Adaptive Control for Packet Video


S. Chakrabarti, R. Y. Wang. Adaptive Control for Packet Video. Proc. First Internation Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems. pp. 56-62. May 1994. Also appeared as University of California Technical Report CSD-98-982.


We describe a portable and robust software mechanism for adaptive frame rate control for real time packet video transfer and viewing in workstation environments. No special hardware or system support is assumed. Our contributions include (1) a responsive feedback system for dynamic presentation layer rate control in response to network load, (2) a simple and effective transport layer flow control scheme built upon an unreliable network protocol, and (3) data structures and scheduling support for integrating the rate and flow control mechanisms. We demonstrate that excellent jitter control is achieved by gracefully trading image resolution, and loss rates can be drastically reduced by appropriate flow control.


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Randy Wang    (rywang.public@gmail.com)