• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.3711-3730
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• 2014

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have emerged as a promising solution to enhance spectrum utilization by using unused or less used spectrum in radio environments. The basic idea of CRNs is to allow secondary users (SUs) access to licensed spectrum, under the condition that the interference perceived by the primary users (PUs) is minimal. In CRNs, the channel availability is uncertainty due to the existence of PUs, resulting in intermittent communication. Transmission control protocol (TCP) performance may significantly degrade in such conditions. To address the challenges, some transport protocols have been proposed for reliable transmission in CRNs. In this paper we survey the state-of-the-art transport protocols for CRNs. We firstly highlight the unique aspects of CRNs, and describe the challenges of transport protocols in terms of PU behavior, spectrum sensing, spectrum changing and TCP mechanism itself over CRNs. Then, we provide a summary and comparison of existing transport protocols for CRNs. Finally, we discuss several open issues and research challenges. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first survey on transport protocols for CRNs.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권5B호
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• pp.457-465
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• 2003

본 논문은 이더넷 PON 환경에서 다양한 MAC 프로토콜들의 성능을 분석함으로써 효율적인 MAC 프로토콜 구조를 제시한다. 이를 위하여 고정 길이를 갖는 프레임 기반의 MAC 프로토콜로서 사용자의 요구에 관계없이 동등한 대역을 할당하는 정적 TDMA(Static TDMA)와 사용자의 요구 대역 정보를 기반으로 대역을 동적으로 할당하는 동적 TDMA(Dynamic TDMA), 그리고 폴링을 사용하여 각각의 ONU에게 상향 채널 전송 기회를 부여하므로써 가변적인 주기(cycle)를 운용하는 인터리브드 폴링(Interleaved Polling)을 고려하였다. 각 프로토콜이 갖는 구조를 분석하여 이용 가능한 데이터 전송률을 비교하고 또한, OPNET 기반의 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 다양한 트래픽 환경에 대한 각 프로토콜의 성능을 채널 이용률과 큐잉 지연 관점에서 비교하고 분석하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권5B호
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• pp.466-474
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 최근 효율적이고 경제적인 초고속 광가입자망 기술로서 부각된 Ethernet-PON 시스템을 위한 시뮬레이션 모델을 OPNET을 이용하여 구현한다. 설계한 Ethernet-PON 시스템은 IEEE 802.3ah EFM을 기반으로 요청/허가 TDMA MAC 프로토콜을 사용하며 제어 패킷들의 교환을 통해 등록, 레인징, 동적 대역 할당 등의 기능을 수행한다. 시뮬레이션 모델을 사용하여 초기 등록 절차에서의 성공률과 나중 등록을 위한 지연에 관한 결과를 분석하였다. 또한 사용자의 요구 대역 정보를 기반으로 대역을 동적으로 할당하는 Dynamic TDMA 프로토콜과 사용자의 요구에 관계없이 동등한 대역을 할당하는 Static TDMA 프로토콜의 성능을 채널 이용률 및 큐잉 지연 관점에서 비교하였다. 본 논문에서 구현한 시뮬레이터는 Ethernet-PON 시스템의 설계 과정에서 논의될 수 있는 여러 기술 사항들에 대한 적절한 선택 기준을 모의 실험을 통해 제시할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2004

The HANARO, a multi-purpose research reactor of 30 MWth open-tank-in-pool type, has been under normal operation since its initial criticality in February, 1995. Many experiments should be safely performed to activate the utilization of the HANARO. HANARO flow simulation facility is being developed for the endurance test of reactivity control units for extended life time and the verification of structural integrity of those experimental equipments prior to loading in the HANARO. This facility is composed of three major parts; a half-core structure assembly, a flow circulation system and a support system. The flow circulation system is composed of a circulation pump, a core flow piping, a core bypass flow piping and instruments. The system is to be filled with de-mineralized water and the flow should be met the design requirements to simulate a similar flow characteristics in the core channel of the half-core structure assembly to the HANARO. This paper, therefore, presents an analytical analysis to study the flow behavior of the system. Computational flow analysis has been performed for the verification of system pressure variation through the three-dimensional analysis program with the standard $k-{\epsilon}$ turbulence model and for the verification of the structural piping integrity through the finite element method. According to the analysis results, it could be said that the design requirements and the structural piping integrity of the flow circulation system are satisfied.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1998년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(1)
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• pp.124-129
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• 1998

A sensitivity study has been done to determine the composition of DUPIC fuel from the viewpoint of neutronics fuel design. The spent PWR fuel compositions were generated and fissile contents adjusted by blending fresh uranium after mixing two spent PWR fuel assemblies. The $^{239}$ Pu and $^{235}$ U enrichments of DUPIC fuel were adjusted by controlling the amount of fresh uranium feed and the ratio of slightly enriched and depleted uranium in the fled uranium. Based on the material balance calculation, it is recommended that DUPIC fuel composition be such that spent PWR fuel utilization is more than 90%.. A sensitivity study on the temperature reactivity coefficient of DUPIC fuel has shown that it is desirable to increase the $^{239}$ Pu and $^{235}$ U contents to reduce both the fuel and coolant temperature coefficients. On the other hand, refueling simulations of the DUPIC core have shown that the channel power peaking factor, which is a measure of the reactor trip margin, increases with the total fissile content. Considering these neutronic characteristics of the DUPIC fuel, il is recommended to have enrichments of 0.45 and 1.00 wt% for $^{239}$ Pu and $^{235}$ U, respectively.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.310-312
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• 2004

Binary Exponential Back-off (BEB) scheme is widely adopted in both wire and wireless networks for collision resolution. The BEB suffers from several performance drawbacks including long packet delay and low utilization since it doubles the back-off size after each collision. In addition, operation of the BEB algorithm may lead to the last-come-first-serve result among competing users and the BEB is further unstable for every arrival rate greater than 0 due to its random access property[1,2]. In this paper, we propose a deterministic back-off algorithm to reduce contention interval as much as possible for accessing the channel without collision in the back-off process. Simulation results show that our scheme offers a higher throughput as well as a lower packet transfer delay than the BEB by taking advantage of its lower collision ratio in saturation state.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.71-82
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• 2009

As a solution to spectrum under-utilization problem, Cognitive radio (CR) introduces a dynamic spectrum access technology. In the area, one of the most important problems is how secondary users (SUs) should choose between the available channels, which means how to achieve load balancing between channels. We consider spectrum load balancing problem for CR system in frequency domain and especially in time domain. Our objective is to balance the load among the channels and balance the occupied time length of slots for a fixed channel dynamically in order to obtain a user-optimal solution. In frequency domain, we refer to Dynamic Noncooperative Scheme with Communication (DNCOOPC) used in distributed system and a distributed Dynamic Spectrum Load Balancing algorithm (DSLB) is formed based on DNCOOPC. In time domain, Spectrum Load Balancing method with QoS support is proposed based on Dynamic Feed Back theory and Hash Table (SLBDH). The performance of DSLB and SLBDH are evaluated. In frequency domain, DSLB is more efficient compared with existing Compare_And_Balance (CAB) algorithm and gets more throughput compared with Spectrum Load Balancing (SLB) algorithm. Also, DSLB is a fair scheme for all devices. In time domain, SLBDH is an efficient and precise solution compared with Spectrum Load Smoothing (SLS) method.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.389-392
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• 2009

Metal oxides have been proposed as an alternative channel material to hydrogenated amorphous silicon in thin film transistors (TFTs) because their higher mobility and stability make them suitable for transistor active layers. Thin films of indium zinc oxide (IZO) were deposited using a High Target Utilization Sputtering (HiTUS) system on various dielectrics, some of which were also deposited with the HiTUS. Investigations into bottom-gated IZO TFTs have found mobilities of 8 $cm^2V\;^1s^{-1}$ and switching ratios of $10^6$. There is a variation in the threshold voltage dependent on both oxygen concentration, and dielectric choice. Silica, alumina and silicon nitride produced stable TFTs, whilst hafnia was found to break down as a result of the IZO.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권1A호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2003

무선 ATM 망은 광대역 멀티미디어 서비스 제공을 위해 셀의 크기가 작은 마이크로/피코 셀 구조를 채택하므로 단말의 이동성 지원을 위한 핸드오버 기능은 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 무선 ATM 망에서 이동교환기간 핸드오버를 신속하게 처리하기 위한 동적 경로 예약 핸드오버 기법을 제안한다 제안한 기법은 이동교환기간 핸드오버를 위해 최대근접공통노드로부터 인접 이동교환기까지 가상 채널을 미리 설정하므로 실제 핸드오버 시에 연결의 재라우팅에 소요되는 시간을 단축할 수 있다 특히 일정 주기마다 예측 알고리즘을 수행하여 다음 주기에 발생할 핸드오버 호의 수를 예측하여 가상 채널을 예약함으로써 기존 DVCT 기법에 비하여 예약 채널 수, 예약 채널 이용률 및 시그널링 복잡성을 개선하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.153-166
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• 2013

A hierarchical time division multiple access (HTDMA) medium access control (MAC) protocol is proposed for clustered mobile underwater acoustic networks. HTDMA consists of two TDMA scheduling protocols (i.e., TDMA1 and TDMA2) in order to accommodate mobile underwater nodes (UNs). TDMA1 is executed among surface stations (e.g., buoys) using terrestrial wireless communication in order to share mobility information obtained from UNs which move cluster to cluster. TDMA2 is executed among UNs, which send data to their surface station as a cluster head in one cluster. By sharing mobility information, a surface station can instantaneously determine the number of time slots in a TDMA2 frame up to as many as the number of UNs which is currently residing in its cluster. This can enhance delay and channel utilization performance by avoiding the occurrence of idle time slots. We analytically investigate the delay of HTDMA, and compare it with that of wellknown contention-free and contention-based MAC protocols, which are TDMA and Slotted-ALOHA, respectively. It is shown that HTDMA remarkably decreases delay, compared with TDMA and Slotted-ALOHA.