• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.3615-3638
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• 2020

Node identity authentication is an essential means to ensure the security of the Internet of Things. Existing blockchain-based IoT node authentication schemes have many problems. A heterogeneous IoT node authentication scheme based on an improved hybrid blockchain is proposed. Firstly, the hybrid blockchain model is designed to make the blockchain and IoT environment more compatible. Then the proxy node selection mechanism is intended to establish a bridge between the ordinary IoT node and the blockchain, building by calculating the trust value between nodes. Finally, based on the improved hybrid blockchain, the node authentication scheme of the model and proxy node selection mechanism establishes a secure connection for communication between nodes. Safety and performance analysis shows proper safety and performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.424-444
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• 2022

In hospitals and pharmacies, the distribution of medicines is an important part. Any mistakes, misses, fake medicines and expired medicines can cause medical accidents. With the widespread application of the Internet of Things technology (IoT), traditional drug distribution methods need to be upgraded. This article proposes a drug distribution management scheme based on the Internet of Things technology. In the production of drugs, a flexible RFID tag was printed on the packaging box, which stored a series of information such as drug name, dosage, raw materials, efficacy, production date, expiration date, and manufacturer. The use of a drug distribution management system combined with RFID readers can identify drug information and effectively prevent the occurrence of erroneous, missed, counterfeit, and expired drugs. It can also improve management efficiency, reduce management costs, and control management risks. Through the circuit design and software system development, the test results show that this solution is effective and feasible, the proposed method can achieve the expected results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.288-289
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• 2018

The use of IoT (Internet of Things) is rapidly expanding to enhance the quality of life as seen in the interconnection between mobile devices and Web. This paper proposes an embedded system that connects sensors and mobile devices via IoT technology, improving the user's ability and service experience to remotely control the home appliances with mobile-detection features. Home appliances are expected to increase labor efficiency by utilizing the embedded system connected to the sensors. Using mobile applications to control home appliances remotely and to monitor operation status advances the user's knowledge, experience, and perspectives to experience refined life qualities.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.1396-1414
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• 2018

With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) healthcare devices, significant interoperability issue arises where devices use proprietary data transfer protocols. The IHE PCD-01 standard has been suggested for the exchange of healthcare data in ISO/IEEE 11073 PHD data model. However, the PCD-01 is not efficient to be used in the IoT environment. This is because the use of SOAP for PCD-01 may be too complex to be implemented in the resource-constrained IoT healthcare devices. In this paper, we have designed a communication system to implement ISO/IEEE 11073 and IHE PCD-01 integration using the IETF CoAP. More specifically, we have designed the architecture and procedures, using CoAP, to seamlessly transmit the bio-signal from the tiny resource-constrained IoT healthcare devices to the server in a standardized way. We have also built the agent, gateway, and PCD-01 interface at the server, all of which are using the CoAP as a communication protocol. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed system, we have used the PCD data to be transmitted over CoAP, MQTT, and HTTP. The evaluation of the system performance shows that the use of CoAP results in faster transaction and lesser cost than other protocols, with less battery power consumption.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.195-199
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• 2018

Recently, with increasing scale of internet of Things (IoT), a large amount of data are generated and various services using such data are emerging. Therefore, a protocol suitable for IoT environment that can efficiently process / transmit big data is needed. MQTT is a lightweight messaging protocol for IoT environment. Although MQTT protocol can use TLS to provide security, it has a problem in that handshake and packet overhead will increase when TLS is used. Therefore, this paper proposed as Secure_MQTT protocol. It can provide stronger security by using lightweight encryption algorithm for MQTT protocol.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.6092-6115
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• 2017

This paper demonstrates a case for an end-to-end pure Application Security Layer for reliable and confidential communications within an Internet of Things (IoT) constrained environment. To provide a secure key exchange and to setup a secure data connection, Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used, which provides native protection against replay attacks. TLS along with digital signature can be used to achieve non-repudiation within app-to-app communications. This paper studies the use of TLS over the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) via a The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) RESTful service to verify the hypothesis that in this way one can provide end-to-end communication flexibility and potentially retain identity information for repudiation. As a proof of concept, a prototype has been developed to simulate an IoT software client with the capability of hosting a CoAP RESTful service. The prototype studies data requests via a network client establishing a TLS over JSON session using a hosted CoAP RESTful service. To prove reputability and integrity of TLS JSON messages, JSON messages was intercepted and verified against simulated MITM attacks. The experimental results confirm that TLS over JSON works as hypothesised.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.537-539
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• 2014

IoT (Internet of Things), 사물 인터넷은 인터넷을 기반으로 네트워크로 연결해 다양한 분야에서 사람과 사물, 사물과 사물 간의 정보를 공유하는 지능형 기술 및 서비스로 각 분석기관마다 2014년 10대 기술 중 하나로 꼽고 있다. 각국과 다수의 업체들이 사물인터넷 시장에 적극적으로 참여중이고, 관련 시장 규모도 급성장 할 것으로 전망하고 있다. 하지만 IoT의 빠른 발전과 함께 나타나는 것은 '보안'이라는 해결 과제이다. 실제로 IoT 사용에 따른 보안 위협이 발생하고 있다는 보고가 적지 않게 나오고 있고, IoT 환경의 보안은 아직 시작단계에 불과하다. IoT에서 발생하는 보안 위협의 형태의 대부분은 데이터 전송 그 자체에서 발생할 것이고, 데이터 전송에서 취약한 암호화나 인가되지 않은 주체로부터 접근, 보안이 취약한 네트워크 등에서 많은 보안 문제가 발생할 것이다. 본 논문에서는 IoT 기술의 개요와 IoT 환경에서의 보안위협에 대해 살펴보고 향후 연구의 방향을 제시하고자 한다.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.64-71
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• 2016

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.51-56
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• 2016

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.133-140
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• 2013

기존의 센서 접속 기술은 그 분야에 띠라 다양한 표준과 규격이 존재하였다. 빌딩 자동제어 및 제어 네트워크용으로는 BACnet이 있으며, 공장제어 및 계측제어를 위한 Modbus 등이 다양한 프로토콜이 존재한다. 최근 M2M(Machine-to-Machine) 및 IoT(Internet of Things), WoT(Web of Things) 시대로 접어 들음에 따라 센서 및 각종 디바이스 간에 상호 통신할 수 있는 공통 프로토콜이 필요하게 되었다. IoT 프로토콜로 IEIF(Internet Engineering Task Force) CoAP(Constrained Application Protocol) 프로토콜이 핵심 역할을 하고 있으며, 차세대 센서 접속 프로토콜로 IETF CoAP이 많이 사용될 것으로 예상된다. 본고에서는 IETF CoAP 표준화 동향 및 규격에 대해 살펴본다.