• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.59-64
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• 2023

Fire and disaster broadcasting systems are divided into analog, digital, and network-based digital public address systems, and important specifications in network-based digital public address systems are low-latency audio, high sampling rate, and multi-channel input and output. In the past, it has been widely used to the AoE method for distinguishing based on the MAC address of the data link layer. However, this method has a problem of increasing complexity and cost. This proposal is an AoIP/UDP method, which allows communication to be easily distinguished by IP address without the need for a separate redundant network, so that the network can be freely used and configured, and cost can be reduced by reducing complexity. After implementing the AoIP/UDP method, the experimental results showed that the cost was improved with the equivalent performance with 2.66ms latency.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.69-76
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• 2013

최근 홈 네트워크/정보가전 기술의 비약적인 발전과 고품질 멀티미디어 콘텐츠의 보급으로 인해 네트워크 기반의 멀티미디어 전송 시스템에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있다. 이러한 요구로 인해 고품질 오디오, 비디오 데이터를 이더넷 (Ethernet) 망을 이용하여 실시간 전송할 수 있는 Audio Video Bridging(AVB) 기술이 IEEE에서 표준화 되었다. AVB 기술은 네트워크를 통해 오디오 및 비디오 데이터뿐만 아니라, 각 장치들의 제어/관리를 위한 데이터도 동시에 전송할 수 있는 기술이다. 기술 개발 초기에는 네트워크 및 오디오 전문 업체를 중심으로 오디오 전송에 특화된 AoE(Audio over Ethernet) 기술 개발이 주를 이루고 있었으나, AVB 표준화가 완료된 2011년 이후부터 AVB가 적용된 제품이 개발되고 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 네트워크를 통해 멀티미디어 데이터를 전송할 때 필요한 핵심 요소기술과 개발 동향에 대해 살펴보고, IEEE 표준인 AVB 기술에 대해 알아본다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.12
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• pp.108-116
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a Ethernet based audio distribution system with a new L1/L2 hybrid switching scheme, and evaluate its performance. The proposed scheme not only offers guaranteed low latency and jitter characteristics that are essentially required for the distribution of high-quality uncompressed audio traffic, and but also provide an efficient transmission of data traffic on the Ethernet environment. The audio distribution system with a proposed scheme consists of a master node and a number of relay nodes, and all nodes are mutually connected as a daisy-chain topology through up and downlinks. The master node generates an audio frame for each cycle of 125us, and the audio frame has 24 time slotted audio channels for carrying stereo 24 channels of 16-bit PCM sampled audio. On receiving the audio frame from its upstream node via the downlink, each intermediate node inserts its audio traffic to the reserved time slot for itself, then relays again to next node through its physical layer(L1) transmission - repeating. After reaching the end node, the audio frame is loopbacked through the uplink. On repeating through the uplink, each node makes a copy of audio slot that node has to receive, then play the audio. When the audio transmission is completed, each node works as a normal L2 switch, thus data frames are switched during the remaining period. For supporting this L1/L2 hybrid switching capability, we insert a glue logic for parsing and multiplexing audio and data frames at MII(Media Independent Interlace) between the physical and data link layers. The proposed scheme can provide a good delay performance and transmission efficiency than legacy Ethernet based audio distribution systems. For verifying the feasibility of the proposed L1/L2 hybrid switching scheme, we use OMNeT++ as a simulation tool with various parameters. From the simulation results, one can find that the proposed scheme can provides outstanding characteristics in terms of both jitter characteristic for audio traffic and transmission efficiency of data traffics.