• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.211-254
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• 2014

Malawi's agricultural extension system has been subjected to a number of criticisms in recent times for failing to contribute significantly to agricultural development and for not responding to the needs of the smallholder farmers. Despite this, extension is still seen as key to improving poverty and rural livelihoods.There is a number of challenges facing extension that require a response from the public sector and other stakeholders. A clear and positive response to these challenges will help shape the future of agricultural extension in Malawi for the benefit of all farmers and the attainment of the broad policy objectives of government: democratization, market liberalization, decentralization, HIV/AIDS crisis, shrinking public sector resources, public sector reform, and co-ordination, etc. The mission is to provide pluralistic demand driven extensions services and promote equalisation and co-ordination in service provision in order to achieve food security at household level, there-by reducing poverty. On the other hand the vision is that 'All farmers' demand and access high quality extension services from those best able to provide them'. DAES implements its extension policy through the District Agricultural Extension Services System (DAESS), based on Model Village Approach.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.19-28
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• 2017

False data injection attacks have recently been introduced as one of important issues related to cyber-attacks on electric power grids. These attacks aim to compromise the readings of multiple power meters in order to mislead the operation and control centers. Recent studies have shown that if a malicious attacker has complete knowledge of the power grid topology and branch admittances, s/he can adjust the false data injection attack such that the attack remains undetected and successfully passes the bad data detection tests that are used in power system state estimation. In this paper, we investigate that a practical false data injection attack is essentially a cyber-attack with uncertain information due to the attackers lack of knowledge with respect to the power grid parameters because the attacker has limited physical access to electric facilities and limited resources to compromise meters. We mathematically formulated a method of identifying the most vulnerable locations to false data injection attack. Furthermore, we suggest minimum topology changes or phasor measurement units (PMUs) installation in the given power grids for mitigating such attacks and indicate a new security metrics that can compare different power grid topologies. The proposed metrics for performance is verified in standard IEEE 30-bus system. We show that the robustness of grids can be improved dramatically with minimum topology changes and low cost.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.9-13
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• 2015

With the advance of ICT, the necessity of user authentication to verify the identity of an opponent online not face to face is increasing. The authentication, the basis of the security, is used in various fields. Because ID-based authentication has weaknesses in terms of stability and losses, two or more than two authentication tools are used in the place in which the security is important. Recently, biometric authentication rather than ID, OTP, SMS authentication has been an issue in terms of credibility and efficiency. As the fields applied to current biometric recognition technologies are increasing, the application of the biometric recognition is being used in various fields such as mobile payment system, intelligent CCTV, immigration inspection, and access control. As the biometric recognition, finger print, iris, retina, vein, and face recognition have been studied actively. This study is to inspect the current state of domestic and foreign standardization including understanding of the face recognition and the trend of technology.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.77-82
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• 2007

Supporting Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia services in heterogeneous mobile networks is a part of key issue for Beyond Three Generation (B3G) development. In particular, if QoS degradation are occurred because cell overload and error late patterns of wireless links during the transmission of multimedia data, the efficient QoS management is necessary to maintain the same QoS of transmitted multimedia data because the QoS may be defected by some delay and information loss. This paper deals with QoS Degradation reason Intra-System Handover (D-ISHO) for handling QoS of multimedia services over heterogeneous mobile networks. For this aim, the function modules for supporting QoS of D-ISHO are proposed. The sequence diagram showing interaction between the modules is described and then a scenario for D-ISHO is considered. Simulation is focused on the average delay and packet loss rate. The proposed heterogeneous mobile system using the QoS-Guaranteed Resource Management (QGRM) provides a better performance than each different access system.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.141-146
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• 2015

Data have been increased enormously due to the development of IT technology such as recent smart equipments, social network services and streaming services. To meet these environments the technologies that can treat mass data have received attention, and the typical one is Hadoop. Hadoop is on the basis of open source, and it has been designed to be used at general purpose computers on the basis of Linux. To initial Hadoop nearly no security was introduced, but as the number of users increased data that need security increased and there appeared new version that introduced Kerberos and Token system in 2009. But in this method there was a problem that only one secret key can be used and access permission to blocks cannot be authenticated to each user, and there were weak points that replay attack and spoofing attack were possible. Hence, to supplement these weak points and to maintain efficiency a protocol on the basis of group key, in which users are authenticated in logical group and then this is reflected to token, is proposed in this paper. The result shows that it has solved the weak points and there is no big overhead in terms of efficiency.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.45-52
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose smart digital door lock system using heterogeneous communication. This system has efficient function using RF communication and Internet communication, and realizes access and real image of the passengers by combining camera control technology to secure original competitiveness with existing products. It uses the Internet of things and receive images to and from your smart-phone. And senses human behavior. In the simulated results, the image transmission rate of 90 % or more and the time required to transmit 10,000 images have an average transmission speed of 3 seconds. It is expected to secure competitiveness to increase the security of door lock in the future by enabling minimum security and fire monitoring service in real time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.150-153
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• 2013

By the development of IT, most business has been processed on the IT solution-based servers has increased Therefore, the importance of security of the server is highlighted. And the need for password management server efficient and safe is raised. There is a need to change at least 8 characters to mix the numbers and letters and password change passwords on a regular basis, you need a password for each system account is set in a different way, but the continuation of the system there is a tendency to password problems occur problems caused by the limits of the introduction of human resources and introduction basis occurs. The password management feature, though it is expensive is partially providing integrated access control solutions at home and abroad, there is a drawback that stresses the traffic on the server. Future, we conducted a study of password management solutions for the server of the server is determined IT transformation trend of non-IT field to accelerate, is continuously increasing it accordingly.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.47-52
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• 2015

The aim of this study is to suggest the effective protocol to manage the obese children using the data based on PAPS(Physical Activity Promotion System). In the school, there are a lot of efforts for the management of increasing obese children through the data obtained from PAPS which is conducted annually includes the assessment of obesity. But the follow-up of obese children was not effective due to the workload of teachers and the lack of available manpower. For more active and systematic management, the combination of a smart device transfer in the existing ways for facilitating access to the information is more effective. The information of obese children such as fitness, health, and obesity automatically will be sent in web-PAPS, And when personalized exercise prescription, proper nutrition education for obesity are shared with their parent, it will be more effective in weight management.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.1471-1477
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• 2003

In order to realize the Gbps VPN system, however, newer and more advanced technologies are required to enable wire-rate processing across a wide range of functions and layers. While it is generally accepted that a software soluTion on general-purpose processors cannot scale to process these functionsa wire rate, the KEY POINT is that a software solution on general-purpose processors is the most practical way by which these security allocationscan be developed. Many of these security functions require application layer processing on the content of the packets, and the very nature of application layer software development is characterized by relatively large code size with a high need for portability an flexibility. We have analysed the consideration and specification for realizing Gbps VPN system. from this work. we can obtain a technology of originality.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.95-111
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• 2021

Recently, many organizations are actively adopting VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), an IT-based business system, to build a non-face-to-face business environment for smart-work. However, most of the existing research on VDI has focused on the satisfaction of system service quality or the use of IT resources and investment for VDI introduction. However, research on effective management and utilization of factors according to the characteristics of VDI technology is urgently required. This study is an empirical research study on how VDI technology characteristics affect interactions and work performance by identifying differences in utilization factors between general organization members and IT managers, presenting standards for business utilization and management. This study proposed a model and hypothesis that the system technology characteristics for VDI use are mediated by interactions in which users respond to functions appropriate to their work. In order to verify the hypothesis, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 188 people of companies and institutions that have adopted and used VDI through a questionnaire survey. Data analysis was performed with partial least squares (PLS), a structural equation modeling (SEM) technique that uses a component-based approach to estimation. As a result of the empirical analysis, the same environmental function for performing work, N-th security, and remote access function factors for non-face-to-face work have a significant effect on interactivity, and IT managers have an additional significant effect on the management technology characteristics of resource reallocation. Has been shown to affect. The results of this study aim to minimize trial and error due to new introduction by presenting considerations for future VDI introduction through case analysis.