• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.52-62
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• 2008

As various types of embedded devices are widely used, a technology that supports reuse of applications on multiple platforms is needed in order for time-to-market development of the applications. The interface middleware is one of such technology and it hides platform dependency from application programmers. Existing interface middleware such as the MT project, Xenomai and Legacy2linux have limitation in that the APIs provided by each of these middleware are fixed to a specific operating system, and the middleware does not provide dynamic expansion of its API set. In this paper, we propose a middleware which hides operating system dependencies and enables porting of applications on various operating systems. In addition, the middleware has scalable structure so that it is suitable for resource-limited embedded systems. The overhead of the middleware, i.e., the time delay occurred by the middleware is between $0.3{\mu}sec\;and\;5{\mu}sec$ in most cases. We believe that the amount of overhead is reasonable and does not hurt the performance of applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.373-375
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• 2002

리눅스 컴퓨터 시스템에 실시간 웅용프로그램들을 실행할 경우, 실시간 응용프로그램 자체의 내부나 하부에 실시간 시스템 지원을 위한 엔진을 내장하고 있어야 만다. 그러나 기존의 리눅스 시스템들에 실시간 웅용프로그램을 적용하기 위만 실시간성을 보장 받기 위해서는 스케줄러의 실시간성 빈약 등으로 인해 운영체제의 수정이 불가피한 상황이다. 또한 운영체제의 수정은 호환성의 결여라는 문제를 야기시킨다. 이를 위해 사용하는 방식이 Middleware 방식이다. 실시간 시스템 지원 Middleware 는 운영체제와 실시간 지원 응용프로그램 사이에 위치하여 운영체제 자제가 가지고 있는 부족한 실시간성을 보완하여 주고, 응용프로그램이 적절하고 효과적으로 시스템 서비스들을 이용할 수 있게 해준다. 본 논문에서는 Middleware가 부족간 실시간성을 보완하기 위하여 사용할 수 있는 Middleware 스케줄러의 방식에 대하여 논하고, 효율적인 설계방식을 제안한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.399-405
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• 2008

Recently, robot technology is actively going on progress to the field of various services such as home care, medical care, entertainment, and etc. Because these service robots are in use nearby person, they need to be operated safely even though hardware and software faults occur. This paper proposes a Fault-Tolerant middleware for a robot system, which has following two characteristics: supporting of heterogeneous network interface and processing of software components and network faults. The Fault-Tolerant middleware consists of a Service Layer(SL), a Network Adaptation Layer(NAL), a Network Interface Layer(NIL), a Operating System ion Layer(OSAL), and a Fault-Tolerant Manager(FTM). Especially, the Fault-Tolerant Manager consists of 4 components: Monitor, Fault Detector, Fault Notifier, and Fault Recover to detect and recover the faults effectively. This paper implements and tests the proposed middleware. Some experiment results show that the proposed Fault-Tolerant middleware is working well.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.296-309
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• 2012

In existing middleware for body sensor networks, energy limitations, hardware heterogeneity, increases in node temperature, and the absence of software reusability are major problems. In this paper, we propose an event-based grid middleware component that solves these problems using distributed resources in in vivo sensor nodes. In our multi-hop communication, we use a lightweight rendezvous routing algorithm in a publish/subscribe system of event-based communication. To facilitate software reuse and application development, a modified open services gateway initiative has been implemented in our middleware architecture. We evaluated our grid middleware in a cancer treatment scenario with combined hyperthermia, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy procedures, using in vivo sensors.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.652-655
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• 2006

In this letter, we introduce a new middleware architecture and its generic application programming interface (API) (called the T-DMB MATE API) for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB). Middleware in T-DMB enables inter-operable applications to be downloaded from both broadcast and telecommunication networks in advance and to be executed in any type of T-DMB receiver. The middleware we introduce here is especially designed to support a proposed method for application provisions applied to a concept of application module appropriate to the service environment of T-DMB. We also verify the designed T-DMB MATE API through the implementation of the middleware and its application in a PC-based receiver.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.86-92
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed a level 2 middleware with common services for controlling steel plants, which is named POSMOS. POSMOS supports eight middleware services currently, but, this paper described in detail two representative services of the common services: file service and external communication service and their respective measured performance. In the experiment section, we described the performance of the two representative services and a case using our middleware which shows better response time than the existing commercial middleware by about 32%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.191-192
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• 2009

현재 홈 네트워크 미들웨어로서 UPnP, KONNEX, ECHONET 등 여러 미들웨어들이 존재하고 있다. 홈 네트워크가 진화함에 따라 다양한 새로운 미들웨어들은 계속해서 등장하게 될 것이다. 본 논문은 상이한 홈 네트워크 미들웨어 상호 연동을 위한 통합 구조 방식에 대해 고찰하고, 상이한 홈 네트워크 미들웨어들을 통합하고 정보 가전기기들을 제어 및 연동하여, 홈 네트워크 미들웨어들의 유동적인 특성을 반영할 수 있는 상이한 미들웨어상에 있는 디바이스간 상호 동작을 지원하는 범용 미들웨어 브릿지를 통한 정보가전기기의 상호 호환 방안에 관하여 설명한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.113-122
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• 2008

In RFID system, Middleware collects and filters streaming data gathered continuously from readers to process applications requests. The enormous amount of data makes middleware in highly overloaded. Hence, we propose reader level filtering in order to reduce overall middleware load. In this paper, we consider reader filtering capability and define query plan to minimize number of queries for processing into middleware and reader level. We design and implement middleware system based on proposed query plan. We perform several experiments on implemented system. Our experiments show that the proposed query plan considerably improves the performance of middleware by diminishing processing time and network traffic between reader and middleware.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1284-1288
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• 2008

Recently, there is increasing the development requirement of middleware and interface for GPS(Global Positioning System), RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification), sensor networks. GPS supports a useful location based service. RFID supports products logistic and distribution services through the identification. A sensor network collects a context information, such as humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure. This paper implements and verifies a integrated service middleware for supporting efficiently process of sensing data collected from RFID, GPS and sensor network. This middleware have the temporary store function, the redundancy exclusion function, certification function, the classification function and the database storage function. Additionary, this middleware connects with low-level adaptor using socket interface and supports the high-level application services using database connection. Therefore, user can develop easily various many ubiquitous application system using proposed middleware instead of each RFID middleware, GPS middleware and, middleware based on sensor network.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.63-69
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• 2017

The middleware in the IoT system is software that acts as a messenger to connect and exchange data between humans and objects, objects and objects. IoT middleware exists in various forms in all areas, including hardware, protocol, and communication of different kinds, which are different in form and purpose. However, IoT middleware exists in various forms across different areas, including hardware, protocol, and communication of different types and purposes. Therefore, even if the system is designed differently for each role, it is necessary to strengthen the security in common. In this paper, we analyze the structure of IoT middleware using Service Oriented Architecture(SOA) approach and design system security requirements based on it. It was defined: Target Of Evaluation(TOE) existing system development method and the object is evaluated by Common Criteria(CC) for verification based otherwise. The proposed middleware system will be correlated with the security problem definition and the security purpose, which will be the basis for implementing the security enhanced IoT system.