• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.353-362
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• 2015

In order to provide smart devices with high quality multimedia streaming services, an adaptive streaming technique over HTTP has been received much attention recently and the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard has been established. In DASH, however, the technique to select an appropriate quality of multimedia based on the performance metrics measured in a smart device might have some difficulties to reflect the capabilities of other neighboring smart devices and dynamic network conditions in real time. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a novel software agent approach, called DASH agent (DA), which gathers and analyzes the device capabilities and dynamic network conditions in real time and finally determines the highest achievable quality of segment to meet the best Quality of Experience (QoE) in current situations. The simulation results show that our approach provides higher quality of multimedia segments with less frequency of quality changes to lower quality of multimedia segments.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

본고에서는 스마트 TV의 대표적인 서비스인 OTT(Over-The-Top)서비스의 전송 방법 중 최근에 가장 주목을 받고 있는 HTTP에 기초한 적응적 스트리밍 기술을 알아본다. 먼저, 최근 MPEG등 각 표준단체에서 진행되고 있는 HTTP 스트리밍 기술의 표준화 범위 및 진행 상황에 대해서 살펴보고, 표준화 범위 중 핵심이 되는 메타데이타 파일 구조 및 청크 단위의 전송 포맷 및 기존 시스템 포맷의 확장 사항 등에 대해서 설명한다. 마지막으로 MPEG DASH(Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP)의 basic on-demand profile에 기초한 구현 내용 및 결과를 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.340-342
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• 2018

최근 네트워크 기술과 스마트 단말의 보급으로 인해 비디오 스트리밍 서비스에 대한 수요가 증가하게 되었다. 네트워크를 효율적으로 사용하여 비디오 스트리밍 서비스를 제공하기 위해 적응적으로 전송률을 조절하는 HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) 적응적 스트리밍 서비스가 주목 받게 되었다. UHD (Ultra High Definition) 콘텐츠는 HD (High Definition) 콘텐츠에 비해 적어도 4 배 이상의 크기를 갖기 때문에 끊김 없는 UHD 콘텐츠 스트리밍 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 많은 가용 대역폭이 필요하다. 기존의 HTTP 적응적 스트리밍 방식은 정상 상태 (Steady State)에서 가용 대역폭보다 낮은 품질의 비디오 세그먼트를 일정 시간마다 주기적으로 요청하여 다운로드 받는다. 정상 상태에서는 가용 대역폭과 콘텐츠의 인코딩 율에 차이에 따라 On-Off 구간의 패턴이 반복되어 발생하고, 빈번한 Off 구간에 의해서 대역폭이 낭비되는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 HTTP 적응적 스트리밍에서 UHD 콘텐츠의 효율적인 대역폭 활용을 위한 세그먼트 전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 Off 구간의 빈도수를 줄이기 위한 집단 세그먼트 전송 방식과 대역폭 낭비를 최소화 하기 위한 세그먼트 품질 조절기법으로 구성되어 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.312-318
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• 2017

In recent years, a high-quality video input device has been generalized, and a central control system capable of simultaneously viewing video input in real time has become an essential element. At this time, there are attempts to access through the web without installing the program separately. However, if multiple high-quality videos are simultaneously viewed through the web browser, the web browser is terminated by force. In this paper, we propose a web-based HLS(HTTP Live Streaming) multi-view system for real-time high-definition video. We have reconstructed the multi-view screen as a screen by transcoding and implemented a system that can monitor multiple video inputs through a web browser on the fly without using security vulnerability ActiveX.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.3856-3872
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• 2018

HTTP-based adaptive streaming (HAS) has recently been widely deployed on the Internet. In the HAS system, a video content is encoded at multiple bitrates and the encoded video content is segmented into small parts of fixed durations. The HAS client requests a video segment and stores it in the playout buffer. The rate adaptation algorithm employed in HAS clients dynamically determines the video bitrate depending on the time-varying bandwidth. Many studies have shown that an efficient rate adaptation algorithm is critical to ensuring quality-of-experience in HAS systems. However, existing algorithms have problems estimating the network bandwidth because bandwidth estimation is performed on the client-side application stack. Without the help of transport layer protocols, it is difficult to achieve accurate bandwidth estimation due to the inherent segment-based transmission of the HAS. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach that utilizes the playout buffer occupancy rather than using bandwidth estimates obtained from the application layer. We start with a queueing analysis of the playout buffer. Then, we present a buffer-aware rate adaptation algorithm that is solely based on the mean buffer occupancy. Our simulation results show that compared to conventional algorithms, the proposed algorithm achieves very smooth video quality while delivering a similar average video bitrate.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.826-836
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• 2016

Increase of hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)-based video popularity causes that broadband and Internet service providers' links transmit mainly multimedia content. Network planning, traffic engineering or congestion control requires understanding of the statistical properties of network traffic; therefore, it is desirable to investigate the characteristic of traffic traces generated, among others, by systems which employ adaptive bit-rate streaming. In our work, we investigate traffic originating from 120 client-server pairs, situated in an emulated laboratory environment, and multiplexed onto a single network link. We show that the structure of the traffic is distinct from the structure generated by first and second generation of HTTP video systems, and furthermore, not similar to the structure of general Internet traffic. The obtained traffic exhibits negative correlations, anti-persistence, and its distribution function is skewed to the right. Furthermore, we show that the traffic generated by clients employing the same or similar play-out strategies is positively correlated and synchronised (clustered), whereas traffic originated from different play-out strategies shows negative or no correlations.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1182-1194
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• 2018

The Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP(DASH) is envisioned to evolve to meet an increasing demand on providing seamless video streaming services in the near future. The DASH performance heavily depends on the client's adaptive quality selection algorithm that is not included in the standard. The existing conventional algorithms are basically based on a procedural algorithm that is not easy to capture and reflect all variations of dynamic network and traffic conditions in a variety of network environments. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel quality selection mechanism based on the Deep Q-Network(DQN) model, the DQN-based DASH Adaptive Bitrate(ABR) mechanism. The proposed mechanism adopts a new reward calculation method based on five major performance metrics to reflect the current conditions of networks and devices in real time. In addition, the size of the consecutive video segment to be downloaded is also considered as a major learning metric to reflect a variety of video encodings. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism quickly selects a suitable video quality even in high error rate environments, significantly reducing frequency of quality changes compared to the existing algorithm and simultaneously improving average video quality during video playback.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2016

In this paper, the dynamic buffering based smart OTT platform was proposed, and analyzed for adaptive bit-rate video delivery with the optimization of HLS (HTTP Live Streaming). This platform consists of the software platform between sever and client which detects the bandwidth capacity, and adjusts the quality of the streaming for multiple bit-rates resolutions. In order to apply adaptive buffering, two buffers are added to the basic HLS player, and each buffer is responsible for constantly buffering a previous and the next channels relative to the current channel. This adaptive transmitting with smart OTT platform is superior to delivering a static video file at a single buffering, because the video stream of adaptive double buffers can be switched streaming according to client's available network speed. As a result, this proposed smart OTT can be cooperated to the application of HLS server with segmented H.265 MPEG-2 TS video & m3u8 files with its information based on the optimized transmission channel state of live and VOD, and applied to PLC transmission, too.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1249-1265
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• 2022

Video streaming has become one of the most popular applications for mobile devices. The network bandwidth required for video streaming continues to exponentially increase as video quality increases and the user base grows. Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP), which allows devices to communicate simultaneously through multiple network interfaces, is one of the solutions for providing robust and reliable streaming of such high-definition video. However, mobile video streaming over MPTCP raises new concerns, e.g., power consumption and cellular data usage, since mobile device resources are constrained, and users prefer to minimize such costs. In this work, we propose a mobile video streaming framework over MPTCP (mDASH) to reduce the costs of energy and cellular data usage while preserving feasible streaming quality. Our evaluation results show that by utilizing knowledge about video behavior, mDASH can reduce energy consumption by up to around 20%, and cellular usage by 15% points, with minimal quality degradation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.115-121
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• 2013

Recently an extension to DMB AF (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Application Format) standard has been proposed in such a way that the extended DMB AF can include stereoscopic video and stereoscopic images for interactive service data, i.e., MPEG-4 BIFS (Binary Format for Scene) data, in addition to the existing 2D video and 2D images for BIFS services. In this paper we developed a service that provides the streaming of 3D contents in DMB AF by using MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) standard and validated it by implementing the client software.