• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.321-344
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• 2017

Smart homes are the new generation of homes where pervasive computing is employed to make the lives of the residents more convenient. Human activity recognition (HAR) is a fundamental task in these environments. Since critical decisions will be made based on HAR results, accurate recognition of human activities with low uncertainty is of crucial importance. In this paper, a novel HAR method based on a difference of convex programming (DCP) problem is represented, which manages to handle uncertainty. For this purpose, given an input sensor data stream, a primary belief in each activity is calculated for the sensor events. Since the primary beliefs are calculated based on some abstractions, they naturally bear an amount of uncertainty. To mitigate the effect of the uncertainty, a DCP problem is defined and solved to yield secondary beliefs. In this procedure, the uncertainty stemming from a sensor event is alleviated by its neighboring sensor events in the input stream. The final activity inference is based on the secondary beliefs. The proposed method is evaluated using a well-known and publicly available dataset. It is compared to four HAR schemes, which are based on temporal probabilistic graphical models, and a convex optimization-based HAR procedure, as benchmarks. The proposed method outperforms the benchmarks, having an acceptable accuracy of 82.61%, and an average F-measure of 82.3%.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.115-129
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• 2007

유비쿼터스 및 자동화된 컴퓨팅 환경은 개방적이고 동적이어야 하며, 끊김 없는(seamless)소프트웨어와 시스템 구조의 연동을 통한 일반적인 무선 접근으로 사용자에게 다가가는 퍼베이시브 서비스를 제공해야한다. 하지만 다양한 네트워크에서 모든 이동 기기들 간에 미리 정의된 보안 인증을 포함한 로밍 서비스를 제동하기는 매우 복잡하고 어렵다. 더욱이 퍼베이시브서비스 환경에서 끊김 없는 통신 서비스를 제공하기 위해, 다양한 무선 사업자간에 로밍 협정을 세팅하거나 스마트카드 기반의 효율적인 사용자 프로파일 모델링 연구나 다양한 종류의 사용자 인터페이스를 이용하여 자동화된 사용자 인증 시스템을 위한 보안 방안에 관한 연구는 많지 않다. 사용자에게 다가가는 네트워크 도메인 간의 퍼베이시브 보안 서비스를 포함한 상호 로밍이 가능한 로밍 코디네이터 기반의 보안 관리 프레임워크를 제안한다. USIM(Universal Subscriber Identity Module Card)을 이용한 상용 이동 통신은 하나의 서비스 도메인에서만 가능하지만 본 논문에서 제안한 로밍 코디네이터(Roaming Coordinator)는 PWLAN(Public Wireless Local Area Network)이나 3G 이동통신 그리고 WMAN(Wireless Metropolitan Area Network) 등의 다른 네트워크 도메인에서의 보안 서비스를 보다 안전하고 쉽게 제공할 수 있다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2009

편재형 컴퓨팅 환경은 다양한 컴퓨팅 장비의 접속만큼이나 그 응용분야도 다양하다. 이러한 컴퓨팅환경에서 XML은 최적의 데이터 표현이다. W3C 표준인 XML은 XSLT를 이용하여 다른 응용분야에 적절한 데이터 변환이 가능하다. 그러나 XML은 텍스트 기반으로 이진데이터 저장방식에 비해 파일의 크기가 커서 컴퓨팅 파워가 적은 편재형 컴퓨팅 환경에서는 다루기가 어렵다는 단점을 갖고 있다. 본 논문에서는 XML문서의 인코딩 방법에 대하여 살펴보고 자원을 적게 사용하는 편재형 컴퓨팅 환경에서 인코딩 된 EXI 포맷의 XML문서가 다른 응용의 적합한 EXI 포맷 XML 문서으로의 변환방법을 제안한다. 다양한 응용환경 중에서 본 논문에서는 EXI 포맷의 XHTML 문서를 EXI 포맷 VoiceXML로 변환하는 시스템을 제시한다. 이 시스템은 자원이 적은 편재형 컴퓨팅 환경에서 EXI 포맷 XML 문서의 재사용성을 높이고 EXI 포맷의 XML활용에 기여할 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.177-178
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• 2006

The real-time tracking system is an essential factor for the development of low cost sensor networks for use in pervasive computing and ubiquitous networking. In this paper, we address the interference problems of the sensor network platform with ultrasonic for location tracking system. Ubiquitous indoor environments often contain substantial amounts of metal and other such reflective materials that affect the propagation of radio frequency signals in non-trivial ways, causing severe multi-path effects, dead-spots, noise, and interference. Especially we present a novel reducing interference location system that is particularly well suited to support context-aware computing. The system called Pharos, aims to combine the advantages of real-time tracking systems that implement distributed environment with regardless of infrastructure or infrastructure-less wireless sensor networks.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.489-496
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• 2007

As pervasive computing is widely adopted and reliable networks are becoming more easily accessible, there is a rapidly growing need to develop a mechanism to analyze and evaluate the performance of ubiquitous environments. This paper presents an information processing model which characterizes a ubiquitous environment where a variety of pieces of information need to be exchanged among devices within a system. The proposed model not only provides analytical tools to evaluate the performance of devices, but also makes it possible to identify key factors in designing a ubiquitous environment. For illustrative purposes, a test bed is constructed and the performance of the system is assessed based on the proposed model.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.241-255
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• 2015

Recent network environment has been rapidly evolved to cloud computing environment based on the development of the Internet technologies. Furthermore there is an increasing demand on mobile cloud computing due to explosive growth of smart devices and wide deployment of LTE-based cellular networks. Thus mobile Desktop-as-a-Service(DaaS) could be a pervasive service for nomadic users. In addition, video streaming traffic is currently more than two-thirds of mobile traffic and ever increasing. All such trends enable that video streaming in mobile DaaS could be an important concern for mobile cloud computing. It should be noted that the performance of the Transmission Control Protocol(TCP) on cloud host servers greatly affects Quality of Service(QoS) of video streams for mobile users. With widely deployed Linux server platforms for cloud computing, in this paper, we conduct an experimental analysis of the twelve Linux TCP variants in mobile DaaS environments. The results of our experiments show that the TCP Illinois outperforms the other TCP variants in terms of wide range of packet loss rate and propagation delay over LTE-based wireless links between cloud servers and mobile devices, even though TCP CUBIC is usually used in default in the current Linux systems.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.153-162
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• 2015

In today's pervasive computing environments, multimedia content should be adapted to meet various conditions of network connections, terminals, and user characteristics. Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is a key solution for video communication over heterogeneous networks, where user terminals have different capabilities. This paper presents a standard-compliant approach that adapts an SVC bitstream to support multiple users. The adaptation problem is formulated as an optimization problem, focusing on the tradeoff between qualities of different spatial layers of an SVC video. Then the adaptation process is represented by standard metadata of MPEG-21, which can be solved by universal processing to enable interoperable and automatic operation. Our approach provides the users with optimal quality, a wide flexibility, and seamless adaptation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that shows the adaptation tradeoff between spatial layers of a conforming SVC bitstream.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.794-814
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• 2012

We propose a novel method for improving Wi-Fi positioning accuracy while reducing the energy consumption of mobile devices. Our method presents three contributions. First, we jointly and intelligently select the optimal subset of access points for positioning via maximum mutual information criterion. Second, we further propose local discriminant embedding algorithm for nonlinear discriminative feature extraction, a process that cannot be effectively handled by existing linear techniques. Third, to reduce complexity and make input signal space more compact, we incorporate clustering analysis to localize the positioning model. Experiments in realistic environments demonstrate that the proposed method can lower energy consumption while achieving higher accuracy compared with previous methods. The improvement can be attributed to the capability of our method to extract the most discriminative features for positioning as well as require smaller computation cost and shorter sensing time.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.29 No.2 (3)
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• pp.652-654
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• 2002

이동 에이전트란 컴퓨터 네트워크 상에서 사용자를 대신하여 특정 작업을 수행하는 프로그램이 독자적으로 여러 노드들을 이동하면서 필요한 작업을 수행하고 그 결과를 사용자에게 전달하도록 작성된 프로그램을 말하며, 이런 이동 에이전트를 수행할 수 있도록 컴퓨팅 환경을 제공하는 것을 이동 에이전트 컴퓨팅 환경이라고 한다. 본 연구에서는 이동 에이전트 운영에 필요한 모든 기능을 제공하는 풀버젼의 이동 에이전트 플랫픔과 이동 에이전트 운영의 최소 기능만을 가지고 휴대용 기기나 홈 네트워크를 구성하는 디지털 가전 기기에 장착될 수 있는 경량 이동 에이전트 플랫폼을 설계하고 그 결과를 보인다. 이 두 버전의 상호 언동을 통해 홈 네트워크 기기들의 임베디드 소프트웨어를 이동 에이전트로 대체 가능하도록 설계하였다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2016

Pervasive computing and Internet of Things (IoT) have recently received considerable interest to deploy solutions for the future Internet. Smart environments are integrated with Semantic Web to provide context-awareness to the processed information. Self-learning techniques have been adopted within smart solutions for efficient retrieval of data but do not process data with privacy parameters for in-place authorization. To overcome this issue, we present a novel approach of deploying access control as a service mechanism within Semantic Web based smart environment by using eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). The proposed XACML as a Service (XACMLaaS) approach offers fine-grained access control for protecting information within smart environment. In this paper, we have defined mathematical rules for each components of proposed access control service layer. These rules are for implementation of access control using XACML. The proposed approach allows the adaptation of authorization of information at component level and provides scalable solution for authorization policies and rule enforcement within smart environment.