• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.76-81
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• 2019

This paper is a review of the certification system required for various energy prosumer business models, including P2P energy trading and participation in small demand response programs, which are based on reliable production and consumption certification. One of the most important parameter in energy trading is ensuring the reliability of trading account balancing. Therefore, we studied to use big data pattern analysis based blockchain smart contract between trading partners to make its tradings are more reliable. For this purpose big data analysis system collected from the IoT AMI and a production authentication system using a private blockchain network linked with the AMI is discussed, using the blockchain smart contract are also suggested. Futhermore, energy trading system concept and business models are introduced.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.351-356
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• 2020

With the spread of COVID-19 infections, the need for next-generation learning management system for undact education is rapidly increasing, and the Ministry of Education is planning future education through the establishment of fourth-generation NEIS. If the fourth-generation NEIS System is well utilized, there are advantages such as providing personalized education services and activating the use of educational data, but a solution to the illegal access problem in an access control environment where strict authorization is difficult due to various user rights. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based access control audit system for next-generation learning management. Sensitive personal information is encrypted and stored using the proposed system, and when the auditor performs an audit later, a secret key for decryption is issued to ensure auditing. In addition, in order to prevent modification and deletion of stored log information, log information was stored in the blockchain to ensure stability. In this paper, a hierarchical ID-based encryption and a private blockchain are used so that higher-level institutions such as the Ministry of Education can hierarchically manage the access rights of each institution.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.271-277
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• 2022

PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant) is a consensus algorithm that can achieve consensus by resolving unintentional and intentional faults in a distributed network environment and can guarantee high performance and absolute finality. However, as the size of the network increases, the network load also increases due to message broadcasting that repeatedly occurs during the consensus process. Due to the characteristics of the PBFT algorithm, it is suitable for small/private blockchain, but there is a limit to its application to large/public blockchain. Because PBFT affects the performance of blockchain networks, the industry should test whether PBFT is suitable for products and services, and academia needs a unified evaluation metric and technology for PBFT performance improvement research. In this paper, quantitative evaluation metrics and evaluation frameworks that can evaluate PBFT family consensus algorithms are studied. In addition, the throughput, latency, and fault tolerance of PBFT are evaluated using the proposed PBFT evaluation framework.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.15-25
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• 2023

This study analyzes the limitations of the insider threat datasets used for insider threat detection research and compares and analyzes the solution-based insider threat data with public insider threat data using a security solution to overcome this. Through this, we design a data format suitable for insider threat detection and implement a system that can safely share insider threat information between different institutions and companies using blockchain technology. Currently, there is no dataset collected based on actual events in the insider threat dataset that is revealed to researchers. Public datasets are virtual synthetic data randomly created for research, and when used as a learning model, there are many limitations in the real environment. In this study, to improve these limitations, a private blockchain was designed to secure information sharing between institutions of different affiliations, and a method was derived to increase reliability and maintain information integrity and consistency through agreement and verification among participants. The proposed method is expected to collect data through an outflow threat collector and collect quality data sets that posed a threat, not synthetic data, through a blockchain-based sharing system, to solve the current outflow threat dataset problem and contribute to the insider threat detection model in the future.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.895-905
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• 2018

Public opinion polls have a strong influence on modern society as a means of examining the tendency of social groups on specific issues. As the influence of the polls increases, the problem of forgery and falsification of the results becomes an important issue. So, to guarantee the reliability of the results, our society needs novel mechanisms. As one of such mechanisms, the Ethereum blockchain is an environment for developing decentralized applications with the reliable blockchain technology. Ethereum decentralized applications can utilize smart contracts to provide services for users in transparent and reliable ways. In this paper, we propose a polling method that guarantees reliability using the blockchain technology, which is a distributed ledger technique that makes forgery or falsification actually impossible. The proposed method provides a robust verification function on the results of the associated polls for individual voters and verification organizations. Also, we present a distributed opinion polling application running on our private Ethereum blockchain network, showing the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.59-67
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• 2023

Private blockchains can apply enhanced security policies that allow only authorized users to participate in the blockchain network. In addition, when used in a career management system where the validity of an individual's career is important, it has the suitable characteristics in terms of information integrity. However, due to the excessive performance requirements of blockchain technology, identifying performance characteristics through simulation can be helpful in stable operation of the system. This paper presents research results that utilized performance evaluation results while constructing a career management system based on the Ethereum blockchain. The service not only serves as a portfolio that records personal career development activities, certification acquisition, and award results, but also provides a community function for career planning to strengthen employment competitiveness. In addition, we present how a compensation policy can be executed to encourage users to participate in career development through community activities. In particular, an appropriate compensation policy was derived by reviewing changes in performance characteristics in accordance with the transaction volume on Geth nodes.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.26-36
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• 2021

The Internet was created as a decentralized and autonomous system of interconnected computer networks used for data exchange across mutually trusted participants. The element technologies on the Internet, such as inter-domain and intra-domain routing and DNS, operated in a distributed manner. With the development of the Web, the Web has become indispensable in daily life. The existing web applications allow us to form online communities, generate private information, access big data, shop online, pay bills, post photos or videos, and even order groceries. This is what has led to centralization of the Web. This centralization is now controlled by the giant social media platforms that provide it as a service, but the original Internet was not like this. These giant companies realized that the decentralized network's huge value involves gathering, organizing, and monetizing information through centralized web applications. The centralized Web applications have heralded some major issues, which will likely worsen shortly. This study focuses on these problems and investigates blockchain's potentials for decentralized web architecture capable of improving conventional web services' critical features, including autonomous, robust, and secure decentralized processing and traceable trustworthiness in tamper-proof transactions. Finally, we review the decentralized web architecture that circumvents the main Internet gatekeepers and controls our data back from the giant social media companies.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.759-764
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• 2021

Because sensitive and private information should be exchanged between electric vehicles and a V2G service provider, reliable communication channel is essential to operate Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system which considers battery of electric vehicles as a factor of smart grid. The block chain is a platform for cryptocurrency transaction and fully distributed database system running by only equivalent node in the network without help of any central management or 3^rd party. In this paper, the structure and operation method of the blockchain are investigated, and the application of the blockchain for the V2G system was also explained and analyzed.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.3003-3029
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• 2023

The rapid evolution of the IoT has paved the way for new opportunities in smart city domains, including e-health, smart homes, and precision agriculture. However, this proliferation of services demands effective SLAs between customers and service providers, especially for critical services. Difficulties arise in maintaining the integrity of such agreements, especially in vulnerable wireless environments. This study proposes a novel SLA management model that uses an SDN-Enabled WSN consisting of wireless nodes to interact with smart contracts in a straightforward manner. The proposed model ensures the persistence of network metrics and SLA provisions through smart contracts, eliminating the need for intermediaries to audit payment and compensation procedures. The reliability and verifiability of the data prevents doubts from the contracting parties. To meet the high-performance requirements of the blockchain in the proposed model, low-cost algorithms have been developed for implementing blockchain technology in wireless sensor networks with low-energy and low-capacity nodes. Furthermore, a cryptographic signature control code is generated by wireless nodes using the in-memory private key and the dynamic random key from the smart contract at runtime to prevent tampering with data transmitted over the network. This control code enables the verification of end-to-end data signatures. The efficient generation of dynamic keys at runtime is ensured by the flexible and high-performance infrastructure of the SDN architecture.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.111-116
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• 2018

Recently, IoT and Big Data dealing with voluminous and complex sensitive information is one of the key issues in the era of the 4th industrial revolution. There have been a lot of studies to store the collected and processed sensitive information safely in storage data. Especially biometric information, if it is leaked and becomes identity theft, is hard to be corrected and results in serious event. To fix the problem, methods such as FIDO or KFTC have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a modified method of TTAK.KO-12.0098 according to the environment of this paper and propose a method of safely storing the generated disposable template in a block chain. We show that our method is better by comparing the existing method and the security analysis.