• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.68-80
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• 2007

This paper covers switched reluctance generator (SRG) and its comparison with induction and synchronous machines for distributed generation. The SRG is simple in design, robust in construction, and fault tolerant in operation; it can also withstand very high temperatures. However, the performance and cost of the SRG power electronics driver are highly affected by the topology and design of the converter. IGBT and MOSFET based converters are not suitable for very high power applications. This paper presents thyristor-based resonant converters which are superior candidates for very high power applications. Operations of the converters are analyzed and their characteristics and dynamics are determined in terms of the system parameters. The resonant converters are capable of handling high currents and voltages; these converters are highly efficient and reliable as well. Therefore, they are suitable for high power applications in the range of 1MW or larger for distributed generation.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.5_6
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• pp.273-279
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• 2003

Hypercube multicomputers have been drawing considerable attention from many researchers due to their regular structure and short diameter. One of keys to the performance of Hypercube is the efficiency of communication among processors. Among several communication patterns, multicast is important, which is found in a variety of applications as data replication and signal processing. As the number of processors increases, the probability of occurrences of fault components also increases. So it would be desirable to design an efficient scheme that multicasts messages in the presence of faulty component. In fault-tolerant routing and multicast, there are local information based scheme, global information based scheme and limited information based scheme in terms of information. In general, limited information is easy to obtain and maintain by compressing information in a concise format. In this paper, we propose a new routing scheme and a new multicast scheme using recently proposed fully reachability information scheme and new local information scheme. The proposed multicast scheme increases multicast success possibility and reduce deroute cases. Experiments show that multicast success possibility can increase at least 15% compared to previous method.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.1
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• pp.128-136
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new cache structure for effective error correction of soft error. We added check bit and SEEB(soft error evaluation block) to evaluate the status of cache line. The SEEB stores result of parity check into the two-bit shit register and set the check bit to '1' when parity check fails twice in the same cache line. In this case the line where parity check fails twice is treated as a vulnerable to soft error. When the data is filled into the cache, the new replacement algorithm is suggested that it can only use the valid block determined by SEEB. This structure prohibits the vulnerable line from being used and contributes to efficient use of cache by the reuse of line where parity check fails only once can be reused. We tried to minimize the side effect of the proposed cache and the experimental results, using SPEC2000 benchmark, showed 3% degradation in hit rate, 15% timing overhead because of parity logic and 2.7% area overhead. But it can be considered as trivial for SEEB because almost tolerant design inevitably adopt this parity method even if there are some overhead. And if only parity logic is used then it can have $5%{\sim}10%$ advantage than ECC logic. By using this proposed cache, the system will be protected from the threat of soft error in cache and the hit rate can be maintained to the level without soft error in the cache.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.1149-1159
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• 1998

This paper presents the Controllable Self-Checking(CSC) Checker at which can be used the Fault-Tolerant System with the redundancy. According to the critical level of output(of system), especially, it can be instructed the time if it has to check the output or not. We adop the deterministic test, performed on-line, to detect the faults with a minimal test set. The results show the Parity 2-rail checker(P-TRC) which is designed much simpler than the checker has the higher fault coverage than the existent checker.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.436-438
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• 1998

신뢰성 향상은 분산 시스템의 기본 목표이며, 이를 위하여 서비스를 제공해 주는 서버 객체의 중복이 불가피 하다. 본 논문에서는 중복과 함께 고려되어야 할 기본적인 사항들을 알아보고, 현재의 시스템들을 CORBA 환경과 CORBA 에 기반하지 않은 환경으로 나누어, 각각의 시스템 환경하에서 신뢰성 있는 분산 어플리케이션의 구현을 제공하기 위해 진행되었던 연구 사례로 Orbix+Isis, Electra와 Chameleon을 소개한다. 또한 디지털 도서관에서 핸들 서비스를 제공하고 있는 핸들 서버의 장애 감내을 위한 장애 감내형 다중화 서버 모델을 제시하고, 이를 제공하기 위한 ILU의 인터페이스를 제시함으로써, 장애 감내형 디지털 도서관 서비스 구조 설계에 관한 연구를 소개한다.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

This paper proposes the load distribution control allocation technique. The proposed method is designed by combining a conventional control allocation method with load distribution ability in order to reduce the stress acting on ailerons. By designing the weighting matrix as a function of the load distribution rule, the optimal deflection angles of each surface to satisfy both control goal and load distribution can be achieved. Moreover, rule based fault-tolerant control technique is also proposed. The rules are generated by considering both dominant control surfaces and the ratio of load distribution among surfaces. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated through numerical simulations.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.105-111
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• 2003

Qualification Model of On-board Computer (OBC) for KAISTSAT-4 was developed. The OBC of KAISTASAT-4 has some improved features compared with that of KAISTSAT-3: To reduce weight and size of OBC many logics are implemented by FPGAs, and a network controller is included in OBC to access the satellite network with high speed. Also, the developed OBC has an improved tolerance against SEUs and faults. The OBC was fully tested under simulated space environment with no errors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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• 2005.09a
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• pp.101-106
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• 2005

Recently, as the size of genetic knowledge grows faster, automated analysis and systemization into high-throughput database has become hot issue. One essential task is to recognize and identify genomic entities and discover their relations. However, ambiguity of name entities is a serious problem because of their multiplicity of meanings and types. So far, many effective techniques have been proposed to analyze documents. Yet, accuracy is high when the data fits the model well. The purpose of this paper is to design and implement a document classification system for identifying entity problems using text/data mining combination, supplemented by rich data mining algorithms to enhance its performance. we propose RTP ost system of different style from any traditional method, which takes fault tolerant system approach and data mining strategy. This feedback cycle can enhance the performance of the text mining in terms of accuracy. We experimented our system for classifying RB-related documents on PubMed abstracts to verify the feasibility.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.12B
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• pp.2016-2024
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 결함의 영향을 받지 않고 동작할 수 있는 AVTMR(All Voting Triple Modular Redundancy) 시스템을 개발하였으며, MILSPEC-217F에 기반을 둔 고장율을 계산하여 AVTMR과 SS(Single System) 시스템을 비교 및 평가하였다. 설계된 시스템은 MC68000을 기반으로 한 3중화된 다수결 보터(Triplicated Majority Voter)를 이용하여 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서는 시스템의 신뢰도(Reliability), 가용도(Avaliability), 유지보수도(Maintainability)를 마코브 모델(Markov model)로 평가하였으며, 또한 시스템의 MTTF(Mean Time to Failure)를 계산하여 시스템의 수명을 구하였고, 설계된 AVTMR 시스템이 SS(Single System)보다 전체 시스템 평가에서 우수한 특성을 가진다는 것을 시뮬레이션을 통해 알 수 있었다. 또한, AVTMR 시스템은 결함을 허용(Fault tolerant)하는 시스템 특성을 가지기 때문에, 인간의 생명과 관련된 철도 시스템, 선박 시스템이나 항공기 시스템에 적용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07b
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• pp.731-733
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• 1999

Distributed Control System has been used for large scale and critical system control such as aerospace industries, chemical and power plant and so on. It is very impotant factors for design of the control system to be reliable and fault-tolerant. These control systems have backup or redundant processing modules for minimizing the time of failure and improving reliability. But such methods have changeover duration from faulty module to healthy one. During that interval, feedback control loop raises bumper and performance of the system become worse. TMR(Triple Modular Redundancy) control system is one of the best reliable ones that can overcome such a mortal drawback. This paper analyzes the components of TMR system functionally and proposes practical and cost effective configuration method for turbine control of thermal power plant.