Constant bit rate network transmission of variable bit rate continuous media in Video-On-Demand servers |
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Authors: | Juan Miguel Del Rosario Geoffrey Fox |
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Affiliation: | (1) Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, 111 College Place, RM 3-201, 13244-4100 Syracuse, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | Multimedia computing is rapidly emerging as the next generation standard for human-computer interaction. One class of multimedia applications that has been gaining much attention is the real-time display of continuous media data such as video and audio, commonly known as Video-On-Demand (VOD) service. Although advances in computer and network technologies have made VOD service feasible, providing guaranteed quality, real-time video delivery still poses many technical challenges. One such challenge involves the transmission of continuous media traffic over high-speed networks.In this paper, we present an algorithm for determining the minimum buffer requirement for avoiding overflow or underflow at the client video display process, allowing the network scheduler at the VOD server to enforce a constant bit rate delivery of variable bit rate encoded continuous media. This strategy results in reduced congestion and cell loss at the network switch, and in simplified admission control parameters. Initial results indicate that buffer requirements for typical video streams range from 3.7 to 14.6 Megabytes, which is acceptable by today's multimedia PC standards. Further, we show that this approach increases the number of streams that can be multiplexed by a factor of 4.6 to 9.9 times when compared to peak and 90%-of-peak bandwidth allocation strategies.ECE Dept., Syracuse University, Syracuse, USACIS Dept., Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA |
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Keywords: | multimedia video server buffer real-time scheduling video-on-demand |
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