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Scheduling for Guaranteeing QoS of Continuous Multimedia Traffic (연속적 멀티미디어 트래픽의 서비스 질 보장을 위한 스케쥴링)

  • 길아라
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.22-32
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    • 2003
  • Many of multimedia applications in distributed environments generate the packets which have the real-time characteristics for continuous audio/video data and transmit them according to the teal-time task scheduling theories. In this paper, we model the traffic for continuous media in the distributed multimedia applications based on the high-bandwidth networks and introduce the PDMA algorithm which is the hard real-time task scheduling theory for guaranteeing QoS requested by the clients. Furthermore, we propose the admission control to control the new request not to interfere the current services for maintaining the high quality of services of the applications. Since the proposed admission control is sufficient for the PDMA algorithm, the PDMA algorithm is always able to find the feasible schedule for the set of messages which satisfies it. Therefore, if the set of messages including the new request to generate the new traffic. Otherwise, it rejects the new request. In final, we present the simulation results for showing that the scheduling with the proposed admission control is of practical use.

An Analysis of Social Interaction according to Students' Preference for Groups in Science Instruction of Elementary School (초등학교 과학 수업에서 학생들의 모둠 선호도에 따른 사회적 상호 작용 분석)

  • Yang, Jeon-Mi;Lee, Hea-Jung;Oh, Chang-Ho;Jeong, Jin-Su;Kwon, Yong-Ju;Park, Kuk-Tae
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate interaction patterns and characteristics of small group discussions during elementary school science classes. Four heterogeneous groups were formed according to preferences and non-preferences, consisting of male and female students. Verbal interactions during small group discussions were audio and videotaped, transcribed and analyzed. The interaction frequency of each group was compared in terms of their cognitive and affective aspects. The results in terms of the cognitive aspect showed that there were no significant differences in the frequency of interaction between preference and non-preference groups' verbal behaviors. However, the quality of interaction was superior and the number of high level types of interaction were more frequent in the preference group. From the affective perspective, both groups of students exhibited a positive attitude in the preference group and a negative attitude in the non-preference group. The differences of interaction between the male and female student's groups were that in the case of the female group, the frequency and the quality of interaction was higher. Moreover, in contrast to male students, female students revealed satisfaction and favorable attitudes in their non-preference group because they felt more a acceptable atmosphere and attitude in that group. These results suggest that the interactions of the preference group are more interactive and elaborate in nature than those of the non-preference group.

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Development and Assessment of Multi-sensory Effector System to Improve the Realistic of Virtual Underwater Simulation (가상 해저 시뮬레이션의 현실감 향상을 위한 다감각 효과 재현 시스템 개발 및 평가)

  • Kim, Cheol-Min;Youn, Jae-Hong;Kang, Im-Chul;Kim, Byung-Ki
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.104-112
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    • 2014
  • With recent development of virtual reality technology, coupled with the growth of the marine industry, virtual underwater simulation systems are under development in various studies, for educational purposes and to simulate virtual reality experiences. Current literature indicates many underwater simulation systems to date have focused on the quality of visual stimulus delivered through three-dimensional graphics user interface, limiting the reality of the experience. In order to improve the quality of the reality delivered by such virtual simulations, it is crucial to develop multi-sensory technology rather than focus on the conventional audio-visual interaction, which limits experiencer from the sense of underwater immersion and existence within the simulation. This work proposes the immersive multi-sensory effector system, delivering the users with a more realistic underwater experience. The sense of reality perceived was evaluated, as the main factor of the virtual reality system.

Concealment of Propagation Delay using Synchronized overlap-add Algorithm in Internet Phone (인터넷 폰에서 Synchronized overlap-add 알고리즘을 이용한 전송지연 보상 기법)

  • Nam, Jae-Hyun;Lee, Jung-Tae
    • Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.540-549
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    • 2001
  • Internet telephony service is very cheap and very easy to introduce the value-added service than the POTS, but is difficult to the QoS of telephone service. The existing Internet typically offers 'best effort' services only, which do not make any commitment about delay, packet loss and jitter. This paper compensates the low quality of the speech for packet loss or delay using SOLA algorithm in Internet phone. SOLA algorithm is a popular technique for Time Scale Modification of speech and audio signal. In the proposed algorithm, the receiver expands the received packet under resonable threshold, and hence compensates the QoS of speech. From the simulation, this algorithm can conceals packet loss considerably, and is also improved the quality of the speech.

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A Study on the Enhancement for Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting System E (위성 DMB 시스템 E의 고도화에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Seung-Hyun;Oh, Doeck-Gil;Chang, Dae-Ig
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.44 no.3 s.357
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    • pp.85-91
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    • 2007
  • Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (S-DMB) is the digital convergence service of broadcasting and communication for mobility and portability. Broadcasting service of S-DMB can be taken by the mobile phone or vehicle terminals anytime and anywhere. S-DMB system is currently providing 11 video channels and 26 audio channels. As the demand of multimedia service is recently increasing, S-DMB system needs high quality and new contents service. Therefore we need to make efficient S-DMB with more channel ability and high transmission quality. In this paper, we propose new S-DMB system that can be applied to powerful channel coding scheme and hierarchical 8-PSK(8-Phase Shift Keying) modulation with Backwards Compatibility modes that simultaneously can support both current and new system. And we analyze the performance of current S-DMB system and verify a possibility of advanced S-DMB through computer simulation.

An Improved Synthesis Method of Parametric Stereo Coding Based on Tonality Information (토널리티 정보를 기반으로 한 파라메트릭 스테레오 부호화의 개선된 합성 기법)

  • Lee, Tung chin;Park, Young-Cheol;Youn, Dae Hee
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.221-227
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we propose a synthesis method that can effectively suppress the ambience which affects tonal components in the PS decoder. Ambience component was obtained by using decorrelation filter and the weighting of the ambience in the decoder was determined through IC parameter. However, since the parameters are extracted in the sub-band domain, a low IC value could be analyzed even if the tonal component is dominant. The quality of the output signal may be degraded. To prevent this problem, the tonality was measured in the downmixed signal and the weighting of the ambience components were adjusted appropriately according to the measured tonality index. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated by simulations. Furthermore, the subjective test was performed and the results confirmed that the proposed method offers improved quality.

Real-time Implementation of MPEG-4 HVXC Encoder and Decoder on Floating Point DSP (부동 소수점 DSP를 이용한 MPEG-4 HVXC 인코더 및 디코더의 실시간 구현)

  • Kang, Kyeong-ok;Na, Hoon;Hong, Jin-Woo;Jeong, Dae-Gwon
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we described the real-time implementation effort of MPEG-4 audio HVXC (Harmonic Vector eXcitation Coding) algorithm for very low bitrates, which has target applications from mobile communications to Internet telephony, on current high performance floating point TMS320C6701 DSP. We adopted a hardware structure for real-time operation. In order for software optimization, we used C- and assembly-language level optimizations for time-critical functional codes. Utilizing the internal program memory of the DSP as the program cache, the internal data memory overlap technique and DMA functionality, we could get a goal of realtime operation of HVXC codec both at 2 kbit/s and at 4 kbit/s. For an encoder at 2 kbit/s, the optimization ratio to original code is about 96 %. Finally, we got the subjective quality of MOS 2.45 at 2 kbit/s from an informal quality test.

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Packet Delay and Loss Analysis of Traffic with Delay Priority in a DBA Scheme of an EPON (EPON의 DBA방안에서 지연 우선순위를 갖는 트래픽의 재킷 손실률과 지연 성능 분석)

  • Park Chul-Geun;Shim Se-Yong;Jung Ho-Seok
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.30 no.8B
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    • pp.507-513
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    • 2005
  • As the rapid increasement of the number of internet users has occured recently, many multimedia application services have been emerging. To improve quality of service, traffic can be suggested to be classified with priority in EPON(Ethernet Passive Optical Network), which is supporting the multimedia application services. In this paper, multimedia application services treat bandwidth classifying device in serving both delay sensitive traffic for real-time audio, video and voice data such as Von(Voice over Internet Protocol), and for real-time traffic such as BE(Best Effort). With looking through existing mechanisms, new mechanism to improve the quality will be suggested. The delay performances and packet losses of traffic achieved by supporting bandwidth allocation of upstream traffic in suggested mechanism will be analized with simulations.

Quality Improvement of Low-Bitrate HE-AAC Encoder (HE-AAC 부호화의 저비트율에서 음질향상 기법)

  • Kim, Jeong-Geun;Lee, Jae-Seong;Lee, Tae-Jin;Kang, Kyeong-Ok;Park, Young-Cheol
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.66-74
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we propose new techniques that can improve the quality of AAC and SBR encoders comprised in low bitrate HE-AAC. To reduce the pre-echo artifacts often occurring for transient blocks in AAC, we propose an extended Temporal Noise Shaping (sTNS) in which the frequency range is selectively extended down to the low-frequency region. Also, for he high-frequency region being coded by SBR encoder, tones are identified through a sinusoidal modeling and their frequencies are adjusted within the QMF band in order to reduce the noise floor due to aliasing. Spectrograms of the decoded signals were compared and listening tests were conducted to evaluate the proposed algorithm. Results confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

The Role of Fundamentalization of Education in Improving the Future Specialists Professional Training with Usage of Multimedia Technologies

  • Palshkov, Kostiantyn;Kochubei, Olena;Tsokur, Olga;Tiahur, Vasyl;Tiahur, Liubomyra;Filimonova, Tetiana;Kuzminskyi, Anatolii
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2022
  • The article considers the fundamentalization of education in improving the future specialists professional training with usage of multimedia technologies by various scientists. Various points of view and approaches to defining the concepts of fundamentalization of education and multimedia technologies are identified. The concept of fundamentalization of professional training of a future specialist is based on the goals and functions of fundamentalization and - on the ways and means of achieving it, etc. Most authors agree only in their views that the fundamentalization of education is aimed at improving the quality of education and the education of the individual. Others involve the formation of a culture and worldview, increasing the creative and intellectual potential, forming the professional competence of a specialist and the potential for further education, and so on. The term multimedia refers to interactive systems that provide processing of moving and still video images, animated graphics, high-quality audio and speech. It is found out that professional training of a specialist by means of multimedia technologies includes not only the activities of the teacher and student, which form the learning process, but also the independent activity of the subject, self-development, assimilation of experience by the subject through analysis, comprehension and transformation of the field of activity in which he is included. It is revealed through the implementation of which approaches to the fundamentalization of higher professional education, it becomes possible to fully present theoretical training courses and effectively pass practical training by students, which contributes to improving the quality of training of future specialists in higher education institutions. Theoretical analysis of scientific views indicates a fairly serious attention of scientists to the problem of professional readiness of specialists and the possibility of higher educational institutions in preparing for it. At the same time, professional readiness is considered from different positions: as an active state of a person, which manifests itself in activity; as a result of activity; as goals of activity; as a quality that characterizes the attitude to solving professional problems and social situations; as a prerequisite for purposeful activity; as a form of activity of the subject; as an integral formation of personality; as a component of socio-professional culture; as a complex professionally significant neoplasm of the individual.