• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.411-424
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• 2006

This paper presents a multimedia streaming platform for efficiently transmitting MPEG-4 content over IP networks. The platform includes an MPEG-4 compliant streaming server and client, supporting object-based representation of multimedia scenes, interactivity, and advanced encoding profiles defined by the ISO standard. For scalability purposes, we employ an application-layer multicast scheme for media transmission using overlay networks. The overlay network, governed by the central entity of the network distribution manager, is dynamically deployed according to a set of pre-defined criteria. The overlay network supports both broadcast delivery and video-on-demand content. The multimedia streaming platform is standards-compliant and utilizes widespread multimedia protocols such as MPEG-4, real-time transport protocol, real-time transport control protocol, and real-time streaming protocol. The design of the overlay network was architected with the goal of transparency to both the streaming server and the client. As a result, many commercial implementations that use industry-standard protocols can be plugged into the architecture relatively painlessly and can enjoy the benefits of the platform.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.11B
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• pp.991-1000
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• 2004

This paper presents an application layer multicast tree constructing algorithm to minimize the average time delay from the sender to end-systems for the effective real-time media delivery. Simultaneously, the proposed algorithm takes into account the computing power and the network condition of each end-system as a control variable and thus avoids the undesirable case that loads are concentrated to only several end-systems. The multicast tree is constructed by clustering technique and modified Dijkstra's algorithm in two steps, i.e. tree among proxy-senders and tree in each cluster. By the experimental results, we show that the proposed algorithm can provide an effective solution.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.1393-1396
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• 2003

멀티캐스트 그룹의 멤버들만으로 트리를 구성하는 Overlay 멀티캐스트 프로토콜인 AMRoute은 이동이 빈번한 Ad hoc 네트워크 환경에서 중간 라우터의 이동에 대한 트리의 견고함으로 높은 데이터 전송을 제공하는 장점이 있으나, 네트워크의 변동으로 인하여 중복되는 전송 경로가 발생하여 대역폭이 낭비되는 효율성 문제를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 AMRoute 제어 메시지에 각 멤버의 메쉬 링크 상태 정보가 추가된 제어 메시지를 통하여 멤버간에 장치 상태를 교환함으로써 AMRoute에서의 중복되는 전송 경로를 제거하여 대역폭의 낭비를 줄이는 방안을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방안은 기존의 제어 메시지를 활용함으로써 적은 오버헤드로 새로운 메쉬 링크를 발견하여 기존의 AMRoute의 중복되는 전송 경로로 인한 대역폭의 낭비를 줄여 멀티캐스트의 성능을 향상시키는 효과를 기대할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.117-120
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• 2003

PON (Passive Optical Network) is an emerging local subscriber access architecture that provides more bandwidth and services to subscriber than DSL (Digital Subscriber Line and HFC (Hybrid-Fiber Coaxial) network. A PON is a point-to-multipoint optical network with no active elements in the signals' path from source to destination. Advantages of using PON for a subscriber access network include large coverage area, reduced fiber deployment, multicast and broadcast capabilities, reduced cost of maintenance (due to devices being passive), and ease of upgrades to higher bit rate or additional wavelengths. PON uses WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technique that transmits the downstream and upstream data at each different wavelength. For transmitting the CATV (Community Antenna television) service through PON network, we give out additional wavelength. This study shows the available TPS (Triple play service) architecture using CATV overlay EPON (Ethernet PON) architecture and analyzes the effects of EPON-based CATV transmission by measuring the power loss fur each wavelength and the power range of the available analog wavelength and RF.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.157-157
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.83-83
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• 2004

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.709-720
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• 2006

In this paper, we suggest a simple and efficient multiple-forwarder-based file distribution method which can work with a tree-based application layer multicast. Existing multiple-forwarder approaches require high control overhead. The proposed method exploits the assumption that receivers join a session at different times. In tree-based application layer multicast, a set of data packets is delivered from its parent after a receiver has joined but before the next receiver joins without overlapping that of other receivers. The proposed method selects forwarders from among the preceding receivers and the forwarder forwards data packets from the non-overlapping data packet set. Three variations of forwarder selection algorithms are proposed. The impact of the proposed algorithms is evaluated using numerical analysis. A performance evaluation using PlanetLab, a global area overlay testbed, shows that the proposed method enhances throughput while maintaining the data packet duplication ratio and control overhead significantly lower than the existing method, Bullet.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.521-524
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• 2008

MANET이 유연성 있고, 자유로운 네트워크로서 주목 받아감에 따라 MANET에서의 Routing 알고리즘이 중요한 논점이 되고 있다. 특히 MANET에서 각 Node에 대한 관리 방법은 향후 차세대 네트워크의 중요한 부분으로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 오버레이 멀티캐스트 Routing 알고리즘은 각 Node의 오버레이 ID 생성과 유지 및 전송에 관한 알고리즘으로 MANET의 여러 가지 제한 조건 및 환경에 따라 유연성 있게 작용하므로, 현재 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 기존의 오버레이 멀티캐스트는 일반적인 단일 레이어로 이루어진 Cluster에 한하여 그 알고리즘을 적용하고 있으며, Cluster의 구성 및 유지 또한 Node의 속성 구분에 따른 에너지 등을 고려하지 않고 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 EOMM(Efficient Overlay Multicast for Multi-layer)은 오버레이 멀티캐스트를 다중 계층 구조 기반 Cluster에서 적용하였다. 또한 Node의 속성 정보를 고려하여 Clustering 알고리즘인 TICC을 지원하여, Masking 연산을 통하여, 처리속도를 향상시켰다. 그 결과 Routing delay와 packet 증가률을 감소시켜 성능을 향상시켰다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1367-1369
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• 2013

Applying Application-Level Multicast technology (ALM) to Distributed Interactive Applications (DIAs) becomes more and more popular. Especially for DIAs embedded priority that the sender forwards data to receivers due to their respective priorities. The priority-based directed minimum spanning tree (PST) algorithm was designed for these DIAs. However, the PST has no efficient priority selection and filtering mechanism. The system will consume a tremendous amount of resource for reconstructing distribution tree and becomes unstable and unscalable. In this paper, First, We propose a novel priority-based application level multicast algorithm: Predict-and-Quantize for Priority with directed minimum Spanning Tree (PQPST), which can efficiently predict efficient priorities for the receivers and quantize the predicted priorities to build the multicast distribution tree. Second, we propose Priority Discrepancy Heuristic Mechanism (PDHM), which sets different thresholds of priority discrepancy within the priority discrepancy interval to control the distribution tree construction can efficiently decrease the repeated distribution tree construction, and we get the best heuristic priority discrepancy interval by PQPST. According to the simulation results, the PQPST and PDHM can efficiently improve the performance of the PST algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.153-164
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• 2007

The Access Grid (AG) provides collaboration environments over the IP multicast networks by enabling efficient exchange of multimedia contents among remote users; however, since lots of current networks are still multicast-disabled, it is not easy to deploy this multicast-based multi-party AG. For this problem, the AG provides multicast bridges as a solution by putting a relay server into the multicast networks. Multicast-disabled clients make UDP connections with this relay server and receive forwarded multicast traffics in unicast UDP packets. This solution is facing several limitations since it requires duplicate forwarding of the same packet for each unicast peer. Thus, in this paper, we propose an alternate solution for the multicast connectivity problem of the AG based on the UMTP (UDP multicast tunneling protocol). By taking advantage of flexibilities of UMTP, the proposed solution is designed to improve the efficiency of network and system utilization, to allow reuse of multicast-based AG applications without modification, and to partially address the NAT/firewall traversal issues. To verify the feasibility of proposed solution, we have implemented a prototype AG connectivity tool based on the UMTP, named as the AG Connector.