An interarrival delay jitter model using multistructure network delay characteristics for packet networks

Data traversing packet networks experience varying delays, resulting in interarrival jitter. This can result in degraded performance in real-time multimedia communications applications if the jitter delays are large or unaccounted for in the receiver application. This paper examines modeling and simulation of network jitter delay for real-time multimedia communications applications. We examine the multistructure characteristics of network delay and develop a model for simulation of jitter. The model is confirmed empirically using collected packet network jitter delay statistics.