• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.35-40
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• 2013

The messages on mobile terminal may contain context information such as user's location, time and preference. This paper proposes message forwarding system based on user's context. The server stores the predefined target addresses which may be mobile phone number, web server address and email address. On request for message transmission, the server tries to find a target address matching a user's context. Thus, a sender transmits messages to a representative address without knowing various receiver's addresses and a receiver can retrieve classified messages according to subject/location.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.295-304
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• 2014

Communication infrastructure supports wide variety of mobile services such as photo and file sharing, location tracking, social network services and instant messaging. However, instances like power-loss and natural disasters disrupt these communication infrastructures unable to render support to these mobile services. Delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) offer a solution to these problems at hand. By utilizing mobility and opportunistic contacts among mobile devices, a plausible communication network can be establish and enable support to mobile applications. This paper presents an energy-efficient, reliable message delivery routing scheme with message prioritization rules for DTN. It uses the context information of nodes (mobile devices) such as the contact history (location and time of contact), speed/velocity, moving direction to determine the best forwarders among nodes in the network. The remaining energy of the nodes is also used to determine the message types a node can deliver successfully. The simulation results show that proposed approach outperforms Epidemic and Prophet routing schemes in terms of delivery ratio, overhead ratio, delivered messages per types and remaining energy.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.169-178
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• 2007

With the advent of ubiquitous computing environments, it has become increasingly important for applications to take full advantage of contextual information, such as the user's location, to offer greater services to the user without any explicit requests. In this paper, we propose context-aware active services based on context-aware middleware for URC systems (CAMUS). The CAMUS is a middleware that provides context-aware applications with a development and execution methodology. Accordingly, the applications based on CAMUS respond in a timely fashion to contextual information. This paper presents the system architecture of CAMUS and illustrates the content recommendation and control service agents with the properties, operations, and tasks for context-aware active services. To evaluate CAMUS, we apply the proposed active services to a TV application domain. We implement and experiment with a TV content recommendation service agent, a control service agent, and TV tasks based on CAMUS. The implemented content recommendation service agent divides the user's preferences into common and specific models to apply other recommendations and applications easily, including the TV content recommendations.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.100-112
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• 2005

유비쿼터스의 주요한 특성은 상황 인식(Context-Aware)이며 이것은 사용자의 시공간에 따라 변하는 데이터를 사용자가 직접 입력하지 않고 상황에 맞게 자동적으로 처리해 주는 것을 뜻한다. 그러나 이러한 유비쿼터스의 특성은 데이터의 보안이 취약할 경우 기존 컴퓨팅 환경보다 더 큰 문제를 가져올 수 있다. 한편, 미 벨 연구소에 의해 개발된 PCP(Privacy Conscious Personalization)는 모바일 및 유비쿼터스 환경에서 사용자의 프라이버시 문제에 Context-Aware의 특성을 반영해 준다. PCP는 위치 정보에 대한 요구를 받으면 Houdini로 명명된 Rule Engine을 작동시키며 현재의 상황 및 사용자의 설정을 고려하여 정보를 공개할지 여부를 결정한다. 또한, 네덜란드의 University of Twente는 P3P를 확장하는 P3P Extension과 상황-의존 Preference를 표현하는 XML 기반 언어를 개발하고 이를 바탕으로 WASP 플랫폼을 위한 아키텍쳐를 개발하였다. WASP Framework는 웹서비스 기반의 프라이버시 보호 아키텍쳐이며 사용자의 위치, 시간, 상태, 신원 등 다양한 Context 정보를 제공할 수 있다. 본고에서는 Location Context의 관점에서 Context Aware Computing 환경의 하나로 LBS 위치정보의 프라이버시 구조에 대한 두가지 사례 연구를 수행한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.6B
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• pp.375-381
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• 2007

This paper focuses on the prediction algorithm among the context-awareness technologies. With a representative algorithm, Bayesian Networks, it is difficult to realize a context-aware as well as to decrease process time in real-time environment. Moreover, it is also hard to be sure about the accuracy and reliability of prediction. One of the simplest algorithms is the sequential matching algorithm. We use it by adding the proposed Cache Scheme. It is adequate for a context-aware service adapting user's habit and reducing the processing time by average 48.7% in this paper. Thus, we propose a design method of user location prediction algorithm that uses sequential matching with the cache scheme by taking user's habit or behavior into consideration. The novel approach will be dealt in a different way compared to the conventional prediction algorithm.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.486-494
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• 2014

Intelligent homes consist of ubiquitous sensors, home networks, and a context-aware computing system. These homes are expected to offer many services such as intelligent air-conditioning, lighting control, health monitoring, and home security. In order to realize these services, many researchers have worked on various research topics including smart sensors with low power consumption, home network protocols, resident and location detection, context-awareness, and scenario and service control. This paper presents the real-time metabolic rate estimation method that is based on measured heart rate for human adaptive appliance (air-conditioner, lighting etc.). This estimation results can provide valuable information to control smart appliances so that they can adjust themselves according to the status of residents. The heart rate based method has been experimentally compared with the location-based method on a test bed.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.501-511
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• 2013

Protecting privacy is an important goal in designing location-based services. Service providers want to verify legitimate users and allow permitted users to enjoy their services. Users, however, want to preserve their privacy and prevent tracking. In this paper, a new framework providing users with more privacy and anonymity in both the authentication process and the querying process is proposed. Unlike the designs proposed in previous works, our framework benefits from a combination of three important techniques: k-anonymity, timed fuzzy logic, and a one-way hash function. Modifying and adapting these existing schemes provides us with a simpler, less complex, yet more mature solution. During authentication, the one-way hash function provides users with more privacy by using fingerprints of users' identities. To provide anonymous authentication, the concept of confidence level is adopted with timed fuzzy logic. Regarding location privacy, spatial k-anonymity prevents the users' locations from being tracked. The experiment results and analysis show that our framework can strengthen the protection of anonymity and privacy of users by incurring a minimal implementation cost and can improve functionality.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.702-709
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• 2008

In this paper, Developed u-Marketing system prototype based on location base service could offer because this treatise combines personalized and mobility. It is u-Marketing system takes advantage of u-LBS base skill to support marketing that is old Mobile more efficiently u-marketing call center. If it was marketing in spam way that marketing to be Mobile passes public information contents one-sidely to unspecificness many customers so far, u-Marketing system takes advantage of u-LBS base skill-marketing system is u-marketing system of location base that can take advantage of subscriber's location information through portable phone or GPS with transfer telegraph operator adulterating member's distinction of sex, age, residential district, profession and support satisfied article ordered style Target marketing.

• Architectural research
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.15-22
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• 2010

Our prediction model is based on the development of "Semantic Location Model." It embodies geometrical and topological information which can increase the efficiency in prediction and make it easy to manipulate the prediction model. Data mining is being implemented to extract the inhabitant's location patterns generated day by day. As a result, the self-learning system will be able to semantically predict the inhabitant's location in advance. This context-aware system brings about the key component of the ubiquitous computing environment. First, we explain the semantic location model and data mining methods. Then the location prediction model for the ubiquitous computing system is described in details. Finally, the prototype system is introduced to demonstrate and evaluate our prediction model.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.137-160
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• 2008

The increasing availability of personal location data pushed by the widespread use of location-sensing technologies raises concerns with respect to the safeguard of location privacy. To address such concerns location privacy-preserving techniques are being investigated. An important area of application for such techniques is represented by Location Based Services (LBS). Many privacy-preserving techniques designed for LBS are based on the idea of forwarding to the LBS provider obfuscated locations, namely position information at low spatial resolution, in place of actual users' positions. Obfuscation techniques are generally based on the use of geometric methods. In this paper, we argue that such methods can lead to the disclosure of sensitive location information and thus to privacy leaks. We thus propose a novel method which takes into account the semantic context in which users are located. The original contribution of the paper is the introduction of a comprehensive framework consisting of a semantic-aware obfuscation model, a novel algorithm for the generation of obfuscated spaces for which we report results from an experimental evaluation and reference architecture.