• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.5 s.89
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• pp.9-20
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• 2004

본 고에서는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경을 실현하기 위한 차세대 서비스 인프라 구축 관리 기술에 대하여 살펴본다. 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경을 실현하기 위해서는 방대한 양의 정보를 효율적으로 처리하여 어떠한 상황에서도 사용자들에게 일정한 수준의 고품질 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 서비스 인프라의 구축 관리 기술이 필수적이다. 즉, 서비스나 단말 기기의 특성에 상관없이 언제 어디서나 어떤 사용자들에게도 고품질의 맞춤형 서비스를 투명하게 제공할 수 있는 가상의 서비스 인프라 혹은 서비스 전달 망을 구축 관리할수 있어야 한다. 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 다른 기반 기술인 상황 인지 컴퓨팅 기술 그리고 디지털 홈 기술이 이러한 서비스 인프라 구축 관리 기술과 연계될 때 비로소 진정한 의미의 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경을 구축할 수 있을 것이다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2018

In the past, the Internet connected people together; recently, however it has been extended to the Internet of Things (IoT), allowing all things in the physical world to be connected. We call a new society in which everything is connected through IoT a 'hyper-connected society'. IoT for a hyper-connected society is more than just connecting things to the Internet, it is an infrastructure providing intelligent services without human intervention by connecting things to the Internet using sensors and communication functions, collecting data from connected things, and analyzing and predicting information. Therefore, IoT is a convergence technology that includes not only sensors and communication networks but also big data and AI. This paper examines the short history of IoT, reviews its current trends, and finally, discusses its future direction.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.23-35
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• 2019

In the upcoming post-app era, real-time, intelligent and immersive services such as autonomous vehicles, virtual secretaries, virtual reality, and augmented reality are expected to dominate. However, there is a growing demand for new networking and computing infrastructure capabilities because existing physical connection-oriented networks and centralized cloud-based service environments have inherent limitations to effectively accommodate these services. To this end, research on intelligent edge network computing technology is underway to analyze the contextual situation of human and things and to configure the service environment on the network edge so that the application services can be performed optimally. In this article, we describe the technology issues for edge network intelligence and introduce related research trends.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.94-106
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• 2018

A quantum key distribution (QKD) provides in principle an unconditional secure communication unlike the standard public key cryptography depending on the computational complexity. In particular, free-space QKD can give a secure solution even without a fiber-based infrastructure. In this paper, we investigate an overview of recent research trends in the free-space QKD system, including satellite and handheld moving platforms. In addition, we show the key components for a free-space QKD system such as the integrated components, single photon detectors, and quantum random number generator. We discuss the technical challenges and progress toward a future free- space QKD system and components.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.21-31
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• 2021

Ransomware attacks, such as Conti, Ryuk, Petya, and Sodinokibi, that target medical institutions are increasing rapidly. In 2020, in the United States., ransomware attacks affected over 600 separate clinics, hospitals, and organizations, and more than 18 million patient records. The cost of these attacks is estimated to be almost $21 billion USD. The first death associated with a ransomware attack was reported in 2020 by the University Hospital of Düesseldorf in Germany. In the case of medical institutions, as introduced in the Medjack report issued by TrapX Labs, in many cases, attackers target medical devices that are relatively insecure and then penetrate deep into more critical network infrastructure, such as EMR servers. This paper introduces security vulnerabilities of hospital medical devices, considerations for ransomware response by medical institutions, and related technology trends.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.12-25
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• 2023

Positioning, navigation, and timing information has become a key element in the national core infrastructure and for emerging technologies, such as autonomous driving, lunar exploration, financial systems, and drones. Therefore, the provision of that information by navigation satellite systems is becoming increasingly important. Existing systems such as GPS (Global Positioning System), GLONASS (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System), and BDS (BeiDou Navigation Satellite System) also provide augmentation, safety-of-life, search & rescue and short message communication and authentication services to increase their competitiveness. Those services and the signals generated for their provision have their own purpose and requirements. This article presents an overview of existing or planned satellite navigation satellite system services and signals, aiming to help understand their current status.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.74-83
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• 2022

Shannon and Weaver's semantic communication has been actively studied in recent years as a new communication method to provide intelligent mobile services without requiring more capacity, infrastructure, and energy, even with limited radio resources. Considered a breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, semantic communication aims at successfully transmitting semantic information conveyed by a source rather than accurately receiving each symbol or bit, regardless of meaning. Thus, semantic communication can lead to knowledgeable systems that significantly reduce data traffic because the transmitter only transmits the necessary information related to a specific task. This study describes essential differences between existing and semantic communication, research trends related to semantic communication principles and theory, performance metrics of semantic communication, semantic communication system framework, and future research and development issues.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.58-69
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• 2023

Cyberspace is emerging as a critical domain requiring national-level governance and international cooperation owing to its potential financial and societal impacts. This research aims to investigate the cybersecurity policies from major countries for understanding with comprehensive perspectives. Global trends emphasize a comprehensive command-centered approach, with top leadership directing cybersecurity policies. Key policy areas include security across technology ecosystems, protection of critical infrastructure, and software supply chain security. Investment is being focused on zero-trust architectures, software bills, and new technologies like artificial intelligence. For countries like Korea, immediate response and adaptation to these trends are crucial to develop and enforce national cybersecurity policies.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.617-635
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• 2021

Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the network without appropriate security solutions have become a serious security threat to ICT infrastructure. Moreover, due to the nature of IoT devices, it is difficult to apply currently existing security solutions. As a result, IoT devices have easily become targets for cyber attackers, and malware attacks on IoT devices are actually increasing every year. Even though several security solutions are being developed to protect IoT infrastructure, there is a great risk to apply unverified security solutions to real-world environments. Therefore, verification tools to verify the functionality and performance of the developed security solutions are also needed. Furthermore, just as security threats vary, there are several security solution s that defend against them, requiring suitable verification tools based on the characteristics of each security solution. In this paper, we propose an high-speed malware propagation tool that spreads malware at high speed in the IoT infrastructure. Also, we can verify the functionality of the security solution that detect and quickly block attacks spreading in IoT infrastructure by using the high-speed malware propagation tool.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.487-490
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• 2012

Under the situation of the world becoming a unified global economy, our country should make efforts to get standard patents as well as to take out essential patents in order to maintain the competitiveness against advanced country. In recent years, R&D related standardization is very important. Besides, R&D planning considering standardization becomes more important than ever before. Therefore, this treatise is designed to lay infrastructure on promoting international standardization through suggesting a effective standardization planning framework based on R&D planning and analyzing cases regarding R&D planning and standardization planning.