• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.399-406
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• 2023

Cloud computing has been evolved to support edge computing architecture that combines fog management layer with edge servers. The main reason why it is received much attention is low communication latency for real-time IoT applications. At the same time, various cloud task scheduling techniques based on artificial intelligence have been proposed. Artificial intelligence-based cloud task scheduling techniques show better performance in comparison to existing methods, but it has relatively high scheduling time. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based dynamic scheduling with multi-agents supporting scalability in edge computing environments. The proposed method shows low scheduling time than previous artificial intelligence-based scheduling techniques. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, we compare the performance between previous and proposed methods in a scalable experimental environment. The results show that our method supports real-time IoT applications with low scheduling time, and shows better performance in terms of the number of completed cloud tasks in a scalable experimental environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1577-1585
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• 2022

As the interest in the 4th industrial revolution and metaverse increases, metaverse with multi edge structure is proposed and noted. Metaverse is a structure that can create digital doctor-like system through a large amount of image processing and data transmission in a multi edge system. Since metaverse application requires calculating performance, which can reconstruct 3-D space, edge hardware's insufficient calculating performance has been a problem. To provide streamable AI software in runtime, image processing, and data transmission, which is edge's loads, needs to be lightweight. Also lightweight at the edge leads to power consumption reduction of the entire metaverse application system. In this paper, we propose collaborative edge-cloud image processing with remote image processing method and Region of Interest (ROI) to overcome edge's power performance and build streamable and runtime executable AI software. The proposed structure was implemented using a PC and an embedded board, and the reduction of time, power, and network communications were verified.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.23-29
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• 2022

Recently, due to the increase in the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the amount of data transmitted and processed to cloud computing servers has increased rapidly. As a result, network problems (delay, server overload and security threats) are emerging. In particular, edge computing with lower computational capabilities than cloud computing requires a lightweight authentication algorithm that can easily authenticate numerous IoT devices.In this paper, we proposed a key-agreement protocol of a lightweight algorithm that guarantees anonymity and forward and backward secrecy between IoT and edge devices. and the proposed algorithm is stable in MITM and replay attacks for edge device and IoT. As a result of comparing and analyzing the proposed key-agreement protocol with previous studies, it was shown that a lightweight protocol that can be efficiently used in IoT and edge devices.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.258-264
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• 2022

The smart farm for livestock, in which information and communication technology (ICT) is combined with livestock farm, is mostly based on the cloud computing paradigm. A cloud-based smart livestock farm has disadvantages such as increased response time, burden on cloud resource caused by the increased number of IoT sensors, traffic burden on the network, and lack of failure resilience mechanisms through collaboration with adjacent IoT devices. In this paper, with these problems in mind, we propose an IoT collaboration system based on edge computing. By using the relatively limited computing resources of the edge device to share the cloud's web server function, we aim to reduce the cloud's resources needed and improve response time to user requests. In addition, through the heartbeat-based failure recovery mechanism, IoT device failures were detected and appropriate measures were taken.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.37-47
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• 2018

The number of capabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) devices will exponentially grow over the next years. These devices may generate a vast amount of time-constrained data. In the context of IoT, data management should act as a layer between the objects and devices generating the data and the applications accessing the data for analysis purposes and services. In addition, most of IoT services will be content-centric rather than host centric to increase the data availability and the efficiency of data delivery. IoT will enable all the communication devices to be interconnected and make the data generated by or associated with devices or objects globally accessible. Also, fog computing keeps data and computation close to end users at the edge of network, and thus provides a new breed of applications and services to end users with low latency, high bandwidth, and geographically distributed. In this paper, we propose Edge-Fog cloud-based Hierarchical Data Delivery ($EFcHD^2$) method that effectively and reliably delivers IoT data to associated with IoT applications with ensuring time sensitivity. The proposed $EFcHD^2$ method stands on basis of fully decentralized hybrid of Edge and Fog compute cloud model, Edge-Fog cloud, and uses information-centric networking and bloom filters. In addition, it stores the replica of IoT data or the pre-processed feature data by edge node in the appropriate locations of Edge-Fog cloud considering the characteristic of IoT data: locality, size, time sensitivity and popularity. Then, the performance of $EFcHD^2$ method is evaluated through an analytical model, and is compared to fog server-based and Content-Centric Networking (CCN)-based data delivery methods.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.69-78
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• 2024

Cloud computing technology based on centralized high-performance computing has brought about major changes across the information technology industry and led to new paradigms. However, with the rapid development of the industry and increasing need for mass generation and real-time processing of data across various fields, centralized cloud computing is lagging behind the demand. This is particularly critical in emerging technologies such as autonomous driving, the metaverse, and augmented/virtual reality that require the provision of services with ultralow latency for real-time performance. To address existing limitations, distributed and edge cloud computing technologies have recently gained attention. These technologies allow for data to be processed and analyzed closer to their point of generation, substantially reducing the response times and optimizing the network bandwidth usage. We describe distributed and edge cloud computing technologies and explore the latest trends in their standardization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2021

포인트 클라우드 콘텐츠는 실제 환경 및 물체를 3 차원 위치정보를 갖는 점들과 그에 대응하는 색상 등을 획득하여 기록한 실감 콘텐츠이다. 위치와 색상 정보로만 이뤄진 3 차원 점으로 이뤄진 포인트 클라우드 콘텐츠는 확대하여 렌더링 할 경우 점과 점 사이의 간격이 벌어지면서 발생하는 구멍에 의해 콘텐츠 품질이 저하될 수 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 포인트 클라우드 확대 시 점들 간 간격이 벌어져 생기는 구멍에 대해 깊이정보를 활용한 역변환 기반 보간 방법을 통해 포인트 클라우드 콘텐츠 품질을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 벌어진 간격들 사이에서 빈 공간을 찾을 때 그 사이로 뒷면의 점들이 그려지게 되어 보간 방법을 적용하는데 방해요소로 작용한다. 이를 해결하기 위해 구멍이 발생하지 않은 시점에서 렌더링 된 영상을 사용하여 포인트 클라우드의 뒷면에 해당되는 점들을 제거한다. 다음으로 깊이 맵(depth map)을 추출한 후 추출된 깊이 값을 사용하여 뎁스 에지(depth edge)를 구하고 에지를 사용하여 깊이 불연속 부분에 대해 처리한다. 마지막으로 뎁스 값을 활용하여 이전에 찾은 구멍들의 역변환을 하여 원본의 데이터에서 픽셀을 추출한다. 제안하는 방법으로 콘텐츠를 렌더링 한 결과, 기존의 크기를 늘려 빈 영역을 채우는 방법에 비해 렌더링 품질이 평균 PSNR 측면에서 2.9 dB 향상된 결과를 보였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.163-168
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• 2022

As cloud computing and the Internet of things are getting popular, the number of devices in the Internet of things computing environments is increasing. In addition, there exist various Internet-based applications, such as home automation and healthcare. In turn, existing studies explored the quality of service, such as downtime and reliability of tasks for Internet of things applications. To enhance the quality of service of Internet of things applications, cloud-fog computing (combining cloud computing and edge computing) can be used for offloading burdens from the central cloud server to edge servers. However, when devices inherit the mobility property, continuity and the quality of service of Internet of things applications can be reduced. In this paper, we propose a resource management scheme based on live migrations for mobility support in edge-based fog computing environments. The proposed resource management algorithm is based on the mobility direction and pace to predict the expected position, and migrates tasks to the target edge server. The performance results show that our proposed resource management algorithm improves the reliability of tasks and reduces downtime of services.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.556-557
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• 2019

The current video surveillance system is the third generation, and the video device has developed from low image quality to high image quality. The video surveillance solution has improved from the simple type to the intelligent type. However, as the equipment and technology for these video surveillance systems become more complicated and diversified, they are increasingly dependent on infrastructure, such as faster network speed and stable power supply. On the other hand, there is a growing need for video surveillance in areas where basic infrastructure is limited, such as power and communications. In this paper, we propose a system that can support intelligent video surveillance in a region where basic infrastructure is limited.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.316-318
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• 2019

본 논문은 5G 기반의 스마트 시티를 위한 지능형 도로 안전 지원 서비스의 설계에 관한 것이다. 초저지연, 대용량, 초연결의 특성을 가지는 5G 무선 통신망은 스마트시티를 구현하기 위한 최적의 네트워크 인프라를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 5G 기반의 스마트 시티 서비스를 제공하기 위한 에지 클라우드 컴퓨팅 인프라를 설계하고, 5G 무선 통신 기반의 지능형 CCTV 로부터 생산되는 대용량의 영상 데이터를 전송, 저장하기 위한 계층형 분산 VMS(Video Management System)의 모델을 제시하고 이를 이용하여 5G 기반의 무선 CCTV 와 디지털 투사, 재현 장치를 포함하는 스마트 가로등을 이용하여 지능형 도로 안전 지원 서비스를 제공하는 방법에 대하여 설명한다.