Characterization of video codecs as autoregressive moving average processes and related queueing system performance

A method of characterizing video codec sources in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks as an autoregressive moving average (ARMA) process is described. Measurements of long-term mean and the autocorrelation function of cell interarrival times allow the parameter estimation of the ARMA model. The video source is then described by ARMA model. Furthermore, it is shown that the multiplexed stream of video cells is also an ARMA process. Such a cell stream is then applied to a model of a queuing system to obtain performance measures of the system. Perturbation analysis is then performed on the functional behavior of the queuing system by appropriate perturbation of the model parameters to determine cell waiting time sensitivity due to slight variations of the input process