• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.195-209
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• 2016

IoT (Internet of Things) is a collective term referring to application services that provide information through sensors/devices connected to the internet. The real world application of IoT is expanding fast along with growing number of sensors/devices. However, since IoT application relies on vertical combination of sensors/devices networks, information sharing within IoT services remains unresolved challenge. Consequently, IoT sensors/devices demand high construction and maintenance costs, rendering the creation of new IoT services potentially expensive. One solution is to launch an IoT open market for information sharing similar to that of App Store for smart-phones. Doing so will efficiently allow novel IoT services to emerge across various industries, because developers can purchase licenses to access IoT resources directly via an open market. Sharing IoT resource information through an open market will create an echo-system conducive for easy utilization of resources and communication between IoT service providers, resource owners, and developers. This paper proposes the new business model of IoT open market for information sharing, and the requirements for ensuring security and standardization of open markets.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2020

IoT devices frequently require input resources to communicate with various sensors or IoT platforms. IoT device wastes a lot of time as idle time or waiting time to check the data of the input resource and use the input resource. In addition, IoT devices use various input resources. We compares and analyzes input idle time and input waiting time generated from hardware serial input resource, software serial input resource, digital port input resource, and analog port input resource using Arduino widely used as IoT device. In order to design the IoT device framework, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of input resources and to design them to minimize unnecessary input idle time and input waiting time. The analog input wait time has a much larger input wait time than the digital input wait time, so it must be designed to receive analog information periodically at the appropriate timing. The characteristics of the input resources analyzed in this way help to design an efficient IoT device.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.98-103
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 보안기능을 탑재한 IoT 단말로 구성된 네트워크를 구성하여 보안성과 확장성을 보장하는 그룹통신 기법을 제안한다. 네트워크상에 참여하는 단말의 수가 증가하면 네트워크 자원도 비례하여 감소되며 IoT 단말에 보안기능을 추가하면 IoT 단말에서 암호화로 인해 지연시간이 증가하게 된다. 네트워크에 발생하는 에러율이 높아지면 재전송으로 인해 네트워크 자원은 빠르게 잠식되게 된다. 따라서 보안성을 지원하면서 확장성을 보장하도록 IoT 단말을 그룹화 하여 참여 노드가 증가하여도 네트워크 자원의 소모를 감소시켜 확장성을 보장할 수 있도록 하였다. 향후 구현을 위해 IoT 단말에서 사용하는 암호화 방식은 IEEE802.5.4의 표준을 고려하였으며 표준화 동향을 조사 분류하였다. 제안하는 방식은 IEEE802.5.4 표준의 보안기능을 제공하는 IoT 디바이스를 그룹통신 기반에 적용하여 신뢰성과 확장성 보장이 가능하도록 하였다. 성능평가는 시뮬레이션을 통해 보안기능을 갖는 IoT 디바이스를 기존 방식과 그릅통신으로 구성하였을 때의 지연시간을 비교하여 제안한 방법의 효율성을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권10호
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• pp.4177-4190
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• 2015

Current research on Internet of Things (IoT) has primarily addressed the means to enhancing smart resource allocation, automatic network operation, and secure service provisioning. In particular, providing satisfactory security service in IoT systems is indispensable to its mission critical applications. However, limited resources prevent full security coverage at all times. Therefore, these limited resources must be deployed intelligently by considering differences in priorities of targets that require security coverage. In this study, we have developed a new application of Cognitive Radio (CR) technology for IoT systems and provide an appropriate security solution that will enable IoT to be more affordable and applicable than it is currently. To resolve the security-related resource allocation problem, game theory is a suitable and effective tool. Based on the Blotto game model, we propose a new strategic power allocation scheme to ensure secure CR communications. A simulation shows that our proposed scheme can effectively respond to current system conditions and perform more effectively than other existing schemes in dynamically changeable IoT environments.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2017

IoT (Internet of Things) systems are based on heterogeneous hardware systems of different types of devices interconnected each other, ranging from miniaturized and low-power wireless sensor node to cloud servers. These IoT systems composed of heterogeneous hardware utilize data sets collected from a particular set of sensors or control designated actuators when needed using open APIs created through abstraction of devices' resources associated to service applications. However, previously existing IoT services have been usually developed based on vertical platforms, whose sharing and exchange of data is limited within each industry domain, for example, healthcare. Such problem is called 'data silo', and considered one of crucial issues to be solved for the success of establishing IoT ecosystems. Also, IoT services may need to dynamically organize their services according to the change of status of connected devices due to their mobility and dynamic network connectivity. We propose a way of dynamically composing IoT services under the concept of WoT (Web of Things) where heterogeneous devices across different industries are fully integrated into the Web. Our approach allows developers to create IoT services or mash them up in an efficient way using Web objects registered into multiple standardized horizontal IoT platforms where their resources are discoverable and accessible. A Web-based service composition tool is developed to evaluate the practical feasibility of our approach under real-world service development.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.1147-1161
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• 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) requires a new processing model that will allow scalability in cloud computing while reducing time delay caused by data transmission within a network. Such a model can be achieved by using resources that are closer to the user, i.e., by relying on edge computing (EC). The amount of IoT data also grows with an increase in the number of IoT devices. However, building such a flexible model within a heterogeneous environment is difficult in terms of resources. Moreover, the increasing demand for IoT services necessitates shortening time delay and response time by achieving effective load balancing. IoT devices are expected to generate huge amounts of data within a short amount of time. They will be dynamically deployed, and IoT services will be provided to EC devices or cloud servers to minimize resource costs while meeting the latency and quality of service (QoS) constraints of IoT applications when IoT devices are at the endpoint. EC is an emerging solution to the data processing problem in IoT. In this study, we improve the load balancing process and distribute resources fairly to tasks, which, in turn, will improve QoS in cloud and reduce processing time, and consequently, response time.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.125-133
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 Internet of Things(IoT) 시스템에서 최소의 메모리 및 프로세서 자원을 사용하는 4계층의 TCP/IP에 관하여 연구하고 설계한다. 본 연구에서 설계한 TCP/IP는 다음과 같은 특징을 가지고 있다. 첫째, 메모리 할당량을 최소화하여 메모리 자원을 최소로 사용한다. 둘째, 메모리 복사량을 최소화하여 프로세서 자원을 최소로 사용한다. 셋째, TCP/IP의 수행 시간이 고정 시간에 완료될 수 있다. 넷째, 메모리 누수 문제가 발생하지 않는다. 본 연구에서 도출된 메모리 할당량 및 복사량에 대한 최소 자원 기준은 기 구현된 IoT 시스템의 통신 서브시스템이 효율적으로 구현되었는지를 점검하기 위해 유용하게 사용될 수 있다. 최근 리눅스 재단에서 발표한 공개 소스 커널인 Zephyr의 통신 서브시스템의 메모리 할당량 및 복사량을 측정한 결과, 본 연구에서 도출한 최소 자원 기준보다 더 크다는 것을 발견하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 설계 방법에 따라 Zephyr 통신 서브시스템을 개선하여 메모리 할당량 및 복사량이 각각 약 39% 및 67% 감소함을 확인하였으며, 이에 따른 수행 시간도 약 28% 감소하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.258-264
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• 2022

정보 통신 기술 (ICT)이 축사와 접목된 스마트 축사는 대부분 클라우드 컴퓨팅 패러다임에 기반하고 있다. 클라우드 기반 스마트 축사는 응답 시간 증가, IoT 센서 증가에 따른 클라우드의 자원 부담, 망의 트래픽 부담과 같은 단점이 있고 인접한 IoT 디바이스와의 협업을 통한 장애 회복 메커니즘이 거의 없는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 에지 컴퓨팅 기반 IoT 협업 시스템을 제안한다. 에지 디바이스의 비교적 제한적인 컴퓨팅 자원으로 클라우드의 웹 서버 기능을 분담하게 하여 클라우드에 필요한 자원을 절감하며, 사용자 요청에 대한 응답 시간을 개선하고자 한다. 또한 heartbeat 기반 장애 회복 메커니즘을 통하여 IoT 디바이스의 장애를 감지하고 그에 따른 적절한 조치를 하도록 하였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2023

Resource allocation is one of the top challenges in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. This is due to the scarcity of computing, energy and communication resources in IoT devices. As a result, IoT devices that are not using efficient algorithms for resource allocation may cause applications to fail and devices to get shut down. Owing to this challenge, this paper proposes a novel algorithm for managing computing resources in IoT network. The fog computing devices are placed near the network edge and IoT devices send their large tasks to them for computing. The goal of the algorithm is to conserve energy of both IoT nodes and the fog nodes such that all tasks are computed within a deadline. A bi-partite graph-based algorithm is proposed for stable matching of tasks and fog node computing units. The output of the algorithm is a stable mapping between the IoT tasks and fog computing units. Simulation results are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm which proves the improvement in terms of energy efficiency and task delay.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.389-401
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• 2022

The business of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is growing rapidly, and the large amount of data exchange has caused problems of large mobile network communication delay and large energy loss. A strategy for resource allocation of IoV communication based on mobile edge computing (MEC) is thus proposed. First, a model of the cloud-side collaborative cache and resource allocation system for the IoV is designed. Vehicles can offload tasks to MEC servers or neighboring vehicles for communication. Then, the communication model and the calculation model of IoV system are comprehensively analyzed. The optimization objective of minimizing delay and energy consumption is constructed. Finally, the on-board computing task is coded, and the optimization problem is transformed into a knapsack problem. The optimal resource allocation strategy is obtained through genetic algorithm. The simulation results based on the MATLAB platform show that: The proposed strategy offloads tasks to the MEC server or neighboring vehicles, making full use of system resources. In different situations, the energy consumption does not exceed 300 J and 180 J, with an average delay of 210 ms, effectively reducing system overhead and improving response speed.