• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.57-66
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• 2002

Real time multimedia data services have been made possible by the rapid development of the computer and internet technology. Based on the technology, Many multimedia system developer try to use VOD(Video on Demand) and GVA technologies for distance education. However the system has mainly been developed to provide the video screen of good quality in real time and to compose contents efficiently. Not many researches and developments have been made for providing the users that is taking distance education with various types of service using VOD and GVA. Therefore In this paper we have designed and implemented an active on-demand multimedia service system to improve user-side service quality in distance education using VOD and GVA service. The on-demand multimedia service system can prominently help users to save the time and effort to search and select the studying data by this paper enables off-line search functions through E-mail and periodical current awareness service supported by PUSH technology, user oriented information booking supported by SDI service and feedback service.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.7 s.103
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• pp.775-782
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose multicast technique in order to reduce the required network bandwidth by n times, by merging the adjacent multicasts depending on the number of HENs (Head-End-Nodes) n that request the same video. Allowing new clients to immediately join an existing multicast through patching improves the efficiency of the multicast and offers services without any initial latency. A client might have to download data through two channels simultaneously, one for multicast and the other for patching. The more the frequency of requesting the video is, the higher the probability of caching it among HENs increases. Therefore, the requests for the cached video data can be served by HENs. Multicast from server is generated when the playback time exceeds the amount of cached video data. Since the interval of multicast can be dynamically expanded according to the popularity of videos, it can be reduced the server's workload and the network bandwidth. We perform simulations to compare its performance with that of conventional multicast. From simulation results, we confirm that the Proposed multicast technique offers substantially better performance.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.660-673
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• 2001

In Video-on-Demand (VoD) servers, disk throughput is an important system design parameter because it is directly related to the number of user requests that can be served simultaneously. In this paper, we propose an efficient periodic request grouping scheme for disk array-based VoD servers that reduces the disk seek time, thus improving the disk throughput of VoD disk arrays. To reduce the disk seek time, the proposed scheme groups the periodic requests that access data blocks stored in adjacent regions into one, and arranges these groups in a pre-determined order (e.g., in left-symmetric or right-symmetric fashion). Our simulation result shows that the proposed scheme reduces the average disk bandwidth required by a single video stream and can serve more user requests than existing schemes. For a data block size of 192KB, the number of simultaneously served user requests is increased by 8% while the average waiting time for a user request is decreased by 20%. We also propose an adaptation technique that conforms the proposed scheme to the user preference changes for video streams.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.7
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• pp.847-852
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• 2003

This paper implements MOD system using multicast delivery. Conventional system provide server-based system in multicast delivery but implemented system provides on-demand client-based multicast system. The scheduler aggregates clients' request and it generate multcast group addresses and port numbers according to requested video items and service request time. Then it transmits immediately multicast address to MOD server and client who request service. And then MOD server transmits requested streams with a multicast group address and the client joins the group automatically. The scheduler assigns the same multicast group address when other clients request an identical video within the same scheduling duration. The system can reduce load of server and support many clients at the same time.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.10
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• pp.2581-2595
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• 1997

In this paper, the real-time facility of the operating system for a VOD(Video On Demand) server have been analyzed and implemented. The requirements of the real-time scheduling have been gathered by analyzing the model of the video-data-transfer-path. Particularly, the influence of the bottleneck subsystem have been analyzed. Thus, we have implemented the real-time scheduler and primitives which is proper for processing the digital video. In performance measurements, the degree of the guarantee of the real-time scheduler have been experimented. The measured data show that the most time constraints of the process is satisfied. But, the network protocol processing by the interrupt is a major obstacle of the real-time scheduling. We also have compared the difference between the real-time scheduler and the non-real-time scheduler by measuring the inter-execution time. According to the measured results, the real-time scheduler should be used for efficient video service because the processor time allocated to the process can't be estimated when the non-real-time scheduler is used.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.483-487
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• 1998

실시간 주문형 비디오 서비스를 수용하는 멀티미디어 셋탑 박스와 서비스 서버간의 서비스 연결의 연속성을 제공하면서 사용자 단말의 추가적인 부담을 줄이기 위해 ATM 액세스 노드 내에 연결성 연동 에이젼트 기능을 구현하였다. 이를 통하여 망 내의 SVC와의 연결성을 사용자 단말에게 제공하는 방안을 제시하고 이를 MPEG-1 VOD 서비스의 연결 설정 및 해제에 적용한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.5_6
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• pp.223-231
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• 2003

Video-on-Demand (VOD) service needs high resource consumption because of high bandwidth and long playback duration which are characteristics of multimedia. Various techniques such as Patching and Channel-Reserving Patching have been proposed to reduce the demand on the network-I/O bandwidth. Patching allows new clients to join an existing multicast for realization of true VOD, and Channel-Reserving Patching reserves the part of total channel capacity of video server in order to serve the requests for popular videos on which requests of users concentrate. To improve the performance of Channel-Reserving Patching, we propose the method that determines the reserved channel capacity of video server for the popular videos in this paper. The performance of our method is evaluated in terms of average servile latency, defection ratio and fairness through simulation, and is compared with those of Patching and another Channel-Reserving Patching.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.1743-1749
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• 2011

The multimedia data for video-on-demand(VOD) service has large, continuous and real time characteristics. The frequent disk I/O operations takes much time and decrease the system performance in multimedia services. Therefore the efficient buffer management is needed in order to reduce the disk accesses to multimedia data. This paper addresses how to increase the buffer hit ratio and the number of users in a multimedia service like VOD by increasing the utility of buffer. This paper also simulated various resource management algorithms and strategies and evaluated, compared and analyzed their performances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.660-662
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• 2000

오늘날 네트웍의 발달로 인하여 사용자가 원하는 영상매체를 실시간으로 요구하는 멀티미디어 서비스에 대한 사용자의 요구가 날로 증가하고 있다. 때문에 영상매체를 제공하는 서버는 여러 사용자들이 동시에 접속하였을 때 서비스를 제공 할 수 있는 능력을 가져야 한다. 본 논문에서는 멀티미디어 서비스를 위한 VOD(Video-On-Demand)시스템을 설계 및 구현한다. VOD 시스템은 미디어를 분석하여 BES(Back-End-Server)에 저장하는 영화 관리자(Movie Manager), 분산 저장된 데이터를 읽어 들여 사용자나 연결된 FES(Front-End Server)로 보내는 BES, 사용자에게 미디어 데이트를 전송하는 FES와 전송된 데이트를 받아서 재생하는 클라이언트(Client)를 구성된다. 또한 다수의 서버를 연결하기 위하여 SCI(Scalabel Coherent Interface)를 이용한 효율적인 메시지 전송방법을 구현한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.3182-3194
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• 2000

It is strongly beliefed that Video on Demand(VOD) will become one of the most promising services in Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network(B-ISDN) for the nest generation VOD service can be classified into two types of services 'Near VOD(NVOD) and Interactive VOD(IVOD). For both services, some video servers should be installed at some nodes(especially, at the root node for NVOD service) in the tree structued VOD network,so that each node with video server stores video programs and distribules stored programs to customers. We consider thre kinds of cost.a program transmission cost, a program storage cost, and a video server installation cost. There exists a trade-off relationship among those three costs according to locationsl of video servers and the kinds of programs stord at each video server. Given a tree structured VOD network, and the total number of programs being served in the network, the resource allocation problem in a VOD network providing both IVOD and NVOD services is to determine where to install video servers for IVOD service, which and how many programs should be stored at each video server for both IVOD and NVOD services, so as to minunize the total cost which is the sum of three costs for both IVOD and NVOD services. In this paper we develop an efficient cynamic programming algorithm for solving the problem. We also implement the algorithm based on a service policy assumed in this paper.