• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.140-141
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• 2012

최근 영상분야의 키워드는 초고품질화, 초실감화, 스마트화로 대표될 수 있다. 그 중에서도 무안경식 3D는 초실감화를 이루기 위한 핵심응용분야 중 하나이다. 하지만 무안경식 3D 단말기가 성공적으로 보급되기 위해서는 연구되어야 할 분야가 여전히 존재한다. 그 중에서도 본 논문에서는 고화질의 무안경식 3D 스마트 콘텐츠 제작에 필요한 자동 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안하였다. 이전까지 연구된 변이지도 추출을 위한 알고리즘은 전역적 최적화 방법을 사용할 시 영상의 해상도와 깊이 정도에 따른 연산량의 증가로 많은 수행시간이 요구되었다. 또한 좌/우 영상의 intensity 정보만으로는 정확한 변이지도 추출이 어렵다는 한계점이 존재하였다. 이러한 이유로 본 논문에서는 스트림 영상에서 프레임 간의 정보를 이용하여 신뢰지도와 경계정보를 생성하였으며 belief propagation 스테레오 정합 방법을 이용하여 고화질의 정확한 변이지도를 추출하였다. 또한, 알고리즘의 연산량에 대한 문제를 해결하기 위한 고속화 방안으로, 최근 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있는 GPU(graphics processing units) 를 이용한 병렬처리를 연구하였다. 마지막으로 연구결과의 신뢰성을 향상하기 위하여 다양한 데이터를 이용한 실험을 통해 고화질의 영상정보를 고속으로 추출할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.10
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• pp.585-592
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• 2014

It is well known that serial belief propagation (BP) decoding for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes achieves faster convergence without any increase of decoding complexity per iteration and bit error rate (BER) performance loss than standard parallel BP (PBP) decoding. Serial BP (SBP) decoding, such as horizontal SBP (H-SBP) decoding or vertical SBP (V-SBP) decoding, updates check nodes or variable nodes faster than standard PBP decoding within a single iteration. In this paper, we propose combined horizontal-vertical SBP (CHV-SBP) decoding. By the same reasoning, CHV-SBP decoding updates check nodes or variable nodes faster than SBP decoding within a serialized step in an iteration. CHV-SBP decoding achieves faster convergence than H-SBP or V-SBP decoding. We compare these decoding schemes in details. We also show in simulations that the convergence rate, in iterations, for CHV-SBP decoding is about $\frac{1}{6}$ of that for standard PBP decoding, while the convergence rate for SBP decoding is about $\frac{1}{2}$ of that for standard PBP decoding. In simulations, we use recently proposed generalized LDPC (GLDPC) codes with binary cyclic codes (BCC).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2C
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• pp.173-177
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• 2008

In this paper, we improve performance of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes with adding a large number of short cycles. Short cycles, especially cycles of length 4, degrade performance of LDPC codes if the standard BP (Belief Propagation) decoding is used. Therefore current researches have focused on removing cycles of length 4 for designing good performance LDPC codes. We found that a large number of cycles of length 4 improve performance of LDPC codes if a modified BP decoding is used. We present the modified BP decoding algorithm for LDPC codes with a large number of short cycles. We show that the modified BP decoding performance of LDPC codes with a large number of short cycles is better than the standard BP decoding performance of LDPC codes designed by avoiding short cycles.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.411-421
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• 2013

Digital fountain codes are record-breaking codes for erasure channels. They have many potential applications in both wired and wireless communications. Most existing digital fountain codes operate over binary fields using an iterative belief-propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new iterative decoding algorithm for both binary and nonbinary fields. The basic form of our proposed algorithm considers both degree-1 and degree-2 check nodes (instead of only degree-1 check nodes as in the original BP decoding scheme), and has linear complexity. Extensive simulation demonstrates that it outperforms the original BP decoding scheme, especially for a small number of source packets. The enhanced form of the proposed algorithm combines the basic form of the algorithm and a guess-based algorithm to further improve the decoding performance. Simulation results demonstrate that it can provide better decoding performance than the guess-based algorithm with fewer guesses, and can achieve decoding performance close to that of the maximum likelihood decoder at a much lower decoding complexity. Last, we show that our nonbinary scheme has the potential to outperform the binary scheme when choosing suitable degree distributions, and furthermore it is insensitive to the size of the Galois field.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.3151-3168
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• 2021

Internet of Things (IoT) connects several objects with embedded sensors and they are capable of exchanging information between devices to create a smart environment. IoT smart devices have limited resources, such as batteries, computing power, and bandwidth, but comprehensive sensing causes severe energy restrictions, lowering data quality. The main objective of the proposal is to build a hybrid protocol which provides high data quality and reduced energy consumption in IoT sensor network. The hybrid protocol gives a flexible and complete solution for sensor selection problem. It selects a subset of active sensor nodes in the network which will increase the data quality and optimize the energy consumption. Since the unused sensor nodes switch off during the sensing phase, the energy consumption is greatly reduced. The hybrid protocol uses Dijkstra's algorithm for determining the shortest path for sensing data and Ant colony inspired variable path selection algorithm for selecting active nodes in the network. The missing data due to inactive sensor nodes is reconstructed using enhanced belief propagation algorithm. The proposed hybrid method is evaluated using real sensor data and the demonstrated results show significant improvement in energy consumption, data utility and data reconstruction rate compared to other existing methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.11
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• pp.972-978
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• 2012

LDPC (low density parity check) code shows near Shannon limit performance by iterative decoding based on sum-product algorithm (SPA). Message updating procedure between variable and check nodes in SPA is done by a scheduling method. LDPC code shows different performance according to scheduling schemes. The conventional researches have been shown that the shuffled BP (belief propagation) algorithm shows better performance than the standard BP algorithm although it needs less number of iterations. However the reason is not analyzed clearly. Therefore the reason of difference in performance according to LDPC decoding algorithms is analyzed in this paper. 4 cases according to satisfaction of parity check condition are considered and compared. As results, the difference in the updating procedure in a cycle in the parity check matrix is considered to be the main reason of performance difference.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.10 s.101
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• pp.965-972
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• 2005

In this paper, we first review LDPC codes in general and a belief propagation algorithm that works in logarithm domain. LDPC codes, which is chosen for second generation digital video broadcasting standard, are required a large number of computation due to large size of coded block and iteration. Therefore, we presented two kinds of low computational algorithm for LDPC codes. First, sequential decoding with partial group is proposed. It has same H/W complexity, and fewer number of iteration's are required at same performance in comparison with conventional decoder algerian. Secondly, early detection method for reducing the computational complexity is proposed. Using a confidence criterion, some bit nodes and check node edges are detected early on during decoding. Through the simulation, we knew that the iteration number are reduced by half using subset algorithm and computational complexity of early detected method is about $50\%$ offs in case of check node update, $99\%$ offs in case of check node update compared to conventional scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.227-247
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• 2018

For intermittently connected wireless sensor networks deployed in hash environments, sensor nodes may fail due to internal or external reasons at any time. In the process of data collection and recovery, we need to speed up as much as possible so that all the sensory data can be restored by accessing as few survivors as possible. In this paper a novel redundant data storage algorithm based on minimum spanning tree and quasi-randomized matrix-QRNCDS is proposed. QRNCDS disseminates k source data packets to n sensor nodes in the network (n>k) according to the minimum spanning tree traversal mechanism. Every node stores only one encoded data packet in its storage which is the XOR result of the received source data packets in accordance with the quasi-randomized matrix theory. The algorithm adopts the minimum spanning tree traversal rule to reduce the complexity of the traversal message of the source packets. In order to solve the problem that some source packets cannot be restored if the random matrix is not full column rank, the semi-randomized network coding method is used in QRNCDS. Each source node only needs to store its own source data packet, and the storage nodes choose to receive or not. In the decoding phase, Gaussian Elimination and Belief Propagation are combined to improve the probability and efficiency of data decoding. As a result, part of the source data can be recovered in the case of semi-random matrix without full column rank. The simulation results show that QRNCDS has lower energy consumption, higher data collection efficiency, higher decoding efficiency, smaller data storage redundancy and larger network fault tolerance.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.36-47
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• 2020

The improved belief-propagation-based algorithms, such as normalized min-sum algorithm (NMSA) or offset min-sum algorithm (OMSA), are widely used to decode LDPC(Low-Density Parity-Check) codes because they are less computationally complex and work well even at low SNR(Signal-to-Noise Ratio). However, these algorithms work well only when an appropriate normalization factor or offset value is used. A new method that uses a CMD(Check Node Message Distribution) chart and least-square method, which has been recently proposed, has advantages on computational complexity over other approaches to get optimal coefficients. Furthermore, this method can be used to derive coefficients for each iteration. In this paper, we apply this method and propose an algorithm to derive a combination of normalization factor and offset value for a combined normalized and offset min-sum algorithm to further improve the decoding of LDPC codes. Simulations on the next-generation broadcasting standards, ATSC 3.0 LDPC codes, prove that a combined normalized and offset min-sum algorithm which takes the proposed coefficients as correction coefficients shows the best BER performance among other decoding algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2C
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• pp.148-154
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• 2010

In this paper, we first review LDPC codes in general and a belief propagation algorithm that works in logarithm domain. LDPC codes, which is chosen 802.11n for wireless local access network(WLAN) standard are required a large number of computation due to large size of coded block and iteration. Therefore, we presented three kinds of low computational algorithm for LDPC codes. First, sequential decoding with partial group is proposed. It has same H/W complexity, and fewer number of iteration's are required at same performance in comparison with conventional decoder algorithm. Secondly, we have apply early stop algorithm. This method is reduced number of unnecessary iteration. Third, early detection method for reducing the computational complexity is proposed. Using a confidence criterion, some bit nodes and check node edges are detected early on during decoding. Through the simulation, we knew that the iteration number are reduced by half using subset algorithm and early stop algorithm is reduced more than one iteration and computational complexity of early detected method is about 30% offs in case of check node update, 94% offs in case of check node update compared to conventional scheme.