• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.1
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• pp.89-98
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• 2010

In current digital broadcasting systems, GEM(Globally Executable MHP)-based middlewares such as MHP(Multimedia Home Platform), OCAP(OpenCable Application Platform), ACAP(Advanced Common Application Platform) are the norm. Despite much of the common characteristics shared, such as MPEG-2 and DSM-CC(Digital Storage Media-Command and Control) protocols, the information and data structures they need are slightly different, which results in incompatibility issues. In this paper, in line with an effort to develop an integrated DTV middleware, we propose a general-purpose, reconfigurable DSM-CC architecture for supporting various standard GEM-based middlewares without code modifications. First, we identify DSM-CC components that are common and thus can be shared by all GEM-based middlewares. Next, the system is provided with middleware-specific information and data structures in the form of XML. Since the XML information can be parsed dynamically at run time, it can be interchanged either statically or dynamically for a specific target middleware. As for the performance issues, the response time and usage frequency of DSM-CC module highly contribute to the performance of STB(Set-Top-Box). In this paper, we also propose an efficient application cache management strategy and evaluate its performance. The performance result has shown that the cache strategy reflecting user preferences greatly helps to reduce response time for executing application.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.353-364
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• 2011

In ubiquitous computing environments, users want to receive the robot services regardless of various physical status or devices such as time, place, various sensors, and high-performance servers. Thus, the ubiquitous service robots have to provide users with automated services according to situational information that they properly recognize. Beyond these problems, robot software has to establish a foundation to support the functions with the network infrastructure that are not able to be solved by a single independent resource. On the basis of a robot middleware that is capable of minimizing dependencies among hierarchy structures, the robot software also has to provide execution environment to control the flow of robot application services. In this paper, we propose a layered architecture to provide users with automated services through ubiquitous robots. The proposed architecture is based on CAWL (Context-Aware Workflow Language) and RSEL (Robot Services Execution Language). CAWL easily represents the flow of robot services from user application service levels, and RSEL is able to support the composition and reusability of robot services through abstraction of robot device services. In our experiments, we applied the proposed architecture to an example of "booth guide robot service".

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.279-288
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• 2010

In this paper, a DEVS(Discrete EVent Systems Specification)-HLA(High Level Architecture) interface was developed in order to perform the simulation using the combined discrete event and discrete time simulation model architecture in a distributed environment. The developed interface connects the combined simulation model with the HLA/RTI(Run-Time Infrastructure) which is an international standard middleware for distributed simulation. The interface consists of an interface model, a model interpreter, and a distributed environment interpreter. The interface model was defined by using the combined simulation architecture in order to easily connect the existing combined simulation model without modification with the HLA/RTI. The model interpreter takes charge of data transmission between the interface model and the combined simulation model. The distributed environment interpreter takes charge of data transmission between the interface model and the HLA/RTI. To evaluate the applicability of the developed interface, it was applied to the diving simulation of a submarine in a distributed environment. The result shows that a simulation result in a distributed environment using the interface is the same to the result in a single computing environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.436-438
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• 2003

상황인식은 사용자에 적응된 컴퓨팅 환경 및 서비스를 가능하게 한다. 상황인식이 추가된 홈 환경은 인간의 주거생활의 편리성을 향상시킨다. 상황인식을 지원하는 스마트 홈 환경은 상황데이터의 수집, 가공, 처리, 저장등의 기본적인 요구 뿐만 아니라 보안. 상황추론, 능동결정 등 복잡한 요구사항을 가진다. 그러므로, 홈 환경이 이러한 요구사항들을 지원하기 위해서는 특별한 미들웨어 구조가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 홈 환경에서 상황인식 서비스를 지원하기 위한 능동 미들웨어 구조를 제안한다. 그리고 제안된 미들웨어를 적용한 시나리오를 설명한다.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.25-33
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• 2004

Open Services Gateway Initiative(OSGi)는 WAN에서 로컬 네트워크와 장치에 다양한 서비스를 적용하는 것이 가능하도록 하는 기본 구조를 만들고자 많은 기업들이 참여하여 활동하는 컨소시엄이다. 본 고에서는 OSGi에서 제시하는 시스템 구조를 살펴보고 이를 유비쿼터스 컴퓨터에 접목하기 위해 고려되는 사항과 다양한 환경에서 적용되기 위한 시스템 구조에 대하여 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.745-747
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• 2003

다양한 바이오 정보 데이터베이스와 분석 도구들을 효율적으로 검색하고, 개별 데이터베이스에서는 얻을 수 없는 새로운 지식을 생성하기 위해서는 통합된 형태의 정보 검색 시스템이 필수적으로 요청된다. 여기서 우리는 바이오 정보 시스템 통합을 어렵게 하는 요소들을 살펴보고, 다중 질의 수행과 확장성 등을 기준으로, 현재 서비스되고 있는 바이오 정보 통합 시스템들의 특성을 분석 비교하였다. 또한 이를 기반으로 바이오 정보 통합 시스템의 구조를 제시하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.14A no.6
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• pp.371-382
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• 2007

Modern server systems are usually composed in the form of cluster systems in order to serve not only as many users but also as many kinds of applications as possible. The progression of the cluster system architecture leads in a middleware approach based on the Java framework. The middleware approach alleviates the efforts for the construction and the management of a server system but still preserves its performance and applications on the server. In this research, we introduce a new clustering scheme for the easy construction and maintenance of a cluster server system with the Java Management Extensions. We first demonstrate the construction and configuration process. Our experiment sets can verify that it is easy to construct, expand and manage a middleware based cluster system as well as the applications which reside on it. In addition, we can achieve reasonable performance on our service oriented clustered system with the help of state-of-the-art middleware. The experimental results of performance demonstration contain the availability of a server, and the effectiveness of load balancing and scheduling mechanisms. Especially, our service oriented scheduling mechanism was shown to successfully manage load imbalance under the normal load and cope with the overloaded situations, compared with other known scheduling mechanisms.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.260-269
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• 2003

The traditional distributed object middleware platform is not suitable for the transmission of stream data, because RPC(Remote Procedure Call)-based message transmission have a great overhead. Therefore, the OMG(Object Management Group) proposes the AV(Audio and Video) stream reference model for streaming on the distributed object middleware platform. But, this reference model has not a detail of implementation. Particularly it also has not congestion control scheme for improvement of network efficiency on the real network environment. It is a very important and difficult technical issue to provide the stream transmission platform with advanced congestion control scheme. In this paper, we propose an architecture of a distributed stream transport platform and deal with the design and implementation concept of our proposed platform. Also, we present a mechanism to improve streaming utilization by SRTP(Smart RTP). SRTP is our proposed TCP-Friendly scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1106-1118
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• 2006

The Internet has become an important instrument for providing many pieces of information to us. And server systems offer the various services after processing a volume of information, it's network topology also has been complex for providing information. Therefore this expansion means the importance of fast and sustained management of server systems. But most of server systems are located in fire-walls to allow only restricted access. Moreover, due to the difference of management based on the different operating system of each server system, management of server system is not to efficiency. That is, sever administrators have to manage by themselves many kinds of servers by using local-based or socket-based single access applications. Therefore, we design and implement a middleware system which allows to manage many kinds of severs integrally ruling XML-based Web Services which have distributed object technology such as CORBA, Java RMI and DCOM, but are free from platforms or development languages. System also provides location transparency and terminal independence and calls a server system management command to manage systems.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.53-59
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• 2009

Simulation Based Acquisition(SBA) which pursues to use M&S in manner of integrated collaboration is being applied in defense acquisition. To accomplish SBA efficiently, reusability, reconfiguration and scalability of M&S components are important factors. To avoid constraints caused by coupling of components, PBA is designed to add and configure components easily by enabling independent interface and interaction among the components and provides common development infrastructure also. And PBA framework is implemented to support the development of a simulator which uses the PBA. It is expected that deployment of PBA framework as common development infrastructure can raise efficiency of M&S works.