• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.137-148
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 스마트그리드 환경에서 적용되고 있는 ZigBee 무선 통신 환경의 주소 지정 방식과 라우팅 알고리즘의 성능을 향상시키기 위한 새로운 위치 기반 좌표 라우팅 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 기존 kip 알고리즘을 이용한 분산 주소 할당 기법의 낭비되는 주소공간의 문제를 해결하기 위해 (x,y,z) 3개의 좌표 축을 제안하여 16bit 주소공간을 분할하여 사용한다. 그러나 좌표 라우팅은 채널 상태를 고려하지 않는다. 채널 상태를 고려하지 않는다면, 라우팅 테이블이 업데이트 될 때 채널 상태가 좋지 않은 노드가 테이블에 업데이트 되어 릴레이 노드로 선택 되어질 수 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 위치 기반 라우팅에서 채널 상태를 고려함으로 신뢰성 있는 데이터 전송을 보장하고 소비되는 에너지를 최소화 할 수 있는 위치 기반 좌표 라우팅 알고리즘 라우팅 방법을 제시하였다. 그리고 제안한 알고리즘의 평균멀티홉수, 부하에 대한 패킷전달률, 지연시간, 에너지 소비를 ZigBee 위치 기반 라우팅의 안전 영역과 전이 영역에 대해 비교하였다. 성능 평가 결과 각 항목에 대해 각각 성능 향상을 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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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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• 제35권3호
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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.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.163-165
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• 2006

The subway passengers are usually alert to the current location of the train in order not to miss the destination or transfer stations. The Global Positioning System (GPS), although expensive, can give an alarm if properly programmed, but cannot receive the satellite signals, underground. Therefore, a novel approach to context-aware location-based subway information system is motivated. The passengers, who are equipped with mobile devices such as laptop, PDA, and mobile phone as clients of the Personal Area Network (PAN), request the Bluetooth connection to the server which is installed in each car of the train. While the sorrel broadcasts the location-based information including the previous station, the current velocity of the train, the distance and time to the next station, the clients provide additional services based on the recognized context of the information, and what the passengers individually want. The services are spontaneous and autonomous rather than passive. The services include not only the information on the nearby stations, exit numbers, connection buses but also the location-based alarms which can be set specific to various personal requests, and sounded by the location of the train rather than time. Whereas the arrival time may not be accurate due to the delays of the train, the location can be accurately traced and broadcast by the server. Also, the clients do not need any expensive systems like GFS. Towards validating the proposed approach, we implemented a Bluetooth PAN including a PC server, two PDA clients and a laptop client. We modeled a train on the Incheon Subway Line #1 and a train on the Seoul-to-Incheon Line on the server, simulated the virtual trains together with the real clients. and verified that all the services were successfully provided.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.135-158
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• 2018

High-Speed vehicles can be considered as multiple mobile nodes that move together in a large-scale mobile network. High-speed makes the time allowed for a mobile node to complete a handover procedure shorter and more frequently. Hence, several protocols are used to manage the mobility of mobile nodes such as Network Mobility (NEMO). However, there are still some problems such as high handover latency and packet loss. So efficient handover management is needed to meet Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for real-time applications. This paper utilizes the cross-layer seamless handover technique for network mobility presented in cellular networks. It extends this technique to propose QoS-aware NEMO protocol which considers QoS requirements for real-time applications. A novel analytical framework is developed to compare the performance of the proposed protocol with basic NEMO using cost functions for realistic city mobility model. The numerical results show that QoS-aware NEMO protocol improves the performance in terms of handover latency, packet delivery cost, location update cost, and total cost.

• 정보보호학회지
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• 제15권5호
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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.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.83-92
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• 2024

It is a common observation that whenever any patient arrives at the front desk of a hospital, outpatient clinic, or other health-associated centers, they have to first queue up in a line and wait to fill in their registration form to get admitted. The long waiting time without any status updates is the most common complaint, worrying health officials. In this paper, UrNext, a location-aware mobile-based solution using Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) technology, is presented to solve the problem. Recently, a technology-oriented method has been gaining popularity in solving the healthcare sector's problems, namely the Internet of Things (IoT). The implementation of this solution could be explained through a simple example that when a patient arrives at a clinic for her consultation. There, instead of having to wait in long lines, she will be greeted automatically, receive a push notification telling her that she has been admitted along with an estimated waiting time for her consultation session. This will not only provide the patients with a sense of freedom but would also reduce uncertainty levels that are generally observed, thus saving both time and money. This work aimed to improve clinics' quality of services and organize queues and minimize waiting times in clinics, leading to patient comfortability and reducing the burden on nurses and receptionists. The results demonstrated that the presented system was successful in its performance and helped achieve high usability.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.7-11
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• 2012

In this paper, we defined constructivism and ontology theory and associate it in ubiquitous learning. The typical ubiquitous learning involving the Context Aware Intelligent system was presented. Also the Architecture for learning environment including the key idea and technical concept is being presented in this paper. Guided with these principles and with the advancement of information and communication technology the context-awareness based on Artificial intelligence for Location based Service for ubiquitous Learning was conceptualized.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권10호
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• pp.13-19
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• 2007

위치 인식 기능은 U-city를 구성하는 핵심 요소로서 아파트 단지 등에서 상용화를 목적으로 활발히 연구, 개발되고 있다. 아파트에서 능동태그를 부착한 거주자나 자동차가 단지 내를 이동할 때 태그와 라우터 사이에 주기적인 위치인식 통신으로 태그의 위치를 계산한다. 이 방법은 통신을 위해 태그노드와 라우터 중 하나가 주기적으로 신호를 발신해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 아파트에서 ZigBee 태그를 부착한 차량이나 거주민의 위치를 인식하는 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 태그가 신호를 전송하는 방식과 라우터가 신호를 전송하는 두 방식에 대하여 성능을 비교 분석하였는데 신호 트래픽 분석에 의하여 라우터가 신호를 전송하는 방식이 더 효율적임을 보였다. 또한 위치인식시스템의 부가 서비스로서 태그를 이용한 출입통제 및 엘리베이터제어, 기타 기능들도 가능함을 보였다. 실제 아파트 주차장에서 위치인식 성능 실험을 수행하였으며 그 결과 차량 및 보행자의 위치 인식을 충분히 수행할 수 있음을 보였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2014

Location awareness is one of the key functions to build an U-city. Recently, many of works for the location-aware systems are emerging to be applied to on-going large-scale apartment complex. For example, when dwellers or cars with active tags are move in the apartment complex, the active tags broadcast their own identifiers periodically and receivers such that routers use this information to calculate the location of the active tags. Since the active tags can actually move between routers and coordinators, it requires a hand-off mechanism. In this paper, we investigate the hand-off problem occurred in location awareness system based on ZigBee active tags. We propose and analyze a new approach for handling the hand-off problem. Through a mathematical analysis, we show that our approach diminishes the quantity of packet transfer than ZigBee's approach.