• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.303-309
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• 2016

This paper presents a channel-adaptive rate control algorithm for low delay video coding. The main goal of the proposed method is to adaptively use the unknown available channel bandwidth while reducing the end-to-end delay between encoder and decoder. The key idea of the proposed algorithm is for the status of the encoder buffer to indirectly reflect the mismatch between the available channel bandwidth and the generated bitrate. Hence, the proposed method fully utilizes the unknown available channel bandwidth by monitoring the encoder buffer status. Simulation results show that although the target bitrate mismatches the available channel bandwidth, the encoder efficiently adapts the given available bandwidth to improve the peak signal-to-noise ratio.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1152-1168
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• 2010

Recently, due to the prevalence of various mobile devices and wireless broadband networks, there has been a significant increase in interest and demand for multimedia streaming services such as the mobile IPTV. In such a wireless broadband network, transmitting a continuous stream of multimedia data is difficult to achieve due to mobile stations (MSs) movement. Providing Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia video streaming applications requires the server and/or client to be network-aware and adaptive. Therefore, in order to deploy a mobile IPTV service in wireless broadband networks, offering users efficient wireless resource utilization and seamlessly offering user perceived QoS are important issues. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive streaming scheme, called MARC (Mobile-aware Adaptive Rate Control), which adjusts the quality of bit-stream and transmission rate of video streaming based on the wireless channel status and network status. The proposed scheme can control the rate of multimedia streaming to be suitable for the wireless channel status by using awareness information of the wireless channel quality and the mobile station location. The proposed scheme can provide a seamless multimedia playback service in wireless broadband networks in addition to improving the QoS of multimedia streaming services. The proposed MARC scheme alleviates the discontinuity of multimedia playback and allocates a suitable client buffer to the wireless broadband network. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.276-280
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• 2017

This paper presents computationally efficient image compression for wireless transmission of high-definition video, to adaptively utilize available channel bandwidth and improve image quality. The method indirectly predicts an unknown available channel bandwidth by monitoring encoder buffer status, and adaptively controls a quantization parameter to fully utilize the bandwidth. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to variations in channel bandwidth.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2011

In this paper, a multi-channel speech enhancement method using the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) algorithm and a variable learning rate control is proposed. To control the learning rate for adaptive filters of the LCMV algorithm, the direction of arrival (DOA) is measured for each short-time input signal and the likelihood function of the target speech presence is estimated to control the filter learning rate. Using the likelihood measure, the learning rate is increased during the pure noise interval and decreased during the target speech interval. To optimize the parameter of the mapping function between the likelihood value and the corresponding learning rate, an exhaustive search is performed using the Bark's scale distortion (BSD) as the performance index. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional LCMV with fixed learning rate in the BSD by around 1.5 dB.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권2B호
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• pp.334-344
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• 2010

최근 들어 다양한 휴대 단말과 광대역 무선네트워크의 보급으로 인해 인터넷을 통한 다양한 멀티미디어 스트리밍 서비스에 상당한 관심과 수요가 증가하고 있다. 하지만, 단말 이동시 연속적인 멀티미디어 스트리밍 데이터 전송이 어려운 문제를 가지고 있다. 그래서, 광대역 무선네트워크내 Mobile IPTV 서비스 보급에 있어, 효율적인 무선 자원 활용 및 사용자에게 원활한 QoE (Quality of Experience)를 제공하는 것은 중요한 이슈이다. 본 논문에서는 무선 채널 상태를 인지하여 비디오의 전송률과 품질을 조절하는 네트워크 기반의 품질 적응 스트리밍 기법인 Mobile Adaptive Rate Control (MARC) 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 스트리밍 서비스의 품질 향상 이외에도 단말의 이동환경에서 끊김 없는 비디오 재생을 보장 할 수 있도록 무선 채널 상태를 인지하여 현재 무선 채널 및 단말 위치에 적합한 스트리밍 비디오를 전송한다. 제안한 MARC 기법은 광대역 무선 네트워크에서 비디오 재생의 불연속성을 제거하고 안정된 버퍼 할당을 보였다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 제안한 방법의 유효성을 확인하였다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.523-531
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 패킷 손실 채널로의 전송을 위한 비디오 부호기의 소스/채널 부호화율 통합 제어 방식을 제안한다. 비디오 전송 시스템의 지연 제약에 따른 소스 부호화율 상한을 구하고, 부호화되거나 스킵된 화면에 대한 소스 왜곡과 패킷 손실에 의한 채널 왜곡을 기반으로 일정 부호화 구간에 대한 평균 왜곡을 정의한다. 주어진 채널률과 패킷 손실률에 대해 비디오 부호화 계수와 FEC 블록 크기를 제어계수로 하는 평균 왜곡 최소화 문제를 정의하고, 실시간 해결 알고리즘을 제안한다. 모의실험에서 제안방식은 40% 이하의 패킷 손실률과 30 프레임 이상의 인트라 매크로블럭 갱신률에서 TMN8에 비해 PSNR과 주관적 화질에서 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.437-444
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• 2003

We derive a new joint power and rate control rule with which we can minimize the mean transmission delay in CDMA networks for a given mean transmission power. We show that it is optimal to respectively control the power inverse-linearly and the rate linearly to the square root of channel gain while maintaining the signal-to-interference ratio at a constant. We also show that the proposed joint power/rate control rule achieves excellent performance results in terms of the probability of the instantaneous delay being within a target delay against one-dimensional control schemes.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.668-672
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• 2009

In wireless ad-hoc network, knowing the available bandwidth of the time varying channel is imperative for live video streaming applications. This is because the available bandwidth is varying all the time and strictly limited against the large data size of video streaming. Additionally, adapting the encoding rate to the suitable bit-rate for the network, where an overlarge encoding rate induces congestion loss and playback delay, decreases the loss and delay. While some effective rate controlling methods have been proposed and simulated well like VTP (Video Transport Protocol) [1], implementing to cooperate with the encoder and tuning the parameters are still challenging works. In this paper, we show our result of the implementation experiment of VTP based encoding rate controlling method and then introduce some techniques of our parameter tuning for a video streaming application over wireless environment.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.489-498
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• 2005

For better performance over a noisy channel, mobile wireless networks transmit packets with forward error correction (FEC) code to recover corrupt bits without retransmission. The static determination of the FEC code size, however, degrades their performance since the evaluation of the underlying channel state is hardly accurate and even widely varied. Our measurements over a wireless sensor network, for example, show that the average bit error rate (BER) per second or per minute continuously changes from 0 up to $10^{-3}$. Under this environment, wireless networks waste their bandwidth since they can't deterministically select the appropriate size of FEC code matching to the fluctuating channel BER. This paper proposes an adaptive FEC technique called adaptive FEC code control (AFECCC), which dynamically tunes the amount of FEC code per packet based on the arrival of acknowl­edgement packets without any specific information such as signal to noise ratio (SNR) or BER from receivers. Our simulation experiments indicate that AFECCC performs better than any static FEC algorithm and some conventional dynamic hybrid FEC/ARQ algorithms when wireless channels are modeled with two-state Markov chain, chaotic map, and traces collected from real sensor networks. Finally, AFECCC implemented in sensor motes achieves better performance than any static FEC algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.342-345
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• 2004

An efficient hybrid ARQ scheme based on the rate compatible block turbo codes has been proposed, and its performance has been analyzed. System efficiency is improved by means of adaptive rate code transmission using channel information, trading off bit rate for channel codes, with resulting energy saving. The rate adaptation scheme improves power efficiency while keeping packet delay minimized. On the other hand, power dependant strategies reduce power consumption. Simulation results show that the benefits obtained are very encouraging. The modified hybrid ARQ schemes with the channel information and efficient retransmission structures highly improve the throughput performance in the satellite communication system. Therefore, proposed schemes could be used in future communication systems.