Policies for temporal placement control of video frames in B-ISDN networks

Proposes a new method of traffic smoothing for frames of different video sources. The authors assume that each video source transmits frames at fixed intervals and that the network is free to decide the relative temporal spacing of video frames from different sources. They propose three control policies (two heuristic and one based on an optimization problem via some Fourier analysis). These are compared against the case in which the video frames from different sources are randomly distributed (i.e., no control is exercised). They show that significant performance advantages accrue if one controls the temporal placement of the video frames from different sources