Paper Info
Title
Bandwidth allocation for the transmission of scalable MPEG video traffic with deterministic guarantees
Abstract
This paper studies bandwidth allocation schemes for the transmission of VBR video traffic with deterministic guarantees, i.e. no packets lost and no missed deadlines. Specifically, we propose and investigate a policy namedquasi-constant policy . A VBR encoder attempts to keep the quality of video output constant by varying the transmission rate (constant quality); on the other hand, with a quasi-constant policy the video quality transmission is reduced when congestion occurs. We assume that this reduction is obtained by exploiting source scalability. By characterizing the traffic of a source with a constraint function, we define the relationship between the amount of bandwidth assigned to a VBR source and the maximum delay the application may experience. By applying this relationship to long MPEG 2 traces (more than one hour) we show that the quasi-constant policy is a very promising direction for providing, in an efficient way, a deterministic QoS to VBR video traffic. Specifically, the results presented indicate that with the quasi-constant quality approach we can achieve a utilization greater than 50% with a deadline of one second with only eight reduced-quality frames out of 1000. On the other hand, previous works ([1, 2]) indicate that with a constant quality transmission, a 50% network utilization can be achieved only by tolerating a seven-second deadline.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1006/rtim.2000.0225
Real-Time Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
vbr source,quasi-constant quality approach,policy namedquasi-constant policy,vbr encoder attempt,vbr video traffic,constant quality transmission,deterministic guarantee,scalable mpeg video traffic,bandwidth allocation,constant quality,transmission rate,video quality transmission,quasi-constant policy,video quality,rate constant
Data transmission,Computer science,Bandwidth allocation,Network packet,Computer network,Quality of service,Real-time computing,Encoder,Video quality,MPEG-2,Variable bitrate
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
3
Real-Time Imaging
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.40
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Conti11309127.67
Gregori, Enrico222825.30