• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.123-140
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an Energy Efficient Media Access Control (EE-MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks. The proposed scheme is designed to save power consumption and guarantee quality-of-service for real-time traffic. EE-MAC uses the superframe structure which is bounded by the transmission of a beacon frame and can have an active and an inactive portion. The active period is divided into the contention free period (CFP) for real-time traffic transmission and the contention access period (CAP) for non-real-time traffic transmission. We propose the exclusively allocated backoff scheme which assigns a unique backoff time value to each real-time node based on bandwidth allocation and admission control. This scheme can avoid collision between real-time nodes by controlling distributed fashion and take effect a statistical time division multiple access. We also propose the algorithm to change the duty cycle adaptively according to channel utilization of media depending on network traffic load. This algorithm can prolong network lifetime by reducing the amount of energy wasted on idle listening.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.836-845
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• 2017

Gravimetric method is usually used to evaluate air-dry density, which is governing physical or mechanical properties of wood. Although it had high evaluation accuracy, the method is time consuming process. Thus, this study was conducted to estimate air-dry density of wood with high accuracy by using polychromatic X-ray and digital detector as alternative of gravimetric method. To quantify polychromatic X-ray projection for evaluating air-dry density, Lambert-Beer's law with the integral value of probability function was used. The integral value was used as weighting factor in the law, and it was determined by conducting simple test at various penetration depths and tube voltage. Mass attenuation coefficient (MAC) of wood also calculated by investigating polychromatic X-ray projection according to species, penetration depth and tube voltage. The species had not an effect on change of MAC. Finally, an air-dry density of wood was estimated by applying the integral value, MAC and Lambert-Beer's law to polychromatic X-ray projection. As an example, the relation of the integral value (${\alpha}$) according to penetration depth (t, cm) at tube voltage of 35 kV was ${\alpha}=-0.00091t{\times}0.0184$ while the regression of the MAC (${\mu}$, $cm^2/g$) was ${\mu}=0.5414{\exp}(-0.0734t)$. When calculation of root mean squared error (RMSE) was performed to check the estimation accuracy, RMSE at 35, 45 and 55 kV was 0.010, 0.013 and $0.009g/cm^3$, respectively. However, partial RMSE in relation to air-dry density was varied according to tube voltage. The partial RMSE below air-dry density of $0.41g/cm^3$ was $0.008g/cm^3$ when tube voltage of 35 kV was used. Meanwhile, the partial RMSE above air-dry density of $0.41g/cm^3$ decreased as tube voltage increased. It was conclude that the accuracy of estimation with polychromatic X-ray and digital detector was quite high if the integral value and MAC of wood were determined precisely or a condition of examination was chosen properly. It was seemed that the estimation of air-dry density by using polychromatic X-ray system can supplant the gravimetric method.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.184-196
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• 2023

Background: Radiation protection is crucial in various fields due to the harmful effects of radiation. Shielding is used to reduce radiation exposure, but gamma radiation poses challenges due to its high energy and penetration capabilities. Materials and Methods: This work investigates the radiation shielding properties of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) samples containing different weight fraction of tungsten carbide (WC), tungsten trioxide (WO₃), and tungsten disulfide (WS₂). Parameters such as the mass attenuation coefficient (MAC), half-value layer (HVL), mean free path (MFP), effective atomic number (Z_eff), and macroscopic effective removal cross-section for fast neutrons (Σ_R) were calculated using the Phy-X/PSD software. EpiXS simulations were conducted for MAC validation. Results and Discussion: Increasing the weight fraction of the additives resulted in higher MAC values, indicating improved radiation shielding. PVDF-xWC showed the highest percentage increase in MAC values. MFP results indicated that PVDF-0.20WC has the lowest values, suggesting superior shielding properties compared to PVDF-0.20WO₃ and PVDF-0.20WS₂. PVDF-0.20WC also exhibited the highest Z_eff values, while PVDF-0.20WS₂ showed a slightly higher increase in Z_eff at energies of 0.662 and 1.333 MeV. PVDF-0.20WC has demonstrated the highest Σ_R value, indicating effective shielding against fast neutrons, while PVDF-0.20WS₂ had the lowest Σ_R value. The Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport version 5 (MCNP5) simulations showed that PVDF-xWC attenuates gamma radiation more than pure PVDF, significantly decreasing the dose equivalent rate. Conclusion: Overall, this research provides insights into the radiation shielding properties of PVDF mixtures, with PVDF-xWC showing the most promising results.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.3-15
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• 2000

ATM PON은 국사 내에서 하나의 OLT가 수동 (passive) 광 분기 방식을 통해 가입자 지역의 최대 64 ONU를 제어함으로써, FTTs 형태의 가입자를 하나의 플랫폼에서 경제적으로 수용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 이 시스템이 동작하기 위해서는 효율적인 MAC 프로토콜이 구현되어야 하는데, ITU-T 0.983.1에서 MAC 분야는 아직 추후 연구 과제로 남아있다. 본 논문은 G.983.1의 ATM PON이 동작하기 위한 MAC 프로토콜에서 ONU가 상향으로 셀을 전송하는데 필요한 승인요청 방법을 제안한다. G.983.1 기반이 아닌 MAC 프로토콜의 장단점을 살펴본 후, 승인요청에 필요한 미니슬롯의 주기와 길이를 계산하고 구현에 적합한 최적 값을 결정한다. 또한, 물리계층 OAM 셀을 코딩하는 방법과 결정된 파라메터들을 할당하는 절차를 제안한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.237-239
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• 2004

Wireless LAN Voice over IP(VoIP) equipment needs Quality-of-Service(QoS) with priority for processing real-time traffic. This paper shows transmit function implementation of wireless LAN(WLANs) media access control(MAC) support VoIP, and it has an advantage of guarantee of QoS and is adaptable to VoIP or mobile wireless equipment. The IEEE 802.11e standard in progress has four queues according to four access categories(AC) for transmit and the MAC transmits the data based on EDCA. The value of AC is from AC0 to AC3 and AC3 has the highest priority. The transmit method implemented at this paper ensure QoS using one transmit FIFO in hardware since real-time traffic data and non real-time traffic data has the different priority. The device driver classifies real-time data and non real-time data and transmit data to hardware with information about data type. The hardware conducts shorter backoff and selects faster AIFS slot for real-time data than it for non real-time data. Therefor It make give the real-time traffic data faster channel access chance than non real-time data and enhances QoS.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.650-652
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• 2013

VANET(Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork)은 도로에서의 안전, 효율, 안락함을 향상시키고, 상업적인 정보나 혹은 인터넷 접속과 같은 다른 부가 가치 서비스들을 제공하므로, ITS(Intelligent Transportation System)를 위한 가장 중요한 기술이라 할 수 있다. 그러나 VANET에서 더 나은 통신효율을 위해서는 보안을 희생시키거나, 보안을 위해서는 통신 효율을 희생시키고 있지만, VANET은 이 둘 중 어느 것도 없어서는 안 된다. 따라서, 본 논문은 이 둘을 모두 해결하기 위하여 차량 간에 일관성이 없는 비정상적인 데이터나 중복되는 데이터를 없애고, 메시지 무결성을 검증하는 MAC(Message Authentication Code) 기반 SDAP(Secure Data Aggregation Protocol)를 제안한다. MAC 기반 SDAP는 데이터 전달의 효율성을 향상시킬 뿐만 아니라 전파 방해 공격, 위조 공격, 위장 공격과 같은 악의적인 공격도 탐지함으로써 VANET 보안을 강화시킬 수 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.524-532
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• 2012

In this paper, we present the performance evaluation of the reliable cooperative media access control (RCO-MAC) protocol, which has been proposed in [1] by us in order to enhance system throughput in bad wireless channel environments. The performance of this protocol is evaluated with computer simulation as well as mathematical analysis in this paper. The system throughput, two types of average delays, average channel access delay, and average system delay, which includes the queuing delay in the buffer, are used as performance metrics. In addition, two different traffic models are used for performance evaluation: The saturated traffic model for computing system throughput and average channel access delay, and the exponential data generation model for calculating average system delay. The numerical results show that the RCO-MAC protocol proposed by us provides over 20% more system throughput than the relay distributed coordination function (rDCF) scheme. The numerical results show that the RCO-MAC protocol provides a slightly higher average channel access delay over a greater number of source nodes than the rDCF. This is because a greater number of source nodes provide more opportunities for cooperative request to send (CRTS) frame collisions and because the value of the related retransmission timer is greater in the RCO-MAC protocol than in the rDCF protocol. The numerical results also confirm that the RCO-MAC protocol provides better average system delay over the whole gamut of the number of source nodes than the rDCF protocol.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.1109-1119
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• 2009

최근 무선 인터넷 수요의 증가와 더불어 WLAN의 표준화 작업도 활발히 진행 중이다. IEEE 802.11e에서 통신 품질 보장과 함께 데이터 전송속도가 54Mbps 이상의 성능을 보이고 있지만 아직까지 사용자들의 요구에 부응하지 못하고 있는 것이 현실이다. IEEE802.11e다음 버전인 IEEE 802.11n의 연구 동향은 크게 두 가지로 MAC 계층에서 패킷 간의 Aggregation을 통하여 시스템 처리량을 높인 결과와 PHY 계층에서 MIMO 시스템을 적용하여 데이터 전송속도를 높인 결과로 정리될 수 있다. 그러나 아직까지 MAC 계층과 PHY 계층의 연동을 고려하여 IEEE 802.11n의 성능 분석을 보인 결과는 발표되지 않았다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11n 시스템에서 MAC계층과 PHY 계층의 연동을 고려하여 성능을 분석한다. MAC 계층에서의 A-MPDU 기반 하에 PHY 계층에서 MIMO 방식을 적용한다. MIMO 방식은 실내용 WLAN MIMO TGn 채널 모델의 사용과 함께 SVD 기법을 적용하여 분석하였고, 결과적으로 기존의 방식에 비해 데이터 전송속도의 증가와 처리량이 향상되었음을 보인다. 또한, MAC과 PHY의 연동을 고려하여 현실성 있는 시뮬레이터인 Ns-2를 사용하기로 한다.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.229-241
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• 2018

Microalgae are likely to become a part of our everyday diet in the near future as they are considered to be rich in proteins, carbohydrates, and high density lipoproteins. They will play a pivotal role in the food cycle of many people around the globe. Use of microalgae in treating wastewater is also one of the disciplines which are luring researchers as this contributes to a sustainable way of exploiting resources while keeping the environment safe. In addition, microalgal biomass also has the potential to be used as a feedstock for producing biofuel, bio fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and other bio-based products. This review presents the different value-added products obtained from microalgal biomass and the applicability of these products commercially.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2001년도 추계학술대회논문집 II
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• pp.665-670
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• 2001

The purpose of this paper is to verify a finite element model of an automotive exhaust system using Modal testing. In general, a lot of finite element models are used in initial design step of automotive development. One of them is a finite element model of an exhaust system. Verification on the finite element model of an automotive exhaust system is indispensable. In this paper, a finite element analysis on the exhaust system using MSC/NASTRAN is carried out, and the results are compared with those obtained by modal testing. By comparing MAC values of the analytical modes with the experimental modes, the finite element model of the automotive exhaust system is verified.