• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.565-568
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• 2005

최근들어 무선 홈 네트워크에 기반한 센서들에 대한 연구가 많이 이루어지고 있다. 무선 환경에서 센서 장치들은 대량의 장치들이 특정 위치가 아닌 편재된 환경에 존재하는 특징을 가진다. 이러한 센서 장치들의 정보를 제어하고 관리하기 위해서는 센서 정보를 활용하는 어플리케이션과 센서 장치 간, 정보를 중계해주고 관리해주는 미들웨어 소프트웨어가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 어플리케이션과 센서 장치간 정보를 중계하고 관리해주는 미들웨어 소프트웨어를 설계하여 구현하였으며, 향후 다양한 센서 장치와 네트워크 프로토콜을 지원하도록 하여 홈 네트워크 서비스를 실현하는데 도움이 되고자 하였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.95-101
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• 2009

As RFID technology has been developed rapidly, its technical potential has it be widely used in many industrial fields. Particularly, in the physical distribution industry, the introduction of RFID has enormously contributed to effectively monitoring locations and information of products in real-time. Also, a significant decline in tag prices and RFID related technical competitiveness enabled each tag to be managed much more minutely by attaching it to an item, not a pallet nor a container. However, if a very large volume of tag data are continuously flowed into a RFID middleware with limited hardware resources, its entire data processing time may become considerably longer. Therefore, specific technologies are in great demand to handle and further to reduce the load of the middleware. In this paper, we proposed a mobile agent-based software module to efficiently reduce the load of the middleware by pre-processing a lot of tag data while items are in transit. Simulation results show that using the proposed software module considerably enhances the speed of processing tag data than otherwise. This behavior increases the tag recognition rate in a certain time limit and improves reliability of RFID middlewares.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1284-1288
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• 2008

Recently, there is increasing the development requirement of middleware and interface for GPS(Global Positioning System), RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification), sensor networks. GPS supports a useful location based service. RFID supports products logistic and distribution services through the identification. A sensor network collects a context information, such as humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure. This paper implements and verifies a integrated service middleware for supporting efficiently process of sensing data collected from RFID, GPS and sensor network. This middleware have the temporary store function, the redundancy exclusion function, certification function, the classification function and the database storage function. Additionary, this middleware connects with low-level adaptor using socket interface and supports the high-level application services using database connection. Therefore, user can develop easily various many ubiquitous application system using proposed middleware instead of each RFID middleware, GPS middleware and, middleware based on sensor network.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.141-148
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• 2010

The aim of this paper is to propose a communication middleware which makes it possible to easily and efficiently develop the networking support for multi-user applications. Even though existing middleware and development tools provides lots of functionalities to realize distributed applications, they are purely low-level services passing the most development efforts to developers, or too specialized for a specific application. It brings a challenging issue of how the middleware supports general and efficient high-level mechanisms. To meet different networking and interaction requirements of multi-user applications, we propose various schemes to provide the communication architecture, the user membership management, the content transmission mechanism and the event management. Our middleware provides developers with application-level APIs and configuration files so that the different interaction requirements of a multi-user application can be easily handled in the developers' point of view.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.453-456
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• 2007

In this paper, we describes a design of Wireless Mesh Network based middleware that applied into USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Networks). WMN based middleware is a technique which links data between widely distributed sensor devices and WMN for context-awareness. The use of WMN base middleware in this paper makes possible communication on insufficiently network constructed area by use of WMN. WMN based middleware also anaylze events comprehensively that originated from specific sensor device. Based on the result from analyzed data with predetermined value WMN based middleware will given an order to designated actuator devices. Middleware operate each function of sensor network management and application service separately.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.1
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• pp.17-26
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• 2008

This paper proposes an efficient caching mechanism appropriate for the integrated RFID middleware which can integrate wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and RFID (radio frequency identification) systems. The operating environment of the integrated RFID middleware is expected to face the situations of a significant amount of data reading from RFID readers, constant stream data input from large numbers of autonomous sensor nodes, and queries from various applications to history data sensed before and stored in distributed storages. Consequently, an efficient middleware layer equipping with caching mechanism is inevitably necessary for low latency of request-response while processing both data stream from sensor networks and history data from distributed database. For this purpose, the proposed caching mechanism includes two optimization methods to reduce the overhead of data processing in RFID middleware based on the classical cache implementation polices. One is data stream cache (DSC) and the other is history data cache (HDC), according to the structure of data request. We conduct a number of simulation experiments under different parameters and the results show that the proposed caching mechanism contributes considerably to fast request-response times.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.10-18
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• 2008

The most critical element in the real-time operation of RFID application programs that are suitable for the mobile environment is the RFID middleware, made exclusively for mobile handsets, which processes collected data on a real-time basis and sends only the useful information to the application client. In this paper, we intend to design and implement a mobile RFID middleware system that supports the mobile handset environment for real-time based processing of the necessary data in the mobile environment. The proposed mobile RFID middleware system includes a mobile reader interface that collects the tag data, a mobile filtering engine that processes the tag data into more meaningful data that is sent to the application interface, and finally the mobile application interface that supports the m-SOAP application access protocol for interfacing with existing mobile applications. The filtering speed of the newly-developed middleware engine was found to be suitable for the characteristics of mobile handsets.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.11-23
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a communication middleware for development of HACCP(Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) automation system, which is composed of lightweight devices and a server, to support effective HACCP data management. To provide the proper HACCP data to lightweight devices, we design the communication message protocol based on HACCP management regulation model. Moreover, we develop the communication middleware that performs various functions, such as processing of communication protocols for HACCP data, analyzing of messages between devices and a server, and providing database managements tools. In addition, it takes a role to guarantee sharing consistent data among the devices and server, through the active updates for information on devices. Actually, the proposed communication middleware can be a part of critical system to develop a HACCP automation system with lightweight devices, because it implements the HACCP communication protocols making lightweight devices execute every HACCP task.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.579-582
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• 2008

Since there are a lot of researches regarding RFID nowadays, the idea of RFID Middleware has great popular appeal to improve the efficiency of most use the data from RFID Readers. Even though, there are many RFID Middleware products and solutions in the developing processing, there are unsatisfied researches to manage RFID equipments effectively. In this paper, highly recommends a solution to support various RFID Readers from ALE-complient RFID Middleware in an efficient path of constructing Middleware Connection Information and data protocol form various RFID Readers as an ontology metadata. Therefore, not only reuses of RFID Reader Ontology, but also, by adding the ontology regarding additional RFID Reader and protocol data as a Middleware in a near future, it is able to extend to be treated easily.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.549-552
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• 2006

Radio Frequency Identification(RFID)는 유비쿼터스 환경에서 주목받고 있는 기술이다. 이러한 RFID 미들웨어 시스템을 구축하는데 하드웨어 구축비용뿐만 아니라 소프트웨어 개발 비용도 매우 크다. 그러나, 이미 대중화 된, 상대적으로 개발비용이 매우 저렴한 웹 미들웨어 시스템에 RFID 시스템을 적용을 시킨다면, 그 파급 효과는 매우 클 것이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 웹페이지와 RFID의 데이터 교환을 위해 ActiveX를 어떻게 이용하였는지를 살펴보고, 또한 RFID를 웹 환경의 미들웨어 시스템에 실제 적용하여 봄으로써 그 가능성을 논의해보고자 한다.