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An Energy-Efficient Mobility-Supporting MAC Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Peng, Fei;Cui, Meng
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.203-209
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    • 2015
  • Although mobile applications are an essential characteristic of wireless sensor networks, most existing media access control (MAC) protocols focus primarily on static networks. In these protocols, fixed periodic neighbor discovery and schedule updating are used to connect and synchronize neighbors to provide successful data transmission; however, they cannot adapt to mobile speed variation and degrade the network performance dramatically. In this paper, we propose a mobile-supporting mechanism for MAC protocols, in which the decision to update the neighbors of a mobile node is made adaptively according to the mobile speed. Analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the mechanism efficiently avoids the disconnection of amobile node from its neighbors and achieves a better performance as compared with fixed periodic neighbor discovery.

Control of mobile robot system with wireless transmission of image information.

  • Jeong, Sang-Hoon;Kwak, Jae-Hyuk;Lim, Joon-Hong
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.908-911
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    • 2004
  • There are various researches on mobile robot systems. Connection method between server and client of mobile robot system is one of them. In the case of mobile robot system, when connection method between server and client is wireless than wire, applications may be expanded. Also in remote monitoring environment using mobile robot system, we are interested in an effective transmission of the image information between server and client. In this paper, Bluetooth is used for connection method between server and client. One of the major applications of Bluetooth is the cable replacement for mobile and peripheral devices. Using Bluetooth, we propose the control method of mobile robot system. Bluetooth offers fast and reliable transmissions of both voice and data over the globally available 2.4GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band. It has the advantage of small size, low power and low cost. It has the disadvantage of limited range and limited bandwidth. Also in order to transfer effectively image information between remote site(server) and mobile robot system(client) using Bluetooth, we applied to MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 image compression techniques and the results are compared with each other.

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Accuracy and reliability evaluation of basic CPR application information developed in Korean (국문으로 개발된 기본심폐소생술 애플리케이션 정보의 정확성과 신뢰성 평가)

  • Jung, Eun-Kyung;Kang, Ji-Hun
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: This dissertation is a descriptive research study analyzing the accuracy and reliability of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) application developed in Korea. Methods: Two faculty members from the emergency medical services department and the emergency medicine department searched applications from July 1 to July 10, 2019 and selected a total of 13 applications. Twelve questions were assessed for information accuracy and three were assessed for reliability. In accordance with application types, the number and mean ± standard deviation were analyzed. The t-test was used to compare the accuracy of CPR information in accordance with information sources. Results: The results revealed the following errors: 7 cases (53.8%) identified the chest center lining from the nipple center-line as the chest pressure point; 5 cases (38.5%) did not provide information on the depth of 6 cm that should not be exceeded; and 4 cases (30.8%) did not provide advise to check respiration. When the CPR information sources were included, the information accuracy score was high; a significant difference was observed (p=.035). Conclusion: In the case of applications providing medical information regarding CPR, it is necessary to provide at least authoritarian, sources of information, and author transparency as well as continuous effort and attention.

A Novel Architecture for Mobile Crowd and Cloud computing for Health care

  • kumar, Rethina;Ganapathy, Gopinath;Kang, Jeong-Jin
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.226-232
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    • 2018
  • The rapid pace of growth in internet usage and rich mobile applications and with the advantage of incredible usage of internet enabled mobile devices the Green Mobile Crowd Computing will be the suitable area to research combining with cloud services architecture. Our proposed Framework will deploy the eHealth among various health care sectors and pave a way to create a Green Mobile Application to provide a better and secured way to access the Products/ Information/ Knowledge, eHealth services, experts / doctors globally. This green mobile crowd computing and cloud architecture for healthcare information systems are expected to lower costs, improve efficiency and reduce error by also providing better consumer care and service with great transparency to the patient universally in the field of medical health information technology. Here we introduced novel architecture to use of cloud services with crowd sourcing.

Introduction to the New Version of PWS Application and It's Use in Medical Practice

  • Kim, Jinsup;Yang, Aram;Cho, Sung Yoon;Jin, Dong-Kyu
    • Journal of mucopolysaccharidosis and rare diseases
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.41-42
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    • 2016
  • Today's mobile phones and tablet PCs offer a considerably wider range of functionalities than before. Mobile applications (apps) are increasingly used for managing various daily health tasks. Currently, more than 165,000 health-related apps are offered on all the stores of different platforms. Pf Jin and the Association for Research on MPS and Rare Diseases (AMARD) have helped Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) families through medical information and family support since 2015. AMARD developed the first mobile application for Korean patients with PWS, which was released to a limited number of patients under the age of 3 and only provided to Android users. The first version of the PWS application focused on growth hormone therapy and the assessment of growth and development by parents in infant and early-childhood PWS patients. The 2016 version of the PWS application has been improved in many different ways. We have expanded the subjects of the application to late childhood and adolescent groups, changed the user interface accordingly, and made the application available for iOS users. We will show the specialized growth curves of older children with PWS. Therefore, patients with PWS over the age of 3 and their parents can assess the patients' growth. Additionally, we have upgraded the growth hormone therapy menu by improving the input system for the growth hormone therapy injection schedule and the daily growth profile (height and weight). We expect that the new version of the PWS application will help many PWS families cope with growth hormone therapy and evaluate the effects of growth hormones in better ways. Additionally, we are making a constant effort to provide more useful information about patients with PWS in many aspects.

Development of a Mobile Ultrasound Scanner for Point-of-care Applications (현장 진단 응용을 위한 모바일 초음파 스캐너 개발)

  • Cho, Jeong;Sohn, Hak-Yeol;Kim, Gi-Duck;Song, J.H.;Song, Tai-Kyong
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.66-78
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    • 2009
  • A mobile ultrasound scanner developed for use in point-of-care applications is introduced, which can not only provide ultrasound images but can also measure various bio-signals. The mobile ultrasound scanner is also designed to meet the demanding requirements for point-of-care diagnosis, such as battery-powered operation, portability in terms of size and weigh, and real-time wireless communications capability for remote diagnosis. To meet these requirements, an efficient beamforming method for high resolution imaging with a small number of active elements, a hardware efficient beamformer architecture, and echo processing algorithms with greatly reduced computational complexity have been developed. Experimental results show that the prototype mobile ultrasound scanner is fully functional and satisfies most of the design requirements.

The Effect of Benefits of Mobile Application Use-Diffusion and Purchase Intention in Service Management (서비스경영에 있어 모바일 애플리케이션의 편익이 사용-확산과 이용의도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Yim, Ki-Heung;Kwon, Jin-Hee;Quan, Zhi-xuan
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 2016
  • One of the biggest recent issues in the communication market is the explosive distribution of smartphones. One of the reasons why a smartphone could have seen this rapid distribution in terms of the service management is because it enables the access to the Internet without getting restricted by place and time through customization by a user, unlike a feature phone which only has the existing functions mounted on that were already chosen by a suppler. The other reason is because of its applications. This study aimed to make an empirical investigation of the impact of each of the different convenience types of mobile applications on the usage and the use diversity, consider the process of use diffusion, and find out whether there is a difference in the effect of each convenience type on the use-diffusion. According to the findings of this study, it was firstly shown that the effect of each convenience type on the use-diffusion is different, and secondly, it appeared that the more various functions of the mobile applications are used, the more usage increases.

Developing a Mobile Application for Asthma Management and User Test (천식관리 모바일 앱의 개발과 사용자 테스트)

  • Jeong, Yoonkwon;Park, Chan-Sun;Park, Jongha;Kim, Hee-Cheol;Jung, Euitay
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.94-103
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    • 2014
  • Asthma is a chronical disease which could be controled by constant management and the patients may lead their daily lives if they are properly supervised. South Korea is one of the most wired nations, and its penetration rate of smart phones will exceed 80% of entire population this year, so managing asthma and communicating with medical staffs with mobile applications, will be very reasonable solution. In this study, medical staffs, developers and UI/UX experts co-worked developed an Android-based application for asthma management. To tell the effectiveness and availability, we made asthma sufferers use this mobile application for more than six months. After six months we surveyed and interviewed the patients. We could find merits and demerits of the applications and we finally suggested new guidelines for version 2.0.

Design and Development of Health Screening Data Input Mobile Application Using App-Inventor (앱인벤터를 이용한 건강검진 데이터 입력 모바일 애플리케이션 설계 및 개발)

  • Lee, Hyo-Seung;Oh, Jae-Chul
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.193-198
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    • 2018
  • These days, computer system has been introduced for work in most areas, including manufacturing, medical service, education, logistics, and other services. To increase work efficiency, mobile system has been more applied. However, on the basis of Android applications, it is hard for laypersons who have no enough knowledge of Android, or computer team members in general firms to develop mobile App. As a result, work efficiency comes to low. Therefore, this study designed and developed the mobile application for anthropometry data input of medical checkup with the use of App Inventor. As shown in the designed and developed mobile application, it is expected to develop a work process mobile App, it is expected to develop a work process mobile App easily and quickly with the use of App Inventor and to increase work efficiency even though there is not much knowledge of mobile application development.

Implementation of Dynamic Situation Authentication System for Accessing Medical Information (의료정보 접근을 위한 동적상황인증시스템의 구현)

  • Ham, Gyu-Sung;Seo, Own-jeong;Jung, Hoill;Joo, Su-Chong
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2018
  • With the development of IT technology recently, medical information systems are being constructed in an integrated u-health environment through cloud services, IoT technologies, and mobile applications. These kinds of medical information systems should provide the medical staff with authorities to access patients' medical information for emergency status treatments or therapeutic purposes. Therefore, in the medical information systems, the reliable and prompt authentication processes are necessary to access the biometric information and the medical information of the patients in charge of the medical staff. However, medical information systems are accessing with simple and static user authentication mechanism using only medical ID / PWD in the present system environment. For this reason, in this paper, we suggest a dynamic situation authentication mechanism that provides transparency of medical information access including various authentication factors considering patient's emergency status condition and dynamic situation authentication system supporting it. Our dynamic Situation Authentication is a combination of user authentication and mobile device authentication, which includes various authentication factor attributes such as emergency status, role of medical staff, their working hours, and their working positions and so forth. We designed and implemented a dynamic situation authentication system including emergency status decision, dynamic situation authentication, and authentication support DB construction. Finally, in order to verify the serviceability of the suggested dynamic situation authentication system, the medical staffs download the mobile application from the medical information server to the medical staff's own mobile device together with the dynamic situation authentication process and the permission to access medical information to the patient and showed access to medical information.