• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.1112-1121
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• 2011

A microgrid is an aggregation of multiple distributed generators (DGs) such as renewable energy sources, conventional generators, and energy storage systems that provide both electric power and thermal energy. Generally, a microgrid operates in parallel with the main grid. However, there are cases in which a microgrid operates in islanded mode, or in a disconnected state. Islanded microgrid can change its operational mode to grid-connected operation by reconnection to the grid, which is referred to as synchronization. Generally, a single machine simply synchronizes with the grid using a synchronizer. However, the synchronization of microgrid that operate with multiple DGs and loads cannot be controlled by a traditional synchronizer, but needs to control multiple generators and energy storage systems in a coordinated way. This is not a simple job, considering that a microgrid consists of various power electronics-based DGs as well as alternator-based generators that produce power together. This paper introduces the results of research examining an active synchronizing control system that consists of the network-based coordinated control of multiple DGs. Consequently, it provides the microgrid with a deterministic and reliable reconnection to the grid. The proposed method is verified by using the test cases with the experimental setup of a microgrid pilot plant.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.544-544
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• 2014

Energy harvesting technology, which scavenges electric power from ambient, otherwise wasted, energy sources, has been explored to develop self-powered wireless sensors and possibly eliminate the battery replacement cost for wireless sensors. Among ambient energy sources, vibration energy can be converted into electric power through a piezoelectric energy harvester. For the last decade, although tremendous advances have been made in design methodology to maximize harvestable electric power under a given vibration condition, the research in reliability assessment to ensure durability has been stagnant due to the complicated nature of the multiple failure modes of a piezoelectric energy harvester, such as the interfacial delamination, fatigue failure, and dynamic fracture. Therefore, this study presents the first-ever system reliability analysis for multiple failure modes of a piezoelectric energy harvester using the Generalized Complementary Intersection Method (GCIM), while accounts for the energy conversion performance. The GCIM enables to decompose the probabilities of high-order joint failure events into probabilities of complementary intersection events. The electromechanically-coupled analytical model is implemented based on the Kirchhoff plate theory to analyze its output performances of a piezoelectric energy harvester. Since a durable as well as efficient design of a piezoelectric energy harvester is significantly important in sustainably utilizing self-powered electronics, we believe that technical development on system reliability analysis will have an immediate and major impact on piezoelectric energy harvesting technology.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.293-304
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between materialism and conspicuous consumption, and information sources. Data were administered to 357 women living in Sunchon from June to July 1999. For analysis of the data, factor analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, duncan's multiple range test, and multiple regression analysis were employed. The results of this study were summarized as follows. 1) Materialism was shown to have the significant differences according to age, marriage, education, occupation, social stratification groups. The higher the education, occupational status, social stratification groups and the lower the age is, or unmarried, the higher is materialism. The use of information sources were shown to have the significant differences according to age, marriage, education, occupation, income, social stratification groups. The higher the education, income, social stratification groups. The higher the education, income, occupational status, social stratification groups and the lower the age is, or unmarried, the higher is use of information. 2) Materialism was shown to have the significant differences according to the groups of conspicuous consumption. The higher conspicuous consumption is, the higher is materialism. The use of information were shown to have the significant differences according to groups of conspicuous consumption. The higher conspicuous consumption is, the higher is use of information. 3) The use of information were shown to have the significant differences according to materialism. The higher materialism is, the higher is use of information. 4) According to the results of the regression analysis examining the relative influences of variables affecting information, the relative importance of the variables are in order of ; happiness-pursuable materialism, conspicuous consumption and their explanatory power totalled 18.6%.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2021

As IoT(Internet Of Things) devices like a smart sensor have constrained power sources, a power strategy is critical in WSN(Wireless Sensor Networks). Therefore, it is necessary to figure out the residual power of each sensor node for managing power strategies in WSN, which, however, requires additional data transmission, leading to more power consumption. In this paper, a residual power estimation method was proposed, which uses ignorantly small amount of power consumption in the resource-constrained wireless networks including WSN. A residual power prediction is possible with the least data transmission by using Machine Learning method with some training data in this proposal. The performance of the proposed scheme was evaluated by machine learning method, simulation, and analysis.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.123-129
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 이중 마이크로폰 배열을 이용하여 비음수 행렬분해(nonnegative matrix factorization, NMF) 기반으로 다중음원의 도래각을 추정하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 우선 이중 마이크로폰 배열에 들어온 음향 신호들을 연속된 분석프레임으로 분할한 후, 각 프레임에 대해 조향응답파워 위상변환(steered-response power phase transform, SRP-PHAT) 빔형성기를 적용하여 스테레오 신호들을 시간-방향 영역으로 표현한다. 이러한 SRP-PHAT의 시간-방향 출력값들은 사전에 정의된 프레임 수만큼 누적하여 시간-방향 블록으로 정의한다. 다음으로, 잡음에 강건한 도래각 추정을 위하여, 각 시간-방향 블록을 블록차감 기법을 사용하여 매 프레임에 대해 정규화한다. 이후, 다중음원 환경에서 각 음원의 방향을 클러스터링하기 위해 정규화된 시간-방향 블록에 비지도(unsupervised) NMF를 적용한다. 구체적으로, 음원의 개수와 이들의 도래각을 추정하는데 각각 활성 및 기저 행렬들을 사용한다. 제안된 방법의 도래각 추정 성능을 평가하기 위해 이중 마이크로폰 배열로부터 입력된 [$-35{\circ}$, 5m], [$12{\circ}$, 4m], 그리고 [$38{\circ}$, 4.m]에 각각 위치한 세 가지 음원들에 대한 추정 오차의 절대 평균(mean absolute error, MAE) 및 오차의 표준편차를 측정하였다. 실험 결과. 제안된 방법은 기존의 SRP-PHAT 기반 도래각 추정방법에 비해 상대적으로 MAE를 56.83% 줄일 수 있었다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.119-124
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• 2015

본 논문은 광원 라인폭이 spectral amplitude coding (SAC) OCDMA 시스템에 미치는 영향을 구하였다. q와 m값에 따라 다양한 코드를 구현할 수 있으므로 symmetric balance incomplete block design(BIBD) 코드를 분석에 사용하였다. 그 결과 입력파워가 큰 경우 ($P_{sr}=-10dBm$) 이상적인 BIBD 코드가 비이상적인 BIBD 코드보다 더 좁은 광원 라인폭이 요구되었다. 그러나 입력파워가 작은 경우 ($P_{sr}=-25dBm$)에는 그 반대로 비이상적인 BIBD 코드가 이상적인 BIBD 코드보다 더 좁은 광원 라인폭이 필요했다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1418-1432
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• 2013

This paper studies the problem of secure information exchange between two sources via multiple relays in the presence of an eavesdropper. To this end, we propose a relay beamforming scheme, i.e., relay beamforming with artificial noise (RBwA), where the relay beamforming vector and the artificial noise vector are jointly designed to maintain the received signal-to-interference-ratio (SINR) at the two sources over a predefined Quality of Service (QoS) threshold while limiting the received SINR at the eavesdropper under a predefined secure threshold. For comparison, the relay beamforming without artificial noise (RBoA) is also considered. We formulate two optimization problems for the two schemes, where our goal is to seek the optimal beamforming vector to minimize the total power consumed by relay nodes such that the secrecy of the information exchange between the two sources can be protected. Since both optimization problems are nonconvex, we solve them by semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation theory. Simulation results show that, via beamforming design, physical layer secrecy of two-way relay networks can be greatly improved and our proposed RBwA outperforms the RBoA in terms of both low power consumption and low infeasibility rate.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.241-246
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• 2015

In this paper, we consider a relaying system which employs a single relay in a wireless network with distributed sources and destinations. Here, all source, destination, and relay nodes are equipped with multiple antennas. For amplify-and-forward relay systems, we confirm the achievable sum rate through a joint multiple source precoders and a single relay filter design. To this end, we propose a new linear processing scheme in terms of maximizing the sum rate performance by applying a blockwise relaying method combined with geometric programming techniques. By allowing the global channel knowledge at the source nodes, we show that this joint design problem is formulated as a standard geometric program, which can guarantees a global optimal value under the modified sum rate criterion. Simulation results show that the proposed blockwise relaying scheme with the joint power allocation method provides substantial sum rate gain compared to the conventional schemes.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.556-558
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• 1995

This paper presents a new simplified method for finding the multiple load flow solutions and through their solutions the voltage stability can be evaluated. Line flow($P_{ij}$, $Q_{ij}$) may be formulated with the second-order equations for $V_{i}^{2}$ in polar coordinates or two circle equations for $e_{i}$ and $f_{i}$ in rectangular coordinates. Based on this feature, multiple load flow solutions are calculated with simple works, results of multiple load flow solutions are used for sensitivity analysis of voltage stability. Also, in the case that reactive power sources is considered, method of evaluating the voltage stability is introduced. The proposed method was validated to 2-bus and IEEE 6-bus system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.625-634
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• 2014

This paper studies a dual-hop multiple-access relay network where two independent source nodes transmit information to a common destination node with the aid of multiple single-antenna amplify-and-forward relays. Each relay node is subject to an individual power constraint. We focus on the design of distributed beamforming schemes for the relays to support the transmission rate requirements of the two sources. To this end, we first characterize the achievable rate region for this network via solving a sequence of corner point optimization problems proposed in this paper. We also develop several low-complexity suboptimal schemes in closed form. Two inner bounds of the achievable rate region are theoretically shown to be approximately optimal in two special scenarios. Finally, numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approaches.