• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.10A
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• pp.1020-1030
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• 2006

As the Terrestrial DMB(T-DMB) has been launched, service providers are focusing on finding a business model as well as preparing the variety of data services. So, the need for development of the CAS(Conditional Access system) is urgently required and its domestic standardization is also in progress. This Paper proposes design and implementation methods of an Ensemble Re-multiplexer and receiver platform for its verification that can be used for the CAS system in T-DMB. And, with transmitting ensemble stream scrambled by the proposed Ensemble Re-multiplexer, we verified their performance by do-scrambling and decoding according to scramble mode at the receiver platform.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2004

방송과 통신의 융합, 방송서비스의 다양화와 더불어 방송의 디지털화는 기존의 아날로그 방식에 비해 고화질 및 고음질의 방송 서비스 제공 및 타 매체와의 호환성 그리고 다양한 부가 서비스의 제공 등에 있어서 많은 이전을 제공할 수 있다. 또한, 디지털방송 방식은 기존 아날로그 방식의 이동수신 문제점을 해결하고자 디지털 오디오 방송(DAB: Digital Audio Broadcasting)에 멀티미디어 서비스를 .제공하는 디지털 멀티미디어 방송(DMB: Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)을 제안하였다. 지상파 DMB 방송은 유럽의 Eureka-147 방식의 DAB를 기반으로 하며 디지털 라디오방송과 함께 오디오 외에도 다양한 멀티미디어를 전송하고, 콘텐츠에 대화형 기능을 포함하는 서비스 형태를 목표로 하고 있다. 현재 지상파 DMB 서비스에서는 기본적인 AV 서비스를 위해 비디오는 AVC, 오디오는 BSAC에 대해 규정하고 있다. 또한 AV 규격 외에 대화형 서비스를 제공하기 위한 보조 데이터로서 장면기술 데이터와 그래픽 데이터를 지원하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 지상파 DMB를 이용한 대화형 서비스를 제공하기 위해 요구되는 초기 객체 정보, 객체 정보, 장면 구성 정보를 바이너리 형태로 생성해 주는 MPEG-4 바이너리 컨버터를 설계하고 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.192-194
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• 2012

본 논문은 소규모 지역에서의 데이터 통신을 이용한 하이브리드 방송 송출 시스템 및 수신 시스템에 관한 것으로 보다 상세하게는 전시회나 박물관 등 지역적 범위가 제한되는 환경에서 와이파이 등의 근거리 인터넷망을 이용하여 해당 범위 내의 사용자만 신규 서비스를 볼 수 있도록 하는 시스템 및 방법에 관한 연구로, 제안된 하아브리드 방송 서비스 송출 시스템은 방송 데이터 수신부, DMB 전송 프레임 멀티플렉서, DMB 전송 프레임 송출부, 부가 정보 송출부로 구성되며, 방송 데이터 수신부는 신규 서비스에 대한 방송 데이터 및 부가 정보를 수신한다. 또한, 송출 시스템의 DMB 전송 프레임 멀티플렉서는 방송 데이터를 이용하여 신규 서비스 앙상블(Ensemble)을 구성하는 DMB 전송프레임을 생성하며, DMB 전송 프레임 송출부는 생성된 DMB 전송 프레임을 송출하고, 부가 정보 송출부는 수신된 신규 서비스의 부가 정보를 인터넷망을 통해 송출한다. 따라서, 제안된 하이브리드 방송 시스템의 경우, 전시회나 박물관 등 지역적 범위가 제한되는 환경에서 와이파이 등의 근거리 인터넷망을 이용하여 해당 범위 내의 사용자만 신규서비스를 볼 수 있으며, 관람객이 아닌 일반 사용자들 본인의 단말기가 채널스캔을 실행했을 경우, 원하지 않는 행사관련 방송 데이터가 수신 채널 목록에 저장되지 않도록 할 수 있다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.655-665
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• 2013

Hybrid digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) is a next-generation mobile TV system that combines broadcasting and wireless communication networks and can provide various high-quality multimedia services. However, if a system adheres to the current standard of transmitting the DMB content in the form of MPEG2-TS through wireless networks, it results in a burden on the network due to low transmission efficiency. The reasons for the low transmission efficiency are as follows. First, due to its constant bitrate characteristic, DMB MPEG2-TS includes a considerable amount of needless information, such as NULL packets and stuffing bytes. Second, due to the inflexibility of the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) standard, one cannot fully utilize the maximum transmission unit of the network when converting MPEG2-TS to RTP stream for transmission. This paper proposes a new transmission scheme that resolves these problems. Experiment results show that the proposed scheme improves data bitrate transmission efficiency by 8% to 36%, compared to the standard scheme, in the streaming of various real-DMB contents.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.75-77
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• 2009

깊이 영상 기반 렌더링(DIBR) 방법은 제한된 대역폭을 가진 지상파 DMB(T-DMB)환경에서의 3 차원 서비스를 위한 방법으로 연구되고 있다. T-DMB 환경에서의 DIBR 기반의 3 차원 서비스는 기준 영상과 깊이 영상을 전송 받아 가상의 좌/우 시점 영상을 생성한다. 가상의 좌/우 시점 영상을 생성하기 위해서는 콘텐츠와 디스플레이 환경에 따른 파라미터 값이 주어져야 한다. 하지만 많은 연구에서 표준화된 파라미터 값을 제시하지 않음으로써 렌더링의 기준이 모호해지고, 임의로 정해진 파라미터 값에 의해 DIBR 결과가 크게 달라진다. 또한 콘텐츠에 따른 파라미터 값을 임의로 설정하게 되면 추가적인 정보를 전송해야 하는 문제점이 발생한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 다양한 콘텐츠에 적용 가능하면서도 T-DMB 환경에 적합하도록 계산량을 줄일 수 있는 표준화된 파라미터 설정 방법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.3 s.32
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• pp.363-378
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• 2006

The Digital Multimedia Broadcasting(DMB) system is developed to offer high quality audio-visual multimedia contents to the mobile environment. The system adopts MPEG-4 standard for the main video, audio and other media format. It also adopts the MPEG-4 scene description for interactive multimedia contents. The animated and interactive contents can be actualized by BIFS(Binary Format for Scene), the binary format for scene description that refers to the spatio-temporal specifications and behaviors of the individual objects. As more interactive contents are, the scene description is also needed more high bitrate. However, the bandwidth for allocating meta data such as scene description is restrictive in mobile environment. On one hand, the DMB terminal starts demultiplexing content and decodes individual media by its own decoder. After decoding each media, rendering module presents each media stream according to the scene description. Thus the BIFS stream corresponding to the scene description should be decoded and parsed in advance of presenting media data. With these reason, the transmission delay of BIFS stream causes the delay of whole audio-visual scene presentation although the audio or video streams are encoded in very low bitrate. This paper presents the effective optimization technique for adapting BIFS stream into expected MPEG-2 TS bitrate without any bandwidth waste and avoiding the transmission delay of the initial scene description for interactive DMB contents.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.439-452
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• 2014

This paper suggests the method to extend service area by using the transmit offset delay in T-DMB single frequency network (SFN). In general, synchronization of the transmit time of all site can be done by using the reference clock of GPS, which dose not reflect the details geographical characteristics and transmit specifications of each site. Applying the site-specific transmit offset delay, we could extend the service area of SFN T-DMB. Applying the transmit offset delay, it is found that the signal quality in the region of weak receive field strength was improved and upto 4~8 km service area expansion was achieved by satisfying the minimum field strength ($45dB{\mu}V/m$) recommended by the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). Site-specific offset delay was calculated considering the geographic service area characteristics, distribution of electric field strength between neighboring sites and site-specific service target area. Experiments were carried out in order to analyze impact of calculated offset delay on the T-DMB SFN and also to confirm that the offset delay extends T-DMB service coverage. The experiment was done in metropolitan T-DMB service areas.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.491-498
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• 2012

Recently, many papers have been proposed in order to improve the OFDM system performance in T-DMB DOCR (Digital On Channel Repeater), by using removing the feedback signal so that the transmitter power can be increased or by using the equalizer to remove ICI. Despite these efforts, however, signal quality at the receiving terminal has not been improved because of constellation smearing in T-DMB DOCR. In this paper, in order to suppress constellation smearing, we propose an effective equalizer algorithm that can improve system performance. We perform adaptive channel estimation and non-coherent decision directed noise cancellation method that can estimate the channel subsequently during data symbols period in the frequency domain. So we can obtain better quality of the signal at the receiving terminal. In order to secure QoS(Quality of Service) required in T-DMB handsets, we evaluate SNR and BER in T-DMB DOCR(Digital On Channel Repeater) and verified by simulation. In this simulation results, this system is satisfied the performance of BER=$10^{-5}$ at less than SNR=14 dB at the receiver after compensation of phase noise -18 dBc.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.689-692
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• 2008

Hierarchical modulation has been considered for achieving higher data rates in Terrestrial-DMB(T-DMB) systems. And for achieving a higher data rates transmission, the low-priority (LP) data, which is used to carry additional data, such as video data, audio data and textual data, should be perfectly decoded in a certain value of $E_b/N_o$. Unfortunately, the man-made noise badly affects the high-priority (HP) symbol, which is used to carry the conventional data in the existed T-DMB system; and since the advanced T-DMB system is proposed to fit for the legacy T-DMB receivers, the low-priority symbols in the hierarchical modulation are much worse affected by the neighbors, who are both in the same quadrant. Because of the feature that mentioned previously, the turbo code has been considered to deal with the LP data. And due to the degradation which caused by the shortened symbol distance, the error performance of LP data is not sufficient by only using the turbo code. In this paper, we propose a Reed-Solomon code used outside of turbo code, and with the turbo code, it becomes a concatenated code. In this paper, there are some simulation results, within the comparison of those performances, we can see how a Reed-Solomon code is utilized for degradation of error performance which is caused by the hierarchical constellation, and how to design a Reed-Solomon code which is suitable for improving the degradation of error performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.7 s.110
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• pp.665-672
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose and fabricate the dual-band microstrip patch antenna with parasitic patch for S-DMB(Satellite-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) and ITS (Intelligent Transport System) services. The measured - 10 dB bandwidth and the minimum return loss is 300 MHz and - 27 dB for S-DMB, 600 MHz and -17 dB for ITS, respectively. It is noticed that the measured and simulated results are agreed well. The S-DMB antenna has conical beam pattern in the vertical plane and has omni-directional beam pattern in the horizontal plane. The conical beam pattern has the maximum gain about 4.2 dBi when ${\theta}$ is $45^{\circ}$ at the center frequency of 2.6 GHz. The ITS antenna has directional beam pattern in the vertical plane that has maximum gain about 6.4 dBi when ${\theta}$ is $0^{\circ}$ at the center frequency of 5.8 GHz.