• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.6
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• pp.341-349
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• 2014

Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) is the most recent and promising technology to support high quality streaming services. In dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), a client consecutively estimates the available network bandwidth and decides the transmission rate for the forthcoming video chunks to be downloaded. In this paper, we propose a novel rate adaptation algorithm called quality of experience QoE-enhanced adaptation algorithm over DASH (QAAD), which preserves the minimum buffer length to avoid interruption and minimizes the video quality changes during the playback. We implemented a DASH test bed and conducted extensive experiments. Experimental results demonstrate that under fluctuating network conditions, QAAD provides seamless streaming with stabilized video quality while the previous buffer-aware algorithm (i.e., QDASH[9]) frequently changes the video quality and undergoes the interruption.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.8
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• pp.1039-1048
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• 2015

Recently, the web-based adaptive streaming service, DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP), is receiving more attention. However, existing network-based and buffer-based video quality control schemes in DASH environments make oscillation of segment throughput, causing degradation of the quality of experience (QoE) with frequent quality changes and playback interruptions because these schemes do not consider the content characteristics. In this paper, we propose a C-DASH (Content Characteristics based Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) scheme in order to improve the QoE in DASH environments. The C-DASH scheme performs seamless and smooth quality control based on the segment throughput, buffer status, and segment size of the content. Based on simulation results, it is confirmed that the C-DASH scheme can improve the QoE, when compared with the existing quality control schemes.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.349-358
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• 2010

Adaptability is an important issue in video streaming over mobile environments, since the clients may request videos with great differences in their workload. In this paper, we propose the issues in limited bandwidth scheduling for efficient MPEG-4 video stream transmission over a mobile or wireless network. In the phase of admission control, the amount of bandwidth allocated to serve a video request is the mean bandwidth requirement of its requested video. The dynamic allocation of bandwidth in the phase of scheduling depends on the playback buffer levels of the clients with an objective to make it more adaptive to the playback situation of individual clients. In the proposed RTA scheduling protocol, more bandwidth may be allocated temporarily to the client whose buffer level is low. By employing the buffer level based scheduling policy, this protocol attempts to maximize the real-time performance of individual playback while minimizing the impact of transient overloading. Extensive simulation experiments have been performed to investigate the performance characteristics of the RTA protocol as comparing with BSBA protocol. This RTA protocol shows the better performance by transferring more frames than BSBA protocol.Computer simulations reveals that the standard deviation of the bit rate error of the proposed scheme is 50% less than that of the conventional method.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.2305-2310
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• 2011

Recently, communication industry based on data and voice and broadcasting industry centering around images have been rapidly blended. Thereupon, this article aims to suggest a multi-approach method which minimizes the use of network bandwidth allowing multimedia streaming transmission to secure IP-based continuity and let users get multimedia services of one channel or several simultaneously. Also, this study intends to design a buffering strategy that can absorb network delay and an object model to assign and maintain stable channel bandwidth.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.5 s.311
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• pp.8-16
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• 2006

This paper proposes and implements consistency algorithm that is serviced streaming data efficiently in VOD system. The media data is loaded into each node by Round Robin method. The barrier mechanism is changed into the minimum data factor(SH, GOP) of media data in this paper. In addition in order to fast media data service, the additional features are implemented in the consistency algorithm. Additional feature of the consistency algorithm is added. First, time synchronization algorithm is added the suggested consistency algorithm. Second, the prepaging mechanism supports efficient buffering service. I experimented the suggested consistency algorithm two DSM systems. The performance is good due to the last barrier algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.105-108
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 Microsoft DirectShow기반의 DSM-CC Object Carousel과 Data Download 프로토콜을 위한 인코더의 설계 및 구현에 대해 기술한다. DirectShow는 Component Object Model (COM) 기술을 기반으로 하고 있다. 따라서, 작성된 코드의 재사용과 유지보수가 용이하고, 멀티미디어(Multimedia) 데이터를 편리하게 처리말 수 있는 기능을 제공한다. 또한, 개발자가 COM component를 쉽게 제작할 수 있는 방법을 제공한다 하지만, 스트리밍 오디오/비디오 등의 디코딩을 위주로 개발된 DirectShow기술이 데이터 방송 서버에서의 실시간 인코딩 작업에 사용할 때에는 문제점이 발생한다 Data Carousel 방식에서는 인로딩 도중에 Update를 지원해야 한다. 즉, Carousel데이터의 Update가 있을 경우, 스트리밍(Streaming) 하는 동안 Update된 데이터를 인코딩 하여야 한다. 이러한 상황은 DirectShow의 기본 상태로는 표현하기 어려우므로 기본 상태를 확장하여 별도의 사용자 정의 상태를 추가하였다. 또한, 두 작업을 동시에 수행하기에 적합한 스레드(thread) 모델과 Push/pull 버퍼 모델을 설계하였다. DirectShow를 이용하여 인코더를 구현함으로써 개발자는 개발시간과 비용을 절약 할 수 있고, 사용자에게는 인코더를 등록하고 실행하기 쉬운 환경과 인로딩 상태의 실시간 모니터링 기능을 제공한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.729-732
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• 2006

This paper proposes and implements consistency algorithm that is serviced streaming data efficiently in VOD system. The media data is loaded into each node by Round Robin method. The barrier mechanism is changed into the minimum data factor(SH. GOP) of media data in this paper. In addition in order to fast media data service, the additional features are implemented in the consistency algorithm. Additional feature of the consistency algorithm is added. First, time synchronization algorithm is added the suggested consistency algorithm. Second, the prepaging mechanism supports efficient buffering service. I experimented the suggested consistency algorithm on two DSM systems.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.603-612
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• 2010

Recently, with the advance of computing and networking technique, the high speed internet becomes widespread, however, it is still hard job to do streaming the media which requires high network bandwidth over the internet. Previous VoD system researches for streaming over the internet mainly proposed techniques that controls the QoS(Quality of Service) of the media in proportion to the network status. Though, this could be the solution for the service provider while the service user who wants constant QoS may not satisfy with variable QoS. In the paper, we propose greedy precedent frame transmission technique, GPFT, for guarantee of constant QoS. In GPFT, Streaming VoD server prefetches precedent frames and transmits the frame greedily by increasing the frame transmission rate while the available network bandwidth is high. The GPFT uses the prefetched precedent frames to guarantee the QoS while the available network bandwidth is low. The experiment result shows that the proposed GPFT could guarantee the constant QoS by prefetching the frames adaptively to the network bandwidth with the characteristic of video stream.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.332-335
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• 2007

A real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a transmission buffer is proposed for minimizing video quality variation. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize variation in distortion between frames. In order to reflect the buffer status, we use well-known PID control method. Computational complexity of PID control is very low, so the proposed algorithm is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better PSNR performance than the existing rate control method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.5C
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• pp.493-505
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• 2003

A new inter-client synchronization framework for multicast media streaming is proposed employing a server-client coordinated adaptive playout control. The proposed adaptive player controls the playback speed of audio and video by adopting the time-scale modification of audio. Based on the overall synchronization status as well as the buffer occupancy level, the playout speed of each client is manipulated within a perceptually tolerable range. Additionally, the server implicitly helps increasing the time available for retransmission while the clients perform an interactive error recovery mechanism with the assistance of playout control. The network-simulator based simulations show that the proposed framework can reduce the playout discontinuity without degrading the media quality, and thus mitigate the client heterogeneity.