• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.65-79
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• 2020

As Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), popular components in industrial control systems (ICS), are incorporated with the technologies such as micro-controllers, real-time operating systems, and communication capabilities. As the latest PLCs have been connected to the Internet, they are becoming a main target of cyber threats. This paper proposes two sanitizers that improve the security of uC/OS-II based firmware for a PLC. That is, we devise BU sanitizer for detecting out-of-bounds accesses to buffers and UaF sanitizer for fixing use-after-free bugs in the firmware. They can sanitize the binary firmware image generated in a desktop PC before downloading it to the PLC. The BU sanitizer can also detect the violation of control flow integrity using both call graph and symbols of functions in the firmware image. We have implemented the proposed two sanitizers as a prototype system on a PLC running uC/OS-II and demonstrated the effectiveness of them by performing experiments as well as comparing them with the existing sanitizers. These findings can be used to detect and mitigate unintended vulnerabilities during the firmware development phase.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.132-138
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• 2010

In the present study, the real-time monitoring system is developed based on the wireless sensor network (WSN) and power line communication (PLC) employed in the 3,000-ton-class training ship. The WSN consists of sensor nodes, router, gateway and middleware. The PLC is composed of power lines, modems, Ethernet gateway and phase-coupler. The basic tests show that the ship has rather good environments for the wired and wireless communications. The developed real-time monitoring system is applied to recognize the thermal environments of main-engine room and one cabin in the ship. The main-engine room has lots of heat sources and needs careful monitoring to satisfy safe operation condition or detect any human errors beforehand. The monitoring is performed in two regions near the turbocharger and cascade tank, considered as heat sources. The cabin on the second deck is selected to monitor the thermal environments because it is close to the heat source of main engine. The monitoring results of the cabin show the thermal environment is varied by the human activity. The real-time monitoring for the thermal environment would be useful for the planning of the ventilation strategy based on the traces of the human activity against inconvenient thermal environments as well as the recognizing the temperature itself in each cabin.

• KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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• v.12C no.4
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• pp.220-224
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• 2002

The electromagnetic properties and thermal behavior of Mn-Zn ferrite cores for the blocking filter of PLC application were investigated as the function of additives. The highest density and permeability were 4.98 g/㎤ and 8,221, respectively and were obtained to the specimen with composition of MnO 24 mol%, ZnO 25 mol% and Fe$_2$O$_3$51 mol%, added MoO$_3$ of 400 ppm, SiO$_2$ of 100 ppm, and CaO of 200 ppm. The uniform grains were organized, and the microstructures were compacted due to reduction of pores in the specimen. The permeability was increased up to 13,904 as the temperature of specimen increased to 110。C. However, it was decreased precipitously under 100 over 110。C. The exothermic behavior was observed in the frequency range from 1 kHz to 1 MHz, and the maximum temperature of specimen was 102。C at 1 MHz. In the consequence, the Mn-Zn ferrite core developed in this research will maintain the stable electromagnetic properties since the temperature of ferrite core rose to 93 。C in the range of 100 kHz to 450 kHz bandwidth qualified for PLC. The blocking filters were designed for single phase and three phases using the in-line and non-contact core. The best attenuation ratios of -46.46 dB and -73.9 dB were measured in the range of 100 kHz to 450 kHz bandwidth, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.490-495
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• 2003

The electromagnetic properties and thermal behavior of Mn-Zn ferrite cores for the blocking filter of Power Line Communication(PLC) application were investigated as a function of additives. The highest density and permeability were 4.98 g/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and 8,221, respectively and were obtained to the specimen with composition of MnO 24 mol%, ZnO 25 mol% and Fe$_2$O$_3$ mol%, added MoO$_3$ of 400 ppm, SiO$_2$ of 100 ppm, and CaO of 200 ppm. The uniform grains were organized, and the microstructures were densified due to reduction of pores in the specimen. The permeability was increased up to 13,904 as the temperature of specimen increased to 110$^{\circ}C$. However, it was decreased precipitously under 100 over 110$^{\circ}C$. The exothermic behavior was observed in the frequency range from 1 kHz to 1 MHz, and the maximum temperature of specimen was 102$^{\circ}C$ at 1 MHz. In the consequence, the Mn-Zn ferrite core developed in this research will maintain the stable electromagnetic properties since the temperature of ferrite core rose to 93$^{\circ}C$ in the range of 100 kHz to 450 kHz bandwidth qualified for PLC. The blocking filters were designed for single phase and three phases using the in-line and non-contact core. The best attenuation ratios of -46.46 dB and -73.9 dB were measured in the range of 100 kHz to 450 kHz bandwidth, respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.65-77
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• 2005

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.26-32
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2021-2022
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• 2006

Power-Line Communication (PLC)는 전력선을 채널로 이용한 통신 방법으로 별도의 전용선 설치 없이 통신이 가능한 기술을 말한다. 그러기에 오래전부터 연구가 진행되어 왔으며 최근에도 여전히 고속 전력선 통신에 관한 연구가 진행 중에 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 이런 고속 전송을 위해 최근 연구가 활발한 고속 Ultra Wide Band (UWB) 전송기술을 전력선 통신에 적용하여 시뮬레이션한 후 결과를 통해 적용가능성을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.232-235
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• 2001

본 논문은 주파수 범위가 0∼30MHz에서 전력선 통신 채널상에 나타나는 잡음에 대한 실험적인 특성 및 수치계산에 의한 이론적인 근거를 전력선 채널 파라미터의 스펙트럼상의 잡음밀도 측정으로부터 유도하였으며, 거리에 따른 채널 모의실험을 통해서 나타난 잡음 특성을 이론적인 정보전달 범위에서 비교ㆍ분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06e
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• pp.157-160
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• 2001

We studied about the lighting control system on pc using PLM(Power Line Modem). The PLM is composed of FSK IC-chip and the circuit for the power line communication. We developed the control program using visual c++ language on PC for dimming the lamps. In this paper dimming controller was made with PIC161F874 and its communication speed was 1200 boad rates.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2002

In this parer, a novel architecture for Home gateway is Proposed. In home network system, there exist many different kinds of data types, like audio, video, and control information. And the communication is over multiple networks, like bluetooth, wireless LAN, USB, IEEE1394, and Power Line Communication (PLC). The hardware architecture of the Home gateway presented in this paper is based on ISO/1EC JTC 1/sc 2S/WG 1(1,2). The architecture proposed in this paper takes into account the characteristics of home network environment, so the Packets in the home network system can be processed very efficiently.