• 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.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.262-267
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• 2007

다자간 분산형 협업 시스템인 Access Grid(AG)는 IP 멀티캐스트 네트워크상에서 여러 사용자들 간에 영상, 음성 및 다양한 데이터의 공유를 통해 상호 의사소통이 가능한 공동 작업환경을 제공하기 위해 개발되었다. 멀티캐스트를 사용함으로써 AG는 대역폭 효율적으로 다수 사용자 사이의 의사소통 환경을 제공하고 있다. 그러나 IP 멀티캐스트의 설정 및 관리상 복잡성으로 인해 이를 지원하지 않는 네트워크가 다수 존재한다. 이는 AG를 이용한 협업 서비스를 이용하는 데에 큰 장애물이 되고 있다, 본 논문에서는 이러한 멀티캐스트 연결성 문제에 대한 해결책으로 응용 계층의 멀티캐스트 터널링 프로토콜인 UMTP (UDP multicast tunneling protocol) 를 확장한 멀티캐스트 연결성 솔루션인 AG Connector를 제안한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.18C no.6
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• pp.413-422
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• 2011

Overlay network is a ready-to-use solution to enable new network functionality with existing Internet connectivity intact. This paper introduces a network service which helps users easily compose their own service overlay networks through software-defined networks. We look into the structure of service gateway which enables 1 Gbps packet processing on composed overlay networks. We also provide examples for the way of composing service overlay for support multicast applications. Experiment results carried over the KREONET (Korea Research Environment Open NETwork) show the forwarding performance of the service gateway.