The transmission of video data stored on a video server to a large number of clients with finite buffer sizes requires a transmission plan that considers factors such as the number of rate changes, peak rate, and the amount of rate variability. Such t...
The transmission of video data stored on a video server to a large number of clients with finite buffer sizes requires a transmission plan that considers factors such as the number of rate changes, peak rate, and the amount of rate variability. Such transmission plans are referred to as smoothing algorithms, examples of which include CBA, MCBA, and MVBA. This study proposes an algorithm to reduce the utilization of the peak rate and evaluates the performance of the proposed algorithm. The evaluation factors include the number of rate changes, peak rate, rate variability, buffer utilization, average rate, and peak rate utilization. The evaluation results show that the proposed algorithm exhibits lower buffer utilization, average rate, and peak rate utilization compared to the MVBA algorithm.