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Temporal placement control of video frames in B-ISDN networks
Assignee: NEC Corp
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Filing: 1994-11-01
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Granted: 1996-03-12
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Expires: 2014-11-01
Abstract
Abstract Methods of traffic smoothing for frames of different video sources where each video source transmits frames at fixed intervals and the network is free to decide the relative temporal spacing of video frames from different sources provide significant performance advantages. The time at which a given source begins to transmit its first frame is under the control of the network; however, thereafter, all frames from the source are transmitted at fixed intervals. Two heuristic and one optimization method control the temporal placement of the video frames from different sources in order to reduce the loss rate of the high priority cells and to minimize the smoothness index of the traffic.
Inventors
- 👤 Duan-Shin Lee
- 👤 Bhaskar Sengupta
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 13:56
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L12/00; H04L12/54; H04L12/56; H04L12/5601; H04L12/5602; H04N; H04N21/00; H04N21/20; H04N21/23; H04N21/236; H04N21/2365; H04N21/40; H04N21/43; H04N21/434; H04N21/4347; H04L2012/5614; H04L2012/5615; H04L2012/5638; H04L2012/5646; H04L2012/5651; H04L2012/5672; H04L2012/5678; H04L2012/5679; H04L2012/568
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
59 words
A method of temporal placement control of video frames in B-ISDN networks comprising the steps of: dividing the inter-frame interval (τ) into a quantity of intervals equal to the quantity of active calls, and selecting the largest interval of said quantity of intervals and the midpoint of said selected largest interval is the offset for a newly arriving call.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
59 words
A method of temporal placement control of video frames in B-ISDN networks comprising the steps of: dividing the inter-frame interval (τ) into a quantity of intervals equal to the quantity of active calls, and selecting the largest interval of said quantity of intervals and the midpoint of said selected largest interval is the offset for a newly arriving call.
Claim 3
Independent Claim
145 words
A method of temporal placement control of video frames in B-ISDN networks comprising the steps of: dividing the inter-frame interval (τ) into intervals during which a source is expected to transmit such that for n active sources, k j denotes the type of source j, and the interval for source j is defined as, where E j =<O j +g k j ×10 3/ R k j >where R k j is the access line speed, E j is the interval for source j, O j is the offset for the jth active call, and g k , is the interval length for the jth call, and selecting the smallest portion of the inter-frame interval (τ) greater than the length of a newly arriving call not within the interval for the source of said newly arriving call for the offset of said newly arriving call.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
145 words
A method of temporal placement control of video frames in B-ISDN networks comprising the steps of: dividing the inter-frame interval (τ) into intervals during which a source is expected to transmit such that for n active sources, k j denotes the type of source j, and the interval for source j is defined as, where E j =<O j +g k j ×10 3/ R k j >where R k j is the access line speed, E j is the interval for source j, O j is the offset for the jth active call, and g k , is the interval length for the jth call, and selecting the smallest portion of the inter-frame interval (τ) greater than the length of a newly arriving call not within the interval for the source of said newly arriving call for the offset of said newly arriving call.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
86 words
A method of temporal placement control of video frames as set forth in claim 2 where when any said portion of the inter-frame interval, not including any said interval, is smaller than the length of said newly arriving call, the following steps are performed: dividing the inter-frame interval into a quantity of intervals equal to the quantity of active calls, and selecting the largest interval of said quantity of intervals and the midpoint of said selected largest interval is the offset for said newly arriving call.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
93 words
A method of temporal placement control of video frames is B-ISDN networks where there are n-1 calls in progress whose call types (k j ) access line speeds (R k j ) and offsets (O j ) are known (for j=1, . . . , n-1) comprising the steps of: for an additional call n of type k n , having an expected bit-rate P n (·) at time t, for O<t <τ, selecting the offset O n of the additional call such that ##EQU18## where τ is the inter-frame interval, is minimized.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
93 words
A method of temporal placement control of video frames is B-ISDN networks where there are n-1 calls in progress whose call types (k j ) access line speeds (R k j ) and offsets (O j ) are known (for j=1, . . . , n-1) comprising the steps of: for an additional call n of type k n , having an expected bit-rate P n (·) at time t, for O<t <τ, selecting the offset O n of the additional call such that ##EQU18## where τ is the inter-frame interval, is minimized.
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