• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.9C no.1
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• pp.79-88
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• 2002

Transcoding proxy strategy has been widely used as a means to reduce the delay in retrieving Web pages over wireless mobile data service networks. However, this strategy has the serious drawbacks of being a potential point of failure or a bottleneck of the service. We developed a distributed proxy server system in which multiple proxy servers are installed at geographically dispersed locations and share the workloads among them by serving mobile hosts only within assigned regions. A new handoff message protocol to enable handoffs between proxies as the mobile hosts move between regions is proposed. According to the proxy server handoff protocol, a client agent at the mobile horst requests a proxy server to start handoff processing by which two proxy servers synchronize distilled data belonging to a HTTP session that must be maintained across the handoff. Also, we introduce the architecture of the proxy server and the client agent that handles the proxy server handoff. Finally, we evaluate the proposed system through performance test.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1081-1085
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• 2010

In the wireless sensor networks, power consumption and interference among the nodes can be reduced by using the transmission power control. Because link quality is changed by spatial and temporal effect, link failures are frequently occurred. In order to adapt to link quality variation, existing transmission power control schemes broadcast beacon messages periodically to neighbor nodes and control the transmission power dynamically. However, it can effect on the time and energy overhead according to period of transmission power control. In this paper, the dynamic method of transmission power control by the link quality variation and variable period are proposed. When a link quality is unstable, the control duty cycle is reduced and the link quality is agilely maintained. In contrast, when link quality is stable, the control period is increased and control overhead is decreased.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.137-145
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• 2010

Wireless sensors play important roles in various areas as ubiquitous computing is generalized. Depending on applications properties, each sensor can be equipped with limited computing power in addition to general function of gathering environment-related information. One of main issues in this environment is to improve energy-efficiency in sensor nodes. In this paper, we devise a new attribute-query processing algorithm. Each sensor has to maintain partial information locally about attributes values gathered at its all descendent nodes. As the volume is higher, however, the maintenance cost also increases. And the update cost also has to be considered in the proposed algorithm. Thus, some bits, AVB(Attribute-Value Bits), are delivered instead of the value itself, where each bit represents a bound of attribute. Thus, the partial information can decrease the number of exchanged messages with a little cost during query processing. Through simulation works, the proposed algorithm is analyzed from several points of view.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.48-62
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• 2006

In recent years, wireless sensor networks(WSNs) have emerged as a new fast-growing application domain for wireless distributed computing and embedded systems. Recent Progress in computer and communication technology has made it possible to organize wireless sensor networks composed tiny sensor nodes. Furthermore, ad-hoc network protocols do not consider the characteristics of wireless sensor nodes, making existing ad-hoc network protocols unsuitable for the wireless sensor networks. First, we propose power-aware routing protocols based on energy-centered routing metrics. Second, we describe power management techniques for wireless sensor nodes using the spatial locality of sensed data. Many nodes can go into a power-down mode without sacrificing the accuracy of sensed data. Finally, combining the proposed techniques, we describe an overall energy-efficient protocol for data collection. Experimental results show that the proposed routing protocol can extend the routing path lifetime more than twice. The average energy consumption per sensing period is reduced by up to 30%.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.504-515
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• 2008

Fast transmission speeds and various wired network services have been combined with the convenience and mobility of wireless services. The combination of wired/wireless technologies is spreading rapidly since it enables the creation of new services and provides new features to both users and service providers. In such wired/wireless integrated services, network integration is very important because such systems are integrated by a linkage between heterogeneous networks and they involve an integration of transmission technologies across networks. In this situation, existing security and communication technologies are unsuitable since the network are integrated with heterogeneous networks. The network may also have several security flaws. In existing homogeneous networks, user authentication and key management between heterogeneous networks are required for these new technologies. The establishment of security technologies for heterogeneous devices is a very important task between homogeneous networks. In this paper, we propose a secure and efficient key management system for a heterogeneous network environment. Our system provides secure communications between heterogeneous network devices.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.80-84
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• 2010

Data multicasting from a source to multiple sinks in wireless sensor networks is used to achieve both reducing communication costs and energy efficiency. Almost all existing schemes for the multicasting might be effectively performed by optimal construction of a multicasting tree between a source and multiple stationary sinks. However, in practical sensor applications, sinks could move around on the wireless sensor networks for own missions, such as scouting of soldiers and saving lives of victims by firefighters. Unfortunately, the sink mobility causes frequent entire reconstruction of the multicasting tree and thus it leads to exhaustion of battery power of sensors. Hence, we propose an energy-efficient multicast protocol to support multiple mobile sinks by the local multicast tree reconstruction, called Local Update-based geographic Multicasting for Mobile sinks (LUMM) for wireless sensor networks. Our simulation results show that our scheme for mobile sinks is more efficient in terms of energy resource management than other exist works.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.198-205
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• 2007

In ubiquitous environment a user can be provided with context-aware services based on his or her current location, time, and atmosphere. LBS(Location-Based Services) play an important role for ubiquitous context-aware computing. Because deployment and maintenance of this specialized equipment is costly, many studies have been conducted on positioning using only wireless equipment under a wireless LAN infrastructure. Because a CPS(Cooperative Positioning System) that uses the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) between mobile equipments is more accurate than beacon based positioning system, it requires great concentration in its applications. This study investigates the relationship between nodes by analyzing a WiPS (Wireless LAN indoor Positioning System), a similar type of CPS, and proposes a improved WiCOPS-d(Wireless Cooperative Positioning System using node density) to increase performance by determining the convergence adjustment factor based on node density.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.111-117
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• 2009

Improvement of Wireless internet and handheld devices makes it possible that users can use various multimedia services. But, access point devices are needed while using handheld devices, and those devices use virtual network address for networking. For that reason, end-users hardly use the 1:1 voice or video chat, and messenger service that require direct communications between devices. Also, service providers need central server for relaying packets from terminals to others, the traffic and costs of relaying go high, so real-time massive data transmission services are restrictively provided. In this study, we apply TCP/UDP hole punching technique to those applications. And we implement service that supports real-time multimedia direct transmission between equipments that use virtual network addresses.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.73-75
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• 2004

최근에 무선 인터넷과 이동 컴퓨팅 기술이 발전하고, 휴대 전화, PDA와 같은 이동 단말기가 보편화됨에 따라 사용자의 위치 정보를 활용하는 위치 기반 서비스(LBS: Location Based Service)가 다양한 분야에서 제공되고 있다. 모바일 환경에서 위치 기반 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 모바일 장치에서 대용량의 공간 데이타를 신속하게 처리하고 효과적으로 관리하기 위한 공간 MMDBMS(Main Memory Database Management System)가 필요하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 기존의 PC용 MMDBMS인 HSQLDB를 확장하여 모바일 장치에서 공간 데이타를 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는 공간 MMDBMS를 설계 및 구현하였다. 공간 MMDBMS는 OGC의 공간 데이타 모델을 따르며, 공간 데이타 특성에 적합한 압축 기법인 산술 코딩 기법을 제공하고, 모바일 장치에 적합한 MBR 압축 및 해슁 기법을 이용한 공간 인덱스를 지원한다. 그리고, 모바일 장치의 낮은 성능의 프로세서에서 공간 데이타 디스플레이 기능을 제공하고, 모바일 장치와 디스크 기반 GIS인 ZEUS 사이에서 공간 데이타 import/export의 성능 향상을 위한 데이타 캐쉬 기능을 지원한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.46-48
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• 2004

최근의 위치 측위 기술과 무선 통신 기술의 발전에 따라 위치 기반 서비스에 대한 관심이 크게 증가하고 있다. 기존 연구의 단일 노드 기반 시스템으로는 휴대폰 사용자와 같은 대용량의 객체를 처리하는데 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 대용량 이동 객체의 시공간 정보를 관리하기 위해 클러스터 기반 분산 컴퓨팅 구조로 제안된 GALIS(Gracefully Aging Location Information System)의 아키텍쳐 중 객체의 현재 위치 정보를 관리하는 SLDS(Short-term Location Data Subsystem)의 프로토 타입을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서 구현한 시스템은 메인 메모리 데이터 베이스를 사용하여 디스크 접근 시간이 없고 현재 정보와 과거 정보를 분리하여 빠른 검색이 가능하기 때문에 대용량 이동 객체를 관리하며 빠른 응답을 필요로 하는 상황에 효과적으로 대응할 수 있는 이점이 있다.