• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1554-1563
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• 2008

As the interests on RFID technologies increase, a lot of research activities on RFID middleware systems to handle the data acquired by RFID readers are going on actively. Meanwhile, even though various kinds of RFID middleware methodologies and related techniques have been proposed, the common data type which is dealt with in those systems is an EPC code, mainly. Also, there are few researches of the implementation of collecting the stream data queued from RFID readers endlessly and without blocking, classifying the data into some groups according to usage, and sending the resulting data to specific applications. In this paper, we propose the method of data handling in RFID middleware to efficiently process an EPC event stream data using detail filtering, checking of data modification, creation of data set to transfer, data grouping, and various kinds of RFID data format transform. Our method is based on a de facto international standard interface defined in the ALE middleware specification by EPCglobal, and application and service users can directly set various kinds of conditions to handle the stream data.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.1
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• pp.17-26
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• 2008

This paper proposes an efficient caching mechanism appropriate for the integrated RFID middleware which can integrate wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and RFID (radio frequency identification) systems. The operating environment of the integrated RFID middleware is expected to face the situations of a significant amount of data reading from RFID readers, constant stream data input from large numbers of autonomous sensor nodes, and queries from various applications to history data sensed before and stored in distributed storages. Consequently, an efficient middleware layer equipping with caching mechanism is inevitably necessary for low latency of request-response while processing both data stream from sensor networks and history data from distributed database. For this purpose, the proposed caching mechanism includes two optimization methods to reduce the overhead of data processing in RFID middleware based on the classical cache implementation polices. One is data stream cache (DSC) and the other is history data cache (HDC), according to the structure of data request. We conduct a number of simulation experiments under different parameters and the results show that the proposed caching mechanism contributes considerably to fast request-response times.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.79-85
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• 2008

The middleware that provides RFID-based ubiquitous application service should process the data inputted constantly in real time, and acquire and deliver the answers of the questions in the application service. Studies for developing a Data Stream Management System(DSMS) has been performed in order to process a large amount of data stream inputted constantly in this way. Previous algorithms on data stream were mostly focused on reducing the average error between the answers of the successive questions and abandon the data according to the priority of them when a load occurs. This article is composed of presenting the necessity of the studies on the DSMS and speedy data processing, suggesting an algorithm to make Possible the speedy data processing using buffers and prompt questions and answers, and testing the performance of the data processing rate and whether a buffer is generated correspondingly to the algorithm suggested, in either a single or a multiple buffer, through simulations.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.127-136
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• 2009

This paper proposes an on-line mining algorithm of moving trajectory patterns in RFID data streams considering changing characteristics over time and constraints of single-pass data scan. Since RFID, sensor, and mobile network technology have been rapidly developed, many researchers have been recently focused on the study of real-time data gathering from real-world and mining the useful patterns from them. Previous researches for sequential patterns or moving trajectory patterns based on stream data have an extremely time-consum ing problem because of multi-pass database scan and tree traversal, and they also did not consider the time-changing characteristics of stream data. The proposed method preserves the sequential strength of 2-lengths frequent patterns in binary relationship table using the time-evolving graph to exactly reflect changes of RFID data stream from time to time. In addition, in order to solve the problem of the repetitive data scans, the proposed algorithm infers candidate k-lengths moving trajectory patterns beforehand at a time point t, and then extracts the patterns after screening the candidate patterns by only one-pass at a time point t+1. Through the experiment, the proposed method shows the superior performance in respect of time and space complexity than the Apriori-like method according as the reduction ratio of candidate sets is about 7 percent.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.578-589
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• 2006

Owing to the proliferation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies which is being watched as a core technology of ubiquitous computing, applications which offer convenience to people using RFID technologies are more and more increased. To easily develop these applications, a middleware system which acts as a bridge between RFID hardware and application is essential. In this paper, we propose a novel XML-based RFID middleware system called UbiCore (Ubiquitous Core). UbiCore has following features: First, UbiCore employs its own query language called XQueryStream (XQuery for Stream Data) which is originated from XQuery. Second, UbiCore has the preprocessing phase called pre-filtering prior to query evaluation and reuses the intermediate result of previous evaluation to speed up the processing of RFID tag data stream. Third, UbiCore supports query on both continuously generated stream data and archived historical data. And last, UbiCore offers a distinct markup language called Context-driven Service Markup Language (CSML) to easily specify the linking information between context and service.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.302-307
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• 2007

RFID를 기반으로 유비쿼터스 환경의 응용 서비스를 지원하는 미들웨어는 지속적으로 끊임없이 입력되는 데이터를 정확하게 실시간으로 처리하고 응용 서비스에서 질의하는 결과를 획득해서 전달하여야 한다. 이와 같은 지속적으로 입력되는 대량의 데이터 스트림을 처리하기 위해서 데이터 스트림 관리 시스템(Data Stream Management System: DSMS)을 개발하기 위한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 기존에 연구되는 데이터 스트림에 대한 알고리즘은 대부분 연속 질의 결과들 사이의 평균 오차를 줄이고, 부하 발생 시 데이터의 우선순위에 따라 버리는 것에 초점이 맞추어져 있다. 본 논문에서는 RFID EPC 라는 데이터 특성에 맞추어 다중버퍼를 이용함으로써 고속의 데이터 처리 능력을 얻고, 각 버퍼마다 일정한 규칙을 통해 질의에 있어서도 빠른 대응을 할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문은 현재 DSMS의 관련 연구와 고속 데이터 처리의 필요성을 말하고, 제안하는 알고리즘 설명과 시뮬레이션을 통해 단일버퍼와 다중버퍼일 경우 데이터 처리 속도 성능 평가와 제안한 알고리즘에 맞도록 버퍼가 생성 되는지 테스트하는 것으로 구성된다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.143-154
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• 2008

RFID events are large volume of stream data which come out continuously. Many studies have been done to detect a business event in RFID stream. However, the existing methods have many problems which increase unnecessary operations when business events do not satisfy minimum conditions. In this paper, to remove unnecessary operations, we define the minimum condition of business events and propose an efficient method that detects business events only when the minimum condition is satisfied. To check the minimum condition of business events, we register business queries in a query index. We detect business events using the query index and bitmap. It is shown through various experiment that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.46-50
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• 2009

Logistics is in the limelight as one of a variety of RFID applications. The RFID technology is actively being applied to improve the competitiveness power of companies through the synthetic management of products and information. The RFID system generates large volume of stream data. It has problems which occur waste of storage and long processing time when storing large data and processing queries. Recently, many studies have been done to solve the problems which are generated in RFID system. In this thesis, we propose an efficient data management scheme for path queries and containment queries which are occurred frequently. The proposed data management scheme considers a change of the containment of products during a transport and supports a path of changed products by representing a path of various containments. Also, the compression utilizing the structure of supply chain reduces the stored data volumes. In order to show the superiority of our approach, we compare it with the existing schemes. As a result, our experimental results show that our scheme outperforms the existing scheme in terms of storage efficiency and query processing time.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.8 no.1 s.16
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• pp.1-16
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• 2006

Recently, human based computing environment for supporting users to concentrate only user task without sensing other changes from users is being progressively researched and developed. But middleware deletes steream data processed for reducing process load of massive information from RFID sensor in this computing. So, this kind of middleware have problems when user demands probability or statistics needed for data warehousing or data mining and when user demands very important stream data repeatedly but already discarded in the middleware every former time. In this paper, we designs Sensor Middleware Architecture on Multi Level Spatial DBMS with Snapshot and manage repeatedly required stream datas to solve reusing problems of historical stream data in current middleware. This system uses disk databse that manages historical stream datas filtered in middleware for requiring services using historical stream information as data mining or data warehousing from user, and uses memory database that mamages highly reuseable data as a snapshot when stream data storaged in disk database has high reuse frequency from user. For the more, this system processes memory database management policy in a cycle to maintain high reusement and rapid service for users. Our paper system solves problems of repeated requirement of stream datas, or a policy decision service using historical stream data of current middleware. Also offers variant and rapid data services maintaining high data reusement of main memory snapshot datas.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.47-58
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• 2008

With the recent development of the ubiquitous computing technology, there are increasing interest and research in technologies such as sensors and RFID related to information recognition and location positioning in various ubiquitous fields. Especially, a standard specification was required for compatibility and interoperability in various RTLS(Real-Time Locating Systems) according to the development of RTLS to provide location and status information of moving objects using the RFID Tag. For these reasons, the ISO/IEC published the RTLS standard specification for compatibility and interoperability in RTLS. Therefore, in this paper, we designed and im plemented RTLS based on the spatial DSMS(Data Stream Management Stream) for efficiently managing and searching the incoming data stream of moving objects. The spatial DSMS is an extended system of STREAM(STanford stREam datA Manager) developed by Standford University to make various spatial operations possible. RTLS based on the spatial DSMS uses the SOAP(Simple Object Access Protocol) message between client and server for interoperability and translates client's SOAP message into CQL(Continuous Query Language) of the spatial DSMS. Finally, we proved the efficiency of RTLS based on the spatial DSMS by applying it for the staff location management service.