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Apparatus for estimating variable bit rate (VBR) video traffic, and method therefor

Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
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Filing: 1997-04-03
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Granted: 1998-12-08
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Expires: 2017-04-03
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Abstract

Abstract An apparatus is provided for accurately estimating an equivalent bandwidth of a variable bit rate Moving Picture Expert Group in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) by which an effective connection admission control of VBR MPEG video traffic in ATM network can be performed. The apparatus includes a traffic splitting unit for splitting into the respective frames, a frame traffic calculating unit for performing the approximation for calculating the equivalent bandwidth for the first aggregated frame, a frame traffic combining unit for combining the above two frames, an approximation unit for approximating the resultant moments of the combined frame traffic, a first equivalent bandwidth calculating unit for calculating the equivalent bandwidth of the combined aggregated frame traffic, and a second equivalent bandwidth calculating unit for adding the calculated equivalent bandwidths.

Inventors

  • 👤 Chang-Bum Lee
  • 👤 Kyeong-Bong Ha
  • 👤 Rae-Hong Park

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N21/00; H04N21/20; H04N21/23; H04N21/236; H04J; H04J3/00; H04J3/16; H04J3/1682; H04N21/40; H04N21/43; H04N21/434; H04Q; H04Q11/00; H04Q11/04; H04Q11/0428; H04Q11/0478; H04L; H04L12/00; H04L12/54; H04L12/56; H04L12/5601; H04L2012/5629; H04L2012/5631; H04L2012/5632; H04L2012/5638

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim 229 words
A method for estimating an equivalent bandwidth of variable bit rate (VBR) video traffic, which is applied to an estimating apparatus for estimating VBR video traffic, said method comprising the steps of: splitting traffic which is requested to be connected to a new call into I, B and P frame traffic, respectively, in case of the connection request to the new call; calculating an equivalent bandwidth for the I frame traffic through the use of the Gaussian approximation method; combining the B and P frame traffic, performing 2-state approximation for the resultant, and calculating an equivalent bandwidth of the aggregated B/P frame traffic using the modified equipment capacity (MEC) method; adding the equivalent bandwidth of the I frame traffic and aggregated B/P frame traffic to calculate a total equivalent bandwidth, and comparing the total equivalent bandwidth with a link capacity; and rejecting the connection request to the new call and advancing to the step of accepting the connection request to the new call, maintaining the moment of the previous aggregated traffic, if the equivalent bandwidth of the I frame traffic is larger than link capacity after a comparison, and accommodating the new call, updating the moment of the aggregated B/P frame traffic, and then advancing to the step of receiving the connection request to another new call, if the total equivalent bandwidth is not larger than the link capacity.
Claim 2
Independent Claim 229 words
A method for estimating an equivalent bandwidth of variable bit rate (VBR) video traffic, which is applied to an estimating apparatus for estimating VBR video traffic, said method comprising the steps of: splitting traffic which is requested to be connected to a new call into I, B and P frame traffic, respectively, in case of the connection request to the new call; calculating an equivalent bandwidth for the I frame traffic through the use of the Gaussian approximation method; combining the B and P frame traffic, performing 2-state approximation for the resultant, and calculating an equivalent bandwidth of the aggregated B/P frame traffic using the modified equipment capacity (MEC) method; adding the equivalent bandwidth of the I frame traffic and aggregated B/P frame traffic to calculate a total equivalent bandwidth, and comparing the total equivalent bandwidth with a link capacity; and rejecting the connection request to the new call and advancing to the step of accepting the connection request to the new call, maintaining the moment of the previous aggregated traffic, if the equivalent bandwidth of the I frame traffic is larger than link capacity after a comparison, and accommodating the new call, updating the moment of the aggregated B/P frame traffic, and then advancing to the step of receiving the connection request to another new call, if the total equivalent bandwidth is not larger than the link capacity.

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