MULTIMEDIA MULTIPLEXING DEVICE AND METHOD USING DYNAMIC PACKET SEGMENTATION

摘要

The present invention provides a method (900) and device (100) in multimedia systems for efficiently segmenting information bitstreams from multiple media sources into variable length pack ets, and multiplexing and sending the packets to a share d communication link with low delay and low overhead. The packet segmentation and multiplexing are performed dynamically based on fullness of a set of information buffers that contain the information bitstr eams to be transmitted, and delay-sensitivity of each in formation bitstream. The multi-discipline queuing scheme has been developed in this i nvention to control the dynamic packet segmenting and multiplexing process.