<title>Measurement study of RealMedia streaming traffic</title>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the growing popularity of real-time audio/video streaming applications on the Internet, it is important to study the traffic characteristics of such applications and to understand their implications on network performance. In this paper, we present a measurement study of RealMedia streaming traffic, where the focus is both on the application-layer view (i.e., the output of the audio/video encoder) and on the network-layer view (i.e., the departure process for network packets emanating from the RealMedia server). Our main observation is that, although RealVideo can be compressed as Variable-Bit-Rate (VBR) at the application layer, it is often streamed as Constant-Bit-Rate (CBR) at the network layer. The audio and video streams have a hierarchical traffic structure: at large time scales (minutes), the overall bit rate is constant; at medium time scales (seconds), the packets have an on and off pattern due to the interleaving of audio and video; at fine-grain time scales (sub-second), back-to-back packet trains of two or more packets are often seen. We also note that most CBR-coded RealVideo streams are not long-range dependent (LRD). We attribute this difference to the CBR nature of the coder, which dynamically changes the video frame rate to keep the Internet traffic demands near-CBR over moderate time scales.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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