A study of the transmission of VBR encoded video over ATM networks.

by Ngai Li.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-69).Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Video Compression and Transport --- p.2Chapter 1.2 --- Research Contributions --- p.6Chapter 1.2.1 --- Joint Rate Control of VBR Encoded Video --- p.6Chapter 1.2.2 --- Transporting VBR Video on LB Controlled Channel --- p.7Chapter 1.3 --- Organization of Thesis --- p.7Chapter 2 --- Preliminary --- p.9Chapter 2.1 --- Statistical Characteristics of MPEG-1 Encoded Video --- p.9Chapter 2.2 --- Temporal and Spatial Smoothing --- p.14Chapter 2.2.1 --- Temporal Smoothing --- p.14Chapter 2.2.2 --- Spatial Smoothing --- p.15Chapter 2.3 --- A Single Source Control-Theoretic Framework for VBR-to-CBR Video Adaptation --- p.16Chapter 3 --- Joint Rate Control of VBR Encoded Video --- p.19Chapter 3.1 --- Analytical Models --- p.21Chapter 3.2 --- Analysis --- p.27Chapter 3.2.1 --- Stable Region --- p.29Chapter 3.2.2 --- Final Value of the State Variables --- p.33Chapter 3.2.3 --- Peak Values of Buffer-occupancy Deviation and Image- quality Fluctuation --- p.35Chapter 3.2.4 --- SAE of Buffer-occupancy Deviation and Image-quality Fluc- tuation --- p.42Chapter 3.3 --- Experimental Results --- p.43Chapter 3.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.48Chapter 4 --- Transporting VBR Video on LB Controlled Channel --- p.50Chapter 4.1 --- Leaky Bucket Access Control --- p.51Chapter 4.2 --- Greedy Token-usage Strategy --- p.53Chapter 4.3 --- Non-greedy Token-usage Strategy --- p.57Chapter 4.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.60Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.62Chapter 5.1 --- Joint Rate Control of Multiple VBR Videos --- p.62Chapter 5.2 --- LB Video Compression --- p.63Chapter 5.3 --- Further Study --- p.64Chapter 5.4 --- Publications --- p.65Bibliography --- p.6