• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.130-132
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• 1998

기존의 VOD 시스템을 확대하여 원거리에 존재하는 서비스 제공자로부터에서 사용자에세 더 빠른 응답서비스를 제공하고, 장애가 발생하더라도 사용자에게 중단 없이 제공되도록 하기 위하여 프락시 서버를 두었는데, 특히 일정 지역내 존재하는 프락시 서버들간에 틀러스터를 형성하여 단일 프락시 서버로 만족할 수 없는 다수의 클라이언트로부터의 요구를 받아들이고 cache사이즈와 감소와, 더 높은 hit tate를 제공하도록 한다. 또한 이 클러스터내의 프로그램관리를 위해 비디오데이터에 대한 정보를 hint로 저장하여 각 프락시에서 관리함으로써 네트웍을 통해 사용자까지 실시간으로 비디오 데이터를 전송이 가증하고, 직접 데이터를 전달 없이 클러스터를 효율적으로 관리할 수 있도록 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.933-936
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• 2005

네트워크 기술의 발전과 멀티미디어 데이터의 전송을 가능하게 되어 VOD 서버등의 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 리눅스 시스템에 다윈 스트리밍 서버와 DSM(Distributed Shared Memory)을 구축하고, 구축된 시스템을 이용하여 DSM 기반에서 다윈 스트리밍 서버가 실행이 될 수 있도록 설계한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.4
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• pp.227-238
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• 2008

Recently, as network environment has broadened, the demands on VOD have been increased. The VOD services can be categorized into two types, RVOD and NVOD. Practical VOD services adopt one of them exclusively. Since a method using only one of RVOD and NVOD is not able to deal with frequently variable demand of clients, it leads to a result of overload on a server and a waste of server bandwidth. The efficiency of the network resource usage becomes lower. Hence this paper presents a study on the protocol for efficient VOD services. We propose a new protocol appliable for the existing VOD service algorithm, analyze its performance through simulation, and developed server/client systems applying the new protocol. We propose a mode switching protocol combined with protocols used in RVOD and NVOD. The proposed protocol is not able only to control both RVOD and NVOD but also to change the mode between RVOD and NVOD. As a result of using the proposed protocol to meet frequently variable demand, server bandwidth can be used efficiently. Especially, it can be applied to the existing VOD service algorithms. Therefore, we expect that the proposed protocol in this paper will be widely used in emerging VOD markets.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.12A no.5 s.95
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• pp.341-354
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• 2005

The main bottleneck for large scale VOD systems is bandwidth of storage or network I/O due to the large number of client requests simultaneously, and then efficient techniques are required to solve the bottleneck problem of the VOD system. Patching is one of the most efficient techniques to overcome the bottleneck of the VOD system through the use of multicast scheme. In this paper, we propose a new patching scheme, called P2P proxy patching, for improving the typical patching technique by jointly using the prefix caching and P2P proxy. In our proposed scheme, each client plays a role in a proxy to multicast a regular stream to other clients that request the same video stream. Due to the use of the P2P proxy and the prefix caching, the client requests that ive out of the patching window range can receive the regular stream from other clients in the previous patching group without allocating the new regular channels from the VOD server to the clients. In the performance study, we show that our patching scheme can reduce the server bandwidth requirement about $33\%$ less than that of the existing patching technique with respect to prefix size and request interval.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.140-148
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• 2009

Recent advances in communication and multimedia technologies make it possible to provide video-on-demand(VOD) services and people can access video servers over the Internet at any time using their electronic devices, such as PDA, mobile phone and digital TV. Each device has different processing capabilities, energy budgets, display sizes and network connectivities. To support such diverse devices, multiple versions of videos are needed to meet users' requests. In general cases, VOD servers cannot store all the versions of videos due to the storage limitation. When a device requests a stored version, the server can send the appropriate version immediately, but when the requested version is not stored, the server first converts some stored version to the requested version, and then sends it to the client. We call this conversion process transcoding. If transcoding occurs frequently in a VOD server, the CPU resource of the server becomes insufficient to response to clients. Thus, to admit as many requests as possible, we need to maximize the CPU availability. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to select versions from those stored on disk using a branch and bound technique to maximize the CPU availability. We also explore the impact of these storage management policies on streaming to heterogeneous users.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.391-406
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• 2002

In order to realize a practical VOD system, it is necessary for a high-capacity and cost-effective hierarchical VOD server based on tertiary storages such as DVD jukebox. In such a system, it is possible to transfer multiple streams to users by alternatively swapping DVDs using the fixed number of drives. But it takes a long time for loading DVD to a drive. In this paper, we propose a primitive pipelined loading mechanism for hiding the loading time to swap DVDs in a hierarchical VOD server based on DVD jukebox. We also propose a enhanced pipelined loading mechanism for increasing the maximum admittable streams with the fixed number of drives. The enhanced mechanism caches the initial segment of each stream on a disk storage allowing faster data transfer. The performance analysis shows that the proposed mechanisms can admit the maximum allowed stream capacity under the fixed number of disk drives.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.14 no.2 s.56
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• pp.131-132
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• 1999

여러 대의 PC를 활용하여 효율적이고 확장성이 뛰어난 고성능 서버를 구축하는 클러스터링 기술을 기반으로 저렴한 가격으로 동시에 수십 명부터 1,000명(MPEG-1, 1.544Mbps 기준)이상의 사용자에게 멀티미디어 서비스 제공이 가능한 클러스터 기반 대용량 VOD(Video on Demand) 서버 소프트웨어인 MovieRo 개발 내용이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.1229-1240
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• 1998

In this paper, we provide a design of DAVIC VOD service system with proxy servers which perform caching of video streams. Proxy servers are placed between a service provider system and service consumer systems. They provide video services to consumers on behalf of the service provider, therefore they reduce the loads of service providers and network. The operation of a proxy server depends on whether the requested program is in its storage. If this is the case, the prosy servere takes all the controls, but if the proxy does not have the program, it forwards the service request the proxy server takes all the controls, but if the prosy does not have the program, it forwards the service request to a service provider. While the service provider system provides the program to the consumer, the proxy copies and caches the program. The proxy server executes cache replacement, if necessary. We show by simultion that the LFU is the most efficiency caching replacement algorithm among the typical algorithms such as LRU, LFU, FIFO.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.435-447
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• 2004

For VOD systems, it is important to provide QoS to more users under the limited resources. To analyze QoS issues in real environment, we implement clustered VOD server and embedded client system based on the Linux open source platform. The parallel processing of MPEG data, load balancing for nodes and VCR like functions are implemented in the server side. To provide more user friendly interface, the general TV is used for a VOD client's terminal and the embedded board is used supporting for VCR functions. In this paper, we measure the performance of the implemented VOD system under the various user requirement features and evaluate the sources of performance limitations. From these analyses, we propose the dynamic admission control method based on the availability memory and network bandwidth. The proposed method enhances the utilization of the system resource for the more QoS media streams.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.138-144
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• 2007

With recent proliferation of video-on-demand services, caching in a multimedia streaming server is becoming increasingly important. Previous studies have shown that request interval based caching and its extension for considering different video popularity performs well in various streaming environments. In this paper, we show that block level refinement of this existing scheme can further improve the performance of streaming servers. Trace driven simulations with real world VOD traces have shown that the proposed scheme improves the cache hit rate and the startup latency.