• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10e
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• pp.526-528
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• 2002

병렬 VOD 서버는 효율적인 부하 분산을 위해 하나의 비디오 파일을 여러 노드에 나누어 저장하므로 VOD 서비스 제공을 위해서는 노드 간 멀티미디어 데이터 이동이 필수적이다. 그러므로 노드 간 데이터 이동을 지원하는 네트워크 대역폭이 전체 시스템 성능을 결정하는 요소가 된다. 본 논문에서는 사용자 수준 프로토콜 중 산업 표준 프로토콜인 VIA를 사용하여 병렬 VOD 서버를 위한 고속의 통신 모듈을 설계하고 구현한 결과를 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10c
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• pp.668-670
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• 2000

병렬 VOD서버를 구성하기 위해서는 서버의 확장성과 서버 결함의 복구문제 등이 충분히 고려되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 서버의 확장성을 고려한 병렬 VOD서버를 설계한다. 또 기존의 병렬 VOD서버에 새로운 서버가 추가될 경우 부하 불균형 문제를 방지하기 위한 데이터 분배 방법을 고려한다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해서 로드밸런스를 유지하면서, 서버에 저장되어 있는 최소한의 데이터만을 이동시킴으로써 각 서버의 사용 가능한 디스크 공간을 조정하는 스트라이핑 방법을 제시한다. 그리고 제시한 스트라이핑 방법을 모의 실험을 통해 분석한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.529-546
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• 2002

A VOD server, which is the central component for constructing VOD systems, requires to provide high bandwidth and continuous real-time delivery. It is also necessary to the sophisticated disk scheduling and data placement schemes in VOD sewers. One of the most common problem facing in such a system is the high initial latency time to service multiple users concurrently. In this paper, we propose a dynamic stream merging scheme for reducing the initial latency time in VOD servers. The proposed scheme allows clients to merge streams on a request as long as their requests fall within the reasonable time interval. The basic idea behind the dynamic stream merging is to merge multiple streams into one by increasing the frame rate of each stream. In the performance study, the proposed scheme can reduce the initial latency time under the minimum buffer use and also can enhance the performance of the VOD server with respect to the capacity of user admission.

• 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.

• 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.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.9C no.5
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• pp.709-718
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• 2002

Cluster based VOD systems require elaborate load balancing and buffer management techniques in order to ensure real-time display for multiuser concurrently. In this paper, we propose a new load balancing technique based on the dynamic buffer partitioning in cluster based VOD servers. The proposed technique evenly distribute the user requests into each service node according to its available buffer capacity and disk access rate. In each node, the dynamic buffer partitioning technique dynamically partitions the buffer to minimize the average waiting time for the requests that access the same continuous media. The simulation results show that our proposed technique decreases the average waiting time by evenly distributing the user requests compared with the exiting techniques and then increases the throughput in each node. Particularly under the overloaded condition in the cluster server, the simulation probes that the performance of the proposed technique is better two times than the Generalized Interval Caching based technique.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.257-266
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose the development of an eBook Service System based on VOD Broadcasting Contents(eBSS-VOD) which protects the illegal copy through the effective DRM strategy. Here, eBSS-VOD is composed of three sub-systems - eBook server management system, ePub Builder, and eBook App - according to the functional points of view. The eBook server management system operates to manage the eBooks, the encription keys, the VOD contents, the membership and the history of users' viewing log. The ePub Builder assists to produce eBooks by DRM strategy. The eBook App provides users with the utility services of VOD viewing and eBook purchase processing. The proposed eBSS-VOD, differently from the current eBook systems, helps to increase the users' interests in reading books and to motivate the users' purchasing needs and it also makes new distribution channel for eBooks based on VOD broadcasting contents through smart applications. We provides the differentiated eBook builder which are based on ePub3.0 and DRM strategy. Through empirical survey results on users' interests and purchase intention for eBooks, we show that the proposed eBSS-VOD has the comparative effects compared to the current systems.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.6
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• pp.835-844
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• 2002

The number of channels available to a video server is limited since the number of channels a video server can support is determined by its communication bandwidth. Several approaches such as batching, piggybacking and patching have been proposed to reduce I/O demand on the video server by sharing multicast data. Patching has been shown to be efficient in the matter of the cost for VOD systems. Unlike conventional multicast techniques, patching is a dynamic multicast scheme which enables a new request to join an ongoing multicast. In addition, true VOD can be achieved since a new request can be served immediately without having to wait for the next multicast. In this paper. we propose two types of channel reservation patching algorithm : a fixed channel reservation patching and a variable channel reservation patching. To immediately schedule the requests for popular videos, these algorithms reserve the channels of video server for the fixed number of popular videos or for the variable number of popular videos which is determined dynamically according to the load of video server. The performance of the proposed algorithms is evaluated through simulations, and compared with that of simple patching. Our performance measures are average defection rate, average latency, service fairness and the amount of buffered data according to video server loads. Simulation results show that the proposed channel reservation patching algorithms provide better performance compared to simple patching algorithm.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.10-18
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• 1998

In a VOD server, media data are usually encoded by VBR compression technique such as MPEG, therefore, media stream rates vary. We propose a striping strategy called VCS considering VBR compression in Clustered VOD servers. Simulation are conducted to evaluate and compare the new strategy with a known striping strategy. The results show that the VCS strategy improves the performance.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.265-276
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• 1999

Video on Demand (VOD) system is definitely one of main applications in upcoming multimedia era. In this research, we have designed and implemented a host-based scalable VOD system (SVOD) which is composed of low cost PC servers and runs on Linux kernel that is currently spotlighted in enterprise and research domains. Our contribution is as follows: first, the previous Ext2 file system was modified to efficiently support continuous media like MPEG stream. Second, the storage server features a host-based scalable architecture. Third, a software MPEG decoder was implemented using Microsoft's DirectShow$\circledR$COM. Finally, flow control between client and server is provided to suppress overflow and underflow of client circular buffer and supports FF VCR operation. We have known that it is possible to develop a thread-based and scalable VOD system on low cost PC servers and free Linux kernel.