• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.3B
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• pp.225-234
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• 2009

Recently IPTV service is penetrating to the ordinary home users very swiftly. One of the first phase of IPTV service is considered to be VoD, and a nationwide availability of the VoD service imposes tremendous pressure to the network resource due to its requirements for the broad bandwidth, the inherent nature of unicast technology, and the large scalability, etc. This work suggests a novel and practical method to the design of network resource for the VoD service. Especially, we explore the distributed content storage problem that takes into account the popularity of the video contents and its corresponding link dimensioning problem that takes into account the grade of service for the flow level quality of service about the VoD service. By assuming a realistic topology for the nationwide IP backbone network of Korea, which is a typical tree topology, we suggest an analytic method for the design of VoD service.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.904-913
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• 2006

The QoS(Quality of Service) of VoD(Video on Demand) systems can be improved by reducing the faults that the stream service request from clients is rejected by the VoD server or lost during the service. This paper proposes a model of Dynamic Workload Balancer that can adjust the workload dynamically through the periodical monitoring of the VoD system, and so increase the throughput. The proposed model runs independently from the VoD system by adopting the agent concept. The model comprises the agency part interfacing the VoD system and the intelligence part reasoning or teaming the facts required for the adjustment of workload. An experiment of implementing a simulator was conducted to see whether or not application of the proposed model to VoD system is effective. As a result of the experiment, it was found that the throughput was relatively increased when the proposed model was applied compared to existing means.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.11B
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• pp.784-791
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• 2005

To provide VoD Service on the Internet VoD server is required to have a large amount of system resource and network bandwidth. Therefore, overlay Multicast schemes are considered as suitable alternatives but they also have some drawbacks to support on-demand media services. In this paper, we propose an overlay multicast based on-demand media service scheme which could exploit server's system resource and its network bandwidth efficiently. Proposed scheme uses shared buffer of clients involving the relay of traffic and Patching while it gives no restrictions to this scheme compared with unicast. Our simulation results show that proposed scheme can support more user than unicast and improve the network performance at the same time.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.115-116
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 광대역 인터넷 이용자를 위한 고품질 VoD(Video on Demand) 서비스 네트워크와 플랫폼 구조를 제시하였다. 현재의 IP 기반 네트워크는 서비스를 위한 네트워크 대역폭을 보장하지 못한다. 따라서 고품질의 VoD 서비스를 위해서는 이러한 문제의 해결이 필수적이며 여기서는 지역 서버기반의 네트워크 구조를 제시하고 플랫폼을 구축하였다. 지역서버는 트래픽과 지역성을 고려하여 구축되었으며 이용자는 서비스 이용시 대역폭이 가장 잘 보장될 수 있는 지역 서버로 연결된다. 네트워크의 균형적인 트래픽 제어 및 고품질 서비스를 위하여 트래픽 양을 예측하고 이에 기반한 플랫폼을 구축하였다. 현재 이 플랫폼을 기반으로 KT 광대역 인터넷 이용자를 위한 VoD 서비스가 제공되고 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.6A
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• pp.918-926
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• 2000

A huge storage and broad bandwidth are required to provide subscribers with VoD services. Hence, there is a huge amount of cost in establishing networks for VoD services. To determine how to reduce the cost, a number of studies involving such as distributed server systems, multicasting, program caching, stream sharing, are currently in progress. In this paper, a request criterion for multicast service and the ratio of required bandwidth for unicast to multicast are generated. The effect of multicast service on network bandwidth, server bandwidth, and buffer size was analyzed and validated through computer simulation. The results of this study could be applied to efficient designing networks for VoD services.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.145-159
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• 2016

This study points out the problems of absence of the legislation for standard regulation on Video on Demand(VoD) advertisement which grows so fast lately, for this it recommends making legal references, which have the definition of non-linear broadcasting & VoD advertisement and VoD advertisement standard regulation in the merged Broadcasting Act, and adopting co-regulation system. Pay TV operators providing VoD service have the opportunities to make money as subscribers uses it increasingly. In case of linear service, the Broadcasting Act regulates the advertisement strictly, but not the VoD ads. The reason why is that Korean legislation including the Broadcasting Act does not have legal reference to regulate it, instead of that, it rely on the self-regulation system which is operated by pay-tv players who provide the VoD ads. So, there is the limitation to protect the minors such as children and youth from the harmful VoD ads, to be invulnerable for advertisers to influence to advertising agents, and to ensure the regulatory effectiveness under player-centric self-regulatory regime. In this context, this study analyses the how to regulate VoD ads standard with a three-pronged approach. First, it analyses the VoD ads regulation system in overseas countries, UK, Canada, EU and Ireland. Each country has the legal reference to regulate it in the Broadcasting Act or lower statures and adopts the co-regulatory regime the NRA and the 3rd entity operate together. Second, it reviews the objectives and scope of VoD ads standard. This study recommends that the objective of it is users protection and the scope of it is standard regulation not commercial practice. Third, this study researches how to legislate for regulation of VoD ads standard. Considering VoD service's characteristics(non-linear service) and legal position of Ads agency(i.e. pay tv operators), it suggest that legal reference will be in the integrated Broadcasting bill, which is the general law, not individual. If it is available to regulate VoD ads standard with co-regulatory regime, it expects the enhancement of user protection from the harmful VoD ads and make up sustainability of the pay-tv players' self-regulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.119-122
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• 2006

VoD(Video on Demand) 시스템은 일반적으로 VoD 서버 및 파일 저장장소 등의 제한된 자원 하에서 운용된다. 따라서 VoD 시스템의 QoS(Quality of Service)는 VoD 서버 및 파일 저장장소가 제한된 운용 자원 하에서 클라이언트들에게 안정된 스트림 서비스를 제공함으로써 보장할 수 있다. 즉, VoD 시스템의 QoS를 보장하기 위해서는 클라이언트들의 스트림 서비스 요청이 제한된 운용자원 때문에 VoD 서버로부터 수신이 거부되거나 또는 파일 저장장소로부터 필요한 데이터 서비스를 받는 도중에 연결이 끊어져 손실되는 장애확률(blocking probability)을 최소화해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 VoD 시스템의 QoS 보장에 활용하기 위하여 VoD 시스템의 장애확률을 추정하는 모델을 개발한다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.46-56
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• 2008

Double Patching is a multicasting technique for a VoD system which has been proposed to provide a true VoD service by making clients share a long patching stream as well as a regular stream For subsequent short patching streams, the technique always makes the long patching stream have extra data that will be played back during a double period of a patching window. In this paper, we propose a technique, using the start time of the latest short patching stream, optimizes Double Patching by deleting the useless data included in the long patching stream when the patching window of the long patching stream closes. The mean requirement for the server's bandwidth to provide the true VoD service is used as a performance metric, and the effect of the request inter-arrival time, the size of the client's local buffer and the video length on the mean bandwidth requirement is evaluated. Performance evaluation result shows that the proposed technique optimizes Double Patching in all cases.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.8
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• pp.607-614
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• 2013

In this work we investigate the power of power law in the VoD service over IP network. Especially, we show that the power of power law is strong in the location of the contents storage for the VoD service and its impact on the link dimensioning. This work first shows the instance of the power law in the popularity of the video contents from the real data for the IPTV service. After that we propose an analytic model that characterizes the behavior of customers in accessing the video servers as well as the power law in the viewing pattern. Finally, we show the impact of the power law by proposing a model for the cost as well as link dimensioning. Via numerical experiment we show the implication of the proposition.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.9-17
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• 2010

During the last decade, Internet protocol television(IPTV), broadcasting of multimedia services using well understood Internet technologies, is a fast spreading technology for distributing multimedia content to consumers. As IPTV services advance, an increasing user demand and tremendous content volume of multimedia content cause some difficulties in network resource management. In this paper, we propose an improved load balancing algorithm for video-on-demand(VoD) service. Unlike existing algorithms, the proposed algorithm considers user's behaviors for VoD service, and determines the most efficient allocation of VoD requests by estimating expected server load and expected user waiting time.