• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.361-364
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• 2007

A small sized device with computing, communicating, sensing capability is changing our life. It will be deployed in the world and acquire a lot of data from the world. It is used for various applications such as military surveillance, environmental monitoring, structure health monitoring, building management, asset tracking, etc. In this paper we focus on USN middleware for asset tracking. A mobile asset is moving here and there within a specific area. The USN middleware tracks the mobile assets in real-time by using sensor nodes and notify their current positions to a user. To achieve the goal, the USN middleware provides some features related to the positions of mobile assets.. They are storing location data by using 3D indexing method, retrieving them by using spatio-temporal query, making trace of an asset, and retrieving the history data of an asset. In the paper, we developed USN middleware to adapt the requirements of asset tracking. It can help users increase the efficiency of their business related to mobile assets and make a valuable decision.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.8
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• pp.1368-1387
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• 2011

In recent years, ubiquitous and pervasive scenarios have emerged as a complex ecosystem where differentiated software/hardware components interoperate wirelessly and seamlessly. The goal is to enable users to continuously access services and contents, and to always get the best out of their current environment and available resources. In such dynamic and flexible scenarios, the need emerges for flexible and general solutions for continuous runtime self-reconfiguration and self-optimization of ubiquitous support software systems. This paper proposes a fully reconfigurable middleware approach that aims at reconfiguring complex software systems made up of heterogeneous off-the-shelf components from both functional and non-functional perspectives. Our middleware can also extend already existing and non-reconfigurable middleware/applications in an easy and flexible way, with no need to re-design them. The proposed design principles have been practically applied to the implementation of a runtime self-reconfigurable middleware called Off-The-Shelf Ready To Go (OTS-RTG), implemented on top of iPOJO. The reported experimental results both exhibit a limited overhead and show the wide applicability of the proposed solution to many application scenarios, including complex, industrial, Enterprise Service Bus-based ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.174-178
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 환경을 실현하기 위한 핵심 기술로 RFID가 주목받고 있고 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. RFID는 점점 소형화되고 주변의 모든 환경 및 사물에 부착 될 것이다. 이러한 환경에서 RFID Tag가 부착된 개체들의 관리와 Middleware의 중요성이 부각되고 많은 기관에서 연구가 진행되고 있다. USN/RFID 환경 하에서 사용하기 위한 Middleware는 다음과 같은 기능이 필요하다. 첫째, RFID가 부착 된 개체가 주위 환경에 민감한 개체일 경우 Middleware에서 자체적으로 상황을 인지하여 대처해야 한다. 둘째, 방대한 양의 raw 데이터 처리를 부하 없이 처리해야 한다. 셋째, 실제 RFID를 적용했을 경우 한 종류의 RFID 장비만을 사용하는 것이 아니므로 다양한 종류의 RFID 장비를 인식할 수 있는 Middleware가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 RFID에 센서와 무선통신 기술을 결합하여 상황인식(context-aware)이 가능하고, 분산처리 환경을 도입하여 방대한 양의 데이터를 처리 가능하며, 다양한 프로토콜이나 주파수의 장비를 통합적으로 적용 가능한 Middleware의 설계를 제안한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.515-527
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• 2006

Domestic standards for data broadcasting differ in the fact that satellite broadcasting chose MHP, cable OCAP, satellite ACAP, therefore making reuse of data contents impossible due to the differences. To resolve this problem, this study designed and implemented independent middleware class library for developing data broadcasting contents. To define class library which could bridge between applications and different middleware, standard library developing methods were used; and analysis of procedural application of each middleware was carried out. Based upon the analysis, classes with embedded transform and handle modules were defined to be linked to libraries of each middleware; and to verify the implemented class library, test contents were created to be compared to the existing contents. This kind of contents development by independent middleware class library allows for reuse of data contents easier, and develops an environment for higher quality of contents by reducing the efforts needed to learn each middleware for the developers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.597-604
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• 2011

The various Smartphone platforms that are used currently make difficult to build efficient applications("apps") for Smartphone. Introduction of middleware in the Smartphone environment is being studied to solve this problem. By enhancing interoperability between server systems and Smartphone platforms as introducing this middleware supports efficiently for Smartphone apps to be developed and managed. Thus, the development of this middleware for Smartphone has become essential for the purpose of responding actively to the rapidly expanding Smartphone market. In this research, we designed and implemented Smartphone middleware which optimizes the cost and time for developing new application service and maintaining it. In order to test this implemented middleware's performance and its capabilities, we also developed university Smartphone apps and activated campus twitter.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.7 s.91
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• pp.483-488
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• 2004

For real-time applications, the underlying operating system (0S) should support timeliness guarantees of real-time tasks. However, most of current operating systems do not provide timely management facilities in an efficient way. There could be two approaches to support timely management facilities for real-time applications: (1) by modifying 0S kernel and (2) by Providing a middleware without modifying 0S. In our approach, we adopted the middleware approach based on the TMO (Time-triggerred Message-triggered Object) model which is a well-known real-tine object model. The middleware, named TMSOM (TMO Support Middleware) has been implemented on various OSes such as Linux and Windows XP/NT/98. In this paper, we mainly consider TMOSM implemented on Linux(TMOS/Linux). Although the real-time schedul-ing aIgorithm used in current TMOSM/Linux can produce an efficient real-time schedule, it can be improved for periodic real-time tasks by considering several factors. In this paper, we discuss those factors and propose an improved real-time scheduling algorithm for periodic real-time tasks, In order to simulate the performance of our algorithm, we measure timeliness guarantee rate for periodic real-time tasks. The result shows that the performance of our algorithm is superior to that of existing algorithm. Additionally, the proposed algorithm can improve system performance by making the structure of real-time middleware simpler.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.147-156
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• 2010

There are some of the studies on sensor middleware. However the standard middleware has not yet been defined. Especially, this paper focuses on the processing an intelligent service of the main functions of middleware. Several applications in the sensor network environment support not only monitoring services, but also sensor-based context-awareness and intelligent services based on sensors. However, the previous studies about USN middleware only mentioned the need for intelligent service and did not discuss the architecture and method for supporting the intelligent service in detail. Therefore this paper designs a USN middleware for providing intelligent services and proposes the method for processing the services. For this purpose, this paper proposes the Sensor-Service ontology to define the concept of services and sensors for USN applications and the relationship between them. The Sensor-Service ontology is used to infer high-level information from low-level information. To apply a variety of environmental context to intelligent services, the paper uses the rule-based reasoning. This paper implements the proposed intelligent service middleware as a prototype and then shows that the middleware can be used for a variety of USN applications through the performance evaluation.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.8 no.1 s.16
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• pp.1-16
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• 2006

Recently, human based computing environment for supporting users to concentrate only user task without sensing other changes from users is being progressively researched and developed. But middleware deletes steream data processed for reducing process load of massive information from RFID sensor in this computing. So, this kind of middleware have problems when user demands probability or statistics needed for data warehousing or data mining and when user demands very important stream data repeatedly but already discarded in the middleware every former time. In this paper, we designs Sensor Middleware Architecture on Multi Level Spatial DBMS with Snapshot and manage repeatedly required stream datas to solve reusing problems of historical stream data in current middleware. This system uses disk databse that manages historical stream datas filtered in middleware for requiring services using historical stream information as data mining or data warehousing from user, and uses memory database that mamages highly reuseable data as a snapshot when stream data storaged in disk database has high reuse frequency from user. For the more, this system processes memory database management policy in a cycle to maintain high reusement and rapid service for users. Our paper system solves problems of repeated requirement of stream datas, or a policy decision service using historical stream data of current middleware. Also offers variant and rapid data services maintaining high data reusement of main memory snapshot datas.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.16A no.4
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• pp.263-272
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• 2009

For implementing the ubiquitous computing environments with smart home infrastructures, various research on the home network have been performed by several research institutes and companies. Due to the various home network middleware that are developed recently, the standardization of the home network middleware is being delayed and it calls for the middleware bridge which solves the interoperability problem among the heterogeneous middlewares. Now the research on the scheme for interoperability and the development of the various bridges are in progress, such as one-to-one bridge supporting interoperability between two middlewares and one-to-many bridge supporting interoperability among the multi-middlewares. However, existing systems and schemes does not consider the dynamic extensibility and performance that is particularly needed in the smart home environments. The middleware bridge should provide bridge extensibility with zero-configuration for non-expert users. It should also provide the load balancing scheme for efficient and proper traffic distribution. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Middleware Bridge(MMB) for dynamic extensibility and load balancing in home network environments. MMB provides bridge scalability and load balancing through the distributed system structure. We also verify the features such as interoperability, bridge extensibility, and the performance of the load balancing algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2288-2293
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• 2013

An RFID middleware system that can process a large volume of RFID data became necessary with the advent of various kinds of ubiquitous services. In this paper, we propose a method to process massive RFID data and provide it to client applications based on ALE-compliant RFID middleware systems. To distribute the requests to collect and process the RFID data from clients, the proposed system gathers the resource information for RFID middleware systems and processes the requests from clients according to the information.