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Integrated services networks have the framework needed to provide performance guarantees to multimedia traffic sources such as Variable Bit Rate (VBR) video. This paper investigates the effects of smoothing VBR traffic sources on their end-to-end delay bounds and on the achievable utilization inside the network. We provide a set of rules that determine if smoothing results in a net advantage to the source and use experiments with traces of MPEG-compressed video to quantify the effectiveness of smoothing in practical networking situations.
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Knightly, E.W., Rossaro, P. (1996). Effects of Smoothing on End-To-End Performance Guarantees for VBR Video. In: Wang, Y., Panwar, S., Kim, SP., Bertoni, H.L. (eds) Multimedia Communications and Video Coding. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0403-6_11
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