• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.111-118
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• 2010

The OSGi platform is a Java-based component platform that is being widely used from environments for the application development to enterprise software. The OSGi platform provides dynamic and transparent installation for open environments. However, it open new attacks so that many researches try to solve OSGi vulnerability. Security flaws in OSGi platform are categorized two parts: the JVM and the OSGi platform itself. We focus on vulnerability by OSGi platform itself, particularly service injection. We identify the service injection attack and suggest secure mechanisms to prevent the attack. Those mechanisms are implemented, providing a few modification to the Knopflerfish OSGi implementation and are evaluated through comparing with existing mechanisms.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.11-25
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• 2011

In ubiquitous computing environment, OSGi has applied to many areas such as digital mobile phones, vehicles, telematics, embedded appliances, residential gateways, industrial computers, desktop PCs, and high-end servers including mainframes. Therefore, interoperability is required for remote OSGi services which are built on various devices. In this paper, we proposed a method which was able to interoperate remote OSGi services using RMI paradigm. RMI is a representative middleware technology in distributed computing environment. The suggested method is based on the standard OSGi technology. It is possible to provide remote OSGi service registration, finding, and binding methods which were suitable for the OSGi service-oriented architecture. We also provided reliability of the dynamic remote OSGi services by maintaining consistent properties of them, and we could provide location transparency of the remote OSGi services by generating proxy bundles and proxy services dynamically.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2011

현재 컴퓨팅 환경은 분산, 이동, 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경으로 진화되고 있다. OSGi는 유비쿼터스 환경에서 디지털 이동 전화, 차량, 임베디드 가전, 가정용 게이트웨이, 데스크탑 컴퓨터, 고성능 서버에 이르기까지 그 적용범위가 확대되고 있다. 따라서 서로 다른 장비에 탑재된 OSGi 프레임워크의 서비스들을 서로 연동하여 원격 OSGi 서비스들을 공유하여 상호 운용할 수 있는 기술이 필요하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 분산 OSGi 프레임워크에서 원격 서비스의 상호운용을 지원하기 위하여 분산 미들웨어 기술인 RMI 패러다임을 적용한 원격 OSGi 서비스 상호운영 방안을 제안한다. 제안하는 원격 OSGi 서비스 상호운용 방안은 OSGi 표준 기술을 활용 및 확장하여 OSGi 아키텍처에 부합하는 원격서비스의 등록 및 발견, 접근 방법을 제공한다. 또한 동적으로 프락시 번들 및 프락시 서비스를 생성함으로써 원격 OSGi 서비스의 위치 투명성을 지원하는 특징을 가진다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.16D no.6
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• pp.935-944
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• 2009

Recently, many researches focus on Ubiquitous Network which comprised various networks for effective service provision. In particular, OSGi proposed by OSGi Alliance is preferred for core infrastructure to establish Ubiquitous Network as it supports integration and inter-operation among various service environments, and dynamic configuration of services. However, OSGi is limited to be used only within local service framework, since OSGi specification does not have any considerations for inter-operations between internal and external services. Thus, in this paper we propose JARSIO(JAva Remote Service Invocation for OSGi) framework which enables the inter-operations of dynamic internal OSGi services and other external services. The proposed framework is based on the TCP/IP protocol, and provides effective mechanisms for the inter-operations of the services.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.16A no.4
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• pp.227-234
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• 2009

OSGi technology has applied to Home Network, but now it is loaded into even heterogeneous devices in various domains. Therefore, it is necessary to cooperate with each other framework for offering effective services in distributed OSGi frameworks. However until now, OSGi specification doesn't provide any methodthat can share the services registered on remote OSGi frameworks. In order to solve this problem, there have been several researches that used existing distributed middleware technologies such as JXTA and Web Services. However these technologies have some weakness, that is, they consume lots of computing resources and need additional process to transform the services. A middleware called R-OSGi uses only OSGi technology for sharing remote OSGi services, but R-OSGi may have a communication bottleneck and SPOF (Single Point of Failure) problem, because it has a central service registry. In this paper we present RSP (Remote Service Provider), which is a P2P-based effective service sharing scheme on distributed OSGi framework. RSP doesn't need to install additional software nor have the additional transformation process of the service representation, because it uses only OSGi technology. In addition it doesn't have any bottleneck problem and improves scalability by providing the service discovery mechanism using P2P. RSP can also access remote services transparently and it can guarantee reliability by sending an immediate notice about changes of the remote services.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1014-1021
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• 2009

In an environment of home network where a number of technologies including heterogeneous hardware platforms, networking and protocols, middleware systems, and etc, exist, OSGi provides a platform for deployment and sharing of services managed in hardware and guarantees compatibility among applications. However, only simple control and processing of event data are considered in a home network using OSGi, and the consideration about real time processing of data stream generated by sensors is not enough. Therefore, researches allowing users to effectively develop OSGi applications by using various kinds of sensors generating data streams in the home network environment using OSGi are needed. In this paper, we propose an effective method of processing various types of real time data streams supplied to OSGi applications, including filtering, grouping, and counting, etc.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2008

OSGi(Open Service Gateway initiative) Alliance는 1999년에 썬 마이크로시스템즈, IBM, 에릭손 등에 의해 구성된 개방형 표준 단체로 지능형 분산 컴포넌트와 원격 관리 될 수 있는 자바 기반의 서비스 플랫폼을 제정 해왔다. OSGi의 핵심은 어플리케이션의 생명 주기를 OSGi 플랫폼 위에서 어플리케이션이나 번들 컴포넌트의 재부팅 없이 실시간으로 설치, 시작, 정지, 업데이트, 제거를 할 수 있도록 지원해 주며, OSGi는 또한 어플리케이션에 포함될 수 있는 형태의 SOA를 구현하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 OSGi가 현재 홈 네트워크에서 많이 사용되고 있는데 그 방향을 자동차 내부의 네트워크 환경에 중점을 두어 실제로 어떤 서비스가 가능한지 시뮬레이션이나 간단한 서비스를 제작하여 알아본다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.426-430
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• 2006

홈 네트워크 관련 기술들 중 여러 종류의 홈 네트워크 미들웨어간 상호연동의 지원 및 서비스 배포 등의 문제를 해결하기 위한 환경을 제공하는 OSGi에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 그러나, 현 OSGi 시스템은 이웃 OSGi 시스템간, 그리고 이기종 시스템간에 분산 컴퓨팅을 지원하지 않아 그 활용 범위가 제약 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 외부 시스템이 가지는 서비스에 대한 투명한 접근이 가능하고, 로컬 시스템에 존재하는 다른 번들에 대한 접근에 동일한 접근 방법을 가지도록 하기 위하여, 웹 서비스를 이용하는 확장 레지스트리를 제안한다. 이를 통해 이웃 OSGi 시스템들 뿐만 아니라 이 기종 시스템과도 연동을 할 수 있으며, 현재 OSGi 시스템이 가지는 기능성에 분산 컴퓨팅능력의 확장을 통해 OSGi 시스템의 활용 범위를 크게 늘릴 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.145-157
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• 2009

OSGi enables services to be dynamically discovered through its service registry for fostering interactions among themselves, positioning itself as one of the most prominent SOA technologies. Web Services also provide a mature technical base of open business services being employed over the Internet and allow more value-added applications to be built up from component services. In this paper, we propose a new architecture, built on the concept of dynamic service binding, to support interbred service compositions of OSGi and Web Services. Web Services are imported into OSGi domains, and the compositions are described in WS-BPEL language. The support for crossbred compositions of OSGi services and Web Services opens up a new opportunity of a wider range of applications beyond their respective traditional target domains of home gateways in LAN environments and business applications in global Internet environments.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2009

In home network environments, the user authentication and authorization associated user's information and usability may be important security issue. The OSGi service platform, a well-known home network gateway already specifies the mechanism of that. The traditional authority method provided OSGi implements simple RBAC(Role Based Access Control) model. This is difficult to support efficient access control. In this paper, we propose the dynamic RBAC model based on OSGi. The proposed method describes the extended framework that manage two roles named as absolute role and relative role, extend existed framework with relative role and propose programming model to enable dynamic access control. Finally, we implement the proposed framework using AspectJ and Java annotation.