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The Korean Institute of Commucations and Information Sciences (한국통신학회)
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Design and Implementation of Network Adaptive Streaming through Needed Bandwidth Estimation

요구대역 측정을 통한 네트워크 적응형 스트리밍 설계 및 구현

  • 손승철 (전남대학교 컴퓨터공학과 멀티미디어 데이터통신 연구실) ;
  • 이형옥 (전남대학교 컴퓨터공학과 멀티미디어 데이터통신 연구실) ;
  • 곽용완 (전남대학교 컴퓨터공학과 멀티미디어 데이터통신 연구실) ;
  • 양현종 (전남대학교 컴퓨터공학과 멀티미디어 데이터통신 연구실) ;
  • 남지승 (전남대학교 컴퓨터공학과 멀티미디어 데이터통신 연구실)
  • Received : 2009.10.22
  • Accepted : 2010.03.05
  • Published : 2010.03.31
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Abstract

Since the internet is intend to be the best effort service, the system that stream a large amount of high quality medias need a techniques to overcome the network status for implementation. In this paper, we design and implement a method that estimate quickly whether network permits the needed bandwidth of media and a method that control QoS through that. Presented system uses Relative One-Way Delay(ROWD) trend in the case of the former, and leverages temporal encoding among Scalable Video Coding(SVC) that is apt to apply real time comparatively in the case of the latter. The streaming server classifies the medias by real time to several rates and begins transmission from top-level and is reported ROWD trend periodically from the client. In case of the server reported only 'Increase Trend', the sever decides that the current media exceeds the available bandwidth and downgrades the next media level. The system uses probe packet of difference quantity of the target level and the present level for upgrading the media level. In case of the server reported only 'No Increase Trend' by the ROWD trend response of the probe packet from client, the media level is upgraded. The experiment result in a fiber to the home(FTTH) environment shows progress that proposed system adapts faster in change of available bandwidth and shows that quality of service also improves.

현재의 인터넷은 최선형 서비스를 지향하고 있기 때문에 비트량이 많은 고품질 미디어의 스트리밍을 실현하기 위해서는 수시로 변화하는 네트워크 상황을 극복하기 위한 기법이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 네트워크가 미디어의 요구 대역폭을 허용하는지를 신속히 판단하는 기법과 이를 통해 QoS를 제어하는 기법을 설계 및 구현한다. 요구대역 허용여부 판단은 상대적인 한 방향 전송지연(ROWD: Relative One-Way Delay)의 추세를 이용하며, QoS 제어 SVC(Scalable Video Coding)중 실시간성 적용이 용이한 시간적 부호화 부분만을 도입한다. 스트리밍 서버는 미디어를 몇 개의 비트율로 실시간 레벨화한 후 최상위 레벨부터 전송을 시작하고 클라이언트로부터 ROWD에 대한 추세를 주기적으로 보고받는다. '증가추세'를 보고 받았을 경우에만 현재의 레벨이 가용대역폭을 초과하고 있다고 판단하고 하향조정을 실시한다. 상향조정을 위해서는 목표 레벨과 현재 레벨간 차분의 탐지 패킷을 이용하는데 이때, 탐지 패킷의 ROWD에 대하여 '증가없음'을 보고 받았을 경우에만 상향조정이 이루어진다. FTTH 환경에서의 실험은 제안 시스템이 가용 대역폭의 변화에 빠르게 적응하는 과정을 보여주며 서비스 품질 또한 향상시켜줌을 보여준다.

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