• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.74-81
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• 1997

Xcent-Net is a new system network designed to support a clustered SMP called SPAX(Scalable Parallel Architecture based on Xbar) that is being developed by ETRI. It is a duplicated hierarchical crossbar network to provide the connections among 16 clusters of 128 nodes. Xcent-Net is designed as a packet switched, virtual cut-through routed, point-to-point network. Variable length packets contain up to 64 bytes of data. The packets are transmitted via full duplexed, 32-bit wide channels using source synchronous transmission technique. Its plesiochronous clocking scheme eliminates the global clock distribution problem. Two level priority-based round-robin scheme is adopted to resolve the traffic congestion. Clear-to-send mechanism is used as a packet level flow control scheme. Most of functions are built in Xcent router, which is implemented as an ASIC. This paper describes the architecture and the functional features of Xcent-Net and discusses its implementation.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.93-109
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• 2014

This study aims to develop a rich understanding of user goals in user-empowering information technologies which have been dominating part in the information systems environment. A particular focus is on users' goals in a social network site (SNS) which is a typical example of user-empowering technologies. Users conduct various activities in order to achieve diverse goals in SNS. Thus, investigating what goals users pursue in SNS will give insights into understanding the users. We employed the laddering interview technique and means-end chain approach. Interviews of 50 Facebook users were analyzed to produce a hierarchical goal map showing users' goal structure. The map contains 18 goals, including self-reflection, psychological stability, belongingness, improving productivity, and amusement as ultimate goals in SNS. In the map, there are varied routes from activities to ultimate goals in SNS; that is, a complex assembly consisting of activities and goals. The findings call the information systems research community to have more interests in diverse goals and values users seek with technologies.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.276-283
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• 2012

Nowadays, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) comprise a tremendously growing infrastructure for monitoring the physical or environmental conditions of objects. WSNs pose challenges to mitigating energy dissipation by constructing a reliable and energy saving network. In this paper, we propose a novel network construction and routing method by defining three different duties for sensor nodes, that is, node gateways, cluster heads, and cluster members, and then by applying a hierarchical structure from the sink to the normal sensing nodes. This method provides an efficient rationale to support the maximum coverage, to recover missing data with node mobility, and to reduce overall energy dissipation. All this should lengthen the lifetime of the network significantly.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.1
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• pp.137-143
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• 2017

In this paper, we investigate static control of Boolean networks described in the framework of semi-tensor product (STP) operation. The control objective is to determine control input nodes and their logical values so as to stabilize the considered Boolean network to a desired fixed point or cycle. Using topology of Boolean networks such as incidence matrix and hub nodes, a set of appropriate control input nodes is selected, and based on STP operations, we assign constant control inputs so that the controlled network can converge to a prescribed fixed point or cycle. To validate applicability of the proposed scheme, we conduct a numerical study on the problem of determining control input nodes for a Boolean network representing hierarchical differentiation of myeloid progenitors.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.82-94
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a novel tunnel-free scheme in a proxy mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6)-based nested network mobility environment; several mobile nodes (MNs) and mobile routers (MRs) compose a hierarchical wireless network topology. Because tunnels created by several MRs overlap and data packets travel along several local mobility anchors (LMAs), the utilization of the wireless section is reduced and the packet forwarding path of the wire-line section is not optimal. In our tunnel-free scheme, the mobile access gateway (MAG) plays an important role in both the wireless and wire-line sections. Using a local binding update, this tunnel-free scheme forwards data packets with a host-based routing table without any tunnel. Establishing a direct tunnel between the MAG and the last LMA, this scheme removes nested tunnels between intermediate LMAs and MRs, and optimizes the forwarding path to the MN in the wire-line section.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.232-234
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• 2004

강화 학습(Reinforcement Learning)을 실제 문제에 적용하는 데 있어 가장 큰 문제는 차원성의 저주(Curse of dimensionality)이다. 문제가 커짐에 따라 목적을 이루기 위해서 더 않은 단계의 판단이 필요하고 이에 따라 문제의 해결이 지수적으로 어려워지게 된다. 이를 해결하기 위칠 문제를 여러 단계로 나누어 단계별로 학습하는 계층적 강화 학습(Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning)이 제시된 바 있다. 하지만 대부분의 계층적 강화 학습 방법들은 사전에 문제의 구조를 아는 것을 전제로 하며 큰 사이즈의 문제를 간단히 표현할 방법을 제시하지 않는다. 따라서 이들 방법들도 실제적인 문제에 바로 적용하기에는 적합하지 않다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 복잡계 네트워크(Complex Network)가 갖는 작은 세상 성질(Small world Property)에 착안하여 자기조직화 하는 생장 네트워크(Self organizing growing network)를 기반으로 한 환경 표현 모델이 제안된 바 있다. 이러한 모델에서는 문제 크기가 커지더라도 네트워크의 사이즈가 크게 커지지 않기 때문에 문제의 난이도가 크기에 따라 크게 증가하지 않을 것을 기대할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 환경 모델을 사용한 강화 학습 알고리즘을 구현하고 실험을 통하여 각 모델이 강화 학습의 문제 사이즈에 따른 성능에 끼치는 영향에 대해 알아보았다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.622-624
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• 2004

강화 학습(Reinforcement Learning)을 실제 문제에 적용하는 데 있어 가장 큰 문제는 차원성의 저주(Curse of dimensionality)였다 문제가 커짐에 따라 목적을 이루기 위해서 더 많은 단계의 판단이 필요하고 이에 따라 문제의 해결이 지수적으로 어려워지게 된다. 이를 해결하기 위해 문제를 여러 단계로 나누어 단계별로 학습하는 계층적 강화 학습(Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning)이 제시된 바 있다 하지만 대부분의 계층적 강화 학습 방법들은 사전에 문제의 구조를 아는 것을 전제로 하며 큰 사이즈의 문제를 간단히 표현할 방법을 제시하지 않는다. 따라서 이들 방법들도 실제적인 문제에 바로 적용하기에는 적합하지 않다. 최근 이루어진 복잡계 네트워크(Complex Network)에 대한 연구에 착안하여 본 논문은 자기조직화하는 생장 네트워크(Self organizing growing network)를 기반으로 한 간단한 환경 표현 모델을 사용하는 강화 학습 알고리즘을 제안한다 네트웍은 복잡계 네트웍이 갖는 성질들을 유지하도록 자기 조직화되고, 노드들 간의 거리는 작은 세상 성질(Small World Property)에 따라 전체 네트웍의 큰 사이즈에 비해 짧게 유지된다. 즉 판단해야할 단계의 수가 적게 유지되기 때문에 이 방법으로 차원성의 저주를 피할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.1564-1571
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• 2022

Wireless sensor network(WSN) is being used in various fields such as reconnaissance, echelon scale identification, weather observation, etc. using small sensors in an environment without a network infrastructure environment. In addition, WSN uses limited battery power, so study on routing protocols to extend the lifetime of the network is important. PEGASIS, a hierarchical routing protocol, accounts for the majority of energy-efficient routing protocol studies and is well known as a representative protocol. In this study, based on PEGASIS, we propose a protocol that constructs multiple chains rather than one chain using the AoA of nodes. The proposed protocol has the advantage of reducing the transmission distance of nodes and eliminating unnecessary transmissions, thereby increasing energy efficiency compared to the existing protocols.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.137-144
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• 2022

Wireless community networks (WCNs) are considered another form of ownership of internet protocol (IP) networks, where community members manage and own every piece of equipment in a decentralized way, and routing for traffic is done in a cooperative manner. However, the current routing protocols for WCNs suffer from stability and scalability issues. In this paper, an enhanced routing protocol is proposed based on the optimized link state routing (OLSR) protocol to meet the standards of efficiency in terms of stability and scalability. The proposed routing protocol is enhanced through two phases: multicasting expansion and multipoint relay (MPR) selection based on an analytical hierarchical process (AHP). The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed routing protocol outperforms the OLSR protocol in terms of network control overhead and packet delivery ratio by 18% and 1% respectively.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.63-70
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• 2015

The numerous improved schemes of user authentication based on password have been proposed in order to prevent the data access from the unauthorized person. The importance of user authentication has been remarkably growing in the expanding application areas of wireless sensor networks. Recently, emerging wireless sensor networks possesses a hierarchy among the nodes which are divided into cluster heads and sensor nodes. Such hierarchical wireless sensor networks have more operational advantages by reducing the energy consumption and traffic load. In 2012, Das et al. proposed a user authentication scheme to be applicable for the hierarchical wireless sensor networks. Das et al. claimed that their scheme is effectively secure against the various security flaws. In this paper, author will prove that Das et al.'s scheme is still vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack, password guessing/change attack and does not support mutual authentication between the user and the cluster heads.