Bandwidth renegotiation with traffic smoothing and joint rate control for VBR MPEG video over ATM

Variable bit-rate (VBR) MPEG video traffic is highly bursty due to group of pictures structure, and shows time-variant statistical characteristics due to scene changes. These characteristics make it more difficult to manage network resources, and leads to the significant reduction in network utilization. We deal with the issues related to efficiently transmitting VBR MPEG video traffic over asynchronous transfer mode networks, while maintaining consistent visual quality and improving network utilization on the basis of real-time applications. First, we propose a joint encoder and channel-rate control scheme that comply with not only negotiated traffic parameters, but also constraints imposed by encoder and decoder buffers. Second, we propose a dynamic bandwidth renegotiation method by combining the above scheme with a traffic smoothing method that can make the peak rate close to the sustainable rate. The efficiencies of the proposed methods are compared with a few other competitive schemes such as transmission methods for unconstrained VBR and the constant bit-rate scheme with average bandwidth equal to that of the proposed methods.