• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권8호
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• pp.1368-1387
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• 2011

In recent years, ubiquitous and pervasive scenarios have emerged as a complex ecosystem where differentiated software/hardware components interoperate wirelessly and seamlessly. The goal is to enable users to continuously access services and contents, and to always get the best out of their current environment and available resources. In such dynamic and flexible scenarios, the need emerges for flexible and general solutions for continuous runtime self-reconfiguration and self-optimization of ubiquitous support software systems. This paper proposes a fully reconfigurable middleware approach that aims at reconfiguring complex software systems made up of heterogeneous off-the-shelf components from both functional and non-functional perspectives. Our middleware can also extend already existing and non-reconfigurable middleware/applications in an easy and flexible way, with no need to re-design them. The proposed design principles have been practically applied to the implementation of a runtime self-reconfigurable middleware called Off-The-Shelf Ready To Go (OTS-RTG), implemented on top of iPOJO. The reported experimental results both exhibit a limited overhead and show the wide applicability of the proposed solution to many application scenarios, including complex, industrial, Enterprise Service Bus-based ones.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1642-1661
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• 2015

Wireless mesh networks are a special type of broadcast networks which cover the qualifications of both ad-hoc as well as infrastructure mode networks. These networks offer connectivity to the last mile through hop to hop communication and by comparatively reducing the cost of infrastructure in terms of wire and hardware. Channel assignment has always been the focused area for such networks specifically when using non-overlapping channels and sharing radio frequency spectrum while using multiple radios. It has always been a challenge for mesh network on impartial utilization of the resources (channels), with the increase in users. The rational utilization of multiple channels and multiple radios, not only increases the overall throughput, capacity and scalability, but also creates significant complexities for channel assignment methods. For a better understanding of research challenges, this paper discusses heuristic methods, measurements and channel utilization applications and also examines various researches that yield to overcome this problem. Finally, we highlight prospective directions of research.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.1546-1564
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• 2012

Pattern-based query processing has not attracted much attention in wireless sensor network though its counterpart has been studied extensively in data stream. The methods used for data stream usually consume large memory and much energy. This conflicts with the fact that wireless sensor networks are heavily constrained by their hardware resources. In this paper, we use piece wise representation to represent sensor nodes' collected data to save sensor nodes' memory and to reduce the energy consumption for query. After getting data stream's and patterns' approximated line segments, we record each line's slope. We do similar matching on slope sequences. We compute the dynamic time warping distance between slope sequences. If the distance is less than user defined threshold, we say that the subsequence is similar to the pattern. We do experiments on STM32W108 processor to evaluate our strategy's performance compared with naive method. The results show that our strategy's matching precision is less than that of naive method, but our method's energy consumption is much better than that of naive approach. The strategy proposed in this paper can be used in wireless sensor network to process pattern-based queries.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.4512-4526
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• 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become an emerging industry that is broadly used in many fields from industrial and agricultural manufacturing to home automation and hospitality industry. Because of the sheer number of connected devices transmitting valuable data, the IoT infrastructures have become a main target for cyber-criminals. One of the key challenges in protecting IoT devices is the lack of security measures by design. Although there are many hardware and software based security solutions (firewalls, honeypots, IPDS, anti-virus etc.) for information systems, most of these solutions cannot be applied to IoT devices because of the fact that IoT devices have limited computing resources (CPU, RAM,). In this paper, we propose a honeypot system called HoneyThing for modem/router devices (i.e. a kind of IoT device). HoneyThing emulates TR-069 protocol which is prevalent protocol used to remotely manage customer-premises equipment (CPE) devices, e.g. modems, routers. Honeything also serves an embedded web server simulating a few actual, critical vulnerabilities associated with the implementation of TR-069 protocol. To show effectiveness of the HoneyThing in capturing real world attacks, we have deployed it in the Internet. The obtained results are highly promising and facilitate to reveal network attacks targeting to CPE devices.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 하드웨어적인 인프라 구축 없이도 시스템의 자원과 네트워크 대역폭을 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 오버레이 기반 멀티캐스트 트리를 이용하여 다수의 사용자들에게 개인 인터넷 방송 서비스를 고품질로 제공할 수 있는 로컬 스왑 기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 기법의 효율성을 검증하기 위해 다양한 오버레이 기반 멀티캐스트 알고리즘 조건 하에서 제안한 기법을 적용하여 QoS(Quality of Service)를 보장하는 개인 인터넷 방송 서비스 정보를 추출하여 비교 분석하였다. 또한 제안한 로컬 스왑 기법의 효율성을 검증하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 다양한 오버레이 기반 멀티캐스트 알고리즘을 시뮬레이션에 적용하여 여러가지 방법으로 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.308-320
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• 2007

A multi-agent and web based engineering framework concerning the automation of fatigue durability analysis for welded bogie frame of railway vehicles is presented. Mostly, this kind of design or analysis includes complex workflow, huge amounts of information processing, and problem solving. Macro programs of I-DEAS, APDL of ANSYS, and in-house fatigue code are utilized for parametric geometry representation, automatic mesh generation, static stress analysis, fatigue durability analysis, post-processing, and data sorting. The engineering framework is implemented on the JADE. Since every task requires a fairly complex process and specialized knowledge, the multi-agent based framework is very useful to keep the independency among several disciplines or tasks and to use distributed hardware and software resources. All engineering programs are integrated by XML wrapper. Related database of the engineering framework and web based user interfaces are also developed. A parametric study is carried out to take into account the effect of geometrical change of transom support bracket on its cumulative fatigue damage. The developed engineering framework reduced remarkably the time and costs required in designing and solving engineering problems.

• 한국비블리아학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.209-233
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• 2014

본 연구는 영구기록물관리기관의 업무, 자료, 시스템의 특성을 파악하고 이를 기반으로 하는 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기반의 영구기록물관리시스템의 보존 및 활용 모델을 제안하였다. 이를 위해, 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어 자원을 클라우드 컴퓨팅 모델별로 매핑하고 업무 프로세스를 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기반으로 전환하였다. 영구기록물관리시스템에 클라우드 컴퓨팅기술을 도입하는 것은 다른 기록관의 시스템 및 업무효율성의 개선을 위한 모범적인 사례가 될 수 있다.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제24권
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• pp.1-24
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• 2008

This paper examines the direct effects of board independence and also its interaction effects with CEO's firm specific experience on firm performance. The findings in an hierarchial regression analysis of multiyear sample of computer hardware companies indicate that independent, outsider directors are beneficial to firms' performance when CEO has high-level of firm specific experience whereas it is harmful when CEO has low-level of firm specific experience. However, separating the positions of board chair and chief executive officer that has been used as another means for increasing board independence does not influence to firms' performance. These findings imply that researchers in corporate governance should reconsider the relative weight placed on directors' monitoring and assistance role. Rather than focusing predominantly on directors' willingness or ability to control executives, in future research scholars should yield more productive results by focusing on the assistance directors provide in bringing valued resources to the CEOs and in serving as a source of advice and counsel especially for CEO's improvement of management technique. In addition, they should pay more attention on identifying intervening processes between board and firm performance in order to provide optimal governance mechanisms and configurations to practitioners.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.37-58
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• 2006

The paper describes a study about effects of upstream hills on design wind loads using two mathematical approaches: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Artificial Neural Network (NN for short). For this purpose CFD and NN tools have been developed using an object-oriented approach and C++ programming language. The CFD tool consists of solving the Reynolds time-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model using body-fitted nearly-orthogonal coordinate system. Subsequently, design wind load parameters such as speed-up ratio values have been generated for a wide spectrum of two-dimensional hill geometries that includes isolated and multiple steep and shallow hills. Ground roughness effect has also been considered. Such CFD solutions, however, normally require among other things ample computational time, background knowledge and high-capacity hardware. To assist the enduser, an easier, faster and more inexpensive NN model trained with the CFD-generated data is proposed in this paper. Prior to using the CFD data for training purposes, extensive validation work has been carried out by comparing with boundary layer wind tunnel (BLWT) data. The CFD trained NN (CFD-NN) has produced speed-up ratio values for cases such as multiple hills that are not covered by wind design standards such as the Commentaries of the National Building Code of Canada (1995). The CFD-NN results compare well with BLWT data available in literature and the proposed approach requires fewer resources compared to running BLWT experiments.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권1C호
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• pp.40-44
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• 2010

MQASK 디지털 수신기의 타이밍 복원 루프에서는 self-noise의 영향으로 발생하는 타이밍 jitter에 의해 성능이 저하된다. 타이밍 jitter는 타이밍 복원 루프 내에 전치필터를 사용함으로써 해결할 수 있지만, 전치필터에 의해 루프지연이 발생하고, 타이밍 복원 루프의 안정성 및 acquisition 성능이 감소하게 된다. 또한, 전치필터에 의해 타이밍 복원 루프의 복잡도가 증가한다. 본 논문에서는 jitter-free 타이밍 복원 루프에서 전치필터로 인해 발생하는 루프지연을 제거하기 위해 정합필터, resampler, 그리고 전치필터의 기능을 포함한 다상필터 구조의 resampler를 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 다상필터 구조의 resampler를 사용한 타이밍 복원 루프에서는 타이밍 jitter를 제거하기 위해 사용된 전치필터로 인해 발생하는 루프지연을 해결함으로써 타이밍 복원 루프의 안정성을 향상시키고, 타이밍 jitter를 효과적으로 제거한다. 또한, 타이밍 복원 루프의 구조가 간단해지기 때문에 하드웨어 구현 시에 유리하다.