Smoothing and transporting video in QoS IP networks

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Abstract

Real-time traffic such as voice and video, when transported over the Internet, demand stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. The current Internet as of today is still used as a best effort environment with no quality guarantees. An IP-based Internet that supports different QoS requirements for different applications has been evolving for the past few years. Video streams are bursty in nature due to the instant variability of the video content being encoded. To help mitigate the transport of bursty video streams with minimal loss of information, rate-adaptive shapers (RASs) are usually being used to reduce the burstiness and therefore help preserve the desired quality. When transporting video over a QoS IP network, each stream is classified under a specific traffic profile to which it must conform, to avoid packet loss and picture quality degradation. In this paper we study, evaluate and propose RASs for the transport of video over a QoS IP network. We utilize the encoding video parameters for choosing the appropriate configuration needed to support the real-time transport of Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoded video streams. The performance evaluation of the different RASs is based on the transport of MPEG-4 video streams encoded as VBR. The performance is studied based on looking at the effect of various parameters associated with the RASs on the effectiveness of smoothing out the burstiness of video and minimizing the probability of packet loss.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)775-794
Number of pages20
JournalInternational Journal of Communication Systems
Volume19
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2006

Keywords

  • Differentiated service
  • IP networks
  • MPEG video
  • MPLS
  • Quality of service

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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