• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1617-1625
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• 2010

Recently, the standardization of SVC technology which can provide adaptive video quality in diverse service environments has been completed. This paper proposes a layered encryption technique which takes into account the prioritized layer characteristics of SVC and control constant encryption complexity satisfying the target computational complexity. In particular, it analyzes the importance of NAL unit in the SVC video layer and suggests a method to apply appropriate encryption complexity proper for it. The effectiveness of the proposed method is proved through the comparison of time required for encryption and the reconstructed video quality using imperfect decryption key.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.280-286
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• 2004

The widespread use of the Internet and the maturing of digital video technology have led to an increase in various streaming media application. However, new classes of hosts such as mobile devices are gaining popularity, while the transmission became more heterogeneous. Due to the characteristics of mobile networks such as low speed, high error bit rate, etc., the applications over the wireless channel have different needs and limitations from desktop computers. An intermediary between two communicating endpoints to hide the heterogeneous network links is thought as one of the best approaches. In this paper, we adopted the concept of inter-packet gap and the sequence number between continuously received packets as the error discriminator, and designed an adaptive packet sizing mechanism to improve the network efficiency under varying channel conditions. Based on the proposed mechanism, the packetization scheme with error protection is proposed to scalable encoded video delivery. Finally, simulation results reveal that our proposed mechanism can react to the varying BER conditions with better network efficiency and gain the obvious improvement to video quality for stored MPEG-4 FGS video delivery.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.2075-2078
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• 2002

Internet became the most popular network in spite of its weakness in realtime multimedia service. Many experts believe that the Internet has the potential to become the main multimedia distribution network of the near future. Currently, it does not provide any (BoS guarantees and, even when it does, guaranteed quality delivery of video may turn out to be too expensive. Unavoidable packet losses and delay jitter caused by congestion in a best effort delivery environment require use of intelligent transport techniques for effective video delivery. According to market needs of better quality of service (QoS) fur realtime multimedia services over Internet, they have been standardizing RSVP, IntServ, and DiffServ This paper combines the benefits of QoS mechanisms such as RSVP/IntServ with scalable video encoding. We propose that more important bit stream is given more priority such that limited network resources are guaranteed far the stream. Various prioritizing approaches are proposed and compared to normal approach by using Network Simulator. The calculated QoS parameters such as packet loss rate are used to calculate degree of degradation in video quality. In this Paper, proposed methods can be implemented adaptively to Von protocol, such as H.323, SIP.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.111-113
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 SVC(Scalable Video Coding) 및 MVC(Multiview Video Coding) 등의 다계층 비디오의 효율적인 적응 HTTP 스트리밍을 위한 MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream) 헤더의 확장을 제안한다. 먼저 TS로 다중화한 SVC/MVC를 HTTP를 통하여 스트리밍 할 경우 계층별 적응 스트리밍을 지원하기 위한 기존 TS의 한계점을 분석하고, TS 헤더의 확장을 통하여 TS 레벨에서 효율적인 적응을 제공하는 시그널링 기법을 제시한다. 본 논문의 제안 기법은 TS 헤더의 private_data를 추가적으로 정의하여 스케일러빌리티 및 뷰 정보를 기술함으로써 TS 단위로 스케일러블 계층 및 뷰 간 적응 스트리밍을 제공한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.389-391
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• 2012

오늘 날 인터넷 상에서 가장 많은 비중을 차지하는 비디오 컨텐츠는 그 비중이 더욱 증가할 것으로 예상되고 있으며, 비디오의 특성상 끊김없는 서비스 제공이 필요하다. 이러한 상황에서 컨텐츠 이름 기반의 네트워크인 CCN은 사용자가 요구한 컨텐츠를 중계노드마다 캐싱하여 중계노드에서도 요청자에게 직접 컨텐츠를 제공할 수 있다. 하지만 CCN 상에서 적응적 비디오 스트리밍 서비스를 하기 위해서는 동일 컨텐츠에 대한 다양한 비트율의 비디오 컨텐츠를 저장 하고 있어야 한다. 본 연구는 H.264/SVC(scalable video coding)를 CCN 망에 적용하여 전송성능을 분석하고 효율적인 적응적 스트리밍 방식을 제안한다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.353-357
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• 2004

무선 인터넷을 통한 멀티미디어 서비스의 급격한 증가와 이를 바탕으로 한 복합적인 멀티미디어 서비스가 기본적인 스트리밍 기숙을 넘어서 다양한 네트워크 환경에 적응적인 서비스가 가능한 지능적인 단말기 등으로 변화하고 있고 이러한 서비스를 위한 시스템의 구성 및 효율적인 모델, 그리고 차세대 복합적인 네트워크 망과의 연동을 위한 다양한 장비와 기술들이 연구되고 발전하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 무선 환경에서의 멀티미디어 스트리밍 시스템의 QoS (Quality of Service)를 보장하기 위해 단말에 대한 신호 대 잡음비 (Signal to Noise Ratio SNR) 기반의 패킷 스케줄링과 이에 따른 계층화 비디오 기법을 적용하여 시스템을 구성하였다. 이를 위해 프록시가 네트워크 및 단말의 환경에 적응적인 멀티미디어 스트리밍 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 프레임워크 모델을 제시하고, 빈번한 손실과 지연이 발생하는 무선 환경에 보다 적응적으로 극복할 수 있는 스트리밍 기법을 제안하여 적용함으로써 기존의 시스템에 비해 효율적인 멀티미디어 스트리밍이 가능하도록 설계하고 실험하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.60-70
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• 2006

Currently, Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is being standardized. By using scalability of SVC, QoS managed video streaming service is enabled in heterogeneous networks even with only one original bitstream. But current SVC is insufficient to dynamic video conversion for the scalability, thereby the adaptation of bitrate to meet a fluctuating network condition is limited. In this paper, we propose dynamic full-scalability conversion method for QoS adaptive video streaming in H.264/AVC SVC. To accomplish full scalability dynamic conversion, we propose corresponding bitstream extraction, encoding and decoding schemes. On the encoder, we newly insert the IDR NAL to solve the problems of spatial scalability conversion. On the extractor, we analyze the SVC bitstream to get the information which enable dynamic extraction. By using this information, real time extraction is achieved. Finally, we develop the decoder so that it can manage changing bitrate to support real time full-scalability. The experimental results showed that dynamic full-scalability conversion was verified and it was necessary for time varying network condition.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.10-19
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• 2012

Seamless streaming of multimedia content that ensures Quality of Service over heterogeneous networks has been a desire for many multimedia services, for which the multimedia contents should be adapted to usage environments such as network characteristics, terminal capabilities, and user preferences. Scalability in video coding is a good feature to meet the requirement of heterogeneous networks. In this paper, we propose a dynamic adaptation scheme of H.264/AVC SVC bit-stream using the MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation (DIA) tool. MPEG-21 DIA framework provides systematic solutions in choosing an adaptation operation to given conditions and supports interoperable video adaptation. The experiment results show that the proposed adaptation scheme provides QoS-enabled delivery and consumption of SVC with time-varying constraints of network, terminal, and user preference, in a robust and efficient way. In particular, the proposed adaptation scheme is proved to work well with very low delay under the condition that the variation rate of the given network bandwidth is upto 62%.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.425-436
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• 2009

In recent years, the user demands have increased for multimedia service of high quality over the broadband convergence network. These rising demands for high quality multimedia service led the popularization of various user terminals and large scale display equipments, which needs a variety type of QoS (Quality of Service). In order to support demands for QoS, numerous research projects are in progress both from the perspective of network as well as end system; For example, at the network perspective, QoS guaranteeing by improving of internet performance such as Active Queue Management, while at the end system perspective, SVC (Scalable Video Coding) encoding scheme to guarantee media quality. However, existing AQM algorithms have problems which do not guarantee QoS, because they did not consider the essential characteristics of video encoding schemes. In this paper, it is proposed to solve this problem by deploying the TS- AQM (Temporal Scalability Active Queue Management) which employs the differentiated packet dropping for dependency of the temporal level among the frames, based on SVC encoding characteristics by exploiting the TID (Temporal ID) field of the SVC NAL unit header. The proposed TS-AQM guarantees multimedia service quality through video decoding reliability for SVC streaming service, by differentiated packet dropping when congestion exists.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.3B
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• pp.380-389
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• 2010

Since the internet is intend to be the best effort service, the system that stream a large amount of high quality medias need a techniques to overcome the network status for implementation. In this paper, we design and implement a method that estimate quickly whether network permits the needed bandwidth of media and a method that control QoS through that. Presented system uses Relative One-Way Delay(ROWD) trend in the case of the former, and leverages temporal encoding among Scalable Video Coding(SVC) that is apt to apply real time comparatively in the case of the latter. The streaming server classifies the medias by real time to several rates and begins transmission from top-level and is reported ROWD trend periodically from the client. In case of the server reported only 'Increase Trend', the sever decides that the current media exceeds the available bandwidth and downgrades the next media level. The system uses probe packet of difference quantity of the target level and the present level for upgrading the media level. In case of the server reported only 'No Increase Trend' by the ROWD trend response of the probe packet from client, the media level is upgraded. The experiment result in a fiber to the home(FTTH) environment shows progress that proposed system adapts faster in change of available bandwidth and shows that quality of service also improves.