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MMOG User Participation Based Decentralized Consensus Scheme and Proof of Participation Analysis on the Bryllite Blockchain System

  • Yun, Jusik;Goh, Yunyeong;Chung, Jong-Moon;Kim, OkSeok;Shin, SangWoo;Choi, Jin;Kim, Yoora
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.4093-4107
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    • 2019
  • Proof of Work (PoW) based blockchains have limitations in throughput, time consumption, and energy efficiency. In these systems, a miner will consume significant time and resources to obtain a reward for contributing to the blockchain. To overcome these limitations, recent research on blockchains are focused on accelerating the speed, scalability, and enhancing the security level. By enhancing specific procedures of blockchain system, the level of data integrity supported by the blockchain can become more robust, and efficient. In this paper, a new blockchain consensus model based on the Bryllite Consensus Protocol (BCP) is proposed to support a hyper-connected massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) ecosystem. The BCP scheme enables users to participate directly in new consensus processes through a Proof of Participation (PoP) algorithm. In this model, the consensus algorithm has a simpler form while maintaining high security level. In addition, because the BCP scheme gives users an equal chance to make a contribution to the blockchain, rewards are distributed in an equal fashion, which motivates user participation. The analysis of the proposed scheme is applied to the Bryllite consortium blockchain system (homed in Hong Kong), which is a new blockchain network developed for international game industries, gamers, and game events.

A Danger Theory Inspired Protection Approach for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Xiao, Xin;Zhang, Ruirui
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.2732-2753
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    • 2019
  • With the application of wireless sensor networks in the fields of ecological observation, defense military, architecture and urban management etc., the security problem is becoming more and more serious. Characteristics and constraint conditions of wireless sensor networks such as computing power, storage space and battery have brought huge challenges to protection research. Inspired by the danger theory in biological immune system, this paper proposes an intrusion detection model for wireless sensor networks. The model abstracts expressions of antigens and antibodies in wireless sensor networks, defines meanings and functions of danger signals and danger areas, and expounds the process of intrusion detection based on the danger theory. The model realizes the distributed deployment, and there is no need to arrange an instance at each sensor node. In addition, sensor nodes trigger danger signals according to their own environmental information, and do not need to communicate with other nodes, which saves resources. When danger is perceived, the model acquires the global knowledge through node cooperation, and can perform more accurate real-time intrusion detection. In this paper, the performance of the model is analyzed including complexity and efficiency, and experimental results show that the model has good detection performance and reduces energy consumption.

Evaluating the effects of the inclinations of rock blocks on the stability of bimrock slopes

  • Khorasani, Emad;Amini, Mehdi;Hossaini, Mohammad Farouq;Medley, Edmund
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.279-285
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    • 2019
  • The process of slope stability analysis is one of the most important stages in design of some civil and mining projects. Bimslopes are made from bimrocks (block-in-matrix rocks) where rocky blocks are distributed in a bonded matrix of finer texture. These kind of slopes are often seen in weathered and near-surface depths. Previous studies have shown that VBP (Volumetric Block Proportion) is one of the most significant factors affecting bimrocks strength and consequently the stability of bimslopes. In this paper, the influence of block inclinations on bimslope stability have been investigated. For this purpose, 180 theoretical models have been made with various VBPs, all of them have a specified block size distribution. These bimslopes contain blocks with differing dips relative the slope inclination. Also for each kind of block inclination, 10 different blocks arrangements have been modeled. The Finite Element Method (FEM) was used to analysis the stability of these bimslopes models. The results showed the inclination of blocks has a strong impact on the Safety Factor and stability of bimslopes. When the difference in angle of dip of blocks relative to the slope angle is maximum, the Safety Factor of bimslopes tends to be a maximum compared with the matrix-only state. Furthermore, with increasing VBP of bimslopes stability increases. The graphs obtained from this study could be used for preliminary guidance in the projects design with bimslopes.

Development of the High Input Voltage Self-Power for LVDC

  • Kim, Kuk-Hyeon;Kim, Soo-Yeon;Choi, Eun-Kyung;HwangBo, Chan;Park, Seong-Mi;Park, Sung-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.24 no.4_1
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    • pp.387-395
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    • 2021
  • Distributed resources such as renewable energy sources and ESS are connected to the low voltage direct current(LVDC) distribution network through the power conversion system(PCS). Control power is required for the operation of the PCS. In general, controller power is supplied from AC power or DC power through switch mode power supply(SMPS). However, the conventional SMPS has a low input voltage, so development and research on high input voltage self-power suitable for LVDC is insufficient. In this paper, to develop Self-Power that can be used for LVDC, the characteristics of the conventional topology are analyzed, and a series-input single-output flyback converter using a flux-sharing transformer for high voltage is designed. The high input voltage Self-Power was designed in the DCM(discontinuous current mode) to reduce the switching loss and solve the problem of current dissipation. In addition, since it operates even at low input voltage, it can be applied to many applications as well as LVDC. The validity of the proposed high input voltage self-power is verified through experiments.

Geoacoustic Model of Erosional Shelf Ridges in the Mid-eastern Yellow Sea

  • Woo Hun Ryang;Seong-Pil Kim
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.338-348
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    • 2024
  • In the mid-eastern part of the Yellow Sea, large-scale shelf ridges originated from erosion on sand-mud successions that have been presently eroded by strong tidal currents. A three-layered in situ geoacoustic model is provided down to 50 m for the subbottom sedimentary succession of a 45 m water depth using the Hamilton method. The succession is divisible into two-type units of Type-A and Type-B using high-resolution seismic profiles with a deep-drilled YSDP-104 core of 44.0 m in depth below the seafloor. Type-A unit mainly comprises sandy or gravelly sediments, whereas Type-B unit mostly consists of tidal muddy sediments with some thinner sand beds. P-wave speed values are positively compatible with the mean grain size and sediment type of the core sediments. For actual modeling, the geoacoustic property values of the models were compensated to in situ depth values below the seafloor. The detailed geoacoustic model contributes to simulating sound transmission through the sedimentary successions in erosional shelf ridges of variable geoacoustic properties distributed in shallow-water environments of the mid-eastern Yellow Sea.

HTCaaS(High Throughput Computing as a Service) in Supercomputing Environment (슈퍼컴퓨팅환경에서의 대규모 계산 작업 처리 기술 연구)

  • Kim, Seok-Kyoo;Kim, Jik-Soo;Kim, Sangwan;Rho, Seungwoo;Kim, Seoyoung;Hwang, Soonwook
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.8-17
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    • 2014
  • Petascale systems(so called supercomputers) have been mainly used for supporting communication-intensive and tightly-coupled parallel computations based on message passing interfaces such as MPI(HPC: High-Performance Computing). On the other hand, computing paradigms such as High-Throughput Computing(HTC) mainly target compute-intensive (relatively low I/O requirements) applications consisting of many loosely-coupled tasks(there is no communication needed between them). In Korea, recently emerging applications from various scientific fields such as pharmaceutical domain, high-energy physics, and nuclear physics require a very large amount of computing power that cannot be supported by a single type of computing resources. In this paper, we present our HTCaaS(High-Throughput Computing as a Service) which can leverage national distributed computing resources in Korea to support these challenging HTC applications and describe the details of our system architecture, job execution scenario and case studies of various scientific applications.

Analysis of Water Cycle Changes in the Multi-functional Administrative City using a Distributed Hydrologic model (분포형 수문모형을 이용한 행정중심복합도시 개발 전후 물순환 변화 해석)

  • Noh, Seong-Jin;Kim, Hyeon-Jun;Jang, Cheol-Hee;Lee, Yong-Jun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.1275-1279
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    • 2008
  • 도시지역은 도시형 수해발생, 갈수시의 급수안전도 저하, 평시 하천유량의 감소, 공공수역의 수질악화, 지하수 오염 등 여러가지 문제에 직면하고 있다. 개발로 인한 수환경의 피해를 최소화하기 위한 대안적인 설계방안이 필요하며, 이를 위해서는 개발 전후 물순환 환경 변화에 대한 정량적인 해석이 가장 우선적으로 수행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 우리나라와 일본에서 도시유역에의 적용이 활발한 물리적 개념의 분포형 수문모형인 WEP(Water and Energy transfer Process) 모형을 통해 행정중심복합도시 개발 전후의 물순환 변화를 해석하였다. 정밀한 해석을 위해 대상유역을 100m 크기의 정방형 격자로 구분하고 기상 조건, 지표면 조건, 하천, 토양, 지하대수층, 농업용수 이용 등 물순환에 관련된 광범위한 입력자료는 기존 측정 자료 및 관련 문헌, 현장 조사를 통해 각각 구축하였다. 모의의 전 후처리는 WEP+를 통해 수행되었는데, WEP+는 WEP 모형의 방대한 양의 입력자료를 효과적으로 구축하고, 다양한 시계열 및 공간분포 출력자료를 효과적으로 분석할 수 있는 인터페이스를 지닌 전 후처리 프로그램이다. 개발로 인한 물순환 변화는 절성토로 인한 지형 및 토양 조건 변화, 토지이용 및 용수이용 변화에 대한 개발 계획을 모형 입력자료로 구축한 후, 개발전과 동일한 기상조건과 초기 모의조건 하에서 각각 11년간 모의하여 수문 요소 변화를 비교하는 방법을 사용하였다. 물순환 해석 결과는 개발 전후 모의에 대해 유황곡선 및 물수지, 수문요소 공간분포 비교를 통해 수행하였다.

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Comparison of soil erosion simulation between empirical and physics-based models

  • Yeon, Min Ho;Kim, Seong Won;Jung, Sung Ho;Lee, Gi Ha
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2020.06a
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    • pp.172-172
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    • 2020
  • In recent years, soil erosion has come to be regarded as an essential environmental problem in human life. Soil erosion causes various on- and off-site problems such as ecosystem destruction, decreased agricultural productivity, increased riverbed deposition, and deterioration of water quality in streams. To solve these problems caused by soil erosion, it is necessary to quantify where, when, how much soil erosion occurs. Empirical erosion models such as the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) family models have been widely used to make spatially distributed soil erosion vulnerability maps. Even if the models detect vulnerable sites relatively well by utilizing big data related to climate, geography, geology, land use, etc. within study domains, they do not adequately describe the physical process of soil erosion on the ground surface caused by rainfall or overland flow. In other words, such models remain powerful tools to distinguish erosion-prone areas at the macro scale but physics-based models are necessary to better analyze soil erosion and deposition and eroded particle transport. In this study, the physics-based Surface Soil Erosion Model (SSEM) was upgraded based on field survey information to produce sediment yield at the watershed scale. The modified model (hereafter MoSE) adopted new algorithms on rainfall kinematic energy and surface flow transport capacity to simulate soil erosion more reliably. For model validation, we applied the model to the Doam dam watershed in Gangwon-do and compared the simulation results with the USLE outputs. The results showed that the revised physics-based soil erosion model provided more improved and reliable simulation results than the USLE in terms of the spatial distribution of soil erosion and deposition.

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Study on the Propagation of Vitex rotundifolia for Establishment of Natural Aromatic Resources (향료자원 조성을 위한 순비기나무의 증식에 관한 연구)

  • 김계환;박종민
    • Journal of Korea Foresty Energy
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.26-37
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    • 2004
  • This study was to investigate the rational propagation of the Vitex rotundifolia, which is distributed as a community naturally at coastal area in Korea. The germination rate of ordinary temperature stored fruits was the highest with 67%. In the matter of the number of seedlings per fruit, 1 seed germinated fruit was the most with 40.3 % and the mean was 1.4 seedlings per fruit. The best rooting rate of both greenwood and hardwood cutting was 96.7% in the case of cuttings soaked in IBA 2500ppm for 1 minute on the Compost+Sand bed-soils. Generally the root development of cuttings was higher in the high IBA concentration with soaking in a moment than in the low IBA concentration with soaking in long time, and bed-soils mixed with sands and composts. And in the rooting rate, greenwood cutting was better about 10% than hardwood cutting of Vitex rotundifolia.

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Optical and Electrical Properties of Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition at Low Temperature (저온 증착된 불소도핑 주석 산화 박막의 광학적·전기적 특성)

  • Park, Ji Hun;Jeon, Bup Ju
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.23 no.9
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    • pp.517-524
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    • 2013
  • The electrical and optical properties of fluorine-doped tin oxide films grown on polyethylene terephthalate film with a hardness of 3 using electron cyclotron resonance plasma with linear microwave of 2.45 GHz of high ionization energy were investigated. Fluorine-doped tin oxide films with a magnetic field of 875 Gauss and the highest resistance uniformity were obtained. In particular, the magnetic field could be controlled by varying the distribution in electron cyclotron deposition positions. The films were deposited at various gas flow rates of hydrogen and carrier gas of an organometallic source. The surface morphology, electrical resistivity, transmittance, and color in the visible range of the deposited film were examined using SEM, a four-point probe instrument, and a spectrophotometer. The electromagnetic field for electron cyclotron resonance condition was uniformly formed in at a position 16 cm from the center along the Z-axis. The plasma spatial distribution of magnetic current on the roll substrate surface in the film was considerably affected by the electron cyclotron systems. The relative resistance uniformity of electrical properties was obtained in film prepared with a magnetic field in the current range of 180~200A. SEM images showing the surface morphologies of a film deposited on PET with a width of 50 cm revealed that the grains were uniformly distributed with sizes in the range of 2~7 nm. In our experimental range, the electrical resistivity of film was able to observe from $1.0{\times}10^{-2}$ to $1.0{\times}10^{-1}{\Omega}cm$ where optical transmittance at 550 nm was 87~89 %. These properties were depended on the flow rate of the gas, hydrogen and carrier gas of the organometallic source, respectively.