• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4643-4660
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• 2014

Integrity authentication of biometric data in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a critical issue because the sensitive data transmitted over broadcast wireless channels could be attacked easily. However, traditional cryptograph-based integrity authentication schemes are not suitable for WBAN as they consume much computational resource on the sensor nodes with limited memory, computational capability and power. To address this problem, a novel lightweight integrity authentication scheme based on reversible watermark is proposed for WBAN and implemented on a TinyOS-based WBAN test bed in this paper. In the proposed scheme, the data is divided into groups with a fixed size to improve grouping efficiency; the histogram shifting technique is adopted to avoid possible underflow or overflow; local maps are generated to restore the shifted data; and the watermarks are generated and embedded in a chaining way for integrity authentication. Our analytic and experimental results demonstrate that the integrity of biometric data can be reliably authenticated with low cost, and the data can be entirely recovered for healthcare applications by using our proposed scheme.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.676-688
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• 2014

The IEEE 802.11e EDCA (Enhanced Distributed Channel Access) mechanism has been proposed to improve the QoS (Quality of Service) of various services in WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks). By differentiating the channel access delay depending on ACs (Access Categories), this mechanism can provide the relative service differentiation among ACs. In this paper, we consider that WLAN is deployed in medical environments to transfer medical traffic and we reveal that the quality of the medical traffic (in particular, ECG signals) is significantly deteriorated even with the service differentiation by IEEE 802.11e EDCA. Also, we analyze the reason for performance degradation and show that IEEE 802.11e EDCA has difficulty in protecting the transmission opportunity of high-priority traffic against low-priority traffic. In order to assure medical-grade QoS, we firstly define the service priority of medical traffic based on their characteristics and requirements, and then we propose the enhanced channel access scheme, referred to as DIFF-CW. The proposed scheme differentiates CW (Contention Window) depending on the service priority and modifies the channel access procedure for low-priority traffic. The simulation results confirm that the DIFF-CW scheme not only assures the QoS of medical traffic but also improves the overall channel utilization.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.1267-1285
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• 2012

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) deal with variety of healthcare services with diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. However, QoS handling is a challenging problem in such networks. In general, QoS related problems can be addressed from different layers in the networking protocol suite. Design of an efficient QoS aware Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol can address this problem in MAC layer. This paper analyzes the QoS requirements of WBAN, identifies the requisites of QoS handling system, and outlines the trends that are being followed for its advancement with focus on QoS issues at MAC layer. We review some prior works, compare them, and analyze the current research concerned with problem of providing QoS in WBAN. We also explore some open issues and discuss them.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.216-222
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• 2010

삶의 질을 높이기 위하여 무선 애드혹망 기술은 컴퓨터과학과 건강관리 응용산업에서 가장 중요한 분야의 하나로 알려져 있다. 유비쿼터스 건강시스템은 또한 실시간으로 비상상태의 경고기능을 제공해준다. 이러한 기능은 봉사자들의 수를 줄여줄 뿐 아니라 만성적인 병자와 노인들을 살아갈 수 있도록 돕는다. 시스템의 응용을 위하여 효과적이며 적절한 네트워크 시스템은 필수적이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 환자 노드가 지속적으로 뇌파를 측정하여 병원에 위치한 서버로 전송하는 다양한 네트워크 환경을 제안한다. 그리고, 이동노드들의 다양한 이동성과 토폴로지로 구성된 네트워크 시스템들을 옵넷 시뮬레이터로 시뮬레이션을 하고 평가할 것이다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.817-837
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• 2019

The medical industry is rapidly evolving into a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and ICT technology, such as mobile health, wireless medical, telemedicine and precision medical care. Medical artificial intelligence can be diagnosed and treated, and autonomous surgical robots can be operated. For smart medical services, data such as medical information and personal medical information are needed. AI is being developed to integrate with companies such as Google, Facebook, IBM and others in the health care field. Telemedicine services are also becoming available. However, security issues of medical information for smart medical industry are becoming important. It can have a devastating impact on life through hacking of medical devices through vulnerable areas. Research on medical information is proceeding on the necessity of privacy and privacy protection. However, there is a lack of research on the practical measures for protecting medical information and the seriousness of security threats. Therefore, in this study, we want to confirm the research trend by collecting data related to medical information in recent 5 years. In this study, smart medical related papers from 2014 to 2018 were collected using smart medical topics, and the medical information papers were rearranged based on this. Research trend analysis uses topic modeling technique for topic information. The result constructs topic network based on relation of topics and grasps main trend through topic.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.584-588
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• 2019

WBAN (wireless body area network)은 비정상적인 건강 상태, 실시간 의료 모니터링, 원격 의료 지원 시스템을 조기에 탐지할 수 있는 네트워킹 기술이다. 최근에 이슈가 되고 있는 건강 관리를 위한 사물 인터넷 (IoT; internet of things)은 인간의 삶의 질을 향상시키는 데 가장 유망한 분야 중에 하나이다. 이것은 다른 통신 시스템과 마찬가지로 의료 통신 시스템의 높은 QoS (quality of service)요구사항을 만족해야 한다. 따라서 WBAN 통신 시스템의 QoS 요구 사항을 수용하기 위해 오류율 (BER; bit error rate) 임계 값을 선택하였다. 본 논문에서는 IR-UWB PPM 변조 방식을 이용한 WBAN 채널의 BER 성능을 계산하고 WBAN의 링크 버짓과 시스템 마진을 다양한 시스템 파라미터에 따라 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1805-1824
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• 2013

Recently, the use of wireless body area networks (WBAN) has been increasing rapidly in medical healthcare applications. WBANs consist of smart nodes that can be used to sense and transmit vital data such as heart rate, temperature and ECG from a human body to a medical centre. WBANs depend on limited resources such as energy and bandwidth. In order to utilise these resources efficiently, a very well organized medium access control (MAC) protocol must be considered. In this paper, a new, adaptive and energy-efficient MAC protocol, entitled isMAC, is proposed for WBANs. The proposed MAC is based on multi-channel communication and aims to prolong the network lifetime by effectively employing (i) a collision prevention mechanism, (ii) a coordinator node (WCN) selection algorithm and (iii) a transmission power adjustment approach. The isMAC protocol has been developed and modelled, by using OPNET Modeler simulation software. It is based on a networking scenario that requires especially high data rates such as ECG, for performance evaluation purposes. Packet delay, network throughput and energy consumption have been chosen as performance metrics. The comparison between the simulation results of isMAC and classical IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) protocol shows that isMAC significantly outperforms IEEE 802.15.4 in terms of packet delay, throughput and energy consumption.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2013

모든 u-헬스케어 시스템은 보안 취약점을 가지고 있다. 이 취약점은 로컬(local) 또는 네트워크(network) 상에서 잠재적인 위험이 된다. 의료정보 기술의 Smart 환경, Ad-hoc networking, 무선통신 환경은, u-헬스케어 보안 취약성을 증가시키는 주요 요인이다. u-헬스케어 의료정보시스템 도메인은 사용자단말 구간, 공중통신망 인프라구간, 네트워킹구간, 인트라넷구간으로 구분된다. 의료정보시스템 도메인별을 구분하여 취약점을 평가하는 이유는 도메인별로 취약점에 대한 대처방법이 다르기 때문이다. u-헬스케어시스템 5단계의 보안위험도 평가체계는 도메인별 보안취약성 진단체계를 설계하여 보안대책을 강구하기 위해 필요하다. 제안하는 모델을 사용할 경우 현재까지 막연하게 진행 되어온 USN 기반 의료정보네트워크 보안취약성 진단대책을 좀 더 체계적으로 수행할 수 있는 모형을 제공한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12궈1호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2006

As a pervasive healthcare application to help medication of elderly patients, the smart compliance monitors have been recently proposed. In this paper, we present a new smart drug/medicine pack (SDP) for ubiquitous medication monitoring, for which the packaging is either paper packet or blister pack. This ubiquitous compliance monitor is composed of several SDPs and a Bluetooth equipped PDA phone. The SDP is a wireless module that monitors the medication consumption unobtrusively by transmitting the sensed data of 'drug removal' events to the medical center and by reminding patients when they take a dose on their mobile phone. The communication between SDP modules and PDA is realized via Bluetooth. The PDA is basically embedded to indicate the medication record and to alert every prescribed medication time during treatment. Experimental results show that the proposed system works exactly when the SDPs are far within about 2 [m] from PDA.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.719-724
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• 2011

최근 대부분의 가정에서 자식을 하나만 나아서 기르는 저출산 시대가 왔다. 이에 따라 부모들은 태어나면서부터 아이에게 지대한 관심을 가지게 되고, 헬스케어(Healthcare) 분야가 새로운 성장산업으로 부상하면서 (베이비 케어)Baby Care에 대한 관심 또한 높아졌다. 지금까지의 Baby Care 제품은 식품, 목욕용품 그리고 의복 등에서 발전을 해 왔지만 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경의 발달과 헬스케어산업의 발달과 함께 Baby Care 전자 제품 개발이 이루어지고 있다. 유럽이나 미국 등에서는 유아를 다른 방에서 키운다. 이때 유아가 돌연사하는 현상이 종종 일어나는데 이를 예방하기 위해서 유아의 상태를 측정하고, 부모가 유아에게 떨어져 있어도 유아의 상태를 확인할 수 있는 Platform를 구현하였다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 라디오 주파수를 이용하여 데이터 저장 없이 부모의 실시간 관찰에 의해서만 판단했던 시스템을 고속의 ARM11 기반의 S3C6410 CPU를 이용하고, 무선 WI-FI(IEEE8.2.11)기술을 활용한 유아 돌연사 방지 Platform구현에 대한 연구를 진행하였다.