• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.9B
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• pp.1321-1328
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• 2001

터보 부호는 종료 알고리즘(termination algorithm)과 반복복호 알고리즘(iterative decoding algorithm)을 사용함으로써 AWGN 채널환경에서 BER 성능이 우수한 것으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 터보 부호는 복호과정에서 큰 복호지연을 요구하며 음성 신호를 전송할 때 프레임의 크기가 작아서 성능의 열화가 생긴다. 또한, 높은 SNR에서는 BER 성능의 개선이 없는 Error Floor 현상이 나타나기 때문에 오류정정 능력의 한계에 도달하는 큰 단점을 가진다. Flattening Effect는 종료 알고리즘을 사용하는 터보 부호(terminated conditions : TC)보다는 종료 알고리즘을 사용하지 않는 터보 부호(non terminated conditions : NTC)에서 상대적으로 많이 나타난다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 NTC 하에서 터보 부호의 Flattening Effect를 개선시키기 위한 새로운 블록 인터리빙 방법을 제시한다. 모의실험결과, 새로운 블록 인터리빙 방법을 적용함으로써 효과적으로 Flattening Effect를 제거할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10C
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• pp.937-945
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• 2009

In this paper, we investigate into the existence and various properties of absorbing sets in regular LDPC codes with variable node degree three. Also, we figure out the critical number of some absorbing sets that are believed to be the major cause of error floor in (3,5) Tanner LDPC codes.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.28-34
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• 1998

미래 개인 휴대통신에서는 고속의 데이터 서비스를 위하여 높은 대역폭 효율을 요 구하게 된다. 무선통신 서비스를 향상시키기 위하여 코딩기법, 변조기법, 다중화기법 등의 다양한 방법이 연구되고 있다. 이중에서 특히 변조기법은 시스템의 성능을 결정하는 중요한 요소가 된다. 본 논문에서는 PSK. OQPSK, π/4 DQPSK, MSK, GMSK의 다섯가지 변조기 법에대한 BER성능을 시뮬레이션하였다. 시뮬레이션을 위한 다중경로 페이딩채널로서 3가지 서로 다른 채널을 적용하였다. 이때 시뮬레이션을 위하여 1.544Mbps의 전송속도와 1.9GHz 의 반성주파수 환경을 고려하였다. 또한 fractional 선형 등화기를 적용하여 변조방식에 따른 성능향상 정도를 비교하였다. 채널 Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ에 대해 각각 30dB, 20dB, 10dB 정도에서 error floor현상이 발생했으며 π/4 DQPSKS가 가장 낮은 BER 특성을 보인 반면 QPSK는 가장 높은 BER을 나타냈다. 등화기를 적용했을 때는 GMSK의 성능향상이 가장 크게 나타 났다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10A
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• pp.1782-1793
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• 2001

터보부호 심벌비트들을 서로 다른 부호율로 반복부호화한 뒤 여러 부채널로 나란히 보내는 터보 부호화 여러반송파 직접수열 부호분할 다중접속 시스템을 제안한다. 레일리 감쇄채널에서 신호대잡음비가 높을 때에는 이 시스템의 성능 한계를 얻었고, 신호대잡음비가 낮아 한계를 적용할 수 없을 때에는 모의실험에서 성능을 살펴보았다. 신호대잡음비가 낮을 때 성능 손실이 조금 있지만 홀짝 검사(parity check) 심벌에 다양성 차수를 크게 주어 오류 마루를 (error floor) 낮출 수 있음을 보였다.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.11-17
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• 2010

The developed control valves, installed on the hot water distribution manifolds for the floor heating system, consist of the balancing valves and the shut-off valves. The balancing valve was designed to improve the flow control performance and to reduce the noise emitted from the valve by modification of the general V port. The port of the shut-off valve was designed with two ceramic plates, working by rotating upper plate, to improve the duration and to reduce the noise. For the evaluation of the new valves, the flow rate was measured and noise level test was carried out. The test results showed that the error of the flow rate accuracy test for the flow balance of each manifold circuit was less than ${\pm}3%$ and the noise level was less than 35 dB(A).

• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.9-16
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for forecasting early design construction cost of building projects using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Eighty questionnaires distributed among construction organizations were utilized to identify significant parameters for the building project costs. 169 case studies of building projects were collected from the construction industry in Gaza Strip. The case studies were used to develop ANN model. Eleven significant parameters were considered as independent input variables affected on "project cost". The neural network model reasonably succeeded in estimating building projects cost without the need for more detailed drawings. The average percentage error of tested dataset for the adapted model was largely acceptable (less than 6%). Sensitivity analysis showed that the area of typical floor and number of floors are the most influential parameters in building cost.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.5
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• pp.1010-1018
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• 2009

An inertial navigation system for pedestrian position tracking is proposed, where the position is computed using inertial sensors mounted on shoes. Inertial navigation system(INS) errors increase with time due to inertial sensor errors, and therefore it needs to reset errors frequently. During normal walking, there is an almost periodic zero velocity instance when a foot touches the floor. Using this fact, estimation errors are reduced and this method is called the zero velocity updating algorithm. When implementing this zero velocity updating algorithm, it is important to know when is the zero velocity interval. The gait states are modeled as a Markov process and each state is estimated using the hidden Markov model smoother. With this gait estimation, the zero or nearly zero velocity interval is more accurately estimated, which helps to reduce the position estimation error.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.278-284
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• 2010

Indoor localization for pedestrian is the key technology for caring the elderly, the visually impaired and the handicapped in health care districts. It also becomes essential for the emergency responders where the GPS signal is not available. This paper presents newly developed pedestrian localization system using the gyro sensors, the magnetic compass and pressure sensors. Instead of using the accelerometer, the pedestrian gait is estimated from the gyro sensor measurements and the travel distance is estimated based on the gait kinematics. Fusing the gyro information and the magnetic compass information for heading angle estimation is presented with the error covariance analysis. A pressure sensor is used to identify the floor the pedestrian is walking on. A complete ambulatory system is implemented which estimates the pedestrian's 3D position and the heading.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.118-126
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• 2011

This study proposes a human body orientation tracking system by inertial and earth magnetic sensors. These sensors were fused by indirect Kalman filter. The proposed tracking system was configured and the filter was implemented. The tracking performance was evaluated with static and dynamic tests. In static test, the sensor was fixed on the floor while its static characteristics was analyzed. In dynamic test, the sensor was held and moved manually for 30 seconds. The dynamic test included x, y, z axis rotations, and elbow flection/extension motions that mimic drinking. For these dynamic motions, the tracking angle error was under $4.1^{\circ}$ on average. The proposed tracking method is expected to be useful for various human body motion analysis.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.549-560
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• 2022

The optimum damping and tuning frequency ratio of the tuned mass damper-inerter (TMDI) for the base-isolated structure is obtained using the numerical searching technique under stationary white-noise and filtered white-noise earthquake excitation. The minimization of the isolated structure's mean-square relative displacement and absolute acceleration, as well as the maximization of the energy dissipation index, were chosen as the criteria for optimality. Using a curve-fitting technique, explicit formulae for TMDI damping and tuning frequency for white-noise excitation are then derived. The proposed empirical expressions for TMDI parameters are found to have a negligible error, making them useful for the effective design of base-isolated structures. The effectiveness of TMDI and its optimum parameters are influenced by the soil condition and isolation frequency, according to the comparison made of the optimized parameters and response with different soil profiles. The effectiveness of an optimally designed TMDI in controlling the displacement and acceleration response of the flexible isolated structure under real and pulse-type earthquakes is also observed and found to be increased as the inertance mass ratio increases.