• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.957-960
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• 2011

We present a fair and efficient solution for selfish readers with the Nash bargaining solution (NBS) to mitigate the effects of RFID frequency interference. We compare the NBS with a solution derived by the max log-sum scheme that maximizes total utility and show that for selfish and rational readers, the NBS brings success in bargaining on resource allocation between readers unlike the max log-sum scheme, although the NBS has less total payoff compared to the max log-sum scheme.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권12호
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• pp.2372-2380
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 네트워크 코딩을 쓰는 언더레이 인지 무선 네트워크에서의 주파수 할당과 경로 선택 기법을 제안한다. 네트워크 코딩 기법과 언더레이 인지 무선을 같이 고려하여 경로를 선택하고, 선택한 경로로 통신하는 SU들의 전체 시스템 처리율을 최대화 하는 최적화 문제를 제안한다. 제안한 최적화 문제를 다중 차원 다중 선택 배낭 문제로 변환한 후, 선형 계획 완화를 적용하여 전체 시스템 처리율에 대한 이론적인 상한 값을 제시하고, 주어진 환경에 대해서 SU들의 전체 시스템 처리율을 BFS를 통해 구한다. 성능 비교를 위해 링크 품질 기반의 LQF기법에 대한 SU들의 전체 시스템 처리율을 구하고, BFS를 사용한 경우의 SU들의 시스템 처리율과 비교 분석한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해, 네트워크 코딩 적용 시 네트워크 코딩을 적용하지 않는 경우보다 성능이 개선됨을 보이고, 언더레이 인지 무선 네트워크에서 제안한 기법에 대한 BFS를 사용한 SU들의 시스템 처리율이 LQF를 사용한 SU들의 시스템 처리율보다 더 높음을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.152-167
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• 2016

This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for two-hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) decode-and-forward (DF) relay network, where a relay harvests energy from radio frequency signals transmitted by a source and then uses the harvested energy to assist information transmission from the source to its destination. The power splitting receiver is considered at the relay. To explore the performance limit of such a SWIPT-enabled system, a resource allocation (RA) optimization problem is formulated to maximize the achievable information rate of the system, where the power allocation, the subcarrier pairing and the power splitting factor are jointly optimized. As the problem is non-convex and there is no known solution method, we first decompose it into two separate subproblems and then design an efficient RA algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can achieve the maximum achievable rate of the system and also show that to achieve a better system performance, the relay node should be deployed near the source in the SWIPT-enabled two-hop OFDM DF relay system, which is very different from that in conventional non-SWIPT system where the relay should be deployed at the midpoint of the line between the source and the destination.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.36-47
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• 2009

RFID의 리더와 태그간의 비가역성으로 인해 리더들이 밀집한 경우 리더간에 서로 간섭을 일으켜서 태그로부터 오는 신호의 SIR을 낮게 만들어 수신단에서 태그를 식별하지 못하는 RFID 주파수 간섭문제가 존재한다. 현재 이에 대한 해결 방법으로서 서로 다른 시간자원을 할당하는 TDM 기반의 방법들이 제안되고 있다. 그러나 대부분 리더들 간에 최적의 시간 할당을 구하는 것이 아닌 heuristic 스케줄링 알고리즘을 제안하고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 리더들 간의 주파수 간섭문제를 게임의 참여자간에 발생되는 이해관계를 해결하는 게임이론을 주파수 간섭문제에 적용함으로써 TDM을 사용하는 RFID 리더간에 발생되는 시간 자원 할당 문제를 사전 협약이 존재하는 협조 게임의과 협약이 존재하지 않는 비협조 게임의 내쉬 협상 해와 내쉬 균형 관점에서 해석해 보았다. 게임이론을 적용한 결과는 밀집리더환경에서는 협조게임의 내쉬 협상 해가 비협조게임의 내쉬 균형보다 더 큰 이득을 만들어 내는 것을 보여주고, 밀집 리더 환경에서의 최적의 시간할당량을 보여준다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.987-995
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• 2016

5세대 이동통신을 위한 후보변조기술에서 중요한 평가 요인 중 하나는 OOB(Out of Band) 전력 저감을 통한 주파수 효율 향상 특성이다. 본 논문에서는 5세대 이동통신을 위한 후보변조기술로 주목받고 있는 UFMC(Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier), FBMC(Filter Bank Multi-Carrier), W-OFDM(Weighted Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템에 대한 시간 자원 할당에 대한 주파수 자원의 효율을 평가하고 비교 분석한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 시간 자원 할당에 대한 스펙트럼 효율 향상 특성을 확인하였으며, 추가적으로 확보할 수 있는 주파수 자원을 확인하였다. 본 논문에서는 동일한 데이터 비트를 전송하며, 4개의 심볼을 전송하는 조건에서, 시스템이 선형일 때, 각 시스템은 모두 유사한 시간-주파수 자원 활용 효율을 보이나, 비선형 조건에서는 FBMC의 시간-주파수 자원 활용 효율이 가장 크게 저하되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2011

Frequency reuse among relay stations (RSs) in a down-link access zone is widely adopted for throughput enhancement in IEEE 802.16j relay networks. Since the areas covered by the RSs or the base station (BS) may overlap, some mobile stations (MSs) at the border between two neighboring transmitting stations (RS or BS) using an identical frequency band may suffer severe interference or outage. This co-channel interference within the cell degrades the quality of service (QoS) fairness among the MSs as well as the system throughput. Exclusive use of a frequency band division (orthogonal resource allocation) among RSs can solve this problem but would cause degradation of the system throughput. We observe a trade-off between system throughput and QoS fairness in the previously reported schemes based on frequency reuse. In this paper, we propose a new frequency reuse scheme that achieves high system throughput with a high fairness level in QoS, positioning our scheme far above the trade-off curve formed by previous schemes. We claim that our scheme is beneficial for applications in which a high QoS level is required even for the MSs at the border. Exploiting the features of a directional antenna in the BS, we create a new zone in the frame structure. In the new zone, the RSs can serve the subordinate MSs at the border and prone to interference. In a 3-RS topology, where the RSs are located at points $120^{\circ}$ apart from one another, the throughput and Jain fairness index are 10.64 Mbps and 0.62, respectively. On the other hand, the throughput for the previously reported overlapped and orthogonal allocation schemes is 8.22 Mbps (fairness: 0.48) and 3.99 Mbps (fairness: 0.80), respectively. For a 6-RS topology, our scheme achieves a throughput of 18.38 Mbps with a fairness of 0.68; however, previous schemes with frequency reuse factors of 1, 2, 3, and 6 achieve a throughput of 15.24 Mbps (fairness: 0.53), 12.42 Mbps (fairness: 0.71),8.84 Mbps (fairness: 0.88), and 4.57 Mbps (fairness: 0.88), respectively.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.1632-1644
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• 2007

Wireless Mesh Networks aim to attain large connectivity with minimum performance degradation, as network size is increase. As such, scalability is one of the main characteristics of Wireless Mesh Networks that differentiates it from other wireless networks. This characteristic creates the need for bandwidth efficiency strategies to ensure that network performance does not degrade as the size of the network increase. Several researches have been done to realize mesh networks. However, the researches conducted were mostly focused on a per TCP/IP layer basis. Also, the studies on bandwidth efficiency and bandwidth improvement are usually dealt with as separate issues. This paper aims to simultaneously study bandwidth efficiency and improvement. Aside from optimizing the bandwidth given a fixed capacity, the capacity is also increased using results of physical layer studies. In this paper, the capacity is improved by using the concept of non-overlapping channels for wireless communication. A channel allocation scheme is conceptualized to choose the transmission channel that would optimize the network performance parameters with consideration of chosen Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. Network utility maximization is used to optimize the bandwidth after channel selection. Furthermore, a routing scheme is proposed using the results of the network utilization method and the channel allocation scheme to find the optimal path that would maximize the network gain.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.541-550
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• 2016

This study explored a typology (or time allocation), investigated personal and work characteristic differences among time allocation types, and identified determinants of time allocation types of married working women with a preschool child. The data source for this research was the 2014 Time Use Survey conducted by Statistics Korea. We analyzed 368 time diaries (184 for weekdays and 184 for weekends) using frequency, mean, cluster analysis, chisquare, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Duncan's test, and multinomial logistic analysis. The results of this research are as follows. Time allocation of married working women with a preschool child was classified into three different types of 'work-centered,' 'work-family balanced,' and 'family-centered.' The work-centered type accounted for 14.7% of total respondents, and compared with other types, this type of people spent more time working, and less time doing house-work, caring for family, and having leisure. The work-family balanced type represents more than half of the total, and spend more time working on weekdays and house-working, having leisure on weekends. The family-centered type represents 28.8%, and spends most of the time doing house-work and caring for family on both weekdays and weekends. Occupation, employment status, monthly income, and weekly hours of work were different for each type. Occupation, employment status, perception of lack of time, health condition, and weekly hours of work were identified as determinants for each type.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.704-715
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• 2016

In this paper, we explore a low-complex bandwidth allocation (BA) scheme with multi-level service guarantees in VLC-OFDM systems. Effective capacity theory, which evaluates wireless channel capacity from a novel view, is utilized to model the system capacity under delay QoS constraints of the link layer. Since intensity modulation of light is used in the system, problems caused by frequency selectivity can be neglected. Then, the BA problem can be formulated as an integer programming problem and it is further relaxed and transformed into a concave one. Lagrangian formulation is used to reformulate the concave problem. Considering the inefficiency of traditional gradient-based schemes and the demand for distributed implementation in local area networks, we localize the global parameters and propose a quasi-distributed quadratic allocation algorithm to provide two-level service guarantees, the first level is QoS oriented, and the second level is QoE oriented. Simulations have shown the efficient performance of the proposed algorithm. The users with more stringent QoS requirements require more subcarriers to guarantee their statistical delay QoS requirements. We also analyze the effect of subcarrier granularity on the aggregate effective capacity via simulations.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.55-73
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• 2019

The cost incurred by voltage sag effect in power networks has always been of important concern for discussions. Due to the environmental constraints, fossil fuel shortage crisis and low efficiency of conventional power plants, decentralized generation and renewable based DG have become trends in recent decades; because DGs can reduce the voltage sag effect in distribution networks noticeably; therefore, optimum allocation of DGs in order to maximize their effectiveness is highly important in order to maximize their effectiveness. In this paper, a new method is proposed for calculating the cost incurred by voltage sag effect in power networks. Thus, a new objective function is provided that comprehends technical standards as minimization of the cost incurred by voltage sag effect, active power losses and economic criterion as the installation and maintenance costs of DGs. Considering operational constraints of the system, the optimum allocation of DGs is a constrained optimization problem in which Lightning Attachment procedure optimization (LAPO) is used to resolve it and is the optimum number, size and location of DGs are determined in IEEE 33 bus test system and IEEE 34 bus test system. The results show that optimum allocation of DGs not only reduces the cost incurred by voltage sag effect, but also improves the other characteristics of the system.