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Low Power Trace Cache for Embedded Processor

  • Moon Je-Gil;Jeong Ha-Young;Lee Yong-Surk
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.204-208
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    • 2004
  • Embedded business will be expanded market more and more since customers seek more wearable and ubiquitous systems. Cellular telephones, PDAs, notebooks and portable multimedia devices could bring higher microprocessor revenues and more rewarding improvements in performance and functions. Increasing battery capacity is still creeping along the roadmap. Until a small practical fuel cell becomes available, microprocessor developers must come up with power-reduction methods. According to MPR 2003, the instruction and data caches of ARM920T processor consume $44\%$ of total processor power. The rest of it is split into the power consumptions of the integer core, memory management units, bus interface unit and other essential CPU circuitry. And the relationships among CPU, peripherals and caches may change in the future. The processor working on higher operating frequency will exact larger cache RAM and consume more energy. In this paper, we propose advanced low power trace cache which caches traces of the dynamic instruction stream, and reduces cache access times. And we evaluate the performance of the trace cache and estimate the power of the trace cache, which is compared with conventional cache.

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EasyCare : An Agent-based u-Healthcare System for Managing Patients with Heart Diseases (EasyCare : 심계질환자 관리를 위한 에이전트 기반의 u-헬스케어 시스템)

  • Cho, Hyun Joo;Kim, Sangchul
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.177-190
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    • 2011
  • Due to the growth of economy and the advancement of IT, the life expectancy has been prolonged and the interests in health have greatly increased. Recently the request for systems that enable measuring the bio-signals of patients in the non medical organizations, such as home, and transmitting them to medical staffs at remote sites for monitoring them. In this paper, we present an agent-based u-health system for patients or suspects with heart diseases. Our system consists of portable devices for measuring bio-signals and agents that perform data collection, data storage, automatic detection of abnormal status in patients, and HL7-based data exchange in a cooperative way. The main features of the system are : the agent-based architecture facilitates the addition of new service modules as well as the modification of existing ones; an intelligent agent is provided which automatically detects situations in which the bio-signals of patients are abnormal; the medical data standard is supported so that the communication with other systems is very easy. To our survey, there have been few previous systems which support all those features in a seamless way.

Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures of Dynamic Virtual Keyboard in Android Banking Apps (안드로이드 은행앱의 동적 가상키보드에 대한 취약점 및 대응방안)

  • Cho, Taenam;Choi, SookHee
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2019
  • Smartphones are becoming a portable computer. As a result, even the most sensitive financial application services are now available anywhere on the smartphone. Compared to general PCs, smartphones communicate with external devices through various channels such as wireless internet, mobile communication network, Bluetooth, and NFC, and a wide variety of applications are provided. Therefore, if vulnerabilities exist, the possibility of attack damage increases. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerabilities of dynamic virtual keyboards used in login of banking apps of smartphones with various physical constraints and propose countermeasures.

System for Transmitting Army Hand Signals Using Motion Sensors (모션 센서를 이용한 군대 수신호 전송 시스템)

  • Shin, Geon;Jeon, Jaechol;Jeon, Minho;Choi, Sukwon;Kim, Iksu
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.5 no.10
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    • pp.331-338
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we propose a system for transmitting army hand signals using motion sensors. The proposed system consists of a squad commander device, squad member devices, and a server. The squad command device and squad member device have been implemented using a micro arduino, an accelerometer sensor, and a gyroscope sensor, and the server has been implemented using a Rasberry Pi 3. Because the devices are made in the form of band, they are lightweight and portable. The proposed system can transmit the hand signals through vibration in conditions of poor visibility. We have designed and implemented the squad member device to be able to recognize four military hand signals. Through experiments, the proposed system have shown 88.82% of correct recognition. In conclusion, we expect to increase effectiveness of army operations and survival rate of soldiers.

An Efficient Motion Estimation Method which Supports Variable Block Sizes and Multi-frames for H.264 Video Compression (H.264 동영상 압축에서의 가변 블록과 다중 프레임을 지원하는 효율적인 움직임 추정 방법)

  • Yoon, Mi-Sun;Chang, Seung-Ho;Moon, Dong-Sun;Shin, Hyun-Chul
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.44 no.5
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    • pp.58-65
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    • 2007
  • As multimedia portable devices become popular, the amount of computation for processing data including video compression has significantly increased. Various researches for low power consumption of the mobile devices and real time processing have been reported. Motion Estimation is responsible for 67% of H.264 encoder complexity. In this research, a new circuit is designed for motion estimation. The new circuit uses motion prediction based on approximate SAD, Alternative Row Scan (ARS), DAU, and FDVS algorithms. Our new method can reduce the amount of computation by 75% when compared to multi-frame motion estimation suggested in JM8.2. Furthermore, optimal number and size of reference frame blocks are determined to reduce computation without affecting the PSNR. The proposed Motion Estimation method has been verified by using the hardware and software Co-Simulation with iPROVE. It can process 30 CIF frames/sec at 50MHz.

Design and implementation of blockchain-based anti-theft protocol in Lora environment (Lora 환경에서 블록체인 기반 도난방지 프로토콜 설계 및 구현)

  • Park, Jung-oh
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2022
  • With the development of communication infrastructure, the number of network equipment owned by one person is gradually increasing. General-purpose devices such as smartphones can implement theft/loss prevention function by implementing S/W. However, other small devices lack practicality such as long-distance communication problems due to standard communication technology specifications or H/W limitations, and lack of functions(authentication and security). This study combines the Lora communication protocol in the LPWA standard environment and the blockchain technology. Anti-theft and security functions were added to the protocol, and the PBFT consensus algorithm was applied to build a blockchain network. As a result of the test, the effectiveness of safety(authentication and trust network) and performance(blockchain processing performance) were confirmed. This study aims to contribute to the future development of portable or small device anti-theft products as a 4th industrial convergence research.

Characteristics of Lithium-ion(Li-ion) Batteries according to Charging and Discharging by Scenario (시나리오별 충방전에 따른 리튬이온(Li-ion) 배터리 특성)

  • Yongho Yoon
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.171-176
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    • 2023
  • In the modern society of the 21st century, portable electronic products using secondary batteries are continuously becoming lightweight and miniaturized. And along with this trend, we are active in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where we collect and share information in our daily lives using wearable electronic devices. Therefore, the role of secondary batteries that can be recharged while using small home appliances and digital devices is increasingly important. Along with this increase, secondary battery performance tests require various test methods such as characteristics, lifespan, failure diagnosis, and recycling. In addition, the construction of a battery test system to ensure the safety and proper functioning of the battery, along with guidelines and correct basic knowledge are being considered. Therefore, in this paper, we will examine the characteristics of the secondary battery Li-ion battery according to the charging and discharging scenarios directly connected to the performance of the battery.

Ontology-based u-Healthcare System for Patient-centric Service (환자중심서비스를 위한 온톨로지 기반의 u-Healthcare 시스템)

  • Jung, Yong Gyu;Lee, Jeong Chan;Jang, Eun Ji
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2012
  • U-healthcare is real-time monitoring of personal biometric information using by portable devices, home network and information and communication technology based healthcare systems, and fused together automatically to overcome the constraints of time and space are connected with hospitals and doctors. As u-healthcare gives health service in anytime and anywhere, it becomes to be a new type of medical services in patients management and disease prevention. In this paper, recent changes in prevention-oriented care is analyzed in becoming early response for Healthcare Information System by requirements analysis for technology development trend. According to the healthcare system, PACS, OCS, EMR and emergency medical system, U-healthcare is presenting the design of a patient-centered integrated client system. As the relationship between the meaning of the terms is used in the ontology, information models in the system is providing a common vocabulary with various levels of formality. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based system for patient-centered services, including the concept of clustering to clustering the data to define the relationship between these ontologies for more systematic data.

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A Study on the Building Information Integration Method between e-AIS and KLIS-rn (인터넷 건축행정정보시스템(e-AIS)과 도로명주소 관리시스템(KLIS-rn)의 연계 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Young;Kim, Ki-Rack;Lee, Won-Hee;Yu, Ki-Yun
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.121-130
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    • 2010
  • As the development of wireless environment and portable devices, navigation companies need more spatial information for Location Based Service and so they are investing heavily in this part. But my country have constructed lots of spatial dataset during the NGIS project, and then we can reduce costs by using constructed spatial dataset. The integration method of each building information between e-AIS and KLIS-rn is linked to designed mapping table by main building numbers and auxiliary cadastral number. e-AIS and KLIS-rn are integrated by the feature matching between CAD data and KLIS-rn. Due to the limitation of test data, more accuracy test will be required with various data sets.

Method of estimating the deleted time of applications using Amcache.hve (앰캐시(Amcache.hve) 파일을 활용한 응용 프로그램 삭제시간 추정방법)

  • Kim, Moon-Ho;Lee, Sang-jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.573-583
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    • 2015
  • Amcache.hve file is a registry hive file regarding Program Compatibility Assistant, which stores the executed information of applications. With Amcache.hve file, We can know execution path, first executed time as well as deleted time. Since it checks both the first install time and deleted time, Amcache.hve file can be used to draw up the overall timeline of applications when used with the Prefetch files and Iconcache.db files. Amcache.hve file is also an important artifact to record the traces of anti-forensic programs, portable programs and external storage devices. This paper illustrates the features of Amcache.hve file and methods for utilization in digital forensics such as estimation of deleted time of applications.