• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.78-91
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• 2012

The Terrestrial DTV service compliant with ATSC has been advancing for years. In KBA(Korean Broadcasters Association), a multi-channel service was broadcasted on air during the period of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany with the various type of MMS(Multi Mode Service) using MPEG-2 encoding method. MMS Service can provides not only one HD channel but also serveral additional services within 6MHz bandwidth. Using digital video compression technology(MPEG-2), many various programs such as HDTV, SDTV, Audio and Data are able to be transmitted within the same bandwidth. From November 2009, KBS has been preparing an advanced MMS service, 'Korea-View' which has both methods of encoding, MPEG-2 and H.264 that is compliant ATSC mobile standard, A/153. Korea-View is a kind of multi-channel broadcast service to provide one HD and 3 SD programs with the bandwidth of 6MHz. Terrestrial multi-channel service is required to focuse on expanding viewer service. Such Terrestrial multi-channel services will contribute to transferring to digital broadcasting and to extending the viewers' welfare. Due to advances in digital technology, Pay-TV channels has increased to hundreds. Even though digital switchover is being proceeded, terrestrial broadcasters have been unable to deliver multi-channel services. In this paper, technical features and differences of MMS and Koreaview will be analyzed regarding terrestrial multi-channel broadcasting services, and the politic direction will be proposed in accordance with introduction of future service.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.1063-1070
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• 2014

Currently, The terrestrial MMS(Multi Mode Service) is considering to be adapted in the Korea. The objective and subjective video quality test was carried out to verify the current TV channel's video quality degradation by the MMS. In the objective assessment, MMS system showed better PSNR than current system. In the subjective assesment result, It's hard to find the perceive video quality degradation at overall assesment. Even though, The MMS's video quality will be improved at the documentary and entertainment genre. Comparing with the previous research at 2006 and 2008, It's the time to give the benefit of broadcasting technology to the people.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.50-52
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• 2011

지상파 디지털방송 표준인 미국의 ATSC 서비스가 진화를 하고 있다. 2006년 한국방송협회는 독일 월드컵 방송당시 지상파 다채널방송인 MMS(Multi-Mode-Service) 시험방송을 실시하였다. MMS 시험방송은 화질열화 및 수신기 오동작 논란으로 중단되었고 KBS는 2009년부터 다채널이 가능한 코리아뷰(Korea-View) 방송을 준비하고 있다. 코리아뷰의 압축방식은 MPEG-2와 MPEG-4를 혼합한 방식으로 미국의 모바일방송 표준(A/153)과 동일한 방식이다. 이번 논문에서는 MMS, 코리아 뷰의 지상파 다채널방송 서비스에 대한 기술적 특징과 차이를 분석하고 향후 서비스 도입에 따른 정책적 방향을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.775-781
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• 2015

EBS started 2HD MMS experimental broadcasting for the first time in Korea on Feb. 11, 2015. It uses the picture compression technique based on MPEG-2 CODEC, and applies the result of the experiment about variable bit rates and changes according to the scanning types, 1080i and 720p. But when changing channels, the delay in displaying picture occurs because of the operation of the variable GOP on MMS broadcasting, which optimizes image quality by application variable bit rates. In this study, verified the relationship between the decoding time of I frames and the GOP set in the encoding step by experimenting and analyzing ON-AIR TS. By using the verification data and adjusts the Encoder GOP parameters, improved the different video display time delays according to the scanning mode 1080i and 720p.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.316-319
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 그 동안 국내 지상파 DTV 방송의 임시대역으로 사용해 오던 Ch.61~69(752~806MHz)를 포함한 700MHz 대역의 주파수 Ch.52~69(698~806MHz)를 지상파방송 디지털전환 이후 경매에 의해 통신에 할당하려는 방송통신위원회의 정책 추진에 대한 기술적, 정책적 타당성을 분석하고, 디지털 방송에서의 주파수 필요성과 상관성을 비교하여 바람직한 주파수 정책에 대한 방향을 모색하고자 하였다. 디지털 방송의 경우 이 대역에서 차세대방송용으로 활용할 계획을 가지고 있으며 방송 콘텐츠산업과 디스플레이산업의 발전 촉매제로 간주하고 있다. UDTV(Ultra-HDTV) 및 Full-HD 3DTV 를 비롯하여 HD 혹은 Full-HD MMS(Multi Mode Service) 서비스와 무안경식 3DTV, 홀로그래피 3DTV 와 같은 차세대방송 환경 구축을 위해서는 우선 700MHz 대역의 주파수의 추가 확보와 정책적 지원의 필요성이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선통신과 방송분야의 주파수 요구 내용을 비교함으로써 바람직한 주파수 할당 정책에 대한 대안을 제시하였다.