Network Performance Considerations in the Design of a VBR Codec

Variable bit rate video codecs constitute new and potentially very significant sources of traffic for an A 1M ,based broadband integrated services network. We consider the characteristics of such traffic and, with the aid of recently developed techniques for analysing queues with correlated input, we evaluate a number of possible trade-offs between codec output, link and buffer dimensions and realized perfonnance.

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