Towards an analytical model for characterising behaviour of high-speed VVoIP applications
Sukhov Andrei 1, Calyam Prasad 2, Daly Warren 3, Iliin Alexander 4
1Laboratory of Network Technologies, Samara Academy of Transport Engineering,
1st Bezymyannyi per., 18, Samara, 443066, Russia
e-mail: sukhov@ssau.ru
2OARnet, The Ohio State University, 1224 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA
e-mail: pcalyam@oar.net
3HeaNet Ltd, Crampton Ave, Shelbourne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland
e-mail: warren.daly@heanet.ie
4Russian Institute for Public Network, Kurchatov sq., 1, Moscow, 123182, Russia
e-mail: kalend@ripn.net
DOI: 10.12921/cmst.2005.11.02.161-167
OAI: oai:lib.psnc.pl:592
Abstract:
The use of high-speed multimedia technologies such as MPEG-based interactive Videoconferencing and IPTV for delivering Television content over the Internet is becoming increasingly common. With commercial vendors and content providers envisioning products and services for delivering audiovisual content equipped with greater user-control and higher resolutions, there has arisen a significant demand to identify and quantify various bottlenecks in the Internet to better support such ventures. In this paper, we attempt to develop an analytical model that reflects the effects of various device factors and network factors that affect the performance of highspeed interactive audiovisual streams, i.e. the ultimate end-user perception of audiovisual quality. To develop our model, we use a set of experimental results obtained in both a LAN as well as on an Internet testbed.
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[18] A. Markopoulou, F. Tobagi, M. Karam, Assessment of VoIP quality over Internet backbones, IEEE INFOCOM, 2002.
[19] J. Mullin, L. Smallwood, A. Watson, G. Wilson, New techniques for assessing audio and video quality in real-time interactive communications, IHM-HCI Tutorial, 2001.
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[21] A. Sukhov, P. Calyam, W. Daly, A. Iliin, Network requirements for high-speed real-time multimedia application, III IPv6 global Summit (Internet. New Generation -IPv6), Moscow, November 2004, p. 2833.
[22] Y. Zhu, A Survey of Network Requirements to Support Current and Future Data Streams, CS 7001 Introduction to Graduate Studies Mini-project 1, Fall 2000.
The use of high-speed multimedia technologies such as MPEG-based interactive Videoconferencing and IPTV for delivering Television content over the Internet is becoming increasingly common. With commercial vendors and content providers envisioning products and services for delivering audiovisual content equipped with greater user-control and higher resolutions, there has arisen a significant demand to identify and quantify various bottlenecks in the Internet to better support such ventures. In this paper, we attempt to develop an analytical model that reflects the effects of various device factors and network factors that affect the performance of highspeed interactive audiovisual streams, i.e. the ultimate end-user perception of audiovisual quality. To develop our model, we use a set of experimental results obtained in both a LAN as well as on an Internet testbed.
Key words:
References:
[1] Ch. Barakat, P. Thiran, G. Iannaccone, Ch. Diot, Ph. Owezarski, A flow-based model for Internet backbone traffic, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing – Special Issue on Signal Processing in Networking, 51, 8, 2111-2124, August 2003.
[2] S. Ben Fredj, T. Bonald, A. Proutiere, G. Regnie, J. Roberts, Statistical Bandwidth Sharing: A Study of Congestion at Flow Level, ACM SIGCOMM, August 2001.
[3] S. Bonaventura, F. Baldi, M. Alfano, M. Mirabelli, J. Antkowiak, A. Dehnel, Testing user perceived multimedia communication quality using realistic tasks, EURESCOM, Project P807: JUPITER2 – Joint Usability, Performability and Interoperability Trials in Europe, 1999.
[4] P. Calyam, W. Mandrawa, M. Sridharan, A. Khan, P. Schopis, H.323 Beacon: An H.323 application related end-toend performance troubleshooting tool, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Network Troubleshooting Workshop (NetTs’ 04), Portland, October 2004.
[5] P. Calyam, M. Sridharan, W. Mandrawa, P. Schopis, Performance Measurement and Analysis of H.323 Traffic, Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), 2004.
[6] A. Clark, Modelling the effects of burst packet loss and recency on subjective voice quality, 2001.
[7] M. Claypool, J. Tanner, The Effects of Jitter on the Perceptual Quality of Video, ACM Multimedia”, 1999
[8] L. Cottrell, W. Matthews, C. Logg, Tutorial on Internet Monitoring & PingER at SLAC, 2001, http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/tutorial.html
[9] Chen-Nee Chuah and Randy H. Katz, Characterizing Packet Audio Streams from Internet Multimedia Applications, ICC 2002.
[10] R. Finger, A. W. Davis, Measuring Video Quality in Videoconferencing Systems.
[11] F. Fluckiger, Understanding Networked Multimedia, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1995.
[12] B. V. Gnedenko, Theory of Proability, NY, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1999.
[13] W. Jiang and H. Schulzrinne, Modeling of packet loss and delay and their effect on real-time multimedia service quality, Proc. of NOSSDAV, 2000.
[14] ITU-T Recommendation G.107, The Emodel, a computational model for use in transmission planning, 1998.
[15] ITU-T Recommendation P.911, Subjective audiovisual quality assessment methods for multimedia applications, 1998
[16] M. Karam, F. Tobagi, Analysis of the Delay and Jitter of Voice Traffic over the Internet, IEEE INFOCOM, 2001.
[17] S. Leinen, M. Przybylski, V. Reijs, Sz. Trocha, Testing of Traffic Measurement Tools, GEANT Report GEA-01-113, October 2001.
[18] A. Markopoulou, F. Tobagi, M. Karam, Assessment of VoIP quality over Internet backbones, IEEE INFOCOM, 2002.
[19] J. Mullin, L. Smallwood, A. Watson, G. Wilson, New techniques for assessing audio and video quality in real-time interactive communications, IHM-HCI Tutorial, 2001.
[20] J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D. Towsley, J. Kurose, Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation, Proc. SIGCOMM Symp. Communications Architectures and Protocols Aug. 1998, 304-314.
[21] A. Sukhov, P. Calyam, W. Daly, A. Iliin, Network requirements for high-speed real-time multimedia application, III IPv6 global Summit (Internet. New Generation -IPv6), Moscow, November 2004, p. 2833.
[22] Y. Zhu, A Survey of Network Requirements to Support Current and Future Data Streams, CS 7001 Introduction to Graduate Studies Mini-project 1, Fall 2000.
