Statistical multiplexing of VBR MPEG compressed video on ATM networks

Author

Reininger, D. ; Raychaudhuri, D. ; Melamed, B. ; Sengupta, B. ; Hill, J.

Author_Institution

David Sarnoff Res. Center, Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

1993

Firstpage

919

Abstract

A variable-bit-rate (VBR) MPEG video compression encoder is introduced, and the performance of a statistically multiplexed asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network supporting a number of such VBR video sources is evaluated. Bit-rate characteristics obtained from a detailed simulation are provided for a VBR MPEG encoder for CCIR601 video (operating in the 5-10 Mb/s regime) appropriate for medium-quality multimedia or broadcasting applications. The results presented include bit-rate traces and signal-to-noise-ratio data for typical test sequences, along with summary statistics such as the marginal distribution of frame rate. Data from a study of statistical multiplexing on an ATM network are also given. Simulation results for an ATM statistical multiplexer with N≫1 VBR MPEG sources are presented in terms of key performance measures such as cell loss rate and delay versus throughput. The results confirm that ATM channel efficiencies of ~80-90% can be obtained at reasonable cell loss rate and delay levels

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; codecs; data compression; image coding; multiplexing equipment; telecommunication networks; video signals; 5 to 10 Mbit/s; ATM channel efficiencies; ATM codecs; ATM networks; CCIR601 video; VBR MPEG compressed video; asynchronous transfer mode; bit rate characteristics; broadcasting; cell loss rate; delay; multimedia; statistical multiplexing; Asynchronous transfer mode; Delay; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Multimedia communication; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Testing; Transform coding; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '93. Proceedings.Twelfth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking: Foundation for the Future, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3580-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1993.253275

Filename

253275