• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.1143-1152
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• 1999

A Mobile computing environment is a new paradigm which provides users with the access to information irrespective of users' location. A transaction scheduling method for the mobile computing environment must be designed so that database consistency is maintained with considering the limited performance of mobile hosts and the narrow bandwidth of a wireless network. The scheduling method using a lock has some problems: the high message overhead between a server and a mobile host for maintaining a lock and the high abort ratio of the mobile transactions owing to violating the serializability when a mobile host uses a cache. So, in this paper, we propose an efficient transaction management method using timestamp to resolve these problems. The proposed method is used in the environment under which a mobile host uses a cache having two versions for each cached data item and a server maintains several versions for each data item. So, even though a mobile transaction is executed during several broadcasting interval, can be committed. As a result, the proposed method can improve the commit ratio of the mobile transactions by maintaining multiversion for each data item and does not require the additional message exchange to schedule transactions by using timestamp.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.47-54
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• 2018

This paper is a study on implementation of the golf play advice system which provides advice to golfers through mobile devices. The system consists of a mobile unit consisting of a GPS receiver, a data transmitter and receiver, and a display unit, and a server unit composed of a database and advice generator. The advice generator that provides advices to the users, generates advices with IF-THEN rule-based reasoning method. The reasoning module utilizes golfer's personal records and various information in the database of the server unit. This system provides the advice to the users who play on the golf course through mobile devices, so that it is possible to provide various information similar to the screen golf using the computer simulating technology in the outdoor golf course.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.457-460
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• 2011

For the mobile meteorological services, sensed data should be gathered at a server from various clients like as Ubiquitous Sensor Network, mobile phone or public traffic vehicle by wireless network. The gathered data at server have huge volume and increase continuously. Therefore, a special query method and data structure should be considered. This paper studies on all possible query type on the data and processing steps for the mobile meteorological services. Some query spaces will be discussed. After that, this paper proposes effective data structure for the sensed data to support the query types.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.2061-2080
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• 2013

Roaming authentication protocol is widely used in wireless network which can enable a seamless service for the mobile users. However, the classical approach requires the home server's participation during the authentication between the mobile user and the foreign server. So the more the roaming requests are performed the heavier burden will be on the home server. In this paper, we propose a new roaming authentication framework for wireless communication without the home server's participation. The new roaming authentication protocol in the new framework takes advantage of the ID-based cryptography and provides user anonymity. It has good performance compared with the roaming authentication protocols whose authentication do not need the home server's participation in terms of security and computation costs. Moreover, a new User-to-User authentication protocol in the new framework is also present. All the authentications proposed in this paper can be regarded as a common construction and can be applied to various kinds of wireless networks such as Cellular Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks and Vehicle Networks.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.5
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• pp.575-584
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• 2003

Due to hardware resource limit and system incompatibility of the mobile device, and low bandwidth of wireless communication, there are a few difficulties in introducing the digital contract system based on wired communication to M-Commerce. To get over the difficulties, this paper defines a digital contract based upon XML and then addresses the design and implementation of M-XContract, a digital contract system for the mobile environment. M-XContract system has been constructed with the digital contract server, M-ESign module which contracts with the customer on the PDA and transfers the contract digitally signed to the server, M-EDecoder module which shows the contract to the customer from the server, and X-Auth which is a contract authoring tool. To evaluate the run-time performance of the M-XContract, we measured the digital signature generation time and transfer time to the server. The evaluation results show that the M-Xcontract is an efficient model for the mobile contract system.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.10D no.4
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• pp.655-660
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• 2003

The cache used by mobile host is an important device that recovers the weak points of limited power and bandwidth, in mobile computing environments. However, it has to stand and maintain the consistency with the server data. In this paper, we propose a 'Selective Cache Consistency Scheme'. The server allows an effective broadcasting by selecting data of high usability using 'Cache State Table' and 'Data Access Table'. Moreover, this scheme prevents the loss of data that nay occur by a long period of disconnection, by asynchronous broadcasting and transmitting those broadcast data preserved in the server. This also allows user to possess the latest data. Through experiments, we have found that the enlargement of autonomy is possible by reducing the dependence of server.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.12 s.354
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• pp.31-41
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• 2006

Internet access from mobile phones over cellular networks suffer from severe bandwidth limitations and high bit error rates over wireless access links. Tailoring TCP connections to best fit the characteristics of this bottleneck link is thus very important for overall performance improvement. In this work, we propose a simple algorithm in deciding the optimal TCP segment size to maximize the utilization of the bottleneck wireless TCP connection for mobile contents server access, taking the dynamic TCP window variation into account. The proposed algorithm can be used when the product of the access rate and the propagation time is not large. With some numerical examples, it is shown that the optimal TCP segment size becomes a constant value when the TCP window size exceeds a threshold. One can set the maximum segment size of a wireless TCP connection to this optimal segment size for mobile contents server access for maximum efficiency on the expensive wireless link.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.183-186
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• 2008

In ubiquitous GIS system, the spatial information could be updated and utilied by mobile terminals. Spatial information stored in mobile terminals should be able to synchronize to the server. However, in mobile environment, there are some limitations in synchronization service due to the limited bandwidth. The ActMAP system, that was developed to consider of mobile environment, has suggested a partial update protocal for synchronization in order to solve the narrow bandwidth problem. But it is still has a problem that it does not consider two-way synchronization between a server and a mobile terminal. This paper suggests a two-way synchronization protocol between a server and mobile terminals. It, therefore, is inclined to supporting updated and utilization of spatial information using mobile terminals.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.217-224
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• 2010

Nowadays, people perform their tasks anywhere anytime using their mobile devices. For this reason, data synchronization (DS) between mobile devices and a central server has become one of the most essential technologies in mobile environments. Currently, several mobile DS protocols are proposed and used. However, the existing DS protocols cannot guarantee interoperability between them. To solve the problem, an embedded DS gateway has been developed in our previous study. The gateway runs on a Windows Mobile-based emulator. It converts data on a mobile device into common data specified by OMA DS standard protocol and vice versa. The embedded gateway has been built to support the OMA DS standard protocol. In order to verify that the embedded gateway conforms to the OMA DS standard protocol, two kinds of OMA conformance tests have to be conducted - interoperability test with an OMA DS-based server and conformance test with SCTS (SyncML Conformance Test Suit). In this paper, some parts of the gateway previously built are modified and the modified gateway is installed on a Windows Mobile-based smart phone. And the interoperability test and the conformance test with the SCTS are conducted. The results of the tests show that the embedded DS gateway operates properly on the Windows Mobile-based smart phone and that the gateway passes the tests, verifying its conformity to the OMA DS standard protocol. In addition, DS performance tests show that DS delay times between a real smart phone and a DS server increase gently as the number of DS data increases. In other words, the embedded DS gateway built in this paper can be used for a real smart phone at a reasonable performance cost.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.452-458
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• 2002

Although the reuse of the cached data for scrolling the map reduces the amount of passed data between client and server, it needs the conversions of data coordinates, selertive deletion of objects and cache compaction at client. The conversion is time intensive operation due to limited resources of mobile phones such as low computing power, small memory. Therefore, for the efficient map control in the vector map service based mobile phone, it is necessary to study the method for reducing wireless network bandwidth and for overwhelming the limited resources of mobile phone as well. This paper proposes the methods for racking pre-received spatial objects in client-server systems for mobile CIS. We also analyze the strengths and drawbacks between the reuse of cached data and transmission of raw data respectively.