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

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

2503

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2002. ICC 2002. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7400-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2002.997293

Filename

997293