• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.267-282
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• 2005

This work describes ongoing development of an embedded sensor system for the early detection and prevention of deterioration of reinforcing steel tendons within reinforced concrete. These devices will evaluate the condition of the steel tendon using ultrasonic techniques and then wirelessly transmit this data to the outside world without human intervention. The ultrasonic transducers and the interpretation of the sensed signals that allow detection and prognosis of tendon condition are detailed. Electrical characterization of concrete mixtures used in bridge construction is conducted and a wideband microstrip antenna is designed and fabricated to operate between 2.4 and 2.5 GHz when embedded in such a medium. Simulations and measurements of the embedded antenna element are presented. Transceiver selection and implementation are discussed as well as future work in operational protocols, sensor networking, and power sources. By implementing commercially available off-the-shelf components whenever possible, these devices have the potential to save millions of dollars a year in evaluation, repair and replacement of reinforced concrete.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.116-130
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• 2024

In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) or blockchain-based network systems, secure keys may be stored in individual devices; thus, individual devices should protect data by performing secure operations on the data transmitted and received over networks. Typically, secure functions, such as a physical unclonable function (PUF) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), are useful for generating safe keys and distributing data in a network. However, to provide these functions in embedded devices for IoT or blockchain systems, proper inspection is required for designing and implementing embedded system-on-chip (SoC) modules through overhead and performance analysis. In this paper, a virtual platform (SoC VP) was developed that includes a secure key generation module with a PUF and FHE. The SoC VP platform was implemented using SystemC, which enables the execution and verification of various aspects of the secure key generation module at the electronic system level and analyzes the system-level execution time, memory footprint, and performance, such as randomness and uniqueness. We experimentally verified the secure key generation module, and estimated the execution of the PUF key and FHE encryption based on the unit time of each module.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.417-423
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• 2017

Recently, many embedded devices that have the computing capability required for deep learning have become available; hence, many new applications using these devices are emerging. However, these embedded devices have an architecture different from that of PCs and high-performance servers. In this paper, we propose a method that improves the performance of deep-learning framework by considering the architecture of an embedded device that shares memory between the CPU and the GPU. The proposed method is implemented in Caffe, an open-source deep-learning framework, and is evaluated on an NVIDIA Jetson TK1 embedded device. In the experiment, we investigate the image recognition performance of several state-of-the-art deep-learning networks, including AlexNet, VGGNet, and GoogLeNet. Our results show that the proposed method can achieve significant performance gain. For instance, in AlexNet, we could reduce image recognition latency by about 33% and energy consumption by about 50%.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.43-52
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• 2007

IEEE 802.15.4 specification which defines low-rate wireless personal area network(LR-WPAN) has application to home or building automation, remote control and sensing, intelligent management, environmental monitoring, and so on. Recently, it has been considered as an alternative technology to provide multimedia services such as automation via voice recognition, wireless headset and wireless camera for surveillance. In order to evaluate capability of voice traffic on the IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN, we supposed two scenarios, voice traffic only and coexistence of voice and sensing traffic. For both cases we examined delay and packet loss rate in case of with and without acknowledgement, and various beacon period varying with beacon and superframe order values. In LR-WPAN with voice devices only, total 5 voice devices could be applicable and in the other case, i.e., coexisted cases of voice and sensor devices, a voice device was able to coexist with about 60 sensor devices.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.377-382
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• 2011

This paper describes the method of data synchronization among devices for personal cloud services. Existing data synchronization for mobile devices is based on a central server to mobile devices or a PC to a mobile device. However, the purpose of this paper is to share user data in heterogeneous environments, without depending on central server. This technology can be applied to synchronize personal data between a device and a personal cloud storage for personal cloud services. The ad hoc synchronization needs a sync agent service discovery module, a user authentication module, a network adapter, and an application data synchronization module. The method described in this paper is better than existing synchronization technology based on client-server in availability, performance, scalability quality attributes.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.56-63
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose the integrated security management framework supporting the trust for the ubiquitous environments. The proposed framework provides the gathering and analysis of the security related information including the location of mobile device and then dynamically configures the security policy and adopts them. More specially, it supports the authentication and delegation service to support the trusted security management for the ubiquitous networks. This system also provides the visible management tools to give the convenient view for network administrator.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.243-245
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• 2009

In recent years, a development of automotive embedded systems called Intelligent Vehicle are used for control and communication with CAN protocol. But as various devices and protocols are developed for Vehicle communication and control, it becomes difficult to manage the systems that contain limitation of bandwidth and various control requirement. To solve these problems, we introduce a research of automotive embedded systems which is considered the automotive real time operating system, automotive communications, and control systems.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.485-488
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• 2003

This paper has been studied on an IPv6 Protocol for Embedded Systems such as Informational Appliances and Mobile Terminals. IPv6 Protocol has 128-bit IP address space. Therefore, all devices come to have a chance of acquiring IPv6 address. This IPv6 Protocol Stack is very compact and reliable because the larger of the stack is Embedded Systems, which have typically characteristics of low cost and low performance. Hence, we designed and implemented this Stack for This Embedded Systems.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.513-521
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• 2007

Recently, camera function is one of the most primary functions out of the multimedia capabilities in the small mobile terminals. But, it has been difficult for implementing embedded devices with low cost because of not supporting camera interface in many SoCs. Thus, this paper presents a method of supporting camera function with ease for embedded devices which has not camera interface. For this purpose, the interface is implemented for a CMOS image sensor. The method is also provided that CIS(CMOS Image Sensor) is supported in the embedded system by programming the device driver.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.758-767
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• 2007

Today, medical devices is making great progress in type of the electronic medical device controlled by embedded software. So, the quality of electronic medical devices is dependant on the quality of embedded medical software. Especially, considering that medical devices closely connected to human life, we think the study about reliability of medical devices will be needed in the quality of programmable electronic medical devices. In this thesis, we constructed the reliability evaluation method based on ISO/IEC 9126 and ISO/IEC 12119, and developed the system that can applicate FMEA method, the one of the reliability evaluation method.