• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.151-159
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a new peer grouping scheme to consider locality among peers using TTL values in P2P-based IPTV systems. This scheme can select neighbor peers to minimize the number of intermediate routers between each pair of peers. Thus, it can save the network bandwidth as much as the amount of data that the reduced number of routers should transmit In addition, we have conducted various simulation experiments to show that our proposed TTL-based peer grouping scheme can outperform the conventional RTT-based grouping scheme. The experimental results show that our proposed scheme can reduce the jitter ratio as well as the number of data and control packets that all routers should transmit.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.1814-1829
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• 2011

In this paper, we present a model-based video bit rate estimation scheme for reducing the bit rate while maintaining a given target quality in many video streaming services limited by network bandwidth, such as IPTV services. Each item of video content can be stored on a video streaming server and delivered with the estimated bit rate using the proposed scheme, which consists of the following two steps: 1) In the first step, the complexity of each intra-frame in a given item of video content is computed as a frame feature to extract a group of candidate frames with a lot of bits. 2) In the second step, the bit rate of the video content is determined by applying statistical analysis and hypothesis testing to that group. The experimental results show that our scheme can reduce the bit rate by up to 78% with negligible degradation of subjective quality, especially with the low-complexity videos commonly used in IPTV services.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.161-174
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• 2009

IPTV provides their services only for their subscribers who have a eligibility to watch it by using Conditional Access System(CAS). CAS has been servicing their contents for subscribers by using set-top box or cable card so far, but these days, to solve the compatibility between kinds of devices, linkage with other services as DRM and confirming stability, the research of Downloadable CAS(DCAS) is being advanced steadily. On this paper, we analyse the vulnerability of DCAS based on the OpenCable and make up for the vulnerability in DCAS, then proposes to use secure DCAS system for IPTV. Also we show the result of the research and analyse the satisfaction of requirements.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.49-57
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• 2012

The Internet succeeded because of the end-to-end principle which allowed anyone to add functionality to the network. However, as the internet is increasingly becoming the platform for smart IT applications such as VoIP, IPTV, Cloud Computing and Smart Phone, networks are now under increasing strain of traffic congestion and the absence of quality of service insurances. To date, the debate over internet rules has focused on network neutrality rather than network efficiency. This article emphasizes the well-functioning role of market mechanism for the efficient use and further development of the network. To maximize the value of the network, this article proposes a differential treatment to packets based on customer types, and a two-part tariff pricing rule to secure funding to expand and upgrade networks.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.414-416
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• 2010

현재 인터넷 공급업체(ISP)에서는 IPTV제공을 위하여 IP Multicast 제공이 가능한 망을 구성하여 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 특히, 오픈형 IPTV 서비스를 위해서 기존의 IP Network에서 제공해야 한다. 이는 IP Multicast를 지원하지 않는 기존의 장비들에 대한 문제점을 고려하여야 한다. 오버레이 멀티캐스트(Overlay-Multicast)는 IP Multicast의 단점을 보완하기위한 메커니즘이다. 실시간 비디오 스트리밍 서비스를 위해서는 오버레이 멀티캐스트 트리의 최적화가 요구된다. 트리기반의 오버레이 멀티캐스트에서 각 노드들은 부모 노드와 자식 노드와 QoS/QoE를 보장해 주어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 오버레이 멀티캐스트 트리의 QoS/QoE를 보장하기 위해 Bandwith를 측정하여 Out-degree Level을 조절하는 Dynamic Degree Change 기법을 적용한 실시간 오버레이 멀티캐스트 비디오 스트리밍 시스템을 모델링하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.250-253
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• 2009

This paper presents NR (No Reference) Quality assessment method for IPTV or mobile IPTV. Because No Reference quality assessment method does not access the original signal so it is suitable for the real-time streaming service. Our proposed method use decoding parameters, such as quantization parameter, motion vector, and packet loss as a major network parameter. To evaluate performance of the proposed algorithm, we carried out subjective test of video quality with the ITU-T P.910 ACR (Absolute Category Rating) method and obtained the mean opinion score (MOS) value for QVGA 180 video sequence coded by H.264/AVC encoder. Experimental results show the proposed quality metric has a high correlation (84%) to subjective quality.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.4 no.6
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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.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.53-62
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• 2008

Intensive studies have been made in the area of IPTV VOD server. The basic goal of the study is to find an efficient mechanism to allow maximum number of users under the limited resources such as Buffer utilization, disk performance and network bandwidth. The overlay multicast that has been recently presented as an alternative for the IP multicast has been getting much persuasion by the system resource and the network bandwidth and the advancement of the network cost. we propose a efficient overlay multi_casting network policy for multimedia services with multi media partition storage. Simulation results show that the rate of service number and service time of proposed scheme are about 23% performance improved than that of traditional methods. This implies that our method can allow much more users for given resources.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.998-1002
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• 2009

In IPTV multicast architecture, the IGMP(Internet Group Management Protocol) is used for access networks. This protocol supports the functionality of join or leave for a specific multicast channel group. But, malicious attackers can disturb legitimate users being served appropriately. By using spoofed IGMP messages, attackers can hi-jack the premium channel, wasting bandwidth and exhausting the IGMP router's resources. To prevent the message spoofing, we can introduce the packet-level authentication methods. But, it causes the additional processing overhead to an IGMP processing router, so that the router is more susceptible to the flooding attacks. In this paper, we propose the two-level authentication scheme in order to mitigate the IGMP flooding attack.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.53-65
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• 2010

Conditional Access System (CAS) is a core security mechanism of IPTV SCP (Service and Content Protection) which enables only authenticated user to be able to watch the broadcasting contents. In the past, it was general that CAS was built in Set-Top Box (STB) as hardware or as a detachable cable card. However, numerous researches in Downloadable CAS (DCAS), where users can download CAS code in their STB through their network, have been recently conducted widely due to the lack of security and scalability problem. In this paper, the security requirements of OpenCable based DCAS which is typical example of downloadable IPTV SCP will be derived, the novel authentication and key management scheme will be proposed by using the Authentication Proxy (AP) which is the core DCAS. Also, the benefits of the proposed system will be evaluated by comparison and analysis with preceding research.