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<strong>the</strong> MPEG-2 Transport Stream, and still <strong>in</strong>corporates <strong>the</strong> long-range dependence<br />

property <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> video streams. The e ect of this VBR model on <strong>ABR</strong> is to <strong>in</strong>troduce<br />

high variation <strong>in</strong> <strong>ABR</strong> capacity. As we shall see, <strong>the</strong> ERICA+ algorithm deals with<br />

<strong>the</strong> variation <strong>in</strong> <strong>ABR</strong> capacity and successfully bounds <strong>the</strong> maximum <strong>ABR</strong> queues,<br />

while ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g high l<strong>in</strong>k utilization.<br />

8.17.3 Model<strong>in</strong>g MPEG-2 Transport Streams over VBR<br />

We model a \video source" as consist<strong>in</strong>g of a transport stream generator, also<br />

called encoder (E) and a network element (NE). The encoder produces a Transport<br />

Stream as shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 8.13 and discussed <strong>in</strong> section 8.17.1 . In our model,<br />

<strong>the</strong> Transport Stream consists of a s<strong>in</strong>gle program stream. The network element<br />

encapsulates <strong>the</strong> transport packets <strong>in</strong>to AAL5 PDUs and <strong>the</strong>n fragments <strong>the</strong>m <strong>in</strong>to<br />

cells. The output of <strong>the</strong> network element (NE)goestoaleakybucket which restricts<br />

<strong>the</strong> peak rate to 15 Mbps. This leaky bucket function can alternatively be done <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> encoder, E (which does not send transport packets beyond a peak rate).<br />

Figure 8.16: Multiplex<strong>in</strong>g MPEG-2 S<strong>in</strong>gle Program Transport Streams (SPTSs) over<br />

VBR<br />

Several (N) such video sources are multiplexed to <strong>for</strong>m <strong>the</strong> VBR tra c go<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong> network as shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 8.16. Each encoder generates MPCRs uni<strong>for</strong>mly<br />

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