• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.2513-2530
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• 2021

With the fast development of information and communication technologies, video streaming services and applications are increasing rapidly. However, the network condition is volatile. In order to provide users with better quality of service, it is necessary to develop an accurate and low-complexity model for Quality of Experience (QoE) prediction of time-varying video. Memory effects refer to the psychological influence factor of historical experience, which can be taken into account to improve the accuracy of QoE evaluation. In this paper, we design subjective experiments to explore the impact of Short-Term Memory (STM) on QoE. The experimental results show that the user's real-time QoE is influenced by the duration of previous viewing experience and the expectations generated by STM. Furthermore, we propose analytical models to determine the relationship between intrinsic video quality, expectation and real-time QoE. The proposed models have better performance for real-time QoE prediction when the video is transmitted in a fluctuate network. The models are capable of providing more accurate guidance for improving the quality of video streaming services.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.360-368
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• 2009

세계적으로 가입자망의 고도화 및 광대역화가 경쟁적으로 추진되고, 이에 따른 신규 서비스도 활성화되고 있는 추세이다. 국내 광통신 산업의 저변 확대와 육성 발전, 차세대 장비 개발, 광가입자망 기반 고품질 서비스 및 플랫폼 개발의 일환으로, ETRI(Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)에서는 자체적으로 FTTH(Fiber-To-the-Home) 표준 BMT(Bench Mark Test) 테스트베드와 네트워크 운영센터 및 IPTV 서비스 장비로 FTTH 서비스센터를 구축하고, 통신망사업자를 통하여 규모 있는 상용 광가입자망을 구축하고 연동하였다. 본 논문에서는 ETRI의 FTTH 서비스센터와 통신사업자의 상용 광가입자망 구축에 사용되는 FTTH E-PON(Ethernet Passive Optical Network) 시스템에 대해 QoS(Qualiy of Service) 기반의 TPS(Triple Play Service)와 QoE(Quality of Experience) 측면에서 시험한 성능 평가 결과를 기술하였다.

• 산업공학
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.95-103
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• 2009

During the past few years, design of experiments (DOE) has been gaining acceptance in the telecommunications research community as a mean for designing and analyzing experiments economically and efficiently. In addition, the need for introducing a systematic robust design methodology (i.e., one of the most popular DOE methodologies) to network simulations has been increasing. In this paper, we present an architecture of voice over IP (VoIP) application and the E-Model for calculating the perceived quality of service (QoS). Then, we apply the Taguchi robust design methodology to optimize the perceived QoS of VoIP application, and describe the detailed step-by-step procedures. We have used ns-2 simulator to collect experimental data in which the SN ratio, a robustness measure, is analyzed to determine an optimal design condition. The analysis shows that "initial delay time in playout buffer" is a major control factor for ensuring robust behaviors of the perceived QoS of VoIP. Finally, we verify the proposed optimal design condition using a confirmation experiment.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.230-245
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• 2002

Usually the network-throughput maximization problem for constant-bit-rate (CBR) circuit-switched traffic is posed for a fixed offered load profile. Then choices of routes and of admission control policies are sought to achieve maximum throughput (usually under QoS constraints). However, similarly to the notion of channel “capacity,” it is also of interest to determine the “network capacity;” i.e., for a given network we would like to know the maximum throughput it can deliver (again subject to specified QoS constraints) if the appropriate traffic load is supplied. Thus, in addition to determining routes and admission controls, we would like to specify the vector of offered loads between each source/destination pair that “achieves capacity.” Since the combined problem of choosing all three parameters (i.e., offered load, admission control, and routing) is too complex to address, we consider here only the optimal determination of offered load for given routing and admission control policies. We provide an off-line algorithm, which is based on Lagrangian techniques that perform robustly in this rigorously formulated nonlinear optimization problem with nonlinear constraints. We demonstrate that significant improvement is obtained, as compared with simple uniform loading schemes, and that fairness mechanisms can be incorporated with little loss in overall throughput.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권2A호
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• pp.80-89
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• 2005

IEEE 802.11과 802.11e는 애드 혹 환경을 위해 DCF와 EDCA 모드를 제공한다. DCF와 EDCA 모드는 CSMA/CA를 사용하는 경쟁 기반의 프로토콜로써, 구현이 용이하고 시스템의 부하가 작은 경우에는 효율적으로 동작한다. 그러나 시스템의 부하가 증가할수록 충돌이 증가하여 그 성능이 현저하게 감소한다. 반면 제어 기반 동작 프로토콜인 PCF와 HCCA 모드는 스테이션들이 중앙 조정자의 폴링에 의하여 통제되고, 충돌이 발생하지 않는다. 그러나 시스템의 부하가 적을 때, 소수의 스테이션들만이 전송할 수 있는 기회를 가지기 때문에 효율적이지 않다. 보다 중요한 문제는 PCF와 HCCA 모드는 애드 혹 네트워크에서는 사용이 불가능하다는 것이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 경쟁 기반의 매커니즘을 수행하기 전에 폴링의 개념을 추가하여, 애드 혹 환경에서 QoS 제공을 위해 DCF와 EDCA 모드에 폴링 매커니즘을 적용한 우선순위 기반 분산 폴링 매커니즘 (Priority-based Distributed Polling Mechanism)을 제안한다. PDPM은 시스템의 부하가 큰 경우 대부분의 충돌을 피할 수 있는 장점을 가지며, 부하가 적을 경우는 경쟁 기반의 매커니즘을 유지할 수 있다. 또한 IEEE 802.11e와 비교하여 보다 적은 충돌과 높은 처리율을 제공한다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.245-248
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• 2005

Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 standard are widely spread for use nowadays. Traffic which are conveyed over the WLANs change rapidly from normal data such as Email and Web pages, to multimedia data of high resolution video and voice. To meet QoS (Quality of Service) required by these multimedia traffic, the IEEE 802 committee recently has developed a new standard, IEEE 802.11e. Current IEEE 802.11e, however, is not sufficient to support service differentiations and network performance enhancements, under a varying network environment experiencing as varying channel characteristics and high network loads. Recently, there have been much research to complement this deficiency of 802.11e standard. This paper surveys these research efforts.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.52-64
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• 1999

QoS monitoring is a kind of real-time systems which allows each level of the system to track the ongoing QoS levels achieved by the lower network layers. For these systems, real-time communications between corresponding transport protocol objects is essential for their correct behavior. When two or more entities are employed to perform a certain task as in the case of communication protocols, the capability to do so is called interoperability and considered as the essential aspect of correctness of communication systems. This paper describes a formal approach on modeling and interoperability test case generation of a real-time QoS monitoring protocol. For this, we specify the behavior of flow monitoring of transport layer QoS protocol, i.e., METS protocol, which is proposed to address QoS from an end-to-end's point of view, based on QoS architecture model which includes ATM net work in lower layers. We use a real-time Input/Output finite State Machine to model the behavior of real-time flow monitoring over time. From the modeled real-time I/OFSM, we generate interoperability test cases to check the correctness of METS protocol's flow monitoring behaviors for two end systems. A new approach to efficient interoperability testing is described and the method of interoperability test cases generation is shown with the example of METS protocol's flow monitoring. The current TTCN is not appropriate for testing real-time and multimedia systems. Because test events in TTCN are for message-based system and not for stream-based systems, the real-time in TTCN can only be approximated. This paper also proposes the notation of real-time Abstract Test Suite by means of real-time extension of TTCN. This approach gives the advantages that only a few syntactical changes are necessary, and TTCN and real-time TTCN are compatible. This formal approach on interoperability testing can be applied to the real-time protocols related to IMT-2000, B-ISDN and real-time systems.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.633-635
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• 2012

최근 이동통신 시스템 및 통신기술의 발달로 인해 동일 장소에서 동일 시간에 다양한 접속 네트워크에 접근이 가능하다. 또한 스마트폰과 같은 다양한 네트워크에 접속 할 수 있는 멀티인터페이스를 장착한 장치들이 등장하고 있다. 하지만 기존 네트워크 프로토콜은 단일인터페이스를 가정하고 구현되어 있다. 따라서 멀티인터페이스 환경에서 응용 서비스 요구에 맞는 네트워크 인터페이스를 선택할 수 있는 기능이 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 응용서비스가 요구하는 네트워크 품질에 맞는 최선의 네트워크를 선택할 수 있는 멀티인터페이스 기반 QoS 방법을 제안한다.

• 산업공학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.496-505
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• 1999

Quality of Service(QoS) is the collective effect of service performances and has a direct impact on customer satisfaction. Although QoS is subjective, network performance parameters contributing to QoS can be measured physically. Therefore overall customer satisfaction for each test condition of the performance parameters is evaluated by asking respondents to indicate his or her opinion on a five-category rating scale i.e., excellent, good, fair, poor, and unsatisfactory. The opinion data resulting from the test can then be used to measure and analyze QoS from the customers' viewpoints. In this papaer, we consider two methods for analyzing the opinion data: MOS method and Cumulative Probability Curve method. The former evaluates an arithmetic mean of the opinion scores which quantify the surveyed opinions of respondents. The latter uses graphical and analytical models which are based on the distribution of the opinions rather than an arithmetic mean. The advantages, disadvantages, and an alternative of each method are discussed, together with future directions of research.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.17-18
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• 2007

Mobile WiMAX technology is the key solution for providing high speed internet services at anytime and anywhere in mobile environments as 3.5th wireless technology between 3rd generation and 4th generation wireless technology, and the service demands shall be rapidly increased in future some years. This paper analyzed the QoS performance of Mobile WiMAX technology recommended by IEEE 802.16e specification under the restricted simulation conditions and environments. The major metrics for analyzing QoS performance of Mobile WiMAX are 1) total packet drop rates; 2) transmission / receive packet sizes; 3) end to end delay in node 2; 4) packet drop rate by mobile terminal mobility.