• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.73-78
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• 2014

Cell death and survival are tightly controlled through the highly coordinated activation/inhibition of diverse signal transduction pathways to insure normal development and physiology. Imbalance between cell death and survival often leads to autoimmune diseases and cancer. Death receptors sense extracellular signals to induce caspase-mediated apoptosis. Acting upstream of CED-3 family proteases, such as caspase-3, Bcl-2 prevents apoptosis. Using short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs), we suppressed Bcl-2 expression in Jurkat T cells, and this increased TCR-triggered AICD and enhanced TNFR gene expression. Also, knockdown of Bcl-2 in Jurkat T cells suppressed the gene expression of FLIP, TNF receptor-associated factors 3 (TRAF3) and TRAF4. Furthermore, suppressed Bcl-2 expression increased caspase-3 and diminished nuclear factor kappa B (NF-${\kappa}B$) translocation.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.332-338
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• 2007

본 논문은 ZSI에서 shoot-through 시간을 효율적으로 제어하기 위한 변형 공간전압 변조방식으로 3종류를 제시하였다. 3개의 변형 공간전압 변조방식에 대한 스위칭 패턴과 shoot-through 시간변화에 대한 변조신호의 변화를 분석한다. Shoot-through 시간 제어 범위와 함께 스위칭 패턴 및 변조신호의 평형성 등을 고려하여 최적의 변형 공간전압 변조방식을 선정하였으며, 32비트 DSP를 사용한 실험을 통하여 그 타당성을 확인한다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.232-239
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• 2008

We investigated how the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) tolerance was degraded by semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-induced chirp for the 10 Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ), duobinary NRZ, return-to-zero (RZ), and carrier-suppressed RZ (CS-RZ) modulation formats. The power penalty was calculated as a measure of the system performance due to PMD for a given SOA-induced chirp. Considering only first-order PMD, all modulation formats have a similar PMD tolerance regardless of SOA-induced chirp. On the other hand, when both first- and second-order PMD are considered, the PMD tolerance of all modulation formats with the exception of the CS-RZ modulation format are degraded by SOA-induced chirp. Among all modulation formats considered here, the NRZ modulation format has the PMD tolerance with the highest sensitivity to SOA-induced chirp. When the peak-to-peak chirp induced by SOAs is $0.28{\AA}$, its PMD tolerance is degraded up to 4 dB for a differential group delay (DGD) of 50 ps. However, the PMD tolerance of the CS-RZ modulation format is largely unaffected by SOA-induced chirp.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.4664-4681
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• 2020

Modulation recognition (MR) plays a key role in cognitive radar, cognitive radio, and some other civilian and military fields. While existing methods can identify the signal modulation type by extracting the signal characteristics, the quality of feature extraction has a serious impact on the recognition results. In this paper, an end-to-end MR method based on long short-term memory (LSTM) and the gated recurrent unit (GRU) is put forward, which can directly predict the modulation type from a sampled signal. Additionally, the sliding window method is applied to fast-changing mixed-modulation signals for which the signal modulation type changes over time. The recognition accuracy on training datasets in different SNR ranges and the proportion of each modulation method in misclassified samples are analyzed, and it is found to be reasonable to select the evenly-distributed and full range of SNR data as the training data. With the improvement of the SNR, the recognition accuracy increases rapidly. When the length of the training dataset increases, the neural network recognition effect is better. The loss function value of the neural network decreases with the increase of the training dataset length, and then tends to be stable. Moreover, when the fast-changing period is less than 20ms, the error rate is as high as 50%. As the fast-changing period is increased to 30ms, the error rates of the GRU and LSTM neural networks are less than 5%.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권1C호
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• pp.18-24
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 고속의 데이터 전송을 위해 APSK (Amplitude/Phase Shift Keying) 신호 기반 DUSTM(Differentail Unitary Space-Time Modulation) 기법과 트렐리스 코드를 결합하여 새로운 TC-DUSTM (Trellis Coded DUSTM) 기법을 제안한다. 특히, APSK 신호 기반 TC-DUSTM (trellis coded DUSTM) 기법에 적합한 트렐리스 코드 설계 방법을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 TC-DUSTM 기법은 높은 전송률에서 기존의 PSK 신호 기반 TC-DUSTM 기법에 비하여 비트 오류 확률 성능이 향상됨을 알 수 있다. 또한, 제안된 기법이 빠른 페이딩 채널 환경에서 발생되는 차동 기법의 irreducible error를 효율적으로 줄일 수 있음을 모의실험을 통하여 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.142-150
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• 2005

This paper presents a systematic approach to study the carrier based pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques applied to diode-clamped and cascade multilevel inverters by using multi-modulating patterns. This method is based on the description of controllable redundant parameters in the modulating signals. A unified mathematical formulation is presented for carrier based PWM methods, which obtains outputs similar to the corresponding space vector PWM. A full and separate control of the fundamental voltage, vector redundancies and phase redundancies can be obtained in the carrier based PWM. In this paper, the proposed PWM method and corresponding algorithm for generating multi-modulating signals will be formulated and demonstrated by our simulations.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.795-803
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 Ka 대역 초고속 위성 방송 시스템에서 강우 감쇠에 대처하면서 가입자에게 지속적으로 방송을 제공하기 위해 unequal error protection(UEP) 방식을 이용한 계층적 부호화 방식에 대한 연구를 하였다. 신호의 중요도에 따라 변조 방식 및 채널 코딩 방식을 달리하는 time sharing 방식과 달리 하나의 변조 방식을 이용하여 성상도 위치에서 신호의 중요도에 따라 신호간의 최소 거리를 다르게 배치하는 UEP 방식에 대한 구조 및 성능을 분석하였으며, 성능 분석을 토대로 최적의 방식을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.297-300
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• 2008

The capacity of ultra-wideband (UWB) systems in presence of narrowband interference (NBI) is studied. By appropriately modifying the Shannon capacity formula, an analytical expression for the capacity of M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) signals in the presence of NBI is obtained. Performance evaluation results for the capacity of such signals as a function of the NBI carrier frequency and power are also presented.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.604-614
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• 2018

This paper proposes a synchronous switching technique for a Vienna rectifier that uses carrier-based pulse width modulation (CB-PWM). A three-phase Vienna rectifier, similar to a three-level T-type converter with three back-to-back switches, is used as a PWM rectifier. Conventional CB-PWM requires six independent gate signals to operate back-to-back switches. When internal switches are operated synchronously, only three independent gate signals are required, which simplifies the construction of gate driver circuits. However, with this method, total harmonic distortion of the input current is higher than that with conventional CB-PWM switching. A reactive current injection technique is proposed to improve current distortion. The performance of the proposed synchronous switching method and the effectiveness of the reactive current injection technique are verified using simulations and experiments performed with a set of Vienna rectifiers rated at 5 kW.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.110-120
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• 2014

This article proposes a spectrum sharing method which can avoid the mutual interference in both primary and secondary systems. The two systems make them a priority to use two single-dimension orthogonal signals, the real and imaginary pulse amplitude modulation signals, if the primary system is not in outage with this use. A secondary transmitter is selected to be the primary relay and the active secondary source to perform this. This allows a simultaneous spectrum access without any mutual interference. Otherwise, the primary system attempts to use a full two-dimensional signal, the quadrature amplitude modulation signal. If there is no outage with respect to this use, the secondary spectrum access is not allowed. When both of the previous attempts fail, the secondary system is allowed to freely use the spectrum two whole time slots. The analysis and simulation are provided to analyze the outage performance and they validate the considerable improvement of the proposed method as compared to the conventional one.