• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.18-23
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• 2008

This paper describes development of real-time condition monitoring system to observe state of a container crane in a port. To analyze the state of a crane, the strength and the direction of wind are measured with sensors along with the load resulted a crane at the moment. The measured signals are processed by especially developed conditioning board and converted into digital data. Measured data are analyzed to define the state of the crane at an indicator. For transmission of these data to the indicator, we implemented wireless sensor network based on IEEE 802.15.4 MAC(Media Access Control) protocol and Bluetooth network protocol. To extend the networking distance between the indicator and sensor nodes, the shortest path routing algorithm was applied for WSN(Wireless Sensor Network) networks. The indicator sends the state information of the crane to monitoring server through IEEE 802.11 b wireless LAN(Local Area Network). Monitoring server decides whether alarm should be issued or not. The performance of developed WSN and Bluetooth network were evaluated and analyzed in terms of communication delay and throughput.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.1036-1042
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• 2013

In this paper, an elderly assistance system is developed based on Xenomai, a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel. A Kinect sensor is used to recognize the behavior of the elderly and A-star search algorithm is implemented to find the shortest path to the person. The mobile robot also generates a trajectory using a digital convolution operator which is based on a Bezier curve for smooth driving. In order to follow the generated trajectory within the control period, we developed real-time tasks and compared the performance of the tracking trajectory with that of non real-time tasks. The real-time task has a better result on following the trajectory within the physical constraints which means that it is more appropriate to apply to an elderly assistant system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.713-716
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• 2003

현재 국내 LBS 가 중요한 서비스로 널리 확산되기 위해서는 서비스간의 상호운용성이 제공되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 LBS 서비스간 상호운용성을 제공하는 개방형 LBS 를 위한 경로탐색 서비스에 대한 설계 및 구현기법을 제시한다. 최단경로문제(Shortest Path Problem)는 통신망 및 교통망의 분석, 생산라인의 품질 관리 등의 다양한 분야 등의 네트워크 흐름 최적화 문제 중에서 가장 많이 연구되고 있는 문제다. 도로 교통망에서는 교차로상에서의 회전 제약 문제 등의 제한조건이 존재한다. 본 논문에서 경로탐색은 듀얼 그래프(dual graph)를 이용하여 회전제약조건을 만족하는 경로를 구할 수 있었고, 사용자 경로탐색 기준에 따른 탐색기법도 제시한다. 또한, 구현된 서비스는OpenLS의 표준화된 인터페이스를 구현하여 상호운용성(interoperability)을 지원하며, 자바를 이용한 웹서비스로 구현되어 이식성, 운영체제 및 프로그래밍 언어 독립성을 제공할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.51-54
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• 2005

최근 도로 네트워크 환경에서 날로 증가하는 교통 수요를 충족시키고 각종 교통 문제를 해결하기 위해서 지능형교통시스템(ITS, Intelligent Transportation System)을 적용하고 있다. 특히, 첨단교통정보 시스템(ATIS, Advanced Traveler Information System)은 개별 차량의 주행을 최적화시키는 시스템으로서 운전자에게 출발지에서 목적지까지 빠르고 쾌적한 주행경로를 제공하는 차량 경로계획 수립을 제공한다. 하지만 이러한 시스템은 도로 구간의 비용으로 정적인 값을 이용하므로 동적으로 변화하는 구간 비용을 가지고 도로 네트워크에서 최단 경로를 제공하기는 어렵다. 따라서, 이 논문에서는 교통 혼잡을 고려한 최단 경로 탐색 연산자를 제안한다. 제안된 연산자는 현재 시간 비용과 과거의 시간 비용 변화 량을 더하여 출발지에서 목적지까지 경로를 탐색하는데 이용한다. 이러한 방법은 시간에 따라 변화하는 도로의 상황을 반영하며 출발지에서 목적지까지의 최단 경로뿐만 아니라 예상 도착 시간을 추정할 수 있다. 또한 제안된 연산자는 효율적인 도로 이용, 물류비용 감소, 응급 상황 대체, 연료 절약 및 환경 오염 감소 등의 장점을 가지며 첨단교통정보시스템에서 응용 될 수 있다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.225-234
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• 2014

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake triggered extremely destructive tsunami waves which propagated over the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean through Drake Passage and Indian Ocean respectively. A total of 10 tide-gauge records collected from the UNESCO/IOC site were analyzed through a band-pass digital filtering device to examine the observed tsunami characteristics. The ray tracing method and finite-difference model with GEBCO 30 arc second bathymetry were also applied to compare the travel times of the Tohoku-originated tsunami, particularly at Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean and King Edward Point in the Atlantic Ocean with observation-based estimates. At both locations the finite-difference model produced the shortest arrival times, while the ray method produced the longest arrival times. Values of the travel time difference however appear to be within tolerable ranges, considering the propagation distance of the tsunami waves. The observed tsunami at Rodrigues, Mauritius in the west of the Madagascar was found to take a clockwise travel path around Australia and New Zealand, while the observed tsunami at King Edward Point in the southern Atlantic Ocean was found to traverse the Pacific Ocean and then passed into the Atlantic Ocean through the Drake Strait. The formation of icebergs captured by satellite images in Sulzberger in the Antarctica also supports the long-range propagation of the Tohoku-originated tsunami.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.84-96
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• 1999

The purpose of this paper is to find the most vital arc in the minimum cost flow problem. The most vital arc is the arc whose removal results in the greatest influence in the costs or the amount of demands in a given minimum cost flow network. This problem can be well applied to the conflict situations such as military logistics network or communications network. In this situation, network user wants to know which arcs are the most vital to him so that he can reinforce these arcs against attack, while interdictor wants to destroy these arcs which increase the distance of the shortest path most through the network. When one of arcs is removed from the network of the minimum cost flow problem, two kinds of situations can be occurred ; breaking feasibility and increasing cost. In case of breaking feasibility, the rank of arcs are determined using the amount of modified flow in a related network which is made of modifying the optimal alternative of the minimum cost flow problem. The rank of arcs with the increased costs are determined by using a method which finds the directed cycle with the minimum cost in a related network.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.59-63
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• 2006

이동 애드 혹 네트워크(Mobile Ad Hoc Network; MANET)는 인프라 없이 빠른 구성이 가능한 네트워크이다. 하지만, 긴급 상황과 같은 특수한 경우가 아닌 일상생활에서 사용 가능한 네트워크로 발전하기 위해서는 MANET과 인터넷의 연결이 꼭 필요하다. 인터넷 노드와 MANET 노드 간의 통신을 가능하게 만드는 것은 인터넷과 MANET을 중계하는 인터넷 게이트웨이를 통해서 이다. 고장 감내(fault tolerance)를 지원하고 대역폭을 늘리기 위해 다중 인터넷 게이트웨이들을 MANET에 배치하여 사용할 수 있다. 다중 게이트웨이들 간의 부하를 잘 분배한다면 네트워크 성능 향상을 얻을 수 있으므로, MANET 내에 여러 개의 인터넷 게이트웨이가 존재할 경우 이들 간의 부하 균등화는 중요한 이슈이다. 본 연구에서는 노드들의 이동이 빈번하고 인터넷 게이트웨이들이 고정되어 있는 MANET 환경에서의 부하 균등화 인터넷 게이트웨이 발견 기법들을 제안한다. 기존에 제안된 부하 균등화 기법들로 Shortest Path (SP), Minimum Load Index(MLI), Running Variance Metric (RVM) 기법들을 소개하고 각 기법들에 대한 시뮬레이션 결과를 제공한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 이들 기법을 분석하여 문제점을 찾아내고 이를 수정 및 보완하여 새로운 기법들을 제안하며, 새로운 기법들의 성능이 기존 기법들에 비하여 향상되었음을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.522-541
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• 2016

Network virtualization provides an effective way to overcome the Internet ossification problem. As one of the main challenges in network virtualization, virtual network embedding refers to mapping multiple virtual networks onto a shared substrate network. However, existing heuristic embedding algorithms evaluate the embedding potential of the nodes simply by the product of different resource attributes, which would result in an unbalanced embedding. Furthermore, ignoring the hops of substrate paths that the virtual links would be mapped onto may restrict the ability of the substrate network to accept additional virtual network requests, and lead to low utilization rate of resource. In this paper, we introduce and extend five node attributes that quantify the embedding potential of the nodes from both the local and global views, and adopt the technique for order preference by similarity ideal solution (TOPSIS) to rank the nodes, aiming at balancing different node attributes to increase the utilization rate of resource. Moreover, we propose a novel two-stage virtual network embedding algorithm, which maps the virtual nodes onto the substrate nodes according to the node ranks, and adopts a shortest path-based algorithm to map the virtual links. Simulation results show that the new algorithm significantly increases the long-term average revenue, the long-term revenue to cost ratio and the acceptance ratio.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1643-1660
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• 2016

Connectivity and trust in social networks have been exploited to propose applications on top of these networks, including routing, Sybil defenses, and anonymous communication systems. In these networks, and for such applications, connectivity ensures good performance of applications while trust is assumed to always hold, so as collaboration and good behavior are always guaranteed. In this paper, we study the impact of differential behavior of users on performance in typical social network-enabled routing applications. We classify users into either collaborative or rational (probabilistically collaborative) and study the impact of this classification and the associated behavior of users on the performance of such applications, including random walk-based routing, shortest path based routing, breadth-first-search based routing, and Dijkstra routing. By experimenting with real-world social network traces, we make several interesting observations. First, we show that some of the existing social graphs have high routing costs, demonstrating poor structure that prevents their use in such applications. Second, we study the factors that make probabilistically collaborative nodes important for the performance of the routing protocol within the entire network and demonstrate that the importance of these nodes stems from their topological features rather than their percentage of all the nodes within the network.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.5442-5463
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• 2016

Designing efficient routing protocols for a wireless sensor network with mobile sinks (mWSN) is a challenging task since the network topology and data paths change frequently as sink nodes move. In this paper, we design a novel lightweight reactive ring based routing protocol called R3, which removes the need of proactively maintaining data paths to mobile sinks as they move in the network. To achieve high packet delivery ratio and low transmission cost, R3 combines ring based forwarding and trail based forwarding together. To support efficient ring based forwarding, we build a ring based structure for a network in a way such that each node in the network can easily obtain its ring ID and virtual angle information. For this purpose, we artificially create a virtual hole in the central area of the network and accordingly find a shortest cycled path enclosing the hole, which serves as base ring and is used for generating the remaining ring based structure. We accordingly present the detailed design description for R3, which only requires each node to keep very limited routing information. We derive the communication overhead by ring based forwarding. Extensive simulation results show that R3 can achieve high routing performance as compared with existing work.