• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.1 s.103
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• pp.119-129
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• 2007

평균 수명 연장과 건강한 삶을 오래 유지하고자 하는 안락한 삶에 대한 욕구는 필연적으로 고도화된 의료 서비스 발전을 야기시켰다. 아울러 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 기술의 발전과 IT-BT-NT를 포함한 기술간 컨버전스 경향은 유비쿼터스 헬스케어(이하 u-헬스케어)의 실현을 가속화하고 있다. u-헬스케어 서비스가 고도화될수록 지능화된 의료센서나 기기에 의한 개인 생체 정보 및 주변 환경 정보에 관한 모니터링이 가능해지고유무선 네트워크를 통한 건강 정보의 공유가 확대될 것이다. 이와 같이 u-헬스케어는 개인 건강/의료 정보를 포함한 극히 개인적인 정보를 주로 다루고 있고 유무선 네트워크와 절대적으로 밀접한 연관을 맺고 있으며, 의료 정보 권한과 관련된 다양한 이해 당사자가 존재할 수 있다는 점에서 보안 및 프라이버시 측면에서 다양한 취약점과 위협이 존재할 수 있다. 따라서 본 고에서는 u-헬스케어의 특성에 근거한 보안 이슈 및 요구사항을 분석하고 이와 관련한 합리적인 기술적 대안들을 검토해 본다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.193-197
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• 2013

Healthcare is one of the most concerned fields in convergence environments. The technologies related with information communication regions are progressing continuously. These technologies in today are converged with different industries in rapidly. Therefore, in this paper, we described current trends and future of healthcare services which was converged IT technology with medical industry.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.65-74
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• 2010

In the ubiquitous healthcare, automated diagnosis is commonly achieved by an agent system to provide intelligent decision support and fast diagnosis result. Mobile agent technology is used for efficient load distribution by migrating processes to a less loaded node which is considered in our design of a ubiquitous healthcare system. This paper presents a framework for ubiquitous healthcare technologies which mainly focuses on mobile agents that serve the on-demand processes of an automated diagnosis support system. Considering the efficient utilization of resources, a balanced clustering for the load distribution of processes within nodes is proposed. The proposed algorithm selects overloaded nodes to migrate processes to near nodes until the load variance of the system is minimized. Our proposed balanced clustering efficiently distributes processes to all nodes considering message overheads by performing the migration to the near nodes.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.73-80
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• 2009

In this paper, we implemented the integrated gateway for health care and home network system based on PLC(Power Line Communication) and Zigbee. The designed system is consists of sensors, integrated gateway, Zigbee module and PLC modem. The integrated gateway will transmit the data which is collected by health care sensors to health care control system and control an appliance for comfortable environment to medical facilities. The implemented gateway can support various health care and home network service.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.81-86
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• 2015

The threats to privacy and security have received increasing attention as ubiquitous healthcare applications over the Internet become more prevalent, mobile and universal. In particular, we address the communication security issues of access sharing of health information resources in the ubiquitous healthcare environment. The proposed scheme resolves the sender and data authentication problem in information systems and group communications. We propose a novel key management scheme for generating and distributing cryptographic keys to constituent users to provide form of data encryption method for certain types of data concerning resource constraints for secure communications in the ubiquitous healthcare domains.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.201-210
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• 2009

Studies on human-centered services are approaching their highest peak with the emergence of a new concept of the network environment, a ubiquitous environment. Among these ubiquitous service technologies, services related to health care are very closely related to the current social environment. In this paper, With social aging and changes in ubiquitous IT environment, studies on health care, which is among the essential application services and which has been defined as a key application technology, and studies related to it have been conducted. In addition, healthcare services, which are essentially applicable to the ubiquitous environment, were suggested by analyzing existing healthcare studies and drawing from them the requirements for such. This paper proposes management protocol for serious case except from health care research. This system is constructed database using RFID, it has location information. It provides procedures to consistently monitor the status of patients and process the outcome in real-time.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.75-84
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• 2014

The advancement in ubiquitous healthcare specifically in preventive healthcare can lead to longer life expectancy especially for the elderly patients. To aid in preventing premature loss of lives as well as lengthening life span, this research aims to implement the use of mobile and wireless sensor technology to improve the quality of life and lengthen life expectancy. The threats to privacy and security have received increasing attention as ubiquitous healthcare applications over the Internet become more prevalent, mobile and universal. Therefore, we propose Context-aware Service of U-Healthcare Application based Knowledge using Ontology in secure health information exchange. This research also applies ontology in secure information exchange to support knowledge base, context modeling, and context reasoning by applying the general application areas for ontologies to the domain of context in ubiquitous computing environments. This paper also demonstrates how knowledge base, context technologies, and mobile web services can help enhance the quality of services in preventive ubiquitous healthcare to elderly patients.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.229-232
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• 2008

본 논문은 유비쿼터스 헬스케어 서비스 기반의 환자 치료를 위한 임상프로토콜 지식표현 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 프로토콜 태스크 관리 모듈, 이벤트 스케줄링 모듈, 그리고 자동실행 및 지식 공유를 위해 XML형식의 저장 모듈을 지원한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 방법을 모바일(cell phone, PDA)과 웹 어플리케이션을 사용하여 야뇨증 환자치료를 지원하기 위한 유비쿼터스 헬스케어 서비스 기반의 임상 프로토콜 기술방법을 적용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.124-126
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 헬스케어 시스템을 위한 센싱 단말기 구현 내용을 설명한다. 본 연구에서 설계한 유비쿼터스 헬스케어 시스템은 센싱 단말기, 처리 단말기, DB 서버, 전문가 서버로 구성된다. 센싱 단말기는 사용자의 생체 신호를 검출하고 처리한 후 그 결과를 무선 통신을 통해 처리 단말기로 전달한다. 본 연구에서 구현한 센싱 단말기는 8MHz로 동작하는 AVR MicroController 처리기와 맥박 센서, 그리고 Bluetooth 무선 통신 모듈로 구성되어 있다. 또한 5개의 포트별로 8개의 입력 라인이 있어 다중 센싱 (Multi-Modal Sensing)이 가능하며, Bluetooth를 지원하는 다양한 처리 단말기와 연동이 가능하다는 특징을 갖는다. 실험결과 사용자의 생체 신호를 제대로 검출하여 무선 통신으로 전달함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.781-793
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• 2010

Recently, owing to the development of ubiquitous sensor network and mobile communication technologies, many studies on healthcare system are being carried out. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a mobile u-Healthcare system based on sensor network. The u-Healthcare system is composed of three components: wireless sensor network at home, healthcare center located at remote site, and gateway which relays sensing physiological signals to healthcare center. In order to measure patient's physiological signal three sensors are used: three channel ECG sensor, pulse oximeter, and blood pressure sensor. Each sensor is mounted on a mote which can send gathered signal to the base node using Zigbee communication protocol. Once the base node receives physiological signal from each sensor, the client in the base node transfers the signal to the healthcare center. The received physiological signal at the healthcare center is analyzed and processed using various algorithms. The processed results are compared to the standard healthcare database and appropriate treatment including dietetics and exercise cure would be sent to the patient as feedback using SMS message or healthcare center web site. Each patient can check and manage one's health state every day using the healthcare system and gain a recovery under the treatments from minor health problems.