• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.464-472
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a packet scheduling algorithm for cellular relay networks by considering relay selection, variation of channel quality, and packet delay. In the networks, mobile users are equipped with not only cellular but also user relaying radio interfaces, where base station exploits adaptive high speed downlink channel. Our proposed algorithm selects a user with good cellular channel condition as a relay station for other users with bad cellular channel condition but can get access to relay link with good quality. This can achieve flexible packet scheduling by adjusting transmission rates of cellular link. Packets are scheduled for transmission depending on scheduling indexes which are calculated based on user's achieved transmission rate, packet utility, and proportional fairness of their throughput. The performance results obtained by using computer simulation show that the proposed scheduling algorithm is able to achieve high network capacity, low packet loss, and good fairness in terms of received throughput of mobile users.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2024

최근 센서 기술과 모바일 기술의 급속한 발전으로 인하여 사용자 위치 데이터 수집이 가능해졌다. 사용자 위치 정보는 다양한 산업에서 중요한 자산으로 활용되고 있으며, 그 결과 위치 데이터의 수집 및 공유에 대한 수요가 증가하고 있다. 그러나 위치 정보에는 사용자의 민감한 데이터가 포함되어 있으므로, 무분별한 수집은 프라이버시 침해 문제를 일으킬 수 있다. 최근에는 차분 프라이버시의 한 방법으로 Geo-Indistinguishability (Geo-I)가 위치 데이터의 프라이버시 보호에 활용되고 있다. Geo-I는 사용자의 위치를 효과적으로 보호할 수 있는 강력한 방법을 제공하지만, 데이터 변조로 인해 수집된 위치 데이터의 유용성이 감소하는 문제가 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 Geo-I 기술을 활용해 사용자 위치 데이터를 효과적으로 수집하면서 데이터의 유용성을 유지할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 사용자의 사전 분포 정보를 활용하여 정확한 위치 정보를 보호하면서도 데이터의 전체적인 유용성을 향상시킨다. 실데이터를 이용한 실험 결과는 제안 기법이 기존 방법보다 수집된 데이터의 유용성을 상당히 향상시킬 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.158-166
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• 2014

Apparel design is an economic activity to create values for users over the value chain of a product. In this paper, the contribution of apparel design is defined as the enhancement of users' perceived values by improving users' experience of products. In this context, the value of a product corresponds to compensation for experience or a promise for experience of a product. Experience can be sensory or psychological benefits to users. To evaluate the value of apparel design, the researcher identified and analyzed the apparel design parameters affecting users' experience and benefits of products such as macro-, micro-environmental factors, value chain factors, apparel designer factors, and user factors. For an analytical modeling of the values of apparel design, this paper introduces the concept of a utility function from economics. In economics, utility is a measure of desirability or satisfaction that can be correlative to need or desire. The measure of value can be found in the price which a user is willing to pay for the fulfillment or satisfaction of need or desire via the experience of a product.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2012

본 연구는 온라인 게임의 지속적 이용의도에 영향을 미치는 선행요인들을 살펴보았다. 온라인 설문조사를 통하여 가설을 검증한 결과, 캐릭터와의 일체감을 나타내는 원격현존감과 몰입이 게임의 가치에 영향을 미치며, 이 가치는 다시 게임의 지속적 이용의도와 게이머들간 정보공유에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 가치의 선행요인인 몰입에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 게임 플레이 방식, 도전감이 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나, 예상과는 달리 보상은 몰입에 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 가치의 다른 선행요인으로서 원격현존감은 게임 상에서의 정치시스템과 스토리텔링에 의해 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.137-142
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to develope a CAD-based tool for rasterization of polygonal vector map in AutoCAD. To identity the layer property of polygonal entity with user-defined coordinates as topology, algorithm in processing entity data of selection set that intersected with scan line was used, and the layers were extracted sequentially by sorted intersecting points in data-list. In addition to the functions for querying and modifying topology, two options for mapping were set up to construct plan projection type and to change meshes' properties in existing DTM data. In case of plan projection type, user-defined cell size of 3DFACE mesh is available for more detailed edge, and topological draping on landform can be executed in case of referring DTM data as an AutoCAD's drawing. The concept of algorithm was simple and clear, but some unexpectable errors were found in detecting intersected coordinates that were AutoCAD's error, not the utility's. Also, the routines to check these errors were included in algorithmic processing. Developed utility named MESHMAP was written in entity data control functions of AutoLISP language and dialog control language(DCL) for the purpose of user-oriented interactive usage. MESHMAP was proved to be more effective in data handling and time comparing with GRIDMAP module in LANDCADD which has similar function.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2023

Renewable energy is not a new terminology. One of the fastest growing renewable energies is solar energy. The implementation of solar energy provides several advantages including the reduction of some of the environmental risks of fossil fuel consumption. This research elaborated the importance of the adaption of solar energy by developing a spatial decision support system (SDSS), while the Residential Solar Energy Adoption (RSEA) is an instantiation artifact in the form of an SDSS. As a GIS web-based application, RSEA allows stakeholders (e.g., utility companies, policymakers, service providers homeowners, and researchers) to navigate through locations on a map interactively. The maps highlight locations with high and low solar energy adoption potential that enables decision-makers (e.g., policymakers, solar firms, utility companies, and nonprofit organizations) to make decisions. A combined qualitative and quantitative methodological approach was used to evaluate the application's usability and user experience, and results affirmed the ability of the factors of utility, usefulness, and a positive user experience of the residential solar energy adoption of spatial decision support system (RSEA-SDSS). RSEA-SDSS in improving the decision-making process for potential various stakeholders, in utility, solar installations, policy making, and non-profit renewable energy domains.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.813-823
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• 2018

In existing mobile computing environments, users need to choose between their privacy and the services that they can receive from an application. However, existing mobile platforms do not allow users to perform such trade-offs in a fine-grained manner. In this study, we investigate whether users can effectively make utility-privacy trade-offs when they are provided with a multilevel privacy control method that allows them to recognize the different quality of service that they will receive from an application by limiting the disclosure of their private information in multiple levels. We designed a research model to observe users' utility-privacy trade-offs in accordance with the privacy control methods and other factors such as the trustworthiness of an application, quality level of private information, and users' privacy preferences. We conducted a user survey with 516 participants and found that, compared with the existing binary privacy controls, both the service utility and the privacy protection levels were significantly increased when the users used the multilevel privacy control method.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.887-898
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• 2023

Aerial base stations (ABSs) seem promising to enhance the coverage and capacity of fifth-generation and upcoming networks. With the flexible mobility of ABSs, they can be positioned in air to maximize the number of users served with a guaranteed quality of service (QoS). However, ABSs may be overloaded or underutilized given inefficient placement, and user association has not been well addressed. Hence, we propose a three-dimensional ABS placement scheme with a delay-QoS-driven user association to balance loading among ABSs. First, a load balancing utility function is designed based on proportional fairness. Then, an optimization problem for joint ABS placement and user association is formulated to maximize the utility function subject to statistical delay QoS requirements and ABS collision avoidance constraints. To solve this problem, we introduce an efficient modified gray wolf optimizer for ABS placement with a greedy user association strategy. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms baselines in terms of load balancing and delay QoS provisioning.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.589-599
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• 2016

Most existing resource management problem models arise from the original desire of allocating resources in either a user-centric or network-centric manner. The difference between their objectives is obvious: user-centric methods attempt to optimize the utility of individual users, whereas network-centric models intend to optimize the collective utilities of the entire network. In this paper, from the above two aspects, we analyze the robust power control problem in device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular networks, where two types of channel uncertainty set (e.g., ellipsoidal and column-wise) are considered. In the user-centric method, we formulate the problem into the form of a Stackelberg game, where the energy efficiency (EE) of each user is the ingredient of utility function. In order to protect the cellular user equipment's (CUE) uplink transmission, we introduce a price based cost function into the objectives of D2D user equipment (DUE). The existence and uniqueness of the game with the influence of channel uncertainty and price are discussed. In the network-centric method, we aim to maximize the collective EE of CUEs and DUEs. We show that by the appropriate mathematical transformation, the network-centric D2D power control problem has the identical local solution to that of a special case of the user-centric problem, where price plays a key role. Numerical results show the performance of the robust power control algorithms in the user-centric and network-centric models.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.145-149
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• 2019

Various supplementary authentication methods are used to supplement user authentication and authorization provided by existing password verification online1. In recent years, authentication and authorization methods using user attribute information have been studied and utilized in various services. User attribute information can be divided into static information and dynamic information. The existing methods focus on research to identify users using dynamic information or to generate challenge questions for user reauthentication. Static information such as a user's home address, school, company, etc. is associated with dynamic information such as location information. We propose a method to verify user attribute information by using the association between two attribute information. For this purpose, the static information of the user is verified by using the user's location record which is dynamic information. The experiment of this paper collects the dynamic information of the actual user and extracts the static information to verify the user attributes. And we implemented the user attribute information authentication system using the proposal verification method and evaluated the utility based on applicability, convenience, and security.