• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.145-155
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 8K UHD($7680{\times}4320$) 영상을 실시간 부호화하기 위한 $4{\times}4$ 블록 부화소 움직임추정기를 제안한다. 연산처리성능을 향상시키기 위해 보간 연산을 $4{\times}4$ 블록 단위로 병렬화시켰으며, 병렬 보간 연산에서 필요한 메모리 대역폭을 확장하기 위해 $10{\times}10$개의 메모리 어레이를 가진 2D 캐쉬 버퍼 구조를 설계하였다. 그리고 2D 캐쉬 버퍼는 검색영역 간 재사용 기법을 적용하여 참조화소의 중복저장을 최소화하였으며, $4{\times}4$ 블록 병렬 보간 필터는 3단(수평 수직 1/2부화소, 대각선 1/2부화소, 1/4부화소) 평면 보간 연산 파이프라인 구조로 설계하여 연산회로를 고속화시켰다. 0.13um 공정에서 시뮬레이션한 결과, 436.5K게이트의 $4{\times}4$ 블록 부화소 움직임추정기는 동작주파수 187MHz에서 8K UHD급 동영상을 초당 30프레임으로 실시간 처리하는 성능을 보였다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.22-31
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• 2015

최근, 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 에서는 폭발적으로 증가하고 있는 모바일 데이터 트래픽을 수용하기 위하여 기기 간 직접(Device-to-Device, D2D) 통신을 개발하고 이에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. D2D 통신을 위해 이용되는 링크를 사이드링크라 하며, 사이드링크는 낮은 PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio)을 위해 SC-FDMA (Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access)를 기반으로 한다. 또한, DMRS (DeModulation Reference Signal)를 사용함으로써 MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) 전송이 가능하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 D2D 통신에서 사이드링크를 위한 DFT 기반 채널 추정 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 빠른 속도로 움직이는 사용자의 채널 추정이 가능하도록 2-D MMSE (2-Dimensional Minimum Mean Square Error) 보간 기법을 사용한다. 시스템 레벨 시뮬레이션은 3GPP LTE-Advanced 시스템의 20MHz 대역을 기반으로 이루어 졌으며, 시뮬레이션 결과 제안한 채널 추정 기법을 통해 기존 기법보다 SINR(Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio), 전송률 및 스펙트럼 효율 측면에서 성능 향상을 가져다주는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권5C호
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• pp.527-539
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 3GPP LTE (3rd Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution) MIMO-OFDMA(multiple-input multiple-output-orthogonal frequency division multiple access) 시스템의 하향 링크 수신기를 위한 asynchronous ICI (Inter-Cell Interference) 완화 기법을 제안한다. Multi-cell 환경을 고려한 celluar OFDMA 시스템에서는 기본적으로 frequency reuse factor가 1로 설정되기 때문에 셀 경계에 위치한 UE (User Equipment)의 경우 ICI 영향을 받게 되며, 특히 각기 다른 셀 반경 및 nodeB 간의 거리 차이 등 현실적인 celluar 환경을 고려 할 경우에는 UE 간 타이밍 오류가 가중되어 수신 신호의 주파수 영역의 직교성이 파괴될 가능성이 있다. 따라서 이러한 인접 셀 간섭을 제거 및 완화하기 위하여 수신 OFDM 심볼에 대한 SCM (Spatial Covariance Matrix) 추정이 필요하다. 일반적으로 SCM 추정은 training symbol을 이용함을 가정하지만, 긴 시간 동안 간섭의 통계적 특성을 측정하는 것은 어려울 뿐만 아니라 training symbol이 고려되지 않는 LTE와 같은 MIMO-OFDMA 시스템에는 적합하지 않다. 또한 추정의 정확성을 높이기 위하여 noise reduction 방식이 적용된 추정 기법이 제시되고 있으나, 기존 time-domain low-pass type weighting 방식은 spectral leakage에 의한 추정 에러를 유발하는 단점이 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 noise reduction 효과를 얻으면서 spectral leakage에 의한 SCM 추정 오류를 최소화할 수 있으며, 주파수 영역에의 moving average filter로 구현 가능한 time-domain sinc-type weighting 방식의 SCM 추정 기법을 제안하였으며, 다양한 환경에서의 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 통하여 제안된 방식이 기존의 방식보다 약 3dB 의 SIR (Signal to Interference Ratio) 이득을 보임을 입증하였다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.93-98
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• 2005

Molecular ecological studies of microbial communities revealed that only tiny fraction of total microorganisms in nature have been identified and characterized, because the majority of them have not been cultivated. A concept, metagenome, represents the total microbial genome in natural ecosystem consisting of genomes from both culturable microorganisms and viable but non-culturable bacteria. The construction and screening of metagenomic libraries in culturable bacteria constitute a valuable resource for obtaining novel microbial genes and products. Several novel enzymes and antibiotics have been identified from the metagenomic approaches in many different microbial communities. Phenotypic analysis of the introduced unknown genes in culturable bacteria could be an important way for functional genomics of unculturable bacteria. However, estimation of the number of clones required to uncover the microbial diversity from various environments has been almost impossible due to the enormous microbial diversity and various microbial population structure. Massive construction of metagenomic libraries and development of high throughput screening technology should be necessary to obtain valuable microbial resources. This paper presents the recent progress in metagenomic studies including our results and potential of metagenomics in plant pathology and agriculture.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1119-1143
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• 2014

Lightweight trust mechanism with lightweight cryptographic primitives has emerged as an important mechanism in resource constraint wireless sensor based mobile devices. In this work, outlier detection in lightweight Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) is extended to create the space of reliable trust cycle with anomaly detection mechanism and minimum energy losses [1]. Further, system is tested against outliers through detection ratios and anomaly scores before incorporating virtual programmable nodes to increase the efficiency. Security in proposed system is verified through ProVerif automated toolkit and mathematical analysis shows that it is strong against bad mouthing and on-off attacks. Performance of proposed technique is analyzed over different MANET routing protocols with variations in number of nodes and it is observed that system provide good amount of throughput with maximum of 20% increase in delay on increase of maximum of 100 nodes. System is reflecting good amount of scalability, optimization of resources and security. Lightweight modeling and policy analysis with lightweight cryptographic primitives shows that the intruders can be detection in few milliseconds without any conflicts in access rights.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.359-367
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• 2013

The amount of international trade is rapidly increasing as a result of globalization. It is well known that as the size of a vessel becomes larger, the transportation cost per container decreases. That is, the economy-of-scale holds even in maritime container transportation. As a result, the sizes of containerships have been steadily increased for reducing transportation costs. In addition, various handling technologies and handling equipment have been introduced to increase the throughput capacities of container terminals. Quay crane (QC) that carries out load/unload operations plays the most important role among various handling equipment in terminals. Two typical examples of advanced QC concepts proposed so far are double trolley QC and supertainer QC. This paper suggests a method of estimating the expected value and the standard deviation of the container handling cycle time of the advanced QCs that involve several handling components which move at the same time. Numerical results obtained by the proposed estimation procedure are compared with those obtained by simulation studies. In order to demonstrate the advantage of advanced QCs, we compared their expected cycle times with those of a conventional QC.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.151-167
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• 2004

Traditional traffic forecast has employed regression analysis or time-series analysis based on past trends of explanatory variables. However, not existing but planned port facilities do not have historical data for traffic estimation. Consequently, arbitrary traffic allocation has been subject to researcher's intuition. In this paper, container throughput at New Incheon Outer-South Port will be estimated using stated preference(SP) and sample enumeration methodology on the basis of survey data about the choice behaviors of port users in a theoretical situation. In the SP survey, shippers, freight forwarders and carriers were required to answer a choice between two alternative ports: Busan and Incheon. Although total 27 scenarios of questionnaires were constructed with 3 levels of 3 explanatory variables, each interviewee was asked to answer for just 9 scenarios chosen at random. A binary choice logit model was applied to the survey data. The elasticity of travel time is estimated to be very high, implying that building New Incheon Outer-South Port could be effective in relieving the congestion of the Kyungin corridor. The analysis result shows that increasing service level at Incheon Port would bring in the substantial diversion of container cargo in the Capital region to Incheon Port from Busan Port.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2003년도 제2차 연례학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.221-228
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• 2003

This paper presents a novel method that can identify the individual's haplotype from the given genotypes. Because of the limitation of the conventional single-locus analysis, haplotypes have gained increasing attention in the mapping of complex-disease genes. Conventionally there are two approaches which resolve the individual's haplotypes. One is the molecular haplotypings which have many potential limitations in cost and convenience. The other is the in-silico haplotypings which phase the haplotypes from the diploid genotyped populations, and are cost effective and high-throughput method. In-silico haplotyping is divided into two sub-categories - statistical and computational method. The former computes the frequencies of the common haplotypes, and then resolves the individual's haplotypes. The latter directly resolves the individual's haplotypes using the perfect phylogeny model first proposed by Dan Gusfield [7]. Our method combines two approaches in order to increase the accuracy and the running time. The individuals' haplotypes are resolved by considering the MLE (Maximum Likelihood Estimation) in the process of computing the frequencies of the common haplotypes.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.255-266
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• 2015

In this paper, a low-complexity and low-power soft output multiple input multiple output (MIMO) symbol detector is proposed for mobile devices with two transmit and two receive antennas. The proposed symbol detector can support both the spatial multiplexing mode and spatial diversity mode in single hardware and shows the optimal maximum likelihood (ML) performance. By applying a multi-stage pipeline structure and using a complex multiplier based on the polar-coordinate, the complexity of the proposed architecture is dramatically decreased. Also, by applying a clock-gating scheme to the internal modules for MIMO modes, the power consumption is also reduced. The proposed symbol detector was designed using a hardware description language (HDL) and implemented using a 65nm CMOS standard cell library. With the proposed architecture, the proposed MIMO detector takes up an area of approximately $0.31mm^2$ with 183K equivalent gates and achieves a 150Mbps throughput. Also, the power estimation results show that the proposed MIMO detector can reduce the power consumption by a maximum of 85% for the various test cases.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5286-5306
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• 2016

Emerging applications in automation, medical imaging, traffic monitoring and surveillance need real-time data transmission over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS) for real-time traffic over WSNs creates new challenges. Rapid penetration of smart devices, standardization of Machine Type Communications (MTC) in next generation 5G wireless networks have added new dimensions in these challenges. In order to satisfy such precise QoS constraints, in this paper, we propose a new cross-layer QoS-provisioning strategy in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). The network layer performs statistical estimation of sensory QoS parameters. Identifying QoS-routing problem with multiple objectives as NP-complete, it discovers near-optimal QoS-routes by using evolutionary genetic algorithms. Subsequently, the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer classifies the packets, automatically adapts the contention window, based on QoS requirements and transmits the data by using routing information obtained by the network layer. Performance analysis is carried out to get an estimate of the overall system. Through the simulation results, it is manifested that the proposed strategy is able to achieve better throughput and significant lower delay, at the expense of negligible energy consumption, in comparison to existing WMSN QoS protocols.