1、 INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION J.180TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION SECTOR OF ITU (05/2000) SERIES J: TRANSMISSION OF TELEVISION, SOUND PROGRAMME AND OTHER MULTIMEDIA SIGNALS User requirements for statistical multiplexing of several programmes on a transmission channel ITU-T Recommendation
2、 J.180 (Formerly CCITT Recommendation) ITU-T J-SERIES RECOMMENDATIONS TRANSMISSION OF TELEVISION, SOUND PROGRAMME AND OTHER MULTIMEDIA SIGNALS General Recommendations J.1J.9 General specifications for analogue sound-programme transmission J.10J.19 Performance characteristics of analogue sound-progra
3、mme circuits J.20J.29 Equipment and lines used for analogue sound-programme circuits J.30J.39 Digital encoders for analogue sound-programme signals J.40J.49 Digital transmission of sound-programme signals J.50J.59 Circuits for analogue television transmission J.60J.69 Analogue television transmissio
4、n over metallic lines and interconnection with radio-relay links J.70J.79 Digital transmission of television signals J.80J.89 Ancillary digital services for television transmission J.90J.99 Operational requirements and methods for television transmission J.100J.109 Interactive systems for digital te
5、levision distribution J.110J.129 Transport of MPEG-2 signals on packetised networks J.130J.139 Measurement of the quality of service J.140J.149 Digital television distribution through local subscriber networks J.150J.159 For further details, please refer to the list of ITU-T Recommendations. ITU-T J
6、.180 (05/2000) i ITU-T Recommendation J.180 User requirements for statistical multiplexing of several programmes on a transmission channel Summary This Recommendation specifies the user requirements that should be considered for the statistical multiplexing of television and/or sound programmes as w
7、ell as data programmes in order to improve the efficiency in case of utilizing a constant bit-rate digital transmission channel. It also provides a brief outline of statistical multiplexing techniques. Source ITU-T Recommendation J.180 was prepared by ITU-T Study Group 9 (1997-2000) and approved und
8、er the WTSC Resolution 1 procedure on 18 May 2000. ii ITU-T J.180 (05/2000) FOREWORD The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency in the field of telecommunications. The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is a permanent organ of ITU. ITU-
9、T is responsible for studying technical, operating and tariff questions and issuing Recommendations on them with a view to standardizing telecommunications on a worldwide basis. The World Telecommunication Standardization Conference (WTSC), which meets every four years, establishes the topics for st
10、udy by the ITU-T study groups which, in turn, produce Recommendations on these topics. The approval of ITU-T Recommendations is covered by the procedure laid down in WTSC Resolution 1. In some areas of information technology which fall within ITU-Ts purview, the necessary standards are prepared on a
11、 collaborative basis with ISO and IEC. NOTE In this Recommendation, the expression “Administration“ is used for conciseness to indicate both a telecommunication administration and a recognized operating agency. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ITU draws attention to the possibility that the practice or
12、implementation of this Recommendation may involve the use of a claimed Intellectual Property Right. ITU takes no position concerning the evidence, validity or applicability of claimed Intellectual Property Rights, whether asserted by ITU members or others outside of the Recommendation development pr
13、ocess. As of the date of approval of this Recommendation, ITU had not received notice of intellectual property, protected by patents, which may be required to implement this Recommendation. However, implementors are cautioned that this may not represent the latest information and are therefore stron
14、gly urged to consult the TSB patent database. Ge3 ITU 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from ITU. ITU-T J.180 (05/2000) iii CON
15、TENTS Page 1 Scope. 1 2 Informative References. 1 3 Terms and definitions . 1 4 Abbreviations 1 5 User requirements for statistical multiplexing 1 5.1 Functional and operational requirements 2 5.1.1 Number of programmes. 2 5.1.2 Range of variable bit rate. 2 5.1.3 Compatibility. 2 5.1.4 Interoperabi
16、lity. 2 5.1.5 Flexibility. 2 5.1.6 Extensibility. 2 5.1.7 Implementation 2 5.2 Performance requirement 2 5 .2.1 Picture quality 2 5.2.2 Recovery time 2 5.2.3 Acquisition time 2 5.2.4 Relative sound/vision delay. 3 5.2.5 Delay 3 5.2.6 Error performance 3 Appendix I Statistical multiplexing techniques
17、 3 I.1 Introduction. 3 I.2 Joint coding control scheme . 3 I.3 Picture quality. 4 iv ITU-T J.180 (05/2000) Introduction Statistical multiplexing is a technique that can be applied to a multiplex of television and/or sound programmes, in order that the maximum benefit may be achieved, in terms of ave
18、rage improvement in subjective picture and sound (and data) quality of the programmes in the multiplex, while at the same time minimizing the risk of an undue reduction of the instantaneous bit rate allocated to each programme. Such a reduction may cause the appearance of annoying instantaneous arti
19、facts in that programme (or even in other programmes carried in the multiplex) if the bit rate required by the programme suddenly peaks as a function of its content. When introducing such techniques in digital transmission, user requirements should be established. ITU-T J.180 (05/2000) 1 ITU-T Recom
20、mendation J.180 User requirements for statistical multiplexing of several programmes on a transmission channel 1 Scope This Recommendation is focused on the user requirements for new multiplexing techniques that resort to statistical multiplexing in order to improve the efficiency of the utilization
21、 of a constant bit-rate digital transmission channel used to carry television and/or sound programme signals. It also provides a brief outline of statistical multiplexing techniques. These techniques measure the quasi-instantaneous bit rate requirements of each programme component in the multiplex t
22、o be transmitted, and they allocate the total bit rate available in the channel to the various components of the multiplex in a dynamic way. This approach allows to exploit the overall statistical redundancy of the information in the multiplex and its result is a benefit to all channels carried in i
23、t, since it amounts to a higher average allocation of bit rate to each multiplex component than would be possible to allocate, if each component were treated separately. 2 Informative References 1 ITU-T H.222.0 (2000) | ISO/IEC 13818-1:2000, Information technology Generic coding of moving pictures a
24、nd associated audio information: Systems. 2 ITU-T H.262 (2000) | ISO/IEC 13818-2:2000, Information technology Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information: Video. 3 ITU-R draft new Recommendation Doc.11/106, User requirements for coding for multi-programme transmission. 3 Terms
25、 and definitions This Recommendation defines the following terms: 3.1 bouquet: A collection of services multiplexed in a single data stream. 3.2 MPEG-2: Refer to ISO/IEC 13818, where System is defined in 1, Video coding is defined in 2 and Audio coding is defined in 13818-3. 4 Abbreviations This Rec
26、ommendation uses the following abbreviation: MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group 5 User requirements for statistical multiplexing The following user requirements should govern the specification, design and testing of systems for statistical multiplexing in digital transmission. 2 ITU-T J.180 (05/2000)
27、 5.1 Functional and operational requirements 5.1.1 Number of programmes The number of programmes to be multiplexed should be more than one. Maximum is not specified. 5.1.2 Range of variable bit rate Because a range of bit rates which can be varied would affect the size of the buffer, the coding-deco
28、ding delay and synchronisation, it should be restricted to an appropriate range to allow decoding by MPEG-2 compliant decoders. 5.1.3 Compatibility The techniques should allow decoding by an MPEG-2 compliant decoder. The structure of an MPEG data stream has to be taken into account in order to defin
29、e an appropriate control scheme for multi-programme transmission. 5.1.4 Interoperability The techniques should be independent of transmission media and should allow a flexible combination of programmes inside a bouquet. 5.1.5 Flexibility Broadcasters or system operators should be able to reassign dy
30、namically the configuration of services such as: the number of multiplexed programs, the target quality of each program and the picture format, as required to meet their instantaneous needs. The technique used should allow decoders to follow such changes without manual intervention by the user. The
31、ability to provide additional data services should be retained. 5.1.6 Extensibility Any upgrade to the joint coding technique should be downwards compatible with existing techniques. The use of scalable transmission schemes for graceful degradation and compatible services should not be prevented by
32、introducing the techniques. 5.1.7 Implementation Consideration should be given to operating a joint coding scheme when the encoders and multiplexers are at separate locations. Consideration should also be given to a re-multiplexing of primary distribution with secondary distribution in a transmissio
33、n chain. 5.2 Performance requirement 5 .2.1 Picture quality Overall picture quality obtained by the techniques should be superior to that obtained by conventional constant bit-rate coding. Because the resultant picture quality of a programme is affected by the complexities of other programmes in add
34、ition to its own, it is necessary to restrict the influence to an appropriate level. 5.2.2 Recovery time Introduction of the techniques should not increase the recovery time. 5.2.3 Acquisition time Introduction of the techniques should not increase the acquisition time. ITU-T J.180 (05/2000) 3 5.2.4
35、 Relative sound/vision delay The relative sound-video delay should be kept below the level of perceptibility. 5.2.5 Delay Coding delay should be close to that of a conventional coder. 5.2.6 Error performance Introduction of the techniques should not degrade error performance. APPENDIX I Statistical
36、multiplexing techniques I.1 Introduction In digital broadcasting it is highly desirable to use the available channel capacity in an effective way. In order to achieve this goal several programmes are compressed, multiplexed and transmitted over a single channel. Normally the channel capacity will be
37、 divided among these programmes in a pre-determined way, which means that each programme is allocated a fixed bit rate. Due to the fact that the bit rate required to obtain a desired picture quality depends on picture content, a constant bit rate coding leads to large variations of picture quality,
38、and an inefficient use of the channel capacity. This suggests that a variable bit rate compression scheme that allows the channel capacity to be dynamically allocated among programmes would result in improved overall picture quality or bandwidth savings. In order to perform bit allocation across pro
39、grammes, a control mechanism known as joint coding control has to be introduced. This technique is sometimes referred to as statistical multiplexing, although in conventional statistical multiplexing there is no global control mechanism. The MPEG-2 encoders available on the market today are designed
40、 to support a variable output data rate, e.g. for SDTV material in the range between 2 Mbit/s and 15 Mbit/s. In a multi-programme environment the data rates of several multiplexed programmes can be jointly controlled in such a way that the desired picture quality of each programme is achieved by usi
41、ng a variable bit rate encoding scheme, while maintaining the aggregate bit rate constant at the channel rate. I.2 Joint coding control scheme Under the assumption that the programmes to be encoded use an MPEG-2 encoding scheme, the encoders already produce a variable output data rate that is smooth
42、ed in the output buffer of the system if a transmission over a fixed rate channel is desired. Instead of controlling the bit rate for each individual programme, a joint coding control scheme provides a variable bit rate for each programme under the assumption that the total bit rate of the system is
43、 constant and is in the optimum case the equivalent to the channel capacity. In order to control the total bit rate, the joint coding control mechanism adjusts the appropriate encoding parameters in such a way that the more complex programmes will be allocated more bits than the less complex program
44、mes. This scheme reduces the fluctuations of the picture quality of within programmes and among the programmes transmitted in the same channel. Alternatively, the same picture quality can be achieved at a lower average bit rate per channel. This coding control scheme needs a bidirectional link betwe
45、en the encoders and the channel multiplexer. An example of such a control scheme is shown in Figure I.1. Another example could have the coding control in a master encoder controlling other encoders at the same location, thus avoiding a control link from the channel multiplexer to the encoders. Howev
46、er, this necessitates links between encoders. 4 ITU-T J.180 (05/2000) T0909240-00Coder Control 1Data 1Video nVideo 2Video 1Auxiliary Data 1Encoder 1to transmission channelCoder Control 2Data 2Auxiliary Data 2Encoder 2Coder Control nData nAuxiliary Data nEncoder nMPEG-2MUXincl.CodingControlFigure I.1
47、/J.180 Schematic for a joint coding control system I.3 Picture quality According to some published papers, for the same average bit rate, statistical multiplexing provides an equivalent average picture quality to constant bit rate coding. However, statistical multiplexing significantly reduces the p
48、robability of lower video quality. Consequently statistical multiplexing allows a lower average bit rate per programmes to be used for the same probability of lower quality. Geneva, 2001 SERIES OF ITU-T RECOMMENDATIONS Series A Organization of the work of ITU-T Series B Means of expression: definiti
49、ons, symbols, classification Series C General telecommunication statistics Series D General tariff principles Series E Overall network operation, telephone service, service operation and human factors Series F Non-telephone telecommunication services Series G Transmission systems and media, digital systems and networks Series H Audiovisual and multimedia systems Series I Integrated services digital network Series J Transmission of television, sound programme and other multimedia signals Series K Protection against interference Series L Construction, installa
