Efficient changes and variability bandwidth allocation for VBR media streams

Author

Chao, Han-Chieh ; Hung, C.L. ; Chang, Y.-C. ; Chen, J.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Dong Hwa Univ., Hualien, Taiwan

fYear

2001

fDate

36982

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

294

Abstract

Recently, the Internet bandwidth has increased rapidly. Currently available network traffic includes not only text but also graphics, such as JPEG and GIF images. Many multimedia applications are emerging, such as video on demand (VoD) and distance learning. These services involve complicated network connections between servers and clients. To simplify this system, we propose an effective and efficient traffic-smoothing algorithm, which is called ECVBA (Efficient Changes and Variability Bandwidth Allocation). This algorithm not only minimizes the peak rate of a stream but also increases the likelihood of successful variable bit-rate (VBR) stream transmission. The main benefit is that this algorithm can immediately release bandwidth to other demanding sites in the network

Keywords

Internet; bandwidth allocation; client-server systems; minimisation; multimedia communication; smoothing methods; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic; variable rate codes; ECVBA algorithm; Efficient Changes and Variability Bandwidth Allocation; Internet bandwidth; VBR media streams; client-server network connections; demanding network sites; distance learning; multimedia applications; network traffic smoothing algorithm; stream peak-rate minimization; variable bit-rate stream transmission; video on demand; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Computer aided instruction; Graphics; Internet; Network servers; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Video on demand; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshop, 2001 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mesa, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1080-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDCS.2001.918719

Filename

918719