• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.885-909
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• 2016

Advances in low-cost wireless sensing have made instrumentation of large civil infrastructure systems with dense arrays of wireless sensors possible. A critical issue with regard to effective use of the information harvested from these sensors is synchronized sensing. Although a number of synchronization methods have been developed, most provide only clock synchronization. Synchronized sensing requires not only clock synchronization among wireless nodes, but also synchronization of the data. Existing synchronization protocols are generally limited to networks of modest size in which all sensor nodes are within a limited distance from a central base station. The scale of civil infrastructure is often too large to be covered by a single wireless sensor network. Multiple independent networks have been installed, and post-facto synchronization schemes have been developed and applied with some success. In this paper, we present a new approach to achieving synchronized sensing among multiple networks using the Pulse-Per-Second signals from low-cost GPS receivers. The method is implemented and verified on the Imote2 sensor platform using TinyOS to achieve $50{\mu}s$ synchronization accuracy of the measured data for multiple networks. These results demonstrate that the proposed approach is highly-scalable, realizing precise synchronized sensing that is necessary for effective structural health monitoring.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.171-177
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• 2020

4차 산업혁명의 영향으로 농축산업 분야에도 정보통신 기술을 융합한 스마트팜 기술의 도입을 통한 생산성 증대 및 경쟁력 강화를 추진하고 있다. 이러한 스마트 농업 기술은 농업 분야의 미래 성장을 위한 새로운 패러다임으로 자리 잡고 있다. 스마트팜 구현을 위하여 실시간 재배 환경 모니터링과 이와 연계된 재배 환경 자동 제어 시스템의 개발이 필요하며 나아가 작물 생육 상태를 확인하여 관리하는 지능형 시스템의 개발이 요구되어 진다. 본 논문에서는 호환성과 확장성이 뛰어난 웹 플랫폼을 활용하여 클라우드 기반 스마트팜 관리 시스템 구현을 위한 빠르고 효율적인 개발 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 웹 플랫폼을 이용한 개발 방법이 효율적이며 안정적인 시스템 구현이 가능함을 실제 구현된 시스템의 운영을 통하여 확인하였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.639-650
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• 1999

일반적으로 성능 관리는 성능 감시, 성능 분석, 그리고 성능 조정의 작업을 반복함으로써 이루어진다. 본 논문에서는 주전산기 IV로 개발된 고속 병렬 컴퓨터 SPAX(Scalable Parallel Architecture Computer based on Crossbar Network)에서 사용할 수 있는 성능 감시기와 성능 조정 도구의 설계와 구현에 대해 기술한다. SPAX는 지역 메모리를 갖는 노드들이 내부 네트워크로 연결되어, 클러스터를 구성하는 계층적인 구조를 이루고 있다. 따라서, SPAX에서 효과적인 성능 감시를 하기 위해서는 SPAX의 계층적 구조를 반영한 새로운 성능 감시기가 필요로 하게 되었다. 구현된 성능 감시기는 SPAX의 노드와 클러스터, 그리고 전체 시스템 상태를 실시간으로 감시할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다. 그리고, 구현된 성능 조정 도구는 SPAX에서 시스템 성능에 관련된 변수 값을 변경할 수 있는 기능들을 제공한다. 관리자는 구현된 성능 감시기와 성능 조정 도구를 이용하여 SPAX에서 보다 효과적인 성능 관리를 수행할 수 있다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.415-426
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• 2009

This study focuses on the concept of multi-scale wireless sensor networks for damage detection in civil infrastructure systems by first over viewing the general network philosophy and attributes in the areas of data acquisition, data reduction, assessment and decision making. The data acquisition aspect includes a scalable wireless sensor network acquiring acceleration and strain data, triggered using a Restricted Input Network Activation scheme (RINAS) that extends network lifetime and reduces the size of the requisite undamaged reference pool. Major emphasis is given in this study to data reduction and assessment aspects that enable a decentralized approach operating within the hardware and power constraints of wireless sensor networks to avoid issues associated with packet loss, synchronization and latency. After over viewing various models for data reduction, the concept of a data-driven Bivariate Regressive Adaptive INdex (BRAIN) for damage detection is presented. Subsequent examples using experimental and simulated data verify two major hypotheses related to the BRAIN concept: (i) data-driven damage metrics are more robust and reliable than their counterparts and (ii) the use of heterogeneous sensing enhances overall detection capability of such data-driven damage metrics.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2008년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.3-9
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• 2008

Recently, the plant industries are being activated and plant control systems use various technologies. Because the optimized design for the plants is very important for the reducing of operation and maintenance costs, automatic control systems become more important. Plant control systems consist of the master controller, the plant networks, the programming environment for engineering, monitoring software and the field devices. The control systems should have reliability, availability and safety. Modular architecture of hardware and software makes flexible configuration of the control systems. Each component should have diagnostic functions. It follows industrial standards and makes open systems. Open systems increase accessibility against the data which is distributed in the plants. The controllers including processor and communication modules use the up-to-date technology. They have real time and fault tolerant function by duplicating processors or networks. It also enables to make the distributed control systems. The distributed architecture makes more scalable main control system. Automatic control systems can be operated with better performance. In this paper, we analyzed the requirements of the seawater desalination plants and made some consideration facts for developing the optimized controller. Also we described the design concept of the main controller, which consists of several modules. We should validate and complement the design for the reliability and better performance.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.852-857
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• 2011

조선업종은 숙련공의 감소와 노동력 부족을 해결하기 위해 자동화와 기계화가 필요하다. 특히 조선용 핸드레일 제조공정은 표준화된 타 분야와 달리 자동화가 낙후되어 있다. 본 연구에서는 조선용 핸드레일 제작에 사용할 수 있는 철의장 가공자동화시스템을 설계하고 개발하였다. 시스템의 기구부는 절단공정의 효율성, 생산성, 안정성 등을 고려하여 설계하였고, CATIA 와 ANSYS를 사용하여 구조물의 안정성을 확인하였다. 시스템 제어부는 개방성과 확장성을 제공하는 PCNC 콘트롤러를 사용하였고, 터치스크린 방식의 화면 조작을 통해 시스템의 제어 및 모니터링을 할 수 있도록 구축하였다. 개발된 철의장 가공자동화시스템은 수차의 구동테스트 및 가공테스트를 통해 성능의 우수성을 입증하여 실용단계에 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.1299-1319
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• 2017

This paper presents a scalable multiple camera collaboration strategy for active tracking applications in large areas. The proposed approach is based on distributed mechanism but emulates the master-slave mechanism. The master and slave cameras are not designated but adaptively determined depending on the object dynamic and density distribution. Moreover, the number of cameras emulating the master is not fixed. The collaboration among the cameras utilizes global and local sectors in which the visual correspondences among different cameras are determined. The proposed method combines the local information to construct the global information for emulating the master-slave operations. Based on the global information, the load balancing of active tracking operations is performed to maximize active tracking coverage of the highly dynamic objects. The dynamics of all objects visible in the local camera views are estimated for effective coverage scheduling of the cameras. The active tracking synchronization timing information is chosen to maximize the overall monitoring time for general surveillance operations while minimizing the active tracking miss. The real-time simulation result demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.440-448
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• 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main enablers for situation awareness needed in accomplishing smart cities. IoT devices, especially for monitoring purposes, have stringent timing requirements which may not be met by cloud computing. This deficiency of cloud computing can be overcome by fog computing for which fog nodes are placed close to IoT devices. Because of low capabilities of fog nodes compared to cloud data centers, fog nodes may not be deployed with all the services required by IoT devices. Thus, in this article, we focus on the issue of fog service placement and present the recent research trends in this issue. Most of the literature on fog service placement deals with determining an appropriate fog node satisfying the various requirements like delay from the perspective of one or more service requests. In this article, we aim to effectively place fog services in accordance with the pre-obtained service demands, which may have been collected during the prior time interval, instead of on-demand service placement for one or more service requests. The concept of the logical fog network is newly presented for the sake of the scalability of fog service placement in a large-scale smart city. The logical fog network is formed in a tree topology rooted at the cloud data center. Based on the logical fog network, a service placement approach is proposed so that services can be placed on fog nodes in a resource-effective way.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1141-1163
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• 2019

In an effort to minimize operational expenses and supply users with more scalable services, distributed applications are actually going towards the Cloud. These applications, sent out over multiple environments and machines, are composed by inter-connecting independently developed services and components. The implementation of such programs on the Cloud is difficult and generally carried out either by hand or perhaps by composing personalized scripts. This is extremely error prone plus it has been found that misconfiguration may be the root of huge mistakes. We introduce AutoBot, a flexible platform for modeling, installing and (re)configuring complex distributed cloud-based applications which evolve dynamically in time. AutoBot includes three modules: A simple and new model describing the configuration properties and interdependencies of components; a dynamic protocol for the deployment and configuration ensuring appropriate resolution of these interdependencies; a runtime system that guarantee the proper configuration of the program on many virtual machines and, if necessary, the reconfiguration of the deployed system. This reduces the manual application deployment process that is monotonous and prone to errors. Some validation experiments were conducted on AutoBot in order to ensure that the proposed system works as expected. We also discuss the opportunity of reusing the platform in the transition of applications from Cloud to Fog computing.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제10C권2호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2003

차별화 서비스(DiffServ)는 효율적이며 규모성을 갖는 방법으로 서비스 품질(QoS)을 제공하는 기술이다. 그러나, 현재의 차별화 서비스 규격들은 완전한 QoS 관리 프레임워크와 구현 모델의 제공에는 취약한 실정이다. 본 논문은 차별화 서비스 망의 QoS를 관리하기 위하여 차별화 서비스 정책을 지원하는 정책 기반 차별화 서비스 QoS 관리 모델을 제안한다. 이 모델을 모델-뷰-컨트롤러(MVC) 구조를 따르며, EJB(Enterprise JavaBeans) 기술에 기반을 두고 있다. 우리의 모델에서 상위 레벨 차별화 서비스 QoS 정책들은 XML 스키마를 갖는 유효한 XML 문서들로 표현되고 EJB 기반 정책 서버 내에 하위 레벨 EJB 정책 번들로 변환된다. QoS 정책을 정의하기 위해 필요한 라우팅 형상과 라우터의 역할 정보 검출은 SNMP MIB-II를 사용하고, QoS 정책 분배와 모니터링은 SNMP DiffServ MIB를 사용한다.