Periodic broadcasting with VBR-encoded video

Despina Saparilla, Keith W. Ross, Martin Reisslein

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    Abstract

    We consider designing near video on demand (VoD) systems that minimize start-up latency while maintaining high image quality. Recently non-uniform segmentation has been used to develop periodic broadcasting techniques for near VoD. These techniques give significant reductions in start-up latency as compared with more conventional uniform segmentation. All of these schemes assume, however, that the videos are CBR-encoded. Since a CBR-encoded video has a larger average rate than an open-loop VBR encoding with the same image quality, there is potential to obtain further performance improvements by using VBR video. In this paper we develop a series of multiplexing schemes for the periodic broadcasting of VBR-encoded video, which are based on smoothing, server buffering and client prefetching. Two key but coflicting performance measures exist when using VBR video: latency and packet loss. By introducing small additional delays in our multiplexing schemes, our traced-based numerical work shows that the schemes can achieve nearly 100% link utilization with negligible packet loss. When the ratio of the CBR rate to the VBR average rate is a modest 1.8, start-up latency can be reduced by a factor of four or more for common scenarios.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM'99
    Subtitle of host publicationThe Conference on Computer Communications - 18th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies: The Future is Now
    Pages464-471
    Number of pages8
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1999
    Event18th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies: The Future is Now, IEEE INFOCOM'99 - New York, NY, United States
    Duration: Mar 21 1991Mar 25 1991

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
    Volume2
    ISSN (Print)0743-166X

    Conference

    Conference18th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies: The Future is Now, IEEE INFOCOM'99
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityNew York, NY
    Period3/21/913/25/91

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Computer Science
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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