• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.289-291
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• 2006

최근 인터넷 접속 환경의 발달과 시스템 및 네트워크 성능 향상의 영향으로 단순한 정보의 전달뿐만 아니라 오디오, 비디오와 같은 미디어 콘텐츠(contents)의 정보 전달을 효율적으로 제공하는 방안이 연구되고 있다. 미디어 콘텐츠를 스트리밍 하는 것은 인터넷 트래픽의 아주 큰 부분을 차지하기 때문에 이러한 콘텐츠를 효율적으로 분산하기 위하여 우리는 P2P(Peer-to-Peer) 오버레이 네트워크를 이용한다. 본 논문은 Tapestry[1]를 미디어 콘텐츠 스트리밍 환경에 맞게 변형하며, 노드와 네트워크의 부하를 균등하게 분산시키기 위해 MDC(multiple description coding)[2]를 이용하여 하나의 콘텐트를 다중 트리에 분산한다. 제안된 메커니즘으로 사용자에게 보다 강화된 서비스를 제공한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.1140-1154
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• 2015

Multiple Description (MD) coding is a promising alternative for the robust transmission of information over error-prone channels. Lattice vector quantization (LVQ) is a significant version of MD techniques to design an MD image coder. However, different from the traditional 2D texture image, the 3D depth image has its own special characteristics, which should be taken into account for efficient compression. In this paper, an optimized MDLVQ scheme is proposed in view of the characteristics of 3D depth image. First, due to the sparsity of depth image, the image blocks can be classified into edge blocks and smooth blocks, which are encoded by different modes. Furthermore, according to the boundary contents in edge blocks, the step size of LVQ can be regulated adaptively for each block. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, which show better rate distortion performance compared with the conventional MDLVQ.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1435-1438
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• 2006

일반적인 비 공유 저장장치를 가진 시스템에서는 특정 컨텐츠에 대한 편향된(skewed) 요청 문제를 피할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 비 공유 저장장치 모델로 설계/구현된 클러스터 기반의 시트리밍 서버에서 사용자의 편향된 컨텐츠 요청에 대처할 수 있고 스트리밍 서비스 중인 서버 또는 NS 카드에 문제가 생기더라도 스트리밍 서비스가 중단되지 않도록 다중 스트리밍 방법인 MDC(Multiple Description Coding)를 적용한 스트리밍 전송방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 클러스터 시스템에서 단일 세션으로 스트리밍 서비스를 제공하는 것이 아니라 MDC 를 활용하여 다중 세션을 통한 스트리밍 서비스를 제공함으로써 모든 서버의 부하가 같아지고, 특정 서버에 문제가 발생하더라도 스트리밍 서비스가 끊어지지 않으면서 MDC 의 특성인 적응형 서비스도 가능하게 되는 장점이 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.100-110
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• 2007

When compressed video data is transmitted over error-prone network such as wireless channel, data is likely to be lost, so the quality of reconstructed picture is severely decreased. It is specially so in case that important information such as motion vector or macroblock mode is lost. H.264/AVC standard includes DP as error resilient technique for protecting important information from error in which data is labeled according to its relative importance. But DP technique requires a network that supports different reliabilities of transmitted data. In general, the benefits of UEP is sought by sending multiple times of same packets corresponding to important information. In this paper, we propose MDC technique based on data partitioning technique. The proposed method encodes motion vector of H.264/AVC standard into multiple parts using MDC and transmits each part as independent packet. Even if partial packet is lost, the proposed scheme can decode the compressed bitstream by using estimated motion vector with partial packets correctly transmitted, so that achieving improved performance of error concealment with minimal effect of channel error. Also in decoding process, the proposed multiple description matching increases the accuracy of estimated lost motion vector and quality of reconstructed video.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.491-508
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• 2010

In peer-to-peer (P2P) on-demand streaming networks, the alleviation of server load depends on reciprocal stream sharing among peers. In general, on-demand video services enable clients to watch videos from beginning to end. As long as clients are able to buffer the initial part of the video they are watching, on-demand service can provide access to the video to the next clients who request to watch it. Therefore, the key challenge is how to keep the initial part of a video in a peer's buffer for as long as possible, and thus maximize the availability of a video for stream relay. In addition, to address the issues of delivering data on lossy network and providing scalable quality of services for clients, the adoption of multiple description coding (MDC) has been proven as a feasible resolution by much research work. In this paper, we propose a novel caching scheme for P2P on-demand streaming, called Dynamic Buffering. The proposed Dynamic Buffering relies on the feature of MDC to gradually reduce the number of cached descriptions held in a client's buffers, once the buffer is full. Preserving as many initial parts of descriptions in the buffer as possible, instead of losing them all at one time, effectively extends peers’ service time. In addition, this study proposes a description distribution balancing scheme to further improve the use of resources. Simulation experiments show that Dynamic Buffering can make efficient use of cache space, reduce server bandwidth consumption, and increase the number of peers being served.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12B
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• pp.1336-1348
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an energy-aware multi-tree video multicast scheme for wireless ad hoc networks. Some network nodes may have energy enough to receive and forward the whole video content whereas some may not. Even though the video quality may vary depending on the remaining energy, our scheme enables the low-energy nodes to join the video multicast session. The video stream is split into a set of multiple and independent descriptions by MDC (Multiple description coding) scheme. Each description corresponds to a substream and number of substreams determine the video quality. The member nodes determine how many substreams it would receive depending on the remaining energy and expected amount of packets per substream. So does the intermediate tree nodes. That builds a tree per substream and multiple trees per session. The data source disseminates each substream through corresponding tree. The video quality of the member nodes varies according to number of participating trees. We evaluate the performance of our scheme by simulation. Our scheme showed better peak signal to noise ratio and extended the lifetime of the network nodes compared with MAODV, which builds a single tree, and MT-MAODV, which builds multiple trees but does not consider the available energy.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.105-118
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• 2001

The common shortest path problem is to find the shortest route between two specified nodes in a transportation network with only one traffic mode. The public transportation network with multiple traffic mode is a more realistic representation of the transportation system in the real world, but it is difficult for the conventional shortest path algorithms to deal with. The genetic algorithm (GA) is applied to solve this problem. The objective function is to minimize the sum of total service time and total transfer time. The individual description, the coding rule and the genetic operators are proposed for this problem.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.312-315
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• 2006

현재의 인터넷은 고품질의 스트리밍 서비스와 늘어나는 가입자를 모두 수용할 수 없다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 Multi Path와 Multiple Description Coding (MDC) 를 사용하는 스트리밍 기법이 제안되었다. 그러나 MDC는 전체 네트워크에서 추가적인 대역폭 요구가 발생한다. 이 논문에서는 소스 노드에서 MDC 인코딩을 하는 것이 아니라 혼잡이 예상되는 지점에서 MDC로 트랜스코딩을 함으로써 대역폭이 낭비되는 문제를 해결한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.370-373
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• 2004

The rapid proliferation of mobile device such as PDA allows users more ubiquitous access to multimedia information. The user mobility provides users a uniform vision of their preferred working environment independently of their current points of attachment. Supporting the user mobility requires the Player capable of efficiently presenting the multimedia contents. MPEC-4 provides not only the description for coding audio and video (as its predecessors MPEG-1 and MPEG-2), but also for coding images, animations, interactivity and protecting content. With MPEG-4, we present interactive media using multiple objects - audio, video, image, 2D geometry, and text - in a single format. Therefore we propose the MPEC-4 Player for PDA. The proposed MPEG-4 Player for PDA supports mobility, portability and personality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.631-636
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• 2006

최근 많은 사용자들이 인터넷 상에서 비디오나 오디오 같은 규모가 큰 미디어 콘텐츠(Media contents)의 정보 전달을 효율적으로 제공 받기를 원하고 있다. 미디어 콘텐츠를 스트리밍 하는 것은 인터넷 트래픽의 아주 큰 부분을 차지하기 때문에, 우리는 클러스터형 협업 프록시를 기반으로 한 다중 디스크립션 비디오 스트리밍 구조를 제안하여 네트워크와 서버의 부하를 클러스터된 일반 프록시들에게 균등하게 분산 시킨다. MDC(Multiple Description Coding)[1]를 적용하여 캐싱 공간(Caching space)을 효율적으로 사용하며 다중 세션을 통해 디스크립션을 서비스함으로써 스트리밍 서비스 중인 프록시 또는 전체 데이터를 저장하고 하는 서버에 문제가 생기더라도 끊어지지 않는 계속적인 서비스가 가능하다. 또한 일반 프록시들의 정보를 관리하는 디스패처가 사용자의 환경에 따라 적응적인 서비스를 가능하게 한다.