• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.712-720
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• 2011

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an established technology and has the potential, in a variety of applications, to significantly reduce cost and improve performance. As RFID-enabled applications will fulfill similar tasks across a range of processes adapted to use the data gained from RFID tags, they can be considered as software products derived from a common infrastructure and assets that capture specific ions in the domain. This paper discusses a framework that supports the development of RFID-enabled applications based on a business process family model (BPFM), explicitly representing both commonalities and variabilities. To develop this framework, common activities are identified from RFID-enabled applications and the variabilities in the common activities are analyzed in detail using variation point concepts. Through this framework, RFID data is preprocessed, and thus, RFID-enabled applications can be developed without having to process RFID data. Sharing a common model and reusing assets to deploy recurrent services may be considered an advantage in terms of economic significance and the overall product quality afforded.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2012

Mobile RFID is a new application that uses a mobile phone as an RFID reader with wireless technology and provides a new valuable service to users by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor network infrastructures with mobile communication and wireless Internet. Whereas the mobile RFID system has many advantages, privacy violation problems on the reader side are very concerning to individuals and researchers. Unlike in regular RFID environments, where the communication channel between the server and reader is assumed to be secure, the communication channel between the backend server and the RFID reader in the mobile RFID system is not assumed to be safe. Therefore it has become necessary to devise a new communication protocol that secures the privacy of mobile RFID-enabled devices. Recently, Lo et al. proposed a mutual key agreement protocol that secures the authenticity and privacy of engaged mobile RFID readers by constructing a secure session key between the reader and server. However, this paper shows that this protocol does not meet all of the necessary security requirements. Therefore we developed an enhanced mutual key agreement protocol for mobile RFID-enabled devices that alleviates these concerns. We further show that our protocol can enhance data security and provide privacy protection for the reader in an unsecured mobile RFID environment, even in the presence of an active adversary.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.111-120
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• 2011

The concept of Smart-Homes is becoming more and more popular. It is anticipated that Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology will play a major role in such environments. We can find many previously proposed schemes that focus solely on: authentication between the RFID tags and readers, and user privacy protection from malicious readers. There has also been much talk of a very popular RFID application: a refrigerator/bookshelf that can scan and list out the details of its items on its display screen. Realizing such an application is not as straight forward as it seems to be, especially in securely deploying such RFID-based applications in a smart home environment. Therefore this paper describes some of the RFID-based applications that are applicable to smart home environments. We then identify their related privacy and security threats and security requirements and also propose a secure approach, where RFID-tagged consumer items, RFID-reader enabled appliances (e.g., refrigerators), and RFID-based applications would securely interact among one another. At the moment our approach is just a conceptual idea, but it sheds light on very important security issues related to RFID-based applications that are beneficial for consumers.

• 산업공학
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.298-308
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• 2007

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is one of Identification Technologies today. Many of the large retailers in the United States and Europe have established requirements for their suppliers to use RFID technology in 2004. Recently Airbus and Boeing have announced plans to develop a single RFID specification to be used by both companies to use RFID tags to identify commercial aircraft parts. However, it does not mean the end of barcode and it may take several years before the wide adoption of the RFID. This is because a precise business process reengineering is required with technology itself to get the potential benefits of RFID. In this paper, we introduce an RFID enabled air baggage handling process which has been developed and tested recently. We believe our study would give a good guideline for further researches on RFID application in the aviation industry.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.261-266
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• 2012

공급 체인 관리 및 물류 개발에 RFID 기술에 대한 국제적 적용에 대한 분석과 향후 활성화 방안에 대하여 연구를 수행하였다. 국제 물류의 RFID의 최근 응용 프로그램을 연구 분석하고 제조업체, 보관업체, 물류업체, 운송업체, 항만 및 유통업체간의 RFID 채택 및 사용의 핵심 요소를 범국가적, 국제적 물류체인과 연계하여 필요한 내용을 분석하고 국내에 필요한 요소 및 방안에 대하여 연구 기술하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제18D권2호
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• pp.111-122
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• 2011

오늘날 RFID 응용 시스템은 점차 발전되고 물류, 유통, 항만 그리고 제조 등 다양한 산업분야에서 적용되고 있다. RFID 응용 시스템 개발을 위한 국제 표준으로 EPCglobal 에서는 EPC Network 아키텍처를 제시하고 있다. EPC Network 아키텍처를 통해 개체의 고유정보(master information) 및 이력정보(event information)를 수집해야 한다. 그러나 개체의 고유정보 및 이력정보를 저장하고 있는 EPCIS의 경우는 수집된 EPC와 각 개체가 가지는 이력정보의 수에 의존적으로 통신 횟수가 증가하며, 개별적인 EPC에 대한 처리로 인해 동일한 EPCIS와 여러 번 통신해야 하는 문제점이 존재한다. 이러한 문제점은 EPCIS와의 통신시간의 증가로 인해 RFID 응용 시스템의 성능을 저하 시키게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 EPCIS와의 통신 시간을 감소시키기 위하여 동일한 EPCIS와의 통신을 제거하는 EPCIS 주소별 그룹 질의 기법을 제시한다. 또한, 본 논문에서 제시한 기법을 적용하고 실제 EPC Network 환경을 구축하고 다양한 실험을 통하여 효용성을 검증하였으며 EPCIS의 통신 시간이 최대 99% 감소하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제26권A호
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• pp.147-152
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• 2006

Wireless Sensor Networks provide a new paradigm for sensing and disseminating information from various environments, with the potential to serve many and diverse applications. Recent advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low-cost sensor networks. The sensor networks can be used for various application areas. For different application areas, there are different technical issues that researchers are currently resolving. The current state of the art of sensor networks is captured in this article, where solutions are discussed under their related protocol stack layer sections. This article also points out the open research issues and intends to spark new interests and developments in this field. In order to evaluate the application of field monitoring system, lab tests, field test and FEM analysis are conducted. Therefore the accuracy of RFID wireless sensor data is verified.

• 한국전자거래학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자거래학회 2005년도 종합학술대회
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• pp.78-84
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• 2005

As the research activities related to 'Ubiquitous Computing' whose concept was introduced by Mark Weiser are growing, RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) technology has recently gained attention as a technology to advance the ubiquitous computing and a lot of related researches are also in progress. Research works done so far are mainly linked to the situation that the research outputs apply to meet the requirements for asset tracking and data sharing with partners over supply chain by using fixed RFID readers. However, it is essential that users have access to real-time information about the tagged objects and services whenever and wherever they want in the era of ubiquitous computing, so mobile devices-including PDA, smart phone, cellular phone, etc - which are equipped with an RFID reader can be regarded as an essential terminal for users living in ubiquitous computing environment. As far as the application with mobile devices are concerned, there are many considerations due to their limited capabilities of data processing, battery consumption and so on. In this paper, we review the generic RFID network model and introduce the revised RFID network model in consideration of incorporation with mobile devices equipped with an RFID reader. Also, we derive the requirements for software embedded within an RFID- enabled mobile terminal and then discuss essential components for implementation. Moreover, we develop the applications for asset management at museum by using mobile RFID network model.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제14D권7호
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• pp.773-782
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• 2007

소프트웨어 프로덕트 라인은 소프트웨어 재사용에 대한 활동들을 미리 계획하고 개발 프로세스의 연속적인 부분으로 이루어지도록 지원하기 위한 방법이다. 이 방법에서 가장 중요한 기술은 관련된 시스템들, 즉 도메인에서 공통성과 가변성(commonality and variability: C&V)을 분석하고 관리하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 소프트웨어 프로덕트 라인 방법과 RFID 적용 기술을 결합시키고자 한다. 즉, 각 기업 또는 도메인마다 RFID 기술을 도입하려고 할 때, 애플리케이션이 공통적으로 처리해야 하는 활동들을 식별하고 각 활동들이 가지는 가변요소들을 분석하여, 이를 재사용 가능한 소프트웨어 프로덕트 라인 아키텍처로 자산화 하는 방법을 제시한다. 또한 이를 실현하기 위하여 재사용 가능한 프로덕트 라인 아키텍처를 모델링 할 수 있고 식별된 공통된 기능들을 재사용 가능한 컴포넌트로 제공해주는 프레임워크를 개발한다. 공통된 아키텍처를 공유하고 반복적인 기능들을 자산으로 만들어 재사용하는 것은 경제적인 측면과 품질에서 상당한 이점을 가져다 준다.