Abstract: Provided is a method of providing an Internet Protocol (IP)-based mobility service, particularly, a method of providing seamless quality of service (QoS) guarantees when an IP-based mobile service is provided. The seamless QoS management method includes: a method of providing seamless QoS guarantees when an Internet Protocol (IP)-based mobility service is provided, including: determining whether a terminal is newly registered in a network connecting unit; and providing QoS information of the newly registered terminal to the network connecting unit. Therefore, a user can successively receive a Service Level Agreement (SLA)-based service for which he or she subscribes, while moving to other places.

Abstract: A protection switching method and apparatus for use in a ring network are provided. At least two switching request signals are received from a network device neighboring a link in which a failure occurs. A switching operation is performed in response to a first received signal of the at least two received switching request signals. When a network failure occurs, fast protection switching can be performed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a video-on-demand (VOD) service are provided.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing an advertisement service personalized for each user or for each group. The personalized advertisement providing method includes: a personalized advertisement providing method which is used in an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) System, including: receiving at least one broadcasting program of a plurality of broadcasting programs classified according to a plurality of channels; and determining whether a present time is an advertisement broadcasting time, transmitting a received broadcasting program to a plurality of user terminals which selects a channel on which the broadcasting program is provided if the present time is not an advertisement broadcasting time, dividing the plurality of user terminals into a plurality of groups and transmitting an advertisement classified for each group to one or more user terminals belonging to the group if the present time is an advertisement broadcasting time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal control system, and more particularly, to a system and a method which allows a user to shift an IP service from a terminal to which the service is currently provided to a user's other terminal, thereby enabling the user to continuously using the IP service without disconnection.

Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling resources using out-of-band signaling. A central admission entity checks subscription information of a user requesting resources and policies of a network for call setting, determines whether the resources are to be assigned, and distributes an IP-level flow descriptor to an edge node of the network in order to assign the resources. The edge node receiving the IP-level flow descriptor performs mapping of the IP-level flow descriptor to flow state aware (FSA) parameters, and generates a start node. Thus, a process of in-band signaling can be simplified by omitting respond and reconfirm operations.

Abstract: Provided are system and method for multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) label-switched path (LSP) protection switching in an MPLS system employing a working LSP and a protection LSP in a 1:1 mode, the apparatus and method prepare a dedicated LSP for one working LSP and are capable of rapidly processing a forward defect indication (FDI)/backward defect indication (BDI) signal when a failure occurs on the working LSP. The system includes: an ingress node multicasting input MPLS traffic through the working LSP and the protection LSP using a fed-back BDI signal; a transit node relaying the MPLS traffic input from the ingress node, and generating a FDI signal when the failure occurs; and an egress node extracting the MPLS traffic from the MPLS LSP input from the transit node, and when the FDI signal is detected, inserting and feeding back the BDI signal to the ingress node through a return path and performing switching to the protection LSP.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM) method in an MPLS network and a data structure of a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) OAM packet for TCM. When data are provided to users through an LSP path comprising multiple network provider in an MPLS network, the method makes it possible to independently measure LSP performance at a user level, a service provider level, and a network provider level, detect quality degradation of ingress signals by measuring performance of a preceding network, and newly measure the performance quality at the current network regardless of the performance quality of the preceding network.

Abstract: An emergency call service system in an Internet Protocol (IP) network and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a policy control server, an emergency call agent, a call agent, and a network manager. The policy control server generates position information of a user terminal by mapping an IP address and local information to an identification (ID) of the user terminal. The emergency call agent detects a suitable emergency center for the user terminal sending an emergency call, and makes an emergency-call connection between the user terminal and the emergency center. The call agent relays the emergency call of the user terminal to the emergency call agent. The network manager stores position information of the user terminal generated through the policy control server, provides the emergency call agent with the position information of the user terminal sending the emergency call, and performs a resource reservation for the emergency-call connection.

Abstract: An Internet Protocol Television (IP-TV) broadcasting service system and method using a physical layer multicast switch are provided. The system comprises: a head end which converts an Ethernet signal to a virtual concatenation group (VCG) signal of a synchronous digital hierarchy/synchronous optical network (SDH/SONET); a multicast switch which multicasts the VCG signal in a physical layer; and a tail end which receives the multicasted VCG signal through a Synchronous Transmission Module level n (STM-N) optical link and restores the VCG signal to the Ethernet signal. Therefore, high quality TV broadcasting can be provided in an IP multicast network.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting user mobility by allowing guest access in an Internet service network and a billing method based on the same are provided. The method for supporting user mobility by allowing guest access in an Internet service network includes the steps of: performing user authentication and querying a subscriber DB to determine whether a user is a host user or a guest user when a subscriber ID is inputted; querying the subscriber DB to determine whether there is an available bandwidth for the guest user when the user is the guest user; and querying the subscriber DB to provide a service package corresponding to the guest user when there is an available bandwidth for the guest user.

Abstract: Provided is a method for measuring performance of a multi-protocol label switching label switched path (MPLS LSP), using a fast failure detection (FFD) packet among MPLS operation and management (OAM) packets recommended by International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication standardization sector (ITU-T) Y.1711 to detect a packet error generated in the MPLS LSP and newly defining bytes not used in the FFD frame to use the bytes for parity check. An ingress node performs the steps of: calculating a parity value of an MPLS packet as byte interleaved parity (BIP)-8 before transmitting the MPLS packet; storing the calculated parity value of the MPLS packet in an MPLS OAM packet of an FFD structure; and transmitting the MPLS OAM packet whenever transmitting the MPLS packet.

Abstract: Provided is a traffic authentication apparatus using information on a header of a packet for traffic authentication. The apparatus includes a call admission control agent receiving a call admission request from a calling terminal; a network controller determining whether to approve the call admission request received by the call admission control agent and obtaining call information from the call admission request; and a networking unit which, when the networking unit receives traffic from the calling terminal, compares information on the header of a packet of the traffic with the call information received from the network controller and authenticates the traffic.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for guaranteeing QoS using end-to-end CAC in an Internet service network. The method includes the steps of: (a) performing a subscriber domain CAC by querying a subscriber DB to determine whether to admit a call based on available bandwidth information of a subscriber when a subscriber terminal requests resource reservation; (b) performing a network domain CAC by querying a resource DB based on a result of the subscriber domain CAC to determine whether a resource required for service can be reserved or not; and (c) updating reserved bandwidth information and available bandwidth information of a subscriber domain in the subscriber DB and resource use information of a network domain in the resource DB when the resource reservation is completed through the steps (a) and (b).