An adaptive MPEG2-TS packet scheduling discipline for multimedia broadcasting

Author

Teruhi, Shigeru ; Nidaira, Katsutoshi ; Nakayama, Masayoshi ; Suda, Hirohito

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2051

Abstract

Digital broadcasting can now be used for the transmission of not only video data but also IP data for http and FTP services. ATM over MPEG2-TS protocol stack is examined as one of the technologies that allows MPEG2-TS to offer efficient and flexible multiplexing. We have already proposed a scheduling discipline that is simple enough to implement in hardware and adaptively generates MPEG2-TS packets from the incoming ATM cells. This paper shows the results of our evaluation (simulations) into its efficiency in terms of multiplexing gain, delay performance, and fairness. The proposed scheduling discipline is found to be superior to the alternatives with respect to the multiplexing gain while offering excellent delay and fairness characteristics

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; broadcasting; delays; digital communication; direct broadcasting by satellite; multimedia communication; scheduling; transport protocols; ATM; FTP services; IP data; adaptive MPEG2-TS packet scheduling discipline; delay characteristics; digital broadcasting; fairness characteristics; http services; multimedia broadcasting; multiplexing; multiplexing gain; packets; protocol stack; Asynchronous transfer mode; Broadcast technology; Delay; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Round robin; Satellite broadcasting; Scheduling algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd

Conference_Location

Rhodes

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6728-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2001.945057

Filename

945057