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Design and Evaluation of a VOD Buffer Management Algorithm Using Fixed Prefetch and Drop Strategics (고정 선반입과 Drop 정책을 이용한 VOD 버퍼 관리 알고리즘 설계 및 평가)

  • 박규석;문병철
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.101-111
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    • 2000
  • Resource managing is very difficult because the multimedia data compressed by a VBR shows a bit rate change within high range, Therefore, the VOD server should use the prefetch method in order to improve system utilization, such as prefetching data in the overload period by a meta table that is the reference pattern of MPEG data which is analyzed off line. This prefetch method will not result in a failure to display at overload, however, this method can not keep a minimum loading time and low costs, because the prefetched section is being maximizes. In this paper, we suggest another method that the system utilization can be improved using the fixed prefetched section to keep loading time and costs under a constant range at overload. But this technique will result in a failure to display, due to fixed prefetched section. Rut, in this paper we suggest a drop module that drops only the B frame in the GOP, consistently distributes a lower drop in media quality for the user.

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A Study on the Effect of Energy Voucher Program on the Consumption and Expenditure of User Households (에너지바우처제도가 수급자 가구의 소비·지출에 미친 영향 연구)

  • Lee, Hyunjoo;Kim, Ji-hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.331-338
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    • 2021
  • This study used data from the 10rd and 15th year of the Korean Welfare Panel to evaluate the effects of the Energy Voucher Program(EVP) on the consumption and expenditure of EVP users' households. The study consisted of program group using EVP and control group not using. Chi-square and t-test were used for the characteristic differences among the groups, and the difference of consumption expenditure was identified by multiple regression analysis. As a result, EVP had a statistically significant effect on the health care costs of EVP users' households, resulting in an increase in health care costs(𝛽=3.06). However, there was no statistically significant effect on the total cost of living, basic cost, education cost, and recreation/entertainment cost. Therefore, in order to increase the effectiveness of the EVP system, it is required to improve the EVP system by expanding the level of benefits and easing the qualification standards for the eligibility for benefits.

Optimization of Data Placement using Principal Component Analysis based Pareto-optimal method for Multi-Cloud Storage Environment

  • Latha, V.L. Padma;Reddy, N. Sudhakar;Babu, A. Suresh
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.248-256
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    • 2021
  • Now that we're in the big data era, data has taken on a new significance as the storage capacity has exploded from trillion bytes to petabytes at breakneck pace. As the use of cloud computing expands and becomes more commonly accepted, several businesses and institutions are opting to store their requests and data there. Cloud storage's concept of a nearly infinite storage resource pool makes data storage and access scalable and readily available. The majority of them, on the other hand, favour a single cloud because of the simplicity and inexpensive storage costs it offers in the near run. Cloud-based data storage, on the other hand, has concerns such as vendor lock-in, privacy leakage and unavailability. With geographically dispersed cloud storage providers, multicloud storage can alleviate these dangers. One of the key challenges in this storage system is to arrange user data in a cost-effective and high-availability manner. A multicloud storage architecture is given in this study. Next, a multi-objective optimization problem is defined to minimise total costs and maximise data availability at the same time, which can be solved using a technique based on the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) and obtain a set of non-dominated solutions known as the Pareto-optimal set.. When consumers can't pick from the Pareto-optimal set directly, a method based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is presented to find the best answer. To sum it all up, thorough tests based on a variety of real-world cloud storage scenarios have proven that the proposed method performs as expected.

A study on metaverse of China's Dunhuang Frescoes through COSPACES EDU (COSPACES EDU를 통한 중국 둔황 원시벽화 메타버스 연구)

  • Liu, Bo-Ya;Oh, Seung-Hwan
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.11
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    • pp.463-470
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    • 2021
  • Due to natural and human factors, dunhuang frescoes in China have gradually degenerated. China has conducted digital transformation of frescoes since 1990. However, it requires expensive research costs. Most of the visitors passively accept transformation contents and lack subjective participation. The paper focuses on produces a prototype of Dunhuang frescoes on the CoSpaces EDU. It was implemented as a metaverse through procedures such as transforming the cave into 3D, mapping images to the cave model and developing CoBlocks. The research puts forward a more specific methodology without expensive costs of development. The paper makes it easier to realize the immersive and interactive virtual Dunhuang frescoes world, to improve the tourism contents and educational effect. This research carries on the statistics to the product result which develops according to the user experience of 100 different ages, has obtained the good feedback. The research results need to be improved is to strengthen the processing of graphic details. Therefore, Optimization and improvement of the result will be carried out in the future research.

Design of Initial Decision-Making Support Interface for Crop Facility Cultivation (작물 시설재배 초기 의사결정 지원 인터페이스 설계)

  • Kim, Kuk-Jong;Cho, Yong-Yoon
    • Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2022
  • Recently, the number of people wishing to return to farming is increasing, However, the lack of farming experience and management information of returnees is one of the main reasons for increasing the probability of agricultural failure. This study proposes an interface to support early facility cultivation management decision-making for returnees who want facility cultivation. The proposed interface is designed with UML(Unified Modeling Language) and provides key decision-making information such as land/crop suitability, land/facility costs, and management costs according to input data such as cultivation areas, selected crops, and cultivation types selected by the user. Through the proposed interface, facility cultivators can effectively and quickly acquire initial decision-making information for facility cultivation in the desired target area.

Korean V2G Technology Development for Flexible Response to Variable Renewable Energy (변동성 재생e 유연 대응을 위한 한국형 V2G 기술개발)

  • Son, Chan;Yu, Seung-duck;Lim, You-seok;Park, Ki-jun
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.329-333
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    • 2021
  • V2G (Vehicle to Grid) technology for an EV (Electric Vehicle) has been assumed as so promising in a near future for its useful energy resource concept but still yet to be developed around the world for specific service purposes through various R&BD projects. Basically, V2G returns power stored in vehicle at a cheaper or unused time to the grid at more expensive or highly peaked time, and is accordingly supposed to provide such roles like peak shaving or load levelling according to customer load curve, frequency regulation or ancillary reserves, and balancing power fluctuation to grid from the weather-sensitive renewable sources like wind or solar generations. However, it has recently been debated over its prominent usage as diffusing EVs and the required charging/discharging infrastructure, partially for its addition of EV ownership costs with more frequent charging/discharging events and user inconvenience with a relative long-time participation in the previously engaged V2G program. This study suggests that a Korean DR (Demand Response) service integrated V2G system especially based upon a dynamic charge/pause/discharge scheme newly proposed to ISO/IEC 15118 rev. 2 can deal with these concerns with more profitable business model, while fully making up for the additional component (ex. battery) and service costs. It also indicates that the optimum economic, environmental, and grid impacts can be simulated for this V2G-DR service particularly designed for EV aggregators (V2G service providers) by proposing a specific V2G engagement program for the mediated DR service providers and the distributed EV owners.

Design and Implementation of a Cloud-based Linux Software Practice Platform (클라우드 기반 리눅스 SW 실습 플랫폼의 설계 및 구현 )

  • Hyokyung Bahn;Kyungwoon Cho
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.67-71
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    • 2023
  • Recently, there are increasing cases of managing software labs by assigning virtual PCs in the cloud instead of physical PCs to each student. In this paper, we design and implement a Linux-based software practice platform that allows students to efficiently build their environments in the cloud. In our platform, instructors can create and control virtual machine templates for all students at once, and students practice on their own machines as administrators. Instructors can also troubleshoot each machine and restore its state. Meanwhile, the biggest obstacle to implementing this approach is the difficulty of predicting the costs of cloud services instantly. To cope with this situation, we propose a model that can estimate the cost of cloud resources used. By using daemons in each user's virtual machine, we instantly estimate resource usage and costs. Although our model has very low overhead, the predicted results are very close to the actual resource usage measured by cloud service providers. To further validate our model, we used the proposed platform in a Linux practice lecture for a semester and confirmed that the proposed model is very accurate.

Implementation of Public Address System Using Anchor Technology

  • Seungwon Lee;Soonchul Kwon;Seunghyun Lee
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2023
  • A public address (PA) system installed in a building is a system that delivers alerts, announcements, instructions, etc. in an emergency or disaster situation. As for the products used in PA systems, with the development of information and communication technology, PA products with various functions have been introduced to the market. PA systems recently launched in the market may be connected through a single network to enable efficient management and operation, or use voice recognition technology to deliver quick information in case of an emergency. In addition, a system capable of locating a user inside a building using a location-based service and guiding or responding to a safe area in the event of an emergency is being launched on the market. However, the new PA systems currently on the market add some functions to the existing PA system configuration to make system operation more convenient, but they do not change the complex PA system configuration to reduce facility costs, maintenance, and management costs. In this paper, we propose a novel PA system configuration for buildings using audio networks and control hierarchy over peer-to-peer (Anchor) technology based on audio over IP (AoIP), which simplifies the complex PA system configuration and enables convenient operation and management. As a result of the study, through the emergency signal processing algorithm, fire broadcasting was made possible according to the detection of the existence of a fire signal in the Anchor system. In addition, the control device of the PA system was replaced with software to reduce the equipment installation cost, and the PA system configuration was simplified. In the future, it is expected that the PA system using Anchor technology will become the standard for PA facilities.

An Analysis of the Effect of Platform Information Quality and Customer Information Quality on Customer Loyalty to Online to Offline Platforms (O2O 플랫폼 충성도에 플랫폼 정보 품질과 고객 정보품질이 미치는 영향 분석)

  • Park, Jun Sung;Park, Heejun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.23-42
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of two types of information quality, which are platform-oriented information quality and customer-oriented information quality, on customers' decision-making processes in the Online to offline (O2O) platform environment. Grounded in the product brokering efficiency model, which encompasses screening cost, evaluation cost, and decision quality, a model framework was developed. Furthermore, this study explores how these decision-making processes affect customer loyalty. Methods: Given that food delivery apps are the most widely used O2O service in Korea, this study targeted users of these apps for data analysis. We conducted hypothesis testing through a purposive sampling methodology focusing on food delivery app users. A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling analysis was conducted to analyze the data. The data collection occurred via an online survey from October to December 2021, with a total of 212 respondents participating. Results: The results of this study revealed the significant role of information quality in helping customers' decision processes while using food delivery apps. Specifically, it was found that platform-oriented information positively influences decision quality, while customer-oriented information significantly affects both the reduction of evaluation cost and the enhancement of decision quality. Additionally, the study indicated that lower evaluation costs and higher decision quality lead to increased platform loyalty. However, a reduction in screening cost did not have a significant impact on platform loyalty. Conclusion: While previous studies have overlooked the existence of two sides, service provider and user, in a platform, this research holds significance in its analysis of how information quality impacts loyalty by utilizing the two kinds of information quality. Practitioners can enhance customer loyalty to the platform by enriching customer-oriented information, thereby reducing customers' evaluation costs and encouraging more loyal usage of the platform.

An Efficient Broadcast Encryption System with Delegation of Decryption (복호화 위임을 제공하는 효율적인 브로드캐스트 암호시스템)

  • Han, Su Min;Park, Seung Hwan;Park, Jong Hwan;Lee, Dong Hoon
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.758-770
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    • 2013
  • In a Broadcast Encryption System, a sender sends an encrypted message to a large set of receivers at once over an insecure channel and it enables only users in a target set to decrypt the message with their private keys. In 2005, Boneh et al. proposed a fully collusion-resistant public key broadcast encryption in which the ciphertext and the privatekey sizes are constant. In general, pairing-based broadcast encryption system is efficient in bandwidth and storing aspects than non-pairing based broadcast encryption system, however, it requires many computational costs that resource-constrained devices is not suit to be applied. In this paper, we propose a Broadcast Encryption scheme(called BEWD) that user can decrypt a ciphertext more efficiently. The scheme is based on Boneh et al.scheme. More precisely, it reduces receiver's computational costs by delegating pairing computation to a proxy server which computation is required to receiver in Boneh et al.scheme. Furthermore, the scheme enables a user to check if the proxy server compute correctly. We show that our scheme is secure against selective IND-RCCA adversaries under l-BDHE assumption.