• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2020

In order to reach Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency communication, one of 5G aims, Multi-access Edge Computing paradigm was born. The idea of this paradigm is to bring cloud computing technologies closer to the network edge. User services are hosted in multiple Edge Clouds, deployed at the edge of the network distributedly, to reduce the service latency. For mobile users, migrating their services to the most proper Edge Clouds for maintaining a Quality of Service is a non-convex problem. The service migration problem becomes more complex in high mobility scenarios. The goal of the study is to observe how user mobility affects the selection of Edge Cloud during a fixed mobility path. Mobility-Aware Service Migration (MASM) is proposed to optimize service migration based on two main parameters: routing cost and service migration cost, during a high mobility scenario. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with an existing greedy algorithm.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.47-52
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• 2023

Mobile Edge Computing(MEC) is considered as a promising technology to effectively support the explosively increasing traffic demands. It can provide low-latency services and reduce network traffic by caching contents at the edge of networks such as Base Station(BS). Although users may associate with the nearest BSs, it is more beneficial to associate users to the BS where the requested content is cached to reduce content download latency. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a mobility-aware joint caching and user association algorithm to imporve the cache hit ratio. In particular, the proposed algorithm performs caching and user association based on sojourn time and content preferences. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the performance in terms of cache hit ratio and latency as compared with existing schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.97-99
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• 2021

Edge caching can provide high QoE by reducing traffic in the backhaul network and reducing latency in video streaming services. But due to the limited capacity of edge cache, large amounts of content cannot be cached. In this paper, we propose an edge-fog prefix caching that reduces playback delay by caching prefixes of video content on edges and storing the rest in fog cache.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.43-44
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• 2020

IoT 산업과 인공지능 기술의 발전으로 다양한 데이터를 분석하여 서비스에 쉽게 활용할 수 있게 되었다. 이에 대해 클라우드 기반으로 된 분석 기술이 주로 발전하였으나, 개인 정보 노출 위험성 및 네트워크 종속성 문제를 해결하기 위해 최근에는 엣지 기반으로 분석하고 클라우드와 협업하는 기술 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 리소스가 제한적인 엣지 디바이스 기반 환경에서 원활한 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 서비스의 기능을 목적별로 최소화하여 독립적이고 경량화된 어플리케이션을 엣지에 배포하고 실행되게 해야 한다. 마이크로서비스 설계 기법은 이를 해결 할 수 있는 대표적인 방법으로 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 여러 마이크로 서비스의 결과를 전달 받아 최종적으로 적합한 결과를 재생하는 컨텐츠 제공 서비스 구조를 제안하고 구현 결과를 소개하였다. 높은 데이터 처리 성능을 요구하는 영상 처리 서비스를 제공함에 있어 제안하는 방법을 활용하여 엣지 디바이스 활용 효율성을 높이고 보다 만족도 높은 컨텐츠 제공 서비스를 제공할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.1205-1214
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• 2021

Edge Computing is used as a solution to the cost problem and transmission delay problem caused by network bandwidth consumption that occurs when IoT/CPS devices are integrated into the cloud by performing artificial intelligence (AI) in an environment close to the data source. Since edge computing runs on devices that provide high-performance computation and network connectivity located in the real world, it is necessary to consider application integrity so that it is not exploited by cyber terrorism that can cause human and material damage. In this paper, we propose a technique to protect the integrity of edge computing applications implemented in a script language that is vulnerable to tampering, such as Python, which is used for implementing artificial intelligence, as container images and then digitally signed. The proposed method is based on the integrity protection technology (Docker Contents Trust) provided by the open source container technology. The Docker Client was modified and used to utilize the whitelist for container signature information so that only containers allowed on edge computing devices can be operated.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.291-306
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• 2020

Nowadays, Data-Network-AI (DNA)-based intelligent services and applications have become a reality to provide a new dimension of services that improve the quality of life and productivity of businesses. Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the value of IoT data (data collected by IoT devices). The internet of things (IoT) promotes the learning and intelligence capability of AI. To extract insights from massive volume IoT data in real-time using deep learning, processing capability needs to happen in the IoT end devices where data is generated. However, deep learning requires a significant number of computational resources that may not be available at the IoT end devices. Such problems have been addressed by transporting bulks of data from the IoT end devices to the cloud datacenters for processing. But transferring IoT big data to the cloud incurs prohibitively high transmission delay and privacy issues which are a major concern. Edge computing, where distributed computing nodes are placed close to the IoT end devices, is a viable solution to meet the high computation and low-latency requirements and to preserve the privacy of users. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current state of leveraging deep learning within edge computing to unleash the potential of IoT big data generated from IoT end devices. We believe that the revision will have a contribution to the development of DNA-based intelligent services and applications. It describes the different distributed training and inference architectures of deep learning models across multiple nodes of the edge computing platform. It also provides the different privacy-preserving approaches of deep learning on the edge computing environment and the various application domains where deep learning on the network edge can be useful. Finally, it discusses open issues and challenges leveraging deep learning within edge computing.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.435-437
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• 2022

보행 보조 로봇의 효과적인 보조를 위해서는 사용자의 보행 유형을 인식하는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 end-to-end 분류 네트워크 기반 보행 환경 인식 방법을 사용하여 사용자의 보행 유형을 강인하게 추정한다. 실외 보행 환경을 오르막길, 평지, 내리막길 3 가지로 분류하는 딥러닝 모델을 학습시켰으며, 엣지 디바이스에서 이를 사용하기 위해 네트워크 경량화를 진행하였다. 경량화 후 추론 속도는 약 47FPS 수준으로 실시간으로 보행 보조 로봇에 적용 가능한 것을 검증했으며, 정확도 측면에서도 97% 이상의 성능을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.901-909
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• 2021

Since mobile devices have limited computational resources, it tends to use the cloud to compute or store data. As real-time becomes more important due to 5G, many studies have been conducted on edge clouds that computes at locations closer to users than central clouds. The farther the user's physical distance from the edge cloud connected to base station is, the slower the network transmits. So applications should be migrated and re-run to nearby edge cloud for smooth service use. We run applications in docker containers, which is independent of the host operating system and has a relatively light images size compared to the virtual machine. Existing migration studies have been experimented by using network simulators. It uses fixed values, so it is different from the results in the real-world environment. In addition, the method of migrating images through shared storage was used, which poses a risk of packet content exposure. In this paper, Containers are migrated with Secure CoPy(SCP) method, a data encryption transmission, by establishing an edge computing environment in a real-world environment. It compares migration time with Network File System, one of the shared storage methods, and analyzes network packets to verify safety.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.437-444
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• 2022

Recently, research on mobile edge services has been conducted to handle computationally intensive and latency-sensitive tasks occurring in wireless networks. However, MEC, which is fixed on the ground, cannot flexibly cope with situations where task processing requests increase sharply, such as commuting time. To solve this problem, a technology that provides edge services using UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) has emerged. Unlike ground MEC servers, UAVs have limited battery capacity, so it is necessary to optimize energy efficiency through load balancing between UAV MEC servers. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a load balancing technique with consideration of the energy state of UAVs and the mobility of vehicles. The proposed technique is composed of task offloading scheme using genetic algorithm and task migration scheme using Q-learning. To evaluate the performance of the proposed technique, experiments were conducted with varying mobility speed and number of vehicles, and performance was analyzed in terms of load variance, energy consumption, communication overhead, and delay constraint satisfaction rate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.2167-2175
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• 2017

In recent years, an IoT is dramatically developing according to the enhancement of AI, the increase of connected devices, and the high-performance cloud systems. Huge data produced by many devices and sensors is expanding the scope of services, such as an intelligent diagnostics, a recommendation service, as well as a smart monitoring service. The studies of edge computing are limited as a role of small server system with high quality HW resources. However, there are specialized requirements in a smart factory domain needed edge computing. The edges are needed to pre-process containing tiny filtering, pre-formatting, as well as merging of group contexts and manage the regional rules. So, in this paper, we extract the features and requirements in a scope of efficiency and robustness. Our edge offers to decrease a network resource consumption and update rules and learning models. Moreover, we propose architecture of edge computing based on learning factors sharing with a cloud system in a smart factory.