• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.213-219
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• 2017

Recently, the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services have become very common, enabling various Internet-based services as well as watching TV. In the IPTV system, a Set-Top box (STB) plays a key role as a network terminal device that transmits and receives realtime multimedia contents. In addition, the IPTV networks are usually supported by broadband optical fiber-base network such as fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), However, a general IPTV STB is regarded as one of the local area network (LAN)-attached devices while sharing the bandwidth of the LAN (e.g., Ethernet). In order to overcome the limited bandwidth utilization by fully facilitating the broadband bandwidth (e.g., 1 Gbps) of the optical fiber-based network, we propose a new FC (Fiber Channel)-embedded IPTV STB which can be directly attached to the optical fiber network. Then, we verify that the impacts of the proposed FC-embedded IPTV STB by organizing the the FC-AL (Fiber Channel-Arbitration Loop) network equipped with the FC-embedded IPTV We measures the average Start-up Delay, Average Reject Ratio and the Number of Concurrent Users through extensive simulations to investigate the performances of the suggested FC-AL-based IPTV network. Surprisingly, the IPTV network architecture with the proposed FC-embedded IPTV STBs has an excellent average start-up delay of less than 10 msec, an acceptable average reject ratio of less than 3 % as well as a linear increase of the number of concurrent users when extending the architecture. This reveals that the proposed FC embedded STB has a superior impacts on the performance of the entire IPTV network by effectively utilizing the broadband bandwidth of the fiber optic-based network.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.179-185
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• 2015

In this paper, we research the IPTV that is the convergence technique of TV and network technique and performed the performance evaluation of picture quality of IPTV in the situation of increasing the network traffic in the Internet environment. To do this, we constructed the mock Internet network similar to the real Internet environment and measured the quality of received video using V-Factor model according to the increase of network traffic, and analyzed the result of the experiment. Making use of the result of this paper for the threshold value of V-Factor, the measured factor of network performance, the measured factor of video performance in the watchable IPTV video quality.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.17-23
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• 2007

The home network has been revitalized due to the emergence of the high-speed broadband network and explosive increases of the home network services. Especially multicast based high-definition (HD) IPTV service is on high demand from both Internet service provider (ISP) and users. In order to provide high quality HD IPTV service without packet loss and delay, the ISP utilizes various network QoS mechanisms. Due to the misleading fact, that the home gateway is considered as an end terminal in terms of the ISP's viewpoint, the ISPs can not guarantee the end-to-end QoS within the scope of the current home network architecture. Therefore, an independent QoS guaranteed mechanism should be considered within the home network domain. As the home gateway manages both private home and public access network within the home network, we propose and implement a novel QoS mechanism for the multicast based HD IPTV service over the home gateway. In order to provide QoS guaranteed HD IPTV service, the proposed mechanism classifies the packets, manages home network bandwidth resources, and executes call admission control using the channel join message. Also, we utilize layer 2 multicast packet forwarding scheme to improve the overall performance of the home network services. Through the experiments of implementing the multicast based HD IPTV services, we will verify the efficiency of the proposed mechanism.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.133-153
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• 2012

This study explores the factors influencing user satisfaction of mobile IPTV and their relationship. We formulate the research model based on characteristics of mobile device and IPTV. Responsiveness, contents satisfaction, price satisfaction, aesthetic simplicity, network quality are proposed as essential antecedents of mobile IPTV satisfaction. We also suggest network quality and gender as moderators. Our data analysis with 297 mobile IPTV users shows contents and price have significant positive effect on mobile IPTV satisfaction. Network quality shows positive moderation effect on the relationship between responsiveness and satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.156-166
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• 2010

Development of IP network technology creates new service which applying to fusion technologies such as IPTV, VoIP, and so on. Especially, Next generation IP is called IPv6 which will solve the lack of IP. IPv6 is very important on IPTV which needs best quality of service about security, QoS, and bandwidth. In this paper, we constructed experimental network, measured PSNR which computes the peak signal-to-reconstructed video measurement in experimental network environment, analyzed PSNR value. And as a result of measurement, we, Propose optimum network environment for IPTV service provider and transition mechanism designer.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.5 s.347
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• pp.24-34
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• 2006

The broadband access network is a worldwide trend and the related IPTV service is booming. However, the IPTV deployment has been delayed in Korea because of the business relationship between the communication and broadcasting area and the lack of the related laws. As a means to the development of FTTH-based high-quality service platform and next-generation equipment, ETRI has been building own FTTH service center with a network operation center and IPTV service equipments, also connecting it with commercial FTTH infrastructures made by network operators. In this paper, we describe the related technologies about FTTH-based IPTV testbed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.4125-4132
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• 2011

The research of image quality estimation standard and the image quality change according to the network traffic load increase at IPTV multicasting service is necessary because the concern of IPTV(Internet Protocol TV) service become active recently. In the research, for finding out the threshold value of network performance elements giving the effect to the image quality according to the network traffic load, we developed S/W to operate the test bed network and make the test scenario through test bed network test and then we expand the test environment scope to the college network and try to measure the image quality change of IPTV multicasting service according to the network traffic load increase at the college network similar to the real IPTV service environment.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.31-37
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• 2012

Hierarchical network 기술은 다양한 크기의 이동통신 셀들이 서로 중첩된 환경에서 무선 용량 증대 및 셀 커버리지 확대를 위한 차세대 통신 기술이다. 모바일 IPTV는 IPTV에 이동성이 더해진 기술로서 이동통신망을 이용하여 언제, 어디서나 고품질의 TV 및 VoD, 데이터 서비스를 제공한다. 본고에서는 IEEE 802.16 기반의 hierarchical network 및 모바일 IPTV 기술의 연구동향을 살펴보고 두 기술의 공존 가능성 측면에서의 고려 사항에 대해 기술한다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.465-471
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• 2016

An IPTV has emerged as a widespread system when a realtime network and broadcasting system have progressed. Interestingly, it can also be organized with IPTV STBs and FC-AL for a high-quality TV content-sharing architecture. It is, however, not easy to configure a large community network with the FC-AL since it only has a 7-bit address space with supporting up to 127 users in the FC-AL single loop. We, therefore, propose an extendible FC-AL-based IPTV network architecture using a FC switch device. In this article, our suggested architecture shows a superb startup delay, such as less than 20msec. In addition, it demonstrates outstanding extendibility, such that the number of accomodable users increases almost linearly according to adding loops. Lastly, it reveals exceptional time-shifting hours, i. e., which supports more than 140 hours with 1000 users.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.4B
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• pp.232-241
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• 2008

In this paper, for analysing the major factors giving the effect to the quality of video on the multicasting service of IPTV, we construct the lab test network environment similar to the real IPTV service network environment. We measure the quality of video on the multicasting of IPTV generating and increasing the broadcasting traffic on the situation that apply the QoS technique to the test lab network and not apply the QoS technique and then find out the threshold value of factors giving the effect to the quality of video on the multicasting service of IPTV. This paper can be used in basic date for guaranteeing the constant video quality on the multicasting service of IPTV.