• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.198-206
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• 2013

Recent advances in forward error correction (FEC) coding techniques were focused on addressing the challenges of multicast and broadcast delivery. However, FEC approaches can also be used for unicast content delivery in order to solve transmission control protocol issues found in wireless networks. In this paper, we exploit the error resilient properties of Raptor codes by proposing Raptor-based content delivery protocol (RCDP) - a novel solution for reliable and bidirectional unicast communication in lossy links that can improve content delivery in situations where the wireless network is the bottleneck. RCDP has been designed, validated, optimized, and its performance has been analyzed in terms of throughput and resource efficiency. Experimental results show that RCDP is a highly efficient solution for environments characterized by high delays and packet losses making it very suitable for intelligent transport system oriented applications since it achieves significant performance improvements when compared to traditional transport layer protocols.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.819-828
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• 2014

To solve the increasing popularity of video streaming services over the Internet, recent research activities have addressed the locality of content delivery from a network edge by introducing a storage module into a router. To employ in-network caching and persistent request routing, this paper introduces a hybrid content delivery network (CDN) system combining novel content routers in an underlay together with a traditional CDN server in an overlay. This system first selects the most suitable delivery scheme (that is, multicast or broadcast) for the content in question and then allocates an appropriate number of channels based on a consideration of the content's popularity. The proposed scheme aims to minimize traffic volume and achieve optimal delivery cost, since the most popular content is delivered through broadcast channels and the least popular through multicast channels. The performance of the adaptive scheme is clearly evaluated and compared against both the multicast and broadcast schemes in terms of the optimal in-network caching size and number of unicast channels in a content router to observe the significant impact of our proposed scheme.

• Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.88-96
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• 2008

IPTV Content delivery systems over wired networks confront scalability problems due to their high network bandwidth requirement for real-time services. Especially, VoD service provides Trick Mode features such as pause, fast forward and similar operations. However, Trick Mode services are delivered by the method of unicast only for controlling of the stream. With a point of views, this paper propose a new real-time multimedia streaming architecture over IP Networks, which tries to achieve bandwidth efficiency and supporting for mass clients better than traditional unicast services. The proposed methods divide the Transport Stream into a series of segments. After that, this divided partial Transport Stream makes multicast streaming periodically. Meanwhile Set-top Box of a client makes a rearrangement orderly by using Presentation Time Stamp field from the served Transport Stream packets. While the current Transport Stream segment is playing, it should be guaranteed that the next segment is downloaded on time. Consequently, the original video content can be played out continuously. The detail introduction of a new real-time multimedia streaming system with analysis and simulation follows as below.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2009

최근 멀티미디어 스트리밍 분야에서 멀티미디어 콘텐츠를 효율적으로 전송하기 위한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 응용층에서 구현할 수 있는 오버레이 멀티캐스트는 멀티미디어 콘텐츠를 효율적으로 전송하기 위한 방법이다. 오버레이 멀티캐스트는 물리 층의 변경 없이 멀티캐스트 전송을 구현 할 수 있고 알고리즘에 따라 적용방식을 다양하게 할 수 있는 특징이 있다. 본 연구에서는 멀티미디어 콘텐츠의 안정된 전송을 위한 오버레이 멀티캐스트의 복원경로 구성 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 오버레이 멀티캐스트에서 QoS를 보장하기 위하여 최소한의 검색방법으로 복원경로를 구성함으로써 빠르고 간단한 복원경로를 구성할 수 있다.