• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.1684-1697
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• 2011

We show that two protocols for RFID mutual authentication in pervasive computing environments, recently proposed by Kang et al, are vulnerable to several attacks. First, we show these protocols do not preserve the privacy of users' location. Once a tag is authenticated successfully, we show several scenarios where legitimate or illegitimate readers can trace the location of that tag without any further information about the tag's identifier or initial private key. Second, since the communication between readers and the database takes place over an insecure communication channel and in the plaintext form, we show scenarios where a compromised tag can gain access to confidential information that the tag is not supposed get access to. Finally, we show that these protocols are also vulnerable to the replay and denial-of-service attacks. While some of these attacks are due to simple flaws and can be easily fixed, others are more fundamental and are due to relaxing widely accepted assumptions in the literature. We examine this issue, apply countermeasures, and re-evaluate the protocols overhead after taking these countermeasures into account and compare them to other work in the literature.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.103-108
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• 2016

With the growing trend of pervasive computing, (the idea that technology is moving beyond personal computers to everyday devices) there is a growing demand for lightweight ciphers to safeguard data in a network that is always available. For all block cipher applications, the AES is the preferred choice. However, devices used in pervasive computing have extremely constraint environment and as such the AES will not be suitable. In this paper we design and implement a new lightweight compact block cipher that takes advantage of both S-P network and the Feistel structure. The cipher uses the S-box of PRESENT algorithm and a key dependent one stage omega permutation network is used as the cipher's P-box. The cipher is implemented on iNEXT-V6 board equipped with virtex-6 FPGA. The design synthesized to 196 slices at 337 MHz maximum clock frequency.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.11-19
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• 2006

With the emergence of pervasive computing, personalization becomes an important issue to provide with users customized services, anywhere and anytime in their specific environment. Many researches have shown the possibilities of personalization by acquiring and processing sensor information around users. However, personalization remains still at its infancy, since most researches have failed to consider various contexts comprehensively besides sensor data, and just developed tailored services for a specific application domain. In this work, we propose a simulation-based CAS (context Aware Web Services) development methodology. Our methodology considers various contexts on users (eg. current location), web services (eg. response time), devices (eg. availability) and environment (eg. sensor data) all together by simulating them on the fly for personalized and adaptable services.

• Proceedings of the CALSEC Conference
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• 2004.02a
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• pp.1-11
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• 2004

◎Origin ·Mark Weiser(52-99)：Xerox PARC CTO ·Ubique in Latin = Everywhere ◎Simila Terms ·Ubiquitous Network/IT ·Pervasive/Nomadic/Wearable/Disappearing Computing ◎ Characteristics ·Everywhere, Mobility ·w/o Awareness w/ Awareness tech： e.g., Speedpass of Mobil, Intelligent cart of Wal-Mart(omitted)

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.4008-4022
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• 2016

This paper tries to extend the conventional conceptual framework of the Internet of Things (IoT) so as to reify an advanced pervasive IoT-community collaboration concept, which is called the process-aware Internet of Things. The extended conceptual framework is embodied as a referential architecture that can be a standardized reference model supporting the conceptual integration of the Internet of Things and the process awareness. The extended referential architecture covers the full range of the architectural details from abstracting the process-aware behavioral semantics to reifying the IoT-process enactments. These extended framework and architecture ought to be the theoretical basis for implementing a process-aware IoT-community computing system supporting process-aware collaborations of Things in pervasive computing environments. In particular, we do point up that the proposed framework of the process-aware Internet of Things is revised from the Internet of Things framework announced in ITU-T SG13³ Y.2060 [26] by integrating the novel concept of process awareness. We strongly believe that the extended conceptual framework and its referential architecture are able to deliver the novel and meaningful insight as a standardized platform for describing and achieving the goals of IoT-communities and societies.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.286-288
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• 2005

If we are to realize the everyday benefits promised by pervasive computing and context-aware applications, we must first develop the infrastructure to provide contextual location and orientation information through pervasive computing elements. We have implement indoor positioning system to supply orientation information. We have used ultrasound in indoor positioning system for distance and orientation measurements, then propose a set of methods to calculate orientation from an array of well placed ultrasonic sensors operating in the indoor positioning system. We have design and implement a indoor positioning system using a combination of hardware and software and demonstrate end-to-end functionality of the system.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.412-417
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• 2009

With ubiquitous computing aid, it can improve human being's life quality if all people have more convenient medical service under pervasive computing environment. In this paper, for a pervasive health care application for diabetes patient, we've implemented a health care system, which is composed of three parts. Various sensors monitor both outer and inner environment of human such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and glycemic index, etc. These sensors form zigbee-based sensor network. And as a backend, medical information server accumulates sensing data and performs back-end processing. To simply transfer these sensing values to a medical team may be a low level's medical service. So, we've designed a model with context awareness for more improved medical service which is based on ART(adaptive resonance theory) neural network. Our experiments show that a proposed healthcare system can provide improved medical service because it can recognize current context of patient more concretely.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.335-354
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• 2014

The accuracy of training-based activity recognition depends on the training procedure and the extent to which the training dataset comprehensively represents the activity and its varieties. Additionally, training incurs substantial cost and effort in the process of collecting training data. To address these limitations, we have developed a training-free activity recognition approach based on a fuzzy logic algorithm that utilizes a generic activity model and an associated activity semantic knowledge. The approach is validated through experimentation with real activity datasets. Results show that the fuzzy logic based algorithms exhibit comparable or better accuracy than other training-based approaches.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.95-101
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• 2011

Extended life expectancy and a decrease in fertility rates are dramatically increasing the number of seniors who will eventually need professional care assistance. Although there is no clear technical solution to this problem, recent advances in ubiquitous computing offer opportunities to assist elders in their residence, thus reducing the need for professional assistance in special facilities. There have been several studies, but current solutions tend to address specific issues and cannot be easily extended, updated, and customized to meet the complex and evolving requirements of eldercare assistance. This study aims to bridge this gap, and this paper presents a context-management framework, called awareness for pervasive environments (APE), that provides easily customizable support for the development of ubiquitous eldercare services and applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.61-65
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• 2007

편재형 컴퓨팅(pervasive computing)에서 컨텍스트에 대한 중요성은 점점 강조되고 있다. 편재형 컴퓨팅(pervasive computing) 환경에서 다양한 디바이스들은 사용자의 상황에 가장 적절한 서비스를 제공하기 위해 통신할 필요가 있는데, 특히 센서는 컨텍스트 데이터를 얻는데 효과적이다. 컨텍스트 정보를 얻기 위해 사용되는 센서들은 물리적인 센서들로부터 가상 센서까지 여러 가지가 있는데, 이러한 다양한 센서들을 관리하기 위해 센서 프레임워크가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 모바일에서의 센서 어플리케이션 표준인 JSR256을 기반으로 한 센서 프레임워크를 어플리케이션 개발자의 시각이 아닌 센서 개발자의 시각에서 분석하였다. 그리고 관련 문제점을 발견하여 다양한 센서들을 효율적으로 관리하고 새로운 센서 모듈을 용이하게 개발할 수 있는 센서 프레임워크를 제안하고 제시된 센서 프레임워크를 통한 재사용성을 검증해 보았다.