• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.196-203
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• 2008

The IEEE 802.11e working group has announced a new distributed MAC(Medium Access Control) called EDCA(Enhanced Distributed Channel Access) to provide service differentiation among classified traffics. In comparison with the 802.11 legacy MAC, the EDCA provides QoS mechanism by differentiated channel access which is called AC(Access Category) to the frames with different priorities. In multimedia applications, however, the EDCA has some difficulties to achieve QoS throughput because of using fixed AC parameters and never considers overall throughputs, i.e. fairness, for classified services. In this paper, AC parameter control technique is proposed to achieve overall QoS throughputs with differentiated services. The proposed technique controls AC parameters dynamically in real time. Simulation is used to verify the technique and the simulation shows that QoS fairness is improved by 13% in throughput deviation in multimedia environments including voice, video and data service.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.280-282
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• 2005

In this paper we propose several mapping schemes for streaming video generated by state-of-the-art H.264 codec over IEEE 802.11e enabled wireless LANs. The schemes take advantage of both 802.11e's QoS mechanism and some novel features of the H.264 codec, so as to protect the most important information in terms of visual quality and reduce distortion under network congestion. The proposed methods are evaluated by means of the H.264 reference software codec, network simulation, and objective video quality measurements. Results show that the proposed methods achieve a robust and error resilient H.264 video streaming over wireless LANs than traditional best-effort streaming.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.4B
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• pp.314-321
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• 2011

There have been considerable standardization works to measure subjective video quality. However, these standardization methods are based on the situation where they have original or reference video sequences, and measure the video quality by looking the sequence during short time duration, e.g. 10 seconds. Since people's TV watching time durations in IPTV services are very long (e.g. more than 30 minutes), the quality measurements by the standards are not practical. In this paper, we analyze the effect of video quality rating period to MOS (Mean Opinion Score), and suggest a proper rating duration of subjective video quality for IPTV services.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.127-131
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• 2007

본 논문에서 제안하고자 하는 IPTV 채널캐슁 서비스는 IPTV 서비스의 품질요소인 QoE(Quality of Experience)의 개선을 목적으로 하고 있다. IPTV 채널캐슁 방법은 IPTV 서비스가 실시간 방송 및 VOD(Video On Demand)등 다양한 패턴의 서비스를 선택하는 사용자의 채널요구 패턴을 반영한 인접채널(adjacent-channel)을 멀티캐스트하면, 사용자의 채널전환요구시 제어메시지 전송 및 스위칭에 소요되는 대기시간을 줄여 사용자의 채널전환지연시간을 개선할 수 있다. 이를 위하여 본 논문에서는 LRFU(Least Recently Frequently Used) 알고리즘에 기반한 MCA(Multicast Channel Agent)을 제안하며, MCA을 구성모듈에 대한 설명을 기술한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.422-425
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• 2011

IPTV와 같은 멀티미디어 트래픽의 이용량이 증가함에 따라, 멀티미디어 서비스의 품질을 향상시키기 위한 스트리밍 전송 기법들이 연구되고 있다. 기존 연구들은 네트워크 상태를 고려한 스트리밍 전송으로 네트워크의 효율성과 공정성을 향상시켜 서비스 품질(QoS)을 보장하지만 사용자가 인지하는 체감 품질(QoE)을 동시에 보장하지 못하는 한계를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 스트리밍 서비스의 체감 품질을 향상시키기 위해 비디오의 품질을 단계적으로 변화시키는 스트리밍 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 수식 기반의 TCP(Transmission Control Protocol) 전송률을 기반으로 네트워크 상태를 측정하여 단계적으로 품질을 조절하고, 일정시간 동안 품질 조절의 수행을 제한한다. 이를 통해 급변하는 네트워크 상태 변화에 따른 잦은 품질 변화를 피하여 체감 품질을 향상시킨다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 기법의 유효성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.476-481
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• 2012

Recently, QoS/QoE technology as a part of the HTTP-based adaptive streaming technology has attracted attention. In this paper, we find out HTTP-based adaptive and dynamic streaming technology. It is based on a dynamic adaptive streaming system over HTTP, which is designed and implemented. The system consist of conversion by the bit rate of MPEG2-TS files, division of segment, creation of MPD(Media Presentation Description) and bitrate's player through analysis of MPD File between servers and clients in network environments of dynamic and adaptive. This diverse network environments, continuous and smooth playback of video will be used in various multimedia fields.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.216-233
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• 2013

Conventional optimization designs of wireless networks mainly focus on spectral efficiency (SE) as a performance metric. However, as diverse media services are emerging, a green wireless network, which not only meets the quality of experience (QoE) requirements for users and also improves energy efficiency (EE), is the most appropriate solution. In this paper, we firstly propose the unit QoE per Watt, which is termed QoE efficiency (QEE), as a user-oriented metric to evaluate EE for wireless networks. We then analyze which is the kind of wireless resource given priority to use under different scenarios to obtain an acceptable QEE. Particularly, power, delay and data-rate related to QoE are separately addressed for several typical services, such as file download, video stream and web browsing services. Next, the fundamental tradeoffs are investigated between QEE and SE for wireless networks. Our analytical results are helpful for network design and optimization to strike a good balance between the users perceived QoE and energy consumption.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.17-27
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• 2007

The enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) of IEEE 802.11e has been standardized for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless LANs. In the EDCA, support of QoS can be achieved statistically by reducing the probability of medium access for lower priority traffics. In other words, it provides statistical channel access rather than deterministically prioritized access to high priority traffic. Therefore, lower priority traffics affect the performance of higher priority traffics. Consequently, at the high loads, the EDCA does not guarantee the QoS of multimedia applications such as voice and video even though it provides higher priority. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective scheme, called deterministic priority channel access (DPCA), for improving the QoS performance of the EDCA mechanism. In order to provide guaranteed priority channel access to multimedia applications, the proposed scheme uses a busy tone for limiting the transmissions of lower priority traffics when higher priority traffic has data packets to send. Performance of the proposed scheme is investigated by numerical analysis and simulation. Our results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the EDCA in terms of throughput, delay, jitter, and drop under a wide range of contention levels.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.9A no.4
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• pp.603-614
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• 2002

Delivery efficiency of e-learning media can be influenced by authoring processes. Generally, a moving picture recorded by video camera can be delivered to student by multimedia streaming service, using media server technology. A e-learning media authored by lecture authoring tool is played in a student application by download-based delivery system. Recently, some animation know-how are applied to author e-learning media by hand-operation. In this paper, we suggest a client-based streaming service for the e-leaning media consists of media files and integration data The lecture of e-learning media nay be divided into some time-based small blocks. Each blocks can be located distributed site. The student system gather those blocks by download-scheduling. This is a valid method for QoS guarantee streaming services. In addition to our study, lecturers can author composite e-learning media includes media files and dynamic web pages simply, The distributed e-learning media files of our study is managed by multi-author and updated rapidly.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.37-43
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• 2009

Streaming video service over wireless and mobile communication networks has received significant interests from both academia and industry recently. Specifically, mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) is capable of providing high data rate and flexible Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms, supporting mobile streaming very attractive. However, we need to note that streaming videos can be partially deteriorated in their macroblocks and/or slices owing to errors on OFDMA subcarriers, as we consider that compressed video sequence is generally sensitive to the error-prone channel status of the wireless and mobile network. In this paper, we introduce an OFDMA subcarrier-adaptive mobile streaming server based on cross-layer design. This streaming server system is substantially efficient to reduce the deterioration of streaming video transferred on the subcarriers of low power strength without any modifications of the existing schedulers, packet ordering/reassembly, and subcarrier allocation strategies in the base station.