• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.548-558
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• 2014

Load distribution is vital to the performance of multipath transport. The task becomes more challenging in real-time multimedia applications (RTMA), which impose stringent delay requirements. Two key issues to be addressed are: 1) How to minimize end-to-end delay and 2) how to alleviate packet reordering that incurs additional recovery time at the receiver. In this paper, we propose sub-packet based multipath load distribution (SPMLD), a new model that splits traffic at the granularity of sub-packet. Our SPMLD model aims to minimize total packet delay by effectively aggregating multiple parallel paths as a single virtual path. First, we formulate the packet splitting over multiple paths as a constrained optimization problem and derive its solution based on progressive approximation method. Second, in the solution, we analyze queuing delay by introducing D/M/1 model and obtain the expression of dynamic packet splitting ratio for each path. Third, in order to describe SPMLD's scheduling policy, we propose two distributed algorithms respectively implemented in the source and destination nodes. We evaluate the performance of SPMLD through extensive simulations in QualNet using real-time H.264 video streaming. Experimental results demonstrate that: SPMLD outperforms previous flow and packet based load distribution models in terms of video peak signal-to-noise ratio, total packet delay, end-to-end delay, and risk of packet reordering. Besides, SPMLD's extra overhead is tiny compared to the input video streaming.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.234-240
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• 2003

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.221-225
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• 2003

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• v.2007 no.10
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• pp.70-75
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.293-293
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• 2004

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.181-181
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• 2000

We identified the performance problems of scheduling algorithms such as FCFS, and demonstrated the superiority of WFQ in terms of realtime performance measures. For this purpose, we presented the service scenario and performed the analysis for the delay bound and fairness which are required to support the realtime applications in the Internet.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.179-187
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.65-65
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• 2004

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.106-110
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• 2004

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.234-240
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• 2006

We study the dynamic burst assembly based on traffic prediction and offset and delay differentiation in optical burst switching network. To improve existing burst assembly mechanism and build an adaptive flexible optical burst switching network, an approach called quality of service (QoS) based adaptive dynamic assembly (QADA) is proposed in this paper. QADA method takes into account current arrival traffic in prediction time adequately and performs adaptive dynamic assembly in limited burst assembly time (BAT) range. By the simulation of burst length error, the QADA method is proved better than the existing method and can achieve the small enough predictive error for real scenarios. Then the different dynamic ranges of BAT for four traffic classes are introduced to make delay differentiation. According to the limitation of BAT range, the burst assembly is classified into one-dimension limit and two-dimension limit. We draw a comparison between one-dimension and two-dimension limit with different prediction time under QoS based offset time and find that the one-dimensional approach offers better network performance, while the two-dimensional approach provides strict inter-class differentiation. Furthermore, the final simulation results in our network condition show that QADA can execute adaptive flexible burst assembly with dynamic BAT and achieve a latency reduction, delay fairness, and offset time QoS guarantee for different traffic classes.