Intra-GoP modeling of MPEG video traffic

Thanks to the ever growing diffusion of distributed multimedia applications, VBR compressed video traffic is expected to constitute the majority of the B-ISDN load in the immediate future. At the moment, the MPEG coding scheme is widely used for many types of applications. Therefore, it is crucial to obtain a model for the generation of sequences with the same statistical characteristics of real MPEG traces. In this paper, after demonstrating that intra-GoP (group of pictures) correlation has to be taken into account, an accurate model allowing the generation of an MPEG-like trace is proposed. Moreover, as the MPEG traffic has been demonstrated to be self-similar, the proposed algorithm allows one to generate a trace, fitting the short-range dependence (SRD) and long-range dependence (LRD) behavior and the probability density function of any given MPEG sequence.