• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.971-989
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• 2015

With the development of cloud computing, more and more Web services are deployed on geo-distributed datacenters and are offered to cloud users all over the world. Through service composition technologies, these independent fine-grain services can be integrated to value-added coarse-grain services. During the composition, a number of Web services may provide the same function but differ in performance. In addition, the distribution of cloud datacenters presents a geographically dispersive manner, which elevates the impact of the network on the QoS of composite services. So it is important to select an optimal composition path in terms of QoS when many functionally equivalent services are available. To achieve this objective, we first present a graph model that takes both QoS of Web services and QoS of network into consideration. Then, a novel approach aiming at selecting the optimal composition path that fulfills the user's end-to-end QoS requirements is provided. We evaluate our approach through simulation and compare our method with existing solutions. Results show that our approach significantly outperforms existing solutions in terms of optimality and scalability.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.1419-1422
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• 2003

Multimedia contents what we call Digital Items include various types of resources such as music, speech, text, video, graphics, and so on. The current Adaptation QoS described in the ISO/IEC 21000-7 CD-Part 7: Digital Item Adaptation, however, lacks adaptation methods for audio signals. The goal of this paper is to provide adaptation methods that are necessary to deal with audio signals. Two operations are introduced in order to adapt audio items. One method is to make use of the functionality of Fine Grain Scalability, and the other is intended to drop the channel of audio output channel. This paper provides a DIA description tool that associates the operators with the corresponding values of the constraint and the utility. Furthermore, the operations are evaluated and compared to alternative solutions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.361-363
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 MPEG-4 Version2 Audio 표준에 근거하여 낮은 연산부담을 갖는 독자적인 엘고리즘을 적용한 MPEG-4 BSAC Audio 디코더를 개발하였다. 개발된 BSAC 디코더는 32bit RISC 구조를 갖는 Intel Xscale Processor 기반 시스템에 최적화하여 구현 및 평가를 수행하였다. 수행속도 증가 및 연산 정밀도 향상을 위해 각 기능 블록별 기능 및 구현 원리 연구와 32 bit 연산 구조를 파악하여, 이를 고정소수점 연산 구조로 구현함으로써 성능을 향상시켰다. 유한비트에 따른 오차 영향을 최소화하기 위해 데이터의 표현 범위에 대한 연구를 통해 근사한 오차를 최소화 하여 연산 정밀도를 향상 시키고자 하였다. 비선형 양자화기 및 filter bank 등 상대적으로 높은 연산 부담을 갖는 기능 블록은 Table look-up, 보간법, 지수연산 제거, pre/post scrambling 기법 등을 적용하여 최적화 하였다. 최종적으로 개발된 BSAC 디코더는 32 bit 연산 구조의 X-scale 프로세서를 탑재한 Development Board와 WindowsCE OS로 구성된 타겟 system에 이식하여 performance 평가하였으며, 높은 연산 정밀도 및 다른 수행속도를 확인할 수 있었다. 주관적인 청각 평가에서도 MPEG-4 reference 디코더와의 음원의 차이가 거의 없음을 확인하였다.