• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.37-48
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• 2012

These days many DLNA home media network services start in home network area. DLNA networking softwares included in DLNA media devices contains all of server, renderer and controller functions. But a home media device in home media network environment not uses all of DLNA functions but uses only limited functions. Using all of integrated DLNA functions wastes networking and processing resources especially in home media network, because a home media device uses very limited functions. For example, a smart-TV has a main role of playback and a network attached storage has a main role of media content storage. In this paper, we analyze integrated DLNA networking softwares and design DLNA software models representing each home media device so as to utilize device resources efficiently. And we implement DLNA softwares for smart-TV and smart-phone and test resource efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.535-536
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• 2014

DLNA guideline documents that consist of 11 parts should be referred to develop DLNA technology. Some of these documents are published as IEC standards. This study analyzes guideline documents and describes international standard trends of DLNA. Finally strategies to cope with technology issues are suggested.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.706-710
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• 2014

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that describes environments where various things are connected to the Internet. These objects can identify themselves and allow other devices the identify them as well. DLNA focuses on delivering interoperability guidelines based on open industry standards in order to complete cross-industry digital convergence. This paper proposes a two-way DLNA Adaptor and addresses the methodologies of service interoperation of the media contents. In this paper, the designs of the components of the DLNA Adaptor are presented, and the conclusion provides general remarks and a discussion of future work.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.641-643
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• 2014

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) specification enables sharing of multimedia contents in the home network. Ordinary users will assume multimedia compatibility among DLNA certified devices, but that is generally not the case. There are optional codecs and even proprietary codecs used by the manufacturers. Information on multimedia formats supported by the devices are in general not easily exposed, creating difficulties in media sharing and usage. In this paper, the contents directory information exchanges among DLNA devices over the network is analyzed, and a method for media compatibility analysis is provided, The user can get information on compatible media formats, enabling ease of DLNA system use.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.629-631
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• 2013

In this paper, a novel transmission system based on ATSC-M/H is proposed that enables free broadcast content services and pay subscription based content services. The proposed system is compatible with the existing systems and it does not use complex access restriction mechanisms such as CAS. In North America, many DLNA systems use set-top boxes with DVR as a digital media server. A method to enable the provision for ATSC-M/H free and pay subscription services on DLNA systems is presented. In addition, a data service processing method in DLNA systems is also proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.531-534
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• 2014

DLNA is an established industry standard which supports contents sharing among smart devices in home wired- and wireless-network environment and is well known in Korea as Allshare or Smartshare. The DLNA standard is implemented as built-in services in most of Android smart phones and tablets. In addition to the handheld devices, DLNA service can also be employed in speakers, printers, and so on. However, users have reported many interoperability issues between DLNA devices. Developers typically identify causes by analyzing the packet exchange information between devices. However, this approach costs them to put additional effort to filter relevant packets, to reconstruct packet exchange history and the protocol flow. Consequently, it ends up with increased development time. In this paper, we demonstrate a technique to automatically analyze and visualize the packet exchange history. We modified a router firmware to capture and store packets exchanged between DLNA devices, and then analyze and visualize the stored packet exchange history for developers. We believe that visualized packet exchange history can help developers to test the interoperability between DLNA devices with less effort, and ultimately to improve the productivity of developers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.519-525
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• 2014

In this paper, we show a scheme to directly access DLNA network with the 3G/4G communication module of a smartphone in home or office environment. By exploiting this scheme, end users can use DLNA service more conveniently regardless of the type of activated communication module in a smartphone. For the implementation of this scheme, we use a femtocell that is a basestation with small coverage. A problem caused by the IP address hierarch discrepancy between the IP address of 3G/4G module of smartphone and those of local network nodes is resolved by deploying local IP address scheme. The processing of multicasting packet, that is required in DLNA service, is enabled by using IP tunneling scheme. As a result, end user can access DLNA network regardless of the type of activated wireless communication module. We validate the design result by implementing it on a commercial WCDMA femtocell.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.2104-2117
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• 2014

The propagation of smart devices and the rapid expansion of wireless mobile networks have increased the need for ubiquitous device connectivity and contents access. DLNA is currently being used as the de facto standard for connectivity of consumer devices in the digital home. The guidelines provided by DLNA are intended to facilitate device and contents discovery, management, sharing and distribution. However, consumer experience with DLNA has been rather poor and usability not up to speed. Different problems and issues in limited compatibility have been reported due to manufacturer customizations. Such compatibility issues are often difficult to identify by average consumers who are not savvy in information communications and multimedia technology. In this paper, the design and implementation of a DLNA protocol inspection tool is presented for compatibility analysis among DLNA certified devices. The tool monitors the home network and performs analysis of the underlying protocols used by DLNA. The tool can be used for diagnostics and troubleshooting, enabling the user to identify compatibility issues between devices or problems in the network.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.249-252
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) proxy system, to provide services for accessing and sharing various DLNA-based media contents which are distributed over his/her or other's home facilities via home network or internet. The proposed system based on DLNA[1] and SIP Notification mechanism[2] so that data such as contents can be transferred from home network consisted with private IP from outside public IP networks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.96-98
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• 2011

최근 스마트폰을 비롯한 다양한 스마트 기기들의 사용이 폭발적으로 늘어남과 동시에 이 기기들에서의 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 소비 또한 급격하게 늘어나고 있다. 이것은 자연스레 홈 네트워크 환경에서 사용자들의 DLNA 기기 간 미디어 콘텐츠 공유에 대한 욕구로 이어졌다. DLNA 기술이 등장하면서 이러한 욕구가 해소되기는 했지만 DLNA 제품 간의 효과적인 콘텐츠 상호 공유 및 재생을 제어하고 관리하는 전용의 S/W가 요구되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 DLNA와 UPnP의 분석을 통하여 미디어 공유와 제어를 동시에 수행하는 스마트 리모컨 S/W의 구현 구조에 대하여 논한다.