On the Temporal Characteristics of Video Traffic

  • Authors:
  • Tamas Borsos

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • LCN '01 Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

It is widely accepted that the video frame size process islong range dependent (LRD),which has been indicated bya number of statistical tests. This approach suggests the useof LRD traffic models for traffic engineering, which in manycases leads to subexponential queue tails in the networkbuffers.Basically, there are two concepts that are consid-ered as the origin of LRD in video modeling:self-similarityand heavy tailed level durations. In this paper we argue fora new approach, where the frame size sequence is describedby three processes representingthree explicit time scales,all of them having a physical meaning.We demonstrate thatis concept serves as an explanation for the outcome of theLRD tests. The properties that are attributed to long rangedependence in fact seem to be the result of non-stationarityof the large time scale process. We also show that the highfrequency component is short range dependent, thus ques-tioning the presence of long range dependence in video traffic.