The effect of burst formation timers on video streaming over optical burst switched networks

Author

Espina, F. ; Morató, D. ; Izal, M. ; Magana, E.

Author_Institution

Public Univ. of Navarre, Pamplona

fYear

2008

fDate

8-11 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

282

Lastpage

289

Abstract

Optical burst switching networks offer the capacity needed by bandwidth hungry services like video distribution to home subscribers. This paper shows the effect that the burst formation mechanism and its parameters has on video traffic flows. The dependence among video frames in MPEG flows shows a noticeable effect on the total number of frames that the video receiver cannot decode and the duration of the video playback interruptions. By tuning the parameters of the ingress node a quality of service objective can be achieved.

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; optical fibre networks; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; video communication; video streaming; MPEG flows; bandwidth hungry services; burst formation mechanism; burst formation timers; home subscribers; optical burst switched networks; quality of service objective; video distribution; video playback interruptions; video receiver; video streaming; video traffic flows; Optical buffering; Optical burst switching; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Streaming media; Testing; Video compression; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems, 2008. BROADNETS 2008. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2391-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2392-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769089

Filename

4769089