ETRI webzine #22 AUG

Honorable Results from Consistent Efforts

The Top 100 Achievements of National R&D are selected by the Korean government annually in an effort to raise the confidence of scientists and engineers and encourage them to recreate the outstanding research outcomes.
Among the 100 achievements selected in 2016, ETRI proudly listed 6 of its achievements, the best result by any Korean government-funded research institutes. Five technologies were selected for the information and electronics section and one for the convergent technology section. Among them, Dr. Wan Choi won the Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning Award for his contribution to leading the development of outstanding supercomputing system technology for genome analysis. ETRI has thus far had a total of 60 projects selected for outstanding achievements in the information and electronics section. Considering that about 20 information and electronic technologies are included in the top 100 achievements, ETRI’s outstanding research outcomes represent about 30% in the relevant section.

Technologies Selected for Top Achievements in 2016

Supercomputing system technology for genome analysis

Researcher : Dr. Wan Choi

Dr. Choi researched and developed petaflops-scale (101 TFs) supercomputing (MAHA: MAnycore Hpc system for bio Application) technology specialized for genopme analysis and utilized it for genome analysis solutions, the base technology built for supercomputing infrastructure in new industries. The MAHA system has been used to support as HPC cloud service provider of ICGC(International Cancer Genome Consocium) since 2014. WHEREAS ICGC has been organized to launch and coordinate a large number of research projects with the common aim of elucidating comprehensively the genomic changes present in many forms of cancers that contribute to the burden of this disease in people throughout the world. Based on the genome analysis service, the technology can provide customized medical service for determination of drug suitability as well as prediction of cancer and other diseases.

Optic-Circuit-Packet Integrated switching technology

Researcher : Dr. Sun-me Kim

This tera-scale Optic-Circuit-Packet integrated switching system and high-speed optical transmission technology integrates the individual optical, circuit and packet transmission layers to meet requirements of high capacity, high quality, low latency and low cost, in order to cope with the unprecedented surge of wired/wireless traffic demands and to accommodate various new services for hyper-connected societies.
This technology is a core part of next-generation network infrastructure and enables optimal transport service in line with the characteristics of each service. Compared to the existing equipments, this new technology reduces power consumption and cost by about 60%.

Advanced Technologies of Access Network for Traffic Capacity Enhancement

Researcher : Dr. Jinup Kim

Recent introduction of 4G LTE-A services increase traffic demands significantly to expect a 1000 times traffic growth by 2020. This traffic bigbang will change communication environments. Such enormous traffic demands will cause frequency band shortage, which could be overcome with improving spectral efficiency. Specifically, masssive connections among mobile terminals, mobile-to-mobile direct communications, small cell connectivities, and backhaul bottlenecks will be technical challenges for the traffic bigbang environments.
To meet such challenges and requirements, we have studied and acquired 4 core IPRs on mobile peer-to-peer direct communication channel modeling technologies, new radio resource utilization technologies with polorization, small cell off-loading and small-zone services, and optical backhaul enhancement.

Interactive experience-based learning software to foster creative talent

Researcher : Dr. Hyung-keun Jee

This personalized creative learning/tutoring technology is optimally customized for learners’ levels and the learning process by converging interactive 3D immersive content to allow learners to have fun, self-directed learning and experience-based content for learners’ collaboration.
3D content has become popular in a wide range of industries including learning, medicine, sports, and leisure. Interactive 3D immersive content allows concentrated and creative learning.

OLED panel technology with applied graphene

Researcher : Dr. Jeong-ik Lee

This device and process technology for electrode/capsule of graphene materials is applicable to large-area OLED displays.
By applying graphene, a new material, to the OLED technology, this technology significantly improves the transparency and resolution and realizes efficient production and cost competitiveness.

Map-based automatic valet parking technology

Researcher : Dr. Jeong-dan Choi

This technology simultaneously collects the latest driving environment information in connection with the cloud service. This leads to an ICT car applied service for creating precise and evolving maps, with functions to recognize locations and situations for map verification.
This allows users to issue orders with their smartphones to make their car find an empty spot and park itself in challenging situations such as when the user visits a hospital emergency room in a rush and needs to find an empty parking spot quickly. Regardless of the existence of obstacles, the cars can use video sensors and park automatically.