• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.4367-4386
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• 2015

The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has shed new light on WSN technologies. MAC protocol issues improving the network performance are important in WSNs because of the increase in demand for various applications to secure spectrum resources. Cognitive radio (CR) technology is regarded as a solution to the problems in this future wireless network. In recent years, energy efficiency has become an issue in CR networks. However, few relevant studies have been conducted. In this paper, an energy-efficient non-overlapping channel MAC (ENC-MAC) for CR-enabled sensor networks (CRSNs) is proposed. Applying the dedicated control channel approach, ENC-MAC allows the SUs to utilize channels in a non-overlapping manner, and thus spectrum efficiency is improved. Moreover, the cooperative spectrum sensing that allows an SU to use only two minislots in the sensing phase is addressed to en-hance energy efficiency. In addition, an analytical model for evaluating the performance, such as saturation throughput, average packet delay, and network lifetime, is developed. It is shown in our results that ENC-MAC remarkably outperforms existing MAC protocols.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제43권12호
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• pp.1412-1419
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• 2016

인지 무선 센서 네트워크 (CRSNs)에서 보조 사용자가 (SUs) 주 사용자 (PUs)에 간섭을 주지 않고 기회주의적 방식으로 라이선스 대역을 사용할 수 있다. SUs가 스펙트럼 센싱을 통해 PU의 존재 여부를 확인할 수 있다. 그리고 센싱 시간은 스펙트럼 센싱의 중요한 파라미터이다. 센싱 시간은 센싱 성능과 스루풋 간의 균형을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 다른 관점에서 이 균형을 탐구하기를 통해 스펙트럼 센싱을 위한 새로운 기법을 제안한다: a) PU의 검출 (SSPD)과 b)스루풋(SSST)을 극대화을 위한 스펙트럼 센싱이다. 제안한 기법에서 현재 프레임의 첫 번째 센싱 결과에 따라 동적인 두 번째 스펙트럼 센싱을 수행한다. CRSNs에서 에너지 제약을 때문에 네트워크 에너지 효율도 센싱 시간의 최적화를 통해 최대화된다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 제안된 SSPD과 SSST가 각각의 에너지 효율과 스루풋의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 검증하였다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.25-39
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• 2010

We perform kinetic simulations of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs) expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). Bohm-like diffusion due to self-excited $Alfv\acute{e}n$ waves is assumed, and simple models for $Alfv\acute{e}nic$ drift and dissipation are adopted. Phenomenological models for thermal leakage injection are considered as well. We find that the preshock gas temperature is the primary parameter that governs the cosmic ray (CR) acceleration efficiency and energy spectrum, while the CR injection rate is a secondary parameter. For SNRs in the warm ISM of $T_0\lesssim10^5K$, if the injection fraction is $\xi\gtrsim10^{-4}K$, the DSA is efficient enough to convert more than 20% of the SN explosion energy into CRs and the accelerated CR spectrum exhibits a concave curvature flattening to $E^{-1.6}$, which is characteristic of CR modified shocks. Such a flat source spectrum near the knee energy, however, may not be reconciled with the CR spectrum observed at Earth. On the other hand, SNRs in the hot ISM of$T_{0}\approx10^{6}K$ with a small injection fraction, $\xi$<$10^{-4}$, are inefficient accelerators with less than 10% of the explosion energy getting converted to CRs. Also the shock structure is almost test-particle like and the ensuing CR spectrum can be steeper than $E^{-2}$. With amplified magnetic field strength of order of $30{\mu}G$ $Alfv\acute{e}n$ waves generated by the streaming instability may drift upstream fast enough to make the modified test-particle power-law as steep as $E^{-2.3}$, which is more consistent with the observed CR spectrum.

• 천문학회보
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.60.2-60.2
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• 2013

Electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence provides a fluid-like description of small-scale magnetized plasmas. Most EMHD turbulence studies consider "balanced" EMHD turbulence. However, imbalanced EMHD turbulence has never been studied. In this study, we numerically study "imbalanced" EMHD turbulence. Imbalanced turbulence means that wave packets moving in one direction have high amplitudes or strong perturbations than the others. In driven imbalanced EMHD turbulence, non-zero magnetic helicity is injected. When magnetic helicity is injected at a scale, we expect to have inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, as well as magnetic energy, in three-dimensional (3D) EMHD turbulence. For no helicity injection, we do not observe inverse energy cascade. However, when magnetic helicity is injected, inverse cascade of magnetic helicity is clearly observed. Magnetic energy also shows inverse cascade. In EMHD turbulence, it is well known that magnetic energy on scales smaller than the energy injection scale is forward-cascading quantity and the magnetic energy spectrum follows a k^{-7/3} one. On the other hand, the inverse-cascading entity on scales larger than the energy injection scale is uncertain. If the magnetic helicity is inverse-cascading quantity, we will obtain a k^{-5/3} magnetic energy spectrum. In our simulations, we do observe energy spectrum consistant with k^{-5/3} on large scales. Therefore, we confirm that magnetic helicity indeed is the inverse-cascading entity in 3D EMHD turbulence.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.340-350
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• 2016

The performance of large-scale cognitive radio (CR) networks with secondary users sustained by opportunistically harvesting radio-frequency (RF) energy from nearby primary transmissions is investigated. Using an advanced RF energy harvester, a secondary user is assumed to be able to collect ambient primary RF energy as long as it lies inside the harvesting zone of an active primary transmitter (PT). A variable power (VP) transmission mode is proposed, and an energy-based opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) strategy is considered, under which a secondary transmitter (ST) is allowed to transmit only if its harvested energy is larger than a predefined transmission threshold and it is outside the guard zones of all active PTs. The transmission probability of the STs is derived. The outage probabilities and the throughputs of the primary and the secondary networks, respectively, are characterized. Compared with prior work, the throughput can be increased by as much as 29%. The energy-based OSA strategy can be generally applied to a non-CR setup, where distributed power beacons (PBs) are deployed to power coexisting wireless signal transmitters (WSTs) in a wireless powered sensor network.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.176-183
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• 2019

Spectrum sensing plays an important role in spectrum sharing. Energy detection is generally used because it does not require a priori knowledge of primary user (PU) signals; however, it is sensitive to noise uncertainty. An order statistics (OS) detector provides inherent protection against nonhomogeneous background signals. However, no analysis has been conducted yet to apply OS detection to spectrum sensing in a wireless channel to solve noise uncertainty. In this paper, we propose a robust spectrum sensing scheme based on generalized order statistics (GOS) and analyze the exact false alarm and detection probabilities under noise uncertainty. From the equation of the exact false alarm probability, the threshold value is calculated to maintain a constant false alarm rate. The detection probability is obtained from the calculated threshold under noise uncertainty. As a fusion rule for cooperative spectrum sensing, we adopt an OR rule, that is, a 1-out-of-N rule, and we call the proposed scheme GOS-OR. The analytical results show that the GOS-OR scheme can achieve optimum performance and maintain the desired false alarm rates if the coefficients of the GOS-OR detector can be correctly selected.

• 천문학회지
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• 제29권spc1호
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• pp.315-316
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• 1996

Based on X-ray (1-8 ${\AA}$) flux data for 1972-1995 the integral spectra of solar flare energy were computed. It has been shown that the spectral index $\beta$ of the integral energy spectrum (IES) vanes systematically with the 11-year cycle phase. The interval of $\beta$-variations (0.47 <$\beta$<1) is characteristic of UV-Cet stars. The maximum energy of the X-ray flares does not exceed $10^{32}$ erg.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.265-276
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• 2017

Structures are designed in such a way that they behave in a nonlinear manner when subject to strong ground motions. Energy concepts have been widely used to evaluate the structural performance for the last few decades. Energy based design can be expressed as the balance of energy input and the energy dissipation capacity of the structure. New research is needed for multi degree of freedom systems (MDOFs)-real structures- within the framework of the energy based design methodology. In this paper, energy parameters are evaluated for low-, medium- and high-rise steel special concentrically braced frames (SCBFs) in terms of total energy input and hysteretic energy. Nonlinear dynamic time history analyses are carried out to assess the variation of energy terms along the height of the frames. A seismic energy demand spectrum is developed and hysteretic energy distributions within the frames are presented.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 1997

2차원 방사선 측정시스템에서 측정된 감마선의 에너지 스펙트럼으로부터 실제 에너지 스펙트럼을 얻기 위하여 CsI(T1) 섬광계수기에 대한 EGS4 모의실험을 실시하였다. $0.1{\sim}2$ MeV의 감마선에 대하여 50 keV 간격으로 모의실험을 실시하여 $39{\times}39$ response matrix를 계산하였고 이에 대한 역행렬을 구하였다. 이를 이용하여 실제 측정된 Co-60 에너지 스펙트럼에 대하여 unfolding을 실시하였다. 그 결과 계산된 response matrix가 실제 스펙트럼 분석에 유용한 것으로 판단되었다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2010

애드 혹 네트워크를 구성하는 무선기기들은 일반적으로 소출력 기기로서 ISM대역을 사용하였다. 그러나 무선 서비스의 사용률이 급격하게 증가함에 따라 ISM대역의 주파수 부족현상이 나타나게 되었고 주파수 부족현상을 해소하기 위하여 애드 혹 인지무선시스템이 제안되었다. 본 논문은 소출력 무선기기로 구성된 애드 혹 무선인지 시스템에서 전력소모를 줄이면서 효과적으로 유휴주파수를 검출하기 위한 스펙트럼 센싱을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 면허 사용자와 CR 기기 사이의 무선 채널은 가우시안 (Gaussian) 채널로 모델링 하였으며 모든 CR 기기와 면허 사용자와의 거리는 모두 다르다고 가정하였고, 애드 혹 네트워크를 구성하는 CR 기기간의 채널은 완벽한 (Perfect) 채널이며 거리는 근거리로 가정하였다. CR 기기는 에너지 검출 방식을 사용하여 면허 사용자의 스펙트럼을 센싱하였다. 실험결과 상위 레벨의 에너지 값을가진 CR 기기의 센싱정보를 결합한 센싱방법이 모든 CR 기기의 센싱정보를 결합한 센싱방법에 비하여 높은 스펙트럼 센싱 성능을 나타내었으며, 향후 제안된 스펙트럼 센싱 방법을 통해 저소비전력으로 효과적인 스펙트럼 센싱을 수행하는데 참조 할 수 있다.