Queueing Analysis For Packet Switched Video

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Packet switching of variable bit-rate real-time video sources is a means for the efficient sharing of communication resources, while maintaining a uniform picture quality. Performance analyses for the statistical multiplexing of such video sources are required as a first step towards assessing the feasibility of packet switched video. This paper extends our earlier work in modelling video sources which have been coded using inter-frame coding schemes, and in carrying out buffer queueing analyses for the multiplexing of several such sources. Our previous models and analysis were suitable for relatively uniform activity scenes. Here we consider models and queueing analysis for more realistic scenes with multiple activity levels where the coder output bit-rates may change violently. We present correlated Markov source models for the corresponding sources, and using a flow-equivalent queueing analysis, obtain common buffer queue distributions and probabilities of packet loss. Our results demonstrate efficient resource sharing of packetized video on a single link, due to the smoothing effect of multiplexing several variable-rate video sources.© (1987) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

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