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Low Power Consumption Technology for Streaming Data Playback in the IPTV Set-top Box  

Go, Young-Wook (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
Yang, Jun-Sik (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
Kim, Deok-Hwan (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.47, no.1, 2010 , pp. 30-40 More about this Journal
Abstract
The hard disk is one of the most frequently used storage in IPTV sep-top box. It has large storage capacity and provides fast I/O speed compared to its price whereas it causes high power consumption due to mechanical characteristics of spindle motor. In order to play streaming data in the set-top box, spindle motor of hard disk keeps active mode and it causes high power consumption. In this paper, We propose an offset-buffering and multi-mode spin-down method to reduce power consumption for streaming data playback. The offset-buffering inspects the user's viewing pattern and performs buffering based on the analysis of viewing pattern. So, it can maintain the status of spindle motor as idle mode for long time. Besides, it can reduce power consumption by spinning down according to offset-buffer size. The experimental result shows that proposed offset-buffering and multi mode spin-down method is about 28.3% and 12.5% lower than the full-Buffering method in terms of the power consumption and spin-down frequency, respectively.
Keywords
IPTV; Set-top box; Low power consumption; Offset-buffering; Multi-mode spin-down;
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