• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2013

In recent years, numerous mega-size and complex civil infrastructures have been constructed worldwide. For the more precise construction and maintenance process management of these civil infrastructures, the application of a variety of smart sensor-based structural health monitoring (SHM) systems is required. The efficient management of both sensors and collected databases is also very important. Recently, several kinds of database access technologies using Quick Response (QR) code and Augmented Reality (AR) applications have been developed. These technologies provide software tools incorporated with mobile devices, such as smart phone, tablet PC and smart pad systems, so that databases can be accessed very quickly and easily. In this paper, an AR-based structural health monitoring technique is suggested for sensor management and the efficient access of databases collected from sensor networks that are distributed at target structures. The global positioning system (GPS) in mobile devices simultaneously recognizes the user location and sensor location, and calculates the distance between the two locations. In addition, the processed health monitoring results are sent from a main server to the user's mobile device, via the RSS (really simple syndication) feed format. It can be confirmed that the AR-based structural health monitoring technique is very useful for the real-time construction process management of numerous mega-size and complex civil infrastructures.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.291-298
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• 2006

A new intelligent paging algorithm is proposed in this paper to maximize the paging capacity in wireless link of mobile communication systems. Intelligent paging algorithms have been studied to utilize limited wireless resource efficiently, in which a location area is divided to several paging areas which are searched sequentially. Previous intelligent paging methods mainly use location probability distribution of the paging target terminal to determine paging areas. However, these methods make the paging traffic of each cell non-uniformly distributed. Therefore, in relatively low paging load conditions, there exist cells congested with paging traffic in which paging traffic queues are overflowed and paging messages are lost. The proposed method determines paging areas to make the paging traffic distributed uniformly among cells by considering current paging traffic distribution in each cell. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed method outperforms the previous paging schemes much with respect to paging processing capacity.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.32-43
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• 2013

These days, there are more and more IT research institutions which foresee cloud services as the predominant IT service in the near future and there, in fact, are actual cloud services provided by some IT leading vendors. Regardless of physical location of the service and environment of the system, cloud service can provide users with storage services, usage of data and software. On the other hand, cloud service has challenges as well. Even though cloud service has its edge in terms of the extent to which the IT resource can be freely utilized regardless of the confinement of hardware, the availability is another problem to be solved. Hence, this paper is dedicated to tackle the aforementioned issues; prerequisites of cloud computing for distributed file system, open source based Hadoop distributed file system, in-memory database technology and high availability database system. Also the author tries to body out the high availability mass distributed data management architecture in cloud service's perspective using currently used distributed file system in cloud computing market.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.583-591
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• 2000

Caching mechanisms have been studied extensively to buffer the speed gap of hierarchical storages in the context of cache memory, paging system, and buffer management system. As the wide-area distributed environments such as the WWW extend broadly, caching of remote objects becomes more and more important. In the wide-area distributed environments, the cost and the benefit of caching an object is not uniform due to the location of the object; which should be considered in the cache replacement algorithms. For online operation, the time complexity of the replacement algorithm should not be excessive. To date, most replacement algorithms for the wide-area distributed environments do not meet both the non-uniformity of objects and the time complexity constraint. This paper proposes a replacement algorithm which considers the non-uniformity of objects properly; it also allows for an efficient implementation. Trace-driven simulations show that proposed algorithm outperforms existing replacement algorithms.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.226-232
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• 2016

Rainfall is one of crucial factors that impact on our environment. Rainfall data is important in water resources management, flood forecasting, and designing hydraulic structures. However, it is not available in some rural watersheds without rain gauges. Thus, effective ways of interpolating the available records are needed. Despite many widely used spatial interpolation methods, few studies have investigated rainfall center characteristics. Based on the theory that the spatial distribution of convective rainfall event has a definite center with maximum rainfall, we present a mathematical interpolation method to estimate convective rainfall distribution and indicate the rainfall center location and the center rainfall volume. We apply the method to estimate three convective rainfall events in Santa Catalina Island where reliable hydrological data is available. A cross-validation technique is used to evaluate the method. The result shows that the method will suffer from high relative error in two situations: 1) when estimating the minimum rainfall and 2) when estimating an external site. For all other situations, the method's performance is reasonable and acceptable. Since the method is based on a continuous function, it can provide distributed rainfall data for distributed hydrological model sand indicate statistical characteristics of given areas via mathematical calculation.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.231-235
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• 2003

Network infrastructure has spread to an unprecedented extent and is used in various computing devices, such as smart appliances, smart phones, and embedded devices with sensors, which have all been appearing in the computing environment. To accommodate this trend, for a more intelligent service environment, the service platform needs to have abilities that facilitate the operation between services, dynamically share distributed computing resources, and manage appropriate contextual information. We have simulated a service platform to provide intelligent services using contextual information after having implemented the context management service. The context management service gathers raw contextual information from sensors and stores these in the context database. For a consistent basis of contextual information, time and location are used as the key values of the contextual information. The context management service also performs normalization to provide computable contextual information to context-aware applications. In this paper, a service platform based on Jini technology is proposed for constructing an interoperable, dynamic, and . intelligent service environment using contextual information.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.649-651
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• 1999

사용자들이 PCS에 의해 커버되는 영역내의 어느 곳이던지 이동할 수 있는 이동 환경에서 어떤 이동 단말기가 다른 이동 단말기와 통신하고자 할 경우, 먼저 목적지 이동 단말기의 위치를 찾아야 한다. 따라서, 이동 단말기의 위치 정도를 관리하는 것은 이동 환경에서 중요한 문제이다. 지금까지 제안된 대부분의 위치 관리 정책들은 이동 단말기의 위치를 관리하기 위해 주고 데이터베이스를 사용한다. 만약 위치 관리에 사용되는 데이터베이스들 중에서 어느 하나라도 결함이 발생할 경우, 전체 시스템은 제대로 동작할 수 없게 된다. 따라서, 이들 데이터베이스에 대한 결함 포용은 대단히 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 데이터베이스 고장에 대한 결함을 포용할 수 있는 결함 포용 분산 위치 관리 방법을 제안하고 성능을 평가한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.309-312
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• 2001

최근 분산 컴퓨팅 환경은 인터넷 기반으로 규모가 확장됨에 따라 광역 객체 컴퓨팅 환경으로 변화되고 있다. 이러한 환경에서 클라이언트에게 원하는 객체나 자원들의 투명성을 제공하는 메커니즘은 필수적이다. 그러나 기존의 네이밍 또는 트레이딩 서비스가 다루는 객체에 대한 객체 식별자는 이름 대 주소 그리고 속성 대 주소의 한쌍으로 이루어져 위치에 따라 객체나 자원에 대한 객체 식별자를 변경해야 하는 문제점을 갖는다. 특히, 이동 객체와 중복 객체에 대한 효과적인 위치 서비스를 제공하기 어렵다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 위치 서비스 모델을 제안한다. 이는 혼합 서비스와 위치 서비스 부분으로 서로 독립적으로 운용되며, 전자는 객체들의 식별자를 관리하며, 후자는 객체들의 식별자에 따르는 주소를 관리한다. 이러한 모텔을 기반으로 혼합 서비스의 인터페이스부분과 분산객체들의 관리를 위한 광역 통합트리의 구조 그리고 위치 서비스에서 컨택주소들의 탐색 과정을 기술하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.287-290
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• 2001

최근의 급속한 인터넷 성장에 힘입어 분산처리의 기술 및 환경은 인터넷을 기반으로 광역환경으로 확장될 전망이다. 이러한 환경은 사용자에게 보다 투명한 분산객체간의 효율적인 상호접속이 요구될 뿐 아니라, 광역환경에서 이름이나 속성에 의해 다양한 중복된 성질을 갖고 있는 객체들의 관리가 요구된다. 또한 광역 분산 환경에서 최적의 객체를 선정하는데 분산된 시스템들간의 부하분배를 고려하여 투명성을 제공하는 메카니즘이 필요하게 된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 광역분산 컴퓨팅 환경에서 광역 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 이름/속성기반의 중복객체들을 관리를 위한 통합 트리 구성방법을 제안한다. 그리고 이를 통한 혼합(네이밍/트레이더)된 위치서비스(Location service)를 이용하여 무수히 산제한 중복된 분산 객체들을 효율적으로 유지하고, 최적의 객체 선정을 통해 부하균형을 유지할 수 있는 방안을 제시한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.10
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• pp.901-908
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• 2012

In an intelligent automated manufacturing environment, an administrator may use M2M (Machine-to-Machine) communication to recognize machine movement and the environment, as well as to respond to any potential dangers. However, commonly used wireless protocols for this purpose such WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), ZigBee, and Bluetooth use the same ISM (Industrial Science Medical) band, and this may cause frequency interference among different devices. Moreover, an administrator is frequently exposed to dangerous conditions as a result of being surrounded by densely distributed moving machines. To address this issue, we propose in this paper to employ a location-based frequency interference management using fingerprinting scheme in industrial environments and its advanced localization schemes based on k-NN (Nearest Neighbor) algorithms. Simulation results indicate that the proposed schemes reduce distance error, frequency interference, and any potential danger may be responded immediately by continuous tracing of the locations.