• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.93-99
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• 2008

Portable devices generally have limited energy sources, so there is a need to minimize the power consumption of processor using energy conservation methods. One of the most common energy conservation methods is dynamic voltage scaling (DVS). In this paper, we propose a new DVS algorithm which uses workload of application to determine frequency and voltage of processors. The posed DVS algorithm consists of DVS module in kernel and specified function in application. The DVS module monitors the processor utilization and changes frequency and voltage periodically. The other part monitors workload of application. With these two procedures, the processor can change the performance level to meet their deadline while consuming less energy. We implemented the proposed DVS algorithm on PXA270 processor with Linux 2.6 kernel.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.307-319
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• 2017

SELinux is known as a secure operating system that is easily accessible to users due to the popularization of Linux, and is applied to various security operating system references deployed on systems such as embedded systems and servers. However, if SELinux is applied without considering the performance overhead of activating the SELinux kernel module, the performance of the entire system may be degraded. In this paper, we describe the factors directly affecting the performance inside the SELinux kernel and show that it is possible to improve performance by simply reorganizing the policy without changing the SELinux kernel. This can be used as a reference when security administrators or developers apply SELinux.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.1036-1042
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• 2013

In this paper, an elderly assistance system is developed based on Xenomai, a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel. A Kinect sensor is used to recognize the behavior of the elderly and A-star search algorithm is implemented to find the shortest path to the person. The mobile robot also generates a trajectory using a digital convolution operator which is based on a Bezier curve for smooth driving. In order to follow the generated trajectory within the control period, we developed real-time tasks and compared the performance of the tracking trajectory with that of non real-time tasks. The real-time task has a better result on following the trajectory within the physical constraints which means that it is more appropriate to apply to an elderly assistant system.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.1697-1706
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• 2013

Protocol analyzer is being used to analyze proper processing of CMD & data when developing SD slave IP. In this thesis, a protocol analyzer was developed for analyzing SD protocol in Windows environment using Visual C++. SD protocol analyzer consists of embedded Linux software for storing SD memory data and MFC program for analyzing this. As for protocol analysis, it has been designed to collect data transmitted from SD memory card to host by Linux software for its analysis by MFC. It was found through the experiment that the CMD type could be confirmed that occurs when reading and writing data to SD memory card using the developed board, and debugging the problems that occur was possible.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.709-714
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• 2017

Structures like bridges or buildings need to be checked continuously to diagnose their safety. However, it is extremely difficult for the people who access such structures to check all areas directly. To overcome this problem, there is a lot of active research into structural health monitoring (SHM) with wireless sensor nodes (WSNs). In this paper, for more accurate checking of SHM with WSNs, we experimentally compare and evaluate the performance of Xenomai, which provides real-time processing under the traditional Linux kernel. For this purpose, we patch Xenomai into the traditional Linux kernel of a commercial embedded board, Raspberry Pi, and implement a task that periodically reads vibration data of the z-axis from an accelerometer in order to analyze the natural frequency of cantilever beams. Reading the data from the traditional Linux kernel with the same method, we analyze the natural frequency of the cantilever beams using Smart Office Analyzer. Finally, to review the validity of Xenomai for WSNs, we obtain vibration data on the z-axis from the accelerometer via wired network and compared and analyzed them the same way.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.519-524
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• 2014

The operating systems in the system architecture, which is integrated several applications and modular electronic devices in the same computing device, demand partitioning technology for safety. Thus, operation system requires partition scheduler for partition scheduling. When we design partition scheduler in embedded system, which has small memory and low performance, such as space system, we must consider not only performance but also memory. In this paper, we introduces a linux-based memory efficient partition scheduler using partition bitmap. This partition scheduler demands small memory space and produce low partition switching overhead. The prototype was executed on a LEON4 processor, which is the Next Generation Multicore Processor (NGMP) in the space sector. In evaluation, this prototype shows accuracy, additional memory space and low partition switching overhead.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.333-338
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• 2017

Recently, because of the mobile device generalization tendency, a lot of new mobile applications which need mobile database on mobile devices appear. SQLite, Realm, etc. are representative mobile databases, and they are the database engines which are suitable for small devices that have large resource restriction and are used a lot in mobile devices based on Linux. These engines are open source programs and have advantages which are lighter weight and faster speed than general purpose databases. This paper focuses on the performance experiments and analysis of SQLite, which is front runner in mobile database fields. Considering the target mobile environments, the test is performed at Linux environment. And this paper implements performance test program and performs performance experiment of SQLite database to test search efficiency. The experiment is processed by comparison with the results of a Oracle database working out at the same environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1086-1090
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• 2004

Architecture generation is the first step in the design of software systems. Most of the qualities that the final software system possesses are usually decided at the architecture development stage itself. Thus, if the final system should be usable, testable, secure, high performance, mobile and adaptable, then these qualities or non-functional requirements should be engineered into the architecture itself. In particular, adaptability is emerging as an important attribute required by almost all software systems. The machinery and tools in the remote site surveillance and connects intelligence information machinery and tools at Internet. We need the server which uses different embedded operating system to become private use. With the progress of information-oriented society, many device with advanced technologies invented by many companies. However, the current firmware technologies have many problems to meet such high level of new technologies. In this paper, we have successfully ported linux on an embedded system, which is based on intel Strong ARM SA-1110 processor, then written several network modules for internet-based network devices.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.38-48
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• 2007

The increasing demand on the use of multimedia video contents drives more mobile embedded systems to incorporate H.264/AVC decoding capability. An H.264/AVC decoder often requires high computation bandwidth during its decoding phase. Depending upon processor computation capability and multimedia contents complexity, the decoder can be implemented either in hardware or software. However, without a thorough analysis on the Performance and resource requirements, it is difficult to choose a cost-effective methodology of implementing this codec. This paper presents both hardware and software implementation of H.264/AVC decoding subsystem in mobile embedded systems, and quantitatively analyses the performance and resource requirements. It also shows the methodology to identify performance bottleneck in Linux-based mobile embedded systems, which is in turn used to select feasible and efficient implementation methodology.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.274-280
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• 2011

The implementation of the recognition system of a vehicle license plate and the Linux OS environment which is built in SoC Embedded system and its test result are presented in this paper. In order to recognize a vehicle license plate, each character has to be extracted from the whole image of a license plate and the extracted image is revised for the template matching. Labeling technique and numerical features are used to detect the vehicle license plate. Each character in the license plate has coordinates. The extracted image is revised by comparison of the numerical coordinates and recognized through template matching method. The experimental results show that the license plate detection rate is 96%, and a character recognition rate is 73%, and a number recognition rate is 97% for about 300 license plate images. The average time of the recognition in the embedded board is 0.66 sec.