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Considering Service Factors in R&D Project Selection: Telecommunications and Broadcasting Convergence in Korea

  • Jun, Hyo-Jung;Kim, Tae-Sung;Yeon, Seung-Jun;Ha, Won-Gyu
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.36 no.6B
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    • pp.631-641
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    • 2011
  • Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) are now in commercial service, tearing down the traditional boundaries between the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors. These latest developments also hold important implications for research projects in related areas. Both telecommunications and broadcasting being fields with a strong service orientation, market demand should be the primary consideration when selecting research and development (R&D) projects in these areas. This study presents a process for selecting converged telecommunications-broadcasting technology development projects from a demand-oriented perspective, using criteria that are based on projected future demand characteristics. Aimed at increasing the efficiency of the R&D project selection process in telecommunications and broadcasting convergence, this study can point out new directions in R&D management in this field.

Design and Implementation of Hypertension HealthCare App. Using the N-Screen (N-Screen 고혈압환자 건강관리 앱 설계 및 구현)

  • Park, Jin-Woong;Choi, Jin-Woo;Kim, Tae-Min;Kim, Hyo-Min;Yang, Young-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2012.04a
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    • pp.912-915
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    • 2012
  • 현재 안드로이드 마켓에 등록된 고혈압을 주제로 개발 된 앱 들의 경우 혈압 데이터를 안드로이드 단일 환경에서만 관리 하였다. 이러한 문제점을 보완하여 본 연구는 스마트폰과 IPTV(Internet Protocol Television) 두 개의 다른 환경에서 고혈압환자 스스로가 혈압을 편리하게 관리 할 수 있도록 스마트폰 앱을 개발하여 데이터를 복수의 환경에서 관리 하는 것을 목적으로 한다.

Service Platform for Creating and Transmitting Complex Multimedia Disaster Information (다중매체 멀티미디어 재난정보 생성 및 전달 서비스 플랫폼)

  • Park, Hyunho;Kwon, Eunjung;Kim, Junghak;Jung, Eui-Suk;Lee, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Yong-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2017.06a
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    • pp.175-176
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    • 2017
  • 본 논문은 신속하고 정확한 재난정보 전달을 위해 재난 데이터를 수집하여 다중매체 특성에 맞추어 재난정보를 만들고 관리하는 다중매체 멀티미디어 재난정보 생성 및 전달 서비스 플랫폼을 제안한다. 제안하는 플랫폼은 지진, 태풍 등의 재난에 대해 측정 데이터를 정부 기관 및 지방자치단체를 통해 수집하면 재난의 규모, 위치, 시간, 대응 정보를 포함하는 재난정보를 CATV(Cable Television), IPTV(Internet Protocol Television) 등 다중매체 특성에 따라 생성하여 다중매체에 전달함으로써, 국민을 대상으로 매체의 특성에 독립적으로 일관되는 재난정보를 신속하고 정확하게 전달할 수 있다. 제안한 플랫폼을 통해 신속하고 정확하게 전달된 대국민 재난정보를 통해 재난에 대한 신속한 대국민 대응이 가능하여 재난 피해를 최소화할 수 있다.

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Forecasting Substitution and Competition among Previous and New products using Choice-based Diffusion Model with Switching Cost: Focusing on Substitution and Competition among Previous and New Fixed Charged Broadcasting Services (전환 비용이 반영된 선택 기반 확산 모형을 통한 신.구 상품간 대체 및 경쟁 예측: 신.구 유료 방송서비스간 대체 및 경쟁 사례를 중심으로)

  • Koh, Dae-Young;Hwang, Jun-Seok;Oh, Hyun-Seok;Lee, Jong-Su
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.223-252
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    • 2008
  • In this study, we attempt to propose a choice-based diffusion model with switching cost, which can be used to forecast the dynamic substitution and competition among previous and new products at both individual-level and aggregate level, especially when market data for new products is insufficient. Additionally, we apply the proposed model to the empirical case of substitution and competition among Analog Cable TV that represents previous fixed charged broadcasting service and Digital Cable TV and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) that are new ones, verify the validities of our proposed model, and finally derive related empirical implications. For empirical application, we obtained data from survey conducted as follows. Survey was administered by Dongseo Research to 1,000 adults aging from 20 to 60 living in Seoul, Korea, in May of 2007, under the title of 'Demand analysis of next generation fixed interactive broadcasting services'. Conjoint survey modified as follows, was used. First, as the traditional approach in conjoint analysis, we extracted 16 hypothetical alternative cards from the orthogonal design using important attributes and levels of next generation interactive broadcasting services which were determined by previous literature review and experts' comments. Again, we divided 16 conjoint cards into 4 groups, and thus composed 4 choice sets with 4 alternatives each. Therefore, each respondent faces 4 different hypothetical choice situations. In addition to this, we added two ways of modification. First, we asked the respondents to include the status-quo broadcasting services they subscribe to, as another alternative in each choice set. As a result, respondents choose the most preferred alternative among 5 alternatives consisting of 1 alternative with current subscription and 4 hypothetical alternatives in 4 choice sets. Modification of traditional conjoint survey in this way enabled us to estimate the factors related to switching cost or switching threshold in addition to the effects of attributes. Also, by using both revealed preference data(1 alternative with current subscription) and stated preference data (4 hypothetical alternatives), additional advantages in terms of the estimation properties and more conservative and realistic forecast, can be achieved. Second, we asked the respondents to choose the most preferred alternative while considering their expected adoption timing or switching timing. Respondents are asked to report their expected adoption or switching timing among 14 half-year points after the introduction of next generation broadcasting services. As a result, for each respondent, 14 observations with 5 alternatives for each period, are obtained, which results in panel-type data. Finally, this panel-type data consisting of $4{\ast}14{\ast}1000=56000$observations is used for estimation of the individual-level consumer adoption model. From the results obtained by empirical application, in case of forecasting the demand of new products without considering existence of previous product(s) and(or) switching cost factors, it is found that overestimated speed of diffusion at introductory stage or distorted predictions can be obtained, and as such, validities of our proposed model in which both existence of previous products and switching cost factors are properly considered, are verified. Also, it is found that proposed model can produce flexible patterns of market evolution depending on the degree of the effects of consumer preferences for the attributes of the alternatives on individual-level state transition, rather than following S-shaped curve assumed a priori. Empirically, it is found that in various scenarios with diverse combinations of prices, IPTV is more likely to take advantageous positions over Digital Cable TV in obtaining subscribers. Meanwhile, despite inferiorities in many technological attributes, Analog Cable TV, which is regarded as previous product in our analysis, is likely to be substituted by new services gradually rather than abruptly thanks to the advantage in low service charge and existence of high switching cost in fixed charged broadcasting service market.

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Consumer Associative Network Analysis on Device and Service Convergence

  • Han, Sangman;Lee, Janghyuk;Park, Sun-Young;Jo, Woonghyeon
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2013
  • Our research brings managerial insights for developing new digital convergence of devices and services. To explain the phenomenon of device and service convergence, we combine two different approaches from separate research fields: a perceptual mapping technique generally used for segmentation in marketing and associative network analysis mobilized to understanding network structure of core and peripheral as well as the information mediating role of nodes in network science. By combining these two approaches, we provide an in-depth analysis of the associations among devices and services by assessing the centrality of device and service nodes in an associative network. This is done by examining the connections between these services and devices as well as investigating the role of mediation in the combined device-service associative network. Our results based on bi-partite network analysis of survey responses from 250 Internet Protocol (IP) television viewers show which device and which service will play the major role in future device and service convergence as well as which characteristics and functionalities have to be incorporated into future convergence. Among the devices, the mobile handset with the betweenness centrality of 0.26 appears to be the device that would lead future device convergence. Among the services, wireless broadband with the betweenness centrality of 0.276 appears to be the service on which future service convergence needs to be developed. This result is quite unexpected, since wireless broadband has a lower penetration rate than other services, such as fixed broadband and cable TV. In addition, we indicate the possibility of converging devices, such as personal digital assistant (PDA) and mobile handset, and services, such as IPTV and mobile Internet, into wireless broadband services in the future.

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Legal Review of Regulatory Guidelines for Medical Advertisements Online (인터넷 의료광고의 규제방향에 대한 법적 검토)

  • Lee, Kyeoung-Kwon
    • The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.269-308
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    • 2008
  • The contemporary age is a period of PR for the self. Regardless of how good the quality of goods or services offered is, if it is not made known to the buyers, a sell is impossible. As a result, the contemporary man is flooded with advertisements and is living in a time of over-saturated information. This is not much different in the medical services sector, as it too is experiencing an overflow of information due to the expansion of advertisement approaches to include not only the previous positive-method, but also the negative-method. In tandem, recent advancements in electronics and information technology has made possible a rapid increase in then number of internet advertisements. However, outmoded medical law, which was created to regulate newspapers and billboards, is still being applied to regulate today's modem medical advertisements. At the same time, collateral ordinances such as "corrective statutes for signs and advertisements" are not sufficient in providing the necessary regulatory countermeasures. In the midst of all this, as IPTV is scheduled to be broadcast nationwide starting next year, and with the market for search advertisements and internet advertisements annually growing at a rapid pace, it has become evermore urgent to come up with an adequate regulatory measure. Consequently, it is necessary to look into the possibility of restricting the medium and content of internet medical advertisements as well as realistic schemes for its realization. In particular, regulatory measures that take into consideration the special characteristics of internet advertisements should be found, and the necessity of an prior deliberation procedure and the likelihood of introducing a certification system should be examined.

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The measurement-based analysis of the effect of CQI and BLER on the transmission rate of a LTE system (실측을 통한 CQI와 BLER가 LTE 시스템의 전송 속도에 미치는 영향 분석)

  • Kim, Beom-Joon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.9 no.12
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    • pp.1365-1372
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    • 2014
  • In recent, the LTE(Long-Term Evolution) mobile communication system has been commercialized and a variety of service is being provided. Comparing to the old wireless access systems such as 3G mobile communications, in particular, the LTE system supports a service requiring a high transmission rate by providing broadband wireless access. In order to understand the possibility of successful support of a multimedia service such as IPTV(Internet Protocol Television) through the LTE system, it is necessary to understand the mechanism that decides the transmission rate supported by the LTE system. This paper, therefore, discusses on the relationship between a number of metrics such as CQI and BLER that affects the transmission rate with the measurement results from the field tests.

H.264/AVC to MPEG-2 Video Transcoding by using Motion Vector Clustering (움직임벡터 군집화를 이용한 H.264/AVC에서 MPEG-2로의 비디오 트랜스코딩)

  • Shin, Yoon-Jeong;Son, Nam-Rye;Nguyen, Dinh Toan;Lee, Guee-Sang
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2010
  • The H.264/AVC is increasingly used in broadcast video applications such as Internet Protocol television (IPTV), digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) because of high compression performance. But the H.264/AVC coded video can be delivered to the widespread end-user equipment for MPEG-2 after transcoding between this video standards. This paper suggests a new transcoding algorithm for H.264/AVC to MPEG-2 transcoder that uses motion vector clustering in order to reduce the complexity without loss of video quality. The proposed method is exploiting the motion information gathered during h.264 decoding stage. To reduce the search space for the MPEG-2 motion estimation, the predictive motion vector is selected with a least distortion of the candidated motion vectors. These candidate motion vectors are considering the correlation of direction and distance of motion vectors of variable blocks in H.264/AVC. And then the best predictive motion vector is refined with full-search in ${\pm}2$ pixel search area. Compared with a cascaded decoder-encoder, the proposed transcoder achieves computational complexity savings up to 64% with a similar PSNR at the constant bitrate(CBR).

TOSS: Telecom Operations Support Systems for Broadband Services

  • Chen, Yuan-Kai;Hsu, Chang-Ping;Hu, Chung-Hua;Lin, Rong-Syh;Lin, Yi-Bing;Lyu, Jian-Zhi;Wu, Wudy;Young, Hey-Chyi
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2010
  • Due to the convergence of voice, data, and video, today's telecom operators are facing the complexity of service and network management to offer differentiated value-added services that meet customer expectations. Without the operations support of well-developed Business Support System/Operations Support System (BSS/OSS), it is difficult to timely and effectively provide competitive services upon customer request. In this paper, a suite of NGOSS-based Telecom OSS (TOSS) is developed for the support of fulfillment and assurance operations of telecom services and IT services. Four OSS groups, TOSS-P (intelligent service provisioning), TOSS-N (integrated large-scale network management), TOSS-T (trouble handling and resolution), and TOSS-Q (end-to-end service quality management), are organized and integrated following the standard telecom operation processes (i.e., eTOM). We use IPTV and IP-VPN operation scenarios to show how these OSS groups co-work to support daily business operations with the benefits of cost reduction and revenue acceleration.

Improving the Ownership Regulation in the Broadcasting Industry (방송사업의 소유겸영규제 개선)

  • LEE, Suil
    • KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.85-118
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    • 2011
  • This paper uses the horizontal regulation system as the base analysis framework. The study clearly defines the regulatory goals of the followings: the horizontal cross-ownership regulations on program provider (PP) and platform provider, the vertical regulation on cross-ownership between PP and platform operator, the regulation on cross-ownership of program provider by terrestrial broadcasting company, and the regulation on cross-ownership between terrestrial broadcasting company and platform provider. Then, by analyzing the conformity between goals and criteria of regulations and the adequacy of the regulation level according to regulatory purposes, this paper examines the justifiability of each regulation and extracts improvement measures that suite regulatory purposes. This analysis finds following appropriate measures: replacing the horizontal cross-ownership regulation on PP with conduct regulations, such as designating major broadcasting programs or replacing the current criterion of cross-ownership regulation from sales to the audience market share; reshaping the horizontal cross-ownership regulation on platform provider so that system operator (SO), satellite broadcaster and Internet protocol television (IPTV) operator would be applied by the same regulation based on the number of subscribers of pay television services; and discontinuing other cross-ownership regulation. In this way, the study shows that with appropriate regulations on cross-ownership of PP, there would be no need for additional regulation on vertical integration between PP and platform operator. On the other hand, given that the regulation on terrestrial broadcasting cross-ownership of PP could be justified only by regulatory purpose of the protection of the diversity of public opinions, it would be desirable to replace the current criteria of the number of PPs with the criteria of the audience market share. Lastly, the study shows that when platform operator is targeted by the cross-ownership regulation based on the number of subscribers of pay television services, the regulation on cross-ownership between terrestrial broadcasting company and platform provider should be replaced with conduct regulations, such as designating must-offer channels and major broadcasting programs.

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