• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.10A no.6
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• pp.651-656
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• 2003

Emerging technologies, such as multimedia and mobile computing, require that middleware platforms can support high adaptability in order to provide more flexible services in heterogeneous environments. To support high quality of service in distributed wired/wireless environments, it will be necessary for applications and middleware to be aware of changes in users requirements as well as environmental conditions, also to be able to adapt their behaviour as such changes. According to the needs of adaptability supporting in middleware, we structure a component-based, mobile agents framework in base level and meta level by using reflection. We propose concepts of meta agents and meta-service agents that are able to reflect changes made by mobile agents to the system. At the meta level of our framework, meta agents monitor execution of mobile agents and it is possible to provide dynamic adaptation of users requirements, deployment of application services and service customization with meta agents and meta-service agents.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.488-494
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• 2013

For the activeness and autonomy of a sensor network, the efficient migration method of a mobile agent and the consistent naming services are the required components of a sensor network. Accordingly, this paper presented the implementation of backward migration of an active rule mobile agent applying the naming method based on RMI that used the meta_table including the informations about the components of a sensor network. This study implemented based on the extension of the forward migration[12], and the results of the various experiments present the efficacy of mobile agent middleware system and the possibility of constructing efficient sensor network application environment. And, the results of this study are able to enhance the adaptability on dynamic changes of environment in sensor network application development.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.18A no.4
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• pp.159-164
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• 2011

In this paper, we suggest the active multi-agent middleware for the sensor network application. For this, firstly we design and implement the active rule based mobile agent middleware. The mobile agent in the proposed system visits the destination sensor nodes according to the migration list offered by the meta table in the name space of the naming agent, acquires and transmits sensor data according to the purpose and needs through the active rules, and directly executes the actions corresponding to the optional events(changed sensor data and/or time etc.). And then, we show the potential applicability of the active rule based mobile agent middleware in various active sensor networks through the interaction with the rule base system and context database system.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.95-101
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• 2009

As RFID technology has been developed rapidly, its technical potential has it be widely used in many industrial fields. Particularly, in the physical distribution industry, the introduction of RFID has enormously contributed to effectively monitoring locations and information of products in real-time. Also, a significant decline in tag prices and RFID related technical competitiveness enabled each tag to be managed much more minutely by attaching it to an item, not a pallet nor a container. However, if a very large volume of tag data are continuously flowed into a RFID middleware with limited hardware resources, its entire data processing time may become considerably longer. Therefore, specific technologies are in great demand to handle and further to reduce the load of the middleware. In this paper, we proposed a mobile agent-based software module to efficiently reduce the load of the middleware by pre-processing a lot of tag data while items are in transit. Simulation results show that using the proposed software module considerably enhances the speed of processing tag data than otherwise. This behavior increases the tag recognition rate in a certain time limit and improves reliability of RFID middlewares.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.195-202
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• 2020

The control system for the efficiency of resource utilization in sensor network environment based on object detection and environmental sensor requires active control function which based on sensor data acquisition and transmission functions and server's data analysis. Using active rule-based mobile agent middleware, this paper proposes a new distributed control framework that reduces the load of central sensor data server in sensor network environment by implementing remote data sensing and Zigbee-based communication with server and data analysis method of server. In addition, we implemented a power-saving system prototype using active rule-based distributed control methods that applied consumer's demand and environmental variables, and verified the validity of the proposed system through experiments and evaluations in the mobile agent middleware environment. The proposed system is a system framework that can efficiently autonomously control distributed objects in the sensor network environment, and it can be applied effectively to the development of demand response service based on optimal power control for the smart power system in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2005

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 분산되어 존재하는 서비스나 디바이스의 효과적인 사용을 위해서는 서비스의 종류나 서비스의 위치 등의 기본적인 정보가 사전에 제공되어야 한다. 이러한 기본 정보를 사용자의 요구에 맞게 정확히 탐색해서 찾아주는 일련의 과정을 서비스 디스커버리(Service Discovery)라 칭하며, 유비쿼터스 같은 분산 이동 환경에서 가장 먼저 구축되어야만 하는 시스템이다. 최근에는 발달된 에이전트 기술을 서비스 디스커버리와 접목시켜 분산되어 있는 서비스와 디바이스 그리고 사용자까지 효율적이고 유용성 있게 관리하는 추세이다. 각국의 기업이나 학교에서 수 많은 에이전트 플랫폼이 개발되어 왔지만, 각기 다른 개발 기준의 적용으로 인하여 에이전트 플랫폼 간의 상호운용(Interoperability)에 어려움이 존재한다. FIPA 에서는 이종 에이전트 플랫폼 간의 제공 서비스 상호운용을 위해서 디스커버리 미들웨어(Discovery Middleware) 모듈을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 FIPA-OS 와 JADE 그리고 SLP 플랫폼 들이 서로의 서비스를 공유할 수 있도록, FIPA 에서 제안한 디스커버리 미들웨어를 실질적으로 개발하여 상호간의 서비스 디스커버리가 이루어질 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.27-36
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• 2011

The sensor nodes of sensor network system are capable of wireless communication with sink nodes. They also acquire and transmit sensor data in broad region where people cannot access easily. However, the transmission of redundant data from sensor nodes reduces the lifetime of the entire system and substantial amount of resulted data needs to be resorted before implementing them to the specific applications. In this paper, the mobile agent middleware to eliminate the redundant sensor data is designed and implemented. In the proposed system, the mobile agent visits the destination sensor nodes according to the migration list offered by the meta table in the name space of the naming agent, eliminates the redundant sensor data corresponding to user condition, and acquires and transmits sensor data according to the purpose and needs. Thus, the excess transmission of the sensor data is avoided and the lifetime of the entire system can be extended. Moreover, the experiments using the mobile agent middleware with the conditions and limitations that are possible in real situation ore done to verify the successful elimination of the redundant sensor data and the efficiency of the data acquisition. Also, we show the potential applicability of the mobile agent middleware in various active sensor networks through the active rule based mobile agent middleware or the interaction with the active rule system.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.608-615
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• 2009

As RFID tag prices have rapidly been declining because of the advance of RFID technology, each tag is attached to an individual item, not a packing box only, for managing the item much more precisely. However, some mechanisms are essential to handle a very large amount of tag data quickly because readers and middlewares processing RFID data have limited hardware resources. In this paper, we design and implement a new mobile agent-based distributed software tools to satisfy this requirement efficiently. These tools provide a convenient environment enabling required data to be pre-processed repeatedly in transit by transferring a mobile agent including its specified data collection policy to numerous mobile readers. This behavior can significantly reduce the elapsed time required for processing huge volumes of tag data at the readers and middlewares with their very high recognition rates compared with the existing one to process the data by fixed readers after having arrived at the destination

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.745-748
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• 2003

HLA-RTI is Middleware for the distribute simulation that developed in the US Department of Defense. This provides fast accomplishment speed and reliability than distribute simulation Middleware by transfer. However, DDM(Data Distribution Management) service is used as data filtering technology in the existing HLA-RTI. As for this, the problem that network traffic increases in data exchange between the mobility simulation objects is generated. it proposes applying agent technology to the mobility simulation object in order to solve these problems in this paper in this. And this paper applies that to practical simulation and analyzes performance between each data filtering technology with comparison.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.934-937
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• 2012

Since a migration method of the mobile agent is a factor that affects the overall performance of the entire distributed system, it is necessary to find efficient migration methods of the mobile agent within the sensor network using the various metadata related on the sensor network. Accordingly, this paper proposes the directional(forward and backward) migration methods of an active rule mobile agent applying the naming method that used the information of the meta_table. The results of the various experiments in this study present the efficacy of mobile agent middleware system and the possibility of constructing efficient sensor network application environment.