• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.166-173
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• 2011

In this paper, we implemented and analyzed a wireless power transfer (WPT) system with a CSPR topology. CSPR refers to constant current source, series resonance circuit topology of a transmitting coil, parallel resonance circuit topology of a receiving coil, and pure resistive loading. The transmitting coil is coupled by a magnetic field to the receiving coil without wire. Although the electromotive force (emf) is small (about 4.5V), the voltage on load resistor is 148V, because a parallel resonance scheme was adopted for the receiving coil. The implemented WPT system is designed to be able to transfer up to 1 kW power and can operate a LED TV. Before the implementation, the EMF reduction mechanism based on the use of ferrite and a metal shield box was confirmed by an EM simulation and we found that the EMF can be suppressed dramatically by using this shield. The operating frequency of the implemented WPT system is 30.7kHz and the air gap between two coils is 150mm. The power transferred to the load resistor is 147W and the real power transfer efficiency is 66.4 %.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.794-802
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• 2017

In this paper, a wireless powered communication network (WPCN) consisting of a hybrid access point (H-AP) and multiple user equipment (UE), all of which operate in full-duplex (FD), is described. We first propose a transceiver structure that enables FD operation of each UE to simultaneously receive energy in the downlink (DL) and transmit information in the uplink (UL). We then provide an energy usage model in the proposed UE transceiver that accounts for the energy leakage from the transmit chain to the receive chain. It is shown that the throughput of an FD WPCN using the proposed FD UE (FD-WPCN-FD) can be maximized by optimal allocation of the UL transmission time to the UE by solving a convex optimization problem. Simulation results reveal that the use of the proposed FD UE efficiently improves the throughput of a WPCN with a practical self-interference cancellation capability at the H-AP. Compared to the WPCN with FD H-AP and half-duplex (HD) UE, FD-WPCN-FD achieved an 18% throughput gain. In addition, the throughput of FD-WPCN-FD was shown to be 25% greater than that of WPCN in which an H-AP and UE operated in HD.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.143-148
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• 2014

Conventional wireless power transfer methods based on coupled magnetic fields need a complex winding structure on the surface of the energy transfer and shows poor efficiency near metal objects due to the eddy current effect. In this study, to mitigate these problems, we investigate an electric field-coupled power transmission system, which is less prone to metal object problems and EMI. Because of the fundamental physical limit in the size of link capacitances, a half-bridge converter with an impedance matching transformer is proposed and the design procedure is derived to provide a soft-switching scheme. Hardware implementation shows that the proposed scheme with a pair of 10cm by 10cm copper plate can power a 1.4W USB FAN in a separation of 0.2mm by using insulating paper when driven by 227 kHz gate pulse.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.3412-3432
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• 2019

Recent advances in radio frequency (RF) power transfer provide a promising technology to power sensor nodes. Adoption of mobile chargers to replenish the nodes' energy has recently attracted a lot of attention and the mobility assisted energy replenishment provides predictable and sustained power service. In this paper, we study the joint optimization of mobile charging and data gathering in sensor networks. A wireless multi-functional vehicle (WMV) is employed and periodically moves along specified trajectories, charge the sensors and gather the sensed data via one-hop communication. The objective of this paper is to maximize the uplink throughput by optimally allocating the time for the downlink wireless energy transfer by the WMV and the uplink transmissions of different sensors. We consider two scenarios where the WMV moves in a straight line and around a circle. By time discretization, the optimization problem is formulated as a 0-1 programming problem. We obtain the upper and lower bounds of the problem by converting the original 0-1 programming problem into a linear programming problem and then obtain the optimal solution by using branch and bound algorithm. We further prove that the network throughput is independent of the WMV's velocity under certain conditions. Performance of our proposed algorithm is evaluated through extensive simulations. The results validate the correctness of our proposed theorems and demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms two baseline algorithms in achieved throughput under different settings.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.625-636
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• 2019

This paper proposes an active leakage magnetic field (LMF) suppression scheme, which uses the dual-transmitter (DT) topology, for EV wireless charging systems (EVWCS). The two transmitter coils are coplanar, concentric and driven by separate inverters. The LMF components generated by the three coils cancel each other out to reduce the total field strength. This paper gives a detailed theoretical analysis on the operating principles of the proposed scheme. Finite element analysis is used to simulate the LMF distribution patterns. Experimental results show that when there is no coil misalignment, 97% of the LMF strength can be suppressed in a 1kW prototype. These results also show that the impact on efficiency is small. The trade-off between LMF suppression and efficiency is revealed, and a control strategy to balance these two objectives is presented.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.176-179
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• 2022

In this paper, we consider a sectorized wireless powered sensor network (WPSN), wherein sensor nodes are clustered based on sectors and transmit data to the cluster head (CH) using energy harvested from a hybrid access point. We construct a system model for this sectorized WPSN and find optimal coordinates of CH that maximize the achievable transmission rate of sensing data. To obtain the optimal CH with low overhead, we perform an asymptotic geometric analysis (GA). Simulation results show that the proposed GA-based CH selection method is close to the optimal performance exhibited by exhaustive search with a low feedback overhead.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.55-59
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• 2017

본 연구는 무선통신 방식에 따른 통신 코드를 통해 생체신호를 전달하는 과정을 확인하였다. 생체 시스템은 ECG, PPG, Bluetooth으로 구성하여 신호를 받았고, 통신방식은 국제표준으로 IEEE802.15.1에 따라 진행하였으며, 주파수이동에 필요한 대역통신방식으로 신호를 산출하여 전송하였다. 무선통신으로 받은 신호를 표현하기 위해 사용된 프로그램은 Serial Chart, Processing, App Inventor를 구성하여 신호가 원활하게 전송됨을 확인하였다. 따라서 신호처리에 따른 실시간 그래프를 위한 코드와 프로세싱을 활용한 Serial Chart 그래프의 정량적 유추가 진행되면 원활한 무선통신 방식의 개선효과가 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.206-214
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• 2016

최근들어 무선 센서망에서 센서 노드에 대한 전력 공급을 위한 무선 에너지 전송(radio frequency energy transfer: RFET)에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 기존의 센서망에서는 센서 노드들의 에너지 소비를 줄이는 것이 중요한 연구주제 중의 하나였지만 무선 에너지 전송 센서망에서는 센서 노드들이 계속해서 에너지를 공급받을 수 있기 때문에 에너지 소모를 줄이는 것이 상대적으로 그리 중요한 이슈는 아니다. 하지만 센서 노드들 사이에 가용 에너지양의 차가 발생하게 되기 때문에 무선 에너지 전송 센서망의 성능 향상을 위해서는 이와 같은 성질을 고려하여 프로토콜을 설계하는 것이 중요하게 된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 이를 고려하여 무선 에너지 전송 무선 센서망에서 라우팅, 스케줄링, 전력제어 기법을 'Max-min'과 'Max-min fairness' 두가지의 관점에서 제안을 한다. 또한 본 논문에서 제안한 기법들이 무선 에너지 전송 센서망의 성능을 크게 향상시킴을 보이며 이와 더불어 'Max-min'과 'Max-min fairness' 사이의 차이에 대해서도 논의를 한다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.229-237
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• 2005

무선 센서 네트워크 연구의 중요한 이슈 중의 하나는 에너지의 호율적인 사용을 통해 네트워크를 구성하는 노드들의 생존시간(life time)을 연장하는 것이다. 이미 발표된 기존의 LEEM 프로토콜은 노드의 활성화 주기 이하의 전송 시간을 갖는 작은 패킷과 활성화 주기에 두 배 이상의 전송 시간을 갖는 큰 패킷을 전송할 때 예약된 노드는 불필요한 활성화 시간이 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 무선 센서 네트워크환경에서 패킷의 크기에 따라 다음 홉의 예약 시점을 조절하여 예약된 노드의 불필요한 활성화 시간을 줄여 에너지 효율을 보다 더 높일 수 있는 예약기법을 이용한 에너지-효율 MAC(EEMR)프로토콜을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 기법의 성능을 평가하였다. 본 논문의 모의실험 결과를 통해 EEMR 프로토콜을 사용함으로서 기존의 LEEM 프로토콜 보다 에너지 효율이 약15% 이상 증가함을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2020

In an underlay cognitive simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network, communication from secondary user (SU) to secondary destination (SD) is accomplished with decode-and-forward (DF) relays. Multiple energy-constrained relays are assumed to harvest energy from SU via power splitting (PS) protocol and complete SU secure information transmission with beamforming. Hence, physical layer security (PLS) is investigated in cognitive SWIPT network. In order to interfere with eavesdropper and improve relay's energy efficiency, a destination-assisted jamming scheme is proposed. Namely, SD transmits artificial noise (AN) to interfere with eavesdropping, while jamming signal can also provide harvested energy to relays. Beamforming vector and power splitting ratio are jointly optimized with the objective of SU secrecy capacity maximization. We solve this non-convex optimization problem via a general two-stage procedure. Firstly, we obtain the optimal beamforming vector through semi-definite relaxation (SDR) method with a fixed power splitting ratio. Secondly, the best power splitting ratio can be obtained by one-dimensional search. We provide simulation results to verify the proposed solution. Simulation results show that the scheme achieves the maximum SD secrecy rate with appropriate selection of power splitting ratio, and the proposed scheme guarantees security in cognitive SWIPT networks.