Abstract: An apparatus and method for interconnecting heterogeneous networks is provided. The apparatus may include a controller to classify, for each level, control interfaces associated with an established virtual network, and a processor to convert each of the classified control interfaces into a common semantic model, wherein the processor may extract a convertible range from a language associated with a corresponding control interface to be converted, and may convert the corresponding control interface into a common semantic model, by changing a version of the extracted convertible range based on conversion rules.

Abstract: Provided is a communication system for transmitting data using a plurality of interference-free communication channels. A transmission apparatus may inactivate a portion from among a plurality of transmit antennas and thereby group transmit antennas into a plurality of antenna groups. A channel formed between each antenna group and a reception apparatus may have a relatively low correlation and thus, the may be assumed to be independent. Accordingly, the transmission apparatus and the reception apparatus may transmit data using separate interference-free communication channels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a technique relating to a method and apparatus for generating, transmitting, and receiving a data frame having a newly proposed format in a wireless communication system. According to the technique, the method for generating a data frame in a wireless communication system comprises the following steps: generating at least one first subframe; generating at least one second subframe; and generating a data frame including the first and second subframes, wherein the first and second subframes include length information of a MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) contained in the first and second subframes, and the length information of the MPDU contained in the second subframe is zero.

Abstract: The method for setting a core score in a router on a Content-Centric Network (CCN) includes setting a core score according to closeness to a core of a CCN; and transmitting the core score to one or more adjacent routers.

Abstract: Provided are a plastic microfluid control device having a multi-step microchannel and a method of manufacturing the same. The device includes a lower substrate, and a fluid channel substrate contacting the lower substrate and having a multi-step microchannel having at least two depths in a side coupling to the lower substrate. Thus, the device can precisely control the fluid flow by controlling capillary force in a depth direction of the channel by controlling the fluid using the multi-step microchannel having various channel depths. A multi-step micropattern is formed by repeating photolithography and transferred, thereby easily forming the multi-step microchannel having an even surface and a precisely controlled height.

Abstract: An energy control method for an energy management system provides an operation plan for the energy management system for monitoring and controlling an energy charging and discharging state according to an energy storage type, since energy self-sufficiency at home is enabled through association between an energy storage system (ESS) such as an electric vehicle charging station and home as a renewable energy power supply in the form of a distributed energy resource (DER) is constructed at home. The energy control method adds functions of a home energy management system (HEMS) managing and controlling a renewable energy power supply, the ESS, and the electric vehicle charging station that may be constructed at home afterwards, thereby providing consumers with a control order of various facilities not considered before. Therefore, information on settlements caused by energy supply and demand procedures and energy trading details and management evaluation functions may be provided.

Abstract: The device for executing a hybrid web application written in a web standard language including a system API call includes a web user interface layer that requests a process according to the system API call from a hybrid web application interface layer, and performs a process according to the web standard language, a hybrid web application interface layer that requests the process corresponding to the system API call from a cross platform system service interface layer in response to the request of the web user interface layer, receives a result of the process corresponding to the system API call from the cross platform system service interface layer, and transmits the received result to the web user interface layer, and a to cross platform system service interface layer that performs a platform dependent operation corresponding to the system API based on the request of the hybrid web application interface layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for processing an image data including: a CPU, a system memory connected with the CPU through a system bus, a communication packet processing unit configured to receive packet data from an external network, and a cut through memory configured to be connected with the communication packet processing unit through the system bus and a cut through memory bus and include a cut through memory storing the received packet data.

Abstract: A reader antenna includes dipole antennas, the dipole antennas including: a horizontal dipole antenna having the characteristic of horizontal polarization; and a dipole antenna perpendicular to the horizontal dipole antenna and including a vertical dipole antenna having the characteristic of vertical polarization, wherein the horizontal dipole antenna and the vertical dipole antenna may both have the characteristic of circular polarization. The reader antenna can be easily stored in an electronic shelf because it is realized in an ultrathin structure using a single-layered dielectric substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a content cache managing method and apparatus, and more particularly, a method and an apparatus for managing a content cache by considering network cost in a network. A content cache managing method of transmission equipment that forwards a content data packet may include calculating a cache replacement factor value by using network cost that is incurred in a network path from the transmission equipment to an original content server storing original content data, based on the content data packet that the content data packet is received from neighboring transmission equipment, and managing a cache in the transmission equipment based on the calculated cache replacement factor value or a state of cache in the transmission equipment to store the content data packet.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of remotely controlling harmful contents including: storing connection information of a managed-terminal and connection information of a managing-terminal in a database unit by using an administrative server, by transmitting the connection information to the administrative server by using the managed-terminal; analyzing, by the managed-terminal, contents stored in the managed-terminal and creating an analysis result on the contents; requesting, by the managed-terminal, the connection information of the managing-terminal to the administrative server; transmitting, by the managed-terminal, the analysis result on the contents to the managing-terminal by using the connection information of the managing-terminal transmitted from the managing server; and processing, by the managed-terminal, the contents in accordance with a processing request for the contents transmitted from the managing-terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adaptive transmit and receive method and device in a multiple-antenna wireless communication system. A transmit mode comprises different main transmit modes each of which includes one or both of a sub-transmit mode based on STBC and a sub-transmit mode based on SM. A receiver calculates an STBC performance parameter and a SM performance parameter, and a transmitter uses the parameters to determine a main transmit mode with maximum data rates and select a sub-transmit mode for minimizing power consumption. The transmitter channel-encodes, modulates and antenna-maps input data according to the selected transmit mode, and outputs results to the receiver. The receiver antenna/symbol-demodulates and channel-decodes the received data.

Abstract: Disclosed is a low-power and high-resolution time-to-digital converter including: a coarse delay cell configured to delay a reference clock by a coarse delay time and output the reference clock; a rising-edge retimer configured to output a rising-edge retimed clock synchronized with the rising-edge of a DCO clock in response to the reference clock; a falling-edge retimer configured to output a falling-edge retimed clock synchronized with the falling-edge of the DCO clock; a firs sampler configured to latches output of the coarse delay cell in response to the rising-edge retimed clock and the falling-edge retimed clock; and a pseudo-thermometer code edge detector configured to detect a rising-edge fractional phase error between the reference clock and the rising-edge retimed clock as a coarse phase error from a signal output by the first sampler, and detect a falling-edge fractional phase error between the reference clock and the falling-edge retimed clock.

Abstract: A hybrid direction apparatus and method that rapidly and accurately detects a direction of a radio signal source based on a direction detecting scheme by comparing an amplitude or signal strength, a virtual Doppler scheme, a phase difference comparison scheme while removing an ambiguity based on an amplitude or signal strength scheme, and identify a direction relatively precisely based on a phase difference scheme using only two antennas. Also, an arrival direction of a relative radio wave when an arrival direction of a radio wave is vertical to a single rotating axis may be precisely identified by mounting a directional antenna and a phase comparison antenna on the single rotating axis, and rotating the two antennas.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for cancelling a wideband acoustic echo that controls a data flow of data that is transmitted and received using a central processing unit, and calculates data using a calculation processing unit configured to be distinct from the central processing unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a digital attenuator, and more particularly, a digital attenuator for improving a performance in various respects, and also provided is a structure for reducing a phase difference of the digital attenuator by equipping an inductor as a phase retardation element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing interaction between a user and hologram using a volumetric data type object wave field. A method for processing interaction between a user and hologram for user's action using a volumetric data type object wave field includes: capturing user action on the holographic image of the object and solving collision between user and object; computing the updated position and rotation of the object by time integration of rigid body equation in collision; calculating the relative position and rotation of the hologram plane with respect to local object coordinates; transforming the hologram in the pre-computed volumetric object wave field grid according to the relative position and rotation of the hologram plane in local object coordinates and reading the object wave fields at all the pixels of the transformed hologram plane in order to generate a new hologram for the transformed object caused by user action.

Abstract: Disclosed is an impedance matching circuit capable of wideband matching. The impedance matching circuit includes: a first variable inductor unit of which one end is connected to the first node and an inductance value varies; a second inductor unit connected between the first node and a second node and having a variable inductance value; a first variable capacitor unit of which one end is connected to the first node and a capacitance value varies; and a second variable capacitor unit of which one end is connected to the second node and a capacitance value varies, and the other end of the first variable capacitor unit and the other end of the second variable capacitor unit are connected to a ground voltage terminal to perform the impedance matching between a circuit connected to the other end of the first variable inductor unit and a circuit connected to the second node.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor laser diode having a waveguide lens. The semiconductor laser diode includes at least one first waveguide having a narrow width, at least one second waveguide having a wide width wider, and at least one waveguide lens having an increasing width from the first waveguide toward the second waveguide and connecting the first waveguide to the second waveguide. Sidewalls of the waveguide lens connecting the first waveguide to the second waveguide may be curved. The second waveguide may be a waveguide providing an optical gain.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for interpreting a Korean keyword search phrase is provided. The apparatus for interpreting the Korean keyword search phrase may include an interface to receive a search phrase and to extract keywords from the search phrase, and a processor to classify the extracted keywords into at least one of a class, an instance, a property, and an attribute, based on a Korean sentence structure, and to obtain semantic information associated with the search phrase from a database, based on a result of the classifying.