• 산업기술연구
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• 제27권B호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2007

Transcoding video proxy is necessary to support various bandwidth requirements for mobile multimedia and to provide adapting video streams to mobile clients. Caching algorithms for proxy are to reduce the network traffic between the content servers and the proxy. This paper proposes a Meta-tailed caching for transcoding proxy that is efficient to lower network load and CPU load. Caching of two different data types - transcoded video, and metadata - provides a foundation to achieve superior balance between network resource and computation resource at transcoding proxies. Experimental results show that the Meta-tailed caching lowers at least 10% of CPU-load and at least 9% of network-load at a transcoding proxy.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.134-141
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• 2015

In on-demand multimedia streaming systems, streaming techniques are usually combined with proxy caching to obtain better performance. The patch streaming technique has no start-up latency inherent to it, but requires extra bandwidth to deliver the media data in patch streams. This paper proposes a proxy caching technique which aims at reducing the bandwidth cost of the patch streaming technique. The proposed approach determines media prefixes with high patching cost and caches the appropriate media prefix at the proxy/local server. Herein the scheme is evaluated using a synthetically generated media access workload and its performance is compared with that of the popularity and prefix-aware interval caching scheme (the prefix part) and with that of patch streaming with no caching. The bandwidth saving, hit ratio and concurrent number of clients are used to compare the performance, and the proposed scheme is found to perform better for different caching capacities of the proxy server.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.687-696
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• 2013

The development of proxy caching is essential in the area of video-on-demand (VoD) to meet users' expectations. VoD requires high bandwidth and creates high traffic due to the nature of media. Many researchers have developed proxy caching models to reduce bandwidth consumption and traffic. Proxy caching keeps part of a media object to meet the viewing expectations of users without delay and provides interactive playback. If the caching is done continuously, the entire cache space will be exhausted at one stage. Hence, the proxy server must apply cache replacement policies to replace existing objects and allocate the cache space for the incoming objects. Researchers have developed many cache replacement policies by considering several parameters, such as recency, access frequency, cost of retrieval, and size of the object. In this paper, the Weighted-Rank Cache replacement Policy (WRCP) is proposed. This policy uses such parameters as access frequency, aging, and mean access gap ratio and such functions as size and cost of retrieval. The WRCP applies our previously developed proxy caching model, Hot-Point Proxy, at four levels of replacement, depending on the cache requirement. Simulation results show that the WRCP outperforms our earlier model, the Dual Cache Replacement Policy.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.1177-1190
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a fuzzy proxy cache scheme for caching web documents in mobile base stations. In this scheme, a mobile cache model is used to facilitate data caching and data replication. Using the proposed cache scheme, the individual proxy in the base station makes cache decisions based solely on its local knowledge of the global cache state so that the entire wireless proxy cache system can be effectively managed without centralized control. To improve the performance of proxy caching, the proposed cache scheme predicts the direction of movement of mobile hosts, and uses various cache methods for neighboring proxy servers according to the fuzzy-logic-based control rules based on the membership degree of the mobile host. The performance of our cache scheme is evaluated analytically in terms of average response delay and average energy cost, and is compared with that of other mobile cache schemes.

• Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2008

An effective solution to the problems caused by the explosive growth of World Wide Web is a web caching that employing an additional server, called proxy cache, between the clients and main server for caching the popular web objects near the clients. However, a single proxy cache can easily become the bottleneck. Deploying groups of cooperative caches provides scalability and robustness by eliminating the limitations caused by a single proxy cache. Two common architectures to implement the cooperative caching are hierarchical and distributed caching systems. Unfortunately, both architectures suffer from performance limitations. We propose an efficient hybrid caching architecture eliminating these limitations by using both the hierarchical and same level caches. Our performance evaluation with our investigated simulator shows that the proposed architecture offers the best of both existing architectures in terms of cache hit rate, the number of query messages from clients, and response time.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2003

Because of explosive growth in demand for web-based multimedia applications, proper proxy caching for large multimedia object (especially video) has become needed. For a video object which is much larger in size and has different access characteristics than the traditional web object such as image and text, caching the whole video file as a single web object is not efficient for the proxy cache. In this paper, we propose a proxy caching strategy with the constant-sized segment for video file and an improved proxy cache replacement policy. Through the event-driven simulation under various conditions, we show that our proposal is more efficient than the variable-sized segment strategy which has been proven to have higher hit ratio than other traditional proxy cache strategies.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제15A권1호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2008

최근 스트리밍 미디어는 인터넷 상의 많은 트래픽을 유발하고 있다. 기존의 웹을 위한 객체와 마찬가지로 스트리밍 객체 또한 프록시 시스템을 사용하게 되면 여러 이점이 있긴 하지만, 스트리밍 미디어를 캐슁 하는 방법은 기존의 웹을 위한 객체보다 매우 크고 높은 대역폭을 요구하기 때문에 고려해야 할 점이 많다. 또한 많은 종류의 단말들의 다양한 대역폭을 적절히 서비스 하기 위해서 프록시 기능과 트랜스코딩 기능을 함께 할 수 있는 트랜스코딩 프록시가 유용하다. 기존의 프록시는 객체가 프록시 서버에 저장되어 있거나, 그렇지 않은 경우로만 고려되었으나, 트랜스코딩 프록시에서는 같은 객체의 다양한 버전에 대해서 종합적인 효과를 고려하여 최적의 버전 집합을 저장 해야 한다. 또한 최근의 멀티미디어 캐슁 시스템들은 접근 빈도가 높은 앞부분을 캐슁하여 지연 시간을 줄이고 높은 효율을 얻을 수 있도록 하는 방법을 사용한다. 한편 많은 연구에서 멀티미디어 데이터의 효율적인 저장 관리를 위해서 객체를 세그먼트로 나누어 관리하는 방법을 사용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 부분 캐슁을 사용하는 트랜스코딩 프록시에서 사용자 요청에 따른 후속 작업을 결정하기 위해 4개의 기본 이벤트를 이용하여 9개의 이벤트로 정의한다. 또한 트랜스코딩 프록시 시스템을 위하여 세그먼트 기반의 관리정책을 제안한다. 실험결과는 제안하는 방법이 사용자 지연시간, BHR와 트랜스코딩 데이터의 양이 적음을 보여준다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.207-215
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 무선 모바일 애드 혹 네트워크상에서 스트리밍 미디어 서비스 향상을 위한 프록시 기반 캐싱 최적화 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 WLAN상에서 미디어 서버와 노드들 간의 통신을 위해 프록시를 사용하며, 프록시는 무선 엑세스 포인터 근처에 설치한다. 그리고 캐싱 최적화가 수행되도록 NFCO(non-full cache optimization)과 CFO(cache full optimization)기법을 제안한다. NFCO와 CFO는 프록시에서 스트리밍이 수행될 때 캐시의 성능을 최적화하기 위해 사용된다. 제안된 기법의 성능을 알아보기 위하여 본 논문에서는 제안된 기법과 서버-중심 스트리밍 기법, 그리고 전송율 왜곡 스트리밍 기법과의 성능을 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 제안된 기법이 서버-중심 스트리밍 기법과 전송율 왜곡 스트리밍 기법에 비해서 최적화 성능이 우수함을 알게 되었다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.52-66
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• 2010

Since large objects consume substantial resources, web proxy caching incurs a fundamental trade-off between performance (i.e., hit-ratio and latency) and overhead (i.e., resource usage), in terms of caching and relaying large objects to users. This paper investigates how and to what extent the current dedicated-server based web proxy caching scheme is affected by large file transfers in a high bandwidth campus network environment. We use a series of trace-based performance analyses and profiling of various resource components in our experimental squid proxy cache server. Large file transfers often overwhelm our cache server. This causes a bottleneck in a web network, by saturating the network bandwidth of the cache server. Due to the requests for large objects, response times required for delivery of concurrently requested small objects increase, by a factor as high as a few million, in the worst cases. We argue that this cache bandwidth bottleneck problem is due to the fundamental limitations of the current centralized web proxy caching model that scales poorly when there are a limited amount of dedicated resources. This is a serious threat to the viability of the current web proxy caching model, particularly in a high bandwidth access network, since it leads to sporadic disconnections of the downstream access network from the global web network. We propose a peer-to-peer cooperative web caching scheme to address the cache bandwidth bottleneck problem. We show that it performs the task of caching and delivery of large objects in an efficient and cost-effective manner, without generating significant overheads for participating peers.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.455-462
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• 2012

무선 모바일 프록시 캐싱 구조에서 캐싱 교체로 인한 손실은 스트리밍 QoS에 중요한 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 캐싱 교체 과정에서 발생하는 손실을 최소화하기 위하여 유사도 기반의 캐싱 손실 최소화 기법 SCLM(Similarity-based Caching Loss Minimization)을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 객체 세그먼트를 분할 한 후 유사도 관계를 수행한다. 유사도 관계가 수행된 세그먼트들은 SRT (Similarity Relation Tree)가 생성되고 유사도가 측정된다. 유사도는 적합성 피드백을 결정하는 중요한 척도로서 적합성을 만족한 세그먼트들은 캐싱 교체를 위해 캐시 블록에 저장한다. 시뮬레이션 결과 제안된 기법은 prefix 캐싱 기법, segment 캐싱 기법, 그리고 bps 캐싱 기법에 비해서 캐싱 시작 지연 제어율, 캐시 처리율, 그리고 캐시 응답율의 QoS가 효율적임을 보인다.