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Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Tai-hoon Kim Hojjat Adeli Rosslin John Robles Maricel Balitanas (Eds.)

Advanced Communication and Networking Third International Conference, ACN 2011 Brno, Czech Republic, August 15-17, 2011 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Tai-hoon Kim Hannam University 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu Daejeon 306-791, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Hojjat Adeli The Ohio State University 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1275, USA E-mail: [email protected] Rosslin John Robles Hannam University 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu Daejeon 306-791, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Maricel Balitanas Hannam University 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu Daejeon 306-791, Korea E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 1865-0929 e-ISSN 1865-0937 ISBN 978-3-642-23311-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-23312-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-23312-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): C.2, H.4, H.3, I.2, H.5, I.6

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Foreword

Advanced communication and networking are areas that have attracted many academic and industry professionals in research and development. The goal of the ACN conference is to bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of advanced communication and networking. We would like to express our gratitude to all of the authors of submitted papers and to all attendees for their contributions and participation. We believe in the need to continue this undertaking in the future. We acknowledge the great effort of all the Chairs and the members of the Advisory Boards and Program Committees of the above-listed event. Special thanks go to SERSC (Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety) for supporting this conference. We are grateful in particular to the speakers who kindly accepted our invitation and, in this way, helped to meet the objectives of the conference. July 2011

Chairs of ACN 2011

Preface

We would like to welcome you to the proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Advanced Communication and Networking (ACN 2011), which was held during August 15–17, 2011, at Brno University, Czech Republic. ACN 2011 focused on various aspects of advances in advanced communication and networking with computational sciences, mathematics and information technology. It provided a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the related areas. We expect that the conference and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. We would like to acknowledge the great effort of all the Chairs and members of the Program Committee. We would like to thank all of the authors of submitted papers and all the attendees for their contributions and participation. Once more, we would like to thank all the organizations and individuals who supported this event as a whole and, in particular, helped in the success of ACN 2011. July 2011

Tai-hoon Kim Hojjat Adeli Rosslin John Robles Maricel Balitanas

Organization

Honorary Chair Hojjat Adeli

The Ohio State University, USA

General Co-chairs Alan Chin-Chen Thanos Vasilakos Martin Drahansk´ y

Chang National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan University of Western Macedonia, Greece Brno University, Czech Republic

Program Co-chairs Tai-hoon Kim Byeong-Ho Kang Muhammad Khurram Khan

Hannam University, Korea University of Tasmania, Australia King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Workshop Co-chairs Seok-soo Kim Filip Ors´ ag

Hannam University, Korea Brno University, Czech Republic

International Advisory Board Hsiao-Hwa Chen Petr Han´ acek Kamaljit I. Lakhtaria

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Brno University, Czech Republic Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science, India

Publicity Co-chairs Debnath Bhattacharyya Ching-Hsien Hsu Deepak Laxmi Narasimha Prabhat K. Mahanti Václav Maty´ aˇs

SERSC, India Chung Hua University, Taiwan University of Malaya, Malaysia University of New Brunswick, Canada Brno University, Czech Republic

Publication Chair Rosslin John Robles

Hannam University, Korea

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Program Committee Aboul Ella Hassanien Ai-Chun Pang Andres Iglesias Prieto Chao-Tung Yang Chia-Chen Lin Cho-Li Wang Chu-Hsing Lin Dimitrios Vergados Don-Lin Yang Dvor´ ak Radim Farrukh A. Khan Gianluigi Ferrari Gyoo-Seok Choi Hájek Josef Hejtmánkov´ a Dana Hong Sun Hui Chen

Janusz Szczepanski Javier Garcia-Villalba Jiann-Liang Jieh-Shan George YEH Juha Jaakko R¨ oning Kazuto Ogawa Ki-Young Lee Kwok-Yan Lam Kyung-Soo Jang Li Weng Marc Lacoste Marvan Aleˇs Matthias Reuter Michel Deza Mohammad Riaz Moghal ˇ an Mr´ acek Step´ Myung-Jae Lim

N. Jaisankar Novotn´ y Tomáˇs Rui L. Aguiar Shijian Li Shun-Ren Yang Soon Ae Chun Sun-Yuan Hsieh Tae (Tom) Oh Vána Jan Victor Leung Viktor Yarmolenko Vincenzo De Florio Witold Pedrycz Yoo-Sik Hong Yong-Soon Im Young-Dae Lee

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Clock Synchronization for One-Way Delay Measurement: A Survey . . . . . Minsu Shin, Mankyu Park, Deockgil Oh, Byungchul Kim, and Jaeyong Lee

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API-Oriented Traffic Analysis in the IMS/Web 2.0 Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daizo Ikeda, Toshihiro Suzuki, and Akira Miura

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Analysis of the Characteristics of EEG Caused by Dyspnea and the Influence of the Environmental Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeong-Hoon Shin

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A Study on MAC Address Spoofing Attack Detection Structure in Wireless Sensor Network Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sungmo Jung, Jong Hyun Kim, and Seoksoo Kim

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Mapping Based on Three Cameras for 3D Face Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jae-gu Song and Seoksoo Kim

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A Social Education Network Based on Location Sensing Information Using Smart-Phones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jang-Mook Kang and Sook-Young Choi

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User-Oriented Pseudo Biometric Image Based One-Time Password Mechanism on Smart Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wonjun Jang, Sikwan Cho, and Hyung-Woo Lee

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Prototype Implementation of the Direct3D-on-OpenGL Library . . . . . . . . Joo-Young Do, Nakhoon Baek, and Kwan-Hee Yoo Open API and System of Short Messaging, Payment, Account Management Based on RESTful Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SunHwan Lim, JaeYong Lee, and ByungChul Kim Privacy Reference Architecture for Personal Information Life Cycle . . . . . Yong-Nyuo Shin, Woo Bong Chun, Hong Soon Jung, and Myung Geun Chun A Rate Adaptation Scheme to Support QoS for H.264/SVC Encoded Video Streams over MANETs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chhagan Lal, Vijay Laxmi, and M.S. Gaur Minimizing Scheduling Delay for Multimedia in Xen Hypervisor . . . . . . . . Jeong Gun Lee, Kyung Woo Hur, and Young Woong Ko

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Efficient Allocation of Transmission Power and Rate in Multicarrier Code-Division Multiple-Access Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ye Hoon Lee A Quality of Service Algorithm to Reduce Jitter in Mobile Networks . . . P. Calduwel Newton and L. Arockiam

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Performance Analysis of HDD and DRAM-SSD Using TPC-H Benchmark on MYSQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hyun-Ju Song, Young-Hun Lee, and Seung-Kook Cheong

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User Authentication Platform Using Provisioning in Cloud Computing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hyosik Ahn, Hyokyung Chang, Changbok Jang, and Euiin Choi

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Profile for Effective Service Management on Mobile Cloud Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changbok Jang, Hyokyung Chang, Hyosik Ahn, Yongho Kang, and Euiin Choi

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Context Model Based on Ontology in Mobile Cloud Computing . . . . . . . . Changbok Jang and Euiin Choi

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SPECC - A New Technique for Direction of Arrival Estimation . . . . . . . . In-Sik Choi

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Trading Off Complexity for Expressiveness in Programming Languages for Embedded Devices: Visions and Experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vincenzo De Florio and Chris Blondia

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Electric Vehicle Telematics Framework for Smart Transportation . . . . . . . Junghoon Lee, Hye-Jin Kim, Gyung-Leen Park, Ho-Young Kwak, Young-cheol Kim, and JeongHoon Song

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E-Contract Securing System Using Digital Signature Approach . . . . . . . . Nashwa El-Bendary, Vaclav Snasel, Ghada Adam, Fatma Mansour, Neveen I. Ghali, Omar S. Soliman, and Aboul Ella Hassanien

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Fault Tolerance Multi-Agents for MHAP Environment: FTMA . . . . . . . . . SoonGohn Kim and Eung Nam Ko

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An Error Detection-Recovery Agent for Multimedia Distance System Based on Intelligent Context-Awareness: EDRA RCSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SoonGohn Kim and Eung Nam Ko

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An Error Sharing Agent Running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SoonGohn Kim and Eung Nam Ko

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Integrated Retrieval System for Rehabilitation Medical Equipment in Distributed DB Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BokHee Jung, ChangKeun Lee, and SoonGohn Kim

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Effective Method Tailoring in Construction of Medical Information System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WonYoung Choi and SoonGohn Kim

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A Study on the Access Control Module of Linux Secure Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JinSeok Park and SoonGohn Kim

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An fMRI Study of Reading Different Word Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hyo Woon Yoon and Ji-Hyang Lim

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Intelligent Feature Selection by Bacterial Foraging Algorithm and Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jae Hoon Cho and Dong Hwa Kim

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The Intelligent Video and Audio Recognition Black-Box System of the Elevator for the Disaster and Crime Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woon-Yong Kim, Seok-Gyu Park, and Moon-Cheol Lim

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Real-Time Intelligent Home Network Control System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yong-Soo Kim

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LCN : Largest Common Neighbor Nodes Based Routing for Delay and Disruption Tolerant Mobile Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doo-Ok Seo, Gwang-Hyun Kim, and Dong-Ho Lee

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A Perspective of Domestic Appstores Compared with Global Appstores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Byungkook Jeon

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A Design of Retrieval System for Presentation Documents Using Content-Based Image Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongro Lee, Kwangnam Choi, Ki-Seok Choi, and Jae-Soo Kim

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Data Quality Management Based on Data Profiling in E-Government Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youn-Gyou Kook, Joon Lee, Min-Woo Park, Ki-Seok Choi, Jae-Soo Kim, and Soung-Soo Shin

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Design of Code Template for Automatic Code Generation of Heterogeneous Smartphone Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woo Yeol Kim, Hyun Seung Son, and Robert Young Chul Kim

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A Study on Test Case Generation Based on State Diagram in Modeling and Simulation Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woo Yeol Kim, Hyun Seung Son, and Robert Young Chul Kim

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An Efficient Sleep Mode Procedure for IEEE 802.16e Femtocell Base Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sujin Kwon, Young-uk Chung, and Yong-Hoon Choi Performance Analysis of Wireless LANs with a Backoff Freezing Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ho Young Hwang, Seong Joon Kim, Byung-Soo Kim, Dan Keun Sung, and Suwon Park Performance Analysis of Forward Link Transmit Power Control during Soft Handoff in Mobile Cellular Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jin Kim, Suwon Park, Hyunseok Lee, and Hyuk-jun Oh Performance Improvement Method for Wi-Fi Networks Sharing Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jongwoo Kim, Suwon Park, Seung Hyong Rhee, Yong-Hoon Choi, HoYoung Hwang, and Young-uk Chung Energy Saving Method for Wi-Fi Stations Based on Partial Virtual Bitmap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sangmin Moon, Taehyu Shin, Suwon Park, Hyunseok Lee, Chae Bong Sohn, Young-uk Chung, and Ho Young Hwang A Handover Scheme for Improving Throughput Using Vehicle’s Moving Path Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sang Hyuck Han, Suwon Park, and Yong-Hoon Choi Effects of the Location of APs on Positioning Error in RSS Value Based Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hyeonmu Jeon, Uk-Jo, Mingyu-Jo, Nammoon Kim, and Youngok Kim

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Distributed Color Tracker for Remote Robot Applications and Simulation Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yong-Ho Seo

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Mobile Robot Control Using Smart Phone and Its Performance Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yong-Ho Seo, Seong-Sin Kwak, and Tae-Kyu Yang

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Study on Data Transmission Using MediaLB Communication in Vehicle Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chang-Young Kim and Jong-Wook Jang

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Topology Configuration for Effective In-Ship Network Construction . . . . Mi-Jin Kim, Jong-Wook Jang, and Yun-sik Yu Performance Analysis of Inter-LMA Handoff Scheme Based on 2-Layer in Hierarchical PMIPv6 Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jongpil Jeong, Dong Ryeol Shin, Seunghyun Lee, and Jaesang Cha

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A Study on Dynamic Gateway System for MOST GATEWAY Scheduling Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seong-Jin Jang and Jong-Wook Jang

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Implementation Automation Vehicle State Recorder System with In-Vehicle Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sung-Hyun Baek and Jong-Wook Jang

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Adapting Model Transformation Approach for Android Smartphone Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woo Yeol Kim, Hyun Seung Son, Jae Seung Kim, and Robert Young Chul Kim Implementation of a Volume Controller for Considering Hearing Loss in Bluetooth Headset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hyuntae Kim, Daehyun Ryu, and Jangsik Park An Extended Cloud Computing Architecture for Immediate Sharing of Avionic Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doo-Hyun Kim, Seunghwa Song, Seung-Jung Shin, and Neungsoo Park

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Implementation of Switching Driving Module with ATmega16 Processor Based on Visible LED Communication System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geun-Bin Hong, Tae-Su Jang, and Yong K. Kim

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A Performance Evaluation on the Broadcasting Scheme for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kwan-Woong Kim, Tae-Su Jang, Cheol-Soo Bae, and Yong K. Kim

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Carbon Nanotube as a New Coating Material for Developing Two Dimensional Speaker Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeong-Jin Kang and Keehong Um

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Clock Synchronization for One-Way Delay Measurement: A Survey Minsu Shin1 , Mankyu Park1, Deockgil Oh1 , Byungchul Kim2 , and Jaeyong Lee2 1

Dept. of Satellite Wireless Convergence Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Daejeon, Korea {msshin,neomkpark,dgoh}@etri.re.kr 2 Dept. of Information Communication Engineering Chungnam National University Daejeon, Korea {byckim,jyl}@cnu.ac.kr

Abstract. In this paper we present the comprehensive survey on the clock synchronization algorithms, which should be considered for the measurements of the network delay. We categorize the clock synchronization algorithms into two basic types according to how they acquire synchronization between clocks, which are external source based schemes and end-to-end measurement based schemes. While external source based schemes are the synchronization methods using centralized time source such as NTP, GPS and IEEE 1588 to have global synchronization for all end hosts, end-to-end schemes obtain synchronization information through network measurements between end hosts. We briefly introduces some algorithms in both categories. However, we have focused more on the end-to-end schemes which can be classified again into online and offline shemes according to whether they can be applied for real time operation. We survey the recent progresses on these end-to-end algorithms and special concerns are on the estimation of true the one-way delay without the effect of clock skew. The problems in depolying each end-toend scheme are also described. The potential further research issues in online one-way delay estimation are discussed. Keywords: clock synchronization, delay measurement, one-way delay, clock skew.

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The fast expansion of the Internet to deliver increasingly important and various services make network monitoring and performance measurements essential for effective network management. Many applications may benefit from the knowledge of the end-to-end delay metrics. Network latency is an important indicator of the operating network status, which changes with the variations of the network traffic patterns and congestions. Many QoS sensitive applications require T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 1–10, 2011. c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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the delay constraints to be met. Therefore, the knowledge of the end-to-end delay can be used for Service Level Agreement(SLA) validation between network service providers and customers. Through the end-to-end delay measurements, researchers can learn more about the underlying properties or characteristics of the current networks, for example, network topology, traffic patterns and protocol distributions, etc. In addition, end-to-end delay metrics are widely utilized to the algorithms for performance enhancement of some protocol including TCP since they are the foundations for many other measurement metrics such as bandwidth, jitter and packet loss. While Round Trip Time (RTT) is basically used to represent end-to-end delay, the needs for One-Way Delay (OWD) measurement are also addressed due to some reasons. Measuring the one-way delay instead of the round-trip delay is motivated by reasons, such as asymmetricities of path and queuing as well as each application’s characteristics[3]. In real measurements, the delay shows changing trend of about 100 msec over the duration of 70 min because of the clock difference[4]. End-to-end one-way delay experienced by a packet is the time taken to travel from source to destination by a packet and can be measured from the difference between the arrival time, according to the destination clock, and the timestamp added by the source and conveyed by the packet. If the two clocks at the both end hosts are perfectly synchronized, then the one-way delay can be calculated by subtracting the sender timestamp from the receiver timestamp and this measured delay will be the true delay between the two end hosts. However, two clocks are rarely perfectly synchronized in real systems. The clocks may have different values at a certain moment and they may run at different speeds. Since the clocks at both end hosts are involved in delay measurement, synchronization between two clocks becomes an important issue. Before proceeding the discussion on one-way delay measurements, we would like to introduce some terminologies for the clock behavior which are usually accepted in literaure[4]. The relative difference of the time reported by two clocks is called offset, the rate at which the clock progresses is called frequency and the relative difference of two clocks’s frequency is called skew. In addition, it is sometimes convenient to compare the frequency ratio between two clocks instead of the skew. This is called clock ratio. Due to the offset and skew between two clocks, end-to-end delay measurements becomes inaccurate and the expected performance enhancement from the measurement results is not quaranteed. To solve the clock synchronization problems, many algorithms and methods are introduced. There are two kinds of clock synchronization approaches according to how they synchronize clocks : external server based methods and end-toend measurement based methods. Basic idea of external server based methods is to locate global server providing time information to every host in the network. Every host have to recognize the server and operate under the time synchronization through the server. Network Time Protocol(NTP)[6], Global Positioning System(GPS) and IEEE 1588[7] could be included within this category. While external server based methods focuses on the synchronization of the clock itself, because that is the first uncertainty source, end-to-end measurement based

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methods mainly focus on the detection and removal of the clock skew existing between two clocks so that time values generated by each of the end hosts can be considered to be synchronized. In this paper, we survey the time synchronization issues in recent years, especially for the one-way delay measurements. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We define the basic one-way delay model and notations used through the paper in Sec. 2, and describe the brief review for the external server based methods in Sec. 3. In Sec. 4, we focus intensively on the end-to-end measurement based methods. End-to-end methods are classified into offline and online schemes. In Sec. 5, we discuss issues to be considered for such an algorithms proposed for real time operation to be incorporated with the transport protocols. Lastly, we conclude this paper in Sec. 6.

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To understand the effect of clock skew and the insight idea for methods to remove it, we need to define the relation between time instances and corresponding delays. In this section we introduce the terminology for clocks, timestamps, and delays used in measurements. To get consistent with previous works, we mainly adopt following nomenclature from [4][12] to characterize clock. t1s .l

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r.l packet consistent with Cr is tr.a - tr.l i i . However ti is not known at the receiver, r.a s.l so ti - ti is typically used as one-way delay, which is not consistent with neither Cs nor Cr . To make it consistent with either clock, we need to determine the skew between two clocks and remove it from the observable one-way delay.

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Several external mechanisms have been introduced to physically synchronize the end host’s clocks so that the time information from both of the end hosts have no offset and skew. The Network Time Protocol(NTP), Global Positioning System (GPS) and IEEE 1588[7] can be included within the categoriy. NTP is broadly deployed in the Internet to synchronize distributed clocks to each other or to the time server having an accurate clock. It can provide accuracy typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs[8]. The NTP system consists in a hierarchy of primary and secondary time servers, clients and interconnecting transmission paths[9]. Under normal circumstances clock synchronisation is determined using only the most accurate and reliable servers and transmission paths, so that the actual synchronisation paths usually assume a hierarchical configuration with the primary reference source at the root and servers of decreasing accuracy at increasing layers toward the leaves. Although the clock offset between the synchronized host and the NTP server can often be maintained on the order of multiple milliseconds, the accuracy of NTP is affected in part by the path characteristics between NTP clients and servers, which makes NTP not a good choice for an accurate network measurement. GPS system can also be used for the clock syncronization with high accuracy in the order of microseconds and wide coverage for large scale networks. Many measurement architectures incorporated with the GPS system have been proposed[8][10]. However, it requires additional hardware systems such as antenna and distribution equipment for every or group of hosts, which make its use impractical in the viewpoint of economy and convienience. The new IEEE Standard Precision Time Protocol (PTP), IEEE1588[7], is now a very comprehensive solution to do very precise time synchronization in an Ethernet network. The IEEE 1588 time synchronization protocol specifes how such synchronization can be achieved over wired and wireless networks. It is an external synchronization protocol in which all clocks in the network trace their time. This protocol is the first standard available which makes it possible to synchronize the clocks of different end devices over a network at speeds faster than one microsecond. The protocol supports system-wide synchronization accuracy in the submicrosecond range with minimal network and local clock computing resources. However, its accuracy can be affected from the network fluctuations introduced by network elements such as switches and routes, which imposes limitation of its use to small network. Aforementioned external server based methods for the time synchronization have their own advantages and potentials for further considerations. However,


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Although time keeping is the ideal case for clock synchronization, it is hard to achieve without the help of hardware devices like GPS or hardware-based NTP server as described in Sec. 3. Another approach for time synchronization is to find clock uncertainty existing between sender and receiver clocks and remove it to make both clocks almost perfectly synchronized. Most alogorithms included in this category perform the estimation and removal process of clock skew from the network measurement while external server based methods try not to have any uncertainty in clock dynamics through providing the same clock source to every end host in the network. However, the asymmetry of the network path, the amount of traffic flow and the bandwidth makes it difficult to estimate the delay difference in two directions, which is essential for calculating clock offset between two hosts. Fortunately, in most cases frequency keeping is enough for this purpose. For example, in delay measurement the dynamic part, mainly queuing delay, attracts much more attention than the static part composed of propagation delay and transmission delay. Besides, many measurement methods, such as available bandwidth estimation, are independent from a constant offset. From these observations, many contributions are devoted to determine the clock skew in the measurement and by removing the effect of the skew we can transform the delay measurements so that they are consistent with a single clock. In some cases, one-way delay metrics are more important than round-trip time measurement with the reasons exampled in Sec. 1. Therefore, most of algorithms have focused on the detection and estimation of clock skew existing in the unidirectional path. End-to-end measurement based synchronization methods can be classified into two sub-groups according to their real-time applicability, i.e., offline syncronization method and online synchronization method. Offline synchronization methods carry out their estimation and removal of clock skew with the prerequisite of network measurements taken for a certain period of time ahead. On the other hand, online synchronization methods calculate clock skew immediately on receiving packets involved for the calculation and derive required metrics through the clock skew removal. Proposed schemes in the literature are described in the following two sections, respectively. 4.1

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focused on filtering out the effects of clock skew only with the unidirectional delay measurement to determine the variable portion of the delay. The basic idea of the algorithm is to fit a line lying under all delay points and being as closely to them as possible, and use the slope of the line as the estimated skew[4]. The authors formulated this idea as a linear programming problem. Khlifi et al. proposed two offline clock skew estimation and removal algorithms [13]. They formalized the clock skew model in Eq. (1), which is identical to the model in [4]. di = dri + (α − 1)tsi + θ . (1) , where di is the measured delay experienced by the i-th packet, dri is the ture one-way delay experienced by i-th packet, α is the clock skew between two clocks, tsi is defined by the difference of generation times for i-th and the first packets according to the sender clock, and θ is the relative offset between two clocks. In Average technique, they adopted the notion of the phase plot to show the evolution of the difference between the packe delays di − di−1 and thus provided the way of calculating the estimate of the skew, α only with the obtainable values at the very low complexity in eq. (2). α =

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Online end-to-end synchronization schemes are aiming at the estimation and removal of the clock skew in the real-time manner upon receiving packets and thus can be utilized to improve the performance of the operating protocols, e.g., it can be adopted for the bandwidth estimation or loss differenciation shemes to enhance TCP congestion control performance. However, not much work has been done for online skew estimation and removal so far comparing to the offline algorithms. Tobe et al. presented a simple scheme for estimating the skew through reducing the number of samples for calculation, called Estimation of Skew with Reduced Samples (ESRS) to alleviate the problem of collecting many samples for long period, which makes an algorithm unsuitable for on-line calculation of the skew[14]. While adopting similar delay model in [4], they proposed some modifications. To reduce the number of calculation, a measurement that has an inter-arrival time outside the expected range is not taken into consideration from the observation that the variable inter-arrival time induced by the network characterisics such as probe compression should be excluded in the skew calculation. With this reduction process, it was shown that the significant portion of samples can be removed depending on the network status, e.g., 86% of reduction factor can be obtained when the network seems to be unstable or fluctuated with other traffics. Moreover, the algorithm enhances the estimate of the base delay incrementally on arrival of packets rather than calculating the skew after a certain period so that the estimate of the skew converges to a certain value and the OTT value without the clock skew can be determined thereafter. This skew estimation scheme was utilized for loss differentiation algorithm in [15] by which that the detected packet loss is determined as congestion loss in TCP congestion control loop when the Relative One-Way Trip Time (ROTT) value calculated by ESRS has been maintained over a threshold. Khlifi et al. proposed sliding window technique and combined approach for the online synchronization[13]. The basic idea of the sliding window technique is to continuously evaluate the variation of the minimum measured delay. For this, the length T of the evaluation interval called window size is chosen and the minimum measured delay is determined for every interval. In the case that the minimum delay of the current inveral is smaller than the one of the previous interval, the algorithm decides that the skew is negative and the skew value is decreased by 1. In the opposite case, the algorithm increases the skew value by 1. Then the true delay can be obtained by the every measured delay minus this skew value. This technique gives quick response to skew effect with good accuracy so that it could be applied for online synchronization. However, the choice of the window size, T , has great influence on the performance of the algorithm and the window size has to be the duration that the skew effect takes to reach 1 ms to quarantee its performance. Since the proper window size is unlikely to know in reality and totally depedns on the clock resoltion of the end systems, it could be limited to be widely used for online applications.

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In [16], the authors propose to use their convex hull based algorithm (originally designed for offline skew estimation) to remove the skew from online delay measurements. Their idea is to estimate the skew at fixed intervals and to use the last estimate to remove the skew effect from upcoming measures. In [18], Choi et. al proposed one-way delay estimation algorithm without clock synchronization between sender and receiver clocks. They made analytical derivation of forward and reverse delay separately in terms of two RTT values measured by the sender and the receiver. tsn,OW D = ts0,OW D −

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Although many researchers have devoted their efforts on the clock synchronization algorithms for the one-way delay measurement and therefore many valuable contributions are presented in the literature, Online delay calcualtion algorithms are not much than the offline algorithms. Moreover, even such an online calculation algorithms mentioned in Sec. 1 and Sec. 4.2 are rarely adopted to the operation of any transport protocol in reality, to enhance their performance for example. We want to discuss the reasons in the paper. First of all, TCP, as one of typical transport protocols in the internet, is a sender oriented protocol which means that it is prefered for every modification in the protocol to be involved only to the sender side. This is required to quarantee that all end hosts do not have to be changed. However, for calculation and delivery of the forward one-way delay measurement which is more important for TCP congestion control than reverse one-way delay, receiver side modification is inevitably required. To address this issue, the way of modifying the current TCP timestamp option can considered as in Sync-TCP [17].

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In this paper we present the comprehensive survey on the clock synchronization algorithms in recent years, which should be considered for the measurements of the network delay. By defining the end-to-end delay model, we analyze the important factors and their processes of the previous works in a unified way. We categorize the clock synchronization algorithms into two basic types according to how they acquire synchronization between clocks, external source based schemes and end-to-end measurement based schemes. While external source based schemes are the synchronization methods using centralized time source such as NTP, GPS and IEEE 1588 to have global synchronization for all end hosts, end-to-end schemes obtain synchronization information through network measurements between end hosts. We briefly introduces some of algorithms in both categories. However, we have focused more on the end-to-end schemes which can be subdivided into online and offline shemes according to whether they can be applied for real time operation. We survey the recent progresses on these end-to-end algorithms and special concerns are on the clock synchronization for the one-way delay measurements. The problems in depolying each end-to-end scheme are also described. As network bandwidth increases dramatically and the asymmetry becomes more likely, inaccurate measurements for the network characteristics will cause potential network performance degradation. In that sense, the consideration for these clock dynamics should be prudently taken with the shemes summarized in the paper. Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the IT R&D program of KCC[2009-S-039-02, Development of Satellite Return Link Access Core Technology for High Efficient Transmission].

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API-Oriented Traffic Analysis in the IMS/Web 2.0 Era Daizo Ikeda1, Toshihiro Suzuki1, and Akira Miura2 1

NTT DOCOMO, INC., 3-5 Hikarino-oka, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa 239-8536, Japan {ikeda,suzukitoshi}@nttdocomo.co.jp 2 Prefectural University of Kumamoto, 3-1-100, Tsukide, Kumamoto, 862-8502, Japan [email protected]

Abstract. This paper presents an analysis method for dealing with API-oriented traffic, one of the major operational challenges in the IMS/Web 2.0 era which must be overcome in developing a highly stable and reliable communication system. Traffic evaluation methods for the commercial i-mode service in Japan are being extended to address this issue. In particular, we suggest that API traffic models are defined based on process sequences and reflected in the performance evaluation of nodes in a system. Network capacity planning should deal with the impact of estimated API traffic on a mobile network, especially gateway modules. Our proposal enables mobile operators to construct a highly stable and reliable system which supports service innovation by providing APIs to application developers. Keywords: mobile communications, traffic pattern, traffic analysis, performance evaluation, API, IMS, Web 2.0.

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In the next generation of mobile communications, there will arise a wide variety of services and applications which make use of an application programming interface (API), which a mobile network offers. Open APIs allow application developers to make use of functions such as the remote control of devices and to acquire information, including location and presence, for service innovation. The introduction of these API requests make it difficult to estimate the amount of traffic in the communication network, even though many studies have been conducted in the traffic management domain [1] [2]. However, we have developed a technique to extend the traffic analysis method used for a legacy second generation mobile network for the imode service to an API-equipped mobile network for the coming IMS/Web 2.0 era. The i-mode service was launched in February 1999 by NTT DOCOMO, INC., a leading mobile operator in Japan, and currently has approximately fifty million subscribers. The aim of this service is to be at the forefront of the mobile Internet by creating an environment which provides easy-to-use e-mail operation and Internet access. The i-mode service is provided over a large-scale network comprising a mobile packet communication system as the core network and i-mode servers that are connected to the Internet. This service acquired more subscribers than expected within a relatively short time period, and thus faced operational challenges due to overloads. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 11–18, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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This paper presents a concept for developing a high quality communication system for IMS/Web 2.0 based on developing techniques for an i-mode core network.

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The i-mode service is provided over a core network of the second-generation mobile communication system called personal digital cellular-packet (PDC-P) [3] [4] [5]. As shown in Fig. 1, this system mainly comprises a large number of PDC-P nodes: packet processing modules (PPMs), packet gateway modules (PGWs), and mobile message packet gateway modules (M-PGWs) [6]. All of the network elements are Unix based and connected through LANs, some of which are connected over a WAN. Multiple M-PGWs, with interfaces between the PDC-P network and i-mode servers, are installed to balance the traffic load and improve reliability. To reduce cost and achieve an early launch, this system shares home location registers (HLRs) and paging procedures with the legacy PDC network via switching units.

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There are two major characteristics of mobile data communications. One is that users move around and the other is that the throughput tends to fluctuate because of the existence of wireless sections. Another factor to consider is the characteristics of packet switching: data packets occur at random while a terminal is in a communication mode. We found that the packet call distribution is similar to voice call distribution based on measurements of the node traffic in the PDC-P network and that between M-PGWs and i-mode servers [7]. In general, the precision of a distribution is evaluated using a decision coefficient. This was more than 0.9 in the actual measurement, which indicates strongly that the i-mode traffic pattern follows an exponential distribution. Fig. 2 shows the measurement results of number of requests to initiate i-mode communication by packet arrival.

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In the coming IMS/Web 2.0 era, service development is expected to form a part of a collaborative innovation process where a mobile operator provides service enablers to application developers through open APIs. Application developers may be allowed to create a long tail service using network resources and functions as service enablers. As a result of service enhancement, a variety of traffic is expected to pour into the communication system, including requests for normal call initiation or location information acquisition, from Web 2.0 applications using an API. In such an environment, the observation of traffic and the identification of its characteristics will become increasingly important. We undertook the following steps to estimate the impact of API-oriented traffic on a mobile network. (1) API-oriented traffic models were defined based on process sequences. (2) Under the models, the CPU use ratios were calculated by using a performance evaluation formula. (3) The evaluation results were examined for network capacity planning. Different services generate different traffic characteristics. One essential approach will be to investigate the traffic patterns of major service types and to evaluate the effects on the core network by distinguishing arriving packet calls from service requests from an API. Here, we applied analysis techniques originally used for the imode traffic to the API-oriented case. When a mobile network receives an API request, some call control signals are expected to be transmitted in the network in order to initiate a function or acquire the requested information. Taking into account API specifications such as Parlay X and Next Generation Service Interface (NGSI),

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This paper has presented methods for evaluating the performance of a mobile network handling API-oriented traffic. Prior research on traffic analysis in a legacy system can be extended to address one of the major operational challenges in the IMS/Web 2.0 era. Traditional indicators, such as packets per second (PPS), are insufficient by themselves because new call control signals invoked by API requests can have a large impact on the CPU use. Network capacity planning should take account of the impact of estimated API traffic on a mobile network, especially on the gateway modules. Our proposal enables mobile operators to construct a highly stable and reliable system for service innovation by providing APIs to application developers. In the future, it will be important to develop a method for congestion control using API-oriented traffic models. One possible approach will include distinguishing arriving packet calls from service requests originating from an open API. Commercial API traffic analysis is expected to be a key factor in improving the performance evaluation accuracy and effect of congestion control.

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Analysis of the Characteristics of EEG Caused by Dyspnea and the Influence of the Environmental Factors Jeong-Hoon Shin Dept. of Computer & Information Communication Eng. Catholic University of Dae-Gu, Korea [email protected]

Abstract. Regarding the breathing and respiratory diseases related to physical health, various kinds of medicinal treatment have been developed for certain physical changes (increasing heartbeats and blood pressure caused by a fast rate of breathing). However, most of the researches which have been executed until now have been simply related to various kinds of medicinal treatment for certain physical changes. The combined research for non-medicinal treatment and environmental factors has not been executed. Such a problem could provide certain patients with risks (including side-effects and medicinal poisoning) while medicinal treatment is applied. The high cost has been a kind of burden for patients and a problem for the clinical utilization. In order to solve such a problem, the characteristics of EEG among different kinds of non-medicinal treatment and the changes of the surrounding environment are analyzed throughout this thesis. Also, the inducing tendency of the changes related to the environmental factors and physical conditions (regarding the changes of brainwave) are analyzed. Based on the results of the analysis, the stable neuro/bio feedback treatment and the training technique which are not related to the environmental changes and the possible method of applying brainwave to the healthcare equipment are to be suggested. Keywords: brainwave, dyspnea, temperature changes, environmental factors, influence.

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Together with the scientific development, various kinds of medicinal treatment for certain physical conditions have been developed. The medicinal treatment shows a fast effect. Also, since exercise or training effort is not required, the medicinal treatment is widely used for many patients. Together with the newly-generated virus treatment, such treatment is continuously developed and studied. However, regarding most of the researches which have been executed until now, the field of the medicinal treatment which brings a fast effect for certain physical changes has been studied. The results of the research related to the fast treatment provide the possibility of unexpected risks (side-effects, medicinal poisoning and recurrence of symptoms after stopping medicine). Such a problem prevents the application of such treatment from being applied in the clinical and medical equipment industries. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 19–30, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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Throughout this thesis, the environmental changes which could be applied as variables for the physical changes (those related to the brainwave state) are to be considered. Also, the influence of the environmental changes on the measured brain signals is to be analyzed and suggested. Based on the results of the analysis of the changes related to the physical characteristics with the consideration of the environmental changes, it will be ultimately possible to provide stable results for the analysis of the brainwave signals, which are not related to the environmental changes. Together with the changes related to the surrounding environment, the characteristics of the brainwave, which could be used as a kind of non-medicinal treatment, are to be analyzed. Then, the inducing tendency of the environmental and physical changes (those related to the brainwave state) is analyzed. Based on the result of the analysis, the stable neuro/bio feedback treatment and training as well as the utilization in various fields including healthcare equipment are suggested. The structure of this thesis is as follows. First of all, in the second chapter, the tendency for the medical equipment and the clinical diagnosis by using brainwave is introduced. In the third chapter, the structure and process of the experimental environment for “the characteristics of brainwave in regard to the emotional changes with the consideration of environmental factors” are introduced. Also, in the fourth chapter, the analysis for the result of the experiment executed in this thesis is suggested. In the fifth chapter, the conclusion and the direction of the follow-up research are described.

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In order to utilize the bio signals in the fields of healthcare technology and neuro/bio feedback, it is possible to classify the currently-processed major research themes in the world into four different categories such as the measurement and sensor technology for bio signals, the transmission and monitoring technology for bio signals, the measurement technology for bio signals and the standardization technology. Among the different researches related to bio signals, the one related to brainwave is actively executed by measuring the potential difference of the weak brainwave signals caused by the physiological activity of the brain with the electrode on the epidermis of the head. According to the result of the prior research, it is possible to find the functional state of the central nervous system in regard to brain tumor, cerebrovascular accident and other head injuries by quantitatively analyzing the frequency of the brainwave signals. The research is actively executed with various applications. However, most of the researches which have been executed until now in regard to brainwave have been independently limited to the four categories mentioned above. There has not been any combined research with the consideration of the surrounding environmental factors. At the moment, the utilization method of the bio information in the technical field of healthcare and the treatment method of mental diseases by utilizing the neuro/bio feedback are suggested in various ways. For the credible application and clinical utilization, it is highly necessary to execute a combined research by considering the surrounding environmental factors.

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As shown in Figure 1, the experimental environment established in this thesis consists of three different rooms for the analysis of the changes related to the state of dyspnea caused by the changes of the surrounding temperature. After analyzing the inner temperature changes and the state of dyspnea, brainwave is measured. In order to prevent combined environmental changes in advance and increase credibility for the analysis of the influence according to the temperature changes, the inner temperature and humidity of each independent room are respectively set as 28℃(temperature) /30%(humidity), 38℃(temperature) /39%(humidity) and 50℃(temperature) /35% (humidity) during the experimental period.

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The subject group consists of 40 men and women in their 20s. Also, in order to get rid of the variability according to the period of measurement, the experiment has been executed in the same time period between 3:00pm and 8:00pm, in which those of the subject group could feel comfortable. 3.3

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The analysis for dyspnea caused by temperature changes and the changes related to the characteristics of brainwave has been executed by maintaining all the overall factors which could influence the experiment other than the one related to temperature changes. The measurement equipment which has been used for the experiment is the 8-channel brainwave measurement device (Laxtha Co., Ltd., Korea). Regarding the electrode for the measurement of brainwave, the points of Fp1, Fp2, T3, T4, C3, C4, O1 and O2 have been selected according to International 10-20 System of Electrode Placement shown in Figure 2. After executing the measurement process, the brainwave data of the subject group has been digitalized with the sampling rate of 256Hz.

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Regarding the selection of the points for the electrode placement, the two points of Fp1 and Fp2 have been selected to analyze the changes related to the state of the cerebral activation on the frontal lobe. Also, the four points of T3, T4, C3 and C4 have been selected to analyze the changes related to the state of the cerebral activation on the part of diencephalon which is involved in the physiological responses related to body temperature and blood pressure and the part of medulla oblongata which is involved in digestion, blood circulation, breathing adjustment and reflection. The two points of O1 and O2 have been selected to analyze the changes related to the state of the cerebral activation on the occipital lobe which is responsible for the visual information.

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5 Step 1 The people in the subject group of the experiment are instructed to have stable positions with electrodes on their scalps for 10 minutes after entering the room where the measurement process is executed according to the specified order. 5 Step 2 After the time for stabilization is passed, the pulse and blood pressure of the subject group of people is measured. Also, at the same time, the brainwave in the state of stabilization is collected for three minutes. 5 Step 3 After the brainwave in the state of stabilization is completely measured, one minute of free time is given to each person in the subject group. The people in the subject group are instructed to show stable positions in the natural state. At this moment, the brainwave is not measured. 5 Step 4 After the brainwave in the stabilized state is completely measured, the people in the subject group are instructed to hold their breath for thirty seconds in order to provide changes to their heartbeat and blood pressure. During this period, their brainwave is


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In this thesis, as a linear quantitative standard for the analysis of the influence caused by the changes related to the state of brainwave (the heartbeat and blood pressure according to the temperature) and the state and related changes of brainwave activation, the analysis of the correlation coefficients among the EEG signal channels (All Pair-Cross Pearson’s Correlation Function) is executed prior to the statistical generalization. Also, in order to analyze the influence of the specific frequency broadband included in the brainwave signals, the band pass filter is used, while the classification process is executed for each EEG signal frequency broadband. By additionally executing the analysis of the correlation coefficients among the EEG signal channels (All Pair - Cross Pearson’s Correlation Function) according to each frequency broadband, the central broadband of the brainwave signals which play an important role in regard to the changes related to the state of brainwave according to the heartbeat and blood pressure is checked. Also, in order to prevent the decrease of credibility for the results of the analysis according to the rapid application of miscellaneous sounds, the ensemble averaging over the moving window within the period of measurement is analyzed. The analysis of the brainwave signals, which has been executed in this thesis, is indicated as a block diagram in Figure 3.

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4.1 Analysis of the Characteristics of Brainwave According to Temperature Changes For the analysis of the characteristics of brainwave and the correlation of cerebral activities in the stabilized state according to the temperature changes, the crosscorrelation analysis of the brainwave data collected from the eight electrodes attached to the points of Fp1, Fp2, T3, T4, C3, C4, O1 and O2 is executed. The average data related to 40 people in the subject group is calculated and indicated in Figure 4.

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In this thesis, by analyzing the characteristics of the brain signals in the stabilized state according to the temperature changes, the heartbeat and blood pressure of the people in the subject group are changed as they show dyspnea after accomplishing their mission for the simulation (holding their breath) as shown in Figure 4. As the inner temperature increases, the state of brainwave is activated on the overall part of the brain. Also, when the heartbeat and blood pressure increase in the state of increased inner temperature, the changes related to the state of brainwave occur between the left hemisphere and the occipital lobe. As a result, it is possible to know that the correlation coefficients among the channels for T3, T4, C3, C4, O1 and O2 increase. 4.2 Analysis of the Characteristics of Brainwave According to Dyspnea Caused by Temperature Changes For the analysis of the characteristics of brainwave and the correlation of cerebral activities when the breathing state is changed according to the temperature changes, the cross-correlation analysis of the brainwave data collected from the eight electrodes attached to the points of Fp1, Fp2, T3, T4, C3, C4, O1 and O2 is executed. The average data related to 40 people in the subject group is calculated and indicated in Figure 5.


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Fig. 5. Correlation among Different Channels in the State of Dyspnea according to the Temperature Changes

In this thesis, by analyzing the characteristics of the brain signals in the state of dyspnea according to the temperature changes, the biggest change is shown at 38℃ between 28℃ and 50℃. It is possible to know that the active changes related to the state of brainwave occur on the overall part of the brain at 38℃. Also, the correlation between the parietal lobe and the occipital lobe of the brain (the correlation among T3, T4, C3, C4, O1 and O2) increases the most at 38℃ between 28℃ and 50℃. At that point, the changes related to the state of brainwave occur in the most active way. 4.3 Analysis of the Brainwave Factors Causing Dyspnea for Each Frequency Broadband According to the results of each analysis described in Clause 4.1 and Clause 4.2, the inner temperature changes influence the changes related to the state of brainwave. Also, they influence the changes related to the states of heartbeat and blood pressure. In this thesis, in order to analyze the changes related to the overall state of brainwave and the heartbeat and blood pressure which change the state, the collected brainwave data has been classified for each frequency broadband. Then, the correlation among the channels has been analyzed. Based on the result of the analysis, the specific analysis of characteristics has been executed. 4.3.1 Analysis of the Influence by the Field of Delta Wave (0.1Hz~4Hz) on Dyspnea Regarding the changes related to heartbeat and blood pressure in the field of delta wave as shown in Figure 6, it is possible to know that the changes related to the correlation among the channels for the measurement of the changes in regard to the state of brainwave are similar to the changes related to the overall correlation for the brainwave signals as shown in Figure 5. The level of response in the field of delta

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wave shows the biggest change at 38℃ between 28℃ and 50℃ as the states of the heartbeat and blood pressure of the people in the subject group change after accomplishing the mission in the simulation (holding breath). Also, it is possible to know that the changes related to the active state of brainwave occur on the overall part of the brain at 38℃. The correlation between the parietal lobe and the occipital lobe of the brain (the correlation among T3, T4, C3, C4, O1 and O2) increases the most at 38℃ between 28℃ and 50℃. Also, it is possible to know that the changes related to the state of brainwave actively occur at this point. Such a result is similar to the one for the analysis of the correlation among different channels according to temperature changes when the symptoms of dyspnea occur.







Fig. 6. Correlation among the Channels for the Field of Delta Wave according to the Temperature Changes and Dyspnea

4.3.2 Analysis of the Influence by the Field of Theta Wave (4Hz~8Hz) on Dyspnea As shown in Figure 7, there are great differences between the changes related to the correlation coefficients among different channels in regard to the estimation of the changes related to the overall state of brainwave when there are changes of heartbeat and blood pressure according to the temperatures in the field of theta wave and the changes related to the correlation of the overall brainwave signals described in Figure 4 and Figure 5. By comparing (a), (b) and (c) in Figure 1-4 with (a), (b) and (c) in Figure 4, 5 and 6, it is possible to know that there are clearly small changes in regard to the changes related to the state of brainwave according to temperature changes. Also, the state of brainwave between the frontal lobe and the temporal lobe is being actively executed. In regard to the correlation coefficients among different channels for the measurement of the changes related to the state of brainwave, it is possible to know that there are small changes related to the state of brainwave as well as the changes related to the surrounding temperature.








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Fig. 9. Correlation among Different Channels in the Field of Beta Wave according to the Temperature Changes and Dyspnea

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The characteristics of EEG and the influence of the temperature changes have been considered as the results of this research. It will be necessary to combine all the variable environmental factors other than the factor of temperature in order to execute an additional research for the practical application. Acknowledgments. This work was supported by research grants from the Catholic University of Daegu in 2010.

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A Study on MAC Address Spoofing Attack Detection Structure in Wireless Sensor Network Environment Sungmo Jung1, Jong Hyun Kim2, and Seoksoo Kim1,* 1

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Abstract. Wireless sensor network applies authentication by registering/managing user IP and MAC addresses. However, the existing methods are vulnerable to MAC address spoofing, in which a malicious user changes a client’s MAC address into his own, calling for a new detection method. Therefore, this paper provides a method of detecting MAC address spoofing attacks in real-time by collecting wireless traffic data through AirSensor/AP- and using a MAC Address Index table in TMS. Keywords: Wireless Sensor Network, MAC Address Spoofing, Spoofing Attack Detection.

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A wired network can be used only when a user receives an IP address and physical port connection from a network administrator. The network administrator applies various authentication and security systems, using the NAC(Network Admission Control) system[1] in order to register/manage user IP and MAC(Media Access Control) addresses[2]. A wired network environment provides DHCP(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)[3]–based IP for user convenience. Thus, it employs MAC address registration/authentication systems so as to effectively detect malicious users. However, the existing wired network environment, using MAC address registration/ authentication methods based on the NAC system, is vulnerable to MAC Spoofing attacks[4] and, particularly, a MAC address can be easily changed in most client systems. The number of people using a wireless network is sharply increasing, for it requires no physical port connection. But such an environment allows malicious users to easily access the network, posing more serious threats compared to wired networks. Although a large number of research has been done in order to detect MAC address spoofing attacks in wireless networks, the existing methods including PTD(Personal Trusted Device)-based wireless network management[5] and wireless MAC address spoofing detection[6] are still not sufficient to discover such attacks in advance. Therefore, this paper provides a method of detecting MAC address spoofing attacks in real-time by collecting wireless traffic data through AirSensor/AP- and using a MAC Address Index table in TMS(Threat Management System). *

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There is a unique address in the NIC(Network Interface Card), which is called a hardware or MAC address. A MAC address, assigned to a network card manufacturer, is composed of 48 bits. The number is assigned to venders by IEEE[7] and cannot be duplicated. MAC address spoofing attacks avoid NIC-based authentication by changing MAC addresses. The following is the general scenario of MAC address spoofing attacks.

① A malicious user scans MAC addresses of surrounding clients using wireless networks ② He changes one of the scanned MAC addresses into his MAC address ③ He blocks a client’s wireless network connection through De-Auth[8] attacks ④ He attempts communication with AP using the fake MAC address ⑤ He uses the fake MAC address in order to receive internal network authentication ⑥ He produces SoftAP[9] using other wireless network cards ⑦ A client attempts communication through SoftAP and the malicious user attempts sniffing of the client’s data

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There is quite a large number of methods to attack wireless networks but not sufficient number of detection methods. Therefore, wireless vulnerability diagnostic tools use systems that make virtual wireless network attacks in order to find out which part of the network is particularly vulnerable. This paper also uses such system so as to diagnose vulnerability and provide solutions. Diagnostic tools can discover varied vulnerability to EAP START DoS, EAP FAILURE DoS, EAP LogOFF DoS, Fake AP, and so on[11]. The following figure shows how the tools collect scan data for surrounding APs and carry out virtual attacks.

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Previous studies[12] are mainly focused on detection of MAC address spoofing. They use MAC address spoofing attack tools and analyze MAC addresses or sequence numbers through packet dump. Then, extracted attack patterns are compared with rule-based attack detection modules in order to discover MAC address spoofing. In particular, when such a tool is used, the sequence number increases by 1, which indicates MAC address spoofing in the network.

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In order for safe wireless sensor networks, this paper provides a system of detecting MAC address spoofing attacks by collecting wireless traffic data based on AirSensor/ AP and sending the information to TMS. This solution can detect/block MAC address spoofing in real-time as well as protect private/internal networks. In case more advanced wireless network technologies such as 802.11n or 802.11i are commercialized, this solution can be fully applied with follow-up research. Acknowledgement. This paper has been supported by the Software R&D program of KEIT. [2010-10035257, Development of a Global Collaborative Integrated Security Control System]

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Mapping Based on Three Cameras for 3D Face Modeling Jae-gu Song and Seoksoo Kim* Dept. of Multimedia, Hannam Univ., 133 Ojeong-dong, Daedeok-gu, Daejeon-city, Korea [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. In this research, we use three cameras to produce a 3D face model based on 2D images. The suggested method extracts a facial region using color values and calculates the face structure by applying the AAM algorithm. The three processed images are combined to produce a final 3D image. Keywords: Mapping, 3D modeling, Face modeling.

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3D face modeling is a study on computer vision, which is widely applied to face recognition, games, VFX, and so on, for it is more elaborate and realistic compared to 2D modeling. And yet, it is still not possible to produce a highly realistic face model, which makes the technology limited to VFX or animation. So far, 3D face modeling has been produced by measurement of coordinates or 2D images [1][2]. However, most studies require very expensive equipment and dozens of cameras, restricting the application. In this research, we used only 3 cameras in order to take a picture of a face in a mobile environment and extracted features from the images to be applied to 3D modeling. In Chapter 2, we will discuss related studies and, in Chapter 3, provide how to produce a 3D model using only 3 cameras. Also, the physical and software environment, applied to the system, will be explained. Chapter 4 will provide a conclusion and prospects.

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▪ It can extend rules related with a change or an improvement can be made through normalization of conditions. ▪ Each component of a face is related with a specific GKS distance in terms of locations. The algorithm establishes a statistical model of an object class in advance and adjusts the statistical model in order to minimize a difference between the appearances of the object class and those of an object in a new image, searching for the target object in a new image. AAM is as follows. Assuming that a shape s is described by feature points, s = [ 1, 1, 2, 2, . . . , , ] in the image, a shape is represented in AAM as a mean shape s0 plus a linear combination of shape bases {s }: s(P)= s P

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A Social Education Network Based on Location Sensing Information Using Smart-Phones* Jang-Mook Kang1,** and Sook-Young Choi2 1

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Abstract. This paper aims to construct a social network among e-learning learners on the basis of the location information of the learner and the instructor obtained using GPS sensors, etc. For this, we suggest a system that supports the construction of a social education network service using the location information of the smart-phone in e-learning. This system provides a mechanism to form a social network service among students who take the same on-line course or have similar interests. Through this system, e-learners can create communities for learning and exchange help among them. The support of a location based social network service in our system would increase interactions among e-learners and improve satisfaction regarding their mobile learning environment. Keywords: Smart-Phone, Social Education, Collaborative Learning.

1 Introduction The social dimension of learning is also central to the idea of situated learning and communities of practice to be used in the social context in the network era. Social education has always been of great significance to teachers, learners and others. Learning is a function of the activity, context and culture in which it occurs, where social interaction is critical. Tinto [4] stresses that academic satisfaction is not enough for some students who suffer from isolation. The intensity and reciprocity of a social interaction can, together with other factors, result in such drastic measures as students dropping out of a course. This problem (low-level of social interaction) is more serious with e-learning courses. Carr [1] points out that anecdotal evidence and studies by individual institutions suggest that online course completion is much lower than in F2F (face to face) courses. A number of studies have found the retention of e-learners to be lower *

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than the retention of on-campus learners. Interaction with classmates and the professor is a significant contributor to perceived learning in on-line courses [2, 3]. Students who report a high level of interaction report a high level of perceived learning in a course. Accordingly, it would be important to boost e-learners so that they can construct a social network among them. Through the social network service, students will have F2F meetings as well as on-line meetings. This social interaction would increase the student’s satisfaction with the course, increasing the probability that the student will not drop the course. Currently, there are increasing demands and interest in location-sensing based services with advancements in smart-phones (which have GPS capability), PDAs, Bluetooth, dedicated GPS equipment and other devices (such as i-Pad, navigation devices, digital cameras and so on). The provisioning of services using location information is known as location-based services (LBS). With the use of mobile users’ geographic information, the relevant services are provided to the users. There are varieties of LBS applications [6, 7]. Positioning and routing guidance are known as the most common use. Location-sensitive services and location-based games are also at work [5]. Mobile social networking appears to the users as the result of social network services coming to mobile devices, especially smart-phones. This paper proposes a system that supports the construction of a social education network service using the location information of the smart-phone in mobile-learning. This system provides a mechanism to form a social network service among the students who take the same on-line course or have similar interests. Through this system, e-learners can create communities for learning and exchange help among them. In addition, they can have F2F meetings for collaborative learning by using location based sensing information. This supporting of a location based social network service in our system would increase interactions among e-learners and improve satisfaction regarding their mobile learning environment. Consequently, it would make mobile-learning course completion rates higher.

2 Construction of Social Network Education Based on Location Information With the development of the Internet, various forms of content are provided to the users. In particular, educational content that was provided offline in the past is now provided to users online. Thus, the learners can utilize various forms of content anywhere, any time by using their smart-phones. As of now, however, such e-learning content is pre-prepared for service to the users. It is difficult therefore to provide interaction services real-time the existing e-learning methods only provide bulletins for sharing the lectures or for the needs of study groups. They do not provide various methods for forming a community or a small group among the learners. In particular, it is inefficient compared with face-to-face offline meetings and discussions, and thus there exists limitations on collaborative learning.

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For this purpose, in this paper, we will collect location-based information through the GPS sensor of a smart-phone and then combine it with educational content. That is, it will support a method that can construct a social education network based on the collected location information of the learners. This method will inform a mobile learner of the current location or location logging-information of other learners who attend the same online course or the instructor of the relevant course. Based on the location information provided to mobile learners, collaborative learning can be requested of other learners or the instructors. Furthermore, if other learners in the vicinity also attend the course, a learner may request them to meet at a specific place for discussion and collaborative learning. Fig. 1 explains the basic concepts of this system.

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In Fig. 1, Learner A executes the online course application on a smart-phone. Learner A requests educational content from the mobile-learning server. The mobile-learning server generates additional information from the location information of Learner A and provides it together with the educational content. Alternatively, it provides additional information based on the location information included in the educational content. For example, if the content of the course is about ‘2010 Korea-US FTA at the Blue House,’ the information on the locality of the Blue House is provided in addition to the educational information. Learner A provides his location to the mobile-learning server at the same time he requests the educational content from the mobile-learning server. At this time, the mobile-learning server searches for the enrollment and location information of Learner B who is near to Learner A. Alternatively, it searches for information such as the location information received from the smart-phone of the instructor of the educational content, i.e., the professor or the assistant of the course. By using the information of the course or Learner B, Learner A can search for the people who attend the same course or who may assist.

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In particular, the location of Learner A is tracked by the GPS sensing capability of the smart-phone. The location information of Learner A is used to help him meet at a specific place other people who attend the same course if they are nearby. In this way, online e-learning can be extended to face-to-face meetings. In other words, close social relationships between students and between students and instructors can be formed by using smart-phones. Learner A sends a message requesting collaboration to the mobile-learning server for a person in the local area who can assist on the course. The mobile-learning server sends the request message it received from Learner A to Learner B or the instructor. It realizes a real-time social network by receiving a response to the request message. To make the above services possible, the mobile-learning server performs the following functions. First, the mobile-learning server receives the location information and GPS identification information from the learner and the instructor. Second, it saves the location information in the database. Third, it adds the educational information and the additional information to the saved location information. Fourth, when Learner A makes a request to Learner B or the instructor at a specific place, it processes the request. Fifth, the learners (A, B, C, … N) and the instructors (A, B, C, … N) connect in real-time to the mobile-learning server to share location information and obtain social and additional information. Sixth, it helps to construct social education network services by utilizing the location information as meta-tags.

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Fig. 2 shows a location-based learning support system which provides the construction of a social education network service using the location information of the smart-phone in mobile-learning. As seen in Fig. 2, the location-based learning support system generally consists of the four modules (Data Sender/Receiver Module, Course Content Management Module, Location-based Information Management Module, and Learner/Instructor Management Module) and three DBs (Course Content DB, Location based Information Content DB, and Learner/Instructor Content DB).

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The Data Sender/Receiver Module receives the request for content from the smartphone of the learner or the instructor and sends the request for the content to the Course Content Management Module. The Course Content Management Module generates the location-based educational content and saves the generated educational content in the Course Content DB. The Learner/Instructor Management Module collects the user’s information relevant to each item of educational content. The collected information is saved in the Learner/Instructor content DB and the Location-based Information Content DB. The Location-based Information Management Module receives the location information of the smart-phone registered in the mobile-learning server through the Data Sender/Receiver Module. The received location information is saved in the Location-based Course Information DB after matching this data with each smart-phone user. Also, it collects the location information of the smart-phone when the educational content is provided. Fig. 3 shows the execution algorithm of the Location-based Information Management Module

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We assumed that the services will use this place and time next time, if service was demanded in specific location and time. So, we used the information of time, location, frequency to provide services to user more correctly and suggested profile which using recently access time, access time, frequency of access, location value, weekend value. And the values stored in profile. - recently access time(t): This value stored time when service used recently, and use for finding service which not used for a long time. - access time(a): This value have to 24 from 0, and if service was used on 1 P.M, it’s value has 13. - frequency of access (f): This value stored frequency of service how many user used the service.

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- location value(l): This value have unique number of place where service was used. For example, if user used A service in house and office, location value of A service which used in house is 1, other is 10. - weekend value(e): This value have to 7 from 1, if service used on Monday, weekend value is 1. Generally, people’s life pattern was repeated per week. So we use the value for analyzing service frequency of user per week. In case of using the service, we need location information where service used for inferring user’s inclination and context efficiently. So, we simply classified location information which has a unique value, such as the following: - Home : Bathroom(1), bedroom(2) - Office : Lobby(3), elevator(4), floor(5), office room(6), conference room(7) - Other : Street(8), Car(9), etc And we represented frequency of access to 3-Dimension graph which have threecoordinate values(access time, location value, weekend value). For example, if user demand A service at 7 A.M, Monday on bathroom, an then weekend value(monday is mean 1 in the location model) has 1, access time has 9, location value has 1. So frequency of A service is represent at coordinate (7, 1, 1) and has 1 value. If user will demand A service at same time and place, frequency of A service which has coordinate (7, 1, 1) will become 1 by increasing. Also, we find location information of service which has most high value of frequency which place on responding coordinate among it, and put it in service storage which user will use the service.

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In this paper, to provide users with suitable services and manage resources effectively by using context information in the mobile cloud environment, we were proposed to profile which stored location and time, frequency information of often used service among various services, and put the service which will expect to use in any location. The system used a profile made in the form of an XML document, and classified information, which was used by users when context arose with elements such as location, time, date(week), and frequency. If the user is located at a specific place, our system provide service to the user through location, time, date(week), and frequency information, which is stored in the user’s profile. As a further research, we are needed algorithm of similarity assessment between current and past context, and technique that extracts context information and does modeling, the resources management technique that manages distributed IT resources effectively by using context information, and the part that examines the performance and tests after embodying the actual platform proposed. Acknowledgments. This research was financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science Technology (MEST) and National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) through the Human Resource Training Project for Regional Innovation.

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Context Model Based on Ontology in Mobile Cloud Computing Changbok Jang and Euiin Choi* Dept. of Computer Engineering, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. Mobile Cloud Computing has become as a new IT paradigm because of the growth of mobile device like smartphone and appearance of Cloud Computing environment. This mobile cloud environment provides various services and IT resources according to users‘ requests, so an effective management of service and IT resources is required. Hence, this paper designs a context model based on ontology in mobile cloud computing in order to provide distributed IT resources and services to users based on context-awareness information. As the context model proposed in this paper uses context-aware information, it enables to provide more accurate personalized services and manage distributed IT resources. Keywords: Cloud computing, Context-aware, Context model, Ontology, Intelligence Service, Mobile cloud computing.

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The market of mobile recently has been evolving rapidly and cloud computing is spreading into mobile as well. That is why mobile cloud computing is becoming a new issue today. Cloud computing is the computing that provides virtualized IT resources as a service by using Internet technology. In cloud computing, a user lends IT resources (software, storage, server, network) as needed, uses them, get a support of real-time scalability according to service load, and pays as he/she goes. Especially the cloud computing environment distributes IT resources and allocates according to user’s request, so there should be a study on technology that manages these resources and deals with effectively[1]. Mobile cloud computing creates a new chance for IT industry because it allows the superiority and economic of cloud computing to meet the mobility and convenience of mobile and draws a synergy effect for both. Also mobile cloud computing refers to an infrastructure that data storage and data processing is done outside mobile device by using cloud computing in the regardless of kinds of mobile devices. Mobile devices used in the mobile environment include personal information and enable to provide the environment that collects a variety of context-aware information. Users’ demand on service types suitable for the individual situation has been increasing. *



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Therefore, context-aware reasoning technique has been studied to provide a suitable service for user by using user’ context and personal profile information in mobile environment[2-9]. In this context-aware system, a formal context model has to be provided to offer information needed by application as well as store context and manage. However, there are some technical constraints for this context-aware model to overcome because it itself cannot be applied to mobile platform due to limited device resources, so the study on intelligent mobile service in mobile platform is still insufficient. Recent interest related to mobile cloud is personal smartphone. The study on physical support like connecting smartphone to personal virtual system on cloud and using computing resources unlimitedly is quite active, but the study on how to manage distributed IT resources effectively and provide intelligent mobile service through reasoning based on collected information and role as a medium of collecting context of mobile device is ignored. Therefore, this paper designs a context model based on ontology in mobile cloud computing and develops in order to the optimized mobile cloud service through recognizing the conditions of user and cloud server and reasoning on the basis of external context achieved from mobile or internal user’s personal information and information of resources from cloud server and service use information.

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Mobile platform is mainly referred to mobile middleware what lets users operate the optimized contents or service on mobile and it provided a formed interface to UI and service by using RTOS (Realtime OS) and hardware function. There are Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android, Symbian, etc. as these mobile platform. There are Context-aware information modeling techniques such as Key-value model, Markup scheme model, Graphical model, Object oriented model, and ontology based model which are used in the existing ubiquitous environment and Web environment. Ontology model, a Context-aware model which has been studied mostly recently, enables to express concepts and interactions easily. Recently ontology model has been studied lively related to Semantic Web study based on OWL(Web Ontology Language) and there is a movement to adapt ontology-based model in a variety of context-aware framework. One of the early methods of context modeling using ontology was proposed by Otzturk and Aamodt. Van Heijst divided ontologies into Structure Type and Concept Issues in the study for ontology. Structure Type is classified as Knowledge Modeling Ontology, Information Ontology and Terminological Ontology. Concept Issues is divided as Domain Ontology, Application Ontology, Representation Ontology and Generic Ontology[10]. Guarino classified ontologies according to general level to represent context of different kinds [11]. Top-level Ontologies describe general concepts like space, time, matter, object, event and action. Domain Ontologies and Task Ontologies describe the vocabulary related to a generic domain or a generic task or activity by specializing the terms introduced in the Top-level Ontology. Application Ontologies describe concepts depending both on a particular domain and task, which are often specializations of both the related ontology. These concepts correspond to roles played by domain entities while performing a certain activity. Context modeling in context-awareness

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needs to acquire context initially. Then it is necessary to process modeling to enable acquired context to use. Many projects have used context model with their certain type. Context Toolkit[12] suggested middleware layers that serve to convey to application after acquiring original information and transforming it into any type that application can be understandable. Hydrogen was developed by Hofer[13]. This system is based on hierarchical architecture. This model’s representation ability is admirable because it represented model with object-oriented method. But the representation formality is incomplete. Karen’s context information model is based on object-oriented method. This modeling concept provides a formal basis for representing and reasoning about some of the properties of context information such as its persistence and other temporal characteristics, its quality and its interdependencies[14]. He attempted to model using both the Entity-Relationship model and the class diagrams of UML. CASS(Context-Awareness Sub-Structure)[15] is a framework for context-aware mobile application designed with middleware approach. By separating into application and context inference, this middleware can be able to infer context without recompiling. CONON(the Context Ontology)[16] is divided as Upper Domain and specific Sub Domain. The context model is structured around a set of abstract entities, each describing a physical or conceptual object including Person, Activity, Computational Entity and Location, as well as a set of abstract sub-classes. This model supports extensibility to add specific concepts in different application domain. It also supports the use of logic reasoning to check the consistency of context information, and to reason over low-level, but it’s difficult to represent diverse context with upper context restricted selectively. However, these context models not sufficient on mobile cloud computing. Therefore, this paper proposes context model in order to manage resources more effectively by using personal context information and do modeling context-aware information in mobile platform and reason.

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In this paper, we suggested context-aware-based intelligence mobile cloud service platform for efficiently managing resource to use context-aware information. As shown figure 1, suggested system consisted of intelligence agent and intelligence middleware. Intelligence agent was responsible for understanding a variety of context-aware information and inferring it. And it consisted of sub-modules such as service module, context-aware preprocessor, personal profile, context-aware information modeling database. Intelligence middleware was responsible for providing services and efficiently managing IT resources by user’s request on mobile cloud computing. Context-aware preprocessor on intelligence agent included process for collecting context-aware information and modeling it, inferring context-aware information, and responsible for understanding what user’s situation was. Service module was responsible for sending context-aware information to intelligence middleware, providing services that suitable to user. Personal profile was repository which was stored personal information, such as service information by using user, user’s ID, password. Context-aware modeling database was stored to information which was modeled by using ontology.


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Intelligence middleware consisted of interaction interface for communicating to agent, resource manager, service manager, Service catalog, Provisioning Rule Database. Resource manager responsible for effectively allocating and managing service information was required for processing user’s request service, and consisted of monitoring module, provisioning module, and scheduler. Monitoring module crawled information of IT resource utilization. Provisioning module set up plan for providing best service to analyze contextaware information which was transferred by user and utilization information of IT resource. Scheduler was scheduled to utilization of service and resource by plan which was established to provisioning module. Service Catalog was stored service information for which user used, provisioning rule database was stored rule for providing best provisioning process to use contextaware information and utilization of resource. Also, service module was responsible for executing service and using distributed IT resource to providing service to user, and consisted of sub-module, such that synchronization module. Synchronization module responsible for synchronizing resource which user was using on cloud computing.

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In this paper, generic ontology is user, service, resource, provision, activity. And they are connected with each other through relational property(eg. Locatedin between User and location). Individual generic ontology includes domain ontology as a detailed material and immaterial entity(eg, User and location). Consequently, it provides extensibility and formal representation ability by hierarchical ontology classification.

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Context modeling in context-awareness needs to acquire context initially. And then it is necessary to process modeling to enable acquired context to use. In this paper, we have proposed context model to provide users with suitable services and manage resources effectively by using context information in the Mobile Cloud environment. We have also defined context for modeling through diverse context definitions. We have classified ontology and represent hierarchically. The proposed context model by the paper is expected to help have the optimized personalized service and effective IT resources management in the Mobile Cloud environment. As a further research, we will include additional function for inference. Also we will try to progress in a study that interpret and inference the high level context, and study the resources management technique that manages distributed IT resources effectively by using context information, and the part that examines the performance and tests after embodying the actual platform proposed.


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SPECC - A New Technique for Direction of Arrival Estimation In-Sik Choi Department of Electronic Engineering, Hannam University 133 Ojung-dong, Daeduk-Gu, Daejeon 306-791, Republic of Korea [email protected]

Abstract. In this paper, a novel direction of arrival (DOA) estimation scheme is proposed. The proposed algorithm, called the signal parameter extraction via component cancellation (SPECC), is an evolutionary optimization-based method and extracts the amplitudes of signal sources and DOA impinging on a sensor array in a step-by-step procedure, different from other algorithms such as MUSIC, root-MUSIC, ESPRIT, etc., which extract those parameters at the same time. Our algorithm has robustness to noise and high resolution in DOA estimation. In the simulation, comparisons with root-MUSIC, which has been known as one of the best algorithms, are presented to illustrate the superiority of the proposed SPECC algorithm. Keywords: direction of arrival, signal parameter extraction via component cancellation, sensor array.

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Extraction of signal parameters from the received data by array antenna is a critical issue in radar, sonar and communication systems such as smart antennas and real-time location system (RTLS). In the previous research, a variety of techniques for DOA estimation have been proposed. The well-known methods are, for example, the maximum likelihood (ML) technique [1], the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) [2], the root-MUSIC [3], the Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques (ESPRIT) [4], and the genetic algorithm (GA)-based method [5]. Each algorithm has a strength and weakness relative to each other. In this paper, a new DOA estimation algorithm, called signal parameter extraction via component cancellation (SPECC), is proposed [6]. The previously developed algorithms mentioned above extract the parameters (amplitudes and DOAs) of all source signals at the same time. In our algorithm, however, the parameters of each source signal out of multiple signals impinging on a sensor array are extracted in a step-by-step procedure. For the optimization of cost function, we use the evolutionary programming (EP), since EP is a stochastic process and does not suffer from local minimum problem. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 152–160, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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Our algorithm has the characteristics of high resolution, robustness and accuracy. Of the many DOA estimation methods, the root-MUSIC algorithm is considered as one of the best. Therefore, we compared our algorithm with root-MUSIC. In the simulation, we conduct some tests to verify the high-resolution, robustness to noise, and accuracy of the proposed SPECC algorithm.

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Traditionally, the gradient-based methods are used for complex function optimization. However, the gradient-based methods have a problem of local minima because of the characteristic of local search behavior. Therefore, the global optimization algorithms, such as the genetic algorithms (GA), the evolutionary strategies (ES), the evolutionary programming (EP), etc., have emerged as efficient and robust search methods. In this paper, we use EP since EP is suitable for real-valued and high-precision optimization problems. EP is performed using the following procedures. STEP 1. (Initialization) Let q=1 where q is the generation index, and generate an initial N P trial solutions with uniform distribution within the given domain. The nth individual vector is defined as follows: X n = [ xn1 , xn2 , ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅⋅, xnJ ],

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The proposed SPECC algorithm extracts the desired number of signal sources in order from the highest energy to the lowest energy. Thus, the individual’s dimension becomes very low compared to the GA-based method [5] which extracts parameters of all signal sources simultaneously. In that method, each individual is composed of DOAs, amplitudes, and relative phases of whole signal sources, whereas in our algorithm, each individual is composed of only one signal source parameters. As the dimension of the individual vector increases, premature convergence to local minimum is more likely to occur and the convergence time is much longer [8]. In this paper, we consider a linear array with I sensor elements as in Fig. 1 and M narrowband receiving signals.

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To verify the performance of the SPECC algorithm, we use some different scenarios. First, we consider two closely spaced source signals to show the high-resolution. The magnitudes and DOAs of two signal sources are shown in Table 1. The number of array element I = 8 and inter-element distance d= λ /2.

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In this paper, we propose a novel high-resolution DOA estimation method which is called SPECC algorithm. The SPECC algorithm has the characteristics of highresolution, robustness to noise, and high accuracy. Furthermore, our algorithm doesn’t need the information of the number of source signals (M) which is very important in the MUSIC or the root-MUSIC method. In the simulation results, we verified these characteristics by comparing with the standard beamformer and the root-MUSIC. The application of the SPECC algorithm to the communication systems such as RTLS and smart antennas remains as a future work. Acknowledgment. This work has been supported by 2011 Hannam University Research Fund.

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Trading Off Complexity for Expressiveness in Programming Languages for Embedded Devices: Visions and Experiences Vincenzo De Florio and Chris Blondia University of Antwerp Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Systems group Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT) Gaston Crommenlaan 8, 9050 Ghent-Ledeberg, Belgium

Abstract. When programming resource-scarce embedded smart devices the designer requires both the low-level system programming features of a language such as C and higher level capability typical of a language like Java. The choice of a particular language often implies trade offs between conflicting design goals such as performance, costs, time-to-market, and overheads. The large variety of languages, virtual machines, and translators provides the designer with a dense trade off space, ranging from minimalistic to rich full-fledged approaches, but once a choice is made it is often difficult and tricky for the designer to revise it. In this work we propose a different approach based on the principles of language-oriented programming. A system of light-weighted and modular extensions is proposed as a method to adaptively reshape the target programming language as needed, adding only those application layer features that match the current design goals. By doing so complexity is made transparent, but not hidden: While the programmer can benefit from higher level constructs, the designer and the deployer can deal with modular building blocks each characterized by a certain algorithmic complexity and therefore each accountable for a given share of the overhead. As a result the designer is provided with finer control on the amount of computing resources that are consumed by the run-time executive of the chosen programming language.

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The December 2010 Tiobe Programming Community index [32], ranking programming languages according to their matching rate in several search engines, sets C as the second most popular programming language, barely 2% less than Java. C’s object-oriented counterpart C++ is third but quite further away (9.014% vs. 16.076%). Quite remarkably, C scored the top position in April 2010 and was even “programming language of the year” for Tiobe in 2008, exhibiting that is the highest rise in ratings in that year—a notable feat achieved by Java in 2005. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 161–175, 2011. c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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Both quite successful and wide-spread, C and Java represent two extremes of a spectrum of programming paradigms ranging from system-level to service-level development. Interestingly enough, in C complexity is mostly in the application layer, as its run-time is often very small [18]; in Java, on the other hand, non-negligible complexity comes also with a typically rich execution environment (EE). The latter comprises a virtual machine and advanced features e.g. autonomic garbage collection. The only way to trade off the EE complexity for specific services is then by adopting or designing a new EE. Various EE’s are available, developed by third parties to match specific classes of target platforms. Fine-tuning the EE is also possible, e.g. in Eclipse; and of course it is also possible to go for a custom implementation. In general, though, the amount and the nature of the EE complexity is hidden to the programmer and the designer: after all, it is the very same nature of Java as a portable programming language that forbids to exploit such knowledge. Though transparent, such hidden complexity is known to have an impact on several aspects, including overhead, real-timeliness, deterministic behavior, and security [10]. In particular, when a computer system’s non-functional behavior is well defined and part of that system’s quality of service—as it is the case e.g. for real-time embedded systems—then any task with unknown algorithmic complexity or exhibiting non-deterministic behavior might simply be unacceptable. As an example, a run-time component autonomically recollecting unused memory, though very useful in itself, often results in asynchronous, unpredicted system activity affecting e.g. the processors and the memory system—including caches. Taking asynchronous tasks such as this into account would impact negatively on the analysis of worst-case execution times and consequently on costs as well. Moreover, the availability of different flavors of the Java EE is likely to bring about assumption failures—as explained in [5]. In what follows we propose an alternative—in a sense, an opposite—direction: Instead of stripping functionality from Java to best match a given target platform, we chose to add functionality to C to compensate for lack of expressiveness and linguistic support. More specifically, in our approach, C with its minimalistic run-time executive becomes a foundation on top of which the designer is made able to easily lay a system of modular linguistic extensions. By doing so the above mentioned partitioning of complexity is not statically defined and unchangeable, but rather revisable under the control of the designer. Depending on the desired linguistic features and the overhead permitted by the target platform as well as by mission and cost constraints, our approach allows the programming language to be flexibly reshaped. This is because our approach employs well-defined “complexity containers”, each of which is granting a few specific functions and each of which characterized by well-defined complexity and overhead. Syntactic features and EE functions are weaved together under the control of the designer, resulting in bound and known complexity. A dynamic trade off between complexity and expressiveness can then be achieved and possibly revised in later development stages or when the code is reused on a different platform. In principle such

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Modular extensions to programming languages have been the subject of many an investigation, both theoretical and empirical. The most significant and possibly closest genus here is given by the family of approaches, which includes e.g. Language Workbenches [17] and Intentional Programming [28], and is collectively known as Language-oriented Programming [33,16] (LoP). In LoP it is argued that current paradigms “force the programmer to think like the computer rather than having the computer think more like the programmer” [16], which makes programming both time consuming and error prone. A considerable distance exists between the conceptual solution of a problem and its representation in an existing computer language. Such distance is called the redundancy of the language in LoP and is also known as syntactical adequacy [7]. The LoP vision is that, the larger this distance, the more programming becomes difficult, time-consuming, unpleasant, and error prone. To remedy this, LoP advocates that programming should not be simply the process of encoding our concepts in some conventional programming language; it should be creating a collection of domain-specific languages (DSLs) each of which specializes in the optimal representation of one of our concepts. Programming becomes then (1) solving a number of such sub-problems of optimal expression and (2) creating a “workflow” that hooks together all the bits and pieces into a coherent execution flow. With the words of one of its pioneers, LoP advocates the ability “to use different languages for each specialized part of the program, all working together coherently” [16]. Each language ideally should offer the least redundant expression of a concept, in a form that is as close as possible to the means a person would use to communicate their concept to another person. The approach suggested in this paper goes along the very same direction of LoP: We propose to create collections of “little languages” (tiny DSLs providing minimal-redundancy expressions of domain-specific problems) and to use a simple application layer to bind everything together. Next sections show how natural language concepts such as “tell me at anytime what is the current temperature” or “cycle this operation continuously” can be embedded in the programming language as modular, reusable extensions. Another family of approaches related to ours is given by the quite popular “AspectC” projects, including among others AspectC [1], WeaveC [26], and AspectC++ [25]. The latter project is particularly relevant in that it was used

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successfully to program small embedded systems such as the AVR ATmega microcontroller. In the cited paper the authors describe how to represent abstract sensors in AspectC++ in an elegant and cost-effective way. Indeed we witnessed ourselves how expressive and effective aspects can be by coding an adaptive strategy to tolerate performance failures in video rendering applications [29]. In the reported experience we also used an Eclipse plug-in as in [25], but with AspectJ as programming language. Also in this case aspects reify abstract sensors reporting the current value of relevant context figures such as available CPU and bandwidth. It is worth remarking how aspect languages exhibit minimal redundancy of the language only in specific domains. When confronted with domain-specific problems such as exception handling, also aspects call for dense and cumbersome translations of natural language concepts [24,7]. In what follows we describe our method—a minimalistic implementation of LoP based on so-called “little languages” and simple run-time executives based on Posix threads. The specific difference between mainstream programming language approaches and ours is that, by using modular, reusable DSL extensions, we provide minimally language-redundant translations of natural language concepts. Such translations constitute a composable high-level language rather than a collection of low-level methods.

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This section introduces three basic components of our approach: Linguistic support to context awareness (Sect. 3.1), adaptive redundancy management (Sect. 3.2), and application-level management of cyclic events (Sect. 3.3). In all three cases the syntactical extension instruments the memory access operations on certain variables. 3.1

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Our first component, called Reflective Switchboards (ReS), provides high level linguistic support for context awareness to a host language such as C or C++. Building on top of our reflective variables system [6], ReS provides transparent access to sensors and actuators by means of a source-to-source translator and a number of run-time components. A description of the ReS features and its components constitutes the rest of this section. The idea behind ReS is best described by considering Fig. 1 and Fig. 2. In the former picture four components are displayed: the user application (UA), a Callback Interpreter (CI), a server thread (ST), and a sensor driver (SD). The CI is unique for each user application, while instances of ST and SD are executed for specific families of physical sensors—e.g., operating system-specific or network layer-specific. In Fig. 1 the UA makes use of a single sensor called V. UA executes a simple domain-specific task, which could be expressed in natural language e.g. as follows: “Keep me posted about the running values of


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V, and execute this maintenance task whenever V reaches a certain value”. A simple “little language” (the popular name for DSLs coded with traditional tools Lex and YACC [23]) makes it possible to code expressions such as the above with very limited redundancy of the language. As an example, Fig. 3 shows a ReS program that (1) continuously updates the content of variable int cpu with an integer approximating the current percentage of CPU being used, and (2) automatically calls function largerThan10 each and every time condition “(cpu>10);” becomes true. “Whenever condition do action” is realized by methods RR VARS and rrparse (char *guard, int (action*)(void)). The former launches the CI as a Posix thread and performs some initializations. Method rrparse then requests the CI to register a new guarded action—that is, an action whose execution is conditioned by the validity of an arithmetic expression. The first argument of rrparse is such expression—a string that is parsed by the CI and translated into a simple and

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compact pseudo-code. The second argument is the action associated with the guard. The pseudo-code for the guarded action is then pushed onto an internal stack. This is represented on top of Fig. 1. The “keep me posted about V” part is realized by method RR VAR V. Such method initializes the run-time executive for reflective variable V. This executes a corresponding ST as a Posix thread. As described in Fig. 1, ST then activates and binds to its associated sensor driver SD. By doing so, ST requests to be notified by SD for each context change pertaining sensor(s) V. After the above initializations, ReS enters its “steady state”, depicted in Fig. 2: While the UA proceeds undisturbed, actions are triggered on the ReS components when the SD’s reports a new value of their sensors. In this case the ST updates the memory cells of the corresponding “sensor variable” and then requests the CI to interprete the pseudo-code stored in its stack. For each guarded action g → a, guard g is evaluated and, when found true, the CI executes method a. ReS also uses variables as access points to actuators by intercepting all the assignments in which the left value is a legal “actuator variable”. After the assignment, the translator simply adds a method to communicate the new value to the corresponding actuator. Table 1 briefly lists the currently available sensor and actuator variables. It is worth discussing two special variables—linkbeacons and linkrates. In this case yet another “little language” was designed to allow the definition of dynamically growing arrays of C structures representing the properties of the nearest neighboring peers in a Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET). The first variable, linkbeacons, is an array of sensor variables reporting Medium Access Control layer properties of MANET peers. A new object comes to life dynamically each Table 1. Currently available sensor and actuator variables and arrays name type class short description cpu int sensor CPU usage (%) bandwidth int sensor bandwidth available between localhost and a TCP remote host (Mbps) mplayer int sensor status of instance of the mplayer video player mplayer int actuator sets properties of an mplayer instance watchdog int sensor status of an instance of a watchdog timer thread watchdog int actuator controls an instance of a watchdog timer thread linkbeacons lb t [ ] sensors MAC beacons received from a network peer in a MANET linkrates lr t [ ] sensors estimated IP bandwidth between localhost and a MANET peer.


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time a new peer comes in proximity. When a peer node falls out of range, the corresponding object becomes “stale” until its node becomes reachable again. The above mentioned “little language” provides syntactic sugar to allow the linkbeacons array to be addressed by strings representing the MAC address of peer nodes. Array linkbeacons reflects a number of properties, including the number of MAC beacons received by a peer node during the last “observation period” (defined in our experiments as sixty seconds) or the number of periods elapsed without receiving at least one beacon from a certain node. Similarly, array linkrates returns Network layer properties of peers in proximity—specifically, it returns the estimated bandwidth between the current node and the one whose address is being used as an index. The above mentioned arrays are currently being used in our research group to set up cross-layer optimizations such as MAC-aware IP routing in mobile ad-hoc networks. The program used to steer this cross layer optimization is quite simple: Every new observation cycle, the program retrieves the MAC addresses of the peers in proximity via a simple function call (anext) and then requests to adjust the routing metric using the above mentioned arrays. The actual adjustments to the routing protocol are carried out through a Click [19] script. As can be seen by the above examples, despite C being a relatively simple programming language, the modular addition of linguistic features covering domain-specific sub-problems does lead to a new and more powerful language characterized by a better linguistic redundancy. 3.2

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are typically streamlined platforms in which resources are kept to a minimum in order to contain e.g. costs and power consumption, hardware support to memory error detection is often missing. When such embedded systems are mission critical and subjected to unbound levels of electro-magnetic interference (EMI), it is not uncommon to suffer from transient failures. As an example, several Toyota models recently experienced unintended acceleration and brake problems. Despite Toyota’s official communications stating otherwise, many researchers and consultants are suggesting this to be just another case of EMI-triggered failures [31,15,34]. More definitive evidence exists that EMI produced by personal electronic devices does affect electronic controls in modern aircrafts [27], as it is the case for control apparatuses operating in proximity of electrical energy stations as well [11]. Whenever EMI causes unchecked memory corruption, a common strategy is to use redundant data structures [30]: Mission-critical data structures are then “protected” by replication and voting and through redoing [11]. Our adaptive redundancy component is yet another “little language” that allows the user to tag certain C variables as being “redundant”. A run-time executive then transparently replicates those variables according to some policy (for instance, in separate “banks”) and then catches memory accesses to those variables. Write accesses are multiplexed and store their “rvalues” [18] in each replica, while read accesses are demultiplexed via a majority voting scheme. Figure 5 summarizes this via a simple example. In some cases, for instance when the application is cyclic and constantly reexecuted as in [12], the behavior of the voting scheme can be monitored and provides an estimation of the probability of failure: As an example, if the errors induced by EMI are affecting a larger and larger amount of replicas, then this can be interpreted as a risk that the voting scheme will fail in the near future due to the impossibility to achieve a majority. Detecting this and assessing the corresponding risk of voting failure allows the amount of replicas to be transparently


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and autonomically adjusted, e.g. as described in [4]. Such a run-time time scheme could also be complemented with compile-time explorations and optimizations as discussed e.g. in [20]. 3.3

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As observed in [8], natural language expressions such as repeat periodically, at time t send heartbeat, at time t check whether message m has arrived, or upon receive, are often used by researchers to describe e.g. distributed protocols. The lack of those constructs in a language such as C led us in the past to implement another extension in the form of a library of alarm management methods. Such library allows user-specified function calls to be postponed by a given amount of time. In [8] we showed how this permits to implement the above natural language expressions by converting time-based events into message arrivals or signal invocations. In the cited paper we also proposed some preliminary “syntactic sugar” to ease up the use of our library. Table 2 is a simple example of how our time-out methods could be used e.g. to define and control two “cyclic methods,” i.e., functions that are executed by the run-time system every new user-defined cycle. In the experience reported in this paper we capitalized on our previous achievements and designed yet another “little language” to facilitate the definition of cyclic methods. Table 3 shows the syntax of our extension. In a nutshell, the extension allows the user to specify a dummy member, Cycle, for those methods that have been tagged as cyclic t. Every Cycle milliseconds the extension executes a new instance of the corresponding method—irrespective of the fact that previous instances are still running or otherwise.

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In previous section we introduced several domain-specific languages each of which augments plain C with extra features. In the rest of this section we briefly report on some general design principles as well as on our current approach to combine together those domain-specific languages. The key principle of our approach is the use of a set of independent and interchangeable linguistic extensions, each addressing a specific problem domain. Extensions augment a same base language (in the case at hand, C) and in the face of local syntax errors, assume that the current line being parsed will be treated by one of the following extensions. In other words, what would normally be regarded as severe errors is treated as a warning and flushed verbatim on the standard output stream. Obviously such strategy is far from ideal, as it shifts all possible syntax checks down to C compile time. A better strategy would be to let the system guess which extensions to apply based on the syntactic “signature” of each input fragment. A simpler alternative would be to use start conditions, as suggested for lexical analysis in the now classical article [21]. Our extensions are coded in C with Lex and YACC [23] and make use of some simple Bash shell scripts. Some extensions were originally developed on a Windows/Cygwin environment while more recent ones have been devised on Ubuntu Linux. All extensions run consistently on both environments. Each of our extensions is uniquely identified by an extension identifier—a string in the form “cpm://e/v”, where e and v are two strings representing respectively the extension and its version number. Our current implementation makes use of a simplistic strategy to assemble components, requiring the user to manually insert or remove the translators corresponding to each extension. In particular the user is responsible for choosing the order of application of the various extensions. Figure 6 shows the script that we use for this. A Unix pipeline is used to represent the assembling process. Components of this pipeline are in this case redundancy, which manages the extension described in Sect. 3.2, followed by refractive, which adds operator overloading capabilities to context variables. The last stage of the pipeline is in this case array, which produces the dynamic array extension described in Sect. 3.1.


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It is worth pointing out that each extension publishes its extension identifier by appending it to a context variable, a string called extensions pipeline, e.g. “cmp://redundancy/1.1; cmp://refractive/0.5;cmp://array/0.5”. By inspecting this variable the program is granted access to knowledge representing the algorithmic complexity and the features of its current execution environment. As described in revious section, extensions make use of Posix threads defined in libraries and ancillary programs. Such ancillary code (and the ensuing complexity) is then selectively loaded on demand during the linking phase of the final compilation.

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In order to analyze the performance of our method we shall focus on a particular case study: The design of a simple software watchdog timer (WDT). This particular choice stemmed from a number of reasons: – First of all, WDT provides a well known and widespread “dependable design pattern” that is often used in either hardware or software in mission-critical embedded systems, as it provides a cost-effective method to detect performance failures [2]. – Secondly, a WDT is a real-time software. This means that it requires context awareness of time. This makes it suitable for being developed with the extension described in Sect. 3.1. – Moreover, a WDT is a cyclic application. Linguistic constructs such as the one described in Sect. 3.3 allow a concise and lean implementation of cyclic behaviors.

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If we restrict ourselves to the above discussed WDT we can observe how in this special case the programmer is required to produce an amount of lines of code notably smaller than what normally expected for a comparable C program. Such amount is slightly greater than in the case treated in [9], where a C implementation of a WDT is produced from the high level domain-specific language Ariel [3,13]. It must be remarked though that the WDT produced by Ariel is much simpler than the one presented here—e.g. it is non-redundant and context agnostic.

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We have introduced an approach inspired by LoP that linearly augments the features of a programming language by injecting a set of light-weighted extensions. Depending on the desired features and the overhead and behaviors permitted by the target platform and cost constraints, our approach allows the programming language to be flexibly reshaped. This is because it employs well-defined “complexity containers”, each of which grants limited domain-specific functions and is characterized by well-defined complexity and overheads. By doing so, complexity is made transparent but it is not hidden: While the programmer can benefit of high level constructs, the designer and the deployer can deal with modular building blocks each characterized by a certain algorithmic complexity and therefore each accountable for a certain overhead. A mechanism allows each building block to be identified, thus avoiding mismatches between expected and

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Electric Vehicle Telematics Framework for Smart Transportation Junghoon Lee1 , Hye-Jin Kim1 , Gyung-Leen Park1, Ho-Young Kwak2 , Young-cheol Kim3 , and JeongHoon Song4 1

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Abstract. This paper functionally designs an efficient electric vehicle telematics framework for smart transportation, aiming at providing an EV-related advertisement via digital multimedia broadcasting. Taking advantage of information technology and wireless communication, the telematics system can support electric vehicle tracking, vehicle sharing, charging station selection, and location data analysis. The electric vehicle charge service develops a reservation protocol between drivers and stations, station-side scheduling, and path adaptation according to a new charge plan. In addition, as a promising business model, electric vehicle sharing needs station placement and relocation schemes, to which a previous pick-up point analysis result can give a helpful guide. The telematics framework enriches the related applications with diverse basic service building blocks and thus accelerates the penetration of electric vehicles into our daily life.

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Empowered by information technology, the modern power network paradigm called the smart grid, is innovating the legacy power system, especially in power system management and intelligent load control [1]. From the viewpoint of customers, the smart grid saves energy, reduces costs, and improves reliability based on a two-way interaction between consumers and suppliers. The smart system management allows systematic integration of a variety of energy sources, for example, solar, wind, and other renewable energies. The load control can reshape the power consumption to reduce peak load, and the reduced peak makes it unnecessary to build new cable systems or power plants [2]. Many countries are significantly interested in this smart grid system, trying to take initiative in its research, technique, and business. In the mean time, the Republic of Korea was designated as one of the smart grid initiative countries together with Italy during the expanded G8 Summit in

This research was supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), through the project of Region technical renovation, Republic of Korea.

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2009 [3]. The Korean national government launched the Jeju smart grid test-bed, aiming at testing technologies and developing business models mainly in 5 areas of smart power grid, smart place, smart transportation, smart renewables, and smart electricity services. Among these, the smart transportation aims to build a nationwide charging infrastructure that will allow electric vehicles, or EVs in short, to be charged anywhere. It also develops a V2G (Vehicle to Grid) system where the batteries of electric vehicles are charged during off-peak times while the resale of surplus electricity takes place during peak times. For better deployment EVs and charge services, telematics techonology is essential, as it provides a useful information exchange between a car on the move and the service of interest via the wireless network. In addition to classic services such as real-time traffic information, path finding, and vicinity information download, a systematic telematics service framework is required to provide online advance booking of charge spots, remote diagnostics, and time display for next charge [4]. In this regard, this paper is to build a telematics framework capable of providing EV-related services such as location tracking, vehicle sharing, battery charging, and movement record data analysis. As can be seen in Figure 1, in-vehicle telematics device has a connection to DTG (Digital Tachometer Graph) and ECU (Electric Control Unit). For more sophisticated monitoring and charging services, and especially the safety applications, the EV telematics system must consider the data in those units. The telematics service can be integrated into the digital multimedia broadcasting contents to announce the current available service status.

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As the most basic and essential application of telematics systems, vehicle tracking service traces the current location of EVs on the digital map [5]. The location of each vehicle can be expressed either in (longitude, latitude) coordinate, or the

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read segment the vehicle is moving on. This service can host an application such as tour guide, navigation, safety service, and so on. Jeju has a well maintained road network which essentially follows the entire coast (200 km) and crisscrosses between the island’s major points. In terms of a road network, there are about 18,000 intersections and 27,000 road segments. This means that the road graph can be built with 18,000 nodes and 27,000 links along with some additional data structures such as POI (Point of Interest), making it possible to store the whole graph in the high-speed main memory, not using low-speed file systems or databases in disk. Hence, almost every function can be carried out only within the main memory. The in-vehicle telematics device contains a GPS receiver as well as an air interface, which is CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) protocol in Korea. Each EV reports basically its location records at fixed time interval. A remote server is responsible for receiving and managing, this information, while integrating spatial data such as a digital map and a road network. The digital map has full sequence of points for every road segment to perform map matching. On the other hand, the road network has only nodes and links, which are intersection and two end points of each road segment, respectively. Figure 2 plots the road network and we have implemented a road network generator from the ESRI shape file. The road network is exploited for advanced functions such as EV allocation in vehicle sharing application. Basically, map matching finds the link that corresponds to a spatial stamp specified as a (latitude, longitude) pair. For a road segment, the area of each triangle which consists of two end points of each line segment and a report point is calculated. Receiving a path finding request with the specification of a source and a destination, the server runs a well-known A* algorithm in which the Euclidean distance is taken for future cost estimation while the network distance for the accumulated cost [6]. In addition, the path finding scheme provides another option which takes into account the current moving direction of a vehicle. After matching the angle between the road segment and the EV s direction, we can

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EVs are still relatively expensive, so EV sharing is a promising business model. Moreover, it can reduce the number of EVs in the community. In this model, people rent cars for short period of time, picking up and dropping off the vehicle at different places. The booking system must increase the number of acceptable requests by improving the availability of vehicles at the very spot a customer wants. The EV sharing company essentially opens dedicated pick-up stations over the target service area and employs drivers who are responsible to move cars between the pick-up stations. Hence, the booking system is required to consider the relocation cost also. Efficient relocation is important for EV availability. It is a kind of multipoint routing problem, which is inherently NP complete. Many heuristics are designed and useful sources are open to the public. We adopt the Lin-Kernighan algorithm [5]. Each iteration step of this algorithm performs a sequence of exchange moves while considering whether or not a possible move could lead to a better tour. This heuristic can find an optimal route in most cases with an extremely small overhead. In addition to the reactive relocation, proactive schemes can be considered based on the car-sharing request forecast [7]. The pick-up point analysis can give a hint for efficient forecasting combined with a variety of forecasting models including least squares, Kalman filters, and genetic algorithms. In addition, for public transport and car-sharing EVs to interoperate efficiently, an appropriate placement of pick-up stations is important [8]. The location of pick-up stations depend on the road network layout and the requesting pattern form the customer-side. Our previous work has identified the intensive pick-up points based on the analysis of location history data created by the taxi tracking service. Based on this data, the telematics framework will select the locations of pick-up stations. In this model, the easiness-to-install must be considered. 2.3

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Even though many researchers and developers are working to improve driving range while decreasing charging time, weight, and cost of batteries, EVs still need to be charged more often and it takes tens of minutes to charge an EV. Without an appropriate distribution of EVs over charging stations, not only the waiting time can be intolerable to the drivers, but also the power consumption may exceed the permissible bound in a charging station, possibly resulting in the extra cost. The availability of charging station information can distribute and even assign EVs to stations. To this end, many telemetics services will be available for

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drivers, for example, on-demand-information fuelling, remote vehicle diagnostics, interior pre-conditioning, and green report generation for monthly EV miles. The information necessary for charge services includes estimated distance covered on existing charge, availability and booking of charging station, location of charging station, and state of charge. When an EV decides to have its battery charged, it runs Dijkstra’s algorithm for multiple destinations. As the vicinity road network is not so large, it is possible to run this optimal algorithm. This version begins from the location of the EV, spanning the node within a range reachable with the remaining battery capacity until it finds any destination. Then, a reservation request is sent to the stations with its battery and time constraint specified. The charge station attempts to schedule the requests and check sif it can meet the requirement without violating the constraints of already admitted requests. In a charging station, each charge operation can be modeled as a task. For a task, the power consumption behavior can vary according to the charge stage, remaining amount, vehicle type, and the like. The load power profile is practical for characterizing the power consumption dynamics along the battery charge stage [9]. This profile is important in generating a charge schedule. In the profile, the power demand is aligned to the fixed-size time slot, during which the power consumption is constant. The length of a time slot can be tuned according to the system requirement on the schedule granularity and the computing time. In a power schedule, the slot length can be a few minutes, for example, 5 minutes. This length coincides with the time unit length generally used in the real-time price signal. After all, task Ti can be modeled with the tuple of < Ai , Di , Ui >. It is necessary to mention that the charge task is practically nonpreemptive in the charging station [10]. Even though it can be preempted in the single user case as in an individual home, the charge process continues to the end once it has started in the charging station. Ai is the activation time of Ti , Di is the deadline, and Ui denotes the operation length, which corresponds to the length of the consumption profile. Ai is the estimated arrival time of the vehicle. Each task can start from its activation time to the latest start time, which can be calculated by subtracting Ui from Di . When a start time is selected, the profile entry is just copied to the allocation table one by one, as the task cannot be suspended or resumed during its operation. The choice option is bounded by M , the number of time slots in the scheduling window, hence the time complexity of search space traversal for a single nonpreemptive task is O(M ), making the total complexity O(M N ), where N is the number of tasks. 2.4

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Along with the time and spatial stamps, EVs are highly likely to report DTGrelated data. In case the real-time collection is not feasible due to the network breakage or bandwidth limitation, at least the off-line analysis will be conducted [11]. The examples of a DTG record include onboard recorder insertions and withdrawals of tachograph cards, detailed speed and over speeding, driving


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EVs are important elements of the smart grid, and they are charged via the connection to the smart grid system. In this paper, we have functionally designed an integrative telematics service framework for moving objects, focusing on the essential telematics services such as object tracking, vehicle sharing, charge reservation, and movement data analysis. EV tracking implements coordinate conversion, map matching, and path finding, and it can generate a schedule integrating

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the battery charge plan. Vehicle sharing is a promising business model of EVs and needs sharing station site selection and an efficient relocation algorithm. Battery charging is the core of the EV telematics system, including driver-station booking and station-side scheduling. It can distribute EVs over multiple stations to reduce the charging time and peak load. The location data analysis must handle a large amount of location data containing DTG and ECU in addition to the classical temporal and spatial stamps. On top of spatial database, a sophisticated analysis engine is available. In short, the proposed telematics framwork can enrich the EV-related applications to accelerate the deployment of them in our daily life.

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E-Contract Securing System Using Digital Signature Approach Nashwa El-Bendary1, Vaclav Snasel2 , Ghada Adam3 , Fatma Mansour3 , 4 Neveen I. Ghali , Omar S. Soliman3 , and Aboul Ella Hassanien3 1

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Abstract. This paper presents an e-contract securing system, using the digital signature approach, for various e-commerce applications. The proposed system is composed of three phases, namely, e-contract hashing and digital signing phases that are applied at sender’s side, with addition to digital signature verification phase that is applied at the corresponding receiver’s side. The implementation of the proposed system shows accurate and effective results in terms of signing and verification. Keywords: E-contract; hashing; digital signature; verification.

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Electronic commerce (e-commerce) denotes business processes on the Internet, such as buying and selling goods [1]. Further applications may include requesting information, and writing contracts. The abuse of consumer privacy is becoming a concern at the consumer, business and government level. There will be resistance to participating in certain types of e-commerce transactions if the assurance of privacy is low or non-existent [2]. Digital signatures are one of the most important cryptographic tools that are widely used nowadays. Applications for digital signatures range from digital certificates for secure e-commerce to legal signing of electronic contracts (e-contracts). As in traditional business relations, e-contracts are employed to provide a legally enforceable protection mechanism to parties [3]. A conventional signature on a paper document usually engages the responsibility of the signer. Digital signature aims at signing a document in its electronic form [4], [5] and can be T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 183–189, 2011. c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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transmitted electronically with the signed document. Due to the rapid growth of e-commerce, the digital signature, which is fundamental tools for securing contracts via the Internet, is legally of vital interest. Consequently, security against fraud and misuse must at least be equal to traditionally signed written papers [6]. In this paper a digital signature system for securing e-contracts is presented. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents e-contract features. Section 3 introduces in details the proposed e-contract digital signature system and its phases. In section 4, experiments and results are illustrated. Finally, Section 5 addresses conclusions and discusses future work.

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A contract is an agreement between two or more parties interested in creating mutual relationships on business or legal obligations. In the development of electronic means for communication and collaboration between organizations, electronic contracts (e-contracts) have emerged as a digital alternative for physical documents [7]. The use of e-contracts is a promising way for improving the efficiency of contracting processes. New business scenarios caused by e-commerce developments require new contracting paradigms in which the use of electronic contracts becomes an essential element to obtain an essential paradigm shift in business relations contracting. Paper is a trusted medium for holding legal and audit evidence. People are familiar with this medium, and centuries of experience have tested the application of evidence to paper documents [8]. Due to the physical nature of paper and ink, every modification made to any of the parts that make up a paper document (paper sheet, text or pictures, information about the issuer, written signature) leaves a mark. However, an electronic document is saved on a magnetic media and can be deleted, modified or rewritten without traces of evidence. To ensure identification, authenticity, declaration, and proof, the process of signing should be substituted by new electronic methods [6]. The fundamental difference resides between conventional and digital signature is the verification of the signature authenticity. A conventional signature is authenticated by comparing it with a certified one. This authentication method is obviously not very reliable, since it is easy to imitate the signature of someone else. An electronic signature however, can be verified by any person that knows the verification algorithm [4].

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A digital signature (DS) is a seal affixed to digital data, which is generated by a signature private key (PrK), and establishes the owner of the signature key and the integrity of the data with the help of an associated public key (PuK) [8]. Digital signature algorithms are applied either directly to the message to be authenticated or to its hash value in order to generate a tag that is used for the authenticity verification [4]. The most important tool that helps implementing digital signature algorithms is based on the hash function. A hash function H generally operates on a message m of arbitrary length to provide a fixed size hash value h that is called message digest , as shown in equation (1). The size of the message digest h is usually much smaller than the size of the original message m. Several algorithms were proposed for hash calculation [9], [10]. In this paper, the MD5 [15] hash function has been used

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The e-contract securing system proposed in this paper deals with e-contracts to be secured in the form of image files. To digitally sign an e-contract to be sent, the system loads the e-contract document (a bmp image or a jpg image that will be converted into a bmp image), then the system applies the hashing and signature phases in order to generate a digitally signed e-contract. On the receiver’s side, the system verifies the received e-contract in order to ensure integrity of received e-contracts and identity of the sender. The proposed e-contract digital signature system was tested against an econtract sample bmp image with 564 x 436 size. All the results reported in this paper were obtained on a PC with Windows 7 ultimate, processor i3core 2.13 GHZ, using java programming language (Net beans IDE 6.7). The MD5 [15] hash function has been used for calculating the message digest. The resulted digest of the hash function is a hexadecimal string of length 28 digits of the format:(ee6592cd76c886ed4f6709332e97), as shown in Figure 2. In addition,

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The rapid progress for standardizing computing and communication technologies has enabled the electronic commerce (e-commerce) to be booming and promising. Floods of consumer transactions that take place online all require execution of electronic contracts (e-contracts) with the aid of digital signature. This paper presents a system for securing e-contracts using digital signature approach that aims at achieving authenticity and integrity for e-contracts. The proposed system is generally composed of three phases that are hashing and digital signing phases, which are applied at sender’s side, with addition to verification phase, which is applied at the corresponding receiver’s side. In the future work we want to implement the proposed system with different symmetric key encryption algorithms in order to assure document confidentiality. Also, further implementations could be applied with different hash functions and different file formats representing the e-contract documents.

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Fault Tolerance Multi-Agents for MHAP Environment: FTMA SoonGohn Kim1 and Eung Nam Ko2 1 Division of Computer and Game Science, Joongbu University, 101 Daehakro, Chubu-Meon, GumsanGun, Chungnam, 312-702, Korea [email protected] 2 Division of Information & Communication, Baekseok University, 115, Anseo-Dong, Cheonan, Chungnam, 330-704, Korea [email protected]

Abstract. This paper describes the design and implementation of the FTMA(Fault Tolerance Multi-Agents), which is running on MHAP(MOMbased on Home Automation Platform) environment. FTMA has been designed and implemented in DOORAE environment for MHAP. The physical device and network layer consists of any network and physical device supporting any networking technology for MHAP. The infrastructure layer introduces infrastructure to provide service management and deployment functions for MHAP. DOORAE(Distributed Object Oriented collaboRAtion Environment) is a good example of the foundation technology for a computer-based multimedia collaborative work that allows development of required application by combining many agents composed of units of functional module when user wishes to develop a new application field. It is a multi-agent system that is implemented with object oriented concept for MHAP. Keywords: FTMA, MHAP, multimedia collaborative work.

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A conceptual architecture of situation-aware middleware based on Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware (RCSM) is proposed in [6]. Ubiquitous applications require use of various contexts to adaptively communicate with each other across multiple network environments, such as mobile ad hoc networks, Internet, and mobile phone networks. However, existing context-aware techniques often become inadequate in these applications where combinations of multiple contexts and users’ actions need to be analyzed over a period of time. Situation-awareness in application software is considered as a desirable property to overcome this limitation. In addition to being context-sensitive, situation-aware applications can respond to both current and historical relationships of specific contexts and device-actions. However, it did not include fault tolerance system support in the architecture.

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As shown in figure 1, MHAP has four layered architecture [7]. The physical device and network layer consists of any network and physical device supporting any networking technology. The infrastructure layer introduces infrastructure to provide service management and deployment functions for MHAP services. The MHAP layer consists of MHAP services and provides functionalities constructing HA, which includes event notification, appliance control, HA rule configuration and device management. It uses MOM to support event-driven HA in heterogeneous environment. Facilitating Home Automation needs many different kinds of applications. There are DOORAE agent layer between application layer and MHAP service layer. Nowadays multi-agent systems establish a major research subject in distributed artificial intelligence. In particular, multi-agent modeling makes it possible to cope with natural constraints like the limitation of the processing power of a single agent or the physical distribution of the data to be processed and to profit from inherent properties of distributed system like robustness, fault tolerance parallelism and scalability [8]. 3.2

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This paper proposes an Adaptive Fault Tolerance Multi-Agents (FTMA) in situationaware middleware framework and presents its simulation model of FTMA-based agents. It is a system that is suitable for detecting and recovering software error based on Home Automation environment by using software techniques. The purpose of FTMA is to maintain and recover for DOORAE session automatically. The physical device and network layer consists of any network and physical device supporting any networking technology for MHAP. The infrastructure layer introduces infrastructure to provide service management and deployment functions for MHAP. DOORAE(Distributed Object Oriented collaboRAtion Environment) is a good example of the foundation technology for a computer-based multimedia collaborative work that allows development of required application by combining many agents composed of units of functional module when user wishes to develop a new application field. It is a multi-agent system that is implemented with object oriented concept for MHAP. In the future work, fault-tolerance system will be generalized to be used in any environment, and we will progress the study of domino effect for distributed multimedia environment as an example of situation-aware applications.

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An Error Detection-Recovery Agent for Multimedia Distance System Based on Intelligent Context-Awareness: EDRA_RCSM SoonGohn Kim1 and Eung Nam Ko2 1

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Abstract. The focus of multimedia education system has increased lately. In this paper, we will first explain an error detection-recovery agent for multimedia distance education system based on RCSM (Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware). DOORAE is a good example for developing multimedia distance education system based on RCSM between students and teachers during lecture. The development of multimedia computers and communication techniques has made it possible for a mind to be transmitted from a teacher to a student in distance environment. This method detects error by using process database periodically to find some error based on RCSM. If error is found, this paper took the first steps towards learning to coordinate actions in multi-agent systems based on RCSM for classifying the type of errors. If an error is to be recovered, this system uses the same method as it creates a session. EDRA_RCSM is a system that is suitable for detecting and recovering software error for multimedia distance education system based on RCSM by using software techniques. Keywords: multimedia distance education system, RCSM, DOORAE, detecting and recovering software error, EDRA_RCSM.

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systems relying on dedicated video devices, telephone networks or leased lines. After the early 1990’s, the major basis of videoconferencing system moved to packet-based systems which operate on computer network. However, since this new education system must be developed in a way that combines various field of technologies, including group communication and distributed multimedia processing which are the basis of packet based videoconferencing systems, integrated service functions such as middleware are required to support it [4,5,6,7]. In this paper, we propose a method for increasing reliability based on context awareness. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes Multi-agent Systems. Section 3 denotes EDRA_RCSM. Section 4 concludes the paper.

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An Error Sharing Agent Running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing SoonGohn Kim1 and Eung Nam Ko2 1 Division of Computer and Game Science, Joongbu University, 101 Daehakro, Chubu-Meon, GumsanGun, Chungnam, 312-702, Korea [email protected] 2 Division of Information & Communication, Baekseok University, 115, Anseo-Dong, Cheonan, Chungnam, 330-704, Korea [email protected]

Abstract. This paper describes an ESA (Error Sharing Agent running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing Environment). It is a multi-agent based fault-tolerance system running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing with function for an error detection, classification and recovery automatically. It consists of EDA, ECA, and ERA. EDA has a function of error detection running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing. That is, EDA becomes aware of an error occurrence and transmitted quickly through an error sharing method running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing. ECA has a function of error classification running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing. ERA has a function of error recovery running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing. In this paper, we discuss a method for increasing reliability through an error sharing system running on Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing. Keywords: Error Sharing Agent, Situation-Aware Ubiquitous Computing Environment, fault-tolerance system.

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With the rapid development of multimedia and network technology, more and more digital media is generated [1, 2, 3]. Although the situation-aware middleware provides powerful analysis of dynamically changing situations in the ubiquitous computing environment by synthesizing multiple contexts and users’ actions, which need to be analyzed over a period of time, access control in using multimedia shared object causes a problem of the seam in the ubiquitous computing environment. Thus, there is a great need for error sharing agent in situation-aware middleware to provide dependable services in ubiquitous computing. This paper proposes a new model of error sharing agent running on situation-awareness ubiquitous computing. Section 2 describes situation-aware middleware. Section 3 denotes access control algorithm. Section 4 describes simulation results of our proposed algorithm. Section 5 present conclusions. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 203–208, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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Ubiquitous applications require use of various contexts to adaptively communicate with each other across multiple network environments, such as mobile ad hoc networks, Internet, and mobile phone networks. However, existing context-aware techniques often become inadequate in these applications where combinations of multiple contexts and users’ actions need to be analyzed over a period of time. Situation-awareness in application software is considered as a desirable property to overcome this limitation. In addition to being context-sensitive, situation-aware applications can respond to both current and historical relationships of specific contexts and device-actions. An example of situation-aware applications is a multimedia distance education system. The development of multimedia computers and communication techniques has made it possible for a mind to be transmitted from a teacher to a student in distance environment. However, it did not include error sharing agent support in the architecture of situation-aware middleware. In this paper, we propose a new error sharing agent in situation-aware middleware.

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A conceptual architecture of situation-aware middleware based on Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware (RCSM) is proposed in [2]. All of RCSM’s components are layered inside a device. The Object Request Broker of RCSM (R-ORB) assumes the availability of reliable transport protocols; one R-ORB per device is sufficient. The number of ADaptive object Containers (ADC)s depends on the number of contextsensitive objects in the device. ADCs periodically collect the necessary “raw context data” through the R-ORB, which in turn collects the data from sensors and the operating system. Initially, each ADC registers with the R-ORB to express its needs for contexts and to publish the corresponding context-sensitive interface. RCSM is called reconfigurable because it allows addition or deletion of individual ADCs during runtime (to manage new or existing context-sensitive application objects) without affecting other runtime operations inside RCSM. Other services have many agents. They consist of AMA(Application Management Agent), MCA(Media Control Agent), ESA(Error Sharing Agent), SA-UIA(SituationAware User Interface Agent), SA-SMA(Situation-Aware Session Management Agent), and SA-ACCA(Situation-Aware Access and Concurrency Control Agent), as shown in Figure 1. AMA consists of various subclass modules. It includes creation/deletion of shared video window and creation/deletion of shared window. MCA supports convenient applications using situation-aware ubiquitous computing. Supplied services are the creation and deletion of the service object for media use, and media share between the remote users. This agent limits the services by hardware constraint. ESA is an agent that plays a role in sharing an error in situation-aware ubiquitous environment. SA-UIA is a user interface agent to adapt user interfaces based on situations. SA-SMA is an agent which plays a role in connection of SA-UIA and ESA as situation-aware management for the whole information. SA-ACCA

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Integrated Retrieval System for Rehabilitation Medical Equipment in Distributed DB Environments BokHee Jung, ChangKeun Lee, and SoonGohn Kim Department of Information Science, Joongbu University, 101 Daehakro, Chubu-meon, Gumsangun, Chungnam, 312-702, Korea {jangel9977,leec90}@nate.com, [email protected]

Abstract. In today's society, the use of Rehabilitation Medical Equipment is rapidly increasing due to the aging population and unexpected incidents. Accordingly, the demand for efficient sharing and use of the rehabilitation medical equipment is becoming higher, but actually its systematic management isn't properly handled. Consequently, it is extremely difficult for users to grasp the medical clinics where the rehabilitation medical equipment is available. Currently, each hospital is equipped with medical information system and Rehabilitation Medical Equipment system, but not equipped with one integrated system. In this thesis, we established one integrated database by combining the Rehabilitation Medical Equipment which each hospital has, designed and implemented the integrated search system of Rehabilitation medical equipment so that users can easily search the results on the web. Keywords: Integrated Search System, Integrated Database, Distribution, Rehabilitation Medical Equipment, RME.

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Recently, the amount of data that can be used in several fields is rapidly increasing. Such data were established by disparate organizations, so these data are stored in a mutually different distributed platform; moreover, these data have heterogeneous nature in several aspects such as structure of data, database for use, and operating environment. [1] The integrated database is a database technology aiming at providing the transparency with which a user can use the distributed homogeneous or heterogeneous database while sharing database consistently. This technology is the one which can effectively improve the complicatedness in daily increasing information processing fields, and it can be suggested as a very excellent solution to the eradication of the overlapped data operated in a distributed way in a multitude of systems and the issue of their incompatibility. [2] For the integrated technologies of information to make it easier to establish a new service by integrating countless information operated in diverse environment so far, establishment technology of data warehouse, system technology of multi-data base, and mediator-based integrated technology, etc. have been studied. [3] T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 209–214, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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The Integrated database can provide the transparency with which users can homogeneous or heterogeneous database which is distributed each other without any inconvenience. [2] The ultimate goal of such an integrated system is to provide the users with the usable environment by inducing the users to read the computers located at a different place with each other as an integrated computing equipment regardless of the system-level location. [4] At present, every hospital is equipped with medical information system and Rehabilitation Medical Equipment system, but the system is not realized as a singly integrated one; thus, and it's not effective in the use of equipment because of the failure to deliver information to users effectively. Accordingly, it's possible to let the users know what kind of Rehabilitation Medical Equipment is available at what hospital by suggesting the method of effectively linking the database for Rehabilitation Medical Equipment in a heterogeneous environment which each hospital possesses. In this thesis, we are intending for users to easily search the Rehabilitation Medical Equipment that meets the demands of the users on the web by establishing a system interlocking the database possessed by each hospital with the database for Rehabilitation Medical Equipment on the basis of basic information on Rehabilitation Medical Equipment.

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In this paper, we analyzed RME(Rehabilitation Medical Equipment) on the basis of the rehabilitation department of domestic hospitals and established the integrated RME database on the basis of the database for each hospital. Fig.1 is showing the establishment of RME database by collecting the data for each hospital. The design process made by this thesis is as follows: when a user searches the integrated RME, web server transmits query using RME server, and then RME server helps users to retrieve the query results on the web by transmitting the query results to the web server.

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This RME server is possessed of the database for each hospital in an integrated way. When users selects the search type of RME and inputs the search word related to search type using web browser, then web server transmits the search type and inquiry word in the search word to RME server; at that moment, when there comes up the data information corresponding to the inquiry word, we induced the server to restitute the results to the user on a new engine other than the search engine on the web. Thus, even if users don't know the component of the RME server, they can get the information about RME they want only through the search using web browser.

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Fig. 4 is showing the structure of user interface. Accordingly, the result screen on the web browser seen to the users shows the product name, use, RME-possessing hospital, and district in possession of RME.

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In this paper, we did experiments by inducing the search system of the integrated RME to be carried out in the Window-based operating system, using Apache as web server, and using MySQL which is the commonly used database management system as the information repository.

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As for experimental results, we used the way in which when a user searches using the web browser, the result appears on another web browser. Fig. 5 is a screen showing the result when available are the data corresponding to the search word by comparing the search type to the search word in the box after users runs it by selecting one of the search types and typing the search word relevant to the type in the box below.

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In this paper, we designed and implemented the integrated RME database on the basis of the database for RME of each hospital. So far, RME System has been established in each hospital, but there has not been any system that can establish such systems into one. For this reason, users have felt it extremely difficult to grasp what hospital is equipped with the RME which they want. The integrated search system of RME greatly varies according to the purpose of rehabilitation ilitation. It's almost impossible for one hospital to possess all sorts of equipment for rehabilitation, so users have had to undergo difficulties in sharing the information about what hospital is possessed of the equipment they want. Accordingly, should information be shared efficiently, it would be possible to search the information concerning what hospital they'd better visit on the web even without bothering to visit the hospital in person. In addition, a medical team can appropriately use the data by analyzing the present situation of rehabilitation in other hospitals for their patients(users), and the sharing of the information about RME with other hospitals will become smooth. In further study, we are going to do research on how to provide more accurate information to the users by designing implementing the distributed information on the basis of accurate information other than being virtual; in addition, we hope that there will come up more active and efficient results in sharing information if an integrated system could be implemented by applying the range of application more diversely, not just limited to RME.

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Effective Method Tailoring in Construction of Medical Information System WonYoung Choi and SoonGohn Kim Dept. of Information Science, Joongbu University, Korea [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. Constructing of domestic medical information system shows severe side effects in quality and productivity as the expansion of constructing scope and short-term delivery trend deepen. This paper presents appropriate tailoring rule at the time of constructing the medical information system to present the practical guideline at the site where indiscrete tailoring is made. Keywords: method, tailoring, contingency, medical information system, practical guideline.

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The main characteristics in constructing of recent medical information system would be the expansion of scope subject for constructing and the trend of short delivery term. Because of the above, the development institutions for medical information system practically give up the existing software constructing method in fact for the system development of more range within short period of time. However, this has not improved the productivity in software development and displayed serious side effects in quality. Therefore, in order to improve quality and productivity simultaneously in constructing of software, there is a need of tailoring of existing software constructing method with the medical information system constructing environment. There has been a long-standing acknowledgment that software methods need to be tailored for use, the essence of which is captured well by De Marco: I find myself more and more exasperated with the great inflexible sets of rules that many companies pour into concrete and sanctify as methodologies. Use the prevailing methodology only as a starting point for tailoring[4]. In addition, Sommerville and Ransom also asserted that it is a truism that any method has to be adapted for the particular circumstances of use[5]. However, Despite these contentions, little research has been carried out into method tailoring to date[1].

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approaches—namely, contingency-based method selection and method engineering. Contingency-based method selection is based on the premise that, rather than accepting a software development method as being universally applicable, the team should choose a method from a broad portfolio of development methods to suit each different project context. On the other hand, Method Engineering, is a metamethod process, where instead of selecting a method from an available library, a new one is constructed or “engineered” from the ground up using existing “method fragments” [2]. In this paper, by reviewing the method for domestic medical information companies to present the standard tailoring result of the method to fit for the domestic medical information system constructing environment. Then, it was formed to enable tailoring in accordance with the input of medical institution, process management capability of development institution, or need of inspection for computer supervising. And, while existing research[3] has focus on tailoring of any specific method, this paper is considered as differentiated from the existing research for the point of tailoring with the method with the subject of specific business type.

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This paper has been undertaken in 6 phases as presented on following Fig. 1. First of all, the qualitative analysis was implemented by collecting the cases applied in actual sites and the method data of domestic medical field medical information companies. On the basis of it, the standard tailoring result determined as appropriate to the medical information system constructing situation was presented and it presented tailoring algorithm for applied in accordance with the diverse situations. Simple prototype was realized for tailoring method application and certain number of medical information system field expert had the interview to evaluate the structured tailoring result and tailoring method. Lastly, it was applied at the site, the tailoring algorithm was evaluated.

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For the analysis of software constructing method of domestic medical field SI (System Integration) companies, the method data owned by the companies was collected, and the data for 3 places was gathered from the 4 major SI companies in the medical field with an exception of one place where data collection was difficult. In addition, in order to analyze how each company apply on actual site, the most recently applied cases were collected by seeking the cooperation of medical institutions. 3.2

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Looking at the software constructing method of each company, in the event of the software constructing method of Company A, it was structured with the repeated development method and simplified to be appropriate for small-scale short-term supply period. In the event of the software constructing method of Company B, it was structured as repetitive and gradual verified development method on the basis of processing and product of information engineering/object-oriented/CBD. In addition, it presented the rules on core products (53 essential products) and submitted products (minimal products for maintenance and repairing), and it discovered to present the pre and post relativity between products. In the event of the software constructing methodology of Company C, it was structured on the basis (CBD methodology-oriented) for gradual development method with MARMI methodology and equipped with the similar features with RUP . 3.3

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As a result of analyzing the method of 3 SI companies in the domestic medical field, the standard procedure for tailoring could be obtained. In the development phase, it was discovered as having the existing analysis phase to be separated into the phase of requirement definition and analysis phase. Considering that the recent software engineering tends to value the requirement definition, it is considered as appropriately defined. In addition, the design phase and development phase are combined to integrate into detailed design and development phases, and for most cases, it is implemented repeatedly for 3 times or more. This is attributable to be positive for it goes through the review process with the users continuously while the existing prototype model to go through one review process in the initial design phases. Looking into the key activities of each development phase, the method of each company could be seen as following the existing frame of method for the case of following the object-oriented method. This is considered as a proof that the complete meaning of object-oriented method is not easy in work development like the medical information system. In addition, the change of recognition on the importance of the test could be read. In the past, it was customary to undertake two or three times of test (without classification of integration test and rehearsal) in one or two months of system operation, but in recent days, and it showed to set sufficient period of integrated test and rehearsal period. In addition, the quality assurance activity that was formative one in the past has become to go through the internal and external review process for each major milestone now. It is attributable to have the size of medical

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Under the standard procedure of the method, the tailoring rule was formulated to enable appropriate tailoring to fit for the environment of each project. Tailoring rule – 1. Constructing of the medical information system is still made at the SI development level yet, but recently, many companies were found to approach the packages in customizing concept. This is considered to show that the scale has enlarged from the past, but the delivery time is rather shortened for companies to reflect self-help measures. For a reference, in the event of the neighboring country, Japan, the medical information market itself has already been converted on package with the customizing concept. Therefore, as the first of tailoring rule, the tailoring result was structured with difference in accordance with the package customizing. Tailoring rule – 2. In the event of domestic cases, the information system audit was introduced in 1987, but it was mostly public institution-oriented basis. While doing so, the obligation information system audit was in place since 2007, the medical institutions began to implement the information system audit with public medical institution leading the way. As the information system audit undertaking being evaluated generally through interview or document, there were additional needs for several products to respond. Therefore, as the second of tailoring rule, it was structured to have different tailoring result following the need of responding to information system audit. Tailoring rule – 3. In the event of the medical institutions, they are organized with similar works in large scale, but the level of demand by users was known to differ greatly in accordance with the size and work force of medical institutions. In other words, as the size and work force of medical institutions became larger and larger, the level of requirement of users would be tougher, and for the responsive plan thereto, it needs the review process by the users and internal quality review before the development phase to be progressed any further as the responsive plan. If not, the volume to modify and supplement at the last phase of the development would be increased. This may cause not to meet the delivery date as well as lose the trust from users that it is needed to go through the review process before undertaking the development phase any further if possible. Therefore, as the third tailoring rule, it was structured to have different tailoring result in accordance with the needs of review strengthening for each phase. Tailoring rule – 4 and 6. In the event of the domestic, there were many places that adopted the method based on structural and information engineering method. When the object-oriented method was introduced several years ago, most had the revised their method to the object-oriented method, but due to the difficulties in implementation,


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When constructing the domestic medical information system, the attempt was made to contribute to the improvement of quality and productivity and formulate the tailoring rule as well as apply at the site. For overseas cases where some difference has been detected from the method of Korea, but the work was undertaken in accordance with the tailoring principle of its own, but in the event of the domestic cases, works were undertaken as pleased for developer without principle on tailoring. This paper is expected to present the practical guideline at the site where indiscrete tailoring is made at the time of constructing the domestic medical information systems.

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A Study on the Access Control Module of Linux Secure Operating System JinSeok Park and SoonGohn Kim Department of Computer & Game Science, Joongbu University, 101 Daehakro, Chubu-meon, Gumsangun, Chungnam, 312-702, Korea [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. The secure OS means the system that defends and blocks the prospective hacking by adding various security functions such as access control, user authentication, audit and trail, and anti-hacking to Linux kernel. To protect important information from threatening elements, it is essential to establish the security system that satisfies the systematic security policy and the security requirements. In this paper, we analyzed the existing studies about the current secure OS, security module and SELinux, and suggested Linux access control module that uses the user discriminating authentication, security authority inheritance of subjects and objects, reference monitor and MAC class process and real-time audit trailing using DB. In addition, by restricting the root authority, the access to security level files without any access authority will be blocked. Malicious hacking can be thoroughly blocked thanks to real-time audit trailing using DB. Keywords: SELinux, LSM, MAC, Linux Secure Operating System.

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As the secure OS improves, the attacks to software are also getting stronger. Unfortunately, Linux cannot cope with the threats well and this weakness of the software falls the main target of hackers' attack. To resolve the security vulnerability, it is the best way to use an effective access control. Although DAC(Discretionary Access Control) is appropriate to keep the user's privacy, it is not enough to protect them from the hackers' attack [1]. So the studies has been carried out on Nondiscretionary Access Control for more than 30 years. However, there is not any practical agreement on a single access control module. Due to this absence of agreement, various Linux kernel patch files have been created. However, none of them have become the standard Linux kernel patch. In this paper, we analyzed the existing Linux Secure OS, security module and SELinux, and suggested the advanced access control module for Linux secure OS.

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separate from the process carrying out the Reference Monitor. Second, the Reference Monitor should perform access control for every activity between the subjects and the objects. Third, it should be attested in through and comprehensive ways and small enough to be tested. TCB(Task Control Block) is the security mechanism system in a computer system. It is responsible for applying the security policy in harmony with other programs. It creates the basic security environment and provides the additional user service for a reliable computer system [2]. When a malicious subject without permission tries to have access to a system, the Reference Monitor mediates all accesses to protect the object. Fig.1 is showing the composition of Reference Monitor.

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SELinux security policy can be broken down into two classification - the targeted policy and the strict policy. Under the targeted policy, the basic restriction is controlled by the standard Linux secure OS, and SELinux policy restricts the access to only some processes. The strict policy applies the single strict restriction to all processes except for the basic installation [3]. SELinux security policy describes user, program, process and their objects containing device, file and the whole system as in Figure 2. which describes the access permissions to all subjects and objects. In RHEL 4 version, the daemons that the targeted policy is applied to are /etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy/domains/program. Currently, the daemons like dhcpd, httpd, named, ntpd, portmap, snmpd, squid, syslogd are under the application of the targeted policy [4].

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The application of SELinux can be set up during the installation. And after installing Linux, it can be set up by running the system-config-securitylevel program. In the case of a shell program, we can use setenforcing command, or directly apply the file, /etc/SELinux/config, by using vi editor. Also the application can be set up by the kernel parameter in /boot/grub/grub.conf. a configuration file of a boot manager program [5]. 3.3

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This utility is available only when X-window is installed. Using it, we can easily set up the detailed policy about the daemon service as well as the basic policy. After running it, check [activate] in [SELinux] and set the policy type to targeted. Each policy can be set in SElinux policy change. After rebooting the system, if there is not any trouble, set it to [enforcing] [6]. 3.4

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In the shell program, the basic policy type can be set by using setenforce command. When setting an enforcing mode, run 'setenforce enforcing' or 'setenforce 1'. when setting a permissive mode, run 'setenforce permissive ' or 'setenforce 0'. Setenforce command immediately applies the SELinux policy. After rebooting, it doesn't apply. It can be confirmed by running setenforce command [7]. 3.5

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In this paper, we suggested designing the three stages of user discriminating authentication to block every illegal intrusion as in Fig 3. In this system, the user keeps the separate directory and file to store the security information and sets the authentication level where the security manager who is superior to the root can access to the system [8].

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manager authentication. In this design, the users who fail to login through the required security level and the protection category can't have access to the security system directory. Also only the security manager can set the general users' minimum, basic or maximum security level and protection category. When the users without the security level have access to the server, the security level and the protection category will be set to (0, 0) and keep the users from accessing to the folders or the files which are given the security level. 4.2

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In this paper, we breaked down the current real-time audit trailing system into three areas and suggested the following. First, design the program in the kernel which can link log information to the database. Second, set the audit function which can read log information from memory log book in the kernel area by using the system call. Third, by using the kernel and the system call, makes getlogd that can substitute for the current klogd or syslogd in the user area. This audit trailing system detects all activities in the operating system, records them in the database and provides the security manager with the related security audit data in real-time. Also, as MAC is carried out in the kernel between the security attributes given to the users and the resources which the users want to access to, every activity in the system is to be audited inside the kernel. It is not an onetime audit but a continuous audit, and it continually provides the audit trailing in case of the hacking. The system manager can refer to the trailed record later and use it to decide a new security policy. Fig 4. shows the system of real-time audit trailing using DB which is suggested in this paper.

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In this paper, we reviewed the current studies about the current secure OS, security module and SELinux, and proposed Linux access control module that uses the user discriminating authentication, security authority inheritance of subjects and objects, reference monitor and MAC class process and real-time audit trailing using DB. First, during the user authentication process, it distinguishes the access permission IP and separates the super user(root)'s authority from that of the security manager by making the users input the security level and the protection category. Second, when the subjects have access to the objects through security authority inheritance of subjects and objects, the suggested system carries out the access control by comparing he security information of the subjects with that of the objects. Third, this system implements a Reference Monitor audit on every current events happening in the kernel. As it decides the access permission after checking the current MAC security attributes, it can block any malicious intrusion in advance. Fourth, through the real-time audit trailing system, it detects all activities in the operating system, records them in the database and sends the current status data to the security manager with the related security audit data in real-time. Consequently, it can immediately cope with the problems in case of any trouble or emergency situation.

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An fMRI Study of Reading Different Word Form Hyo Woon Yoon and Ji-Hyang Lim* Department of Art Therapy, Daegu Cyber University, Daegu, Republic of Korea Tel.: +82-53-850-4081, Fax : +82-53-850-4019 [email protected]

Abstract. Chinese characters appear in the currently used Korean language, and the writing system of the Korean language consists of a mixture of the Korean alphabet and Chinese characters. However, the usage of Chinese characters in Korean language is different compared to Chinese or Japanese. In the present study, the neural mechanisms involved in reading a single Chinese character words and naming pictures by Korean native speakers were investigated using a functional magnetic resonance imaging technique. The findings show a right hemispheric dominance within the occipito-temporal and the left middle / medial frontal area for both reading and naming of Chinese characters and pictures. This should reflect the specific visual processing of reading Chinese characters. Additional activations in inferior frontal and cingulage gyrus are also observed. The activations of inferior parietal region and thalamus are of interest, since we assume that these activations are strongly related with the phonological status of single Chinese character words rather than two character words by Korean native speakers. Keywords: different word form, hierarchical coding of words, fMRI.

1 Introduction It is generally known that perceiving or reading visually presented words encompasses many processes that collectively activate several specialized neural systems to work in concert. Functional imaging techniques such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) have provided meaningful insights into the neural systems that underlie word recognition and reading process in the human brain. In the proposed model of written word perception (1,2), it is proposed that a large-scale distributed cortical network, including the left frontal, temporal, and occipital cortices, mediates the processing of visuo-orthographic, phonologic, semantic, and syntactic constituents of alphabetic words. For example, the posterior fusiform gyri are relevant to visual processing, whereas the inferior frontal lobe emphasizes their role in semantic processing (3,4). Regarding various written languages or writing systems, the question of how the surface form of words influences the neural mechanisms of the brain during word recognition is of interest. *



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One of the most different writing systems from alphabetic words is the Chinese character. Alphabetic systems are based on the association of phonemes with graphemic symbols and linear structure, whereas Chinese characters are based on the association of meaningful morphemes with graphic units, the configuration of which is square and nonlinear. Previous studies using visual hemifield paradigms demonstrated that the right cerebral hemisphere is more effective in processing Chinese characters than the left cerebral hemisphere (5). This leads to a Chinese character-word dissociation hypothesis for a lateralisation pattern, since word perception is regarded to be left-lateralised. This conclusion has been disrupted, because some more current results of brain activation based on fMRI experiments suggest that the reading of Chinese characters is bi-lateralized. In particular, the left inferior frontal cortex (BA 9/45/46) emphasized the importance of the semantic generation or processing of Chinese characters (6,7). Chinese characters are used not only in the writing systems of Chinese language, but are also widely used in the Japanese and Korean languages. The Korean writing system consists of the mixture of the pure Korean words and Chinese characters. The Korean words are characterized as phonemic components similar to the alphabetic words used in English or German. However, the shape of Korean words is nonlinear. The composition of its symbols is shaped into a square-like block, in which the symbols are arranged left to right and top to bottom. Its overall shape makes Korean more similar to Chinese than other alphabetic orthographies (8). Furthermore, unlike alphabetic words, these phonemic symbols are not arranged in a serial order, but are combined into a single form to represent a syllable. These syllabic units are spatially separated from each other. Each Korean syllable is constructed of two to four symbols that in various combinations represent each of 24 phonemes. Thus, in a sense, Korean words, Hangul, can also be regarded as syllabograms (Figure 1). In addition, the Korean vocabulary consists of pure Korean words (24.4 %), Chinese-derivative words (69.32 %), and other foreign words (6.28 %). Chinese derivative words can be written either in the form of Chinese ideogram or its corresponding Korean words (9). In the current Korean writing system, e.g. daily newspapers or boulevard magazines in South Korea, the use of Chinese characters is relatively sparse. According to the statistics of the year 1994 (10), the proportion of Chinese characters in the body of daily newspapers are about 10 % and since then this has continuously diminished. Furthermore, it is important to note that number of years that students are exposed to Chinese characters in Korean schools are shorter than that for Korean words. It can be therefore argued that the familiarity and expertise of Chinese characters and Korean words, Hangul, for young Korean students are not identical. In attempts to overcome this different difficulty/expertise, in this study we used the simplest words written in Chinese characters as stimuli. Words, which are taught in the first year of Chinese character education, were chosen for our experiment. In addition, these words appear relative frequently in the daily newspapers and boulevard magazines. Two syllable Chinese-derivative words were used as stimuli. These can be written, as mentioned above, either in the form of Korean words or as Chinese characters with same meaning and pronunciation.

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Surprisingly, although these are unique and interesting characteristics, the neural mechanisms involved in reading Korean words have been rarely studied, at least with modern functional imaging techniques. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging technique, we investigated the neural mechanism involved in reading these two different writing systems by Korean native speakers. In doing so, we hope to identify specific neural mechanisms that are involved in reading Korean words (phonemes) and Chinese characters (morphemes). Due to the different role of Chinese characters in the Korean language compared to Chinese, it is also of interest to investigate the brain activation pattern associated with reading Chinese characters by Korean subjects.

2 Materials and Methods Seven male and five female right-handed subjects (mean age: 22 years, S.D. 1.5 years) participated in the study. All were native Korean speakers who has been educated for Chinese characters for more than 6 years in school. They did not have any medical, neurological or psychiatric illness at past or present, and they did not take medication. All subjects consented to the protocol approved by the Institutional Ethics and Radiation Safety Committee. As stimuli, two-character Chinese words and Korean words with equivalent phonetic as well as semantic components were chosen. There were 60 words for each category. All words were nouns. Half consisted of abstract meanings and the other half concrete meanings. Stimuli were presented using custom-made software on a PC and projected via an LCD projector onto a screen at the feet of the subjects. The subjects viewed the screen via a homemade reflection mirror attached on the head RF coil. Each stimulus was presented for 1.5 seconds long, followed by a blank screen for 500 ms. Ten different items of this stimulus pattern were presented, including a blank screen for one second prior to the first stimulus within a block. These stimuli blocks were alternated with the baseline task. During the baseline task, a fixation point was projected on the middle of the screen for 21 seconds. Two kinds of stimuli (Korean words and Chinese characters) and baseline task blocks lasted equally for 21 seconds each. A total of six blocks of Korean words and six blocks of Chinese characters were presented, and these were intermixed at random. During the experiment, the subjects were instructed to press the right button for nouns with an abstract meaning and the left button for those with a concrete meaning. Simultaneously, they should respond covertly to the stimuli presented. Images were acquired by using 3 Tesla MRI scanner (ISOL Technology, Korea) with a quadrature head coil. Following a T1-weighted scout image, high-resolution anatomic images were acquired using an MPRAGE (Magnetization-Prepared RApid Gradient Echo) sequence with TE = 3.7 ms, TR =8.1 ms, flip angle = 8°, and image size of 256 x 256. T2*-weighted functional data were acquired by using echo planar imaging (EPI) with TE = 37 ms, flip angle = 80°, TR = 3000 ms, and image size of 64 x 64. We obtained 30-slices EPI images with slice thickness of 5 mm and no gaps between slices for the whole brain. Total 172 volumes were acquired per an

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experimental run. For each participant, the first four volumes in each scan series were discarded, which were collected before magnetization reached equilibrium state. Image data were analyzed using SPM99 (Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London). The images of each subject were corrected for motion and realigned using the first scan of the block as a reference. T1 anatomical images were coregistered with the mean of the functional scans and then aligned to the SPM T1 template in the atlas space of Talairach and Tournoux (11). Finally, the images were smoothed by applying Gaussian filter of 7 mm full-width at half-maximum (FWHM). In order to calculate contrasts, the SOA (stimulus onset asynchrony) from the protocol was defined as events and convolved with the hemodynamic response function (HRF) to specify the appropriate design matrix. The general linear model was used to analyze the smoothed signal at each voxel in brain. Significant changes in hemodynamic response for each subject and condition were assessed using t-statistics. For the group analysis, contrast images of single subject were analyzed using a random effect model. Activations were reported if they exceeded a threshold P < 0.05, corrected on the cluster level (P < 0.0001 uncorrected at the single voxel level) for the task of Korean words and Chinese characters vs. baseline. Significance on the cluster level was calculated in consideration of peak activation and extent of the cluster. The threshold for P < 0.0005 (uncorrected) at the single voxel level was chosen for the direct comparison of Chinese characters and Korean words. Activations are based on the extent of ten voxels.

3 Results The mean reaction time for subjects during Korean word reading was 1.01 sec (S.D.: 325 ms), whereas, for Chinese character reading, it was 1.24 sec (S.D.: 367 ms). A paired t-test verified the significance between these two reaction times (p < 0.00001). Significant signal changes for Korean words reading vs. baseline were detected bilaterally in the fusiform gyrus (BA 19/37) and in the left middle frontal area (BA 46/6). In addition, right hemispheric activation was observed in the medial frontal gyrus (BA 8). For Chinese characters vs. baseline, the activation patterns appeared to be slightly different. In the region, responsible for the visual stimuli per se, we observed bi-hemispheric activation for the Chinese character reading vs. baseline task. In the frontal (superior, BA 8 and inferior area, BA 9) and parietal (superior, BA 7) cortices, only left hemispheric activation was significant in contrast with the baseline task. In the different contrast of Korean words minus Chinese character conditions, significant positive signal changes were observed in the right superior gyrus of the frontal lobe (BA 8), the left superior temporal lobe (BA 41), and the right midtemporal lobe (BA21), precentral gyrus (BA 6) and insula (BA 13) and for the condition of Chinese character minus Korean words, activation was observed in the bi-hemispheric visual area (BA 19).


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4 Discussion In terms of behavioral data, significantly longer reaction times were observed for Chinese character reading compared to Korean word reading. Since very simple Characters were used as stimuli, it would appear that the reaction time advantage for reading Korean words is not derived from a familiarity effect. Rather, it might rely on differences in characteristics of phonological processing between these two writing systems. The phonological processing in Chinese character recognition is at the syllable-morpheme phonology level. This is the fundamental difference regarding the role of phonology between Chinese and alphabetic writing systems. The concept of pre-lexical phonology is misleading for Chinese character reading (8). However, in processing Korean words, pre-lexical phonology is activated rapidly and automatically. Reading Korean words for meaning involves pre-lexical information processing (12). In the functional imaging data, the activated area for the condition of Chinese character vs. baseline reading was found to be in the left hemispheric inferior and superior gyri of the frontal lobe (BA 6/9). This demonstrates the left lateralized pattern of the frontal cortex during Chinese character reading. This activation can be

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attributed to the unique square configuration of Chinese characters (13,14). Chinese characters consist of a number of strokes that are packed into a square shape according to stroke assembly rules, and this requires a fine-grained analyses of the visual-spatial locations of the strokes and subcharacter components (15). In addition, it is known that the left middle frontal cortex (BA 6/9) is the area of spatial and verbal working memory by which the subject maintains a limited amount of spatial and verbal information in an active state for a brief period of time (16,17). More precisely, this area may play a role as a central executive system for working memory, which is responsible for coordination of cognitive resources (18). In our experiment, even though a working memory process was not involved in the subjects’ decision, they indeed needed to coordinate the semantic (or phonological) processing of the Chinese characters. These two processes of coordination of cognitive resources and semantic processing were explicitly required by the experimental task and the intensive visuospatial processing of the Chinese characters. It seems that the activation of the left middle frontal gyrus should be involved in these two cognitive processes. This left frontal activation pattern is consistent with other studies, in which functional imaging techniques of Chinese character reading by native Chinese speakers were used, especially the activation of BA 9 (7,19,20). Left hemispheric middle frontal activations (BA 46/6) were also observed for the condition of Korean words vs. baseline and this appears to be correlated with similar mechanisms associated with the reading of other alphabetic words (21). Since our subjects were ask to respond after seeing and the covert speaking of Korean words (forced choice option), which is connected with semantic processing, the activation of middle frontal area seems to underlie this cognitive process. We propose that this might be the reason for why the left frontal area is strongly activated during this experimental task. Occipital lobe activation was observed for Chinese character reading in contrast with baseline as well as a direct comparison with Korean words (Table 1). The activated occipital areas, such as the fusiform gyrus, are thought to be relevant to the visual processing of Chinese characters. Interestingly, we observed right hemispheric dominant occipital activation, even though two-character Chinese words were presented as stimuli. There were some indications that the reading of two-character Chinese word is left lateralized (19,20), but our results did not support the dissociation hypothesis of single and two-character Chinese word perception. Bilateral activation of occipito-temporal area was also observed for the Korean word reading. It is generally thought that this area is relevant to the processing of the visual properties of Korean words. The activation pattern is bilateral, but the left hemispheric activity was relatively weaker (Table 1). This is not in agreement with previous studies with alphabetic words (22). The activation of the right hemispheric superior frontal lobe (BA 8) was reported in the conditions of Korean words reading minus Chinese character reading as well as the contrast of Korean words vs. baseline (Table 2). This area belongs to part of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (BA 8 is the posterior portion). The activation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (or right hemispheric dominance at least) was


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reported in some working memory studies, in which functional imaging techniques such as PET or fMRI were used (23,24). However, in our study, the meaning of this area relates more to the visual systems per se. This area is close to the frontal eye field, which is linked anatomically and physiologically with the visual and oculomotor systems (25,26). In the monkey, lesions in BA 8 cause severe impairment of the performance of conditional tasks in which the appropriate visual stimuli must be chosen depending on the particular visual cues presented (27) and this would suggest that BA 8 might play an important role in the selection of specific visual stimuli. Failure on visual conditional tasks following lesions in BA 8 in the monkey may reflect the loss of this visual higher order control (28). In a comparable study, the activation of BA 8 was reported to be related to language proficiency; this seems to readily rely on the encoding and retrieval of visual nonverbal forms, similar to the processing of shape judgment, and this aspect of visual processing may have placed greater demands on BA 8 (15). This finding herein suggest that the activation of the right hemispheric BA 8 of our subjects during Korean word reading relies on visual nonverbal higher order control or on the visuospatial analysis of Korean words. This activation seems to be associated with the analysis of the specific surface form of Korean words as well. Superior midtemporal activation was observed in the condition of Korean words minus Chinese characters. According to some previous studies with alphabetic words, the left lateralized activation of the superior midtemporal area is known to be related to phonological processing (29), and is particularly responsible for fine-grained phonemic analysis (30). Our results are in general agreement with these previous studies, since we believe that Korean words are phonemes like alphabetic words despite their square-like shape. The activation of insula would be better appreciated under the context of the concomitant of the precentral gyrus (BA 6). The insula and precentral gyrus work in concert in formulating articulatory plans and coordinating speech articulation of alphabetic words (1). Overall, our results of activation patterns during Chinese character reading seem to involve similar mechanisms to that for native Chinese speakers, e.g., strong activation of the left middle frontal area. The activation pattern of Korean words in our results appears to be corroborated with that of alphabetic words at the general level, but some differences in details were noted, e.g. the right hemispheric dominance of occipital lobe. The right hemispheric activation of the posterior part of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex would be related to specific higher order visual control or visuospatial analysis for Korean words. In summary, we investigated the neural mechanisms of reading Korean words and Chinese characters by Korean native speakers using a functional magnetic resonance imaging technique. Our results indicate similar mechanisms for reading Chinese characters by our subjects compared to the previous studies with Chinese people. The neural mechanisms for reading Korean words appear similar to that of alphabetic words at a general level, in that activation of right superior frontal area occurs. We suggest that this activation is correlated with the specific visuospatial analysis of reading Korean words. Indeed, further studies will be needed to clarify the neural mechanisms involved in reading Korean words.

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Intelligent Feature Selection by Bacterial Foraging Algorithm and Information Theory Jae Hoon Cho1 and Dong Hwa Kim2 1

Chungbuk National University, Cheongju Chungbuk, Korea 2 Hanbat National University, Daejeon, Korea [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. In this paper, an intelligent feature selection by bacterial foraging algorithm and mutual information is proposed. Feature selection is an important issue in the pattern classification problem. Particularly, in the case of classifying with a large number of features or variables, the accuracy and computational time of the classifier can be improved by using the relevant feature subset to remove the irrelevant, redundant, or noisy data. The proposed method consists of two parts: a wrapper part by bacterial foraging optimization and a filter part by mutual information. In order to select the best feature subset to achieve the best performance of the classifiers. Experimental results show that this method can achieve better performance for pattern recognition problems other than other conventional ones. Keywords: Feature selection, Bacterial foraging optimization, mutual information.

1 Introduction Recently, feature selection has been gaining interests of many researchers to improve the performances of classifiers in various pattern recognition problems. The goal of the feature selection is a process to find useful features to obtain the best performance of classifier for the given pattern recognition problems. Feature selection solves this problem by removing the irrelevant, redundant, or noisy data in the given original data set. Feature selection algorithms can be categorized based on generation procedure and evaluation function, or dependence on the inductive algorithm. M. Dash and H. Liu[1] grouped different feature selection methods into two categories: generation procedure and evaluation function. Langley[2] widely grouped different feature selection methods into two groups based on their dependence and independence on the inductive algorithm : filter methods and wrapper methods. Filter methods are independent of the inductive algorithm and evaluate the performance of the feature subset by using the intrinsic characteristic of the data. In the filter methods, the optimal features subset is selected in one pass by evaluating some predefined criteria. So, filter methods have the ability to quickly compute very high-dimensional datasets, whereas they have the worse classification performance caused by ignoring the effect of the selected feature subset on the performance of the inductive algorithm. The wrapper methods utilize the error rate of inductive algorithm as evaluation function T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 238–244, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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and search for the best subset of features in the space of all available feature subsets. Generally, it is known that the wrapper methods have higher performance than filter methods. On the other hand, information theory has been applied to feature selection problems in recent years. Battiti[3] proposed a feature selection method called MIFS(Mutual Information Feature Selection). Kwak and Choi [4] investigated the limitation of MIFS using a simple example and proposed an algorithm which can overcome the limitation and improve performance. The main advantages of mutual information are the robustness to noise and data transformation. In this paper, we propose a feature selection method using both information theory and genetic algorithm. The proposed method consists of two parts: filter part and wrapper part. In the filter part, we evaluated the significance of each feature by using mutual information, and then removed features with low significance. In the wrapper part, we use bacterial foraging optimization to select the optimal feature subsets with smaller size and higher classification performance. The goal of the proposed method is to select better feature subsets with smaller size and higher classification performance. In order to estimate the performance of the proposed method, we apply our method on UCI Machine-Learning data sets[5]. Experimental results show that our method is effective and efficient in finding small subsets of the significant features for reliable classification.

2 Mutual Information Based Feature Selection Basically, mutual information is a special case of a more general quantity called relative entropy, which is a measure of the distance between two probability distributions. The entropy is a measure of uncertainty of random variables. More specifically, if a discrete random variable X has λ alphabets with its probability density function denoted as p( x) = Pr{X = x}, x ∈ λ , then the entropy of X can be defined as[3]

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3 Bacterial Foraging Optimization Search and optimal foraging of animals can be used for solving engineering problems. To perform a social foraging, an animal needs communication capabilities and it gains advantages to exploit essentially the sensing capabilities of the group, so that the group can gang-up on larger prey, individuals can obtain protection from predators while in a group [6]. For applying the bacterial foraging to optimization problem, conventional BFO was described as following [7]. In the minimal problem, the main goal of the BFO based algorithm is to find the minimum of J(θ) θ∈ℜp not the gradient∇J(θ). Here, θ is the position of a bacterium, and J(θ).denotes an attractant-repellant profile. That is, where nutrients and noxious substances are located, J(θ)< 0, J(θ)= 0, J(θ) > 0 represent the presence of nutrients, neutral medium, and noxious substances, respectively. On the other hand, the population of bacteria can be defined by P( j, k , l ) = {θ i ( j, k , l ) | i = 1, 2, , S}

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4 Simulation and Discussions In our experimentations, in order to evaluate the performance of the selected feature subsets, we use UCI dataset and four data sets with high-dimension. All experiments are implemented in a PC with Pentium 4 and 3G RAM. The initial parameters of genetic algorithm and bacterial foraging optimization are shown in Table 1. Ten-fold cross-validation procedure is commonly used to evaluate the performance of methods. In the 10-fold cross-validation, the selected features subsets are partitioned into ten feature subsets. The cross-validation process is repeated 10 times, and the 10 results from the folds then can be averaged to produce a single estimation. Table 2 shows the UCI datasets used in our experiments. The first two rows are artificial dataset and the rest are real-world datasets. The ratio of training and holdout set is 2:1 [8]. In this experiment, we use the fitness values evaluated by using (7) and the three genetic operators: roulette-wheel selection, uniform crossover and simple mutation. Table 3 reports the feature selection performance of proposed method. The first column shows the results of called ANNIGMA-wrapper method proposed by Hsu et al., and the second column shows results by genetic algorithm. The final column shows the results of proposed method. For each error and the number of selected feature, we describe the average and the standard deviation. As shown in Table 3, the proposed method shows better performance than the other methods with small features for most dataset and the proposed method makes it possible to decrease the error.


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The Intelligent Video and Audio Recognition Black-Box System of the Elevator for the Disaster and Crime Prevention Woon-Yong Kim1, Seok-Gyu Park1, and Moon-Cheol Lim2 1

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Abstract. Recently, increasing in social crimes and the needs for social safety networks, there are needs of the strengthened security in the area of the elevator due to accidents and crimes. However, the elevator system is lacking the solution of the security by relying on the existing CCTV cameras for crimes. In this paper, we propose the intelligent sensing system combining with video and audio analysis so that we build the integrated proactive response system detecting the accident using sensors, video and audio data, checking the elevator system remotely. We will be built the specialized security system of the elevator to respond the accident quickly. Keywords: Elevator, Black-box, Video, Audio, CCTV, Security, Intelligent.

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Increasing in violent crimes and accidents in an elevator, there are various needs to prevent these accidents and to solve the problems. According to Korea Elevator Safety Institute, Elevator accidents that are occurred frequently have been recognized as user and operator fault, manufacturing defects and poor maintenance [1]. Especially, the accidents caused by user fault were beyond the half. In addition, there are intentional damage and crime. In order to resolve the cause of crime recently, there is CCTV installation obligation for the elevator. But it is being used to postresponse system in the event of an accident because of using as a means of video storage. To solve these problems for the crime and accidents and improve the performance of maintenance, we propose the intelligent elevator system based on video and audio recognition and the effective utilization of it. It could be the aggressive solution by recording the elevator inside and outside using video, audio and sensor data, analyzing of abnormal situations such as screaming, excessive movement, temperature and fire in the elevator, notifying the possibility of an accident to the central monitoring system and providing the control service using a smart phone. Recently, with the advancement of the elevator industry, tries to connect with IT industry has emerged of a variety of services. For example, there are typical use such as EDS to service for news, weather and financial information, DSP (Destination Pre T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 245–252, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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assignment System), the floor schedule, fingerprint recognition, video surveillance and access control for the elevator [2]. But the elevator system not have constructed by the integrated structure of Information technique. So we are propose the integrated model of the elevator that have intelligent analysis of video and audio for the environment of the elevator so that it can be response to the accident and security issues actively. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In section 2, we briefly review related work of the elevator system. In section 3, we describe the framework of the intelligent audio and video recognition for the elevator system. In section 4, we discuss the features and the technical elements of the system. Finally, we conclude in Section 5.

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Elevator industry is rapidly being transformed for purposes such as high-speed elevator, cost reduction, simplifying and management of technique and convenience of use. In addition, there is increasing the need for vertical transportation for persons with disabilities access rights and aging society and also public facilities and public transport are increasing demands on the elevator installation. And also the elevator with features as speed, comfort, safety, affordability, convenience, design and performance has been required because of trends and changes in various users. The research and development has mainly focused on a space-saving elevator and an enhanced intelligent elevator to provide advanced information services [3][4]. Space-Saving Elevator Model. This system is intended to a small, lightweight and high efficiency actuator and control devices. Representative approaches include Machine Room Less (MRL), Multi-Deck and Twin Elevator. The Machine room-less elevator with an industrial development minimizes space and optimizes efficiency at operation using only hoistway. The representative MRL elevators are Finland Kone’s Mono Space, Otis GeN2 and LIM and Mitsubishi’s ELENESSA. Double-deck elevators are designed with two more elevator cars that are attached, one on top of the other. This allows passengers on two consecutive floors to be able to use the elevator simultaneously, significantly increasing the passenger capacity of an elevator shaft. Such a scheme can prove efficient in buildings where the volume of traffic would normally have a single elevator stopping at every floor. The TWIN system features two elevator cars one arranged upon the other in a single shaft using the same guide rails. The cars are not connected and can move independently to different levels, saving space and enhancing lift capacities [2]. Intelligent Enhanced Elevator Model. This system is using to purpose access control and visitor control by adding a card reader, touch screen and so on. The examples of the system are Schindler ID and Miconic 10 and so on. And also, there are security enhanced system such as fingerprint recognizing elevator, the elevator with Thin Film Transistor LCD screen to provide information for passenger with contents providers, the Pay Lift elevator that is pay the cost for real operation and the

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Recently, there are a variety of IT convergence associated with the elevator such as EDS to service for news and weather, DSP, fingerprint recognition, video surveillance and access control. Representative examples follow [7][8]. Mitsubishi Elevator. Mic Center collects various data related operation of elevator without video data. And notify the possibility of problems to engineer in charge before it occur failures with mobile system. And Safe Elevator is made for aware of passenger with a sudden burst of activity in elevator using video recognition. If this is come, the system ring the emergency alarm and then move the car to the nearest floor. ThyssenKrupp Elevator. Destination Selection Control is a highly intelligent control system where passengers select their destination floor at a key pad terminal before entering the elevator. In a conventional elevator, journeys are often slowed down and interrupted by passengers getting in and out as new calls are received, Destination Selection Control reduces the effect of this by directing each passenger to the fastest lift for each journey. Hyundai Elevator. IP-DVS(Internet Protocol based Digital Video Security) is model to integrate CCTV, DVR, the system of elevator control and high speed network. This model transfers a digital images and other information using an extra telephone line in the building to display the operation information of the elevator to the video surveillance system. 2.3

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Current imaging security equipments for an elevator consist of general video cameras, digital video recorder for storing video and CMS(Central Management System) to watch the situation from multiple monitor remotely and so on[5]. Until recently, camera and DVD related technology is evolving rapidly through researches such as high-resolution, high-quality, and intelligent products. But there are still a lake of many researches of video security system and automated inspection solutions. In the elevator especially, general CCTV cameras that just have the functions of video recording and playback are being installed and running in the elevator. As a result, they do not use advanced IT convergence technology efficiently. And the error notification and inspection of the elevator is being inspected all elevators manually so that the frequent failure of the elevator caused a lot of complaints and also this is still a lake of using the IT convergence technology. As a result, simultaneously with the mechanical performance and technology development of the elevator itself, various studies of the CCTV system that the demand continues to increase in the elevator and IT convergence technologies for automated inspection and monitoring system in the elevator are needed.

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The intelligent video and audio recognition elevator system for accident and crime prevention consists of integrated units such as the input units of video, audio and sensors to obtain information in the elevator, the elevator black-box system that analysis the input data intelligently, the CMS(Central Monitoring System) that control the event when it occur the serious situations and the remote management part to receive data with smart phone. Fig.1 shows the architecture of this system.

Fig. 1. The system architecture for the proposed system

The proposed system have the CAMs that be installed inside and outside of the car to recognize the video and audio information for the elevator status and translate the information to the black-box system in real time. The CAM for the inside of the car is to recognize the situation in the car and the CAM for the outside of the car is to inspect the elevator system remotely. There is touch panel in the car to operate the elevator, to display the status and to be a video call to the management office in an emergency situation. And the sensors such as shock and temperature is located in the elevator and utilized in the black-box. The Control Panel(CP) controls the elevator and translates the status of the elevator to the black-box. The black-box receives the information such as excessive movement, screaming, leaving things and people and elevators status from the CP, CAM and sensors and then analysis the situation. When an emergency situation exists, the black-box generates an emergency event to CMS automatically and then the CMS deal with the situation. And also the CMS send the information to the smart phone to control the system remotely.


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The proposed framework consist of the input devices such as sensors, cameras and touch screen, Black-box module, Central Management System module and Control Panel module. Fig.2 shows the proposed system framework.

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The input devices consist of fire and G-sensors, three CAMs, touch screen to display and operator the system. and black-box module have intelligent video and audio analyzer, event creator, video call, media information translator, sensor data collector, storage service, emergency power system and remote control service. And CMS have real-time multiple video monitoring module, two-way audio and video communication, emergency video monitoring based on an event, a storage service and mobile service. And the control panel has system, status and error controllers. Each elements of the framework describe chapter 4.

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The module of the elevator black-box include the analyzer of the video and audio data, the communication module, the sensor data collector, the media data store module, the emergency power manager module and remote control module. The black-box module includes H.264 video and audio storage and transmission capabilities, gathering and transferring the elevator meta-data and SSD-based memory management features. The structure of the black-box is presented in Fig.3.

Fig. 3. The block diagram for the black-box system for the elevator

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Central Management System consists of the event processing, communication of video and audio, mobile control, storage management and real-time multi monitoring. The system includes a decoder for H.264 Audio/Video data, analyzer of the metadata, synchronize module of audio and video, display module, transferring the data to the smart phone, checking the error and status of the elevator. As a result, the system provides convenient monitoring environment for users. The Control Panel has the mechanical device control module of the elevator system such as inverter control, driving control and group control. When the system makes some of status and errors, the system notifies the information to the blockbox system. And the CP provides the environments of checking the operating conditions in real-time. By building the environment of the prevention system from a limit of simple image data storage and post response system of the accidents, intelligent video/audio surveillance block-box system provides the integrated environments of the elevator and information technology for the accident, crime prevention environment with a systematic and integrated management. Because the convergence of IT and the elevator is made in a fragmented environment so far, it is the lake of the utilization of advanced IT technology. The proposed system gives the IT convergence structure for the specialized intelligent elevator including sensor information and video/audio data. In this way, we could be managing the cost and accident prevention.

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In this paper, we proposed the intelligent block-box system integrated video/audio, sensor data and status of the elevator. Using this information, we analysis the possible accident, criminal and abnormal behavior in the elevator and recognize the problem situation as well as recording the internal and external information for the elevator. It should prevent the criminality and accident by notifying the possibility of accident. Recently, increasing in social crimes and the needs for social safety networks, there are needs of the strengthened security in the elevator due to accidents and crimes. But the elevator system is lacking the solution of the security by relying on the existing CCTV cameras. For these problems, we proposed the intelligent sensing system combining with video and audio and we build the integrated proactive response system detecting the accident. It could be built the specialized security system of the elevator to solve and management these problems.

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Real-Time Intelligent Home Network Control System Yong-Soo Kim Dept. of Computer & Information System, GeoChang Provincial College, Korea [email protected]

Abstract. The real-time intelligent home network control system is the system which can control and monitor intelligent home network anytime and anywhere with mobile devices. In this study, to embody the real-time control system for intelligent home network, I designed the sub-module which can control various USN senses with using ZigBee, and organized the GUI environment into the client module to drive by users with mobiles devices. Keywords: Home-Network, ZigBee, USN, Embedded-System.

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Combined with a variety of devices used for electronic equipment, human, environment, media, and so forth, information technology has been part of our life. To make convenient modes of life, it has developed into Ubiquitous system in which products and users are linked together into a network system through which they can communicate each others: device(s) to device(s) and device(s) to users[1]. Among many sectors in the information technology industry, Home Networking has a biggest potentiality in the industry. Because it doesn’t require pre-installation tasks and high mobility, the sector gradually brings in wireless technology (its products and services), forming the sub-market. Further, coupling of wireless technology with USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network) will makes it possible that all the devices and equipment can be automatically sensed, tracked, monitored, and controlled regardless of time and place. This will lead to a faster development of Ubiquitous system where Intelligent Home Network is constructed on. There are various modes of WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) such as ZigBee and UWB. WPAN is a key part of integrated wireless network system on which USN-based home networking builds. In terms of effectiveness, Zigbee seems a more preferred choice because of its characteristics of low power use and rate. At present, two controlling systems are used for home-networking: telephone network and wireless internet. Both are text-based. Because the telephone network control system uses voice mode –voice message and key-, it requires supplementary modules of voice conversion and analog transmission to control signals. In addition, the line system entails phone fee according to a phone charge system a user subscribes. When wireless Internet is used to control home devices and equipment, they are linked to home control server for a user to select HTML-based menus. As for mobile devices, no additional programs are necessary and the server controls everything by sending and receiving control signals. In this process, however, there could be an T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 253–260, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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An embedded system is an electronic control (computer) system embedded with hardware and software to perform certain tasks. That is, it is embedded with not only simple circuits but also a microprocessor that processes and control wanted tasks[2]. As technological advancement in IC design and manufacturing brought so rapidly in PC industry, everyone comes to have his own computer now. Following the same footsteps it did in PC industry, the technology is sinking into general consumer appliances and is being embedded in information appliances. The applicable areas of embedded system include camera, camcorder, microwave, engine controller, robot, missile, facsimile, router, PDA, game player, settop box, and so on. 2.2

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technology industry as well as both public and private information technology sectors[5]. The applicable areas of USN include national defense, manufacturing, construction, transportation, medical service, environment, education, logistic, distribution, agriculture, farming, and so many. Accordingly, great interest bumps up in not only domestically but also internationally and some advanced countries already developed and accumulated a considerable level of USN technology and stepped into a USN competing market with its applications. USN is optimized by each type of applications. It also provides the communication environment with unique data traffic by application and protocol. It is a central part of infrastructure for u-IT839 that satisfies all the conditions (such as limited electric power, limited size, limited price, limited broadband, limited RF output, seamless, convergence, mobility, ubiquitous N/W, invisible, connected, calm, real) and enables context control, real-time and intellectual processing. Therefore, USN is the very area we need to develop intensively in the future. ZigBee: Zigbee is a popular name for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs) with low power and low price. Because of its small power consumption, low chip price and highly stabilized communication, it is recognized as one of technological areas that grow at fastest way. ZigBee is based on the physical layers of IEEE 802.15.4 standard and Mac-based media access control, on which it builds network, application and security. ZigBee’s physical structure is simple and its Mac layers are designed to minimize power consumption[6][7][8]. Zigbee is well suited for remote control and management. It has many functions such as home automation, building control system, security automation and energy control system for the purpose of realizing home comfort and safety. In addition, it can be applied to the areas of building automation system (electric power, heater, air conditioner, illumination, and elevator) and of factory and industry automation system through computers and various types of measuring equipment. The application will be applied more widely in the future. Some of the most distinctive features of Zigbee are its battery life that lasts years, simple system structure that realizes operability by 8bit micom, and easy installation and maintenance that do not require expensive wire backbones or infrastructure. Furthermore, it is used in many wireless sensing and controlling fields because of its excellent characteristics: remote wireless communication, international standard base, various and wide frequency radius, bulky node, compatibility with many types of network. In particular, it is regarded as a new technology and takes a responsible roll in building home automation and Ubiquitous Sensor Network.

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Mobile-based XML Text Transmission System has been designed and developed on Java 2 Platform (J2ME)[9]. To develop the system, we employed kXML parser that is distributed as an open source operable on the platform.

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We designed a 3rdgeneration ubiquitous home automation system that satisfies its 5 essential elements: intelligent environments, world class model, location-based services, private certification, and Automatic Behavior. And we applied it to the standard apartment size (35m2)for Korean middle class to suggest a new generation model of ubiquitous home automation system[10]. This home automation design placed user’s moving lines and behaviors in its prediction and satisfied the predictions before the user recognizes. ZigBee-based USN facilitates network formation. However, limited and false predictions may entail unexpected problems. Thus, a high level of image processing algorithm should be applied to make a more specific and delicate prediction for user’s behaviors. Fore example, when the user approaches a bed, many algorithmic predictions should be made for his/her further actions such as sleeping or reading beyond general prediction on move direction and behaviors. To do so, supplementary devices are need such as voice recognition and controllers. Unfortunately, voice recognition technology is still not in a perfect stage and hard to apply despite its considerable development. But using a controller such as a portable cellular phone can solve this problem due to its excellent level of mobile programming.


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In this study, Smartphone controls home system from outside. Figure 1 shoes Home Network Control System. The components to be controlled are eight parts including room 1 and 2, refrigerator, TV, ventilator. The remote control system comprises mobile devices like Smartphone, a server that plays relaying roll and a ZigBee controller that controls home network control system through Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. Mobile application is a client that functions as mobile device (e.g. Smartphone). The application is connected to the server through Internet to send and receive control information in binary streaming format. The server plays relaying roll. The server is connected to ZigBee controller in serial to send and receive instruction in binary streaming format through user interface. The binary streaming is a method of relaying data (esp. video and audio material) over a computer network as a steady continuous stream, allowing playback to proceed while subsequent data is being received. This type of streaming creates packets (a message or message fragment) including device and location ID, status information, intensity of illumination, temperature, and humidity; the last four are need to control traffic. 제어신호(Bit String) 상태정보(Bit String) Mo b i l e

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When the client touches "setting" on the lower part of the screen, the client checks current status and turn on or off. As the button is touched, instruction changes from "confirmation of status information" to "turning on", to "turning off". Those converted instructional information is transmitted.

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This paper designed and implemented the interface to control intelligent home network at any time and place. We selected ZigBee among USN-based wireless home networking technologies and connect it to Smartphone that is expected to grow more and further. First, we created a set of instruction to analyze data through ZigBee network and transmit control signals. At the same time, we determined and processed a set of instruction and a format of status information to send and receive the control signals and status information of client’s modules built in the mobile device and the server. Also we implemented the server modules to control various USN sensors through ZigBee network. Second, we also implemented a client module to be built in a mobile device and operated by a user. In this study, we created the client module to be well operated under Window CE environment-based Pocket PC 2003 mobile operation system. The module sends and receives control signals to/from the server and displays and controls under Graphical User Interface (GUI). In this study, we composed GUI environment to facilitate users to control home network system. In

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LCN: Largest Common Neighbor Nodes Based Routing for Delay and Disruption Tolerant Mobile Networks Doo-Ok Seo1,*, Gwang-Hyun Kim2,**, and Dong-Ho Lee1,*** 2

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Abstract. DTNs (Delay Tolerant Networks)refer to the networks that can support data transmission in the extreme networking situations such as continuous delay and no connectivity between ends. DTMNs (Delay Tolerant Networks) are a specific range of DTNs, and its chief considerations in the process of message delivery in the routing protocol are the transmission delay, improvement of reliability, and reduction of network loading. This article proposes a new LCN (Largest Common Neighbor nodes) routing algorithm to improve Spray and Wait routing protocol that prevents the generation of unnecessary packets in the network by letting mobile nodes limit the number of copies of their messages to all nodes to L. Since higher L is distributed to nodes with directivity to the destination node and the maximum number of common neighbor nodes among the mobile nodes based on the directivity information of each node and the maximum number of common neighbor nodes, more efficient node transmission can be achieved. In order to verify the proposed algorithm, DTN simulator is designed by using ONE simulator. According to the result of the simulation, the suggested algorithm can reduce average delay and unnecessary message generation. Keywords: Delay Tolerant Networks, DTMNs, Mobility, Routing Protocol, ONE simulator.

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Due to the trend shift into Ubiquitous computing environments, the introduction of not only wired Internet core network but also various networks such as wireless LAN, adhoc network, sensor network have been accelerated[1]. User's mobile device dependency is also increasing, as such these devices are required to be connected whenever and wherever it is required. Various wireless network technologies are introduced to support ubiquitous effectively. However, extreme network environments such as satellite network, communication between the earth and a planet, military operation, remote village and disaster increase additional requirements such as network *

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splits, large delay, reconnect after connection loss, high link error rate and heterogeneous network environments. Therefore new hypothesis such as large delay, intermittent connection and the most important, absence of route between the source and the destination are required. Users needs remain unchanged under such a extreme network environments. In order to support heterogeneous network integration, DTNs(Delay Tolerant Networks) is proposed.[2-4]. DTNs employs SCF(Store-Carry-Forward) method and draws attentions as the network technology which may be adapted into networks where existing TCP/IP protocol cannot be applied because of frequent link disconnect and network loss between ends. However, existing routing protocol being used in mobile ad-hoc network and wireless sensor network does not reflect DTNs' own property.[2]. Although Epidemic routing protocol and Spray and Wait routing protocol was proposed, they possess their weakness as they must distribute large amount of data copy into networks in order to transmit data and it still takes a lot of time to complete data transmission.[2]. They are also based on unrealistic hypothesis such as Random Waypoint mobile model. It is not effective when applied to the real world network. In this article, we formed neighbor node list of mobile node. LCN routing algorithm, which distributes message copy based on the neighbor node list, is proposed in order to distribute more message copy of itself to mobile node which has the maximum number of neighbor node. This article will begin with simple introduction and explain Dynamic routing protocol in the second chapter. This article will describe proposed LCN routing algorithm in the third chapter and conclusion and further research will be handled in the forth chapter.

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DTMNs(Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks) is a specific category of DTNs. Every node is mobile and end-to-end path does not exist between any given two nodes. Every node in DTMNs in blind and autonomous[5]. Dynamic routing protocol is designed to deliver packets into network under such a circumstance. Typical examples of dynamic routing protocols are Epidemic routing protocol and Spray and Wait routing protocol. 2.1

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Epidemic routing protocol is an algorithm which exchange messages by trading index of message in possession. Thus, even if there are no paths from sender node to destination node, it can deliver packets via carrier around with this algorithm. A figure 1 shows that how it can deliver packets from sensor node, S, to destination node, D. Figure 1 (a) describes that node S is trying to destination node, D, where there is no path between node S and D. Where time is t1, node S sends messages when node C1 and C2 reach transmit range. Every node will move at time t2, C2 will deliver message when C3 enters into the range. As destination node, D, exists within the transmit range of C3, the message will be delivered to the destination[6].

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In Epidemic routing protocol, mobile node delivers a copy of message in a possession, it will eventually generates unnecessary packets within networks. Therefore, network bandwidth will increase and each node will face buffer management problem. Spray and Wait routing protocol is proposed in order to improve this problem. The total number of copy of packet is limited to L. Spray phase and Wait phase is defined for packet delivery. Spray phase is a process of transmitting packets within the limit of L, which every mobile node delivers packets in possession to nodes within transmission range. Wait phase is a process of stand-by process until it joins final destination node even if new mobile node reaches within transmission range, where there are L copies of any given packet. By setting the limit of packet transmission, it will prevent unnecessary packets generated in the networks[7]. Spray and Wait routing consists of the following two phases: • spray phase: for every message originating at a source node, L message copies are initially spread – forwarded by the source and possibly other nodes receiving a copy – to L distinct “relays”. (Details about different spraying methods will be given later.) • wait phase: if the destination is not found in the spraying phase, each of the L nodes carrying a message copy performs direct transmission (i.e. will forward the message only to its destination). Spray and Wait combines the speed of epidemic routing with the simplicity and thriftiness of direct transmission[7].

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Mobile nodes learns its own location, the location of its neighbors and direction information periodically, compares them with the location of destination node and distribute higher L to nodes which moves toward similar direction. When a mobile node encounters another node, it performs the following tasks. • Exchange the type of message and direction information of each other. • When there are messages to exchange, it compares the destination and direction and shares L. The algorithm described above can be defined as following. FDirection (L, angle) = L/2 (-45°≤angle≤45°)

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Figure 2 explains the process of distributing L based on directivity information. Let us assume that arbitrary node C1, C2, C3 exist within the transmission range of mobile node S. The direction of node C3 is similar to the one of node S, it will distribute higher L value to node C3. 3.2

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Figure 3 describes the process of distributing L based on the maximum common neighbor node. Let us assume that arbitrary node C1, C2, C3, C4, C5 exist within the range of mobile node S. Each node composes neighboring list of neighbor nodes. The neighboring list of node C1 is {S, C9}, the list of node C2 is {S, C7, C8} and node C3 generates neighboring list of {S, C4, C5, C6, C7}. Node S will distribute higher L to node C3 which has the maximum number of neighbor node in order to increase chance of message delivery. When a mobile node encounters another node, it performs the following tasks. • Exchange the type of message and neighboring list of each other. • When there are messages to exchange, it compares the maximum common neighbor node and shares L. 3.3

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LCN(Largest Common Neighbor nodes) protocol is designed to work based on directivity information and neighboring node list, which are described in chapter 3.1 and 3.2 respectively. When arbitrary two nodes encounter, they perform the following tasks. • Exchange the type of message, direction information and neighboring list of each other. • When there are messages to exchange, they re-distribute L based on the result of FLCN( ).

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Figure 4 explains the process of message delivery in LCN algorithm based on the directivity and the maximum number of common neighbor nodes, when trying to send packets from sender node S, to destination node D. Among C1, C2, C3, sender node S allocates higher L to C3 node which has the most similar directivity and the maximum number of neighbor nodes. Subsequently, C3 distributes higher L value to C6 based on the directivity and neighboring list. Therefore, it will reduce the number of unnecessary message generated in the process of message transmission to the destination node D. 3.4


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Figure 5 compares message transmission success rate of Spray and Wait routing protocol and LCN routing protocol. There is very little difference compared to Spray and Wait routing protocol, however it shows better chance of message transmitting against Epidemic routing protocol.

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Figure 6 compares latency among 3 protocols. Epidemic routing protocol shows smaller value of latency compared to the other. This explains that Epidemic routing protocol has a higher probability of encountering fastest node to the destination as it delivers message to every node it encounters. Especially, LCN protocol performs limited flooding and it explains that it is minimizing the probability of reaching message destination in the short period of time. There is also load from LCN protocol consisting directivity information and the maximum neighbor node list.

Fig. 7. Comparison of Spray and Wait, LCN algorithm

Figure 7 compares the expected delay of Spray and Wait, LCN algorithm as a function of the number copies L used. LCN routing protocol proposed in this article employs information based on the directivity and the number of common neighbor nodes, to transmit messages. It is shown that the success rate of message transmit is increased and unnecessary traffic is decreased. However, further research is required to reduce the overhead within the LCN protocol implementation.

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Due to the trend shift into Ubiquitous computing environments, the introduction of various networks is accelerated and the various wireless network technologies are introduced to support ubiquitous environments effectively. In order to support heterogeneous network integration, DTN(Delay Tolerant Networks) is proposed. Epidemic routing protocol and Spray and Wait routing protocol are proposed for effective routing on DTN, there are downside of buffer management problem as it generates large amount of message copy in the network. It also has a weakness of taking long time to complete data transmission. LCN routing protocol proposed in this article, it distributes higher L value based on directivity information of each node and

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A Perspective of Domestic Appstores Compared with Global Appstores Byungkook Jeon Dept. of Information Technology Eng., Gangnung-Wonju Nat’l University, Namwonro 901, Wonju-City, Kangwon Prov., Korea [email protected]

Abstract. In the open markets, the category, the proportion, downloading counts for the apps in an appstore are an important measure which would determine the success or failure of the appstore In this paper, we investigate and analyze domestic appstores compared with global appstores to vitalize Korea open markets To cope with this, the category, the ratios and the physical distribution state for the apps in the representative domestic and global appstores are investigated. As a result, we proposed that the ecological prospect of domestic appstores is better to approach the fine-grained category models as well as need to invest more in the apps development to go along with the flow of changes in the global open markets. Keywords: App, Appstore, Mobile content, Ecosystem, Category, Smartphone.

1 Introduction The smartphone boom has developed various industries such as H/W and S/W, mobile contents as well as changed consumption patterns for consumers of mobile telecommunications. Especially in the open market, whether the usability of a socalled 'App' as a mobile content has emerged as a hot issue in the smartphone industry and mobile Internet industry. An appstore is an open market where anyone can buy or sell mobile contents. Therefore, the apps in an appstore are important in terms of the physical counts and qualitative aspects. Also, the category and the ratio of the apps, downloading counts according to customers' preferences in an appstore are an important measure which would determine the success or failure of the appstore. Owing to these, the open markets should be healthy the mobile ecosystem based the smartphone. In this paper, we investigate and analyze domestic appstores compared with global appstores to vitalize Korea open markets. To cope with this, the category, the ratios and the physical distribution state for the apps in the representative domestic and global appstores are investigated. By analyzing the detail investigation, we will put domestic apps into the mobile ecosystem’s perspective. This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we will investigate a status of domestic and global appstores. Contrastive analysis of domestic and global appstores is presented in Section 3. The ecological outlook for domestic appstores is described in Section 4. Conclusion and summary are given in Section 5. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 271–277, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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2 A Status of Domestic and Global Appstores To get a status of domestic and global appstores, it is necessary to examine an excess and deficiency of the apps through the analysis of each category in the appstores. Then, we investigate the categories and the number of the apps in each appstore. To give validity, the investigation was targeted the leading domestic and global appstores. Also, the investigation method was directly counted after connected to each downloadable page for domestic appstores on the smartphone customers. 1) A status of domestic appstores Korea's representative appstores are SKTelcom’s T-store, KT's olleh-Market and LG U+’s OZ-store [1, 2, 3]. All of them are mobile telecommunication companies, which have been mobile services, mobile marketing, and the apps services. In addition, T-store and OZ-store are mostly service the Android-smartphone oriented apps, but olleh-Market services the apps for Apple-iPhone. According to a conducted investigation in early April, 2011, the app categories are classified into about 17, but due to the insufficient quantity of apps within the categories, OZ-store were classified only 11 categories. The appstore orders that holds the largest number of the apps are T-store (49,467 apps), olleh-Market (36,868 apps) and next OZ-store (9,466 apps). So the total number of available apps is 95,801 apps. The apps of e-Book than other categories within olleh-Market are characterized by overwhelming majority. Also within T-store, the apps of e-Book and Education category were relatively very heavy side. Unusually, although olleh-Market has serviced 330,011 MP3 files, with fairness to the others we will exclude the app counts. Because the MP3 files do not necessary the extra development time, by the copyright agreement it can increased the number at any time.

Fig. 1. The share of each category in domestic appstores

The sum proportion of the apps per each category in domestic appstores is shown in Fig. 1. As seen in the figure, the apps of e-Book category as 39% share were excessive. Immediately following, Education(15%), Entertainment(10%), Music(9%) categories were shared. In particular, e-Reference, Photography, News/Weather, Travel, Banking/Finance, Sports, Productivity all are characteristic of the lowest share less than 1%. Ring Music among the categories is a unique category name of domestic appstores because the companies can be phone ringtone service.

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2) A status of global appstores The representative global appstores are Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market [4, 5]. Although the other appstores are RIM's AppWorld, Microsoft's Windows Marketplace, Nokia’s OVI Store, etc., we will exclude this investigation because they have relatively very few apps. By April 22, 2011, the number of apps were aggregated total 462,072 apps in Apple's App Store [6]. Among them, the downloadable apps are 373,960 and the inactive apps 88,112. So the inactive apps were excluded from this investigation. Android Market was also found that 187,876 apps are available for download and services [5]. Android Market were divided the app category into larger Applications and Game category, which Game category is characterized by a very fine-grained game genre classification. Although Android Market is the latecomer compared to App Store, the number of apps is growing very rapidly since 2010. The number of the apps in App Store was much more e-Book (14%) and Game (15%) category than the others. Even in Android Market, the apps of Entertainment(28%) and Game(17%) category were relatively plentiful. Especially when two stores are contrasted with each other, the apps of categories in App Store were almost more than those of Android Market. However, in Entertainment and Social Networking category, it is characterized by where are more Android Market’s apps than App Store’s.

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3 Contrastive Analysis of Domestic and Global Appstores Most of domestic and global appstores have different launching time of the appstores as well as nationalities and tendencies of users, too. It is difficult to analyze all the appstores using the same measures. Therefore, through benchmarking for the successful global appstores, domestic appstores are necessary to identify development plans, growth factors and so on.

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1) Quantitative analysis of the apps in the appstores According to our investigation, since there were 31,721 apps in domestic appstores surveyed in October 2010, the total number of the apps has increased 95,801 [7]. It shows that the total number of the apps have grown by almost three times over just the past 6 months. Among global appstores, the total number of the apps of App Store and Android Market surveyed in October 2010 was 278,694 and 105,355 respectively. But now each of them has increased by 34% (373,960 apps), 78% (187,876 apps) [7]. Fig. 3 shows the ratio of the total number of the apps in domestic appstores will be compared with those of App Store and Android Market. As mentioned above, the apps of domestic appstores have been developed quite a lot. But compared to Android Market and App Store, the total number of the apps is still low by two or three times.

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2) The category analysis of the appstores A distribution state of categories for the total number of the apps in domestic and global appstores is shown in Fig. 4. The bar in the figure means of the aggregated number of the apps per category. The apps of global appstores are arranged in order of higher ratio such as Entertainment (17%), Game (16%) and e-Book (13%) category, respectively. And next, the rests are decreasing a slight rate from Lifestyle (7%) category.

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development time as well as easily increased the numbers at any time just by the copyright agreement. An interesting feature is significantly a lower rate of the apps in the rest categories. In addition, the ratios of the apps of domestic Entertainment and Game categories are nothing 10%, 4% respectively as compared with those of overseas, despite potentially the most profitable areas in Entertainment and Game categories [8, 9]. This directly suggests whether which of categories is appropriate as a better revenue model. Therefore, in the viewpoint of CP(Content Providers) to develop the apps in the near future, Fig. 4 will be a good indicator for the share of each category. Especially it indicates what kinds of categories the CP are needed more research, development, and investment.

4 The Ecological Outlook for Domestic Appstores 1) The ecological analysis of the categories From now on, the domestic CP are necessary to look for the apps development areas and check the direction. So we expect the ecosystem by investigating the distribution status of categories presented in the previous Section. The number of categories in domestic appstores consists of up to 17 categories, but these of overseas are subdivided more than 20 categories. Some of them are not exist in domestic appstores but in global appstores. These categories are Shopping, Business, Healthcare/Fitness, Medical category, etc. Even if there are Travel, Productivity and e-Reference category, the apps in domestic appstores are rarely associated with these. Paradoxically, it means that if the CP will serve as a means of entering the appstore markets to develop the new apps , these categories can be given many opportunities. Game category is necessary to refer to Android Market where have separated a little more granular by genre of the game. Because the games are profitable, many apps will be developed in the future, also occupied with lots of download counts. Therefore, if we evaluate an overall status based on the types, the kinds and the number of domestic and global categories, an expected category ecosystem is better to approach any fine-grained category models depending on the apps increased exponentially. 2) The ecological analysis of the apps As described above, the total number of the apps in domestic appstores has increased 95,801 apps. It shows that the total number of the apps have grown by almost three times over just the past 6 months.Looking at domestic appstores individually, T-Store has a two-fold increase, olleh-Market 5 times, OZ-Store 3 times. These results should be related what the domestic smartphone subscribers were to 10million people in March 2011. A report of Korea Communications Commission expected the smartphone subscribers to be about 20million people until December 2011 [10]. Due to these subscribing trends, the appstore ecosystem will expanded to accelerate the development of more apps. Now over 6 months, the number of the apps in App Store increased to more Business by 58%, Banking/Finance by 56%, Lifestyle by 53% than ever before. Also,

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the number of the apps in Android Market increased approximately two times higher the apps of Travel/Navigation, Game, e-Book, Healthcare/Fitness, Banking/Finance, Lifestyle and Productivity category than ever before. Among these, the first concern is the rapid increase of the apps for business purposes in areas of Business, Banking/Finance and Productivity category. It indicates that the role of the smartphone is being used as business purposes of any company beyond some simple functions of mobile phone. Second, the apps related LBS(Location Based Service) has been significantly increased that the activation of SNS(Social Networking Service) and Travel/Navigation category is invoking. Third, the apps growth in Lifestyle category is proved being as if the smartphone can be used as a tool to help human life. In addition to these categories, as there are increased more the apps in Healthcare/Fitness category, so the smartphone seems to be used as a means of healthcare or medical supporting equipment for personal health. Finally, it means that the rapid increases of the apps in these categories are expanding the application areas considered functionality, usability and scalability of the smartphone. Therefore, in accordance with global trends of development of the app, the CP and the leading domestic appstores should to be enhanced continuously the insufficient category level as well as need to develop and invest the apps to go along with the flow of changes in the global open markets.

5 Conclusions Some of the world's largest telecommunications companies have teamed up to create so-called ‘WAC(Wholesale Applications Community) store’ as an appstore of sorts that they say will rival Apple's and those of other smartphone makers. The store will be designed to encourage developers to create mobile and online applications for all smartphones and operating systems, and launching in the near future. Therefore in this paper, we investigated and analyzed domestic appstores compared with global appstores to vitalize domestic open markets. Although the total number of the apps in domestic appstores has increased by almost three times over just the past 6 months, this number is still low by two or three times comparing with global appstores. Especially, an interesting feature is significantly a lower rate of the apps in the rest categories except e-Book category in domestic appstores. By analyzing the detail investigation, we put domestic apps into the mobile ecosystem’s perspective. As a result, we proposed that the ecological prospect of domestic appstores is better to approach the fine-grained category models as well as need to invest more in the apps development to go along with the flow of changes in the global open markets.

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A Design of Retrieval System for Presentation Documents Using Content-Based Image Retrieval Hongro Lee, Kwangnam Choi, Ki-Seok Choi, and Jae-Soo Kim NTIS div., Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information(KISTI) {hongro,knchoi,choi,jaesoo}@kisti.re.kr

Abstract. In recent year, a number of text-based slide search engines on the website for looking for power-point files have opened. However, general user wants to search information by an intuitive method which detects things based on their knowledge. In this paper, we propose an intuitive retrieval method for searching the presentation slide using content-based image retrieval. The proposed method uses the feature of digital image transformed from each slide to calculate similarity between stored slide and query slide instead of texts in the presentation slide or file name. The local feature and global feature was extracted in digital image transformed from slide and we rapidly calculate the similarity between features. We showed that similar slide can be efficiently and intuitionally searched by using content-based image retrieval technique. Keywords: slide search engine, power-point, presentations, information retrieval, content-based image retrieval, feature extraction.

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Information retrieval (IR) is the field of computer science that is most involved with Research & Development for search and a daily activity for many researchers throughout the world. In the case of the PowerPoint contents, some estimates put the number of presentations on the web close to 30 to 50 million. In recent year, there are many applications on a website for slide-searching for looking for specific these presentation files. Many existing search engines have used text-based retrieval method which retrieves the texts included in presentation or file name. However, these methods are not easy to remember texts in presentation file or contents of presentation consist of image and illustration. In addition, we sometimes utilize the PowerPoint for producing figure embedded in word processor document but there are times that we check hundreds of presentation files in own computer for modification of presentation files. In other words, general users trying to retrieve the power-point slide tent to intuitionally use object, person, and scene cognizant of the fact. In particular, we use figures generated through presentation tool such as MS PowerPoint for including diagrams or figures in the word processor documents. We will be probably opened all presentation file one by one to modify and reuse the existing presentation files. In order to overcome these problems, we proposed a retrieval system for the presentation slide using Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR). We use the feature of image transformed from each slide instead of texts in presentation T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 278–285, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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slide. We use the combination of local feature and global feature which is extracted in transformed to image from presentation slide to rapidly calculate similarity of slide. This paper is organized as follows. Chapter 2 organized related works and Chapter 3 describes steps of our algorithm. Experimental results are then given in Chapter 4. At the end, we present conclusions and comments in Chapter 5.

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The text-based slide search engines are traditionally used approach to find any particular slide or classify similar slides. In these methods, slides are previously tagged with metadata such as keyword and the file name of slide. One of the advantages of text-based slide search engine includes the ability to represent both general and specific instantiations of an object at different complexity levels. The most text-based slide search engines that one finds for PowerPoint are mostly not standalone. Invariably their reliance is on Google Custom Search. SlideFinder [8] is a well-known slide search engine that it indexes texts in slides from many universities all over the world. SlideWolrd [9] powerpoint search engine searches for text query from nearly 7 milion presentations. This site use Google Custom Search to do the job. It also hosts presentations uploaded by users that is arranged in categories like computers, science, entertainment, culture, education and many more. These presentations can be searched out or narrowed to the local machine. Presentations can also be shared in social media and embedded in blogs or websites. This site also has a sister site of the last one and mostly geared towards medical presentations. Patients for example can search for presentations by ailments under Health Conditions. Medical practitioners can delve under various medical topics for a specific slide. The SlideBoxx [10] is a centralized slide search engine enables collaboration by connection the people who need slides with those who created them, increases productivity by reducing the time spent looking for slides and possible duplicating the effort of creating the same slide multiple times, and captures intellectual capital by cataloging and making accessible the work of current and past contributors. Finally, Presentation 2go [11] search engine is powered by Google and Yahoo at the backend. The slides can be downloading as PPT files, viewed in the browser as HTML or in a Flash viewer. 2.2

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The text-based image retrieval (TBIR) method started in early 1970s and becomes recently clear that the combination of visual and textual retrieval has biggest potential. It applies traditional text retrieval techniques to image annotations or descriptions. However, the text-base image retrieval also faces many challenges. Through text descriptions, images can be organized by topical or semantic hierarchies to facilitate

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easy navigation and browsing based on standard Boolean queries. However, since automatically generating descriptive texts for a wide spectrum of images is not feasible, most text-based image retrieval systems require manual annotation of images. Obviously, annotating images manually is a cumbersome and expensive task for large image databases, and is often subjective, context-sensitive and incomplete [1]. As a result, it is difficult for the traditional text-based methods to support a variety of task-dependent queries. Chen Zhang [2] said one major problem is that the task of describing image content is highly subjective. The perspective of textual descriptions given by an annotator could be different from the perspective of a user. A picture can mean different things to different people. It can also mean different things to the same person at different time. Furthermore, even with the same view, the words used to describe the content could vary from one person to another [3]. He investigates the role of user term feedback in interactive text-based image retrieval. Term feedback refers to the feedback from a user on specific terms regarding their relevance to a target image. 2.3

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Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is that the search will analyze the actual contents of the image rather than the metadata such as keywords tags, and descriptions associated with the image. Content-based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests, has been an active and fast advancing research area since the 1990s. A representative local feature extraction method is Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) [4] which is an approach for detecting and extracting local feature descriptors that are reasonably invariant to changes in illumination, image noise, rotation, scaling, and small changes in viewpoint. Detection stages for SIFT features are scale-spaces extrema detection, keypoint localization, orientation assignment, generation of keypoint descriptors. General visual features most widely used in content-based image retrieval are color, texture, shape, and spatial information. Color is usually represented by the color histogram, color correlogram, color coherence vector, and color moment under a certain color space. Texture can be represented by Tamura feature, Wold decomposition, SAR model, Gabor and Wavelet transformation. Shape can be represented by moment invariants, turning angles, Fourier descriptors, circularity, eccentricity, and major axis orientation and radon transform. The spatial relationship between regions or objects is usually represented by a 2D string. In addition, the general visual features on each pixel can be used to segment each image into homogenous regions or objects. Local features of these regions or objects can be extracted to facilitate region-based image retrieval [3].

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The first step is to calculate the color histogram for each image. Color histogram analysis has been widely used in image indexing and retrieval systems. Color histogram is invariant to translation and rotation about the viewing axis, and change very slowly with changes in angle of view, change in scale, and occlusion [2]. While several similar image groups are clustered in the same cluster even though they are not identical images, every identical images of same group is not always included in same cluster by the first fuzzy c-means clustering. Identical images may have lower similarity by various transformation attacks even they are images of same group. We necessarily do secondary clustering to cluster identical images in the same cluster and willingly submit overlapping of partial data which should be eliminated after doing fine matching. To retrieve images with similar semantic meaning, we use the feature of edge histogram, a unique feature of an image, in secondary clustering.

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Edges in images constitute an important feature to represent their content. An edge histogram represents the frequency and the directionality of the brightness that can be changed in an image. It is a unique feature of an image, which can not be altered by color histogram or by homogenous texture attribute. This feature can be used to retrieve images with similar semantic meaning. The implemented edge histogram descriptor uses the specifications of MPEG-7. First of all, we extract the feature point by using Harris-corner detection algorithm and then generate blocks of 64 by 64 for calculation of gradient and orientation value about each pixel after created blocks is divided into sub-blocks of 4 by 4. We can calculate magnitude m( x, y ) and orientation θ ( x, y ) of a gradient: m( x, y ) = ( L( x + 1, y ) − L( x − 1, y )) 2 + ( L( x, y + 1) − L( x, y − 1)) 2

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We proposed a method for searching presentation slide using content-based image retrieval technology. Many existing search engines have used text-based image retrieval methods which retrieves texts included in presentation or the file name. However, these methods are not easy to remember title or content of presentation consist of image or illustration. In addition, we sometimes utilize power-point for producing figure embedded in word processor document but there are times that we check hundreds of presentation files in own computer for modification of presentation files. Therefore, in this paper, we used images instead of text for retrieval of presentation file. We extracted robust and accuracy local features and global features from images generated by translation of each presentation slide. We use the combination of local feature considering the speed of the similarity measurement and the global feature using color, edge properties for comparing objects on image in detail. The test dataset contains the free existing presentation file on a website, totally 100 presentation files on 30 pages on average. The experimental results show that proposed method achieves robustness to various presentation files and obtain a rapid processing speed of similarity measurement. The proposed approach can be used to induce development of application which can intuitionally search presentation files on a website or own hard drive. In the


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Data Quality Management Based on Data Profiling in E-Government Environments Youn-Gyou Kook1,*, Joon Lee2,*, Min-Woo Park, Ki-Seok Choi, Jae-Soo Kim, and Soung-Soo Shin3,* 1,2

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Abstract. Recently, it is important to manage the quality of e-government data for guaranteeing the reliability of e-government to the public and being consistent in interoperating that data among legacy information systems in egovernment environments. Data quality management is to try removing an invalid data and manipulating an incomplete or a revisable data on running database. So it is necessary that discovering, analyzing and reviewing that data which caused distrust in e-government. Data profiling is a process of analyzing location, structure, value of data and data profile included metadata for managing the valid data among that systems. In this paper, we present an approach of data profiling among legacy information systems in e-government environments to manage the quality of data and to guarantee the reliability of egovernment to the public. So we enumerate some invalid, incomplete and revisable data that is needed to manipulate in proper. The proposed approach will be caused the advanced data quality of e-government and reliability to the public. Keywords: Data Quality Management, Data Profiling, Interoperability, Information System, E-Government.

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The information systems of e-government are processed the businesses of the administrative organs and the public institutions, and provided the services to the public for efficiency, rapidity, convenience and so on. The recent governments build the various information systems to serve their business more and more, and make the plan of their information strategy what is to develop a plan for constructing information infrastructure to provide the various information, share and exchange that using internet. That systems be operated in independent working have the proper *

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missions which are served their own business to the insiders or the public and shared e-government information which are possible for interoperating a relational data in the distributed environments. So the public be could served a business by the information systems of e-government using internet such follows that: they can require an information to e-government, read their own information, become aware of an announcement of e-government, copy a certification and so on. All of these things are possible with information technology by advancing software, hardware and network infrastructure. Most businesses are changed to digitalization and electronic business by using the information technology that is bringing to the convenience of the human life. We called electronic government (eGovernment) which is the government to process the business in efficient through the information systems have the administrative information, the public information and the electronic business. Many information systems are operating by e-government product incalculable information being not aware of the existence. So we need to manage that mass information and to operate that systems efficiently what is managing the same thing in various information systems, reducing a system to avoid duplication business, preventing use of garbage information, interoperating information and system which are needed to cooperate, making use of the business and service of the other system and so on. In particular, it is very important to interoperate information among information systems of e-government and to manage the quality of information to prevent misuse of that [1, 3, 4]. In this paper, we describe an approach of data quality management based on data profiling of the information systems in e-government environments to which is advanced data value on interoperating data among that. Data profiling is process of checking a location, structure, value of data and analysis of data profile to use and manage the valid data among that systems. This process aid to find out error data and abnormal data that it is difficult to interoperate that data. So we present data profiling to advance data quality of e-government and enumerate some invalid data to control in proper. The proposed approach will be caused the advanced data quality of egovernment.

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It is important to serve the administrative information to the public and to process a digitalized business in e-government environments. There are various data of egovernment which are notification, statistics, law, foreign exchange, identification, certification and the other administrative data. If we misuse notification that is public data of e-government, then we'll get confuse after known error and do not trust government. So e-government has to guarantee the reliability on using their data that is a valid. To interoperate data in e-government, data profiling can support to advance the reliability and integrity of data source that is an input data and a connected. Data profiling is the process of analyzing database metadata which is the current state of data source such as columns and records, and checking the reasonable data location, data structure and data value. After that process, we can find out an error-prone status and distinguish an abnormal from the checked metadata and data source. Figure 1 shows the steps of data quality management including data profiling.

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References 1. Korea Database Agency. Data Quality Assessment Procedure Manual. Data Quality Management Guide-4 (January 18, 2011), ISBN 978-89-88474-09-9 2. IBM, IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer User Guide (August 7, 2007) 3. National Information Society Agency. A guide of technology evaluation standards for guarantee of interoperability (December 2006) 4. Act of E-Government in Korea (May 17, 2010) 5. Kook, Y.-G., Lee, J., Kim, J.-S.: e-Government Grid System for Information Interoperability. The Korea Academia-Industrial Cooperation Society, 3660–3667 (December 2009) 6. Kook, Y.-G., Lee, J., Choi, K.-S., Kim, J.-S.: Dynamic Relation Management of Hierarchical Data for Interoperability in Distributed Environments. Communication in Computer and Information Science 74 (June 2010) 7. ISO/IEC IS 11179, Information technology specification and standardization of data elements (2003)

Design of Code Template for Automatic Code Generation of Heterogeneous Smartphone Application* Woo Yeol Kim, Hyun Seung Son, and Robert Young Chul Kim Dept. of CIC(Computer and Information Communication), Hongik University, Jochiwon, 339-701, Korea {john,son,bob}@selab.hongik.ac.kr

Abstract. Development of heterogeneous application becomes an issue recently as of the diversification of smartphone platform. It is possible to develop heterogeneous smartphone application when using the e-MDD (Embedded Model Driven Development). While e-MDD is divided into Model-to-Model and Model-to-Text transformations, we have been converting target independent model to the target dependent model using the Model-to-Model transformation in the past. This paper is regarding the creation of code for target dependent model mentioned in the above using the Model-to-Text transformation. Template-based approach has been used for the creation of code. Code template has been made for Windows Mobil and Android as an example of application, and the code was created using Acceleo. Keywords: e-MDD(Embedded Model Driven Development), Code Template, Heterogeneous Development, Smartphone, Automatic Code Generation.

1 Introduction The conventional platform type for smartphone was so limited. The platform has been diversified as the issue for smartphone is getting bigger recently. Typical examples are iPhone SDK [1] of Apple, Android SDK of Google [2], and Windows Phone7 SDK of Windows [3]. In addition, there are various kinds of smartphone platform [4]. As the platform types are diversified like this, the reuse of software has become a bigger issue. It is because there is a problem of developing the same smartphone application programs newly to apply to another platform. It is possible to develop heterogeneous smartphone application when using e-MDD (Embedded Model Driven Development) [5]. e-MDD is divided into Model-to-Model transformation and Model-to-text transformation. For developing heterogeneous smartphone application in the past, we used Model-to-Model transformation to convert the target independent model to target dependent model [6,7,8]. This paper is *

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(2011-0004203) and the Ministry of Education, Science Technology (MEST) and National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) through the Human Resource Training Project for Regional Innovation.


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regarding the code creation of previously composed target dependent model using the Model-to-Text transformation. There is a standard method of Model-to-Text transformation to OMG (Object Management Group) for the transformation from model to text (code). Model-to-Text provides the transformation language to convert the model, composed based on MOF (Meta Object Facility) [9], to the text. Templatebased approach is used as the transformation language. It is used mainly for creating the code, which is put entirely in the hands of the user. This method requires composing template for the code creation. As an application example, code template has been composed for Windows Mobile and Android respectively, and the code was created with Acceleo. It has been possible to create 30% and 35% of the code for respective model as a result. This paper is organized as follow. e-MDD is explained in Chapter 2 as a related work. Chapter 3 explains the template for the code generation. Chapter 4 shows the case study. Finally in Chapter 5, it mentions about the conclusion and future research.

2 Related Work Model-to-Text approach is divided into visitor-based and template-based [10]. The very basic code creation method of visitor-based is the visitor mechanism consisted with the circulation of model’s internal expression and the text writing on the text stream. Its example is Jamda, an object-oriented framework, providing the set of class that represents the UML model [11]. Jamda creates the API for handling the model and the code with the visitor mechanism (CodeWriters). Jamda does not support the MOF standard for the definition of new meta model, however, the element type of new model can execute the sub-classing of existing Java class. Template based model text is being supported by most of MDD tools nowadays. Template is usually constituted with the object text including the meta-code splices that can execute the selection of code that is accessing the information in the source and its repeated expansion. LHS is used the execution logic that access the source, and RHS is the executable logic for the code selection and repeated expansion which is the combination of string patterns. Also, there is a definite separation of grammar in between the LHS and RHS. The example of its method is Acceleo provided by eclipse [12].

3 Design of Code Template Code template describes the code type for each language, brings in the data from UML meta model, and creates the source code. In order to define the code template, it is necessary to compare and analyze the programming languages. The code template of this paper has been composed based on the class diagram. It has been divided into the class name, attribute, and method for each code, therefore, and the relations with the class have been analyzed. In the comparison and analysis result of the code, there are lots of similar parts with Java and C#. In order to compose and execute the code template, this paper has used Acceleo [12] based on eclipse that is complying with the Model-to-Text transformation standard for OMG.

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[module generateCS [module generate ('http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/2.1.0/UML')/] ('http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/2.1.0/UML')/] [template public generate(c : Class)] [template public generate(c : Class)] [file (c.name.concat('.cs'), false)] [file (c.name.concat('.java'), false)] public [if (c.isAbstract)] abstract[/if] public [if (c.isAbstract)] abstract[/if] class [c.name.toUpperFirst()/] class [c.name.toUpperFirst()/] [for (superC : Class | c.superClass) [for (superC : Class | c.superClass) before(' : ') separator(',')] before(' extends ') separator(',')] [superC.name/][/for] [superC.name/][/for] [for (interf : Interface | [for (interf : Interface | c.getImplementedInterfaces()) before(':') c.getImplementedInterfaces()) before(' separator(',')] [interf.name/][/for] { implements ') separator(',')] //association [interf.name/][/for] { private : //association [for (p : Property | [for (p : Property | c.getAssociations().memberEnd)] c.getAssociations().memberEnd)] [p.type.name/] [p.name/]; [/for] private [p.type.name/] [p.name/]; public : [/for] [for (p : Property | [for (p : Property | c.getAssociations().memberEnd)] c.getAssociations().memberEnd)] void public void set[p.name.toUpperFirst()/] set[p.name.toUpperFirst()/]([p.type.name/] ([p.type.name/] in); [/for] in); [/for] //attribute //attribute [for (p : Property | c.attribute)] private : private [p.type.name/] [p.name/]; [/for] [for (p : Property | c.attribute)] [for (p : Property | c.attribute)] [p.type.name/] [p.name/]; [/for] public [p.type.name/] public : get[p.name.toUpperFirst()/]() { [for (p : Property | c.attribute)] return this.[p.name/]; [p.type.name/] } [/for] get[p.name.toUpperFirst()/]() { [for (o : Operation | c.ownedOperation)] return this.[p.name/]; public [o.type.name/] [o.name/]() { } [/for] // TODO should be implemented public : } [/for] [for (o : Operation | c.ownedOperation)] } [o.type.name/] [o.name/]() { [/file] // TODO should be implemented [/template] } [/for] } [/file] [/template] (a) Code Template of Windows Mobile (C#)

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The code template for Windows Mobile Figure 1(a) is composed in the form of created code and additional data input. Observing the code template, it is divided into special commands using “[ ]” and the parts generated as it had been put in. For example, “[if (c.isAbstract)] abstract[/if]” means to create the abstract when the condition c.isAbstract is true as is shown in the figure. Also “[for (p: Property | c.attribute)][p.type.name/] [p.name/]; [/for]” means to execute the output of property type name and property name to the class by repeating all the property p in the attribute. Code template for Android Figure 1(b) also is composed in the form of created code and input of additional data as same as Windows Mobile. Observing the code template, it is divided into the special commands using “[ ]” and the parts generated as it had been put in. As is in the figure, “class [c.name.toUpperFirst()/]” means to change the first character of the class name to the uppercase and to execute the output of the class text. If the class name is cname, its output is going to be CName. The difference of code templates between Windows Mobile and Android is the difference of C# and Java used in each platform. The code template composed like this is finally manipulating the data and creating the code using the meta model of UML model.

4 Code Generation of Heterogeneous Smartphone Application Using Code Template The final code created using the code template is shown in Figure 2. LinkViewController and LinkView classes have been created in the Windows Mobile application as is shown in Figure 2(a) as the input class diagram has 2 classes. As Windows Mobile inserts event handler inside the function for the button click, button handler has been added up in the internal function of LinkViewController. The development is completed with addition of function detail of corresponding functions based on the automatically generated code. In the Android application of Figure 2(b), the classes of LinkViewController, Btn1_onClick, Btn2_onClick, and LinkView have been created as the input class diagram has 4classes. Android application can be developed only with the function addition of corresponding functions based on the automatically generated code. Created LinkViewContorller class has been generated in the Java form of UML model’s onCreate. Android is adding up event handler by using the anonymous class. Therefore, 2 buttons have been divided into the class. onClick of Btn1_onClick class is moved to the assigned page. onClick of Btn2_onClick class is a code that draws circle and rectangle alternately on the screen. The code that draws circle and rectangle on the screen has been composed up in the LinkView class. It is not a perfect creation of code through UML design, however, about 30% of the code for Window Mobile application and about 35% of the code for Android application can be generated as of now. The design and embodiment procedure can be carried out more swiftly if the code creation rate can be increased.

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5 Conclusion This paper has created the code of previously composed target dependent model using the Model-to-Text transformation. Template-based approach has been used for the creation of code. While it requires composing the template for code generation, code template has been designed with the analysis of existing codes for Windows Mobile and Android. And for the execution of model transformation, template has been composed with the grammar of Acceleo tool. As an application example, code has been created by applying code template to the platforms of Windows Mobile and Android. As its result, it was possible to create 30% and 35% codes out of total codes for Windows Mobile and Android respectively. The code template proposed can create skeleton code only as it is based on the class diagram. The quantity and quality of code generation are going to be enhanced in the future by composing the code templates applied with sequence and state diagram in addition to the class diagram. It will be possible to develop heterogeneous smartphone applications more swiftly and effectively when adding up other diagrams besides class diagram.

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A Study on Test Case Generation Based on State Diagram in Modeling and Simulation Environment* Woo Yeol Kim, Hyun Seung Son, and Robert Young Chul Kim Dept. of CIC(Computer and Information Communication), Hongik University, Jochiwon, 339-701, Korea {john,son,bob}@selab.hongik.ac.kr

Abstract. In the conventional tests, test case is generated in the design stage. However, actual test can be executed after its embodiment. As there is as much time difference between the design and execution of the test, the errors in the designs of test and software are checked out late. This paper is proposing the test case generation method so as automatic test can be carried out in the virtual simulation environment. The method proposed generates the test case automatically based on the state diagram and executes it in the virtual simulator. It can reduce the time difference between the design and execution of test, accordingly, to find out the error in the test case and problems in the design promptly. As a result, it can identify the error in the beginning stage of software development and save the time and expense need for the development. Keywords: Articulated Robot, Modeling & Simulation, Test, Virtual Environment, Model based Test.

1 Introduction In the software development life cycle, the expense differs significantly according to the error finding stage. If the cost is 1 for finding and solving errors in the request phase, it costs 30~100 times when finding and solving errors in the production phase [1]. Software errors can be found out when test is carried out. If software test can be executed earlier, therefore, the error can be found fast and the development period and expense can be reduced. However, test can be executed after software development is completed in the conventional tests. This paper suggests the automatic generation method of test case that can be processed in the virtual simulation environment [2,3,4,5]. The method proposed is creating the test case from the state diagram. Generated test case can be executed directly in the virtual simulation environment. As for the test case generation method, it converts state diagram into state table and generates the testing transition tree based *

This research was supported by the MKE(The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA(National IT Industry Promotion Agency)(NIPA-2011-(C1090-1131-0008)) and the Ministry of Education, Science Technology (MEST) and National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) through the Human Resource Training Project for Regional Innovation.


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on it. Test case ID is identified and test case is generated using the created transition tree. The generated test case makes up the event list after classifying event and action separately for the processing in the simulator. When processing the event list in the virtual simulation environment, robot is activated and the Pass/Fail is checked out by observing the robot’s behavior. With conventional test, test case is generated in the design stage, but it can be executed after embodiment of software [6]. There occurs time difference as much between the design and execution of the test. However, this method does not wait until the embodiment stage by executing the test case directly in the virtual simulation environment but processing the test in the design stage. So the design error can be found fast in early stage. This paper is organized as follow. Chapter 2 describes the model based test as a related work. Chapter 3 explains how to generate the test case proposed. Chapter 4 shows the case study of proposed method. Finally in Chapter 5, it mentions about the conclusion and future research.

2 Related Work Following is the observation of model based test. Andras Toth et al. [7] had proposed the framework for the model level testing of UML model. Planner algorithm has been used for automatic generation of test case. The input of this framework is the UML state diagram exported to the independent XML tool of which format is assigned by UML tool. Conversion program generates text file automatically by the generation of planner model that can be manipulated like the formal language of UML state diagram. Planner meta model has established the provision of high level expression to maintain the methodology opened for other planner tools. The design can be tested, as of the result of this project UML, and the design flow can be found in the modeling stage of primary development process for the realization activity to save significant amount of effort and expenses. The theoretical background for the extraction of model based test case in the formal conformance testing for UMLSC (UML State-Chart) had been expressed by Stefania Gresi et al. [8]. Bertolino A. et al. [9] have suggested the aggregation method that is integrating the sequence diagram with the state for extracting reference model perfectly and rationally that can be used in the industrial context. This is used to extract the test case automatically. The author had extracted the test case based on the UML specification from all the contexts based on the component and object. The objective of this paper is for processing perfect model from the state and sequence diagrams and for making UIT (Use Interaction Test) together with the model in the research. This method guarantees that it includes all the allowable sequences. However, it cannot provide any coverage measuring on the embodied system. It satisfies the important requirements entrusted by the industry. The advantage of this method is for creating accurate test case and for inducing less testing effort by providing as much inconformity information as possible in the model.

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3 Test Case Generation in M&S The purpose of test case generation based on state diagram is to verify the relations between the event, behavior, action, state, and state transition. With using this technique, it can determine if the state based motion of system can satisfy the system specifications. There are 3 reasons for the fault of state based system. The first is when the state diagram cannot transit the system function specification accurately. The second is when the syntax of state diagram is wrong or inconsistent. The third is the conversion form state diagram to the code. It does not matter if converted using the automation tool, but it may cause troubles if converting manually.

Fig. 1. Flowchart of the test case generation based on state diagram

Figure 1 shows the test case generation based on state diagram using the state diagram. Initially, state diagram model is converted into the state table. State table has been separated using the tables of state and event, which can express the state of all the situations. Then, create the state transition tree based on the state table. State transition tree is the array of movable states in each state recursively. In here, the test case level is varied according to the recursive execution frequency. Figure 2 shows how to make the state table. The state available for moving toward when meeting with the event in each state can be indicated on the intersection of the table after indicating each state on the top of table and expressing the event on the left side of the table.

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Figure 3 shows how to create the transition tree. Array all the states on the top of table in the sequence. Then, indicate all the states available for access in the next step. If arraying the state available for re-access, the number of test case generation is varied according to the depth of array. The array of all these cases in the sequence makes the test case.


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Generate the test case automatically for the execution of test. State diagram must be composed with the design tool as is shown in Figure 5, and create the state table by selecting the '1▶' button in the red block for the generation of test case.

Fig. 5. Creation of state table

State table is the table that draws the called state when a specific event is generated in the corresponding state. With the state table, it is easy to check out which state has been called when a certain event is generated in the current state. Figure 6 is the state table created.


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State transition tree is generated based on the current state table when selecting '2▶' button in the screen of composed state table. State transition tree draws all the states in the form of tree that can be called in the current state for the visual checking. The tree will have more branches as the depth is deepened, and the depth can be assigned by selecting Switch. Figure 7 is showing the state transition tree created.

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Test case is generated finally when selecting '3▶' button in the state transition tree. Test case is generated as is shown in Figure 8, and it shows which event and which action can be occurred in the current state (Start state) through such test case, also it can be checked up in the form of table through this which state will be the next state.

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Test case is inserted in the event list as is shown in Figure 9 when double clicking the test case for the execution of test in the test case generated. When clicking the Run button, it is processing from No 1 to the end automatically. Time is the event generation frequency, and repeat is the number of repetitions.

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5 Conclusion It requires automatic generation of test case and execution method of test case for the execution of test in the virtual simulation environment. This paper has developed the tool supporting such procedure, applied to the multi-jointed robot, generated and executed the test case. As the result, the test case generated in the design stage can be executed directly in the virtual simulation environment. The method proposed overcomes the conventional problem in the design and execution of test, and finds out design errors by executing the test without waiting until its embodiment stage. It has shortened the time difference between the design and execution of test, and enabled prompt countermeasure against the problems generated in the design by finding easily out the errors of test case. There is a problem in the method proposed that the tester must check and confirm the test case executed in the virtual simulation environment visually in person. In order to overcome such a weak point, automatic checkup method is under research for expected result of the test as a future study.

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An Efficient Sleep Mode Procedure for IEEE 802.16e Femtocell Base Station Sujin Kwon1 , Young-uk Chung2 , and Yong-Hoon Choi3 1

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Energy efficiency is an emerging issue in mobile communication systems. It was reported that mobile communication systems consumed nearly 80TWh electricity in 2008 [1] and it is expected to be grown up as a major source of the world energy consumption in the near future [2]. So, many communication system operators have been interested in energy saving approaches. Especially, power consumption in the base station (BS) is one of major sources. For example, in UMTS, one Node-B consumes around 1500 W on average and it contributes about 60-80% of the whole network energy consumption [3],[4]. Due to their energy inefficiency and large quantities, BS sites are believed responsible for 80% of the energy consumption in mobile communication systems [5]. Most efforts have addressed energy efficiency in mobile communication systems, through the improvement of energy efficiency of BS equipments, the optimization network deployment to reduce the number of required BS, and the introduction of small sized cell. [6] affirms that reducing cell size can increase system capacity while remaining the overall system’s energy consumption unchanged. And, by adopting the BS sleep mode with a small sized cell deployment architecture such as femtocell architecture, overall system’s energy consumption can also be reduced. BS’s without active users are powered off and enter into the BS sleep mode.

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There has been some studies which deal with the BS sleep mode [7]-[9]. However, most of these studies are focused on the effect of the BS sleep mode. None of the previous works take into consideration the detailed procedure and performance of the BS sleep mode. In this paper, a new procedure of the BS sleep mode that improve the energy efficiency of femtocell based mobile communication systems is investigated using the IEEE 802.16e standard as a basis.

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The BS sleep mode reduces energy consumption of BS by being powered-off when there is no active user in the cell. In femtocell environment, traffic load to a cell varies considerably according to time, location, season, and user’s movement pattern. Such variation in traffic load of a femtocell is more drastic than that of a macrocell. In femtocell environment, small number of users are in a cell and their waiting time is relatively long compared with macrocell environment. However, such drastic variations in traffic are not followed by the variations in energy consumption. Because, BS’s still consume large amount of energy even when there are little traffic. If the BS sleep mode is adopted, the energy consumption of BS is severely reduced during hours of low traffic.

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Most efforts have addressed energy efficiency in mobile communication systems, through the sleep mode at Mobile Station (MS) side. In IEEE 802.16 series, MS’s can reduce their energy consumption with sleep mode when lightly loaded traffic is served. Two types of Power Saving Classes (PSC’s) are specified according to traffic types; The PSC I is designed for Best Effort (BE) and Non-Real Time (NRT) traffic while the PSC II is designed for delay sensitive traffic such as Real Time (RT) traffic. In PSC I, the duration of a sleep window is doubled until it reaches its maximum value. On the other hands, the sleep and listening windows are fixed to support real-time property in PSC II. The interval of sleep window is decided according to the characteristic of target services. We

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can adopt and extend the sleep mode procedure of MS to that of BS. The basic type of sleep mode procedure at BS side is shown in Fig. 1. A sleep cycle consists of sleep windows interleaved with listening windows. A listening window is a time duration which traffic can be exchanged between an MS and a BS, while a sleep window is a time duration which the transceiver equipment is powered down for power saving. In our proposed procedure, an MS and a BS have their own sleep cycle. During the listening window of an MS, the serving BS transmits traffic until its transmission buffer becomes empty. After the BS finishes its transmissions, the MS checks if it has no traffic to transmit until the Sleep Trigger Time (STm ) expires. If so, the MS requests to enter into the sleep mode by transmitting MOB-SLP-REQ message. Using MOB-SLP-REQ and MOB-SLP-RSP message, the MS negotiates sleep mode parameters such as minimum sleep interval, maximum sleep interval, listening interval and so on with the BS. After all MS in the cell are entered into the sleep mode, the BS checks if there is newly-arriving traffic from network and MS’s until the Sleep Trigger Time (STb ) expires. If so, the BS enters into the BS sleep mode. The sleep duration of BS should be equal or smaller than the sleep duration of MS, because a BS should transmit traffic during listening window of MS’s. In the IEEE 802.16m standard, the sleep window of MS and the listening window of BS can be adjustable. According to the sleep cycle of MS, the sleep cycle of BS should be adjusted. After the BS wakes up, it checks if there is traffic exchange with MS’s. If yes, the BS exchanges traffic with the target MS. If no, the BS waits until the Sleep Trigger Time (STb ) expires and goes to sleep with setting its sleep window as smaller one between the double size of previous one and the maximum sleep interval.

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We evaluated the performance of proposed procedure using simulation. To verify the performance of the proposed procedure, we compared energy consumption according to traffic load, the value of minimum sleep interval and maximum sleep interval. In this simulation, loaded traffic is modeled using Poisson arrival process. The minimum sleep interval is assumed to be 2 (frames). 512 and 1024 frames are considered as the maximum sleep interval. Power consumption of a BS per frame time is assumed that 1W for the listening mode and 0.1W for the BS sleep mode. Fig. 3 shows the energy consumption ratio with varying traffic arrival rate. In this figure, “Type 1” indicates the basic BS sleep mode procedure and “Type 2” indicates the enhanced BS sleep mode procedure. “User N” indicates there are N active users in the cell. 100 % energy consumption ratio means that no sleep mode is adopted. From this results, we can see that more energy are consumed as more traffic is arrived. The reason is that more traffic requires more frequent wake up and it makes the sleep window to be small. Also we can see that the

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enhanced procedure reduce energy consumption as 20 % compared with the basic procedure. That’s because the enhanced procedure can provide more sleep interval. Fig. 4 shows the energy consumption ratio when Tmax is 512 and 1024. From this results, we can see that we can save more energy by adopting longer maximum sleep interval. Because, the longer the maximum sleep interval provides longer sleep window. But as traffic load increases, the chance to use the long sleep window decreases.

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In this paper we proposed two BS sleep mode procedures and evaluated them. We considered IEEE 802.16e based femtocell environment. BS sleep mode is an effective way to reduce energy consumption in mobile communication systems. From simulation results, we showed the BS sleep mode is more effective when traffic arrival rate is low and the number of active user is small. So, we can say that it is not suitable to adopt the BS sleep mode to macrocell BS but in femtocell environment, the BS sleep mode would be useful.

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Performance Analysis of Wireless LANs with a Backoff Freezing Mechanism Ho Young Hwang1 , Seong Joon Kim3 , Byung-Soo Kim4 , Dan Keun Sung5 , and Suwon Park2, 1

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Abstract. In this paper, we propose an accurate analytical model of IEEE 802.11 DCF WLANs with a backoff freezing mechanism. In order to analyze the DCF with the backoff freezing mechanism, we model the backoff process of a station with a Markov chain. The proposed Markov chain models three different types of the backoff operations: choosing a new backoff counter, freezing the backoff counter, and decrementing the backoff counter. The proposed analytical model also considers the three different types of the previous channel status: idle, busy due to a collision, and busy due to a successful transmission. Considering the backoff freezing mechanism in the proposed model affects the performance measures such as throughput. The analytical and simulation results show that the proposed analytical model is very accurate with the backoff freezing mechanism. Keywords: IEEE 802.11, wireless local area network (WLAN), distributed coordination function (DCF).

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The distributed coordination function (DCF) of IEEE 802.11 is known as carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) adopting a binary exponential backoff (BEB) mechanism [1]-[3]. The DCF may use an advanced mechanism exchanging two additional short control frames: a request-to-send (RTS) frame and a clear-to-send (CTS) frame. In the DCF, when at least one of

This work was supported in part by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government [KRF-2008-357-D00181] and in part by the Research Grant of Kwangwoon University in 2011. Corresponding author.


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stations transmits a frame, the other stations which listen to the transmission freeze their backoff counters. To evaluate the throughput of the DCF, Bianchi [4] introduced an analytical model under a saturated condition. Wu et al. [5] refined this model by considering a frame retry limit specified in the standard. Chatzimisios et al. [6] presented an analytical model to compute the delay of the DCF by considering retransmission delays with and without a frame retry limit. The above models [4]-[6] assumed that a listening station immediately decrements its non-zero backoff counter after a distributed interframe space (DIFS) or an extended interframe space (EIFS). However, in the IEEE 802.11 standard, the listening station decrements its backoff counter only when the channel remains idle for a slot time after the DIFS or the EIFS. To model the backoff freezing mechanism of the DCF, an analytical model was presented by Ziouva and Antonakopoulos [7]. The model freezes the backoff counter with a non-zero value when the channel is sensed busy. However, they assumed that the transmission probability and the collision probability are independent of the channel status. To model the dependence of the backoff process on the channel status, Foh and Tantra [8] presented an analytical model with freezing of backoff counters. They classified each backoff state according to the previous channel status. However, the previous channel status in the model was limited into two types: idle and busy. In addition, the model did not consider a frame retry limit and delay performance. Choi et al. [9] presented an analytical model for the performance evaluation of the DCF using a closed queueing network where each backoff stage is modeled by a queueing system. Bianchi and Tinnirello [10] presented an approach which relies on elementary conditional probability arguments, and they and Xiao [11] also presented a bidimensional Markov chain. Their models considered the backoff freezing operation specified in the DCF standard, but the backoff freezing operation considered in the models is limited into the case that the control frames are transmitted at the lowest mandatory PHY rate. In addition to the unicast service in IEEE 802.11, Ma and Chen [12] studied the saturation performance of broadcast service analytically and by simulation. They considered the backoff freezing operation in the broadcast service. In our previous study [13], we analyzed the saturation performance of IEEE 802.11 WLAN under the assumption of no consecutive transmissions by considering a frame retry limit, freezing of backoff timer, and the dependence of backoff procedure on the previous channel status. The analysis is simple due to the assumption of no consecutive transmissions. The performance results are conservative within normal network operation regions. In [14], we presented an analytical model of IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) WLANs with a virtual collision handler (VCH). In [15], we proposed a MIMObased uplink collision mitigation scheme in uplink WLANs in order to mitigate a collision problem which degrades the system performance. In [16], we analyzed goodput in a single cell WLAN environment with hidden nodes under a non-saturated condition.

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In this paper, we propose an accurate analytical model for the performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 DCF WLANs with the backoff freezing mechanism. In order to analyze the DCF with the backoff freezing mechanism, we model the backoff process of a station with a Markov chain. The proposed Markov chain models the three different types of the backoff operations: choosing a new backoff counter, freezing the backoff counter, and decrementing the backoff counter. Due to the backoff freezing mechanism, the backoff process is dependent on the previous channel status. The proposed analytical model considers the three different types of the previous channel status: idle, busy due to a collision, and busy due to a successful transmission. Considering the backoff freezing mechanism in the proposed model affects the performance measures such as throughput. The analytical and simulation results show that the proposed model is very accurate with the backoff freezing mechanism.

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Performance Analysis of Forward Link Transmit Power Control during Soft Handoff in Mobile Cellular Systems Jin Kim, Suwon Park, Hyunseok Lee, and Hyuk-jun Oh Dept. of Electronics and Communications Eng., Kwangwoon University, 26 Kwangwoon-gil, Nowon-gu, 139-701, Seoul, Republic of Korea [email protected], {spark,hyunseok,hj_oh}@kw.ac.kr

Abstract. Forward link performance during a soft handoff for two conditions is evaluated. We showed quantitatively that the performance of the combined signal from two base stations is better than of a signal from each of two base stations as diversity combining. We also showed that the use of diversity combining at the mobile allowed the call to be maintained at a sufficiently low Eb/No value. Keywords: Transmit Power Control, Closed Loop, Outer Loop, Soft Handoff.

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In the wireless communication systems, there are two link adaptation schemes; one is the transmit power control, and the other is the transmit rate control. The former adaptively controls the transmission power according to the fading of the channel between a transmitter and its corresponding receiver. The latter adaptively controls the transmission data rate by changing the modulation and coding schemes (MCS). In this paper, we focus on the transmit power control. Transmit power control has been one of the important issues in mobile communication systems; especially, for code division multiple access (CDMA) based systems. The transmit power control mechanism is categorized as the open loop transmit power control (OLTPC) and the closed loop transmit power control (CLTPC). In OLTPC, a station autonomously adjusts its transmit power level based on the received signal strength of the signal from its corresponding station. In CLTPC, the corresponding station sends a command to the station for adjusting the transmit power of the station. The command is usually based on the received signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR). The CLTPC is comprised of two parts: the inner (or fast) loop transmit power control and the outer (or slow) loop transmit power control. In the inner loop TPC, the corresponding station generates commands based on a given target energy-per-bit to interference density ratio, (Eb/Io)τ proportional to the received SINR, and sends the commands to the station as shown in Fig.1. The (Eb/Io)τ is set based on the required quality metrics such as bit error rate (BER), frame error rate (FER), block error rate (BLER), or the like. The station controls its transmit power based on the commands from the corresponding station. If the command is of power-up, it increases the transmit power. And if the command is of power-down, the T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 321–327, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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Handoff in mobile cellular communication systems is a process whereby a mobile station (MS) communicating with one base station (BS) called as current BS is switched to another BS called as target BS for better communication. If it is done during a call, it is called as an active handoff. And if it is done during an idle state, it is called as an idle handoff. Handoff is also categorized as hard handoff or soft handoff. The hard handoff breaks the connection to the current BS before it makes a connection to the target BS. On the other hand, the soft handoff breaks the connection to the current BS after it makes a connection to the target BS as shown in Fig.2.

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Performance Improvement Method for Wi-Fi Networks Sharing Spectrum Jongwoo Kim1, Suwon Park1, Seung Hyong Rhee2, Yong-Hoon Choi3, HoYoung Hwang4, and Young-uk Chung5 1

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Abstract. We propose a solution that improves the performance of Wi-Fi networks sharing spectrum that are deployed in the same or adjacent area. The proposed solution uses the PS-Request protocol to sense the other Wi-Fi networks accurately, and manages the overlapped subcarriers in order to avoid the interference among the Wi-Fi networks sharing spectrum. The proposed solution can avoid the interference from the overlapped spectrum of Wi-Fi networks deployed in the same or adjacent region. Keywords: channel sensing, PR-Request, guard band expansion.

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People have wanted to use various wireless internet services anywhere and anytime with low price or eventually for nothing but with high speed data rate. They also want to use portable devices such as smart phones or smart pads, which can access the wireless internet services and should be as cheap as possible. Wi-Fi system using the unlicensed ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band is one of the best candidates for the wireless internet services that fulfill the requirements. The more smart terminal subscribers, the more wireless internet service zones should be deployed. For Wi-Fi systems, the wireless internet service zones are called as hop spots. And the wireless internet data per user is also increasing. Thus the more capacity per unit area should be increased for supporting the wireless internet services that are less blocked. Because the capacity per channel is limited, the more channel should be deployed in the same or adjacent region for increasing the capacity per unit area. Usually, the deployment of Wi-Fi networks are done by difference wireless service operators that want to support their own subscribers. It is done by the operator's own decision without any cooperation with the other operators wanting to deploy their own Wi-Fi networks on the same or adjacent region. In some cases, wireline internet service subscribers deploy their private Wi-Fi networks at home or office. Of course, they are not cooperated with the others. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 328–334, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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In order to solve the problem, we propose to manage the number of subcarriers used by the Wi-Fi systems. That is, the proposed solution is to change the number of subcarriers that are really used for carrying data. If the subcarriers located within the spectrum overlapped band are used by only one Wi-Fi network, the Wi-Fi networks will not interfere each other. In other word, the proposed solution is a kind of guard band expansion. For example, let two Wi-Fi networks deployed in the same or adjacent region. They are using overlapped channel #1 and channel #2, respectively, as shown in Fig. 2. Because the signal from the other Wi-Fi network may be sensed, Wi-Fi STA's served by different Wi-Fi networks cannot send their data frame simultaneously. However, if the two Wi-Fi networks adjust the number of subcarriers as shown in Fig. 4, the overlapped frequency band can be eliminated. It makes the two Wi-Fi networks communicate simultaneously without interference. Because the subcarriers for carrying data are included in the expanded guard band and are not used to carry data, the allowed maximum data rate per Wi-Fi STA can be decreased but the average data rate per Wi-Fi STA can be increased.

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Energy Saving Method for Wi-Fi Stations Based on Partial Virtual Bitmap Sangmin Moon1, Taehyu Shin2, Suwon Park2, Hyunseok Lee2, Chae Bong Sohn2, Young-uk Chung3, and Ho Young Hwang4 1

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Abstract. Mobile devices are powered by batteries with limited capacity. In order to use them for a long time, energy efficient operation of them is necessary. In this paper, we propose an energy saving method for Wi-Fi stations which support IEEE 802.11. It modifies existed partial virtual bitmaps in IEEE 802.11 to bitmaps based on IEEE 802.11a physical layer transmission time. Keywords: IEEE 802.11, energy saving, beacon interval, traffic indication map.

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The proliferation of mobile devices has posed a great concern on energy saving. Limited battery capacity of mobile devices restricts some wireless applications because they need much energy for their operation. There have been many attempts to reduce energy consumption of wireless devices in order to prolong their operation time per charging up. For a long time, energy saving has been one of popular research topics for mobile devices. There were several methods to reduce the energy consumption of wireless LAN (WLAN) terminals. [1] proposed a scheme that an Wi-Fi station (STA) controls its transmitting power with power-combination table. [2] proposed a scheme that optimizes the energy consumption by using adaptive ATIM window size in Wi-Fi system. As a matter of fact, a basic power management scheme for the Wi-Fi system is contained in IEEE 802.11 specification. [3] The scheme is for infrastructure network because maximum energy saving can be achieved there. By using the scheme, battery-powered Wi-Fi STAs can save energy. A Wi-Fi STA can sleep or go to a power-saving (PS) mode during a designated time in which it does not communicate with its Wi-Fi access point (AP). Even though the Wi-Fi AP can not transmit frames to the Wi-Fi STA during the PS mode, it buffers frames for the Wi-Fi STA. After the designated time is elapsed, the Wi-Fi STA wakes up and check whether data for it is T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 335–340, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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buffered at the Wi-Fi AP or not. To inform it of the Wi-Fi STA, Wi-Fi AP periodically assembles and transmits a traffic indication map (TIM) by using beacon frame.

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As shown in Fig. 1, the TIM is a virtual bitmap composed of 2008 bits; offsets are used so that the Wi-Fi AP needs to transmit only a small portion of the virtual bitmap. Each bit in the TIM corresponds to a particular association identifier (AID); setting the bit indicates that a Wi-Fi AP has buffered unicast frames for a Wi-Fi STA with the AID corresponding to the bit position. Wi-Fi STAs in PS mode periodically wake up to listen to traffic announcement to check whether the Wi-Fi AP has any buffered frames for them. When a Wi-Fi STA knows that its frames are buffered at the Wi-Fi AP through the TIM field of the beacon frame, it sends a PS-Poll frame to the Wi-Fi AP in order to retrieve the buffered frames. If more than one Wi-Fi STAs know that their frames are buffered at the Wi-Fi AP, they have to compete for permission of issuing only their own PS-Poll frame. After successful reception of a buffered frame of the permitted Wi-Fi STA, the other Wi-Fi STAs may continue to compete for the next permission.

2 Problem Statements Fig. 2 shows an example of buffering and frame retrieving procedure during PS mode of Wi-Fi STAs specified in IEEE 802.11. It also shows problems that is the start point of this paper. Wi-Fi STAs indicated in the TIM field of the beacon frame may retrieve the frames buffered at the Wi-Fi AP. During the fourth beacon interval, there are frames buffered for many STAs; #17, #19, #21, #23, #25, #27, #29 and #31. Assume that after competition, STA #17 acquired a right to send a PS-Poll. It receives a buffered frame in response. After then, STA #17 sleeps. Consequently STAs #23, #31, #29, #19, #25 receive their own frames before the end of the beacon interval by acquiring the permission after the competition. However, STA #21 and #27 do not acquire the permission of sending their PS-Poll frames within the beacon interval. Although they cannot retrieve the frames buffered at the Wi-Fi AP, they continue to be awake until the end of the beacon interval. They consumed energy that can be saved if they are not indicated in the TIM field of the beacon frame.

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3 Proposed Partial Virtual Bitmap Setting Partial virtual bit map setting in the conventional scheme is as follows; the Wi-Fi AP set the bit map based only on whether the buffered frames for each STA exist or not, regardless of the number of Wi-Fi STAs that can be served during a beacon interval. In order to reduce energy consumption of Wi-Fi STAs in a PS mode, we propose to modify the conventional virtual bit map setting considering the number of Wi-Fi STAs that can be served during a beacon interval. That is, in order to reduce unnecessarily consumed energy by Wi-Fi STAs which have buffered data at the WiFi AP, but can not be served by it during the beacon interval, a modified partial virtual bitmap (MPVB) setting considering the number of STAs which it may be served for the beacon interval is proposed. The MPVB will be set based on possible data transmission time within a beacon interval, and sending and receiving time in accordance with buffered frame size of each Wi-Fi STA. Possible transmission time during a beacon interval Ttotal is defined as follows.

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Fig. 3 shows the ratio of the existing scheme to the proposed algorithm with the average packet arrival rate at the buffer and increasing the number of STAs. The number of STA is rises as the average arrival rate increasing. Also, the number of unnecessary STA which cannot send the PS-Poll frame is increased. In this situation, if the MPVB scheme is applied, the twelve STAs having the data rate of 6Mbps would secure 8% extent sleeping hours when the traffic is small (λ=1.1). As the mount of the traffic increases, it can confirm that STAs sleeping hours about 28, 50, 70% is secured. In other words, the energy saving effect is gotten.

5 Conclusion In this paper, the existing partial bitmap setting method is modified in order to reduce the inefficient power consumption of the STA using the Wi-Fi system. The frame transmission time according to the data rate supported from IEEE 802.11a was calculated. The amount of data that can be transmitted during the beacon interval was calculated and the partial virtual bitmap was set. In simulation, the amount of saving power and packet delay was obtained based on the Poisson traffic model and MK/G/1/N buffer model compared with the existing scheme. In case the amount of traffic is small from the simulation result, there is no practical effect of the proposed scheme. However, more sleeping time about the greatest to conventional scheme 70% could be secured as the amount of traffic increased. Moreover, the listen interval of the STA is the effect on the power saving. We can expect the power consumption saving effect of the STA as the listen interval is increased, but the packet delay is enlarged. Therefore, the power of the STA has to be managed by considering the listen interval and packet delay together. The proposed scheme in this paper has the compatibility with IEEE 802.11e supporting QoS. It is necessary that it studies the performance analysis and saving

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A Handover Scheme for Improving Throughput Using Vehicle’s Moving Path Information* Sang Hyuck Han1, Suwon Park2, and Yong-Hoon Choi1 2

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Abstract. With the successful proliferation of smart phones, the demand for seamless and faster service in vehicular environment is increasing. Typical handover mechanisms in practice today may lead to unnecessary or late timing handovers, when they are directly applied to vehicular environment. In this paper, we propose a novel handover mechanism using a vehicle's moving path information to reduce the number of handovers or to increase throughput. During scanning process, a mobile node (MN) estimates average distances from its neighbor base stations (BSs) for a certain time interval using the vehicle’s moving path information. The BS that has the shortest distance from the MN is selected as a target BS for possible handover, so that the number of handovers can be reduced along the path. We carried out performance evaluation with four different moving paths and six different topologies. Through extensive simulations, we show that the proposed scheme reduces the average number of handovers and increases the network throughput. Keywords: Handover, moving path, throughput.

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As smart phone has recently become widespread, it is possible to receive wireless Internet service in all types of everyday environment such as at home, in workplace, on vehicle, on bus, or on train. The handover scheme that is applied to the current wireless network (e.g., 3G or Mobile WiMAX) manages the list of neighbor BSs based on signal strength. In the scheme, handover is performed to a BS whose signal strength is the strongest, when the signal strength of the serving BS goes down below the given threshold value. However, additional factors as below should be taken into consideration in the environment where vehicle moves. • It is not necessary to perform handover to the cell that has short dwell time. For example, it is assumed that handover takes place to cell 1, cell 2 and cell 3 *

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consecutively as vehicle moves. Then, if the service with sufficient quality can be provided even when handover takes place from cell 1 to cell 3 directly, it is unnecessary to perform handover to intermediate cell 2. • Since vehicle is allowed to run only on road, it is advised to avoid the handover to the cell that provides service mainly in the area that is inaccessible to vehicle. The signal strength from the inaccessible cell tends to be worse, although it is above the threshold during scanning period. Handover causes service quality degradation and signaling overhead, which is a weak point to providing multimedia service in real time. Therefore, it is important to reduce the frequency of handover. To this end, many studies have been conducted to apply the location estimation scheme, which has been previously used for location management, to handover [1][2]. Use of this study method can reduce scanning overhead to neighbor BS. However, vehicle’s passenger is not assumed, and the location estimation algorithm is complex. As a result, it is difficult to apply the method to a real situation. In this paper, we propose a handover mechanism using a vehicle's moving path information to reduce the number of handovers or to increase throughput. During scanning process, a MN estimates average distances from its neighbor BSs for a certain time interval using the vehicle’s moving path information. The BS that has the shortest distance from the MN is selected as a target BS for possible handover, so that the number of handovers can be reduced along the path. This rest of this paper is organized as follows. The Section 2 briefly describes the proposed handover scheme and simulation conditions. The Section 3 verifies the proposed scheme based on experiment. Finally Section 4 presents conclusions.

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We assume that we know the whole moving path of a vehicle. First, we observe the average speed of a vehicle at regular interval (e.g., 100ms in this paper). Second, based the speed, we predict the average distance between a given vehicle and neighbor BSs at every time interval. When a vehicle needs to perform handover to one of the neighbor BSs, then it tries to make a handover to the predicted nearest BS for a given time period, which is 100ms. Therefore, the best throughput can be guaranteed for that period. If the vehicle cannot find any candidate BS by the proposed scheme, then handover is performed to a BS whose signal strength is the strongest, which is the same to the original handover scheme. The experimental space is 5km x 5km with the two-lane roads placed at the distance of 100m in the grid shape. Arrangement of BS was considered in the six types. Each BS is arranged at the distance of 500m, 600m, 700m, 800m, 900m, and 1,000m in the experimental space. In this experiment, the four moving paths were used for performance analysis as shown in Fig. 1. Each moving path was derived from Levy Walk Model [3] whose moving pattern is similar to a real MN. In all of the four moving paths, vehicles move at the constant speed of 72km/h.

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We monitored average number of handovers, average RSSI values, and average throughput. Three performance metrics of the proposed scheme are compared to those of the existing handover scheme. Fig. 2 compares the average number of handovers for moving path 1-4 with six different BS arrangements. When the BS to BS distance was 500m, the average number of decrease in handovers was three times. When the BS to BS distance was 600m: 4.5 times, and the BS to BS distance was 700m: 1.25 times. Otherwise, the number of handovers in the proposed scheme was the same to the number of handovers in the original handover scheme.

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Effects of the Location of APs on Positioning Error in RSS Value Based Scheme Hyeonmu Jeon, Uk-Jo, Mingyu-Jo, Nammoon Kim, and Youngok Kim Department of Electronics Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Korea [email protected]

Abstract. In this paper, the effects of the location of APs on positioning error are discussed in received signal strength (RSS) value based scheme. The RSS values are measured to know the RSS characteristics of AP as the distance between the AP and the receiver is increased. The positioning errors are evaluated with three APs. A triangle is formed with three APs and the errors are distinguished by inside error and outside error, respectively, whether the receiver is located inside the triangle or not. The results indicate the inside errors of triangle, which is formed by three APs, are lower than outside errors. Keywords: Received signal strength, Localization, Log model, Positioning, WLAN.

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Global positioning system (GPS), which is one of the typical outdoor positioning technologies, is utilized in our life to meet the diverse needs of customers. However it is not suitable for location tracking in indoor environment. To comply with the needs of customers even in indoor environment, the non-GPS based indoor positioning technologies are introduced and they are employed with various systems such as wireless local area network (WLAN), WiBro, Zigbee, and etc. Especially, it is known that the positioning system with WLAN is practical scheme because wireless network already in use routinely [1]. There are many ways to use WLAN for positioning such as log model, fingerprint, and etc. The fingerprint method has the cumbersome step on which received signal strength (RSS) data of each point have to be collected in advance and it takes many times to collect the data. The log model method, however, does not need this process. Because of the advantage of simplicity and practicality, the log model method is considered in this paper. In this paper, the effects of the location of WLAN APs on positioning error are discussed in RSS value based scheme. The RSS has the property that the RSS does not have constant value according to the distances between the AP and the receiver. That is, whenever RSS values are measured at same position, it has a slight variation from the mean RSS value. Because of this RSS property, when the received signal strength only is considered, the distance between the AP and the receiver can be estimated by using the RSS value. In addition to, it is know that the signal interference from T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 347–352, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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different APs is not appeared clearly although the signal for data transmission is affected by the interference [2]. The signal interference is ignored in our experiments because we only consider the signal strength. In the measurement of RSS values, the signal is received at 60cm height from the floor in LOS environment, and the RSS values are measured 10 times and averaged repeatedly to complement the Gaussian noise and unstable RSS values. A LG XnoteR50 laptop computer that has antennas surround the monitor is used as the receiver and the ZIO-AP1550N that uses 2.4GHz band and 802.11g is used for the AP.

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The propagation can be affected by signal attenuation, shadowing, multipath, scattering, and diffraction [3]. Because of these effects, it is useful to know the RSS characteristics of AP to estimate the location in indoor environment. In common office building, the RSS values are measured at interval of 0.5m to know the RSS characteristics of AP as the distance between the AP and the receiver is increased. The RSS can be modeled by a constant component and a variable component. Generally, the constant component is modeled by a path loss propagation model and the variable component is modeled by complex propagation effects which are signal attenuation, shadowing, multipath, scattering, and diffraction. In this paper, the log normal shadowing model is used to handle the problems of RSS [4]. Log normal shadowing model is expressed as follows: 10

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Distributed Color Tracker for Remote Robot Applications and Simulation Environment Yong-Ho Seo Department of Intelligent Robot Engineering, Mokwon University, Mokwon Gil 21, Seo-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea [email protected]

Abstract. This paper proposed a distribuited color tracker for a robot and a simulated car navigation which can run in a network node. To perform a reliable color tracking both in a real robot and a simulated environment, a color tracker needs to deal with a reliable color filtering and a region segmentation technique. The proposed tracker also has been implemented as a network service so that it can be deployed either in any computer nodes in network environments or in the robot itself. The tracker service has been also developed to perform a coordination service for a robot that can follow a user wearing a colored shirt and for a simulated car to navigate a given track autonomously. We successfully demonstrated a human following of a robot and an autonomous car navigation using the tracker. Keywords: Color Tracker, Distributed Robot Software, Network Service Programming, Vision Based Tracking.

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An image processing technique that performs a color object, a face and hand gesture detection is an interesting issue in research areas including human computer interaction and human robot interaction. A vision based tracking that a robot can follow a user wearing a colored shirt for a robot equipped with a camera is also an interesting issue in robotics research nowadays [1]. A service oriented programming is a kind of new programming paradigm in these days throughout the IT industry. The concept of the Service-Oriented Programming (SOP) is being defined throughout the industry including: Sun’s Jini Openwings Microsoft’s .NET and HP’s CoolTown [2]. This technology is driven by the exploitation of networking technology and the need to be able to create more powerful capabilities based on services [3]. Therefore a distributed network programming has been used for a robot to do an autonomous color object tracking task to show the usability and the key characteristics and patterns of a service-oriented network programming to developers and researchers in robotics area. In this paper, we proposed a color tracker using a network service programming for a robot to do a reliable robot tasks such as human following and autonomous car navigation in a simulated environment. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 353–361, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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To implement a distributed color tracker for remote robot application and simulation environment, we used MSRDS (Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio) which is a S/W toolkit for robotics developers to create robotics applications for a variety of hardware platforms based on Microsoft’s .NET framework [4],[5]. This network based service programming tool for robotics includes a lightweight REST-style, service-oriented runtime which can create applications that enable user monitor or control a robot remotely using a Web-browser and send it commands to robots and control them to survey a remote location. Many application services are already included and can be provided by third parties are shown in Fig. 1.

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Major features of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio are CCR and DSS for programming network services for developing robotic applications. CCR means Concurrency and Coordination Runtime. This makes it simple to write programs to handle asynchronous input from multiple robotics sensors and output to motors and actuators. Fig. 2 shows a development patterns and features of CCR. It forms a quite sequential manner with no thread blocking and no callback handlers compared to the existing parallel programming pattern and it also get rid of bottleneck in performance so that we can avoid time delaying and decrease complexity of service module. We can develop scalable concurrent applications such as a workload decomposed into many heterogeneous work items, lots of latent concurrency that can be mapped to computational resources and data flow scheduler using CCR. DSS is a Decentralized Software Services that provides a lightweight, stateoriented service model that combines the notion of representational state transfer with a system-level approach for building high-performance, scalable applications. In DSS services are exposed as resources which are accessible both programmatically and for UI manipulation. The DSS runtime provides a hosting environment with built-in support for service composition, publish/subscribe, lifetime-management, security, monitoring, logging, and much more both within a single node and across the network. Fig. 3 shows an example of deploying distributed services into network environment using DSS and the internal structure of DSS service implementation.

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This service performs a color object and the other services can get the detection results by subscribing to this color tracker. The color tracker can be deployed either in any of computer nodes in network environments or in the robot itself. While the color tracker is running, the service provides several types of notifications which mean sending detection results of the tracker to other services. In addition, this service also performs a simplified face and hand gestures detections. To detect a face, it uses a skin image filtered by a predefined skin color model. After attaining a skin image, the service performs segmentation over the skin image. To find a face region among the segmented face candidate regions, the service uses an ellipse validation and two simple geometric constrains. The first constrain is a face on a color object and the second constrain is a face that should be in the upper image plane. To detect hand gestures, the service uses geometric information over a skin image and foreground image. It also uses results of a detected color object and a face. The foreground image is calculated by subtracting the current image from the background image. The background image is grabbed when a motion is not detected between the current camera frame and the previous camera frame for a specified time in a different image. These simplified face and hand gestures detections are useful in developing a HRI application.

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In this research, object following service has also been developed to perform an orchestration service which means a coordination service for a robot that can follow a user wearing a colored shirt or a given road track autonomously. The follower service is originally designed for use with a mobile robot that has a two-wheel differential drive, front and rear contact sensors, a forward facing Laser Range Finder device and a webcam. But later, we modified the follower service so that it can be applied to a legged robot and a car with a steering wheel. This service can be used either with a real robot or a simulated robot. This feature is come up with the necessary files for a robot configuration called manifest prepared for choosing one robot among different robot platforms supported either by MSRDS itself or third parties. The follower service orchestrates several partner services such as drive which is used for robot movements, contact sensor service as an implementation of robot bumper, LRF service for obstacle avoidance and Simple Vision service which performs color object tracking.

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In addition, we applied the developed color tracker and following services to a simulated car navigation. We used the Urban Challenge environment of Microsoft RoboChamps as simulation environment for autonomous car navigation. This challenge was sponsored by KIA Motors and held both in Korea and US in 2008. In this challenge, a developer can choose from 1 of 5 simulated robot cars, which resemble real-world KIA car models. Also a developer can program the robot car to navigate a route in a rich 3D urban environment. A number of sensors have been added to the car to complete the challenge, including contact sensors also referred to as bumpers, two webcams, a GPS, and a laser range finder. The specific route is required to navigate to all of the KIA building checkpoints. Specific rules are checked by referee dashboard program as you can see in Fig. 8. By using the proposed color tracker and following services, we successfully completed the challenge. The simulated car passed the given route only using a vision guided simple navigation logic as shown in Fig. 9.

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This paper proposed a new approach using a network service programming for a robot to do a vision based tracking both in a real and a simulated environment. A color tracker as a network service for a real robot and simulated car navigation can be run in a remote network node and uses simple and effective image processing such as a normalized RGB correlation and segmentation for object and face detection. The proposed color tracker in a network environment successfully performs a color object, a face and hand gestures detections so that a real robot or a simulated car can smoothly follow a user wearing a colored shirt or a given route in a simulated urban environment. Finally the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed tracker has been successfully demonstrated. The developed simple vision and follower services are also included as samples of technologies with full source codes in MSRDS. All services were written in the C# language using MRDS and .NET framework. Acknowledgments. This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(MEST) (2011-0013776).

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Mobile Robot Control Using Smart Phone and Its Performance Evaluation Yong-Ho Seo, Seong-Sin Kwak, and Tae-Kyu Yang Department of Intelligent Robot Engineering, Mokwon University, Mokwon Gil 21, Seo-gu, Daejon, Republic of Korea {yhseo,skwak,tkyang}@mokwon.ac.kr

Abstract. Smart phone that can support mobile computing environment has been popular recently. A new robot application using smart phone is also interesting and feasible research topic at this moment in accordance with a fast growth of mobile internet environment. In this study, we propose a remote control method of a mobile robot using a smart phone with Windows Mobile. We also developed the proposed method using Microsoft's .Net Compact Framework and Bluetooth data communication to support various OS Platforms from Windows to CE kernel based Embedded OS. In experiment, we evaluated the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed method by showing a remote control of a mobile robot using G-Sensor in a smart phone, a line tracing robot application and its performance evaluation. Keywords: Smart Phone, Mobile Robot, Remote Control, Bluetooth Data Communication.

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Smart phone based commercial markets are widely formed and becoming more popular these days due to recent advance of related technology and drastically broadened mobile phone markets [1]. Those smart phone markets include newly advanced, miniaturized, stabilized Mobile CPU, Flash memory, Display, Embedded OS and other related markets. Therefore the smart phone markets are called an integration of new generation mobile phone markets [2]. Smartphone is a mobile phone which offers PC-like rich advanced functionality on a smart phone OS which is the major feature that distinguishes smart phone from the previous phone. Among many kind of smart phone OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apples’ iOS and Google’s Android are mostly used. Using these OS, users can easily handle the smart phone’s various functions and complex development environment. Also, smart-phone lies beyond previous mobile phone. Smart phones are equipped with auxiliary hardware such as digital camera, gravity sensor, Blue-Tooth, wireless network and touch screen. Due to this hardware’s support, many new contents that weren’t available on the previous mobile phones now available. Therefore many commercial companies are trying to getting involved this new contents generating market. And these hardware technologies are evolving fast even at this moment [3]. T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 362–369, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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In this paper, adopting these advanced mobile computing technologies and populated smart phones, a new smart phone based robot application that succeeded previous PC-based robot application is proposed. Among robot applications, mobile robot control system based on smart phone wireless control is developed and demonstrates its effectiveness. For a mobile robot to be remote controlled, Window Mobile 6.1 based smart phone and our own designed mobile robot equipped with one-chip microcontroller, multiple infra red sensors and Blue-Tooth is used. To retain portability on varied windows based smart phone OS environments, .Net framework and Blue-Tooth is used on its software implementation. To develop smart phone user interface and handle gravity sensor efficiently, Windows Mobile SDK and corresponding smart phone’s SDK is used. In the experiment, through performance evaluation of smart phone’s gravity sensor based mobile robot remote control and remote line tracing control, effectiveness of proposed system is verified. Also the difference between Wired versus Bluetooth based remote control and PC based versus smart phone based control performance is analyzed and further research is concerned.

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Mobile robot is configured with microcontroller, infra-red (IR) sensor, Blue-Tooth, LCD, DC motor and motor drive circuits. Six IR sensors detect front, left, right and bottom side obstacles as shown in Fig. 1. Also IR sensors detect existence of floor to prevent the robot from falling. Measurements from IR sensors are transmitted by Blue-Tooth to smart phone side and the smart phone controls robot based on the received IR measurements.

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At mobile robot, microcontroller continually acquires IR sensor measurements from analog to digital converter (ADC) and sends them to Blue-Tooth using serial port. At the microprocessor on the robot, firmware is programmed to receive motor drive command from smart phone. Table 1 shows the hardware specification of the mobile robot and the smart phone used in this paper.

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.Net Compact Framework is a foundation library for Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded CE devices. As a lower set of .Net Framework, .Net CF is consist of 30% of overall .Net framework class libraries and optimized Common Language Runtime (CLR) which does similar roles as Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Forms [4]. .Net Compact Framework provides functions and classes for mobile development or mobile included development and also with its own exclusive classes. Therefore the developers who used to windows development environment can join mobile development without any additional training for mobile programming, embedded system programming or any knowledge to set up the development environment. Fig. 2 shows the latest .Net Compact Framework based smart phone development environment named “WP7” which include various phone application features with sensors, Silverlight and XNA.

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The developed software supports a user interface that has various control modes options for a user to the mobile robot to select a specific mode among line tracer mode, gravity steering mode.

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In Gravity Steering mode, user can control the mobile robot as if a user drives a car with steering handle of car. In this mode, the smart phone simulates the physical car handle by estimating current pose using 3-axis gravity sensor. User also can feel the speed of the mobile robot through vibration of smart phones driven by embedded vibration motor [5]. Fig. 6 shows the axis of gravity sensor and its data plot when the rotation movement according to x axis has been occurred.


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To acquire the gravity sensor measurement and drive the vibration motor, publicly available Samsung Window Mobile SDK 1.2.1 is used. Using the Samsung SDK, one can develop software that uses various function of smart phone easily [6]. (1) Equation 1 is used to control velocity of the mobile robot’s motor. Because of the output of gravity sensor from Samsung Mobile SDK ranges from -67 to 67, we normalized the given input by value of 134. Constant k is maximum motor velocity. To express angular velocity on mobile robot, 0 to 90 values of sine function is used. The value of x is the measured inclination at sensor x-axis coordinate. Each value of L, R corresponds to left, right motor velocity. To move the robot in a constant velocity, navigation functions such as acceleration in front, immediate left and right turn are implemented. Fig. 7 shows the experiment of the gravity steering mode using above Equation and navigation functions.

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In line tracer mode, line tracer algorithm is carried out on the smart phone using received floor-facing 3 IR sensors measurements from the mobile robot. Navigation functions for the line tracing mode are forward, left turn, right turn, acceleration, immediate left and right turn and setting initial direction for line tracing. Fig. 8 demonstrates experiment of the remote line tracer algorithm, which successfully tracked the given circled line.

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We performed a performance evaluation of a remote control with smart phone by measuring the wireless data transmission latency. Unlike traditional PC based robot control, to evaluate performance of wireless smart phone based robot control system, average wired/wireless data transmission latency is measured at each communication speed. In the experiment, 10 byte data packet is sent and received 20 times in Loopback manner. Time elapsed while smart phone sends data to robot and robot resends received data to smart phone is measure at 5 meter and 10 meter distance [7]. The results are described in Table 2 and Fig. 9.

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In this paper, we described the remote control of mobile robot using Bluetooth with smart phone based wireless robot control software. Also we also conducted several remote robot experiments and its performance evaluation to verify the proposed control environment. In the experiment, gravity steering mode and line tracing modes are tested. The control algorithms for the mobile modes were implemented at smart phone side and the smart phone controls the mobile robot by sending motor control signal through wireless connection. To validate this wireless control system, data transmission latency is measured at each communication speed and at each distance between the robot and the smart phone. The proposed smart phone based remote robot control system has its significance on being a new type of robot application by successfully combining traditional PC based mobile control method and smart phone’s distinct features, especially mobility. Initiated from this research, concerning rapid advance of smart phone, various embedded sensors, soon the smart phone controls system could replace the traditional PC based controls. Also near feature, it is expected that many intelligent service robots would widen their service variability through connecting themselves with smart phones so that they can use smart phone’s various features and various contents on smart phones. Acknowledgments. This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (KRF 2011-0013776).

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Study on Data Transmission Using MediaLB Communication in Vehicle Network Chang-Young Kim1 and Jong-Wook Jang2 1

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Abstract. As demands for the Infotainment System, the Multimedia Networking technology for automobile, called MOST(Media Oriented Systems Transport), has been actively applied to the automobile industry, to meet the demands of the Infotainment System. The existing MOST devices relied on 12C, 12S communication mode for internal bus communication but the widening bandwidth in the MOST network and additional installations in a single device required bus communication and MediaLB(Media Local bus). Majority of the existing MOST devices use I2S or I2C bus communication mode to process synchronous data (stream data) and asynchronous data (packet data). Hence, this study will take a look at control channel and transmission mechanism of synchronous data and asynchronous data by applying MediaLB mode, which is an advance from 12S or 12C bus communication mode proposed by MOST network and currently in use, suggest an efficient way to transmit asynchronous data and analyze its performance. Keywords: Asynchronous Data Transmission, MOST(Media Oriented systems Transport), MediaLB(Media Local Bus).

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MOST network is an optimized communication technology capable of controlling a single transmission medium, which transmits high-quality audio, video and packet data all at the same time, on a real time basis. [1]. At present, the standardized 25Mbps and 50Mbps are already being served in vehicles across Europe, Korea and Japan and 150Mbps will start service in around 2012 when it gets standardized. MOST25 is known for outstanding reliability and relatively easy realization driven by transmission of audio data and compressed video data. It also composes such multimedia devices as GPS(Global Positioning System), navigation and video display into a ring topology type single network. It supports connection with up to 64 devices, plug-and-play function and plastic optical fiber, which has high transmission speed and excellent EMI (Electro Magnetic Interference), and is used as transmission medium in MOST physical layer. This study will use MediaLB communication method, which is relatively less dependent on hardware among the diverse methods used to transmit data through T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 370–379, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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MOST25 frame comes in either 512bit or 64byte and MOST 25 network frame consists of preamble, boundary descriptor, synchronous data area (stream data), asynchronous data area (packet data), control channel, frame control and parity bit. Details of each component are described as follows [2] Fig. 1.

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Synchronous data area is used for real-time transmission/reception of audio and video data in MOST network. The allocated channels have to be connected through the connection master prior to data transmission and control channels are used for connection control. Node, which is a frame that transmits data that require regular transmission such as audio and transmits synchronous message, regularly sends data and the receiving node regularly reads data. It can adjust bandwidth in the range of 28byte to 60byte according to the value of boundary descriptor in MOST frame’s header field. 2.2

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Asynchronous data area transmits data that are irregularly generated such as the Internet and video data and boundary descriptor-dependent bandwidth ranges in between 0 to 36 byte. The length of data field supported by protocol is either 48 byte data link layer protocol generally used to control via 12C bus or 1014 byte data link layer protocol used in MediaLB. 2.3

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MediaLB(Media Local Bus) is different from series interface, which is generally dedicated to transmit most of multimedia data and others needed for application control. In addition, it is a synchronous medium transmitted to MOST, is used in printed circuit board, saves space and the number of pins by connecting a number of integrated parts. Fig. 1 shows an example of MediaLB 3 pin communication mode. [3].


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NetServices, which represents standard protocol stack for MOST, is based on INC(Network Interface Controller) or INIC(Intelligent Network Intterface Controller). It basically supports programming interface for applications that include function blocking and serves as a module to transmit packet data in asynchronous domain and to control network via control channel. It includes mechanism and routine to operate and manage networks and guarantees networks’ dynamic behavior mode. NetServices is realized in EHC(External HoST Controller) and while synchronous channel control is part of network service, asynchronous data transmission is not. Fig. 3 describes basic structure of MOST NetServices.[5].


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One of two MOST boards made to test MediaLB communication was set as Tx(master node) and the other one was set as Rx(slave node) both of which were then connected to MOST OptoLyzer(slave node) to form three nodes in total. Tx and Rx devices were set in a way to transmit random packet data via MOST network’s asynchronous channel to measure transmission speed in each node. MOST network composed of three nodes by connecting two MOST boards and one OptoLyze is shown in Fig. 4. 00 is Tx(master node), 01 is Rx(slave node) and 02 is OptoLyzer(slave node).

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Fig. 5 is the block diagram representing how MediaLB communication, which is the device’s internal bus communication mode in MOST network, is delivered. It is clear that MediaLB communicates in between EHC(External Host Controller) and INIC(Intelligent Network Interface Card). LLD driver node work and MOST NetServices V2.x version were ported in EHC to run application program while Tx and Rx were set in a way to process packet data’s transmission speed, Rx valid packet processing value and information on buffer request. Also, the test environment enabled monitoring of actual data flow, transmission speed of Rx node and other information via OptoLyzer.


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A number of environmental variables were set and modified to run a test aimed at checking transmission speed at MediaLB communication. The first variable is MediaLB clock, which is defined as 256Fx, 512Fx and 1024Fx in MOST network, but the test applied only 256Fx and 512Fx since only the two are supported in MOST25. The second variable is asynchronous socket bandwidth, which is from 4~ 36byte and can increment by 4byte. The maximum value that can be used in asynchronous data area is 36byte out of the maximum 60byte MOST data domain, which takes out 24byte, the minimum value of synchronous data area in MOST data domain. This study set 32byte excluding 4byte in asynchronous data socket for Rx as the maximum value. The third variable was measured by giving 0~5ms delay time when calling transmission function. This lowers the risk of buffer request failure by giving spare time for processing of the previous buffer when making packet transmission. This affects the time expended during buffer processing, which is also related to buffer size capacity and processing speed as confirmed in the test. The fourth variable is processing for a new attempt when request is failed. NetService API, which provides such function, informs the time open for a new buffer request in case of request failure to keep off packet loss triggered by transmission failure. The fifth variable has to do with buffer processing. It used values ranging from 4~128byte for MBM_MEM_UNIT_SIZE and tested up to 65535 for MBM_MEM_UNIT_ NUM. Both variables were tested on the basis of values defined in MBM(Message Buffer Management) in MOST NetServices Layer .

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MediaLB clock was set at 512F(maximum) and MBM(Message Buffer Management) buffer processing unit was set from 4byte to 128byte(maximum) in order to test transmission speed from MediaLB clock. MBM_MEM_UNIT_ NUM value was modified from 512 to 65535(maximum). In the first test, MediaLB clock was set at 512Fx, while MBM_MEM_UNIT_SIZE and MBM_MEM_UNIT_NUM were set at 4 and 512, respectively, as values processed for a new buffer request. In this case, Rx valid packet numbers (measured at OptoLyzer) were accurately transmitted but transmission time hardly differed compared with MediaLB Clock 256Fs. There were changes in transmission time alongside increase in MBM_MEM_UNIT_SIZE and MBM_MEM_UNIT_NUM but there were also cases in which no change was observed under particular conditions that gave generated critical values. In the second test, MediaLB clock was set at 512Fx, while MBM_MEM_ UNIT_SIZE and MBM_MEM_UNIT_NUM were set at 128byte and 512byte. It obviously showed improved performance than that in Fig. 6. Fig. 8. The study changed conditions of variables specified earlier to derive new values but even an increase in the values did not have any impact on the end result since most of them reached critical value at certain points. Finally, MediaLB clock was set at 512 Fs maximum value of MBM_MEM_ UNIT_SIZE at 128byte and minimum value of MBM_MEM_UNIT_NUM at 65535. Asynchonous socket bandwidth was additionally set at 20byte while processing for a new buffer request. The result generated from performing a test in the foregoing conditions was by far the best one out of the other tests performed with different set of variables and conditions set. Fig. 9.

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This study delivered MediaLB communication and measured transmission speed of asynchronous data and others via MOST board. MediaLB clock was set at 256Fx and MBM(Message Buffer Management) buffer processing unit at 4byte in the first test environment, which found that transmission time was around 9199ms when transmitting 1Mbyte. Among all the tests conducted under different conditions and variables, 512Fs of MediaLB clock, 128byte of MBM_MEM_UNIT_SIZE, 65535 of MBM_MEM_UNIT_NUM and asynchronous socket bandwidth additionally set at 20byte after processing for a new buffer request yielded the best result. The most optimal condition in the current test environment is 3842ms of transmission speed when transmitting 1Mbyte of packet data. As indicated in the test results, transmission time is most affected by asynchronous socket bandwidth. Furthermore, critical values are witnessed under certain conditions during which transmission speed does not change even when the values are increased.


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Topology Configuration for Effective In-Ship Network Construction Mi-Jin Kim1, Jong-Wook Jang1, and Yun-sik Yu2 1

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Abstract. Recently, all areas of IT has been rapidly in land. As a result, the location is very important in everyday life. But in ship are limits network with communication Equipment and service. As a result, be far removed from information age. Currently, ship is connected with the outside world via satellite on the voyage. But, because high billing, ship is possible data transfer using low speed bandwidth. Because ship is not possible using LAN, only limit ship's crew some use internet in limited space. So, ship is required construction of the network. In this paper, because composition of basic IT environment with information need of crew and customer from ship to cruises, there construct LAN in ship and propose network design for network of ship. The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper and should contain at least 70 and at most 150 words. It should be set in 9-point font size and should be inset 1.0 cm from the right and left margins. There should be two blank (10-point) lines before and after the abstract. This document is in the required format. Keywords: Ship, In-Ship Network, Cruise Ship, Cruise Industry, CAN, MOST, Bus Topology, Ring Topology, Star Topology.

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In Korea, high-value-added ship building started in 1990s by investing capital and introducing technology-intensive shipbuilding methods. Since 2000, Korea has been ranked first in the shipbuilding sector, accounting for 35% or more of the worldwide ship market. Its ship exports and production continue to increase. Information technology (IT) has not been actively introduced in the shipbuilding industry, though, and IT convergence is at a very low level in the said industry, despite the high level of Korea's shipbuilding technology. The localization rate of the core embedded software is especially low. Although Korea is strong in the IT sector, its communications technology for ships is not good enough to the building of a modern communications network for high-value-added ships, including cruise ships. As convergence technology is currently the focus, the convergence of IT and T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 380–392, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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With continuous economic growth and income increase, more and more people are interested in cruise travels. Marc Mancini [6] defined a cruise as ‘travel using a ship,’ and Maria B. Lekakou [7], as ‘enjoying leisure on a ship that accommodates 100 or more people for one or more days.’ Park et al. [8] defined cruise travel in their paper as ‘safe ship travel for travelers seeking amusement, in which they can visit tourist attractions, including historical cities, harbors, resorts, and natural beauties, taking advantage of high-quality services and facilities for lodging, eating and drinking, and amusement.’ Cruise travel can be classified according to the location, travel range, and navigation type. In terms of the navigating location, cruise travel is divided into inland cruise

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For the LAN configuration in the ship, the communication structure for one deck of the cruise ship and the communications room was first constructed. As shown in Fig. 4, the model was based on a 160,000-ton cruise ship that accommodates over 3,500 passengers. Of the 15 decks, 100 cabins were placed on 10


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The system was implemented using NS-2 and was configured based on a cruise ship model, but due to the NS-2 program limitation, the number of cabins was reduced. The 3D implementation was challenging, so a 2D system was configured, and the cabins were expressed as nodes. The system was configured with bus, ring, and star topologies. Under the planned scenario, node nos. 3 and 7 requested data to the server node at 0.3 and 0.5 s, respectively. Node no. 3 received packets until 1.5 sec, and node no. 7 received packets until 1.8 sec to measure which type of topology would receive the most packets within the same time. Then which topology would make MOST150 most efficient when its characteristics were implemented by topology was determined. The packets that flowed to node no. 3 were expressed as black, and those that flowed to node no. 7 were expressed as blue. The experiments by topology are outlined below. 4.1

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The important considerations for LAN configuration are the sharing and competitiveness characteristics. This concept is inherited differently from the characteristics manifested at the two-point link. As a network, which involves a configuration of multipoints into a two-point link, cannot fully reflect the characteristics of LAN, a new type called LAN node should be made. The interface that creates and configures LAN comes up with a new method known as make-LAN in the top-level OTCL-class simulator. As shown in Fig. 5, the total number of nodes is 12. Ten nodes, ranging from node no. 0 to node no. 9, are cabins, and node no. 10, which is not seen, is used as LAN node. Further, node no. 11 serves as the communication room's server. Fig. 6 shows the total packet amount that node nos. 3 and 7 received during the same time. 4.2

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As shown in Fig. 7, the total number of nodes is 10. Nine nodes, ranging from node nos. 1 to 9, are cabins, and node no. 0 serves as the communication room's server. Fig. 8 shows the total packet amount that node nos. 3 and 7 received at a prescribed time. 4.3

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Domestically, research is being conducted to apply the ship area network (SAN) concept in connecting wired and wireless networks within a ship with the aim of providing next-generation value-added services. If all the devices within a ship, such as the sensors and terminals, are connected with one another using the SAN concept, this will enable the effective development of information/system/service management and communication middleware in next-generation ships. Thus, in this paper, the SAN concept was used, and the configuration of the wired networks within a ship was designed based on the model of a cruise ship, which will produce great economic ripple effects in tourism and the shipbuilding industry. Based on the experiments by topology, during the same time, the ring topology received the least number of packets, and the star topology received the largest number of packets. Further, the packet amount received by the star topology was distinctively great. Thus, if the SAN LAN networks are configured with the star topology, this will implement networks effectively, thereby further improving the communication services for the customers and sailors. For further research, it is necessary to design and configure not only wired networks but also wireless sensor networks based on continued research on SAN. The greatest

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Performance Analysis of Inter-LMA Handoff Scheme Based on 2-Layer in Hierarchical PMIPv6 Networks Jongpil Jeong1,*, Dong Ryeol Shin1, Seunghyun Lee1, and Jaesang Cha2 1

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Abstract. Many schemes to reduce the inter-LMA handoff delay in hierarchical Proxy Mobile IPv6 have been proposed but the previous schemes waste relatively large network resources to decrease the path rerouting delay. In this paper, we propose the 2-layered LMA concept, where the seamless inter-LMA handoff can be supported regardless of path rerouting time. As a result, the waste of wired resources and the rate of the inter-LMA handoff can be reduced. From the performance analysis, the proposed scheme gives the shortest handoff delay due to registering only to MN’s LMA and more efficient handoff process than PMIPv6. Such advantageous features of the proposed scheme neither incur any increase of the total handoff rate nor require additional LMAs. Keywords: Inter-LMA Handoff, Proxy MIPv6, 2-Layer, Ping-pong Effect.

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As a network-based local mobility solution developed by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) [1] is being actively discussed. Unlike host-based Mobile IP, it does not require MN to modify its protocol stack and involve in mobility-related signaling messages exchange. By using proxy mobility management agents to perform the mobility related signaling on behalf of MN, it achieves the function of mobility management without MN’s involvement. Therefore, it is believed to accelerate the deployment of IP mobility management and to be the solution for mobility management in the future all-IP wireless networks [2]. The path rerouting between a mobile node (MN) and its new mobile access gateway (MAG) is one of important issues which increase the handoff delay [1-6]. If the serving MAG and the new MAG are connected to the same local mobility anchor (LMA), there is no need to re-establish the new path for the migration of the MN since the path between the LMA and the target MN is the same. In consequence, the impact of a path re-establishment to the handoff time is negligible when the handoff occurs between MAGs that are connected to the same LMA. The group of MAGs *



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connected to an LMA is called cluster domain. The handoff between MAGs in the same LMA cluster domain is then called intra-LMA handoff. On the contrary, the handoff between MAGs which are connected to the different LMA domains is called inter-LMA handoff. When inter-LMA handoffs occur serially between two neighboring MAGs which are connected to the different LMAs, i.e., when a MN migrates from cell a in LMA A to cell b in LMA B and continuously turns back to the cell a, the second handoff from cell b to cell a is called inter-LMA ping-pong handoff [7]. In these cases, the handoff time delay is not negligible. The path re-establishment of an inter-LMA handoff is similar to the case of the new session establishment in the mobile networks and it needs new path routing and hopby-hop connection setup along the new path. Therefore, the re-establishment of the path may require more time than the allowed maximum delay limit for the real-time applications. Most of the existing researches on this problem [8-11] have been conducted to reduce path re-establishment time. These schemes describe the schemes to decrease path re-establishment time by finding a common crossover switch between original and new routes or by making direct connection between serving and new LMAs. However, it is still difficult to execute inter-LMA handoff within the required maximum delay. Besides, the network resources are wasted by the new established routes which may not be optimized. In this paper, to overcome the problems in the previous research, the concept of 2layered LMA domains is proposed. In the proposed scheme, one MAG is connected to two mobility enhanced LMAs and possible to transmit the traffic to a new LMA after full-path re-establishment in the case of inter-LMA handoff. The quality of service (QoS) negotiation and another route tracking are also practicable within the maximum delay. Moreover, the proposed scheme can effectively reduce both the inter-LMA handoff and the inter-LMA ping-pong handoff rate. Besides, the number of required LMAs is the same as that in the conventional single layered network. Following this introduction, we describe background works and the proposed scheme in Section 2 and 3, respectively. In Section 4, we analyze the performance of the proposed scheme based on the inter-LMA handoff and the inter-LMA ping-pong handoff rate. Finally, we make conclusions in Section 5.

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On the deployment perspective, PMIPv6 does not require any software modification in the MN for mobility management [12]. On the performance perspective, it tries to reduce mobility-related signaling cost and handoff delay by separating MN from involvements of the handoff procedure [12]. Based on the fact that MIPv6 is a mature protocol with several implementations, it reuses the Home Agent (HA) functionality and message format of MIPv6 [1]. However, in order to provide network-based mobility management in a domain, it introduces two functional entities, LMA and MAG. LMA is similar to HA in MIPv6. It is responsible for maintaining the reachability to the MN’s IP address while MN moves among MAGs in the PMIPv6

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Describe in Fig. 1(a), once MN enters a PMIPv6 domain and first attaches to an access link, the MN attachment procedure is performed. After MAG receives Router Solicitation (RS) message from MN, it will perform the access authentication using MN’s identify by sending a Query message to AAA server, which is assumed as the policy store deployed in the cellular core network. After successful authentication, MAG gets the MN’s profile and then sends Proxy Binding Update (PBU) message containing MN’s identity to LMA. Once LMA receives the PBU, it also performs the access authentication to be sure that PBU is authorized. If MAG and MN are trusted, LMA accepts the PBU message, stores a binding cache for the MN and sends Proxy Binding Acknowledgment (PBA) including the MN’s home network prefix. MAG sends Router Advertisement (RA) messages to MN on the access link advertising the MN’s home network prefix, which is got from LMA. Then, the MN is able to configure an IP address, and uses the tunnel between MAG and LMA to send or receive packet. After the attachment procedure is completed, the MN’s IP address keeps the same while it moves within the PMIPv6 domain. Fig. 1(b) shows the signaling call flow for MN’s handoff from previously attached MAG (MAG1) to the newly attached MAG (MAG2). When MAG1 detects the detachment of MN, it sends de-registration (DeReg PBU) message to LMA to end the packet delivery tunnel. Once the MN attaches to MAG2, the MAG2 performs binding update procedure and sets up a tunnel between MAG2 and LMA for MN to deliver packet. When MN receives the RA message, containing the MN’s home network prefix, it will not detect the change of IP layer attachment. 2.2

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having a MAG be connected to two mobility enhanced LMAs. The two LMAs that contain the same cells belong to different layers respectively, and the LMAs in each layer are distributed in contact with each other like existing LMA structures. The example of cellular configuration with this proposed concept is shown in Fig. 2. Overlapping LMA domains can reduce the traffic as shown in Fig. 2. Observe that the two LMA domains do not overlap in Fig. 2(a), while they overlap in Fig. 2(b) and (c). Here the value of w indicates the degree of overlapping which is actually the number of rows of overlapped cells. Without overlapping as in Fig. 2(a), whenever an MN crosses the LMA domain boundary, its location needs to be updated. If the adjacent LMA domains are overlapped as in Fig. 2(b), only the MNs crossing the overlapping region cause binding update. In other words, an MN needs to fully cross a cell to cause binding update. When the size of overlapping area is larger, the MNs need to cross several cells (here it is 2) as in Fig. 2(c), to cause binding update. This scheme thus significantly reduces the signaling traffic due to binding update compared to non-overlapping scheme. However, the shortcomings of the overlapping approach are that the cells in a LMA domain are not overlapped uniformly. As a result, managing the binding update is more complex. We present the proposed scheme which can effectively reduce the binding update rate without such overhead.

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In the proposed 2-layered clustering environment, the number of cells in one LMA is twice that of the single layered case, if the capacity of mobility enhanced LMAs is the same as that in the single layered case. To prove this, let the total wired capacity of the whole mobility enhanced LMAs be T , the capacity of one LMA be C , and the number of cells in the whole network be N cell . The required capacity of each layer is then T 2 which is half of the total capacity and the number of LMAs per layer is T

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When radio hints such as router solicitation (RS) message are received to neighboring MAGs, the corresponding MAG of the current cell ( MAGServing ) checks the location of the MAG of the newly migrating cell ( MAGNEW ). If MAGNEW and MAGServing are connected to the same mobility enhanced LMA, a new connection between MAGNEW and the connected LMA is setup first. The old connection between MAGServing and the LMA is then released after the new connection setup is made. While MN communicates with the fixed network through the old path before new connection setup, it communicates with new path after the connection to MAGNEW . Therefore, the time required for path re-establishment is approximately only a singlehop connection setup time. The inter-LMA handoff needs more complex operations than the intra-LMA handoff. As for the real-time traffic, the path re-establishment delay is critical for guaranteeing the required maximum delay limit to avoid a forced termination of a handoff session. To accomplish the path re-establishment and the end-to-end QoS negotiation with in a limited time, the radio handoff and the path re-establishment should be executed independently. When the MN with a real-time traffic session enters a border cell of the serving LMA, the new path related with MN’s another

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LMA is established. In other words, the serving MAG ( MAGServing ) of the MN is switched from the serving LMA to the overlaid one. If the traffic has a non-real-time attribute, the inter-LMA handoff scheme is the same as that in the real-time case, except that the new path is re-established with only radio hint. If the radio hint is also used in the case of real-time traffic to determine when to reroute a new path, the threshold value of a radio hint power for a non-real-time case is much higher than that for a real-time case to decrease the number of inter-LMA handoffs. Consequently, the new path is re-established simultaneously with handoff and the number of inter-LMA handoffs for the non-real-time traffic is much smaller than that for the real-time case. The shortcoming of the proposed scheme in the non-real-time case is the relatively long path re-establishment time, but it is not so critical as to violate the QoS requirements for non-real-time traffic.

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In this section, the mathematical model of the cellular environment for mobile networks is described. We assume that a MAG is assigned to each cell and the overlapping of cells results in a cell having an equilateral hexagonal shape, such as in Fig. 4. Although the proposed system model adopts the square-like shapes of LMAs, we assume that the shapes of LMAs in the analysis model are hexagonal for the convenience of the analysis. A ring is defined as a single or a group of boundary cells. A LMA, however, is made up of several rings. Here, inter-edges are defined as the boundary edges of the outermost ring of a LMA and all the other remaining edges are termed as intra-edges.

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One of the most important topics of existing inter-LMA handoff schemes for mobile networks is to minimize the impact related with the communication path rerouting which might generate forced terminations of some delay-sensitive connections due to the long handoff delay. In this paper, the proposed scheme with the layered arrangement of LMAs is proposed to solve this problem. The MAGs in the mobile networks of the proposed layered LMA concept are connected directly to two LMAs, and this configuration of the mobile network enables the path re-establishment before

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A Study on Dynamic Gateway System for MOST GATEWAY Scheduling Algorithm Seong-Jin Jang and Jong-Wook Jang Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-Eui University 614714 Busan, Republic of Korea [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. To ensure infotainment and telematics services, much attention is placed on MOST. The MOST network has different protocols, such as MOST25, MOST50, and MOST150, requiring gateways to send and receive information. In the case of ischronous and Ethernet channel data that can be supported only with MOST150, when data is transmitted from MOST150 to MOST25, it cannot be treated by MOST25, leading to data loss and transmission delays. Thus, this study proposes a MOST gateway system to connect the MOST25 and MOST150 networks to form a single network. It aims to use the simulation tool NS-2, to analyze the CBQ scheduling algorithm performance between the MOST25 and MOST150 networks, and to consequently propose scheduling algorithm improvement measures suitable to cars. Keywords: MOST, MOST 150, MOT Gateway, Gateway Scheduling Algorithm.

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With the recent rise in the use of automotive electronic-control systems and the recent technological advances, intelligent vehicles are increasingly being highlighted. Also, to ensure higher reliability and safety, and to support the drivers' convenience, such as through the auto cruise function and collision avoidance, more efforts are being made to adopt new information technologies, such as an advanced information and communications technology, electronics, and control technologies [1, 2]. Further, with the increasing integration of many multimedia devices in vehicles, studies on MOST have been actively conducted for the last several years. One optical cable can replace dozens or hundreds of wires used to connect various electronic components in a vehicle with MOST application. With MOST application, the design and production processes for the development of new cars can be improved, and the competitiveness of vehicles can be boosted with quality enhancement, multimedia convenience, and vehicle weight and fuel consumption reduction [1]. There are now 100 vehicle models, which use MOST infotainment backbones, and foreign companies like Daimler Chrysler, Audi, and BMW, and South Korean companies like Hyundai and Kia, have applied the MOST technology to their vehicles [3,4]. Vehicles equipped with MOST25 need to replace all MOST150-related devices to receive enhanced services, such as higher bandwidths and Ethernet, incurring high network building costs and consequently weakening their competitiveness. Prompt T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 403–411, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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technological development is needed to address such high costs before it becomes too late. Thus, as MOST25, MOST50, and MOST150, each of which supports different bandwidths, consist of heterogeneous networks, gateway development is essential to enable these systems to send and receive information between networks with different protocols [4,5,6]. MOST150 has a frame structure similar to that of MOST25, but it has additional ischronous channels and an Ethernet channel. If a gateway is configured in MOST25 and MOST150 networks to send data, when data is sent from MOST150 to MOST25, ischronous and Ethernet channel data cannot be handled, causing data loss and data transmission delays. Thus, in this study, a MOST gateway system is proposed to enable the synchronized connection of MOST25 and MOST150 networks to form a network. The most widely used CBQ scheduling algorithm is applied to ensure the service quality, enhanced resources utilization, and transmission delay of the affected ischronous channels and Ethernet channel in MOST25. Also, the performance was analyzed using NS2, according to the priority and bandwidths, and measures for boosting the efficiency and improvement were proposed. Chapter 2 of this paper discusses the existing MOST network problems and the need for a MOST gateway scheduling algorithm, and Chapter 3 proposes measures to configure the MOST gateway and CBQ scheduling algorithm. Chapter 4 analyzes the performance of the MOST gateway scheduling algorithm, and Chapter 5 presents this paper’s conclusion.

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This chapter discusses the problems surrounding MOST and the existing scheduling algorithms to explain the background of the mechanism to be implemented in this study. MOST25 products that support up to 25 Mbps, MOST50 products that support up to 50 Mbps, and products that support multimedia services with a large capacity of up to 150 Mbps are now being marketed. As MOST25, MOST50, and MOST150 consist of heterogeneous networks, when sending and receiving data, they need gateways, and not many study results on this are currently available. When data is transmitted from a high bandwidth to a low bandwidth via a gateway, the data volume increases, which leads to data loss and transmission delay. In particular, when data is transmitted from MOST150 to MOST25, the ischronous and Ethernet channel data that can be supported only in MOST150 cannot be handled by MOST25, causing more data loss and transmission delays. To solve these problems, or to enable the handling of MOST150's ischronous and Ethernet channel data in MOST25, ischronous data is converted into stream data, and Ethernet data is converted into packet data. Priority and bandwidth problems occur between such converted MOST150 packet data and the stream data, and between the existing MOST25 packet data and the stream data. In extreme cases, certain data occupy the bandwidth, leading data with low transmission priority to lose transmission opportunities, thus disabling timely data transmission and consequently creating resource starvation. To solve this problem, diverse existing queue schedulers can be applied . MOST networks transmit diverse multimedia, packet, and control data; thus, to guarantee the service quality and delay of the data according to the data characteristics,

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This study proposed measures to configure the MOST gateway so that the existing MOST25 equipment can be used in MOST networks, and so that the MOST150 performance can be optimized, and accordingly explained the data-handling procedures. Also, to send MOST150 ischronous channel data to MOST25 data, the data was converted into stream data, and CBQ scheduling algorithms were applied to it. The performances were also compared according to the optimal bandwidth utilization and priority, using NS2. Thus, the environment suitable to cars was verified. It was confirmed that if the results of this study will be applied to the MOST gateway, excellent performance can be ensured, thereby enabling efficient communication. Acknowledgements. This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MEST)(No. 2011CB019).


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Abstract. Recently, because life and property loss due to car accidents, the blackbox to use airplanes installed in-vehicle. existing vehicle blackboxs stored only external video and image. if car accident, the driver is not known vehicle running condition. to know the status of the vehicle, in-vehicle mount sensors for various measurement and control. these sensor is controlled by ECU(Electronic Control Unit) and communicate through the in-vehicle network. In-vehicle network is control network, multimedia network. control network use OBD-II(On-board diagnostics) protocol on all vehicles since 2006 and multimedia network use MOST(Media Oriented System Transport) protocol for communication between ECUs. To use OBD-II, MOST protocol, drivers use data of blackbox to occur many driving data by many ECU of vehicle. So, driver can get more definite information than the existing black box. in this paper, to complement problem of existing blackbox to store external video and image, there implement blackbox system to use MOST network and OBD-II network. so, the blackbox provide the current status and information of the vehicle. blackbox system consist of CAM for image acquisition, GPS for time and position information acquisition, OBD-II for receiving vehicle running data, MOST interface card for receiving multimedia data. using Visual C++, the blackbox operate each sensor and module to receive the data portion. Keywords: blackbox, in-vehicle network, OBD-II, MOST, CAN, vehicle blackbox.

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Blackboxes were first used in a aircrafts to store the flight records and use them to determine the causes of accidents. This technology was recently applied to vehicles, and is being used to identify the causes of vehicle accidents the purpose of the car blackbox is to store the driving video, vehicle location, and time information related to an accident as objective data, and to identify their causal relationships with the accident. The car blackbox can also record hit-and-run cases during driving or parking accidents to protect the driver’s propery. With the increase in the importance of the car blackbox. It has been made obligatory for all vehicles in Europe in 2010, and for all 4.5-ton-or-less vehicles in the U.S in 2011. Between 2010 and 2013 in korea (12/29/2009 ministry of land, transport and maritime affairs), business vehicles started to be required to be equipped with a digital driving recorder. In November 207 T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 412–420, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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the Korean agency for technology and standards established the national standard (KS) for the car accident recorder(KSR5076) to provide regulatory support for its technical development and for its use in relevant industries. According to the KS blackbox standards, video data are important, but the driving data (vehicle speed, brake, condition, seatbelt fastening status, GPS, ABS tire pressure, air bag condition, ETC.) are also necessary in actual car accidents. Most car blackboxes in the market. However, meet the KS video data standards, but do not comply with the requirement for the vehicle condition data. In actual car accidents, video data are not enough to accurately identify the accident cause[1][5]. In this paper, video data were stored; the vehicle conditions, including the RPM and speed, were stored using the OBD-II protocol, which is widely used for in-vehicle networks; and the vehicle multimedia information were stored using the media oriented systems transport(MOST) protocol, which is widely used for vehicle multimedia networks, to realize an integrated blackbox what provides accurate information for actual accident analysis.

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Vehicles are equipped with sensors for measurement and control, and these devices are controlled by the electronic control unit (ECU). The original purpose of developing the ECU was to control the core functions of the engine, including the ignition timing, fuel injection, variable valve timing, idling, and limit setting; but with the development of vehicle technologies and computer performance, the ECU now controls almost all parts of the vehicle, including the automatic transmission, drive system, brake system, and steering system. Due to the continuous development of the electronic diagnosis system, it has recently been established as the standard diagnosis system, called the “on-board diagnostics system version II (ODB-II).” In the OBD network, data on the main systems or failures that are transferred from the sensors to the ECU can be seen from a vehicle console or other external device using the serial communications feature[3][4]. All vehicles that use the OBD-II network adopt the standard diagnostic trouble code (DTC) and connection interface (ISO J1962), but there are five different electronic signals, as follows: SAE-J1850 (VPW-PWM); ISO 15765 and SAE-J2234 (CAN communication); and ISO 1941-2 and ISO 14230-4 (ISO method). According to the regulations, however, all vehicles sold in the U.S., which is the world’s largest car market, have had to use CAN (ISO157654) since 2008. Accordingly, it is expected that the European and Asian markets will adopt CAN (ISO15765-4), and that CAN’s interfaces will be unified into one type. When a fault occurs in a vehicle, OBD-II describes the fault information using the five-digit diagnostic trouble code. The trouble types and codes are also standardized. General car maintenance agencies use the trouble codes based on the OBD-II standard to detect abnormalities in vehicles and to repair them. CAN (ISO15765 and SAE-J2234) was designed for stable operation in a noisy environment. Because the CAN bus is basically the broadcasting type, all its nodes

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The core function of this blackbox system is the timing synchronization between networks by reading the data of the OBD-II and MOST networks. To ensure the blackbox’s performance of this core function, an algorithm was designed for the synchronization of the communication between the OBD-II network, the MOST network, the GPS, the CAM, and the PC. Fig. 4 shows the flowchart of the integrated blackbox. The blackbox creates four threads and simultaneously conducts four tasks; and the GPS processor, which retrieves the global time to write time information on each data, serves as the main processor. The time and location data are received from the GPS. After the time information is retrieved, three processors operate. First, the blackbox requests the driving data (vehicle speed, RPM, travel distance, tire pressure, etc.) according to the PID of the appropriate sensor (Table 1) by connecting the OBD-II network via an OBD connector (OBD-Link). When each PID is requested from the vehicle, the appropriate sensor that is connected to the OBD-II network responds[6]. In the second processor, the driving data, including the sharp curve, the abrupt deceleration, and the school zone are received from the virtual navigation that is connected to the MOST network via the MOST PCI interface. The third processor stores the CAM frame, and OpenCV processes the frame. OpenCV is the strong image-processing library that was manufactured by Intel. The OpenCV() library is used to store the images in the main memory at a resolution of 320*240 and a frame rate of 30 fps using the MPEG-4 codec. A resolution of up to 640*480 is available, but it was set at 320*240 considering the external memory capacity. The time information from the GPS is added to the image data before they are stored. The blackbox system checks the external memory before storing the data, removes the oldest image data when the memory is full, and stores the data every 10 seconds.

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The system development environment was Windows XP on a desktop computer, and a USB was used as the external memory device. The main window of the blackbox system program has three areas: the OBD-II, MOST, and GPS data reception area; the blackbox control area; and the CAM image display area (Fig. 5). Fig. 6 shows the window wherein the OBD-II, MOST, and GPS data are outputted according to each event. Fig. 7 shows the window wherein the OBD-II, MOST, and CAM data are stored in the external memory. When the blackbox starts its operation, the external images are outputted and stored in five-minute sections. When the external memory is full, the oldest image data are removed. If an accident happens or the Store button is pressed, the external images (CAM) are stored in a separate space (USB memory), and the time information is used as the image data name. The stored data are analyzed via simulation so that users can easily understand them (Fig. 8).

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The car blackbox is mounted on vehicles to track the situation and cause of a car accident. It enables accurate determination of the causes of traffic accidents by providing critical clues to such causes, and legally protects drivers against unfair disadvantages. With the increasing demand for the car blackbox and the development of car electronics, it is expected that the blackbox technology will continue to be developed and will become a part of vehicle standards in a few years. Current blackboxes store only image and voice data. A driver can be disadvantaged if an accident occurs due to an internal trouble in the ECU. In this study, to realize an advanced car blackbox and to reduce the driver’s potential disadvantage, a CAM camera was used to collect driving images, and a GPS module was used to collect the time and vehicle location. In addition, an OBD-II driving interface was used to check the current driving conditions, and the MOST network interface was used to monitor the multimedia device conditions, to accurately find out the cause of a car accident. Further studies will be conducted to transfer the data to an external server via an external network (3G or WIFI) in case the blackbox is damaged in a car accident. In addition, a better blackbox system will be realized in terms of the actual installation of the blackbox by embedding. Also, Based on these studies, this proposed system will apply to wrong accident data that verify fault accident between victim and perpetrators by using the existing blackbox and will prove reliability of the proposed black box Acknowledgment. This research was supported by the Converging Research Center Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Human Resource Training Project for Regional Innovation. (No. 2010CB012).

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Adapting Model Transformation Approach for Android Smartphone Application* Woo Yeol Kim, Hyun Seung Son, Jae Seung Kim, and Robert Young Chul Kim Dept. of CIC(Computer and Information Communication), Hongik University, Jochiwon, 339-701, Korea {john,son,jskim,bob}@selab.hongik.ac.kr

Abstract. The current smart phone applications are developed subordinately to its platform. In other words, applications are developed according to its own unique platform by each relevant vender, such as Cocoa for Apple, Android for Google and Windows Mobile for Microsoft. This paper suggests adapting the whole process of MDD (Model Driven Development) for the development of heterogeneous smart applications. Our proposed MDD is composed of Modelto-Model Transformation, which separates the independent from the dependent platform and transforms the independent model to the dependent model through rules on model transformation, and Model-to-Text Transformation, which forms codes from each dependent model. Model, metamodel and model transformation language are required to achieve Model-to-Model Transformation while model, metamodel and code template are needed for Model-to-Text Transformation. UML model, UML metamodel, ATL model transformation language and Acceleo code generation language also are adapted MDD in smart phone development environment. This paper also mentions a case of applying MDD in SnakePlus game. Keywords: Model Transformation, Android, Smartphone, ATL(ATLAS Transformation Language), Metamodel.

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Reusable system for achieving maximum use of previously formed resources must be established to achieve quick software development. However, reuse of software is difficult to achieve as the mobile-embedded software is dependent on the system and is developed centered on the source code [1]. Furthermore, as various platforms are provided by different cell phone manufacturers and suppliers, a method for solving this problem is required. *

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MDD (Model Driven Development) is the mechanism for changing necessary technical model after designing platform-independent metamodel to automatically form code through the model. The model can be selected to re-create code in case the application program is required in another environment. Revision of application program is not required. This method can increase the productivity of code related with model re-use [2-4]. Thus, one model can be automatically formed into heterogeneous models by applying the model transformation technique in smart phone development environment. This paper applies MDD in Android platform to develop heterogeneous smart phone applications. To apply in Android platform, application structure is analyzed and classified into independent and dependent characteristics. MDD is classified into Model-to-Model Transformation and Model-to-Text Transformation [5]. Model-toModel Transformation uses ATL(ATLAS Transformation Language)[6] while Acceleo [7] is used in Model-to-Text Transformation. The entire process, from classification of independent/dependent model to code generation, is automatically executed by using tools. As an example, MDD is applied in the development process of the game, SnakePlus. The application of model transformation technique in smart phone environment can be verified through the application case. Furthermore, the application case presented the possibility of applying the technique in other various platforms, such as iPhone and Window Mobile. This paper is organized as follows. Chapter 2 explains related studies, including the basic concept of MDD, model transformation method and APT. Chapter 3 mentions the MDD-based development method of Android application. Chapter 4 describes Android application in the development process. Lastly, Chapter 5 mentions the conclusion and future work.

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MDD is classified into Model-to-Model Transformation and Model-to-Text Transformation. Model-to-Model Transformation is the method of transforming input source model as the subject model. Model transformation can be achieved from model to model, model to code, and code to model. Furthermore, transformation can be achieved in various models, such as UML, control flow diagram, and data flow diagram. Although the formation of metamodel is not required as UML metamodel is provided in UML, MOF(Meta Object Facility)[8] is used to design metamodel in models without metamodel.

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The basic principle of model transformation is presented in Figure 1. To execute model transformation, source model, source metamodel, target metamodel, and transformation must be defined. Model transformation engine uses such factors to transform into target model. Language that defines transformation rules is an important factor in model transformation. UMT(UML Model Transformation)[10], MTL(Model Transformation Language)[11], QVT(Query / View / Transformation)[12], ATL(ATLAS Transformation Language)[13,14] are the types of languages. UMT is the method using XML, XMI[15], XSLT. XMI is the input value in model transformation. However, as this is fundamentally XML, transformation is achieved by XSLT, the transformation language of XML. MTL can achieve model transformation of source models written in DSL(Domain Specific Language) and use the concept of Java virtual machine to transform metamodels written in metamodel language as a type of compiler. As the model transformation language selected as the standard in OMG, QVT is advantageous in that it can accurately express the specific transformation point, such as by When, Where, and can also form and re-use patterns. Like MTL, ATL executes model transformation using MDA framework by transformation definition language and transformation engine. The definition of transformation rule of MTL is more accurate and easier to understand in ATL, which can also define complex transformation rules. Furthermore, it is advantageous in that it provides re-use and synthesis of transformation models. Among the diverse types of transformation languages, this thesis selected ATL for such advantages. Model-to-Text Transformation is the method of forming code from model. This method is classified into two types: visitor-based and template-based [9]. In the visitor-based code generation method, the visitor mechanism is composed of purifying the internal expression of model and writing text in text stream. An example of this method is Jamda, the object-oriented framework that provides the assembly of classes that represent UML model [16]. Template-based method is more similar with the code than the visitor mechanism. This is easily used in the repeated development of template. Template can represent text work due to the approach presented in section as well as code pieces within text that are incorrect in syntax or meaning. Acceleo is an example of this method. Template-based Acceleo is used for code generation in this paper.

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MDD can be classified into Model-to-Model and Model-to-Text. Although the final goal of model transformation method is to form code from model, the middle model can be used to achieve greater modulation and maintenance, optimization and tuning, or to eliminate defects. Furthermore, Model-to-Model transformation is helpful in calculating and uniting different views of system module. Model-to-Text is focused on transforming the relevant model into code. Figure 2 presents the outline diagram of MDD-based development method, the method used in this paper. Source & Target Metamodel, TIM(Target Independent Model), and transformation spec must be entered to execute Model-to-Model, and ATL tool is required for execution. Through this input process, TIM can be automatically formed through TSM(Target Specific Model). TIM is the independent

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model of the development target while TSM refers to the dependent model of the target. Model, metamodel, and model transformation language is required for Modelto-Model Transformation. UML model, UML metamodel, and ATL model transformation language were selected for use. TSM and transformation spec must be entered to execute Model-to-Model, and Acceleo tool is required for execution. TSM Code is formed through this input process. Model, metamodel, and code template are required for Model-to-Text Transformation. Like Model-to-Model Transformation, UML was used in model and metamodel while Acceleo was used for code template to apply MDD in smart phone development environment.

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SnakePlus is the game application created based on the existing Snake[17] game. The existing Snake game is progressed by moving the snake North, East, West, and South to eat apples. In SnakePlus, the snake can be moved in a total of 8 directions and various items have been added to increase the number of entertaining elements in the previously simple game. This paper explains the model transformation process based on SnakePlus. 4.1

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In this example, one target independent model (TIM) is used to form TSM and code for Android. SnakePlus is composed of a total of 7 packages: Main, StageFactory, StageComponent, Background, Item, Wall, and Snake. Main initializes SnakePlus and draws image within the screen. Stage is formed and image information of objects is loaded on memory at the beginning of SnakePlus. StageFactory manages the stage and objects of SnakePlus. Objects are loaded on memory and location information is managed. StageComponent manages the common information of objects within


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Activity is class file and codes, such as event listener of layout, are written. Activity is the starting point of Android. After the activity is started, it immediately summons the layout. Because of this, StartClass of TIM transforms to SnakePlusActivity class holding activity properties and also changes the class-composing method. The composition of classes other than SnakePlusActivity class is identical to TIM. Main package is composed of SnakePlusActivity, SnakePlusView, SnakePlusMain, ComponentManager, RefreshHandler class. When compared with the structure of TIM, it presents differences in the part where StartClass class is changed to SnakePlusActivity class, the part displaying change in the image saving form of ComponentManager class, and the part where the method of SnakePlusMain class is changed to Android interior API. Figure 4 presents a detailed diagram on such differences.

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Code generation template is required to achieve formation of Android code. This code template uses the Java code generation template, which was defined in the previous example. As observed in the target-dependent model, a total of 19 classes exist in the formed code. Among these classes, StartClass of target-independent model is SnakePlusActivity, while draw method of SnakePlusMain class is changed to onDraw and touchEvent is changed to onTouchEvent. Figure 5 is the formed SnakePlusMain.


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To complete program, additional codes for function must be written after forming code of target-dependent model. Results presented in Figure 6 can be checked when this program is compiled and executed.

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This paper applied MDD in Android platform development to achieve heterogeneous smart phone development. For MDD application, classification was made between Model-to-Model Transformation and Model-to-Text Transformation and automation tool was used to achieve development. The application structure of Android platform was analyzed to execute Model-to-Model Transformation. By using the results of analysis, independent and dependent characteristics were classified and rules of model transformation were created based on independent/dependent models. ATL was used to describe the rules of model transformation and model transformation was executed in eclipse environment. In result, it was verified that class diagram was formed according to the rules of model transformation. Java used in Android was analyzed to execute Model-to-Text Transformation. Code template was written based on the results of analysis. It was written in Acceleo grammar to execute transformation in eclipse environment. In result, it was verified that code was formed according to rules of model transformation. The possibility of achieving transformation from formed target-independent model to other heterogeneous platform was presented by application in SnakePlus of Android environment. Transformation to heterogeneous platforms, such as iPhone, Window mobile, can be achieved by using the platform independent model of this paper and redefining the rules of model transformation. In future research, iPhone and Window mobile platform will be analyzed to apply the proposed method in each platform.


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Implementation of a Volume Controller for Considering Hearing Loss in Bluetooth Headset Hyuntae Kim1, Daehyun Ryu2, and Jangsik Park3 1

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Abstract. Today’s, many young people suffer from noise-induced hearing loss by using wearable hearing devices, such as Bluetooth headset. This paper present hearing loss reduction and more natural volume control systems considering individual hearing characteristics for Bluetooth headset. Experimental results using CSR Bluetooth headset example design board(DEV-PC-1645, included with Kalimba-DSP) show that individuals may be able to perceive without the inconvenience at the less sound intensity and the more sensitive frequency bands. As a result, we may prevent hearing loss properly by reducing excessive sound energy in each frequency bands. Keywords: Personal Intensity Control, Minimum Threshold of Hearing, Bluetooth Headset, Kalimba-DSP.

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Noise-induced hearing loss has increased according to spreading wearable hearing devices. Personal audio devices has 78 136dB, allowed maximum Sound Pressure Level (SPL). When listening to music on earphones at volume level of 100 dB, loud enough to cause permanent damage after just 15 minutes per day! Recently, many kind of technique has developed for preventing noise-induced hearing loss [1]. One of them, KLISTEN Inc.’s hearing damage protection technique gotten a spot light [2]. But the volume at each frequency varies linearly up and down without considering threshold of pain, the effect of noise-induced hearing loss were degraded. Proposed hearing loss reduction and more natural volume control system control the sound volume considering individual hearing characteristics and threshold of feeling, as a result hearing loss from audio device were reduced. This paper present hearing loss reduction and more natural volume control algorithms considering individual hearing characteristics and threshold of feeling for Bluetooth headset.

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According to this point, it is necessary to measure the threshold in quiet per person at first in proposed algorithm for supplying proper sound to individually different hearing characteristic. And then calculate the distance between threshold in pain and threshold in quiet. Finally one-step increment or decrement size of sound level is calculated. Thresholds in quiet for different gender and age are shown in fig. 2. And the proposed volume control concept shown in fig. 3.

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For implementation, BlueCore5-Multimedia embedded on CSR Bluetooth Headset example design board (DEV-PC-1645) was used [4-7]. BlueCore5-Multimedia include a Kalimba DSP core. The Kalimba DSP core is an open-platform DSP that can perform signal processing functions on over-air data or audio CODEC data to enhance audio applications such as echo and noise cancellation, MP3 encoding and decoding, voice recognition, etc. Schematic diagram for implementation of the proposed algorithm in Kalimba-DSP is shown in Fig. 4. In Fig. 5, mode 0 is a loop-back mode which means equalizer filtering in frequency domain using audio input signal in Kalimba-DSP. And the volume controlled by reconstructing equalizer in frequency domain using button 2(volume up) and button 3(volume down). Mode 1 is tonegeneration mode, which measure threshold in quiet for audio device user using pure tone with sequentially increased sound pressure level. The user selects the threshold in quiet at selected frequency using button 2. After this measurement is completed, new equalizer is set up. 3.2

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The process of equalizer consists of three stages. The first stage is frequency sampling filter design, equalizer filtering to the next, volume control is the last stage. Proposed system can control relatively deferent at each selected frequency considering personal characteristic, while volume control for conventional audio devices linearly control equally over frequency range. As a result, proposed system may protect hearing loss of user. jω H [k ] is impulse response of the equalizer to be designed. H (e ) is Fourier transform of the equalizer. H [k ] is discrete Fourier transform of h[n] and the same as frequency sampling of H (e jω ) . Frequency sampling filter design started with setting H1[ k ] like to equation (1) using EQ value, Δ fn at selected frequency for control the

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Second test is setting up individual hearing characteristics on the test board. This consists of loop-back mode and tone-generation mode. It is possible to change of the mode by button. Sampling frequency is set to 8kHz in loop-back mode, while it is set to 44.1kHz in tone-generation mode. Pure tone at 250Hz, 500Hz, 1000Hz, 2000Hz, 4000Hz generated exactly in tonegeneration mode. After self-tuning is completed, personal data for threshold of quiet save to memory unit and used to set up new equalizer. When the volume up and down button pressed, the values of equalizer changed according to the button, it is shown in Fig. 8. Final test is listening test with proposed volume variation and traditional linear volume variation. In order to evaluate the performance of proposed system a Mean Opinion Score (MOS) has to be performed with 10 listeners. If test score were better than 4, performance quality could not distinguish between two methods. Listener groups consisted of a professor, two graduate students and seven undergraduate students. And their major or interesting fields is audio signal processing. As test results, proposed method do not degrade the quality of sound and protecting hearing loss, it is shown in Table 1. Table 1. Listening test results Test signal Sinusoidal signal with five frequencies

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Experimental results using CSR Bluetooth headset example design board(DEV-PC1645) show that individuals may be able to perceive without the inconvenience at the less sound intensity and the more sensitive frequency bands. As a result, we may prevent hearing loss to reduce excessive sound energy in each frequency bands.

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An Extended Cloud Computing Architecture for Immediate Sharing of Avionic Contents Doo-Hyun Kim1, Seunghwa Song1, Seung-Jung Shin3, and Neungsoo Park2,* 1

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Abstract. Unmanned aircraft system supposed to give users efficient mobility is considered as one of the most valuable autonomous control systems. It is mainly used in the field of defense, anti-fire, surveillance, geographical information collection and avionic image services. While most of unmanned aircrafts are in the type of fixed-wing, we developed video surveillance system based on rotary-wing aircraft that could continuously approach and trace targets. To efficiently utilize and share the avionic video contents, we also developed distributed computing environment focusing on improving reliability or real-time synchronization. However, there has been a limit in the number of nodes that share same contents. Thus, cloud computing is considered as one of most efficient technique paradigms for contents sharing. In this paper, we suggest an extended cloud computing architecture and show details of the platform structure for open and immediate sharing of avionic contents. Keywords: Avionic Video Surveillance, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, Immediate Contents Sharing.

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Avionic video data using unmanned aircraft is used in various fields such as defense, anti fire, GIS (Geographical Information System) and avionic image service. Most avionic video data services are image contents captured by fixed-wing aircraft which can cover huge area at high-altitude. Those services are efficient to provide geographical information such as building, mountain, and rivers. However, need of continuous tracing or surveillance features to targets in local area has become important. Because rotary-wing aircraft can hover and fast direction control is available, it is suitable to meet those requirements. Typical avionic video system has been designed for demand of limited users, and guaranteeing reliability and real-time performance were main research. However, to maximize usability of avionic contents, service providing system for immediate sharing of contents has become important. *



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For this, we have researched way of utilizing social media cloud computing which has been attended as new technology paradigm. In this paper, we explain need of integrated avionic contents that consist of video data and additional avionic data. And we also suggest platform architecture to effectively distribute the avionic contents over social media cloud computing environment. Previous researches on avionic video surveillance system and its characteristics will be introduced in chapter 2. In chapter 3, we mention concept of avionic contents and suggest architecture of service provider for cloud computing.

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using force from rotating wings. While motion of fixed-wing aircraft is mainly influenced by inertia, the rotary-wing aircraft can freely change its direction and hover. For example, controlling tilt of rotating rotor, the aircraft’s position and rotation can be immediately controlled. Although this mechanism requires a lot of energy and makes occurs relatively slow movement, exquisite control within small area, and continuous surveillance and tracing to targets could be efficiently done. One of most important feature of surveillance and scouting aircraft is video processing. Previous research of unmanned avionic video surveillance system using helicopter is to develop features of close tracing, monitoring targets, and recording video. The aircraft contains integrated video processing system, named DualEye, which consists of two cameras and optimized for surveillance system using unmanned rotary-wing aircraft. Autonomous aircraft has high-performance flight control computer including various sensor devices such as AHRS (Attitude Heading Reference System), and GPS. Collected data such as video, attitude, location, and altitude from DualEye and sensors are immediately transferred to GCS (Ground Control System) through wireless network. The GCS consists of three modules, HeliCommander (for monitoring status and control of aircraft), HeliNavi(for navigation and localization) and HeliVision(for video recording and sharing). Figure 1 illustrates integrated avionic video surveillance system. 2.2

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Avionic video data transferred to GCS is shared through distributed nodes by video sharing system, named HeliVision. Many guest nodes make one group and video source is distributed by master node. For high-quality vision synchronization without delay, support of distributed real-time platform is essential. This research of integrated surveillance system using video sharing platform has contributed to improving reliability and real time performance, and has maximized usability of avionic video contents. Figure 4 illustrates interaction between DualEye and HeliVision system.

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Unmanned aircraft system is one of most high-technology vehicle to make various missions complete remotely. Thus, to control that, we need to watch detailed and accurate status of vehicle using high-performance sensor devices. Using those like AHRS or GPS, we can be informed attitude, altitude, and location of vehicle. The avionic information can be used effectively in analysis of target or target area. Followings are description of avionic contents. •

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Not only above information, but also other type of information such as brightness, air humidity, air density, camera tilt angle and real time clock can be needed to know exact status of target area. The value of avionic contents could be maximized with those meta data. More detailed information analysis is able and quality of contents will be improved with the meta data. These meta data is supposed to make avionic contents highly valuable and useful. Table 1 shows a list of avionic contents and related devices. Table 1. List of Avionic Contents and related devices Contents Video Location Air environment Time Brightness View angle, direction Velocity

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We introduced a video surveillance system based on rotary-wing aircraft which can record various type of video using its characteristics. For efficient application of these high-quality avionic contents, there were researches of video sharing system based on distributed computing, however, limit of the capable user of sharing contents is exist. To overcome this, need of social media cloud computing environment that can maximize a utilization rate of contents has been attended. In this paper, we discussed need of integrated avionic contents which consist of video and additional avionic data and suggested layered platform architecture named IACSS provider for distributing avionic contents over cloud computing. The IACSS provider is divided into two layers, the application layer and the SaaS layer. The Application layer is to provide convenient components which accept and process data so that users can easily use. Main components are DataReceive, Meta data process, local decoder and contents sharing. The SaaS layer consists of Social Media APIs and Service Provider components that are to share contents efficiently. Using IACSS provider platform, it is supposed to improve expandability and sharing effectiveness of avionic contents. In the future, by implementing service based on IACSS, various avionic application services are supposed to be released and share valuable contents immediately. Acknowledgement. This research was supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA-2011-C1090-1131-0003 and NIPA-2011–C1090-1101-0008).

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Implementation of Switching Driving Module with ATmega16 Processor Based on Visible LED Communication System Geun-Bin Hong, Tae-Su Jang, and Yong K. Kim Wonkwang University, School of Electrical Information Engineering Iksan 570-749, Korea {ghdrmsqls,ts-1stepjang}@nate.com, [email protected] http://ei.wonkwang.ac.kr/

Abstract. This work implemented visible light communication system for LED lighting to manufacture light transmitter/receiver using infrared communication module, and measured the values of voltage change ranging 0.50m~2.50m to the distance. This experiment indicated that as the farther the distance, the less the light intensity, which suggests that it caused loss of voltage and data, and that communication error occurred depending on the difference of extraneous light between day and night. Based on the results of this study problems must be solved and further research and improvements for the loss of data should be conducted. Keywords: Visible light communication, Illumination, dimming, LED, Optical Signal Processing.

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As fluorescent lights which are currently most commonly used consist of naturedestructive materials, these are lighting fixtures who have a number of environmental issues and energy consumption recently, whereas LED is more environment-friendly, and features 90% power savings and longer life compared to fluorescent lights, and thus it has attracted attention as a field of green industry. LED technology, starting with the field of lighting fixture, is expanding into LED TV, LED notebook, etc and spreading to mobile phones. [1, 2, 3] The technology that wireless communication is available wherever there is LED lighting, has recently been developed. In particular, wireless visible light communication is drawing attention, and the typical example is LED-based visible light communication(VLC:Visible Light Communication). VLC refers to a communication that uses visible light range which can be seen to the human's eyes, and also a new information and communication technology that using infrastructure in which lightings visible to the human's eyes such as incandescent and fluorescent lightings are replaced by Light Emitting Diode(LED), information is sent to each object and the information sent is reused. In other words, it can be said that VLC is a technology which transmits and exchanges information using lights including visible light range(VIS:380~780nm), or near-infrared ray(NIR:700~2500nm)range emitting from T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 447–452, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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This paper produced visible light communication system for lighting and analyzed its performance through an experiment. In an experiment of 0.50m~2.50m, we could find that there was a loss of data by 0.46[V], and that longer the distance, more difficult to receive accurate data because of insufficient intensity of light. In addition, if 6 modules are used through remote control light dimming, 1.76m transmission was possible during the daytime without any errors, and transmission up to 2.29m was possible at night. This study demonstrated that by configuring visible light communication which has a wide area of LED lighting and can perform communication at the same time and information delivery system. We can determine the feasibility of this technology in the field of next generation home network. The VLC has many problems for example communication problems depending on the changes of conditions both in the light emitting area and visible light receiving sensor but, if continuous research is further conducted improvement for smooth communication, it is expected to spread dramatically in the future due to its advantage with respect to fusion with lighting equipment. Acknowledgements. This paper is funded by 2010 Small Business Administration's Industry-Academia Joint technology Development Projects.

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A Performance Evaluation on the Broadcasting Scheme for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Kwan-Woong Kim, Tae-Su Jang, Cheol-Soo Bae, and Yong K. Kim Wonkwang University, School of Electrical Information Engineering Iksan 570-749, Korea {watchbear,ts-1stepjang}@nate.com, [email protected], [email protected] http://ei.wonkwang.ac.kr/

Abstract. The broadcasting in the multi-hop sensor networks is a basic operation that supports many applications such as route search and setting up addresses. The broadcasting using flooding causes problems which can be mentioned as broadcasting storm such as redundancy, contention, collision. A variety of broadcasting techniques using wireless sensor networks have been proposed to achieve superior performance rather than simple flooding technique. The proposed broadcasting algorithms in wireless networks can be classified into six subcategories: flooding technique, probabilistic technique, counter-based scheme, distance-based technique, location-based techniques, and neighbor knowledge-based technique. This study analyzes simple flooding technique, probabilistic technique, counter-based scheme, distance-based technique, and neighbor knowledge-based technique, and compares the performance and efficiency of each technique through network simulation. Keywords: MANET, Broadcasting, Routing Protocol, AODV.

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Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a multi-hop network that organizes itself and dynamically changes. [1, 2] In addition, all the sensor nodes in the wireless sensor network can communicate with each other without going through the existing communications infrastructure(base stations, AP) or central control unit. Therefore it can be applied to military networks such as disaster recovery or rescue or battlefields caused by temporary configuration networks, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrors. The most simple broadcasting technique is flooding. [3] This technique rebroadcasts the packet received to another node if each wireless sensor node received a new packet, when already received packets are sorted out. All the nodes which first receive a packet re-broadcasts the packet received, the number of rebroadcasting packet is N-1. Here, N is the number of sensor nodes in the wireless sensor networks. Due to these characteristics of flooding technique, if rebroadcasting to each node is not restricted, there may be redundancy, contention, collision. This phenomenon is called as broadcasting storm. [3] Redundancy refers to when one node receives identical packets from surrounding two or more nodes. Contention is a problem that T.-h. Kim et al. (Eds.): ACN 2011, CCIS 199, pp. 453–459, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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Recently continuous researches to seek for efficient broadcasting techniques on the wireless network continue to be performed. The most important factor in the broadcasting technique is to reduce the delay of packet transmission and while increasing reach-ability minimize the number of rebroadcasting packets. If a large amount of rebroadcasting is transmitted, it may ensure a higher percentage of reach-ability but, as IEEE 802.11 protocol transmits with lack of reliability, it reduces the yield of network and causes collision and delayed transmission [4]. On the other hand, if the number of rebroadcasting packets is reduced, it can reduce the bandwidth required, increase the yield of network, and reduce the delay of packet transmission. The broadcasting techniques are flooding technique, probabilistic technique, counter-based scheme, distance based technique, location-based techniques, and neighbor knowledge-based technique. [3,5] As the most simplified broadcasting technique, flood scheme is a method that each node resends every new broadcasting packet received with no exception. In the operation of flooding technique, each wireless node rebroadcasts firstly received broad casting packets and stores for future reference. As all the wireless nodes rebroadcast any packets at least at one time, N is the number of the whole nodes on the network, and if the network is not divided, the total number of the rebroadcasted packets is N1. The optimal depends on the number of nodes extended on the network and its intensity. Count-based method counts the number of identical packets received during RAD of wireless node, and determines whether to rebroadcast. In other words, If one node receives more identical packets than the critical value Cth, it does not rebroadcast the packet. As shown in [6,7], if the critical value Cth is 3 or 4, we can find that it increases the reach-ability than the simple flooding technique, and minimizes the number of redundant packets. Distance based scheme rebroadcasts packets only at receiving nodes a certain distance away from the transmitting node. The distance information can be obtained by measuring the strength of signal or using secondary devices like GPS(Global Positioning System) [8,9]. Neighbor knowledge-based technique is based on accurate neighbor information to determine the rebroadcasting of the packets. [9,10] This technique exchanges periodically HELLO messages among neighbors to collect neighbor information. The technique as proposed in, uses HELLO message to write up 1hop neighbor list on each node. Neighbor list of the current nodes are all attached to all the broadcasting packets. If a packet is delivered to a neighbor of the current node, each neighbor node compares its own neighbor list with the list attached to the packet, and if its all

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neighbors are included in the list attached to the packet, it does not rebroadcast. [10] proposes SBA(Scalable Broadcast Algorithm) which is available to write 2hop neighbor list on each node by using HELLO message. The neighbor knowledge-based technique can almost optimize the number of rebroadcasting but, as HELLO message itself occupies the channel's bandwidth and HELLO message transmission uses broadcasting technique, thus increasing the probability of collision and overall, there is a problem of poor performance.

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Fig. 2 shows the reach-ability depending on the number of nodes with respect to five techniques. If it is 40 node, DB shows the lowest arrival rate because nodes within the critical value of the distance prevented packets from rebroadcasting. Therefore, in such lowest node density networks, it is difficult to deliver broadcasting packets to all nodes. If it is 60 or 80 node, all techniques showed the best reach-ability. In the network having nodes more than 100, reach-ability was reduced due to high rate of collision.

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As many nodes attempt to relay against the same packet, it causes higher rater of collision and, as shown in Fig. 3, it resulted in a lot of packet loss. Resulting, SBA showed a higher rate of reach-ability compared to the other techniques in many experimental conditions. The performance improvement reason is because in terms of


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If we look at the graph changes of SBA in the Fig. 3, it shows a certain level of SRB regardless of the node density. It's because nodes determine the optimal rebroadcasting based on surrounding neighbor nodes' information and density. Therefore, to compare with Fig. 3, we can find that even the lowest density showed a higher rate of reach-ability. To compare between Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, we can find that SBA regulates the number of rebroadcasting packets depending on the node density to maintain a certain level of reach-ability. To look at the number of packet loss by collision in Fig. 4, flooding technique showed the highest because it has the most number of retransmission, and in case of proposed algorithm, the higher the node density is, it improves compared to existing techniques. Fig. 5 demonst rates the packet delay time by each algorithm. In case of all the algorithms except SBA, it can be found that the more nodes we have, the delay time increases. But, SBA shows a constant delay time because message rebroadcasting is conducted via the shorted path.

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This paper looks to broadcasting techniques that can reduce broadcasting storm in the wireless sensor network, and analyzes advantages and disadvantages of each technique. Additionally, this paper compares the performances between, through computer simulation, flooding, counter-based, distance-based, probability-based, and neighbor information-based technique-SBA. As a simulation result, SBA showed superior performance in terms of reach-ability and re-transmission efficiency. But, SBA requires higher rate of processing load and memory compared to other algorithms, as well as additional message broadcasting to obtain neighbor information. These findings can be used as basic materials for the further study of new good broadcasting techniques which require less processing load and memory.

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Carbon Nanotube as a New Coating Material for Developing Two Dimensional Speaker Systems Jeong-Jin Kang1 and Keehong Um2 1

Department of Information & Communication, DongSeoul University, Seongnam, Gyunggi, Korea 2 Department of Information Technology, Hansei University, Gunpo-city, Kyunggi-do, Korea [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. A speaker is a two-port audio system which produces sound through electromechanical operations. It transforms electric voltage signals into audible sound signals. Almost all speakers available are three dimensional. These days, many mobile electronic devices such as mobile phones have become smaller and thinner. A problem with this miniaturization, however, is that the volume of the speakers has also decreased. In contrast to conventional three dimensional speakers, there have been several attempts to develop two dimensional speakers using piezoelectric materials. The main parts have been piezoelectric films, conductive macromolecular coating materials, and electrodes. An improved material that have been used is that used indium tin oxide in place of conductive macromolecular coating materials. We have invented a new type of two dimensional flexible speaker by applying carbon nanotube in order to replace indium tin oxide. The speaker system we have designed shows outstanding advantages, such as flexibility, wide ranges of operating frequencies, and low values impedance values, and stability. Keywords: film speaker, audible sound signals, piezoelectric materials, reverse piezoelectric effect.

1 Introduction The piezoelectric effect is the internal generation of an electrical charge resulting from an applied mechanical force. It is understood to be the electromechanical interaction between the mechanical and the electrically-charged state in crystalline materials. The piezoelectric effect is a reversible process in that the materials exhibit the reverse piezoelectric effect, which is the internal generation of a mechanical force resulting from an applied electrical field. We have invented a new type of two dimensional flexible speaker by utilizing the reverse piezoelectric effect on certain piezoelectric materials and carbon nanotube as a new coating material for developing two dimensional film speaker system. We have substituted CNT for CMC and ITO to improve the operating performance of the system.

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3 Components of Film Speakers 3.1 Piezoelectric Material Some of piezoelectric materials exhibit the reverse piezoelectric effect, which is the internal generation of a mechanical force resulting from an applied electrical field. The previous prototype speakers we designed were mainly composed of piezoelectric material (called piezo film), and coating material. The piezo film is made from polyvinylidene fluoride(PVDF), which is a highly non-reactive and pure thermoplastic fluoropolymer[1,2]. PVDF is a specialized plastic material in the fluoropolymer family. 3.2 Coating Materials The conductive macromolecular compound (CMC) and indium tin oxide(ITO) are coating materials developed previously. We will consider some of limitations of CMT and ITO, and we will replace them with CNT. (1) Conductive macromolecular compound(CMC) The first coating material available was conductive macromolecular compound. The frequency characteristics of the film speaker is shown in Fig.4 in the frequency range of 250-1000 Hz. It shows sound pressure level (SPL) vs. frequency, where SPL or sound level is a measure of the effective sound pressure of a sound relative to a reference value. It is measured in decibels (dB) above a standard reference level. The commonly used "zero" reference sound pressure in air is 20 µPa RMS, which is usually considered the threshold of human hearing (at 1 kHz). For CMC, for the surface impedances of 50 and 1000 Ω/ are shown.

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The conductive characteristics of the film speaker showed some limitations in the audio frequency ranges (20-20kHz). The performance is not good enough in some audio frequency ranges (2020kHz). It is difficult to achieve a uniform thickness when it is coated on the both surfaces of piezo film. The sound pressure level(SPL) of a film speaker is not high enough to generate a high quality of sound. The frequency response shows that the characteristics of the SPL is not useful in the frequency range below 400Hz as shown in Fig.4.

(2) Indium tin oxide(ITO) The second coating material being used in film speakers is indium tin oxide (ITO, or tin-doped indium oxide). Indium tin oxide is one of the most widely used transparent conducting oxides since it has good properties including electrical conductivity and the ease with which it can be deposited as a thin film. It is a solid solution of two chemicals of indium(III) oxide (In2O3) and tin(IV) oxide (SnO2). The typical component ratio is 90% In2O3, 10% SnO2 by weight. But there are several main disadvantages with ITO. Because of high cost and limited supply of indium, the fragility and lack of flexibility of ITO layers, and the costly layer deposition requiring a vacuum, alternatives are being sought. It was found to be fragile due to mechanical pressure caused by small vibrations of the film. There have been several trials to use other materials to place ITO. Carbon nanotube conductive coatings are a prospective replacement[3,4]. 3.3 Carbon Nanotube(CNT) as a New Coating Material for Film Speakers To overcome these technical disadvantages of previous coating materials, carbon nanotube(CNT) conductive coatings have been considered a prospective replacement[3,4]. We have developed a carbon nanotube(CNT) as a new coating material on the surfaces of film speakers. We have proved that the CNT improves the characteristics of SPL and it shows a higher quality of audible sound. The coating material, CNT, is made from a mixture of CNT solution and CNT dispersant[5]. The CNT solution includes such ingredients as methyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol, isoprophyl alcohol, toluene, and ethyl acetate. It involves a controlled mixing process. The CNT dispersant includes materials such as sodium dodecy sulfate (SDS), triton X, lithium dodecy sulfate in a controlled mixing process. We formed CNT using polyvinylidence fluoride (PVDF). The coating material, CNT, is made from the mixture of CNT solution and CNT dispersant. By changing parameters(such as the thickness of CNT, the density of CNT solution, and the density of CNT dispersant), the impedance of coated CNT can be properly chosen. Shown in Fig.5, is the frequency characteristics of the film speaker using CNT and CMC as coatings in the frequency range of 2001000 Hz. In the figure, conductive macromolecular compound(CMC) and CNT are shown for the surface resistances of 50,500, and 1000 Ω/ . It is clear that the SPL (in dB) of CNT is better than that of CMC.

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Shown in Fig.6, is the frequency characteristics of the film speaker using CNT and CMC in the frequency range of 1000-1800 Hz. It is clear that the SPL (in dB) of CNT is better than that of CMC.

Fig. 6. Frequency characteristics of a film speaker using CNT and CMC for coatings in the frequency range of 1000-1800 Hz

SPL of CNT becomes bigger as the value of surface resistance becomes smaller. This means that by choosing proper values of surface resistance, the output of film speaker can be obtained. For example, SPL 72 dB is usually considered to be a good quality of sound. In this case, the proper surface resistance of 50 Ω/ would be a good choice of CNT.

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4 Conclusion The speaker system we designed showed outstanding advantages, such as flexibility, wide ranges of operating frequencies, and low resistance values, and stability. We have shown that the proper surface impedance values of CNT was 50-2000 ohms per square. The axial sensitivity (in dB SPL, 1 watt at 1m) of CNT with 50 ohms per square and 1000 ohms per square was shown to 90 and 85, respectively, in range of 1kHz to 18kHz, which is part of audio frequency. This work was supported by Hansei University. Acknowledgements. The authors wish to express their thanks to Dong-Soo Lee and In Suk Park at FILS Co., Ltd. for their assistance in the experiments and important suggestions. Without their help, this work would have been impossible to complete. Remarks: This work is the extended version of the paper presented at the IWIT 2011 Spring conference held at Eulji University.

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Author Index

Adam, Ghada 183 Ahn, Hyosik 132, 139 Arockiam, L. 117 Bae, Cheol-Soo 453 Baek, Nakhoon 59 Baek, Sung-Hyun 412 Blondia, Chris 161 Calduwel Newton, P. 117 Cha, Jaesang 393 Chang, Hyokyung 132, 139 Cheong, Seung-Kook 125 Cho, Jae Hoon 238 Cho, Sikwan 49 Choi, Euiin 132, 139, 146 Choi, In-Sik 152 Choi, Ki-Seok 278, 286 Choi, Kwangnam 278 Choi, Sook-Young 42 Choi, WonYoung 215 Choi, Yong-Hoon 306, 328, 341 Chun, Myung Geun 76 Chun, Woo Bong 76 Chung, Young-uk 306, 328, 335 De Florio, Vincenzo Do, Joo-Young 59

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Jang, Seong-Jin 403 Jang, Tae-Su 447, 453 Jang, Wonjun 49 Jeon, Byungkook 271 Jeon, Hyeonmu 347 Jeong, Jongpil 393 Jung, BokHee 209 Jung, Hong Soon 76 Jung, Sungmo 31 Kang, Jang-Mook 42 Kang, Jeong-Jin 460 Kang, Yongho 139 Kim, ByungChul 1, 66 Kim, Byung-Soo 312 Kim, Chang-Young 370 Kim, Dong Hwa 238 Kim, Doo-Hyun 439 Kim, Gwang-Hyun 261 Kim, Hye-Jin 176 Kim, Hyuntae 430 Kim, Jae Seung 421 Kim, Jae-Soo 278, 286 Kim, Jin 321 Kim, Jong Hyun 31 Kim, Jongwoo 328 Kim, Kwan-Woong 453 Kim, Mi-Jin 380 Kim, Nammoon 347 Kim, Robert Young Chul 292, 298, 421 Kim, Seoksoo 31, 36 Kim, Seong Joon 312 Kim, SoonGohn 190, 197, 203, 209, 215, 223 Kim, Woon-Yong 245 Kim, Woo Yeol 292, 298, 421 Kim, Yong K. 447, 453 Kim, Youngok 347 Kim, Yong-Soo 253 Kim, Young-cheol 176 Ko, Eung Nam 190, 197, 203 Ko, Young Woong 96 Kook, Youn-Gyou 286 Kwak, Ho-Young 176

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