Real-time traffic shape monitoring system for video/audio streaming systems

This paper introduces the requirements, concept and effects of a high time-resolution traffic volume transition-shape monitoring system that enables us to observe selected traffic flow shapes using a well-considered time-resolution in a real-time manner. We determined the time-resolution to be one millisecond, based on the relationship between the behavior of the streaming applications and the statistical assumptions used to calculate the traffic volume. This prototype can display traffic volume transition shapes in an oscilloscope style and clearly indicates traffic shape differences that cannot be observed using conventional monitoring systems.