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Method for Analyzing Media Compatibility in Home Networks (홈 네트워크에서 미디어 호환성 분석 기법)

  • Park, Yong-Suk;Kim, Hyun-Sik;Park, Se-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.05a
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    • pp.641-643
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    • 2014
  • The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) specification enables sharing of multimedia contents in the home network. Ordinary users will assume multimedia compatibility among DLNA certified devices, but that is generally not the case. There are optional codecs and even proprietary codecs used by the manufacturers. Information on multimedia formats supported by the devices are in general not easily exposed, creating difficulties in media sharing and usage. In this paper, the contents directory information exchanges among DLNA devices over the network is analyzed, and a method for media compatibility analysis is provided, The user can get information on compatible media formats, enabling ease of DLNA system use.

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A Study of an Efficient ZigBee Address Assignment Scheme for Home Area Networks of Smart Grid

  • Choi, Dongmin;Chung, Ilyong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.566-576
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    • 2013
  • In Home Area Network (HAN) of the smart grid, Power Line Communication (PLC) technology and ZigBee communication technology can be used in the communication among the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) devices. However, according to performance evaluation results of the PLC technology, we find that using the PLC technology is unsuitable for the remote meter reading service. It is worth noting that some parts of the PLC are converted to the ZigBee communication technology in Jeju, Korea. Compared with PLC, ZigBee has no restriction of the place, where the equipments can be freely set up, due to the advantage of radio communication. However, number of usable devices will impact the network performance which is depended on the address assignment. In addition, due to the restriction of transmission range among devices, it is difficult to apply the ZigBee address assignment method to the practical circumstance. In this paper, we examine the previous ZigBee address assignment schemes and the corresponding routing algorithms, and propose a novel address assignment scheme compared with the existing methods, the performance of the proposed one is improved. In particular, evaluation results show that the proposed scheme reduces the average number of hop count, the transfer time and the processing time.

Power Aware Routing Protocol in Multimedia Ad-hoc Network Considering Hop Lifetime of Node

  • Huh, Jun-Ho;Kim, Yoondo;Seo, Kyungryong
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.101-110
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this research is to extend Ad-hoc network system lifetime with the proposed routing protocol which has considered hop lifetimes of the nodes while guaranteeing QoS in the establishment process of Ad-hoc network communication paths. Based on another power aware routing system that proposed in the advanced research [1], we are proposing an alternative power aware routing system in which nodes' hop lifetimes are compared in order to extend the lifetime of an Ad-hoc network system and delay factors have been considered for the assurance of QoS. The research of the routing protocol in this paper, which aims to maximize the system survival time considering power consumption status during the path searching in MANET and pursues the mechanism that controls hop delays for the same reason, can be applied to the study of WSN. The study concerning such phenomena is essential so that the proposed protocol has been simulated and verified with NS-2 in Linux system focusing on the lifetimes of the hops of the nodes. Commercialization of smart devices and arrival of the ubiquitous age has brought about the world where all the people and things are connected with networks. Since the proposed power aware method and the hop delay control mechanism used to find the adequate communication paths in MANET which mainly uses batteries or in WSN, they can largely contribute to the lifetime extension of the network system by reducing power consumptions when utilized for the communications attempts among soldiers during military operation, disaster areas, temporary events or exhibitions, mobile phone shadow areas, home networks, in-between vehicle communications and sense networks, etc. This paper presents the definitions and some advantages regarding the proposed outing protocol that sustain and extend the lifetime of the networks.

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Data Compression Method for Reducing Sensor Data Loss and Error in Wireless Sensor Networks (무선센서네트워크에서 센서 데이터 손실과 오류 감소를 위한 데이터 압축 방법)

  • Shin, DongHyun;Kim, Changhwa
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.360-374
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    • 2016
  • Since WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks) applied to their application areas such as smart home, smart factory, environment monitoring, etc., depend on sensor data, the sensor data is the most important among WSN components. The resources of each node consisting of WSN are extremely limited in energy, hardware and so on. Due to these limitation, communication failure probabilities become much higher and the communication failure causes data loss to occur. For this reason, this paper proposes 2MC (Maximum/Minimum Compression) that is a method to compress sensor data by selecting circular queue-based maximum/minimum sensor data values. Our proposed method reduces sensor data losses and value errors when they are recovered. Experimental results of 2MC method show the maximum/minimum 35% reduction efficiency in average sensor data accumulation error rate after the 3 times compression, comparing with CQP (Circular Queue Compression based on Period) after the compressed data recovering.

Implementation of a Testbed for the Use of Mobile IP in the Campus Network (Mobile IP의 학내망 사용을 위한 테스트베드 구현)

  • 이종민;김성우;김태석
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.64-72
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    • 2004
  • Mobility changes the computing environment of computer users rapidly with the broad use of the Internet. In order to support mobility in the Internet infrastructure, IETF standardized Mobile IP With the use of Mobile IP, the Internet users can use the Internet freely without any change in the IP address configuration when they move from their home networks to foreign networks. In this paper, we implement a test bed for evaluation the performance of Mobile IP to use it in the campus network. By evaluating the effect of the use of Mobile IP on the network performance, we expect that the possible side effect of its direct use in the campus network will be reduced.

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Efficient Context-Aware Scheme for Sensor Network in Ubiquitous Devices

  • Shim, Jong-Ik;Sho, Su-Hwan
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.1778-1786
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    • 2009
  • Many sensor network applications have been developed for smart home, disaster management, and a wide range of other applications. These applications, however, generally assume a fixed base station as well as fixed sensor nodes. Previous research on sensor networks mainly focused on efficient transmission of data from sensors to fixed sink nodes. Recently there has been active research on mobile sink nodes, sink mobility is one of the most comprehensive trends for information gathering in sensor networks, but the research of an environment where both fixed sink nodes and mobile sinks are present at the same time is rather scarce. This paper proposes a scheme for context-aware by ubiquitous devices with the sink functionality added through fixed sinks under a previously-built, cluster-based multi-hop sensor network environment. To this end, clustering of mobile devices were done based on the fixed sinks of a previously-built sensor network, and by using appropriate fixed sinks, context gathering was made possible. By mathematical comparison with TTDD routing protocol, which was proposed for mobile sinks, it was confirmed that performance increases by average 50% in energy with the number of mobile sinks, and with the number of movements by mobile devices.

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A Study on Embedded DSP Implementation of Keyword-Spotting System using Call-Command (호출 명령어 방식 핵심어 검출 시스템의 임베디드 DSP 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Ki-Chang;Kang, Chul-Ho
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.1322-1328
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    • 2010
  • Recently, keyword spotting system is greatly in the limelight as UI(User Interface) technology of ubiquitous home network system. Keyword spotting system is vulnerable to non-stationary noises such as TV, radio, dialogue. Especially, speech recognition rate goes down drastically under the embedded DSP(Digital Signal Processor) environments because it is relatively low in the computational capability to process input speech in real-time. In this paper, we propose a new keyword spotting system using the call-command method, which is consisted of small number of recognition networks. We select the call-command such as 'narae', 'home manager' and compose the small network as a token which is consisted of silence with the noise and call commands to carry the real-time recognition continuously for input speeches.

TCP-ROME: A Transport-Layer Parallel Streaming Protocol for Real-Time Online Multimedia Environments

  • Park, Ju-Won;Karrer, Roger P.;Kim, Jong-Won
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.277-285
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    • 2011
  • Real-time multimedia streaming over the Internet is rapidly increasing with the popularity of user-created contents, Web 2.0 trends, and P2P (peer-to-peer) delivery support. While many homes today are broadband-enabled, the quality of experience (QoE) of a user is still limited due to frequent interruption of media playout. The vulnerability of TCP (transmission control protocol), the popular transport-layer protocol for streaming in practice, to the packet losses, retransmissions, and timeouts makes it hard to deliver a timely and persistent flow of packets for online multimedia contents. This paper presents TCP-real-time online multimedia environment (ROME), a novel transport-layer framework that allows the establishment and coordination of multiple many-to-one TCP connections. Between one client with multiple home addresses and multiple co-located or distributed servers, TCP-ROME increases the total throughput by aggregating the resources of multiple TCP connections. It also overcomes the bandwidth fluctuations of network bottlenecks by dynamically coordinating the streams of contents from multiple servers and by adapting the streaming rate of all connections to match the bandwidth requirement of the target video.

On Managing Mobility of Mobile Nodes using an Improved Mobile IP Regional Registration in Wireless Mobile Networks (무선 이동 망에서 개선된 Mobile IP 지역 위치등록을 이용한 이동 노드의 이동성 관리)

  • 한승진;이정현
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2004
  • By using wireless terminal, the number of users who wish to use the multimedia service like the Internet as well as Short Message Services and voice service has increased dramatically over the last years. We propose the method that improves Mobile IPv4 (MIPv4) Regional Registration in wireless mobile networks to decrease traffic's transmission delay and message generation compared with an existing method We design the scheme in MIPv4 environments that a packet do not pass through the home agent transmitted from correspondent node to mobile node, if a mobile node moves to other mobility agent. Simulation results show that the proposed method significantly reduces the expenses for registration and delivering packet.

Sensor Node Design based on State Transition Model (상태천이모델 기반의 센서 노드 설계)

  • Shin, DongHyun;Kim, Changhwa
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.1357-1368
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    • 2017
  • Sensor networks are used in various fields such as marine, defense, and smart home etc. Among the components of the sensor network, the sensor node collects sensor data, as one of the representative sensor network roles, and the sensor node makes a greate influence on the overall performance of the sensor network. Therefore, how to design the sensor node is an important issue in the sensor network field. However, the research on the sensor network architecture suitable for the sensor network installation environment has been made more important than the research on how to configure the sensor node. In this paper, we propose to identify elements to be considered for designing a sensor node that makes a large influence on the performance of the sensor network, and to easily implement the sensor node through the state transition model based on these elements.