• TTA Journal
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• s.102
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• pp.124-134
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• 2005

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.188-198
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• 2018

With recent development of high-speed wide-area wireless networks and wide spread of highperformance wireless devices, the demand on seamless video streaming services in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network environments is ever increasing. To meet the demand and provide enhanced Quality of Experience (QoE) with mobile users, the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) has been actively studied to achieve QoE enhanced video streaming service in dynamic network environments. However, the existing DASH algorithm to select the quality of requesting video segments is based on a procedural algorithm so that it reveals a limitation to adapt its performance to dynamic network situations. To overcome this limitation this paper proposes a novel quality selection mechanism based on a Deep Q-Network (DQN) model, the DQN-based DASH ABR($DQN_{ABR}$) mechanism. The $DQN_{ABR}$ mechanism replaces the existing DASH ABR algorithm with an intelligent deep learning model which optimizes service quality to mobile users through reinforcement learning. Compared to the existing approaches, the experimental analysis shows that the proposed solution outperforms in terms of adapting to dynamic wireless network situations and improving QoE experience of end users.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.12C
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• pp.1251-1264
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• 2002

Currently, audio streaming services such as on-demand service and live service support only a limited number of clients. They also suffer from a lack of stability and degradation of service quality due to their inefficient use of network resources. Futhermore, since the streaming services usually do not consider dynamic services, they are very inconvenience to use. In order to resolve these drawbacks, we propose a novel audio streaming system based on MPEG-2 AAC file format which are facilitated with the network bandwidths efficiently. The proposed system supports QoS for audio streaming as well as guarantees a stability while streaming service is undergoing. Moreover, the system provides a dynamic interface which enables us to use the streaming service more easily and to manage streaming servers with convenient manner. On the contrary, most of the current available static interface streaming services are mainly depending only on a single fixed web page between client and server, which in consequence lead us to use unflexible static service environment. Our implementation results show the proposed system improves the performance compared to those of the currently existing systems that use MP3 file format. It also provides some benefits such as a stability of service and a easy to management of streaming servers.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.411-424
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• 2006

This paper presents a multimedia streaming platform for efficiently transmitting MPEG-4 content over IP networks. The platform includes an MPEG-4 compliant streaming server and client, supporting object-based representation of multimedia scenes, interactivity, and advanced encoding profiles defined by the ISO standard. For scalability purposes, we employ an application-layer multicast scheme for media transmission using overlay networks. The overlay network, governed by the central entity of the network distribution manager, is dynamically deployed according to a set of pre-defined criteria. The overlay network supports both broadcast delivery and video-on-demand content. The multimedia streaming platform is standards-compliant and utilizes widespread multimedia protocols such as MPEG-4, real-time transport protocol, real-time transport control protocol, and real-time streaming protocol. The design of the overlay network was architected with the goal of transparency to both the streaming server and the client. As a result, many commercial implementations that use industry-standard protocols can be plugged into the architecture relatively painlessly and can enjoy the benefits of the platform.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1182-1194
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• 2018

The Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP(DASH) is envisioned to evolve to meet an increasing demand on providing seamless video streaming services in the near future. The DASH performance heavily depends on the client's adaptive quality selection algorithm that is not included in the standard. The existing conventional algorithms are basically based on a procedural algorithm that is not easy to capture and reflect all variations of dynamic network and traffic conditions in a variety of network environments. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel quality selection mechanism based on the Deep Q-Network(DQN) model, the DQN-based DASH Adaptive Bitrate(ABR) mechanism. The proposed mechanism adopts a new reward calculation method based on five major performance metrics to reflect the current conditions of networks and devices in real time. In addition, the size of the consecutive video segment to be downloaded is also considered as a major learning metric to reflect a variety of video encodings. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism quickly selects a suitable video quality even in high error rate environments, significantly reducing frequency of quality changes compared to the existing algorithm and simultaneously improving average video quality during video playback.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.65-77
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• 2013

Recently the ratio of the Internet traffic generated by video streaming applications including video-on-demand (VOD) is getting higher and higher, while P2P-based naive content distribution has been the main source of the Internet traffic in the past. As a result, the paradigm of cooperatively distributed systems (e.g., P2P) is changing to support streaming applications. Most P2P assisted approaches for video streaming today are based on Bit Torrent thanks to its simplicity of implementation and easy adaptability. They, however, have immanent vulnerability to free-riding inherited from Bit Torrent, which inevitably hurts their performance under limited system resources with free-riding. This paper studies the weakness to free-riding of existing Bit Torrent-based video streaming applications and investigates the adaptability of T-Chain (which was originally designed to prevent free-riding in cooperatively distributed systems) to video streaming applications. Our experiment results show that the video streaming approach based on T-Chain outperforms most existing Bit Torrent-based ones by 60% on average under limited system resources with free-riding.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.218-222
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• 2003

Internet has made it easer to get information, also distribute and exchange it among people. It brings about issues regarding intelligent property and copyright threats. h a multimedia commerce such as video-on-demand, Internet broadcasting services, only users who have rights for use of these services should be able to access and watch those video or movies In this paper, we propose DRM(Digital Right Management) system for P4 -based streaming and MP4 encryption algorithm for proposed DRM system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.445-447
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• 2001

인터넷 이용의 기하급수적인 증가와 정보통신 기술의 비약적인 발전으로 인하여 과거의 정적인 정보의 표현 및 전달에 비해 택스트, 이미지, 오디오 및 비디오가 결합된 멀티미디어 서비스의 요구가 급격히 증가하고 있다. 특히 최근 초고속 통신망의 발달로 인한 인터넷 망 (network)상에서의 방송과 통신이 융합되는 추세 또한 가속화되고 있다. 이에 스트리밍(Streaming) 기술을 기반으로 한 멀티미디어 데이터의 서비스와 데이터 정보의 푸시(push) 기술을 결합하여 인터넷과 고속망상에서의 원활한 실시간 전송 서비스를 위하여 3-tier 방식의 인터넷 방송 서버 시스템을 제시하였다. 본 논문에서는 JMF(Java Media Framework)와 RTP를 이용하여 전체 미디어 서비스를 제공하여, VOD(Video on Demand) 및 실시간 방송 서비스를 제공하는 분산 멀티미디어 스트리밍 전송 시스템을 구현하였다. VOD(Video on Demand) 및 실시간 방송 서비스를 제공하는 분산 멀티미디어 스트리밍 전송 시스템을 구현하였다. VOD 서버, 실시간 방송 서버 및 푸시 서버에서 멀티미디어 컨텐츠를 제공하고, 클라이언트로의 효율적이고 안정적인 서비스를 위하여 미들웨어에서의 부하분배 및 채널 정보의 관리를 가능하게 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.655-658
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• 2007

It is difficult to provide a video on demand (VoD) service to a large number of users via the Internet. This is due to the characteristics of VoD, which require a large bandwidth for a long playing time. The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) concept is proposed to increase the scalability of the VoD service. Many studies have been undertaken to solve this problem. But its success is still quite limited technically, these research have been deployed in a rush, mostly based on practicality and instability. A system which uses a distributed VoD streaming scheme over P2P network is proposed to support media streaming.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.765-768
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• 2007

P2P Video-on-Demand (VoD) is becoming a popular service in the Internet. The first deployments are already in place, and millions of customers worldwide are already using this new medium. But its success is still quite limited and technically, these researches have been deployed in a rush, mostly based on practicality and instability. This paper studies the advantages and potential problems of VoD in peer-to-peer (P2P) network, we propose a system which uses a distributed VoD streaming scheme over P2P network to support media streaming.