Randolph Wang and Soumen Chakrabarti

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-98-982
January 1998

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1998/CSD-98-982.pdf

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.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Wang:CSD-98-982,
    Author = {Wang, Randolph and Chakrabarti, Soumen},
    Title = {Adaptive Control for Packet Video},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1998},
    Month = {Jan},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1998/5426.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-98-982},
    Abstract = {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.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%T Adaptive Control for Packet Video
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