• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1321-1332
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• 2016

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are self-organized networks that typically consist of thousands of low-cost, low-powered sensor nodes. The reliability and availability of WSNs can be affected by faults, including those from radio interference, battery exhaustion, hardware and software failures, communication link errors, malicious attacks, and so on. Thus, we propose a novel multi-agent fault tolerant system for wireless sensor networks. Since a major requirement of WSNs is to reduce energy consumption, we use multi-agent and mobile agent configurations to manage WSNs that provide energy-efficient services. Mobile agent architecture have inherent advantages in that they provide energy awareness, scalability, reliability, and extensibility. Our multi-agent system consists of a resource manager, a fault tolerance manager and a load balancing manager, and we also propose fault-tolerant protocols that use multi-agent and mobile agent setups.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.491-503
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• 2022

Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are continuously scaling down in the nanoscale region to improve the functionality of integrated circuits. The scaling down of MOSFET devices causes short-channel effects in the nanoscale region. In nanoscale region, leakage current components are increasing, resulting in substantial power dissipation. Very large-scale integration designers are constantly exploring different effective methods of mitigating the power dissipation. In this study, a transistor-level input-controlled stacking (ICS) approach is proposed for minimizing significant power dissipation. A low-power ICS approach is extensively discussed to verify its importance in low-power applications. Circuit reliability is monitored for process and voltage and temperature variations. The ICS approach is designed and simulated using Cadence's tools and compared with existing low-power and high-speed techniques at a 22-nm technology node. The ICS approach decreases power dissipation by 84.95% at a cost of 5.89 times increase in propagation delay, and improves energy dissipation reliability by 82.54% compared with conventional circuit for a ring oscillator comprising 5-inverters.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.330-339
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• 2006

This paper deals with novel electronic ballast based on single-stage power processing topology using a symmetrical half-bridge inverter and current injection circuit. The half-bridge inverter drives the output parallel resonant circuit and injects current through the power factor correction (PFC) circuit. Because of high frequency current injection and high frequency modulated voltage, the proposed circuit maintains the unity power factor (UPF) with low THD even under wide variation in ac input voltage. This circuit needs minimum and lower sized components to achieve the UPF and high efficiency. This leads to an increase in reliability of ballast at low cost. Furthermore, to reduce cost, the electronic ballast is designed for two series-connected fluorescent lamps (FL). The analysis and experimental results are presented for ($2{\times}36$ Watt) fluorescent lamps operating at 50 kHz switching frequency and input line voltage (230 V, 50 Hz).

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2021

We propose a novel, tiny optical receiver engine utilizing an all-in-one package based on embedded optics technology. The package's best transmission S21 and reflection S22 opto-electric (OE) bandwidths are 49.8 GHz and 34.9 GHz, respectively, and the reflectance of the optical engine is below -31.7 dB for all channels. The engine satisfies the MIL-STD-883G standard for reliability tests, such as mechanical and thermal shock, and vibration resistance. The sensitivity after 10 km single-mode fiber (SMF) transmission is below -8 dBm. The optical receiver engine is cost-competitive and applicable for 400G coarse wavelength division multiplexing 4 (CWDM4) 10 km optical transceivers.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제2B권3호
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• pp.125-132
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• 2002

PMSMS (permanent magnet synchronous motors) are widely used in industrial applications and home appliances because of their high torque to inertia ratio, superior power density, and high efficiency. For high performance control, accurate informations about the rotor position is essential. Sensorless algorithms have lately been studied extensively due to the high cost of position sensors and their low reliability in harsh environments. A novel position sensorless speed control for PMSMs uses indirect flux estimation and is presented in this paper. Rotor position and angular velocity are estimated by the proposed indirect flux estimation. Linkage flux and magnetic field flux are calculated by the voltage equations and the measured phase current without any integration. Instead of linkage flux calculation with integral operation, indirect flux and differential magnetic field are used for the estimation of rotor position. A proper rejection technique fur current noise effect in the calculation of differential linkage flux is introduced. The proposed indirect flux detecting method is free from the integral rounding error and linkage flux drift problem, because differential linkage flux can be calculated without any integral operation. Furthermore, electrical parameters of the PMSM can be measured by the proposed TCM (time compression method) for soft starting and precise estimation of rotor position. The position estimator uses accurate electrical parameters that are obtained from the proposed TCM at starting strategy. In the operating region, a proper compensation method fur temperature effect can compensate fir the estimation error from the variation of electrical parameters. The proposed novel position sensorless speed control scheme is verified by the experimental results.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.319-335
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• 2012

In this study, we design an applicable model enabling internet protocol television (IPTV) service providers to use a virtual network (VN) for IPTV service delivery. The model addresses the guaranteed service delivery, cost effectiveness, flexible control, and scalable network infrastructure limitations of backbone or IP overlay-based content networks. There are two major challenges involved in this research: i) The design of an efficient, cost effective, and reliable virtual network topology (VNT) for IPTV service delivery and the handling of a VN allocation failure by infrastructure providers (InPs) and ii) the proper approach to reduce the cost of VNT recontruction and reallocation caused by VNT allocation failure. Therefore, in this study, we design a more reliable virtual network topology for solving a single virtual node, virtual link, or video server failure. We develop a novel optimization objective and an efficient VN construction algorithm for building the proposed topology. In addition, we address the VN allocation failure problem by proposing VNT decomposition and reconstruction algorithms. Various simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed VNT, as well as that of the associated construction, decomposition, and reconstruction algorithms in terms of reliability and efficiency. The simulation results are compared with the findings of existing works, and an improvement in performance is observed.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2011

무선 센서 네트워크는 응용에 따라 실시간 전송, 전송 보장 등의 QoS 요구 사항들을 필요로 한다. 동시에 무선 센서 네트워크의 에너지 제약을 감안한 에너지 효율성도 만족 시켜줘야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 요구 사항들을 만족 시켜줄 수 있는 무선 센서 네트워크를 위한 라우팅 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 주변 노드의 정보만을 바탕으로 싱크 노드까지의 에너지 비용, 지연 시간, 신뢰성을 추정한다. 이 추정을 기반으로 경로를 선택하는 확률을 계산한다. 노드에서 패킷을 전송할 때 계산된 확률에 의해 다음 노드를 선택한다. 선택 확률은 싱크까지의 경로에 소모되는 에너지 비용과 반비례하도록 계산되기 때문에 에너지 비용이 적은 경로일수록 더 자주 선택된다. 실시간 전송을 위해서 제안 알고리즘은 패킷이 제 시간에 싱크까지 갈 수 있는 경로들 중에 선택된다. 신뢰성 있는 전송을 위해서는 노드가 패킷의 소스일 경우 추가 패킷을 다른 경로로 보내도록 할 수 있다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안 알고리즘이 에너지 효율성을 고려하면서 실시간 전송 및 신뢰성 전송을 향상 시킬 수 있음을 알 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.1700-1704
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 공통접속점에서 임의의 노치 발생을 가능하게 하는 새로운 방식의 컨버터를 제안하였다. 제안한 방식에서의 노치 크기, 폭, 위치, 극성 등은 임의로 제어가 가능하며 제어회로 또한 매우 간단히 구성된다. 제안 회로는 간단한 구성, 높은 신뢰도, 저렴한 비용, 고효율, 제어의 용이함 등의 장점을 갖는다. 제안한 방식의 컨버터는 전력품질 개선장치로 사용되고 있는 무정전 전원공급장치, DVR, 능동전력필터 등의 성능시험에 유용하게 활용 가능하다. 제안 회로에 대한 동작원리와 특성을 기술하였으며 그 유용성을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 입증하였다.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제2B권3호
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• pp.81-89
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• 2002

The sensorless AC motor drive is a popular topic of study due to the cost and reliability of speed and position sensors. Most sensorless algorithms are based on the mathematical modeling of motors including electrical variables such as phase current and voltage. Therefore, the accuracy of such variables largely affects the performance of the sensorless AC motor drive. However, the output voltage of the SVPWM-VSI, which is widely used in sensorless AC motor drives, has considerable errors. In particular, the SVPWM-VSI is error-prone in the low speed range because the constant DC link voltage causes poor resolution in a low output voltage command and the output voltage is distorted due to dead time and voltage drop. This paper investigates a novel high-performance strategy for overcoming these problems in a sensorless ac motor drive. In this paper, a variation of the DC link voltage and a direct compensation for dead time and voltage drop are proposed. The variable DC link voltage leads to an improved resolution of the inverter output voltage, especially in the motor's low speed range. The direct compensation for dead time and voltage drop directly calculates the duration of the switching voltage vector without the modification of the reference voltage and needs no additional circuits. In addition, the proposed strategy reduces a current ripple, which deteriorates the accuracy of a monitored current and causes torque ripple and additional loss. Simulation and experimentation have been performed to verify the proposed strategy.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.101-117
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 연결성, 신뢰성, 교통량 제약조건을 만족하는 최소 비용의 소형궤도차량 선로네트워크를 설계하기 위한 유전알고리즘을 제안한다. 소형궤도차량 시스템은 다수의 자동화된 차량들이 공중에 설치된 선로네트워크를 따라 움직이는 신개념 교통 시스템이다. 주어진 역의 위치와 역간 교통량 수요에 대해 최적의 선로네트워크를 구하는 문제는 소형궤도차량 시스템에 관련된 가장 중요한 문제 가운데 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 선로네트워크를 방향성 링크를 갖는 그래프로 표현하고 그 비용과 연결성, 신뢰성, 교통량을 수식화하였다. 이렇게 주어진 네트워크 성능지표를 바탕으로 선로네트워크 설계 문제에 적절한 연산자들로 구성된 유전알고리즘을 제안한다. 이 연산자들은 안정상태 선택 연산자, 수리 알고리즘, 방향성이 있는 돌연변이 연산자를 포함한다. 제안된 유전알고리즘의 적절한 변수를 결정하고 그 성능을 타 알고리즘과 비교하기 위한 실험을 수행하였다. 최대 210개의 링크를 갖는 선로네트워크에 대해 수행된 실험결과는 제안된 유전알고리즘이 적절한 시간 내에 만족스러운 해를 구할 수 있음을 보인다.