• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.127-137
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• 2005

This paper presents implementation of client-based VOD service using multicast delivery, Conventional system provide server-based system in multicast delivery but implemented system provides on-demand client-based multicast system. The Multicast Agent Scheduler aggregates clients' request and it generate multicast group addresses and port numbers according to requested video items and service request time. Then it transmits immediately multicast address to VOD server and client who request service. And then VOD server transmits requested streams with a multicast group address and the client joins the group automatically. The Multicast Agent Scheduler assigns the same multicast group address when other clients request an identical video within the same scheduling duration. The proposed system can reduce load of server and support many clients at the same time and applies it to WMT(window media technology) of Microsoft.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.221-224
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• 2001

네트워크 기술의 발전으로, 인터넷을 통한 주문형 비디오 서비스가 가능해지고 있다. 주문형 비디오 시스템은 대용량 데이터를 실시간에 전송할 필요가 있기 때문에 디스크 전송대역폭은 매우 중요한 자원이다. 동시 다수에게 끊긴 현상이 없는 원활한 스트림 서비스를 하기 위해서는 매우 큰 디스크 대역폭이 필요하다. 비디오 스트림 데이터를 캐슁하여 디스크 대역폭을 절약하면, 한정된 디스크 대역폭에서 더 많은 스트림을 제공할 수 있다. 논문은 보다 향상된 비디오 스트림 캐슁 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 기존의 방법들 보다 더 많은 스트림을 제공하고, 스트림 재생의 지연을 줄인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.105-107
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• 1999

최근 컴퓨터와 제반 기술들의 눈부신 발달로 인해 대용량의 멀티미디어 데이터를 다루는 서비스들이 많이 등장하고 있다. 주문형 비디오 서비스(Video on Demand)가 가장 대표적인 예라고 할 수 있으며, 이를 구현하기 위한 많은 방법들이 제안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재까지 개발되어 있는 VoD 시스템에 관하여 살펴보고, 이를 기반으로 PASS(Parallel and Scalable Server) VoD 시스템을 제안한다. PASS VoD 시스템은 병렬 비디오 서버로서 SAN(System Area Network)로 연결된 independent proxy 구조와 비슷한 구조를 가지는 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 PASS VoD 시스템에 대하여 설명하고 PASS VoD 시스템이 scalable 함을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.22-29
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• 1999

In video-on-demand systems, movies are striped across the disks of the array in a video server to support multiple access. The blocks of the movies have to be placed carefully on the disks of the array in a video server in order to avoid load imbalance across these disks as well as to achieve maximum utilization of both space and bandwidth of these disks. This paper proposes a movie placement method called the GARR (group-alternation round-robin) that is based on the dynamic disk striping method considering the popularity of movie. The GARR uses group-alternation as movie selection policy and round-robin as data placement policy, where group-alternation allocates popular movie and unpopular movie groups to disks alternately. The performance of the GARR is evaluated by simulations.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.5
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• pp.523-532
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• 2001

A Critical issue in the performance of a video-on-demand system is the required I/O bandwidth of the Video server in order to satisfy clients requests, and it is the crucial resource that may cause delay increasingly. Several approaches such as batching and piggybacking are used to reduce the I/O demand on the video server through sharing. Bathing approach is to make single I/O request for storage server by grouping the requests for the same object. Piggybacking is th policy for altering display rates of requests in progress for the same object to merge their corresponding I/O streams into a single stream, and serve it as a group of merged requests. In this paper, we propose a reservation-based hybrid disk bandwidth reduction policy that dynamically reserves the I/O stream capacity of a video server for popular videos according to the loads of video server in order to schedule the requests for popular videos immediately. The performance of the proposed policy is evaluated through simulations, and is compared with that of bathing and piggybacking. As a result, we know that the reservation-based hybrid disk bandwidth reduction policy provides better probability of service, average waithing time and percentage of saving in frames than batching and piggybacking policy.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.2852-2859
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• 1997

Video-On-Demand system provides electronic video rental services from remote video servers on a broadband communication networks. Most of proposed VOD systems are typically designed for one-to-one conncetion between a user and video server. Therefore, video server stream services to customers individually by allocating a dedicated transmission channel and a set of video server resources for each customer. However, it is inefficiency and wxpensive way when server support multiple users who access the same video stream with a dedicated video channel. Therefore, to achieve cost-effectiveness, batching have studied method that uses multicast communication to simultaneously service all users requesting the same video with a single video with a single video stream. However, the application of the multicast communication by batching detract from the VCR-like function and on-demand nature of the system. In this paepr, we propose a scheme that can support an interactive VCR for all user requesting the same video stream with batching. To reduce a server I/O and network bandwidth requirement, dynamic buffer is allocated to access node which has variable playout poit. Consequently, it makes possible interactive VCR operation as if customer uses true VOD system. Also, this scheme can just deliver a multicast stream without delay after an initial request or VCR action occurred. The policy can guarantee acceptable services to number of users at minimum cost.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.3794-3803
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• 2000

In a Video-on-Demand system, admission control that is used to serve multimedia data efficiently has to be perfonned by an accurate grasp of the condition of surplus resources. Most of all. we need to adaptable admission control mechanism because the disk has irregular response time caused by external elements of disk, and also has high deviation of amount demanded. In previous admission control schemes, they determined whether a new user is granted or not through a theoretical value. Although they based on the measurement, they left much to be desired in dealing with the service state. Measurement ~based statistical admission control scheme, as we su~~ested in this research, perfonns 2 processes of off-line process and on-line process in real service environment. Through this processes, we can grasp the accurate resource state of system and adaptive!y detennine the admission according to circumstances. Therefore, it can guarantee both maximum resource utilization and QoS(Quality of Service). On performance evaluations, we show that the video server can utilize maximum resource utilization with QoS guarantee through precision of perfonnance by measurement and adaptable admission control according to the requested bandwidth.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.337-346
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• 2000

In a Vod(video0on-demand) system, a scheduling strategy is designed to increase the system efficiency and to eatisfy the isochronous requirements of showing a video to multiple viewers with one disk access. In this paper, we have proposed the Stream Relay Scheme (SRS) which utilizes the client's buffer space to reduce the server's disk I/O, buffer consumption, and stream capacity. Under the SRS which we have proposed in this paper, the server does not service all the requests directly but forwards the new request selectively to the client who is being served currently in order to reduce the initial latency and increase the system throughput. The SRS-BAT which integrated the SRS with the Batching technique is introduced. The results of the simulated experiments which compared the SRS with the conventional technique have shown the noticeable performance improvements in terms of initial latency and the server throughput.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.149-159
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• 2006

To provide on-demand video streaming services through the network, video objects with both high and low client request rates should be served efficiently. In this paper, we propose a dynamic on-demand streaming approach for providing services efficiently regardless of the client request rate. This approach can maintain QoS by transitioning the service scheme according to the request rate. The server provides services by the Heuristic broadcasting approach when the client request rate is low and by Striping broadcast, one of many Periodic broadcast approaches, when the client request rate is high. The server knows the variations of client request rates by the number of service channels and decides the transition to more efficient service schemes on its own. We simulated this scheme transition with various client request intervals and traces from a company providing streaming services. The results show that the performance of our approach is reasonable.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.173-175
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• 1999

주문형 비디오 시스템의 비용과 성능에 실제 영향을 미칠 수 있는 주요 설계 문제로서 실시간 디스크 스케쥴링, 버퍼 관리, 프리페칭, 영화 할당, 그리고 장치 대역폭 감소 등이 있다. 여기서 영화 할당은 영화 사본의 개수를 결정하고, 그리고 서버들에게 영화 사본들이 배치될 위치를 결정한다. 본 논문에서는, 인기도를 고려해서 영화 사본들이 디스크에 배치될 때 topic 별로 분리해서 각각의 topic 들을 서로 다른 서버에 배치시키는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 그리고 본 논문에서는 각 서버에 한 개의 영화를 저장할 수 있는 버퍼를 두어 가장 인기있는 비디오만 버퍼를 사용하는 버퍼관리 알고리즘을 제안한다.