• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.313-333
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• 2011

Many e-book readers have become available as e-books are in popular use these days. We first developed the evaluation criteria and elements for testing the usability of e-book readers and then examined the usability of three e-book readers. The usability testing was conducted using three e-book readers that were most popular with 15 participants that consisted of middle school students, university students, and office workers. The study found that iPad showed the best usability. In case of Amazon Kindle, participants indicated that the lack of the touch function imposed a great deal of negative impact on the usability of the interface. Also, the hardware- and software-oriented usability provided by an e-book reader was considered to be a very important element for the users, and the portability in connection with the hardware-oriented aspect of an e-book reader was shown to be of great effect to the overall usability of an e-book reader.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.67-72
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• 2014

In this paper, we proposed A Study on Construction of Infrastructure for Handicapped Parking Areas Using RFID. This paper is Construction of the Handicapped Parking Areas infrastructure Using RFID with 900MHz band, and researched the optimal position of the tag attached on the vehicle and the location of RFID reader in order to raise the efficiency of RFID reader and the recognition rate by the handicapped vehicle. The result of research is shown the optimal position of RFID reader establishment when the height of RFID reader is 170cm in height and the angle of $80^{\circ}$ with the ground when the vehicle traveling direction of the antenna and the RFID reader when the surface and the angle of $90^{\circ}$ showed the best position RFID readers installed. Parking spaces for the disabled in accordance with these results the RFID readers installed and it works in conjunction with enforcement camera car tagged crackdown on vehicles and other general management, the system is built to allow handicapped parking spaces that meet the intent of the original purpose being used as expected to contribute significantly.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.752-760
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• 2010

This paper investigates the performance of EPCglobal Generation-2(Gen-2) radio frequency identification(RFID) protocol under reader-to-reader interfering environments. We establish a modified discrete-time Markov chain(DTMC) model for the Gen-2 and accordingly obtain quantitative results of query success rate(QSR) and tag identification speed (TIS). Extensive simulations validate our theoretical analysis and demonstrate that the number of tags over 100 has little impact on the performance. TIS linearly decreases by 10 tags/sec/reader as the number of interfering readers increases. Our model for Gen-2 protocol is also useful to study the performance of other RFID protocols.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.109-117
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• 2010

Recently, study on RFID Tag Searching technique which is used to find a specific tag in particular tag group were developed continuously. RFID tag searching technique can be applicate in various fields such as product management, finding children, and electronic anklet. To implement a RFID tag search system, RFID tag searching protocol should be considered various security threats such as reader and tag tracking, privacy, etc. For implementing a safe RFID tag lookup system, it is important to consider the potential security threats such as the tag tracking problem, and the privacy of the owner of the tag reader problem. There exists an RFID tag lookup system that satisfies a few security requirements, but the privacy of the owner of the tag reader problem has still been left unsolved, and even if it were solved, it requires a considerable amount of cryptographic operations to be performed which results in a decrease in performance. This paper proposes a system that does not degrade the performance while solving the privacy of the owner of the tag reader problem.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.127-129
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• 2005

일방향 해시 함수의 역함수 계산 어려움에 기반한 Hash Lock에 PKI방법을 적용하여 MetaID를 비밀키로써 사용한다. Reader는 미리 등록된 공개키(meta ID를 이용하여 생성된)로 Tag를 인증하고 meta ID로 각 Tag의 유일한 키(k)를 생성하며 이에 해당하는 mela ID = H(k)를 가지고 있다. 이 때 H()는 해쉬함수 이다. Tag는 자신의 비밀키를 이용하여 생성된 meta ID를 Reader에 보내고 Reader는 해당되는 키(k)를 만들어내고 Tag에 보낸다. 이때 Tag는 Reader로부터 보내어진 키(k)를 해쉬값과 자신의 meta ID를 비교하여, 그 값이 동일하면 자신의 ID를 전송한다. 이는 해쉬함수와 PKI만을 사용하므로 효율적이고 저비용으로 구현 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.231-234
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• 2005

In this paper, Dual-polarized Tx/Rx antenna for RFID reader is designed and fabricated to apply to RFID reader. Each feeding network of Tx/Rx is designed to improve the port-isolation and cross-polarization, and sequential rotation feeding scheme has been applied to increase of axial ratio bandwidth. Measured results show that 2.35dBi of antenna gain in 900MHz$\sim$928MHz, 150MHz of 3dB axial ratio bandwidth, -38dB$\sim$-40dB of port-isolation, and -30dB$\sim$-40dB of cross-polarization.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.79-85
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• 2010

In this paper, a directive antenna design with a combination of electric-magnetic radiators for an radio frequency identification(RFID) system is presented. To generate a directive antenna radiation pattern, a structure combining a dipole and loop antenna is presented. A reader antenna and tag antenna are proposed for the RFID system. For the reader antenna, the frequency bandwidth defined by $S_{11}$<-10 dB is approximately from 820~990 MHz. The forward and backward gain differences are 1.5~2 dBi. For the tag antenna, the frequency bandwidth is approximately from 860~920 MHz with a maximum gain of 3.58 dBi at 910 MHz. In both cases, directive radiation characteristics are observed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.239-245
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• 2007

차세대 유비쿼터스 환경에서 중요한 기술적, 산업적 위치를 차지하는 RFID 네트워크에는 다수의 RFID 리더(Reader)와 수많은 RFID 태그(Tag)들이 통신을 하면서 존재하게 된다. 이러한 RFID 네트워크에서 리더와 태그간의 원활한 통신을 위해서는 주파수 충돌이 발생하지 않아야 한다. 주파수 충돌 현상은 리더와 다수의 태그들 간의 태그 충돌(Tag Collision)과 리더간 주파수 간섭으로 인한 리더간 충돌(Reader Collision)로 나뉘어 질 수 있다. 따라서 리더간 충돌 현상을 피하기 위해서는 근접한 리더들 간에 서로 다른 타임슬롯(Timeslot)을 사용하여 태그와 통신을 시도하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 RFID 네트워크에서 다수의 리더간 충돌을 최소화하며 안전한 태그 인식을 할 수 있도록 타임 슬롯 할당 문제를 CSP(Constraint Satisfaction Problem)로 접근한다. 그리고 CSP를 풀기 위해 리더간 충돌 문제가 가지고 있는 제약조건을 찾아내고 해를 찾기 위한 목적함수를 모델링 한다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.415-418
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• 2007

This paper presents the design and analysis of LNA-Mixer for 2.45GHz RFID reader. The LNA is implemented by PCSNIM method for low power consumption. The Mixer is implemented by using the Gilbert-type configuration, current bleeding technique, and the resonating technique for the tail capacitance. The connection between the two designed circuits is made by active balun. This LNA-Mixer has about 35dB for -40dBm input RF power, LO power is 0dBm and RF frequency is 2.45 GHz and IIP3 is -4dBm. The layout of LNA-Mixer for one-chip design in a $0.18-{\mu}m$ TSMC process has 2.6mm ${\times}$ 1.3mm size.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.423-426
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• 2007

An active Balun is designed for RFID reader at 2.45GHz. The Balun is integrated inside the receiver, then the LNA and mixer can be connected. The unbalanced LNA output signal is transformed to a balanced signal at the input mixer The RF mixer and LO mixer, by using this balun. The Balun provided a balanced signal with two output stage, gain mismatch is 0.116dB. The phase show a good behavior with $163.918^{\circ}$,$-16.609^{\circ}$. The phase mismatch is about $0.527^{\circ}$. The tight difference between the gain and phase on each brancd, is because of the used capacitor and integrated inductor and the other parasitic element inside the balun.