• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.360-366
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• 2011

In this paper, we investigate the problem of power allocation in a heterogeneous network that is composed of a pair of cognitive users (CUs) and an infrastructure-based primary network. Since CUs have only limited effective spectrum-sensing ability and primary users (PUs) are not active all the time in all locations and licensed bands, we set up a new multi-area model to characterize the heterogeneous network. A novel combined interference-avoidance policy corresponding to different PU-appearance situations is introduced to protect the primary network from unacceptable disturbance and to increase the spectrum secondary-reuse efficiency. We use dual decomposition to transform the original power allocation problem into a two-layer optimization problem. We propose a low-complexity joint power-optimizing method to maximize the transmission rate between CUs, taking into account both the individual power-transmission constraints and the combined interference power constraint of the PUs. Numerical results show that for various values of the system parameters, the proposed joint optimization method with combined PU protection is significantly better than the opportunistic spectrum access mode and other heuristic approaches.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.369-378
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• 2021

In this study, we investigated the effects of indole on biofilm formation inhibition in Pantoea agglomerans (P. agglomerans). In the biofilm growth assay, indole inhibited biofilm formation across all the growth time. Depending on biofilm growth stage, indole exhibited biofilm inhibition and anti-bacterial effects on planktonic cells. Through the analysis of the proportion rate between biofilm and Colony Forming Units (CFU) and inhibition rate of indole, we confirmed that depending on the biofilm stage of P. agglomerans, indole treatment timing was more important than the treatment duration. By comparing gene expression rates through rt-qPCR P.agglomerans affected by indole was found to significantly change quorum sensing (pagI/R) and indole transportation (bssS) gene expressions. Throughout all, indole exhibited both antimicrobial and anti-biofilm effects on P. agglomerans. In addition, we confirmed the anti-biofilm effects of indole on mature biofilm. In conclusion, indole as a signal molecule, can exhibit anti-biofilm effects through bacterial quorum sensing inhibition and indole affects. Therefore, indole can regulate biofilm bacteria especially gram-negative opportunistic pathogens.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.795-803
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• 2024

Microorganisms usually coexist as a multifaceted polymicrobial community in the natural habitats and at mucosal sites of the human body. Two opportunistic human pathogens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus commonly coexist in the bacterial infections for hospitalized and/or immunocompromised patients. Here, we observed that autolysis of the P. aeruginosa quorum-sensing (QS) mutant (lasRmvfR) was suppressed by the presence of the S. aureus cells in vitro. The QS mutant still displayed killing against S. aureus cells, suggesting the link between the S. aureus-killing activity and the autolysis suppression. Independent screens of the P. aeruginosa transposon mutants defective in the S. aureus-killing and the S. aureus transposon mutants devoid of the autolysis suppression revealed the genetic link between both phenotypes, suggesting that the iron-dependent metabolism involving S. aureus exoproteins might be central to both phenotypes. The autolysis was suppressed by iron treatment as well. These results suggest that the interaction between P. aeruginosa and S. aureus might be governed by mechanisms that necessitate the QS circuitry as well as the metabolism involving the extracellular iron resources during the polymicrobial infections in the human airway.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2011

최근 들어 무선인지 애드 혹 네트워크(CRAHN)는 임시적으로 활용되지 않은 라이선스 스펙트럼을 기회주의적 방법으로 사용하여 통신하는 차세대 애드 혹 네트워크로 각광받고 있다. 여타 무선인지 시스템에서와 같이, 정확한 스펙트럼 센싱은 무선인지 애드 혹 네트워크 구현을 위한 필수 요소 기술이다. 중앙 제어국 중심의 협력 스펙트럼 센싱 기법은 센싱 성능을 향상 시킬 수 있으나, 무선인지 애드 혹 네트워크와 같은 비인프라망에서는 중앙 제어국이 없어 협력 센싱 구현이 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 무선인지 애드 혹 네트워크를 위한 새로운 순차적 협력 스펙트럼 센싱 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 Dempster Shafer 이론 기반으로 국부 스펙트럼 센싱 데이터의 신뢰도가 가장 높은 인지 노드가 임시 중앙국이 되어 주변 센서 노드로부터 스펙트럼 센싱값을 수집하여 스펙트럼 사용 유무에 대한 최종 결정을 만들고 그 최종 결정을 이웃 노드들에게 전송한다. 또한 본 논문에서는 분산 방법으로 개별 인지 노드들이 자신의 센싱 데이터를 효율적으로 교환하기 위한, 센싱데이터 신뢰도 순서 기반의 전송 메커니즘을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 방식은 기존 중앙 제어국 중심의 협력 스펙트럼 센싱 기법과 유사한 스펙트럼 센싱 성능을 제공하는 동시에, 최종 스펙트럼 결정까지 소요되는 센싱 데이터 수집시간 및 교환되는 센싱 데이터 량을 현저히 줄일 수 있음을 보였다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2018

In wireless communication, efficient spectrum usage is an issue that has been an attractive research area for many technologies. Recently new technologies innovations allow compact radios to transmit with power efficient communication over very long distances. For example, Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) are an attractive emerging platform to connect the Internet-of-Things (IoT). Especially, LoRa is one of LPWAN technologies and considered as an infrastructure solution for IoT. End-devices use LoRa protocol across a single wireless hop to communicate to gateway(s) connected to the internet which acts as a bridge and relays message between these LoRa end-devices to a central network server. The use of the (ISM) spectrum sharing for such long-range networking motivates us to implement spectrum sensing testbed for cognitive radio network based on LoRa and GNU radio. In cognitive radio (CR), secondary users (SUs) are able to sense and use this information to opportunistically access the licensed spectrum band in absence of the primary users (PUs). In general, PUs have not been very receptive of the idea of opportunistic spectrum sharing. That is, CR will harmfully interfere with operations of PUs. Subsequently, there is a need for experimenting with different techniques in a real system. In this paper, we implemented spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks based on LoRa and GNU Radio, and further analyzed corresponding performances of the implemented systems. The implementation is done using Microchip LoRa evolution kits, USRPs, and GNU radio.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2015년도 제52차 하계학술대회논문집 23권2호
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• pp.279-281
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• 2015

Location awareness is an important capability for mobile-based indoor services. Those indoor services have motivated the implementation of methods that need high computational load cost and complex mechanisms for positioning prediction. These mechanisms, such as opportunistic sensing and machine learning, require more energy consumption to achieve accuracy. In this paper, we propose the Bluetooth Low Energy indoor zone detection (BLEIZOD) technique. This method exploits the concept of proximity zone to reduce the load cost and complexity. Our proposed method implements the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) function more effectively to gain accuracy and reduce energy consumption.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.1288-1290
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• 2007

Congestion in WSN increases energy dissipation rates of sensor nodes as well as loss of packets and thereby hinders fair and reliable event detections. We find that one of the key reasons of congestion in WSN is allowing sensing nodes to transfer as many packets as possible. This is due to the use of CSMA/CA that gives opportunistic media access control. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient congestion avoidance protocol that includes source count based hierarchical and load adaptive medium access control. Our proposed mechanism ensures load adaptive media access to the nodes and thus achieves fairness in event detection. The results of simulation show our scheme exhibits more than 90% delivery ratio with retry limit 1, even under bursty traffic condition which is good enough for reliable event perception.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권9A호
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• pp.853-866
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.22 기반의 인지라디오 시스템에서 다중 홉 릴레이 방식의 적용 방안을 제안한다. 먼저, 중계기를 통한 전송 시나리오를 가정하고 이를 지원하기 위한 물리 채널 프레임 구조를 예시한다. 다음으로, 분산 감지 (distributed sensing) 방식을 이용한 가용 채널 결정 방식을 제안하고 이를 토대로, 기지국 중심의 중앙집중형 (centralized) 채널 할당 기법 및 릴레이 전송을 위한 중계기 선택 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 그리고 수학적 해석과 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능 분석 결과는 제안한 다중 홉 릴레이 방식이 중계기를 사용하지 않은 기존의 인지 라디오 시스템에 비해 스펙트럼 이용효율과 시스템 수율 측면에서 성능 향상이 있음을 보여준다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.220-227
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• 2022

The spread of antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, a gram-positive opportunistic pathogen, has increased due to the frequent use of antibiotics. Inhibition of the quorum-sensing systems of biofilm-producing strains using plant extracts represents an efficient approach for controlling infections. Torilis japonica is a medicinal herb showing various bioactivities; however, no studies have reported the anti-biofilm effects of T. japonica extracts against drug-resistant S. aureus. In this study, we evaluated the inhibitory effects of T. japonica ethanol extract (TJE) on biofilm production in methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) KCTC 1927, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) KCCM 40510, and MRSA KCCM 40511. Biofilm assays showed that TJE could inhibit biofilm formation in all strains. Furthermore, the hemolysis of sheep blood was found to be reduced when the strains were treated with TJE. The mRNA expression of agrA, sarA, icaA, hla, and RNAIII was evaluated using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction to determine the effect of TJE on the regulation of genes encoding quorum sensing-related virulence factors in MSSA and MRSA. The expression of hla reduced in a concentration-dependent manner upon treatment with TJE. Moreover, the expression levels of other genes were significantly reduced compared to those in the control group. In conclusion, TJE can suppress biofilm formation and virulence factor-related gene expression in MSSA and MRSA strains. The extract may therefore be used to develop treatments for infections caused by antibiotic-resistant S. aureus.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.6-10
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• 2015

무선 에너지 하비스팅 기술은 주로 무선 통신 네트워크에서 전력소모가 적은 무선 통신 장치들을 동작시키기 위해 주변 환경으로부터 RF 신호를 수집, 에너지로 변환하는 기술로 최근 각광을 받고 있다. 이와 같은 기술과 기존의 인지무선(Cognitive Radio) 네트워크 모델을 기반으로, 본 논문에서는 적은 파워 소비를 하는 2차 유저(Secondary User)가 근처에서 동작 중인 1차 유저(Primary User)의 특정 거리 안에 존재할 때 1차 유저가 전송한 통신 신호로부터 무선에너지 하비스팅을 하고 특정 거리 밖에 존재할 때 우선 사용자에게 할당되어 있는 허가대역을 주기적으로 센싱, 선택적으로 접근하는 무선에너지 하비스팅 인지무선 네트워크 모델을 제시한다. 이 때 1차 유저와 2차 유저는 Poisson pont process로 분포되어있고 통신을 하고 있는 수신자들과 일정한 거리로 떨어져있다. 위와 같은 네트워크 모델에서 주어진 여러 가지 조건하에 2차 유저 네트워크 처리량을 최대화할 수 있는 최적의 프레임 주기, 전송파워, 2차 유저 밀도 제안하고 앞으로의 연구방향을 제시한다.