A scheme for smoothing delay-sensitive traffic offered to ATM networks
IEEE INFOCOM '92 Proceedings of the eleventh annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies on One world through communications (Vol. 2)
An algorithm for lossless smoothing of MPEG video
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Fundamental limits and tradeoffs of providing deterministic guarantees to VBR video traffic
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Statistical properties of MPEG video traffic and their impact on traffic modeling in ATM systems
LCN '95 Proceedings of the 20th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Statistical characteristics and multiplexing of MPEG streams
INFOCOM '95 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Vol. 2)-Volume - Volume 2
INFOCOM '95 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Vol. 3)-Volume - Volume 3
Video on demand over ATM: constant-rate transmission and transport
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
Interactive video on demand over high speed networks
Journal of High Speed Networks
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We present a novel bandwidth allocation scheme for transporting variable-bit-rate MPEG traffic from a video server. Using time-varying envelopes to characterize the traffic, this scheme achieves significant bandwidth gain, via statistical multiplexing, while supporting stringent, deterministic QoS guarantees. The gain can be maximized by allowing the server to appropriately schedule the starting times of video sources, at the expense of some negligible startup delay. For homogeneous streams, we give the optimal schedule that results in the minimum allocated bandwidth. A suboptimal schedule is given in the heterogeneous case, which is shown to be asymptotically optimal. Efficient online procedures for bandwidth computation are provided. Numerical examples based on traces of MPEG-coded movies are used to demonstrate the benefits of our allocation strategy.