• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권12B호
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• pp.1083-1096
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 센서네트워크의 수명 연장을 위해 에너지 인지 기반의 경로 제어 방안인 TBP(Threshold based Back-Pressure) 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 센서네트워크 수명 연장을 위해서는 에너지의 고른 소비가 필수적이므로, 라우팅 영역 전체에 걸친 고른 트래픽 분배를 설계목표로 갖는다. TBP 알고리즘은 지역적 트래픽 분배와 라우팅 영역 전체에서의 트래픽 분배를 모두 수행한다. 임계값과 back-pressure 신호가 이 두 가지 스케일의 트래픽 분배 수행을 위해 정의되었다. TBP 알고리즘은 라우팅 영역에 속한 다중경로의 최적 활용을 목적으로 하지만 이를 위해 사용하는 임계값과 back-pressure 신호는 한 흡 범위의 지역적 정보로 정의함으로써 망 규모에 제한받지 않는 확장성을 확보하였다. TBP 알고리즘이 에너지 소비를 분산시키는 효과, 즉 네트워크 수명을 연장하는 효과를 가지고 있음을 다양한 실험을 통하여 확인하였다. 또한, TBP 알고리즘은 엄격한 경로 제어를 기반으로 설계되었음에도 지연 및 전송률 지표에서 개선된 결과를 보였다. 에너지 인지 기반의 경로 제어가 트래픽 혼잡 제어의 효과를 부분적으로 갖고 있음을 보여주는 결과이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2504-2526
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• 2016

Wireless sensors are always deployed in brutal environments, but as we know, the nodes are powered only by non-replaceable batteries with limited energy. Sending, receiving and transporting information require the supply of energy. The essential problem of wireless sensor network (WSN) is to save energy consumption and prolong network lifetime. This paper presents a new communication protocol for WSN called Dynamical Threshold Control Algorithm with three-parameter Particle Swarm Optimization and Ant Colony Optimization based on residual energy (DPA). We first use the state of WSN to partition the region adaptively. Moreover, a three-parameter of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed and a new fitness function is obtained. The optimal path among the CHs and Base Station (BS) is obtained by the ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm based on residual energy. Dynamical threshold control algorithm (DTCA) is introduced when we re-select the CHs. Compared to the results obtained by using APSO, ANT and I-LEACH protocols, our DPA protocol tremendously prolongs the lifecycle of network. We observe 48.3%, 43.0%, and 24.9% more percentages of rounds respectively performed by DPA over APSO, ANT and I-LEACH.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2001

1992년에 발사된 우리별 1호는 고에너지 양성자들이 OBC(On-Board Computer)186의 메모리에 SEU(Single Event Upset)을 일으키는 안쪽 반알렌대(Inner Van Allen Radiation Belt) 를 통과한다. 본 논문에서는 Chi-Square 방법을 이용하여 OBC(On-Board Compute.)186 메모리에서 측정된 SEU 데이터와 NASA/NSSDC의 AP-8 양성자 모델을 비교하여, SEU를 유발하게 되는 문턱 에너지를 추정해 보았다. OBC186위치에서의 양성자 선속을 유도하기 위해서 위성체에 의한 차폐 효과가 고려되었으며 모델의 신뢰성을 높이기 위해 태양 활동이 활발한 기간에 얻어진 데이터들은 제거되었다. 비교 결과 우리별 1호 OBC186 주 메모리의 문턱에너지는 $110{pm}10MeV$로 추정 되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.1109-1114
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• 2009

The evolution of a high burnup structure (HBS) in a light water reactor (LWR) $UO_2$ fuel was simulated using the Potts model. A simulation system for the Potts model was defined as a two-dimensional triangular lattice, for which the stored energy was calculated from both the irradiation damage of the $UO_2$ matrix and the formation of a grain boundary in the newly recrystallized small HBS grains. In the simulation, the evolution probability of the HBS is calculated by the system energy difference between before and after the Monte Carlo simulation step. The simulated local threshold burnup for the HBS formation was 62 MWd/kgU, consistent with the observed threshold burnup range of 60-80 MWd/kgU. The simulation revealed that the HBS was heterogeneously nucleated on the intergranular bubbles in the proximity of the threshold burnup and then additionally on the intragranular bubbles for a burnup above 86 MWd/kgU. In addition, the simulation carried out under a condition of no bubbles indicated that the bubbles played an important role in lowering the threshold burnup for the HBS formation, thereby enabling the HBS to be observed in the burnup range of conventional high burnup fuels.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.213-220
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• 2008

This paper analyzes a broadcasting technique for wireless multi-hop sensor networks that uses a form of cooperative diversity called opportunistic large arrays (OLAs). We propose a method for autonomous scheduling of the nodes, which limits the nodes that relay and saves as much as 32% of the transmit energy compared to other broadcast approaches, without requiring global positioning system (GPS), individual node addressing, or inter-node interaction. This energy-saving is a result of cross-layer interaction, in the sense that the medium access control (MAC) and routing functions are partially executed in the physical (PHY) layer. Our proposed method is called OLA with a transmission threshold (OLA-T), where a node compares its received power to a threshold to decide if it should forward. We also investigate OLA with variable threshold (OLA-VT), which optimizes the thresholds as a function of level. OLA-T and OLA-VT are compared with OLA broadcasting without a transmission threshold, each in their minimum energy configuration, using an analytical method under the orthogonal and continuum assumptions. The trade-off between the number of OLA levels (or hops) required to achieve successful network broadcast and transmission energy saved is investigated. The results based on the analytical assumptions are confirmed with Monte Carlo simulations.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권8호
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• pp.42-46
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• 2010

에너지 검파 형태의 스펙트럼 감지는 수신 신호의 에너지를 검파 임계값과 비교하여 1차 사용자(primary user)의 활동 여부를 탐지한다. 그런데 이때 임계값은 달성하고자 하는 오류 경보 확률 및 잡음의 에너지 수준과 밀접한 관련을 갖는다. 따라서 만약 잡음의 에너지 수준이 변한다면 임계값도 조정되어야 한다. 현재까지 발표된 에너지 검파에 대한 연구들은 대부분 잡음의 에너지 수준을 이미 알고 있다는 것을 전제로 한 것이었다. 본 논문에서는 잡음의 백색성을 전제로 하여 임계값을 조절하는 방안을 제안하고, 그에 따른 검파 성능 분석 결과를 제시하고자 한다. 분석 결과, 제안한 방식은 잡음 에너지 수준과는 상관없이 일정한 오류 경보 확률을 달성할 수 있으며, 잡음 에너지를 추정하는데 사용되는 신호의 대역폭과 에너지 측정 기간의 곱이 커질수록 스펙트럼 감지 성능이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4603-4624
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• 2016

In this paper, a new reversible watermarking algorithm with adaptive embedding threshold matrix is proposed. Firstly, to avoid the overflow and underflow, two flexible thresholds, TL and TR, are applied to preprocess the image histogram with least histogram shift cost. Secondly, for achieving an optimal or near optimal tradeoff between the embedding capacity and imperceptibility, the embedding threshold matrix, composed of the embedding thresholds of all blocks, is determined adaptively by the combination between the composite chaos and the average energy of Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) block. As a non-liner system with good randomness, the composite chaos is suitable to search the optimal embedding thresholds. Meanwhile, the average energy of IWT block is calculated to adjust the block embedding capacity, and more data are embedded into those IWT blocks with larger average energy. The experimental results demonstrate that compared with the state-of-the-art reversible watermarking schemes, the proposed scheme has better performance for the tradeoff between the embedding capacity and imperceptibility.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.601-606
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• 2016

In this study, in order to analyze the low-temperature sintering process of silver and copper nanoparticles, we calculate their melting temperatures and surface melting temperatures with respect to particle size. For this calculation, we introduce the concept of mean-squared displacement of the atom proposed by Shi (1994). Using a parameter defined by the vibrational component of melting entropy, we readily obtained the surface and bulk melting temperatures of copper and silver nanoparticles. We also calculated the absorption cross-section of nanoparticles for variation in the wavelength of light. By using the calculated absorption cross-section of the nanoparticles at the melting temperature, we obtained the laser threshold energy for the sintering process with respect to particle size and wavelength of laser. We found that the absorption cross-section of silver nanoparticles has a resonant peak at a wavelength of close to 350 nm, yielding the lowest threshold energy. We calculated the intensity distribution around the nanoparticles using the finite-difference time-domain method and confirmed the resonant excitation of silver nanoparticles near the wavelength of the resonant peak.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1343-1358
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• 2020

In the stagewise arithmetic orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm, the weak threshold used in sparsity estimation is determined via maximum iterations. Different maximum iterations correspond to different thresholds and affect the performance of the algorithm. To solve this problem, we propose an improved variable weak threshold based on the stagewise arithmetic orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm. Our proposed algorithm uses the residual error value to control the weak threshold. When the residual value decreases, the threshold value continuously increases, so that the atoms contained in the atomic set are closer to the real sparsity value, making it possible to improve the reconstruction accuracy. In addition, we improved the generalized Jaccard coefficient in order to replace the inner product method that is used in the stagewise arithmetic orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm. Our proposed algorithm uses the covariance to replace the joint expectation for two variables based on the generalized Jaccard coefficient. The improved generalized Jaccard coefficient can be used to generate a more accurate calculation of the correlation between the measurement matrixes. In addition, the residual is more accurate, which can reduce the possibility of selecting the wrong atoms. We demonstrate using simulations that the proposed algorithm produces a better reconstruction result in the reconstruction of a one-dimensional signal and two-dimensional image signal.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.55-63
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• 2003

Threshold porosity above which fission gas release channels would be formed in the rim egion of high burnup UO$_2$ fuel was estimated by the Monte Carlo method and Hoshen-Kopelman algorithm. With the assumption that both rim pore and rim grain can be represented by cube, pore distribution in the rim was simulated 3-dimensionally by the Monte Carlo method according to porosity and pore size distribution. Then, using the Hoshen-Kopelman algorithm, the fraction of open rim pores interlinked to the outer surface of a fuel pellet was derived as a function of rim porosity. The simulation showed that porosity of 24-25% is the threshold above which the number of rim pores forming release channels increases very rapidly. On the other hand, channels would not be formed if the porosity is less than about 23.5%. This is consistent with the observation that, for porosity less than 23.5%, almost no fission gas is released in the rim. However, once the rim porosity reaches beyond 25%, extensive open paths would be developed and considerable fission gas release would start in the rim.