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Assessment of Criteria for selecting Rainwater Management Strategies (도시 물순환 건전화를 위한 빗물관리 계획요소 평가)

  • Lee, Tae-Goo;Han, Young-Hae
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to draw out objective bases for selecting various applicable facilities in case of the establishment of rainwater management strategies. To do so, sixteen facilities were selected from decentralized rainwater management systems that induce rainwater infiltration and detention as well as centralized end-of-pipe type infiltration and detention facilities in local areas. With these facilities, it attempted to evaluate them in terms of sustainability, pollutant elimination, flood control capacity and costs and subsequently analyzed correlations between each characteristic. The outcomes of the analysis were as follows: First was the analysis of characteristics between decentralized rainwater management systems and end-of-pipe rainwater management systems. From the decentralized rainwater management systems, the mulden-rigolen system and grass swale at street level had the highest in the total of the four items while the totals of the underground detention tank and temporary detention site were highest in end-of-pipe rainwater management systems. After analyzing the correlation between different types of facilities and each variable, it can be said that decentralized rainwater management systems have a higher correlation than end-of-pipe rainwater management systems in terms of sustainability whereas the latter are better in flood control capacity than the former. Second, the analysis of correlation in variables of each facility is as follows: first, there is a negative correlation between sustainability value and flood control capacity value; and there is a positive correlation between flood control capability and pollutants elimination. In addition, it revealed that the higher the flood control and pollutant elimination capability the higher the facility costs. Based on these assessments, it is possible to use them as objective selection criteria for facility application in case of site development project or complex plan.

Concurrency Conflicts Resolution for IoT Using Blockchain Technology

  • Morgan, Amr;Tammam, Ashraf;Wahdan, Abdel-Moneim
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.331-340
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    • 2021
  • The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly growing physical network that depends on objects, vehicles, sensors, and smart devices. IoT has recently become an important research topic as it autonomously acquires, integrates, communicates, and shares data directly across each other. The centralized architecture of IoT makes it complex to concurrently access control them and presents a new set of technological limitations when trying to manage them globally. This paper proposes a new decentralized access control architecture to manage IoT devices using blockchain, that proposes a solution to concurrency management problems and enhances resource locking to reduce the transaction conflict and avoids deadlock problems. In addition, the proposed algorithm improves performance using a fully distributed access control system for IoT based on blockchain technology. Finally, a performance comparison is provided between the proposed solution and the existing access management solutions in IoT. Deadlock detection is evaluated with the latency of requesting in order to examine various configurations of our solution for increasing scalability. The main goal of the proposed solution is concurrency problem avoidance in decentralized access control management for IoT devices.

Energy Saving Potentials of Dedicated Outdoor Air System in a High-rise Apartment Building (외기전담 시스템 기반 초고층 공동주택 중앙 환기시스템의 에너지 절감효과 분석)

  • Kim, Min-Hwi;Kim, Jin-Hyo;Kwon, Oh-Hyun;Jeong, Jae-Weon
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.291-296
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    • 2009
  • This paper investigates the energy saving potentials of a dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS) applied to a highrise apartment building. As for a typical $132-m^2$ apartment unit, two different HVAC systems; centralized DOAS-Ceiling Radiant Cooling Panel and decentralized Energy Recovery Ventilator-Packaged Air Conditioner were installed. Transient behavior and control characteristics of each system were modeled numerically using a commercial equation solver program, and annual cooling coil load and heating load reduction potentials were compared. The research shows that DOAS-Ceiling Radiant Cooling Panel system can reduce the cooling coil load over 21% annually compared with the current Energy Recovery Ventilator-Packaged Air Conditioner pair. In addition, over 40% of annual ventilation heating load can be reduced by use of DOAS.

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Introducing Contemporary Blockchain Platforms

  • Alrumaih, Malak Suliman
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 2021
  • Blockchain and its infrastructure technology have expanded rapidly in the last decade and are in high demand, but there is a lack of comprehensive studies on those platforms. Blockchain is a new technology based on the distributed digital ledger system. Decentralized trust is one of the key factors behind the blockchain-based system. Transparency of such a system is better than a conventional centralized ledger system. By using a blockchain-based transaction system, any business organization can harness key benefits like data integrity, confidentiality, and anonymity without involving any third party in control of the transactions. Since the blockchain is used in numerous applications and the horizon is expanding at an unprecedented pace. So, there is a need for an introducing and reviewing of blockchain platforms. In this paper, we have reported a review on existing contemporary blockchain platforms. In particular, From the existing studies, we have identified eighty blockchain platforms and the majority of them have a lack of technical details. To provide the researchers a comprehensive introducing on blockchain platforms to perform a broad guideline for future research and investment in the blockchain domain.

NDynamic Framework for Secure VM Migration over Cloud Computing

  • Rathod, Suresh B.;Reddy, V. Krishna
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.476-490
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    • 2017
  • In the centralized cloud controlled environment, the decision-making and monitoring play crucial role where in the host controller (HC) manages the resources across hosts in data center (DC). HC does virtual machine (VM) and physical hosts management. The VM management includes VM creation, monitoring, and migration. If HC down, the services hosted by various hosts in DC can't be accessed outside the DC. Decentralized VM management avoids centralized failure by considering one of the hosts from DC as HC that helps in maintaining DC in running state. Each host in DC has many VM's with the threshold limit beyond which it can't provide service. To maintain threshold, the host's in DC does VM migration across various hosts. The data in migration is in the form of plaintext, the intruder can analyze packet movement and can control hosts traffic. The incorporation of security mechanism on hosts in DC helps protecting data in migration. This paper discusses an approach for dynamic HC selection, VM selection and secure VM migration over cloud environment.

Decentralized $H_{\infty}$ Control of Multiple Magnetic Levitation System (다중 자기부상 시스템의 분산형 $H_{\infty}$ 제어)

  • Kim Jong-Moon;Lee Sang-Hyuk;Choi Young-Kiu
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.54 no.12
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    • pp.689-697
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, an application of a decentralized $H_{\infty}$ controller(DHC) to multiple controlled-permanent magnet(CMAG) magnetic levitation(Maglev) systems is presented. The designed DHC using two Riccati equations iteratively has simpler structure and needs less computational loads than conventional centralized $H_{\infty}$ controller. A target plant is a hybrid-type CMAG system with permanent magnet and coil, and its mathematical model is firstly derived to design the DHC. To implement the designed algorithm, a real Maglev vehicle system including digital controller, chopper, sensor, etc., is manufactured. To compare the performances of the DHC method with an observer-based state feedback control(OSFC), the input tracking and disturbance rejection characteristics are experimentally tested. As performance indices(PI), integral of squared error(ISE), integral of absolute error(IAE), integral of time multiplied by absolute error(ITAE) and integral of time multiplied by squared error(ITSE) are used. From the experimental results, it can be seen that the input tracking and disturbance rejection performances of the DHC are better than those of the conventional controller.

Attack-Proof Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Based on Consensus Algorithm in Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Liu, Quan;Gao, Jun;Guo, Yunwei;Liu, Siyang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.4 no.6
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    • pp.1042-1062
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    • 2010
  • Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) is an effective technology for alleviating the unreliability of local spectrum sensing due to fading/shadowing effects. Unlike most existing solutions, this paper considers the use of CSS technology in decentralized networks where a fusion center is not available. In such a decentralized network, some attackers may sneak into the ranks of cooperative users. On the basis of recent advances in bio-inspired consensus algorithms, an attack-proof, decentralized CSS scheme is proposed in which all secondary users can maintain cooperative sensing by exchanging information locally instead of requiring centralized control or data fusion. Users no longer need any prior knowledge of the network. To counter three potential categories of spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF) attacks, some anti-attack strategies are applied to the iterative process of information exchange. This enables most authentic users to exclude potentially malicious users from their neighborhood. As represented by simulation results, the proposed scheme can generally ensure that most authentic users reach a consensus within the given number of iterations, and it also demonstrates much better robustness against different SSDF attacks than several existing schemes.

A survey of the serving temperature control practices in hospital dietetics -Comparison between centralized and decentralized tray assembly systems (병원급식의 적온관리 실태조사 -배선방법별 비교 연구-)

  • Nam, Soon-Ran;Rew, Kyung;Kwak, Tong-Kyung
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.87-99
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    • 1987
  • The serving temperature control practices were assessed in 20 general hospital's dietetics utilizing centralized or decentralized tray assembly systems. The results of the study were summarized as follows : 1) All of the surveyed hospitals were utilizing conventional foodservice system. The number of dietary employees per bed was very low when comparing with that in America. Working hours of employees per week were approximately two times greater than those in America. 2) When comparing two tray assembly systems, dietary labor hours and costs in centralized system were less than those in decentralized system. 3) When comparing serving temperature practices between two tray assembly systems, the temperatures of meals utilizing centralized tray service were significantly lower than those in decentralized system, and only the steamed rice served in decentralized system was within the acceptable temperature range. 4) There was no significant difference in sensory acceptance scores marked by patients served by two different types of tray assembly systems. The serving temperature was significantly correlated to the patient's overall acceptability.

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A study on material analysis and the usage for efficiency of the Autonomus Station Control System (자율분산 역제어시스템의 효율성을 위한 자료분석 및 자료 활용방법에 관한 연구)

  • Ha, Seung-Tae;Ahn, Jin;Yong, Sung-Wan
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.636-641
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, the analysis methods of available information are reviewed and it is elicited to the method of which the analysis results are applied to the Autonomous Decentralized Train Management System for the optimization at the point of the route control time and for making the efficiency shunting plan in the Autonomous Centralized Station Operation Control System. As the statistics and estimated information which are got through the utilizable information analysis are applied for the automatic route control function and the shunting plan management of the station operation control system, it is possible to use efficiently the station information by the autonomous route control system. And as the exact forecast information needed for the shunting plan establishment and the operation is provided to the operator, it is established to the efficient train operation plan.

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Decentralized Active Vibration Control Systems for Multi Degree of Freedom Structures

  • Wang, Jiankun;Iwai, Zenta;Deng, Mingcong
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.230-233
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    • 1999
  • This paper is concerned with the design method of a de-centralized linear control system and its application to vibration control of multi degree of freedom structures. The method is based on the partial model matching on frequency domain by minimizing the relative model error functions between the diagonal elements of the open loop transfer function matrix of the control system and these of the reference model. The method is examined and evaluated by both simulation and experiment of a multi degree of freedom structure(MDFS).

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