Traffic Models for H.264 Video Using Hierarchical Prediction Structures

We present different video traffic models for H.264 variable bit rate (VBR) videos. We propose our models on top of the recent unified traffic model developed by Dai et al. [1], which presents a frame-level hybrid framework for modeling MPEG-4 and H.264 multi-layer VBR video traffic. We exploit the hierarchical predication structure inherent in H.264 for intra-GoP (group of pictures) analysis. We model the children frames by considering various combinations of the correlation between the parent frames in the prediction structure. Our simulations show that modeling using the hierarchical prediction structure indeed improves capturing the statistical features of the videos and prediction of network performance, without an increase in the complexity as compared to the unified traffic model by Dai et al. [1], which was shown earlier to be better than previous traffic models.