• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.436-449
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• 2016

This paper compares the transport overhead of MMT (MPEG Media Transport) with that of MPEG-2 TS (Transport Stream). MPEG-2 TS is globally used in multiplexing compressed audio and video data in digital broadcast industry, including areas of DTV (Digital Television), IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), and DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting). It was the early 1990s when MPEG-2 TS standard was established. After more than two decades of years since its first establishment, many parts of MPEG-2 TS turned out to be inappropriate to today's broadcast and communication environment. Given the situations, in 2014 MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 29/WG 11) standardized MMT as the next-generation multimedia transport standard hopefully that can replace MPEG-2 TS. In this paper, with assumptions of broadcast service scenarios we applied both MMT and MPEG-2 TS to each scenario and we calculated their transport overheads. We used a software program that counts the transport overhead, which was developed in our laboratory for this paper. And we conducted a comparative analysis based on the calculated result of transport overhead.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.299-305
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• 2019

In ISO MPEG, MPEG-H has been standardized to smoothly deliver huge volume of ultra-high resolution videos over heterogeneous network environments for the consumers. In the MPEG-H standard, MMT(MPEG Media Transport) protocol is the next generation MPEG media transport technology to provide hybrid media delivery over heterogeneous environments. It is important to sustain accurate media synchronization to provide ultra-high resolution video services over heterogeneous network environments. In this paper, we propose and verify an in-band media synchronization scheme to circumvent the problem of additional session setup and excessive traffic problems of the conventional out-of-band media synchronization supported by the MMT technology.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.283-299
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose new broadcasting services that combine MMT (MPEG Media Transport) standard with MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) standard. MMT is a next-generation multimedia transport standard that is IP-friendly and provides functionalities appropriate for hybrid broadcasting that uses broadcast physical channels and the Internet simultaneously. MPEG-DASH enables media streaming services that can be dynamically adaptive both to the network traffic conditions of wired and/or wireless Internet and the receiving entity environment. We explain the scenarios of the proposed broadcasting services and demonstrate that various hybrid broadcasting services can be easily realized through the combined usage of MMT and MPEG-DASH. By making the test bitstreams containing contents for the new services and developing the receiver back-end software that performs the function of the receiving entity for the new services on personal computers, we verified that the proposed scenarios can be realized.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.252-264
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• 2020

Korea has launched the world-wide first terrestrial UHD broadcast services on May 31, 2017. While the existing HDTV broadcast services use MPEG-2 TS (Tranport Stream) standard for multiplexing and delivering compressed media with additional data, the terrestrial UHD broadcast services use MMT (MPEG Media Transport) standard, which is the next-generation standard beyond MPEG-2 TS. However, the production cost of UHD contents is so high that only a part of the total broadcast time is filled with UHD contents and the UHD time portion is planned to be gradually increased. On the other hand, the ATSC 3.0 standard that uses MMT is not yet used in full-fledged broadcast services in North America. Hence MMT broadcast equipment is still at an early stage with high prices. In this paper we implemented a multi-thread software running on an ordinary PC that can be utilized to realize a low-cost converter that converts the output of an existing MPEG-2 TS multiplexer to an MMTP (MMT Protocol) packet stream. We also verified the functionality of the software through experiments.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.1259-1265
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• 2019

Maintaining timing relationships among packets in a single media stream or between packets from different media streams is an essential criterion in MMT system. It is the function of the synchronization and de-jittering algorithms to re-adjust timing relationship between the MMT packets to assure synchronized playback. Thus, delivery of time constrained MPEG media on time, according to their temporal requirements, is an important goal of MMT. For this purpose MMT needs to specify syntax and semantics of a timing model to be used by the delivery functions. In this paper, we propose a proper timestamp-related header format for MMT delivery timing model to support media synchronization in various delivery scenarios including hybrid delivery.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2015

MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream)는 DTV(Digital Television), IPTV(Internet Protocol Television), DMB(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) 등 디지털 방송 분야에서 압축된 오디오 및 비디오 데이터를 다중화하는 데에 전 세계적으로 널리 사용되고 있다. MPEG-2 TS 표준이 제정된 것은 1990년대 초반으로서 20여 년이 지난 오늘날의 방송과 통신 환경에 적합하지 않은 부분이 많이 포함되어 있다. 이러한 상황을 고려하여, MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group)에서는 2014년에 MPEG-2 TS를 대체하고자 차세대 멀티미디어 전송 표준으로서 MMT(MPEG Media Transport)를 표준화하였다. 특히 네트워크 환경의 발전에 따라, MMT 표준은 IP 친화적이고 여러 가지 다른 종류의 네트워크를 병용한 멀티미디어 전달이 쉽도록 설계되었다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 방송에 의해 수신되는 MPEG-2 TS로부터 실시간으로 MMTP(MMT Protocol) 스트림을 생성하여 UDP/IP로 유무선 인터넷을 통해 멀티미디어 스트리밍 서비스를 제공하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 이를 위해 MPEG-2 TS 실시간 변환 기능을 갖춘 MMT 스트리밍 서버와 이로부터 서비스를 받을 수 있는 MMT 클라이언트를 구현하고 그 동작을 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.123-126
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• 2017

UWV(Ultra Wide View) 미디어 전송 시 서버의 부하를 줄이고 단말기의 자원 소모를 줄이기 위해서는 사용자의 관심 영역만을 제공해야 한다. 즉, 사용자가 원하는 범위의 영상들을 선택할 수 있도록 영상들의 공간적 위치정보를 제공하는 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 MMT(MPEG Media Transport)의 CI(Composition Information) 문서를 이용하여 UWV 를 구성하는 미디어들의 공간적 위치정보를 전송하고, 사용자에게 관심 영역의 미디어들을 제공하는 기법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 서버가 사용자에게 미디어들의 화면 구성에 대한 공간적 정보와 재생에 필요한 시간적 정보를 MMT CI 문서에서 제공한다. 그리고 사용자의 관심 영역을 서버로 전송하기 위한 Signaling Message 를 정의한다. 서버는 본 논문의 기법을 통해 MMT 를 그대로 사용하면서 사용자에게 관심 영역의 미디어들을 제공할 수 있다.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.38-41
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• 2014

Due to the diversity of device performances and the possibility of providing multimedia service through many networks, media consumption environment has been changed in various ways. In recent, mobile services and broadcasting services started to provided through IP network. According to this flow changes, there was great demand for various multimedia services through heterogenous networks. To solve this problem, MMT was suggested as a standard of multimedia transport which replaces MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream) which is used for HD(High Definition) transport. MMT can be provided various broadcasting based on IP through terrestrial, satellite, cable broadcasting networks, and also deliver multimedia through many networks at the same time. MMT was risen as a method of servicing UHD broadcasting. In this paper, we present an implementation of service architecture for hierarchical UHD broadcasting over heterogenous networks using MMT.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.5981-5997
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• 2017

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) produced ATSC 2.0 standard, which has been used for a HD/SD digital broadcasting service with MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) as a delivery protocol. Recently, users might want to consume multimedia services without being constrained by transport network. However, MPEG-2 TS is not suitable protocol for IP network. Thus, ATSC has enacted ATSC 3.0 standard, which is designed for a hybrid service through a conversion of both broadcasting and broadband channels. The ATSC 3.0 specifies delivery protocols as MPEG Media Transport (MMT) for a broadcasting environment and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) for a broadband. However, it seems difficult to combine broadcast and broadband for hybrid broadcasting, and it is difficult to synchronize media data between MMT and DASH. This paper suggests various new service scenarios to be brought up by a hybrid broadcasting, ATSC 3.0, and also proposes a stable mechanism for switching contents between different delivery protocols such as MMT and DASH.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.200-203
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• 2013

MPEG Media Transport (MMT)는 방송 서비스에서 방송망 및 IP망을 활용하여 미디어 데이터를 보다 효율적으로 전송하고 이를 저장 및 소비 할 수 있게 하기 위해 MPEG에서 개발 중인 표준이다. MMT에서는 방송프로그램을 하나의 Package로 정의하고, 해당 Package에서는 비디오, 오디오 및 데이터를 포함한 다양한 구성요소를 각각의 Asset으로 정의하고 있으며, 각 Asset은 전송 및 재생/저장의 최소단위인 MPU (Media Processing Unit) 파일들의 집합으로 구성되어져 있다. 이와 같이, MMT에서는 비디오 콘텐츠를 하나의 파일로 취급하는 기존의 방법과 달리 여러개의 MPU파일로 구성하게 함으로서, 가변적 네트워크 상황에 따라 효율적 전송 및 부분 저장을 가능하게 하였다. 본 논문에서는 여러개의 MPU파일로 구성된 MMT 콘텐츠를 각각의 MPU 파일별로 저장 및 접근을 가능하게 하고, 또한 여러개의 MPU파일들을 끊김없이 하나의 콘텐츠로 재생할 수 있는 재생기의 설계 및 구현방법을 제안하였다.