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1060-1064
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• 2006

센서를 통해 수집된 데이터는 모든 정보를 취합하는 기지국으로 전송되게 된다. 센서들은 데이터를 전송하면서 지속적으로 주변 환경에 대한 데이터를 수집하여야 하기 때문에 에너지 소모가 크다. 본 논문에서는 수집된 데이터가 효율적으로 전송되어 트래픽 혼잡을 피하면서 에너지 효율성을 고려하는 기법을 제안한다. 트래픽이 증가하거나 감소할 때 전송률을 제어함으로써 Traffic 혼잡을 피하고, 기본적인 CSMA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access) 프로토콜에 최적의 옵션을 설정하여 각 센서에서 에너지 소모를 최소화는 기법이다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 최적의 CSMA 옵션과 제안된 트래픽 제어 기법을 적용하여 성능을 분석하고, 에너지 효율성과 효과적인 트래픽 제어 방법을 제시한다.

• 한국태양광발전학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.8-20
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• 2020

Nepal has huge potential of hydro and other renewable energy resources including solar energy. However, only 70% of the total population have access to electricity despite the long history of hydropower development in the country. Still more than 37% population in rural areas and around 73% population in Karnali Province, one of the least developed provinces, are living without access to electricity despite taking several initiatives and implementing various policies by government supporting electrification in off-grid rural areas. Government together with donors and private sector has extensively been promoting the off-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) echnology in un-electrified areas to increase electricity access. So far, more than 900,000 households in rural areas of Nepal are getting electricity from stand-alone solar PV systems. However, there are many challenges including financial, technical, institutional, and governance barriers in Nepal. This study based on extensive review of literatures and author's own long working experiences in renewable energy sector in Nepal, shares the best practices and lessons of off-grid solar PV for increasing access to electricity in rural areas of Nepal. This study suggests that flexible financial instruments, financial innovations, bundling of PV systems for concentrating energy loads, adopting standards process, local capacity building, and combination of technology, financing and institutional aspects are a key for enhancing effectiveness of solar PV technology in rural areas of Nepal.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.3075-3093
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• 2014

In this paper, we consider an advanced wireless user, called primary-secondary user (PSU) who is capable of harvesting renewable energy and connecting to both the primary network and cognitive radio networks simultaneously. Recently, energy harvesting has received a great deal of attention from the research community and is a promising approach for maintaining long lifetime of users. On the other hand, the cognitive radio function allows the wireless user to access other primary networks in an opportunistic manner as secondary users in order to receive more throughput in the current time slot. Subsequently, in the paper we propose the channel access policy for a PSU with consideration of the energy harvesting, based on a Partially Observable Markov decision process (POMDP) in which the optimal action from the action set will be selected to maximize expected long-term throughput. The simulation results show that the proposed POMDP-based channel access scheme improves the throughput of PSU, but it requires more computations to make an action decision regarding channel access.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.243-252
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• 2022

The hybrid wind-solar energy concept has a big influence on the spread of wind and solar power projects in India since it combines the benefits of both industries while also providing extra benefits such as resource sharing such as land, infrastructure, and power evacuation systems. Furthermore, while the hybrid policy may reduce certain barriers to the installation of wind and solar energy in India, there are still some issues that must be resolved rapidly in order to ensure a sustainable installation. According to the study's findings, the installation of wind and solar power plants is significantly influenced by energy policy. The wind-solar hybrid energy strategy will also be crucial in the near future for growing the usage of renewable energy sources. Aside from that, the establishment of Green Energy Open Access (GEOA) and the restart of the trading of Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) would promote the quick deployment of standalone and hybrid renewable power projects throughout the nation, enabling it to reach 500 GW of installed non-fossil energy capacity by 2030.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.432-445
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• 2024

This paper demonstrates improved throughput and energy efficiency of wireless communications by exploiting nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA), multiple input-multiple output (MIMO), and radio frequency energy harvesting (EH) technologies. To assess the performance of NOMA MIMO communications with EH (MMe), we consider the nonlinear characteristics of EH devices and propose explicit expressions for throughput and outage probability. Based on our results, the system performance is significantly mitigated by EH nonlinearity and is considerably improved by increasing the number of antennas. Additionally, by appropriately adjusting the system parameters, our NOMA MMe innovation can avert complete outages while optimizing system performance. Moreover, the results demonstrate the superiority of the NOMA MMe over its orthogonal multiple access MMe counterparts.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.140-150
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• 2012

In this paper, we investigate the optimal packet scheduling problem in a two-user multiple access communication system, where the transmitters are able to harvest energy from the nature. Under a deterministic system setting, we assume that the energy harvesting times and harvested energy amounts are known before the transmission starts. For the packet arrivals, we assume that packets have already arrived and are ready to be transmitted at the transmitter before the transmission starts. Our goal is to minimize the time by which all packets from both users are delivered to the destination through controlling the transmission powers and transmission rates of both users. We first develop a generalized iterative backward waterfilling algorithm to characterize the maximum departure region of the transmitters for any given deadline T. Then, based on the sequence of maximum departure regions at energy arrival instants, we decompose the transmission completion time minimization problem into convex optimization problems and solve the overall problem efficiently.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.599-606
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• 2009

For many mission-critical related wireless sensor network applications such as military and homeland security, user's access restriction is necessary to be enforced by access control mechanisms for different access rights. Public key-based access control schemes are more attractive than symmetric-key based approaches due to high scalability, low memory requirement, easy key-addition/revocation for a new node, and no key predistribution requirement. Although Wang et al. recently introduced a promising access control scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), it is still burdensome for sensors and has several security limitations (it does not provide mutual authentication and is strictly vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks). This paper presents an energy-efficient access control scheme based on ECC to overcome these problems and more importantly to provide dominant energy-efficiency. Through analysis and simulation based evaluations, we show that the proposed scheme overcomes the security problems and has far better energy-efficiency compared to current scheme proposed byWang et al.