Modeling variable-bit-rate video traffic using linear scale-invariant systems

Rajesh Narasimha; Raghuveer M. Rao

doi:10.1117/12.458730

8 March 2002 Modeling variable-bit-rate video traffic using linear scale-invariant systems

Rajesh Narasimha, Raghuveer M. Rao

Proceedings Volume 4738, Wavelet and Independent Component Analysis Applications IX; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458730
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

It has been shown that Variable Bit Rate (VBR) video exhibits long-range dependence characteristics. Several models have been proposed to synthesize traces whose autocorrelation match that of the video traffic traces. Given the relationship between self-similarity and long- range dependence, we investigate the application of discrete-time linear scale invariant systems provided by Zhao and Rao to modeling VBR video traffic. This formulation, called a DLSI system, was derived using a continuous dilation operator in discrete-time as a direct analog of the continuous-time linear scale-invariant system formulation of Wornell and differs from other approaches such as wavelet based construction. While simulations had shown that DLSI systems were capable of generating self- similar data such as those found in network traffic, questions regarding their long-range behavior remained. Answers to these questions are dealt in this paper. We present an alternative modeling technique to model VBR video traffic using DLSI system. The proposed model has a fractional pole-zero structure and provides a good model for long-range dependent and self-similar time series. The behavioral pattern of the fractional pole-zero filter for a range of the Hurst parameter is also shown. The time-domain characteristics of the filter are analyzed using power series approximations. Comparison of output autocorrelation function (ACF) to those of the video trace ACF is made. We conclude that some samples of video data are indeed better modeled by the LSI models than the conventional models such as Markovian and Long-range dependent models.

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Rajesh Narasimha and Raghuveer M. Rao "Modeling variable-bit-rate video traffic using linear scale-invariant systems", Proc. SPIE 4738, Wavelet and Independent Component Analysis Applications IX, (8 March 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458730

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