In recent years service curves have proven a powerful and versatile model for performance
analysis of network elements, such as schedulers, links, and traffic shapers, up to entire …

Providing performance guarantees is one of the most important issues for future
telecommunication networks. This book describes theoretical developments in performance …

MPEG-4 and H. 263 encoded video is expected to account for a large portion of the traffic in
future wireline and wireless networks. However, due to a lack of sufficiently long frame size …

Existing approaches for providing guaranteed services require routers to manage per flow
states and perform per flow operations [9, 21]. Such a stateful network architecture is less …

Many designs for integrated services networks offer a bounded delay packet delivery service
to support real-time applications. To provide a bounded delay service, networks must use …

The authors examine the transport and storage of video compressed with a variable bit rate
(VBR). They focus primarily on networked video, although they also briefly consider other …

To support the requirements for the transmission of continuous media, such as audio and
video, multiservice packet-switching networks must provide service guarantees to …

In networks that support quality of service, an admission control algorithm determines
whether or not a new traffic flow can be admitted to the network such that all users will …

Variable-bit-rate (VBR) compressed video can exhibit significant multiple-time-scale bit-rate
variability. In this paper we consider the transmission of stored video from a server to a client …

VBR compressed video is known to exhibit significant, multiple-time-scale bit rate variability.
In this paper, we consider the transmission of stored video from a server to a client across a …