Title :
Bitrate adaptation flow control for multimedia-on-demand
Author :
Chan, Siu-Ping ; Kok, Chi-Wah
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China
Abstract :
A multimedia-on-demand system provides real-time playback of multimedia data transferred over UDP on IP is presented. The data buffer is allocated to overcome multimedia dropout problems. A bitrate adaptive flow control system is presented which constantly maintains the buffers at or near a predefined capacity. Other system maintenance protocols are incorporated to minimize the effect of packets lost in bursty channels and nonuniform packet arrival. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the developed system.
Keywords :
Internet; adaptive control; buffer storage; flow control; multimedia communication; protocols; telecommunication control; IP; UDP; bitrate adaptation flow control; buffers capacity; bursty channel; data buffer; multimedia dropout; multimedia-on-demand; nonuniform packet arrival; packet loss; real-time playback; system maintenance protocol; Adaptive control; Adaptive systems; Bit rate; Control systems; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Programmable control; Protocols; Real time systems; Streaming media;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2002. ICC 2002. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7400-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2002.997293
