• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.3 s.357
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• pp.85-91
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• 2007

Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (S-DMB) is the digital convergence service of broadcasting and communication for mobility and portability. Broadcasting service of S-DMB can be taken by the mobile phone or vehicle terminals anytime and anywhere. S-DMB system is currently providing 11 video channels and 26 audio channels. As the demand of multimedia service is recently increasing, S-DMB system needs high quality and new contents service. Therefore we need to make efficient S-DMB with more channel ability and high transmission quality. In this paper, we propose new S-DMB system that can be applied to powerful channel coding scheme and hierarchical 8-PSK(8-Phase Shift Keying) modulation with Backwards Compatibility modes that simultaneously can support both current and new system. And we analyze the performance of current S-DMB system and verify a possibility of advanced S-DMB through computer simulation.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.658-665
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• 2006

In these days, the demand of users to extend available period of mobile systems is increased according as the functions of mobile systems have been varied and the use of multimedia application has been increased. This paper proposes an integrated power management framework that considers executed workload types for effective energy management. The conventional methods use DVFS technique for CPU and DPM technique for WNIC separately or simply combine them based on the assumption that they are orthogonal one another. However, the proposed mechanism determines the kind of workload under analysis of the characteristics of workloads incoming through a WNIC. The proposed method can reduce energy consumption of system level effectively by controlling CPU and WNIC to proper power mode based on analyzed characteristics of workload. The experimental result shows the proposed method reduces energy consumption by 9% for BE (Best Effort) workload, CBR (Constant Bit Rate) workload, and Interactive workload on average and by 16% to maximum when compared with the conventional methods which simply combine DVFS technique for CPU and DPM technique for WNIC.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.66-71
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• 2001

This paper Introduces an implementation of MPEG-2 AAC codec system for digital audio broadcasting. This system consists of the encoder and the decoder. This system includes MPEG-2 system multiplexing and demultiplexing modules for Interfacing to the ETRI-DAB system. Four DSPs are adopted for the encoder and three DSPs for 7he decoder. Each DSP Processes system control. 1/0 control, audio signal processing. multiplexing and demultiplexing. This Paper also discusses some near future estimations relaxed to the DAB system and it\`s services. Currently a stereo audio codec is available but multi-channel audio codec and MPEG-4 audio cosec wall be also Implemented.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.598-605
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• 2015

Effective alerts will drastically mitigate the disaster impacts. One way to enhance the effectiveness is to prepare multiple alert distribution channels. In this paper, we propose a new emergency alert distribution system that will solve the weaknesses of the current distribution systems, such as Cell Broadcasting System and T-DMB Automatic Emergency Alert Service. The weaknesses are: the limitation of message length, small portions of terminals that can receive and display the alert signal, and one-way communication service. To solve these problems, we propose an emergency alert distribution system over the Internet with RSS (Rich Site Summary) format. The system also has the capability of adaptive alert filtering according to the receiver characteristics. We analyzed the characteristics of RSS as an alerting format, and draw functional requirements satisfying use case scenarios. We designed the system only with major requirements and verified it on our test bed. Sending richer message contents through various receiving terminals, the system will achieve more effective emergency alert service.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.1320-1331
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• 2004

A video adaptation system translates the source video stream into appropriate video stream while satisfying the network and client constraints and maximizing the video quality as much as possible. This paper proposes a semi-dynamic video adaptation scheme, in which several intermediate video streams and the information for the measuring of video quality are generated statically. The intermediate video streams are generated by reducing the resolution of the video stream by a power of two several times, and they are stored as the intermediate video streams on the video server. The statically generated information for the input video stream consists of the degrees of smoothness for each frame rate and the degree of frame definition for each pixel bit rate. It helps to dynamically generate the target video stream according to the client's QoS at run-time as quickly as possible. Experimental result shows that the proposed adaptation scheme can generate the target video stream about thirty times faster while keeping the quality degradation as less than 2% comparing to the target video stream that is totally dynamically generated, although the extra storages for the intermediate video streams are required.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.401-415
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• 2005

Owing to the improved wireless communication technologies, it is possible to provide streaming service of multimedia with PDAs and mobile phones in addition to desktop PCs. Since mobile client devices have low computing power and low network bandwidth due to wireless network, the transcoding technology to adapt media for mobile client devices considering their characteristics is necessary. Transcoding servers transcode the source media to the target media within corresponding grades and provide QoS in real-time. In particular, an effective load balancing policy for transcoding servers is inevitable to support QoS for large scale mobile users. In this paper, the resource weighted load distribution policy is proposed for a fair load balance and a more scalable performance in cluster-based transcoding servers. Our proposed policy is based on the resource weighted table and number of maximum supported users, which are pre-computed for each pre-defined grade. We implement the proposed policy on cluster-based transcoding servers and evaluate its fair load distribution and scalable performance with the number of transcoding servers.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.920-927
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• 2009

In this paper, we developed a system that could assist appropriate activities for medication compliancy of the elderly. It employs a proactive knowledge which is represented as XML templates predefined for their medication activities. The knowledge-based assistance depends on the contexts considerably, which the system can recognize by continuously monitoring the current position and the time-schedule for their medications. The monitoring can be performed with ultrasonic sensors and infrared sensors mounted in a display and a pillbox respectively. According to the recognized contexts, the medication activities required by the elderly can be serviced through user-friendly multimedia display. In special, our experiment evaluates that the developed system is able to enhance the medication compliancy of chronic disease patients.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.3_4
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• pp.170-186
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• 2004

Recently, for real-time applications such as multimedia and signal processing, it becomes increasingly important to provide a probabilistic guarantee that each task in the application meets its deadline with a given probability. To provide the probabilistic guarantee, an analysis method is needed that can accurately predict the deadline miss probability for each task in a given system. This paper proposes a stochastic analysis method for real-time systems that use priority-driven scheduling, such as Rate Monotonic and Earliest Deadline First, in order to accurately compute the deadline miss probability of each task in the system. The proposed method accurately computes the response time distributions for tasks with arbitrary execution time distributions, and thus makes it possible to determine the deadline miss probability of individual tasks. In the paper. through experiments, we show that the proposed method is highly accurate and outperforms exisiting methods proposed in the literature.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.129-136
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• 2010

In this paper, we present an Example-based Dialogue System for English conversation tutoring. It aims to provide intelligent one-to-one English conversation tutoring instead of old fashioned language education with static multimedia materials. This system can understand poor expressions of students and it enables green hands to engage in a dialogue in spite of their poor linguistic ability, which gives students interesting motivation to learn a foreign language. And this system also has educational functionalities to improve the linguistic ability. To achieve these goals, we have developed a statistical natural language understanding module for understanding poor expressions and an example-based dialogue manager with high domain scalability and several effective tutoring methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.592-595
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• 2008

This paper presents development of automatic image quality register optimization system using mobile TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display) driver IC and embedded software. It optimizes automatically gamma adjustment and voltage setting registers in mobile TFT-LCD driver IC to improve gamma correction error, adjusting time, flicker noise and contrast ratio. Developed algorithms and embedded software are generally applicable for most of the TFT-LCD modules. The proposed optimization system contains module-under-test (MUT, TFT-LCD module), control program, multimedia display tester for measuring luminance, flicker noise and contrast ratio, and control board for interface between PC and TFT-LCD module. The control board is designed with DSP and FPGA, and it supports various interfaces such as RGB and CPU.