• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.355-364
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• 2008

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems can provide significant increments in capacity; however, the capacity of MIMO systems degrades severely when spatial correlation among multipath channels is present. This paper demonstrates that the influence of shadowing on the channel capacity is more substantial than that of multipath fading; therefore, the shadowing effect is actually the dominant impairment. To overcome the composite fading effects, we propose combining macroscopic selection diversity (MSD) schemes with MIMO technology. To analyze the system performance, the capacity outage expression of MIMO-based MSD (MSD-MIMO) systems using a characteristic function is applied. The analytic results show that there are significant improvements when MSD schemes are applied, even for the two-base-station diversity case. It is also observed that the effect of spatial correlation due to multipath fading is almost negligible when multiple base stations cooperatively participate in the mobile communication topology.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.163-174
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• 2008

Performance of downlink transmission strategies exploiting cooperative transmit diversity is investigated for distributed multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems, for which geographically distributed remote antennas (RA) in a cell can either communicate with distinct mobile stations (MS) or cooperate for a common MS. Statistical characteristics in terms of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and the achievable capacity are analyzed for both cooperative and non-cooperative transmission schemes, and the preferred mode of operation for given channel conditions is presented using the analysis result. In particular, we determine an exact amount of the maximum achievable gain in capacity when RAs for signal transmission are selected based on the instantaneous channel condition, by deriving a general expression for the SINR of such antenna selection based transmission. For important special cases of selecting a single RA for non-cooperative transmission and selecting two RAs for cooperative transmission among three RAs surrounding the MS, closed-form formulas are presented for the SINR and capacity distributions.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.62-69
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose two novel user selection algorithms for multiuser multiple-input and multiple-output downlink wireless systems, in which both a base station (BS) and mobile stations (MSs) are equipped with multiple antennas. Linear transmit beamforming at the BS and receive combining at the MSs are used to avoid interference between users and find a better sum-rate capacity performance. An optimal technique for selecting users would entail an exhaustive search, which in practice becomes computationally complex for a realistic number of users. Suboptimal algorithms with low complexity are proposed for a coordinated beamforming scheme. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithms is better than that provided by previous algorithms and is very close to an optimal approach with reduced complexity.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.1406-1423
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• 2014

Multi-mode device which combines multiple access technologies into a device will offer more cost-effective solution than a sole access implementation. Its concurrent multipath transfer (CMT) technology can transmit media flows over multiple end-to-end paths simultaneously, which is essential to select at least two paths from all available paths. At real networks, different paths are likely to overlap each other and even share bottleneck, which can weaken the path diversity gained through CMT. Spurred by this observation, it is necessary to select multiple independent paths as much as possible to avoid underlying shared bottleneck between topologically joint paths. Recent research in this context has shown that different paths with shared bottleneck can weaken the path diversity gained through CMT. In our earlier work, a grouping-based multipath selection (GMS) mechanism is introduced and developed. However, how to estimating the selection is still to be resolved. In this paper, we firstly introduce a Selection Correctness Index (SCI) to evaluate the correctness of selection results in actual CMT experiment. Therefore, this metric is helpful to discuss and validate the accuracy of the output paths. From extensive experiments with a realized prototype, the proposed scheme provides better evaluation tool and criterion in various network conditions.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권12호
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• pp.1319-1332
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• 2017

최근 스포츠 중계에 동원되는 카메라 대수가 증가함에 따라 수많은 카메라 화면 중 순간적으로 최고의 화면을 고르는데 어려움이 있다. 지금까지 스포츠 경기를 촬영한 영상들에서 자동으로 최고의 화면을 선택하는 방법들이 연구되어 왔지만 배경이 고정된 영상들만을 고려해 배경이 움직이는 영상들을 고려하는 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 각 영상 별로 관심선수를 추적하여 획득한 영상 내 관심선수 영역을 대상으로 관심선수의 활동량, 얼굴 가시성, 다른 선수와의 겹침 정도, 이미지 블러 현상 정도를 매 프레임 마다 정량적으로 나타내어 정량화된 값을 기반으로 최고의 화면을 선택한다. 이렇게 선택된 베스트 뷰를 20명의 일반 사람들에게 베스트 뷰와 워스트 뷰를 선택하게 하여 사람들이 선택한 베스트 뷰, 워스트 뷰와 비교한 결과 베스트 뷰와 일치율이 54.5%로 낮았지만 반대로 워스트 뷰와 일치율이 9%로 확실히 사람들이 선호하지 않는 화면은 선택하지 않는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.389-405
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• 2014

Outdated Channel State Information (CSI) was proved to have negative effect on performance in two-way relay networks. The diversity order of widely used opportunistic relay selection (ORS) was degraded to unity in networks with outdated CSI. This paper proposed a multiple relay selection scheme for amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way relay networks (TWRN) with outdated CSI. In this scheme, two sources exchange information through more than one relays. We firstly select N best relays out of all candidate relays with respect to signal-noise ratio (SNR). Then, the ratios of the SNRs on the rest of the candidate relays to that of the Nth highest SNR are tested against a normalized threshold ${\mu}{\in}[0,1]$, and only those relays passing this test are selected in addition to the N best relays. Expressions of outage probability, average bit error rate (BER) and ergodic channel capacity were obtained in closed-form for the proposed scheme. Numerical results and Simulations verified our theoretical analyses, and showed that the proposed scheme had significant gains comparing with conventional ORS.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 각 홉에서 다중 안테나를 가지는 노드 간 채널 환경을 고려하여 가장 좋은 성능을 가지는 하나의 안테나와 하나의 중계기를 동시에 선택하는 시스템을 제안하며, 제안된 시스템의 성능을 분석한다. 다중 채널을 통해 다수의 수신 신호를 받아 MRC(Maximal Ratio Combining) 기법을 이용하여 다이버시티를 얻는 일반적인 시스템은 상대적으로 열악한 채널을 통과하는 신호 또한 수신하며, 이는 곧 시스템의 성능 저하로 이어지는 결과를 얻는다. 제안하는 시스템은 송신단-중계기, 중계기-수신단 간의 모든 채널 환경을 고려하여 가장 좋은 채널을 통해서만 데이터를 전송함으로써 열악한 채널을 통과하는 신호의 수신을 차단함으로써 성능을 향상시킨다. 따라서 가장 좋은 채널상의 안테나와 중계기를 동시에 선택하는 과정을 거치며, 이를 구현하기 위해 단일 중계기만을 선택하고 각 홉에서는 단일 안테나만을 이용할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4326-4341
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• 2016

In this paper, an adjustable multiple relay selection (MRS) scheme for cooperative communication with amplify-and-forward (AF) relay under frequency selective channels is proposed. In the proposed scheme, the relays are ordered firstly by the steady-state mean square error (MSE), then the relays are sequentially selected out from N relays and the number of cooperating relays is adjusted dynamically according to the steady-state mean square joint error (MSJE). The aim of this work is to dynamically estimate the optimum number N_o of cooperating relays. Optimum means the minimum number of cooperating relays, N_o, achieving the minimum level of steady-state MSJE. Numerical results verify the analyses and show that the scheme can adaptively adjust the number of cooperating relays, and outperform conventional relay selection schemes. Hence, the proposed scheme provides better tradeoff between BER performance and spectral efficiency and to save more energy in cooperative wireless networks.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2000

For the rapid selection of higher recombinant hirudin producing strain in a methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha, a multiple gene integration and dose-dependent selection vector, based on a telomere-associated ARS and a bacterial aminoglycoside 3-phosphotransferase (aph) gene, was adopted. Two hirudin expression cassettes (HV1 and HV2) were constructed using the MOX promoter of H. polymorpha and the mating factor $\alpha$ secretion signal of S. cerevisiae. Multiple integrants of a transforming vector containing hirudin expression cassettes were easily selected by using an antibiotic, G418. Hirudin expression level and integrated plasmid copy number of the tested transformants increased with increasing the concentration of G418 used for selection. The expression level of HV1 was consistently higher than that of HV2 under the similar conditions, suggesting that the gene context might be quite important for the high-level gene expression in H. polymorpha. The highest hirudin producing strain selected in this study produced over 96 mg/L of biologically active hirudin in a 500-mL flask and 165 mg/L in a 5-L fermentor.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2009

A two-stage damage detection method is proposed and demonstrated for structural health monitoring. In the first stage, the subset selection method is applied for the identification of the multiple damage locations. In the second stage, the damage severities of the identified damaged elements are determined applying SSGA to solve the optimization problem. In this method, the sensitivities of residual force vectors with respect to damage parameters are employed for the subset selection process. This approach is particularly efficient in detecting multiple damage locations. The SEREP is applied as needed to expand the identified mode shapes while using a limited number of sensors. Uncertainties in the stiffness of the elements are also considered as a source of modeling errors to investigate their effects on the performance of the proposed method in detecting damage in real-life structures. Through a series of illustrative examples, the proposed two-stage damage detection method is demonstrated to be a reliable tool for identifying and quantifying multiple damage locations within diverse structural systems.