• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.27 no.B
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• pp.185-192
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• 2007

Transcoding video proxy is necessary to support various bandwidth requirements for mobile multimedia and to provide adapting video streams to mobile clients. Caching algorithms for proxy are to reduce the network traffic between the content servers and the proxy. This paper proposes a Meta-tailed caching for transcoding proxy that is efficient to lower network load and CPU load. Caching of two different data types - transcoded video, and metadata - provides a foundation to achieve superior balance between network resource and computation resource at transcoding proxies. Experimental results show that the Meta-tailed caching lowers at least 10% of CPU-load and at least 9% of network-load at a transcoding proxy.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.16A no.3
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• pp.181-188
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• 2009

Transcoding is one of core techniques that implement VoD services according to QoS. But it consumes a lot of CPU resource. A transcoding proxy transcodes multimedia objects to meet requirements of various mobile devices and caches them to reuse later. In this paper, we propose a service policy that reduces the load of transcoding multimedia objects by degrading QoS in a transcoding proxy. Due to the tradeoff between QoS and the load of a proxy system, a transcoding proxy provides lower QoS than a client's requirement so that it can accomodate more clients.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2008

Streaming media has contributed to a significant amount of today's Internet Traffic. Like traditional web objects, rich media objects can benefit from proxy caching, but caching streaming media is more of challenging than caching simple web objects, because the streaming media have features such as huge size and high bandwidth. And to support various bandwidth requirements for the heterogeneous ubiquitous devices, a transcoding proxy is usually necessary to provide not only adapting multimedia streams to the client by transcoding, but also caching them for later use. The traditional proxy considers only a single version of the objects, whether they are to be cached or not. However the transcoding proxy has to evaluate the aggregate effect from caching multiple versions of the same object to determine an optimal set of cache objects. And recent researches about multimedia caching frequently store initial parts of videos on the proxy to reduce playback latency and archive better performance. Also lots of researches manage the contents with segments for efficient storage management. In this paper, we define the 9-events of transcoding proxy using 4-atomic events. According to these events, the transcoding proxy can define the next actions. Then, we also propose the segment-based caching policy for the transcoding proxy system. The performance results show that the proposing policy have a low delayed start time, high byte-hit ratio and less transcoding data.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.245-250
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• 2010

To support various bandwidth requirements for many kinds of devices such as PC, notebook, PDA, cellular phone, a transcoding proxy is usually necessary to provide not only adapting multimedia streams to the client by transcoding, but also caching them for later use. Due to huge size of streaming media, we proposed the 3 kinds of segmentation - PT-2, uniform, bitrate-based segmentation. And to reduce the CPU cost of transcoding video, we proposed the DQS service policy. In this paper, we simulate the combined our previous two researches that are bitrate-based segmentation and DQS(Degraded Quality Service) policy. Experimental results show that the combined policy outperforms companion schemes in terms of the byte-hit ratios and delay saving ratios.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.2785-2792
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• 2011

Such problems as delay, congestion, and crosstalk in the proxy system degrade not only QoS (Quality of Service) but responsiveness and reliability of the streaming media service. To solve this problem this paper proposed a FRTP (Fuzzy Relevance-based Transcoding Proxy) mechanism. The proposed FRTP mechanism analyzes fuzzy similarity for partitioned segment versions of media objects to create a FRTG (Fuzzy Relevance-based Transcoding Graph). Created FRTG determines the transcoding for partitioned media object segment versions. Determined transcoding improves DSR (Delay Saving Ratios), CHPR (Cache Hit Precision Ratio), and CHRR (Cache Hit Recall Ratio). The proposed mechanism is simulated to evaluate such performance parameters as DSR, CHPR, and CHRR. Simulation results shows that the proposed mechanism outperforms in DSR, CHPR and CHRR compared with the other existing mechanisms.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.9C no.1
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• pp.79-88
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• 2002

Transcoding proxy strategy has been widely used as a means to reduce the delay in retrieving Web pages over wireless mobile data service networks. However, this strategy has the serious drawbacks of being a potential point of failure or a bottleneck of the service. We developed a distributed proxy server system in which multiple proxy servers are installed at geographically dispersed locations and share the workloads among them by serving mobile hosts only within assigned regions. A new handoff message protocol to enable handoffs between proxies as the mobile hosts move between regions is proposed. According to the proxy server handoff protocol, a client agent at the mobile horst requests a proxy server to start handoff processing by which two proxy servers synchronize distilled data belonging to a HTTP session that must be maintained across the handoff. Also, we introduce the architecture of the proxy server and the client agent that handles the proxy server handoff. Finally, we evaluate the proposed system through performance test.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.101-111
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• 2004

As different from wired internet, wireless internet has limitations due to the following characteristics; low bandwidth, frequent disconnection, low computing power, small screen in user terminal, and user mobility. Also, wireless internet server should be scalable to handle a large scale traffic due to rapidly growing users. Wireless proxy servers are used for the wireless internet because their caching and transcoding functions are helpful to overcome the above limitation. TranSend was proposed as a clustering based wireless proxy server but its scalability is difficult to achieve because there is no systematic way to do it. In this Paper. we proposed a clustering based wireless internet proxy server which can be scalable in a systematic way. We performed experiments using 16 PCs and experimental results show 32.17% performance improvement of the proposed system compared to TranSend system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.123-132
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• 2009

The perforrnance and portability of mobile applications can be greatly increased by adopting proxy modiles which exists between the conventional system and the device. When mobile devices collaborate with the conventional computers, there are problems to address: a battery life problem, limited input and output methods, and intermittent wireless connection. Those issues are magnified in the multimedia collaboration environment since it works in a real-time condition and the size of the message in the system is big in many cases. Additionally, because multimedia collaboration system softwares are too heavy and complex for mobile devices, it is veη hard to integrate them with conventional systems. In this paper, we describe our design and its implementation of a novel approach to map events (i.e. messages) using a proxy for mobile applications. We adopt a proxy to provide a content adaptation (i.e. transcoding) where the message contents are customized. Also, we design a mobile version publish/subscribe system to provide communication service for mobile device in loosely coupled and flexible manner. We present our empirical results which show that our design can be efficiently implemented and integrated with a conventional multimedia collaboration system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.1661-1664
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• 2003

The transcoding is a method which converts a multimedia stream to an adaptive format, such as frame rate and resolution, that can be played in the mobile devices. Due to the heavy consumption of CPU power for transcoding, the server in charge cannot supply all streams requested from clients if it is already occupied by several streams. The load balancing among proxies is a common approach for solving such problem. In addition to collaborative works for load balancing, the mobility must be taken into account in the mobile environments. Thus, the wired-network based algorithm is not suitable for the streams service in the mobile environments. In this paper, we propose an alternative scheme for cooperative proxy architecture that considers the case in which mobile devices are moving over other zones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10c
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• pp.594-596
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• 2000

인터넷 환경에서 프록시(proxy)는, 효율적인 데이터의 전송을 위해 다양한 클라이언트 장치들과 WWW 서버들간의 다리역할을 수행한다. 특히, 최근의 인터넷 환경은 이미지 같은 복잡하고 대량의 크기를 갖는 데이터 전송을 많이 요구하고 있으므로, 클라이언트 환경에 맞는 최선의 화질과 최소의 지연시간을 갖도록 데이터를 변환하여 재전송하는 트랜스코딩(transcoding)이 중요시되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 트랜스코딩을 수행하는 다수의 프록시들이 존재할 때, 클라이언트의 요구(request)와 장치(device), 또는 네트워크의 여러 가지 조건에 가장 적합한 프록시를 선택할 수 있는 수리적인 모델을 제안한다. 이러한 수리적 모델은 경로연결(redirector)내에서 동작하는 알고리즘으로서, 예상되는 지연시간과 오버플로우의 가능성을 최소화할 수 있는 최선의 프록시를 클라이언트와 서버사이에 연결함으로서 이미지 전송에 있어서 더 큰 효과를 얻을 수 있다. 실험 결과, 전체적인 지연시간을 줄일 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 클라이언트에게 적절한 양과 질의 데이터 전송효과를 가진다.