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Development of a Game to Improve Awareness of Endangered Species (멸종위기종 인식 개선 게임 개발)

  • Yeon-Woo No;Ji-Hye Park;Soo-Bin Yang;Ju-Ram Lee;Jung-Yi Kim
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2024
  • Biodiversity, which has recently become increasingly recognized due to the destruction of the ecosystem, is an important factor in the survival of humans and the ecosystem, and has a significant impact on the survival of endangered species. Accordingly, social education is necessary to maintain biodiversity, and education through media can be more effective than simple theory because it is more accessible and has higher demand. This study developed a game to improve awareness of endangered species protection by investigating and analyzing theories and research data from existing literature. Pre- and post-tests were conducted on the game developed as a result of the research to confirm that it had an effect of improving awareness. The results of the research are expected to be utilized in educational institutions such as schools through supplementation.

A Study on Interconnection Regime: Core Issues and Alternatives (국내 상호접속제도 연구: 핵심이슈와 대안 발굴)

  • Kim, Il-Jung;Shin, Minsoo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.678-691
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    • 2015
  • Internet and mobile traffic continues to surge exponentially in recent years due to popularization of smart devices, the appearance of various internet services carrying large amount of traffic from richer content and applications. This phenomenon leaded to various network problems such as the congestion delay, the non-balanced traffic ratio between ISPs, the continuous network investment cost and the Internet access problems. In light of changed data-driven communication ecosystem, There are growing concerns by both academia and industry that settlement-free peering and full transit regime have the limitations such as not only difficulties in maintaining mutual benefits but also difficulties in securing investment incentives for upgrading network performance and quality. Thus, it becomes more necessary for introducing the evolved internet interconnection regime which can fulfill the All-IP network environment. This study derives core issues regarding internet interconnection regime in Korea and suggest new evolved alternatives based on three point of view(traffic optimization, cost optimization, network investment optimization) through the empirical analysis.

Cybersecurity Threats and Countermeasures of the Smart Home Ecosystem

  • Darem, Abdulbasit;Alhashmi, Asma A.;Jemal, H.A.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.303-311
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    • 2022
  • The tremendous growth of the Internet of things is unbelievable. Many IoT devices have emerged on the market over the last decade. This has made our everyday life easier inside our homes. The technology used at home has changed significantly over the past several decades, leading to what is known today as the smart home. However, this growth has also brought new challenges to our home security and privacy. With the smart home becoming more mainstream, cybersecurity issues have become a fundamental concern. The smart home is an environment where heterogeneous devices and appliances are interconnected through the Internet of Things (IoT) to provide smart services to residents. These services include home climate control, energy management, video on demand, music on-demand, remote healthcare, remote control, and other similar services in a ubiquitous manner. Smart home devices can be controlled via the Internet using smartphones. However, connecting smart home appliances to wireless networks and the Internet makes individuals vulnerable to malicious attacks. Remote access within the same environment or over the Internet requires an effective access control mechanism. This paper intends to shed light on how smart home devices are working as well as the type of security and privacy threats of the smart home. It also illustrated the types of authentication methods that can be used with smart home devices. In addition, a comparison of Smart home IoT-based security protocols was presented along with a security countermeasure that can be used in a smart home environment. Finally, a few open problems were mentioned as future research directions for researchers.

Why Dynamic Security for the Internet of Things?

  • Hashemi, Seyyed Yasser;Aliee, Fereidoon Shams
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.12-23
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    • 2018
  • The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem potentially includes heterogeneous devices with different processing mechanisms as well as very complicated network and communication models. Thus, analysis of data associated with adverse conditions is much more complicated. Moreover, mobile things in the IoT lead to dynamic alteration of environments and developments of a dynamic and ultra-large-scale (ULS) environment. Also, IoT and the services provided by that are mostly based on devices with limited resources or things that may not be capable of hosting conventional controls. Finally, the dynamic and heterogeneous and ULS environment of the IoT will lead to the emergence of new security requirements. The conventional preventive and diagnostic security controls cannot sufficiently protect it against increasing complication of threats. The counteractions provided by these methods are mostly dependent on insufficient static data that cannot sufficiently protect systems against sophisticated and dynamically evolved attacks. Accordingly, this paper investigates the current security approaches employed in the IoT architectures. Moreover, we define the dynamic security based on dynamic event analysis, dynamic engineering of new security requirements, context awareness and adaptability, clarify the need for employment of new security mechanism, and delineate further works that need to be conducted to achieve a secure IoT.

A Reconfiguration Method for Preserving Network Bandwidth and Nodes Energy of Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Jung, Hyunjun;Jeong, Dongwon;On, Byung-Won;Baik, Doo-Kwon
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.2181-2202
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    • 2016
  • In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and even in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, the reconfiguration of sensor variables is an important problem when the role of a system (or application) program's sensor nodes needs to be adjusted in a particular situation. For example, the outdoor temperature in a volcanic zone, which is usually updated in a system every 10 s, should be updated every 1 s during an emergency situation. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel approach based on changing only a set of sensor variables in a part of a program, rather than modifying the entire program, in order to reduce both network congestion and the sensor nodes' battery consumption. To validate our approach, we demonstrate an implementation of a proof-of-concept prototype system and also present results of comparative studies showing the performance and effectiveness of our proposed method.

A Survey on Microservices Approach for the Internet of Things (IoT를 위한 Microservices 접근법에 대한 조사)

  • Kabulo, Nday Sinai;Landry, Moungala Alban;Yum, Sun-Ho;Namgung, Jung-Il;Shin, Soo-Young;Park, Soo-Hyun
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.608-610
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    • 2018
  • The future of Internet of Things ecosystem seems to be worth it, however by using a monolithic approach we might end up by dealing with complexity of the system as long as the statistics show that by 2020 IoT devices will reach around 50 billion. The microservice architecture approach utilizes the service-oriented architecture together with best practices and latest developments in software virtualization to overcome complexity issues, allow reusability of services or microservices instead of creating new ones. The microservice architecture provides secure platforms if it is developed and deployed in a container. Thus, this paper surveys on the microservices, microservices architecture and containers, microservices based Internet of Things.

Implementation of Search Engine to Minimize Traffic Using Blockchain-Based Web Usage History Management System

  • Yu, Sunghyun;Yeom, Cheolmin;Won, Yoojae
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.989-1003
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    • 2021
  • With the recent increase in the types of services provided by Internet companies, collection of various types of data has become a necessity. Data collectors corresponding to web services profit by collecting users' data indiscriminately and providing it to the associated services. However, the data provider remains unaware of the manner in which the data are collected and used. Furthermore, the data collector of a web service consumes web resources by generating a large amount of web traffic. This traffic can damage servers by causing service outages. In this study, we propose a website search engine that employs a system that controls user information using blockchains and builds its database based on the recorded information. The system is divided into three parts: a collection section that uses proxy, a management section that uses blockchains, and a search engine that uses a built-in database. This structure allows data sovereigns to manage their data more transparently. Search engines that use blockchains do not use internet bots, and instead use the data generated by user behavior. This avoids generation of traffic from internet bots and can, thereby, contribute to creating a better web ecosystem.

Study of the Change of Business Competence as the Evolution of Digital Ecosystem (디지털생태계의 진화와 사업역량 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kae Soo;Yoon, Heon-Deok
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.18 no.9
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    • pp.1105-1117
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    • 2015
  • During the last decade, the business infrastructure has become digital with increased interconnections among products, processes, and services. Across many firms spanning different industries and sectors, digital technologies are fundanmentally transforming business stratiges, business processes, firm capabilities, productes and services, and key interfirm relationships in extended business networks. With the emergence of smartphones, the paradigm of the ICT industry is rapidly changing as the line between global and local markets are being blurred. In the changing global environment, although some game companies are accelerating the improvement of their global competitiveness and cases of successes of venture enterprises by developing biosimilar technology are being discovered, majority of ICT companies are focusing on limited marketing activities to get subcontracts or projects from large companies. Thus the aim of this study is to find out how digital ecosystems evolve and how business models and strategies have changed of individual companies according to the evolution of the digital ecosystems.

Pre-service Elementary Teachers' Understanding of Ocean Acidification (해양 산성화(Ocean Acidification)에 대한 초등 예비교사들의 이해)

  • Kim, Sung-Kyu
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.661-674
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    • 2017
  • This study used questionnaires to investigate how pre-service elementary teachers understand ocean acidification. As a result of gender, female teachers were more aware of ocean acidification than male teachers, but male teachers had a higher average rate of correct answers, with a lower standard deviation. Teachers from the natural sciences knew more about ocean acidification than did teachers the liberal arts. Teachers ranked environmental crisis in order of most dangerous to least dangerous as follow: global warming and the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, ocean acidification, and acid rain. About 46.7% of teachers learn about ocean acidification through education, followed by broadcasts, school lectures and the internet. The educational materials most desired for teachers were videos related to ocean acidification. Pre-service elementary teachers have two broad perspectives on ocean acidification. Firstly, they refer to economic loss and food shortages, and secondly, they note that there is a need for improved awareness and publicity about ocean acidification. The role of elementary school teachers is important because their awareness of environmental issues has a considerable effect on teachers perception of the environment. Revitalizing education on ocean acidification and government support are necessary to effectively communicate the seriousness of ocean acidification. Lastly, we need to study ocean acidification in detail so as to be able to persevere toward protecting our ocean ecosystem.

A Study on the Fashion Design Development Reflecting Regional Characteristic of Seongsu-dong (성수동의 지역적 특성을 반영한 패션디자인 개발)

  • Lee, Suhdo;Yum, Misun
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.373-384
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    • 2017
  • This research has its significance on contributing to the establishment of sustainable fashion industry ecosystem of Seongsu area based on the creativity which is the driving force of economic growth in the 21st century. This study reviewed the major activities and processes of Seongsu-dong's regional specialized industries project and the social economic organizations's creation of fashion clusters by using specialized books, previous research, press releases such as newspapers, magazines, and the specialized internet site(www.seoul.go.kr). Also street casual-style clothes were designed based on work-wear that themed Seongsu-dong's industrial scene and social problems. The results of this study are as follows. Seongsu-dong represents the political and economic characteristics of a typical semi-industrial area in which the automobile repair, printing, textile, leather, and handmade industries are concentrated in accordance with the government's business and policy, and shows the technical characteristics through the internal complete industrial ecosystem integration of the handmade industries. In addition, social and cultural characteristics such as various local activities based on creativity are shown by social enterprises, and cultural artists. Based on the results of analyzing the regional characteristics of Seongsu-dong according to political, economic, technological, socio-cultural characteristics, eight fashion designs were made as motifs reflecting the regional characteristics of Seongsu-dong.